Polkadoodles Quickie Christmas

It was my turn to pick the challenge over at Polkadoodles this week and I decided to go with

Quickie Christmas Cards

You know what it's like, you suddenly realise there is only two weeks to go to the big day and you still haven't made all your Christmas cards, (unless you're super duper organised, which I am not) so I want to see quick, simple cards, with not too many layers or embellishments, something that you can easily make a lot of in a short space of time.

 I used the trees and reindeer images from a Sundae of Seasons, layered them up in Photoshop and coloured a sky background, I then printed them straight onto card, cut, folded, added a gorgeous saddle stitch ribbon and a couple of Jingle bells, both from MeiFlower, some glitter to the trees and layered up the reindeer's head, and there you have it, my very quick card.

The Jingle Bells are coloured with Promarkers and I added glossy accents to his nose.

Check out my teamies quick Christmas inspiration over on the Polkadoodles blog and you have until Sunday 18th December Noon GMT to get your entries in.

Pop Up Box Tutorial

This week I have put together a step-by-step tutorial for my pop up box card.

If you like the look of it and fancy having a go at making one you will find the instructions over on the Teddy Bo Top Tip Tutorial Thursdays post.

If you try it out let me know and I will pop over to your blog and have a nosy!

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Incy Wincy Designs - Non Traditional Christmas Colours

Crafty Sentiments -  Snowflakes

Jen's Digi Stamps - Anything but a standard card

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge -  #49 Snowflakes & Sparkle

Digi Makeover Challenge - must use digi - Cut out your digi image

Oh the weather outside is frightful....

......but making cards is quite delightful! and there's only one place to go, - Teddy Bo, Teddy Bo, Teddy Bo!

If it's not rain lashing against the windows, it's hailstones, it's freezing, wet and windy so the best place to be is in the craft room although I do have to venture out to do some Christmas shopping today so boots, scarf and gloves are a must have I think.

Over at Teddy Bo this week we are half way through our White Christmas challenge, and I have a card to show you made with one of this week's new images. I love this image, it would be perfect to use for a husband, a wife Mum and Dad, Sister and Brother-in-law etc., etc., etc.

I decided to make a card for my hubby, who after seeing the sentiment saying wonderful husband, asked me if I had another one tucked away somewhere as it couldn't possibly be meant for him after all the moaning I do at him LOL!

Image TEDDYBOBEA_091 coloured in Photoshop

Kraft and white cardstock

CartUs - snowflakes embossing folder

Cuttlebug - Swiss dots embossing folder

Ribbon - MeiFlower

Lace - Stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Creative Card Crew -  Tis The Season

Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - #77 Celebrate The Season

Crafty Boots -  Anything Goes 

Heart Song Inspirations - Christmas and /or Red, Green, White

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Pollycraft - Christmas Fun

Divas by Design - #16 anything goes

This week's new releases

Pop over to the Teddy Bo Challenge blog and check out all the fabulous creations from my teamies.

You still have until Sunday 11th December to get your entries in for our White Christmas challenge and be in with the chance of winning the Fabulous Teddy Bo 10, your choice of ten images from the Teddy Bo store including this weeks new releases, a fabulous prize for sure!

.....And finally,  the Teddy Bo Tombola.

This week's winners, drawn once again by my daughter Meg are...........

Helle and Jill if you could email me (putting Tombola in the subject line) with your contact details I will get your parcels in the post (click on view my complete profile for my email address.)

Only two more weeks of Tombola to go so if you would like to try your luck this week, then it's really easy, just leave a comment on this post containing the number you would like from the ones remaining.

1, 5, 6, 8

and if you are not sure what the tombola is all about check out the details here

Thanks for playing along and good luck!

Colette xx

Clipart Fairy Workshop

Yesterday I mentioned that I would be going to the Clipart Fairy workshop (A big hi! to Donna, Sue, Josie, Anita and Lesley!) and would have more cards to show you today and finally here they are.
I've had visitors today and this afternoon have been looking after my grandson Charlie, while his big brother has gone on a Polar Express day out at Southport Railway Station, which is why I haven't managed to post these any earlier.

1. Wedding Card and Bag

The back of front of the card are held together with concertina pieces of card, so it's three dimensional.

 An acetate fronted bag to hold the wedding card.

 2. Happy Couple Card

The man's waistcoat and ribbon are Navy Blue, but for some reason look black in the pics.

3. Fore You

 I love the bright colours in this one and the image reminds me of my hubby!, he doesn't play golf, but always has his tongue out when he is concentrating LOL!

4. Button it Flower Girl

 Another one where I love the colours, and don't you think she looks like a right little mischievous madam!

5. Wedding Day

 This one has so much going on I've had to add lots of pictures. The front flaps open to reveal the outfits and wording, on the back there is a pocket that would be suitable for a gift of money or Gift card, and it also opens like a regular card and has lovely matching inserts.

So there you have it five beautiful cards and a brilliant presentation bag.
Flowers and Metallic embellishment are from Wild Orchid Crafts, Ribbons and Gems from MeiFlower and all kits to make the cards can be purchased from The Clipart Fairy.

Clipart Fairy Quintet

As you can see by the title I have five Clipart Fairy cards to show you today, I am getting to the point of having to write out and send my Christmas cards, so need to make sure I have enough, and yesterday I managed to add these five to my total.

