Half Price Mice!

Oh yes! Another Christmas card! At this rate I'll be in full summer bloom by mid November! I bought some really cute chipboard stickers for half half price (half price then got another 50% knocked off at the till!) in the January sales along with a paper pack. I'm not usually a big fan of cutesy Christmas animal stickers or chipboard but I liked the look of these. And the price!

Although you can't see it, there are glittery elements!


All the papers with exception to the red and white gingham are from the Peppers Christmas Party 6x6 paper stack; the gingham is from Sundae of Seasons from Polkadoodles. The ribbon and buttons are all from my stash and the button twine is from The Ribbon Girl.

This card fits the following challenges:

Bah Humbug: Mice
Christmas Challenges with Sketches: Sketch
Happileigh Scrappin': Critters
KB Cute Monday: Something Cute

• Papers: Trimcraft, Peppers Christmas Party 6x6 papers; Red Check - Polkadoodles, Sundae of Seasons
• Image: Trimcraft, Snow Day chipboard
• Everything else: My stash
  

More Peas On Earth

A quick card with a great image! I do like this Peas On Earth from Whimsie Doodles and it makes me smile every time! I've added papers from Funky Hand and doodled some lines around the outers I've coloured the image with Promarkers plus a bit of glitter glue for the hats. The glittery star is from Tesco's and I think a few years ago as part of their Christmas range. Buttons are from my stash. I've used the Sweet Stop Sketch for inspiration:

And it also fits the following challenges:

Bah Humbug: For A Teenager
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge: Buttons

And if you've not already popped over to the Fetch A Sketch pre launch party - please do so! Some candy on offer to two lucky commenters plus some extra prizes along the way! The Fetch A Sketch challenges launch on Monday 27 June at 9am!

• Papers: Funky Hand
• Image: Whimsie Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Everything else: My stash

Santa Gift Card's

Here are some gift card holders that I've made! I actually made four more but with different papers and stamps but haven't yet finished them off so will blog those at some point in the future!


I've used papers from Polkadoodles Paper Boutique Vol 2 - Christmas Creative and printed on both sides of the card. I've used my own template so I knew I could get two from a sheet of A4. I've added ribbon as the closure and a blank piece of card inside so the message can be written.

The Santa is a stamp also from Polkadoodles which has been coloured with Promarkers plus a little glitter glue. And I've used a Nestie shape to layer it on.

Quite quick and easy to make once I'd worked out the template! They fit the following challenges:

Christmas Stampin': A Little Something From Me To You!
Bah Humbug!: Surprise!

• All papers: Polkadoodles - Paper Boutique Vol 2
• Stamp: Polkadoodles - coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities
• Everything else: My stash
  

Retro Christmas #2

Following on with the scraps of card that I used in my last Christmas card (I feel like I'm on a roll here!) which were from All I Want For Xmas download from Funky Hand, I've used the sketch from Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge for inspiration.


I've added a brad to hold the twine in place with the little bell on the end. I've added a dotted fine black line around the edge of the card and sentiment tile too. The inner edge of the sentiment - also from the download collection - has got a gold stickles dotted line for a bit of bling. Everything else has a running stitch around it.


The card also qualifies for:

Bah Humbug challenge: which asks for Jingle Bells
Card Makin' Mama's: Use Your Scraps
Stamp Something: Use a Sentiment

• All papers and sentiment: All I Want For Xmas download from Funky Hand


• Everything else: My stash
  

Recycled Christmas

The Bah Humbug challenge is to:

Recycle

And so I have!

Card blank was a donation and came as a much larger sheet
The embellishment was a tree decoration
The bells were from another tree decoration
The brown paper was a Primark carrier bag

The backing paper is from the Comfort and Joy download from Alison Sloan, the red raffia is from my stash plus the card candy too. A nice and quick card to make! Need to knock one off my countdown now!

• Backing paper: Alison Sloan
• Everything else: My stash or recycled from something else