It's Christmas Bingo at Winter Wonderland

Good morning all

Well I'm sure most of you probably think I've disappeared from the face of blogland by now!

and I have to confess I thought I had as well

Life has just been so so busy, unexpected and downright messy lately!!

in the last 3 months 

I slipped and fell and turned into an old, aching, moaning crock!!

Got an ear infection - and moaned some more

Went on holiday for almost 4 weeks - and cheered up

came back to Christmas (!)

attended my sons Masters degree graduation - and was so so proud

found I was going to be Grandma (again) to a baby girl :  )

All the while very little crafting or blogging has happened

But I've managed to squeeze in for the last challenge of the year at 

Winter Wonderland

where our theme is 

Christmas Bingo

I used this cute image from The Paper Shelter 

called - Snowman

We have 3 fabulous prizes provided by out sponsors


a £10 gift certificate from Bunnyzoes Crafts


a £10 voucher from Crafter's companion


a surprise from Marianne's designs

So definitely worth entering!

This is what I did...

Image - Snowman - from TPS

Coloured with Spectrum noir pencils and glitter pens

Dies - wild rose snowflake corners

           Memory box - stitched rounded squares

Card - Kraft card from Crafters companion

        - Red Christmas card from Papermania

Paper - Dovecraft nordic papers

Epoxy button - Anna Griffin

Flowers and Gems - from my stash

Snowflake gems - Creative Expression

It's such a busy time of the year so we're running this challenge for 3 weeks over the holidays to give you lots of time to enter

hugs

Judith xx

Wrap up - at the Paper Shelter Challenge

Good Morning all

I think our challenge at 

The Paper Shelter 

this week is very good advice!!

Wrap up

As Shirley our lovely team leader on team A at TPS DT informed the team (for the benefit of the non British girls who may not understand the term)  -that can be either lovely warm clothes (and don't we all need those at the moment!) or perhaps a wrapped present, the one she missed out (he he) is it also means shut up!! - as in 'will you wrap up' - I get so confused sometimes as to what is a local term and what anyone else not from my little corner of the world will understand , but I'm sure it's in the same vein as  'it's a wrap' when it comes to film making.  

On that note it reminds me of my children learning this lesson when they were at university.  They both lived away from home and found that the people they mixed with didn't speak the same language sometimes - even though they all spoke English.  Alison totally perplexed her housemates by telling them that she would "get wrong" when what she meant was she would get told off, Many a child in the north of England will "get wrong off their Mam"!! it started a whole new university education for all of them as they started to learn the funny little expressions each of them said according to the part of the country where they all came from - not to mention the odd foreign student!   Though I think the Geordie expressions were most popular (Georgie is a term for people like me who live in the north east and more precisely around the Newcastle area, for anyone who doesn't get that one!).  Everyone always thinks they can do a Geordie accent - few can!!!  Matthew caused no end of confusion when he used the term "me Mam" - in this part of the country what you might say instead of "my Mother"!!  He was at uni for months before one of his friends asked him who this Memam was that he kept ringing!! - I'm sure I've told you this before, but it still makes me smile, he'd living and working in Edinburgh now where he's getting a whole new education - I think the Scottish use even funnier words that the Geordies - well he keeps us amused anyway lol

   

Anyway I digress....I decided to take the opportunity to make a Christmas card for this challenge, I made a nice early start last year and it definitely made things so much easier when Christmas came around, so I intend to do it again this year.

I used this lovely snowman stamp -he's  one of my favourites at TPS

So simple and great to colour with his cute hat and scarf

called "Snowman" he's available here

As always we have a fabulous prize on offer for our winner

 at The Paper Shelter Challenge this week

Here's what I did....

Image - Snowman from TPS
Coloured with copics
Easel frame card made with Spellbinders labels ten die
Papers - Docraft Scandinavian Christmas
Tree die - Mariannes
Christmas lettering - part of Memory Box grand Merry Christmas die
Hessian bow - from Michaels
Epoxy tree sticker - Anna Griffin
Ribbon from my stash
Distress ink - TH Tea dye

I hope we see you over at The Paper Shelter challenge this week - as for this blog post - its a wrap!!

(This is my first post of today - I'll be back soon with my DT post for Fab'n'Funky Challenges)

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Buckwells Crafty Challenge - anything goes

ABC Christmas challenge - B for bows bunting or baking