Penguin Party!

This is my final blog post of the year as I am having a little break over Christmas, and today I have a card and a couple of Christmas cushions to show you. 

I love penguins and have a big collection of penguin digi-stamps, but I don't colour them up very often as I always struggle with black/grey, it's either too dark or not dark enough, but I soooo wanted to use this adorable image that I decided to bite the bullet and go for it.

Please excuse the pics, as it is very dark and dismal and I've had to use my daylight lamp.

Image - Penguin Party - Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits

Papers - Warm Hearts - Just So Scrappy
Sentiment - Christmas Scriptalicious sentiments - Pink Petticoat

Tonic geared border punch - Gothic border

Lawn Cuts - Stitched snowflakes

Ribbon, gems and diamanté buckle - Meiflower

I am entering my card into the following challenges

The Sugar Bowl Challenge - anything goes with a Sugar Nellie image

Card Mania -  Christmas

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Here are a couple of cushions I made, once again using patterns and instructions from the

Cards and Crafts for Christmas Magazine.

As I've said previously, it's been a long time since I used a sewing machine, the angel and snowman are stitched on by hand and the cushion covers are simple envelope backs, so I only had to use the machine to stitch around the edges.

I am entering the cushions in this challenge

All Crafts Challenge - Anything goes, but NO Cards

I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone who has left a comment throughout the year, they really make my day and encourage me to keep on doing what I do, so thank you very much.

Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year to you all,

hugs,

Colette xx

Merry Christmas Tree

Not long to go now to the big day, are you ready for it? I still have a few pressies to wrap, my meat hamper will be ready to pick up from the butcher tomorrow and on Christmas Eve hubby and I head off to the local farm shop for our Christmas veg, and then that's it, I'm done, unless something unexpected crops up, which is usually what happens LOL!

Here's a quick card I made using a Bugaboo Christmas tree digi-stamp.

Digi-stamp - Merry Christmas Tree - Bugaboo

Papers - Santa's Helper - Just So Scrappy

String of lights, and holly bauble- Little B's cutting dies Holiday 

Gingham Ribbon and metallic cord - Meiflower

I am entering my card into these challenges

Bugaboo Christmas Bingo - (Bugaboo image, Glitter - on bauble, Players choice(ribbon))

Holly Jolly Christmas - Anything goes

Penny's Challenges - Anything goes

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Shaped Christmas Cards

Have you managed to get all your Christmas cards ready in time? if you still need a few more and don't have a lot of time, then look no further than the new Christmas shaped cards Mega Bundle in the Paper Creator store.

The bundle contains 10 shaped cards, with decoupage layers, matching inserts and envelopes and is on offer at the moment for only £5.

I managed to put together the three below in less than an hour (without envelopes). You can dress them up as much as you like or leave them as they come.

Lace - Stash

Ready made bow and red pearls - Meiflower

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Snowflakes

Flower soft on ear muffs

Charm and dazzler - Stash

Sentiment added to label before printing

Large Jingle Bells and Gold lurex ribbon - Meiflower

Thanks for popping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

A gift for Nan

I'm off to see Aladdin at the Liverpool Empire tomorrow with Meg and Will, we go to the panto every year, (it's a bit of a Christmas tradition), and they are always fabulous. One of the things I love about the Empire panto is that they always have local celebrities playing the main parts so I'm looking forward to seeing Ray Quinn as Aladdin and Claire Sweeney as the genie.

Once again today I have something that is not a card to show you - a couple of weeks ago my daughter Stacy asked me if I could do "one of those pictures with all the words mixed up"(her words exactly), as she wanted me to make one for my mum (her Nan) for Christmas, containing all the names of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren along with a few other words, including Sunday dinner, as Stacy and the boys, go to my mum's every Sunday for lunch.

I made the Word Cloud in a heart shape and then printed it out, added an outline of glitter around the word Nanny and put it into a box frame from Ikea, (Eric had re-sized the mount board first), then I finished it off with some lace, die-cut rolled roses, leaf flourishes and a pretty heart embellishment I found in my stash.

Frame - Ribba - Ikea

Rolled Roses - Marianne creatables

Petite Vinery die - Sue Wilson

Lace and wire hearts embellishment - Stash

Stacy was really pleased with it so she's asked me to make a couple more, in pink, for her neices.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Snowflakes and poinsettia cards

Just a quick note to let you know that Bad Kitty was my randomly selected commenter from the Paper Shelter blog hop, and you can find all the details you need to claim your digi image HERE

I have two cards to show you today which I made in early September as samples for Meiflower.

For the first card I die cut lots of snowflakes from glitter card and dotted them randomly over the bottom two thirds of the card front, trimming off the overlap. I added blue gingham ribbon, tying two bows and overlapping one over the other, then added a die-cut circle of glitter card and a diamanté snowflake embellishment. I also die-cut the sentiment from glitter card.

Snowflake die - Ice Crystal 3 - JoyCraft 6002/2020

Wording - Whimsy Shapeology Collection - Holiday sentimentables

Small scalloped circle - Tonic layering dies scalloped circles

Gingham ribbon and diamanté snowflake - Meiflower

This is a very simple card, just an embossed background, (the card is a beautiful colour in real life, photo doesn't do it justice), wrapped with organza ribbon and then a die cut white poinsettia, all finished off with lots of pearls

Silver Stardream card - Craft Creations

Tied Together A4 embossing folder - Couture Creations

Die-namics Poinsettia die

Organza ribbon and pearls - Meiflower

Thanks for popping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Anything Goes at The Paper Shelter

It's the final challenge of the year over at the Paper Shelter today, as we are going on our Christmas Break, and as it's the last challenge of the year both design teams are joining in, so double the inspiration over on the challenge blog.

The challenge will run for three weeks and we are leaving you with the easy peasy challenge theme of

Anything Goes

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 could win three digis of your choice.

Here's my card

Image - The Most Adorable Snowmen - The Paper Shelter

Landscape A5 Creative Linen card blank - Craft Creations

Embossalicious Let It Snow A4 embossing folder - Crafters Companion

Striped Ribbon - The Ribbon Girl

Flower soft - Polar White

Snowflake cut on my silhouette

Charm and large dazzler from my friend Donna

Pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from both teams, (there is lots of lusciousness to look at) and don't forget you have three weeks to enter our anything goes challenge.

We'll be back in the New Year with lots more fab challenges.

Thanks for dropping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

and now for something completely different!

A few months ago I bought the Cards and Crafts for Christmas magazine, and after flicking through the pages decided I would like to have a go at making a stag's head decoration and a couple of cushions. I decided to do the stag's head first.
It's been a long time since I did any sewing and I don't even own a machine any more, but luckily my daughters boyfriends mum had one she doesn't use, so let me borrow it, and even more luckily, most of the stag's head is hand stitched, I only needed the machine to do the antlers.

I was really pleased with the way it turned out, and after laughing her head off when I told her what I was making, my daughter now wants me to make one for her!

I am entering this into the following challenge

All Crafts Challenge --- Anything Goes, but no cards

Thanks for popping in and taking a look
hugs,
Colette xx