Bingo!

The new challenge over at the Paper Shelter this week is Bingo, just pick a line in any direction from the board and use those items on your creation.

Bingo

There are great prizes up for grabs! If you are our randomly selected winner and play with a TPS image then you have a chance of winning a $30 gift certificate, any other image and you will win three digis of your choice.

I coloured up the Christmas Shopping digital stamp and used papers and embellishments from a Nitwits kit to make a stepper card. No measuring and fiddling about to make the stepper card though, Craft Creations sell ready to fold stepper card blanks in a variety of colours and designs, making this type of card so much easier.

Digital Stamp - Christmas Shopping - The Paper Shelter

Papers, presents and heart - Nitwits Mr and Mrs Collection

Sentiment - Happy Christmas/birthday small font word set - Britannia dies

Black side stepper card blank - Craft Creations

X-cut Holly punch

Ribbons, gems and pearls - Meiflower

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out all the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies,

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Brink on the cake! part 2

Here are the other three cards from the Papercraft Essentials issue 140 commission using the fabulous Kate Hadfield collection Bring on the cake and the papers that I made to go with the kit, don't forget it you want the papers you can download them for free from HERE.

All images are from the pre-coloured Bring on the Cake collection, although a digital stamp kit of the images is also available, the papers are from the free download, all gems, ribbons and pearls are from Meiflower. The stepper card blank is available from Craft Creations, the flowers are X-cut punches and the Happy Birthday die set is from Robert Addams.

Check out the magazine for lots more fabulous inspiration and a gorgeous free gift containing an igloo embossing folder and sweet animal stamps.

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Bring on the cake! part 1

If you've got the latest edition of the Papercraft Essentials magazine, then you will already have seen these cards, but I thought I would pop them on the blog too.

I was lucky enough to be given a fabulous Kate Hadfield collection of digi images and stamps to play with called Bring on the Cake and was commissioned to make seven cards. Here are a few of them the rest will follow in a few days.

I love her images, they are always so bright and colourful. I decided to design my own papers to go with the images, there are 10 plain and 12 patterned and if you like the look of them you can download them for free from HERE.

The Bring on the cake collection comes in either a pre-coloured version or a digital stamp version, the top two cards use pre-coloured images and the bottom one is a digi-stamp. The papers are all from the free download, lace is from stash, flowers are made with X-cut punches and all the ribbons and gems are from Meiflower.

If you don't have the magazine then check it out, it has lots of fabulous inspiration and comes with a free gift of a gorgeous igloo embossing folder and some seriously cute stamps of penguins, a polar bear and a seal, as well as some extra items to dress them up and create scenes.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Figure eight style

We are just about halfway through our Anything Goes challenge over at Paper Creator, so I thought I would pop in with a quick reminder. I have another card to show you that is almost the same as my card at the start of the challenge (cos' I am loving this design at the moment and Paper Creator have so many Sassy Cheryl illustrations that are perfect for it, expect at least another one before Christmas LOL!)

 I like to make them so that when the card is folded the skater hangs over the edge slightly, so although the card is square I have to put it in an A5 envelope. As in the previous card HERE, the bottom strip is covered in glitter, unfortunately it is very difficult to get it to show up in a photo.

Figure eight style illustration - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers - Up on the housetop - Just So Scrappy

Marianne Creatables LR0191 lamp and sign 

Wreath and snow on lamp post  are from X-cut Gingerbread House die set 

X-cut large and medium snowflake punch

Ribbon and gems - Meiflower

There is still a couple of weeks to get your entry in for our anything goes challenge and with the £10 gift voucher prize you could purchase quite a few of these Sassy Cheryl images and make your own cards..

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Santa Selfie

We have a new challenge starting today over at The Paper Shelter and it's super easy too, our theme is

Christmas is Coming

There are great prizes up for grabs! If you are our randomly selected winner and play with a TPS image then you have a chance of winning a $30 gift certificate, any other image and you will win three digis of your choice.

I thought that the Santa Selfie image would be the perfect choice for today's tech savvy youngsters.

I kept the card quite simple making the image the main focus.

After colouring the image I added glitter to Rudolph's nose and Santa's bobble and buckle. I made the  sentiment using different fonts and some embellishments from a Nitwits kit, I also added a sprig of holly from the kit to Santa's hat before printing, a couple of  glitter card photo corners and a gingham bow finished the card.

Digital Stamp - Santa Selfie - The Paper Shelter

Sentiment - computer generated

Nitwits HoHoHo collection - images in sentiment and Santa's hat holly

Landscape red card blank - Craft Creations

Glitters - HunkyDory

Die-namics Photo Corners

Gingham ribbon - Meiflower

Check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies at The Paper Shelter challenge blog, 

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Snow much fun!

Oh my goodness! November already, there's only 55 days until Christmas, 55 days!!! think I need to start getting some presents bought, not that I'm one of those people that leaves everything until the last minute or anything (guilty as charged LOL!)

As it is the first of the month it's time for a new challenge at Paper Creator and this time around it is the amazingly simple

Anything Goes

The winner will receive a £10 store credit to spend in the Paper Creator store.

Paper Creator products are not essential, but you will gain an extra entry into the random draw if using them. The challenge runs for the whole of the month and the winner is announced at the start of the next month's challenge.

I decided to combine a couple of Sassy Cheryl illustrations and a fun fold to make my card. The strip across the bottom is decorated with glitter to make it look icy, but unfortunately it doesn't show up too well in the photo. The images are fussy cut and arranged to look like they are ice-skating, which is why I chose to use this fold, I actually love the way it works out and have made a few more versions of this card which will be popping up over the next couple of weeks,

Wind in my hair and Penguin panache digital illustrations - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers - Nitwits Great White North Collection

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Joanna Sheen Signature die - Classic Christmas tree

Tonic circle and scallop circle layering dies

X-cut medium and large snowflake punches

Stick on gems - Meiflower

Thanks for dropping by to take a look, pop over to the Paper Creator challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from my teamies.

hugs,

Colette xx