I have used two of the Clipart Fairy's new sets, So Macho and Christmas Fairy which both have paper packs, alphas, printables and interactive kits within them.

My first card is made with the Christmas Fairy Post It kit, I used the editable version to add my own wording to the tag, and also printed the tag out a second time so that I could make a little pocket to hold a gift of money.

Ribbon and jingle bells - MeiFlower

My second card was made using the So Macho - Mat and Layer me Kit, which contains the square background, which you could use any way up, two buntings one with the word Merry, one blank,  several word arts, oval frames, including one containing the image with decoupage, plenty of options to make lots of different cards from the one kit.

Ribbon and gems - MeiFlower

Next up is another Christmas Fairy card, using various papers, frame with image, and word art from the Christmas Fairy Kit and letters from the Sassy Fairy Alpha. 

Star pin - Ribbon Girl

Ribbon and Charm - MeiFlower

Beads from stash.

I like to glue a bead onto the pointy end of pins so that they don't hurt anyone.

Another So Macho card, this time I made an easel card using papers from the paper pack, the oval frame and image and blank bunting  from the Mat and Layer me kit and letters from the So Macho alpha set for the word snow.

Brads - MeiFlower

Freebie word art found here

And finally yet another Christmas Fairy card, using papers from the Christmas Fairy Kit, the Sassy Fairy Alpha and Sally the Christmas Fairy who I bought from Sassy Cheryl, as it is a good way of making the kit go further.

Ribbon and gems - MeiFlower

Now if that wasn't enough Clipart Fairy for you I am off to her workshop today, we usually make about six cards, so tomorrow you will be seeing the results of my labours.

There is a freebie Alpha and paper to collect on the Clipart Fairy blog and 25% off selected Christmas products at both the Printable and Interactive stores.

Also a 20% off everything Sale at MeiFlower which runs until Sunday 4th December.

Colette xx

Polkadoodles Secret Element Christmas Card challenge

This weeks challenge theme has been chosen by Enfys and she wants to see Christmas cards for children that contain......

A Secret Element (something hidden that the child can discover)

I have made a Christmas card for my grandson Will, the bottom section of the card front is bowed out and behind the bear I have attached a little card lollipop holder and added a chocolate lollipop. I have also made up a little verse for the inside of the card to let him know there is a hidden treat. I have used images from the Beary Cold section of Magical Winter CD 2 , and added glitter to parts of the bear and some of the snow.

You can just about see the side of the lollipop tucked behind the bear.

Pop over to the Polkadoodles blog and check out the rest of the fabulous inspiration from my teamies.

You have until Sunday 11th December Noon GMT to get your entries in, we look forward to seeing what fantastic secret elements you can come up with.

Die-liciously Christmas

Today I thought I'd show you a couple more Teddy Bo cards I have made over the last week.

The engagement card was made for a family friend whose son and girlfriend surprised them all by announcing their engagement a couple of weeks ago. Last Saturday they had a big family dinner to celebrate and my friend wanted a special card with their names and date of the engagement. I came up with an idea of the image I would like, scribbled it down and sent it off to Gayle at Teddy Bo Towers with a begging letter, beseeching her to turn my scribble into some sort of gorgeousness.

 Here is my scribble

and here is the finished card using Gayle's fabulous image, which is available at the Teddy Bo and Co store.

TEDDYBOBEA_089 coloured in Photoshop

Papers - Gorgeous set 5 - Clipart Fairy

MS punch - deep edge garden trellis

Flowers - Creative Treasures

Heart Charm - MeiFlower

Diamonte stem and feather - stash

I have added diamond stickles to the 'diamond' in the ring.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Crafty Purple Frog -  For Someone Special

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

My second card is for Fairytale Friday (I have Polkadoodle on fridays so added it today instead) and is just pure self indulgence on my part. I have loads of fabulous Memory Box dies, and I couldn't wait to use them. I have managed to sneak a couple in on some cards recently, but I was so desperate to use them that I decided to make a card and overload it with as many of my die-cut shapes as possible, and this is the result,
it's probably way over the top, but I couldn't help myself I just had to do it LOL!

Image TEDDYBEA_101 - coloured in photoshop

Background paper - Clipart Fairy -Gorgeous 3

Winterland Tree, Frosty and Frostyville border dies- Memory Box

Charm from stash.

Lots and lots of Glamour dust, you should see how it sparkles in real life!

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Partytime Tuesdays -  #44 Anything Goes

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Christmas

Paper Shelter Challenge -  #42 anything goes

I went to see The Saw Doctors (a fabulous Irish band that most of you have probably never heard of!) at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Tuesday evening, and after all the dancing and singing, (it's the kind of concert where the whole audience sings along (badly in my case LOL!) with every song, and dances their way through the whole gig) I was totally shattered yesterday. After teaching a card class in the morning, I spent the afternoon, snuggled up on the settee watching back to back Christmas movies on the Christmas 24 channel, pure heaven!
Feeling much more relaxed and refreshed and ready to get stuck in again today, which is a good job as I have a busy few days ahead of me now.

If you want to join in with my Teddy Bo Tombola, details are on my previous post, and check out Nela's blog, as her advent calendar starts today and there will be something new added each day, including tutorials, patterns, card shapes etc., link is in side bar.