It's a Pengie Kinda Day !

Hi there Bloggers, hope you've had a fabby and creative weekend - will you be joining the expected Mega Monday Online Shopping Frenzy ?  Or have you got all your shopping finished and are ready for the Big Day ?  Me ?  I've done some shopping online over the past couple of weeks and just have a few more things to get, but all of the gifts to wrap yet.

Today's project is another Christmas card, I'm going to enter this one for the current Rudolph Day challenge over on the Craftbubble II(and a half) Forum.  The theme this month is 'Festive Animals' - I think my Pengie can be described as a festive animal with his Santa hat and candy cane, don't you ?

The image is a stamp from Sparkle and Sprinkle in Ruskin, Florida - I picked him up on my recent visit to their store, I just couldn't resist him, despite the fact that I DO NOT NEED any more Christmas stamps !

I coloured him whilst working on my pal Kathy's table of craftiness in Florida on our recent trip over there.  I'm not completely sure but I believe I used a mix of Copics, ProMarkers and Spectrum Noir pens.  He then travelled home with me and was languishing in my box of coloured images just waiting for the perfect card to sit on.

I found this lovely red with white snowflakes card scrap in my box of scrappy card and papers and added some Washi Tape at the sides where the panel was too small for my base card.  I think it lightens the design and looks better than it would if the panel had covered the whole card front. 

I layered the image up on a scrap of SU! Garden Green cardstock and a scrap of lovely gold card which has been in my stash forever !  A length of pretty satin edged organza ribbon tied around and into a bow and a sentiment from Little Claires, stamped with SU! Raspberry Ripple ink, and the design was complete.  As a finishing touch, I added Glossy Accents to his feet/flippers, beak and candy cane, plus Stardust Stickles on his hat band and bobble

It's a fun little card which is fairly flat so should go through the mail for the regular postage cost rather than needing a large letter stamp.

Hope you've enjoyed your visit, do drop by again real soon.

From our Home to Yours at Christmas

Happy wednesday dear blogging friends, the sun is shining here in my part of Cornwall today and that makes me happy !  I see I'm lucky enough to have gained a few more lovely Followers, welcome dear friends, I do hope you call back from time to time to see what I'm getting up to in my crafting space. 

Today's project is my entry for a challenge over on the 'Craft Mad and Loving It' group on Craftbubble.  This is a new set of month-long challenges started for 2013 and every 25th of the month throughout the year a new theme is published.  Some members of the group were rushing to get sufficient cards made in time for last Christmas(me being one of them !) and we thought it would be a great idea to make at least one a month throughout the year so we would have a minimum of  12 cards finished. 

 

My pal Kathy set this first challenge and she gave us a sketch and a recipe to work with and we can use all elements or choose anything from the list. 

 

The recipe included lots of glitter, a button, stamped image and patterned paper.  I followed the sketch and the recipe, with the exception of the button as this card will most likely need to go through the post and adding buttons can often make the card too thick to be within the lowest price band for postage.

 

The stamped image of the room is by Magnolia and the lovely gift boxes are from a set of stamps by Recollections sold by Michaels Stores in the USA.  I coloured the images using Copics and added Glossy Accents on the door to give the glass panels a realistic look, on the lamp beside the door and on the gift box ribbons to give them dimension.  

 

The main image was cut out using a set of nestie dies then attached over a layer cut with a slightly larger die from the same set.  I added a fancy frame over the top cut using another set of Spellbinders dies, which matches the shape of the nesties exactly.

 

The tree was cut using a Marianne's die and the holly spray using a Cheery Lynn's die.  For the snow I used Glamour Dust over Glossy Accents, which is my favourite combination as IRL it is very sparkly.  Finally some Star Dust Stickles added liberally over the design and my card was done.  

That's at least one Christmas card in my stock for this year, so I have made a start.

It's great to have you stop by to check out today's project, thanks so much for taking the time to visit.