More Red and Green Cards

Good evening all. Well I managed to get over the hills and back again. It wasn't too bad. There was some snow on the tops but once I came down again it was nice and crisp.   So my baby is home from Uni for a month.

I've just added a collection of red and green cards that I've made over the past week

 Cold Hands Warm Heart - SWALK - Crafters Companion

 Humphrey's Corner - Crafters Companion

Penny Black - Snowy Mistletoe and Humphrey's Corner

I am entering the following challenge:

Crafters Companion - Winter Friends 1/1

Penny Black Christmas

Good Evening All, just one more card to add tonight. 

For this one I have used this cute little stamp from:

Penny Black Jolly Friends Transparent Set

Coloured with Promarkers

Backing Paper Free Download from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine

Ribbons from stash

Marianne Mini Poinsettia Die

Memory Box Die - Holly Vine

I am entering this card into the following challenge:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Glitter and Sparkle 1/1

Penny Black and More - Its your choice 31/12

Right off now to have something to eat, then Strictly results and Crickley Hall.  Is anybody else watching Crickley, its very spooky!!

Kitty Christmas

Good afternoon all.  Brr its a chilly one today. 

My card today is another Christmas card and I am entering it into a few challenges.

I have used this super PB stamp Jolly Xmas Kitty

coloured  with promarkers and glamour dust

Papers - My Minds Eye

Ribbon, button, and bakers twine from stash

Stocking charm - Nutcrafters

Challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Buttons and Bows

Sketch Saturday - The Sketch

Sweet Stampin' - How Charming

ABC Christmas Challenge - S for Santa

Penny Black at Allsorts - Early Christmas

Just getting ready to go out now.  My auntie got married in Lincoln on Thursday and she is having a reception here in Manchester today for all the relatives here.

Snowy Christmas Card

Good Afternoon all.

Another quick Christmas card today. Over at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long there is a fab challenge to CASE the very first Christmas card that you added to your blog. I went back to 2008 with trepidation because I knew that my cards back then were a bit 'dodgy' but thankfully the first christmas card I added was a Penny Black 'Snowy' card and you can't go wrong with him can you.

Original Card

New card

I have used Snowy from the PB Jolly Friends Transparent Set

The dog is from PB Critter Party Transparent Set

Coloured with Promarkers and glitter dust and fake snow from B&M

Whimsy Stamps Mini Holiday Postage Stamps

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - R for Recycling (Kraft card from IKEA packaging)

Winter Wonderland - Christmas Pets

Jingle Belles - Going Postal
Stampin' for the weekend - Starting Christmas Early
Penny Black at Allsorts - Early Christmas Makes

Right just going to get showered and changed now, then settle down to watch Dr Who and then pop out for a drink to celebrate Emily's 20th birthday today and then tomorrow she is off back to Uni in Lincoln.

Penny Black Birthday

Good Afternoon everybody. Is it ever going to stop raining. As I write the rain is bouncing off the windows. It was lovely on Wednesday (my usual day off work) so I went to 3 garden centres and bought some lovely plants and some veg for my new veggie plot. I was hoping to get them planted this weekend but it doesn't look like there's much chance of that.

It's my lovely mum's birthday tomorrow and here's the card I made.

Image - Penny Black Furry Love

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Dovecraft Back to Basics III

Butterfly - Marianne Die and Martha Stewart Punch

Punched Flowers

Martha Stewart PATP - Pansy

Sentiment - Whimsy Stamps

Ribbon and Card Candi from stash

I am entering it into the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - The Sketch

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - 5 Circles

Hope you all have a great weekend. 

Christmas Card #2

Good Afternoon everyone, hope you've had a lovely day.  I was determined to try and kick my mojo into gear today so went hunting around the challenge blogs for inspiration.   Last year I made a Christmas card every week but have slipped this year.

Here's the result.

I've used this cute Snowy stamp from the Penny Black Jolly Friends Set

Coloured with Promarkers

Snowman embossing folder

Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch

Glamour Dust

Gems and ribbon from stash.

Oops just realised I meant to add some of my fake snow for Snowy to stand on.  Please imagine its there and I'll go and add it now.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Celebrations

Tuesday Morning Sketches - The Sketch

I love Promarkers - Purple and Pink

Penny Black - Crafty Bargains (I got the Snowman Embossing Folder half price in January Sales)

Winter Wonderland - An Easel Card

Penny Black Christmas

Woo Hoo 2 cards in one day.  I haven't done that in a while!!  Managed to get this week's Christmas card finished while Emily was making tea.  A very quick card, only took half an hour.

I stamped this lovely pair of hedgehogs from the Penny Black Jolly Friends Set and coloured with Promarkers.  Glamour dusted the snow on top of the brolly and added fake snow from B&M to the ground.

I embossed the red backing paper with swiss dots embossing folder and just added the red ribbon from my stash.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bah Humbug - Kissmas

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Touchy Feely

Crafty Katz Challenge - Emboss It

Jingle Belles Rock - Bling on the holidays

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Choose 4 from list

(I chose Stamping, Stripes, Texture and Ribbon)

Have a lovely evening.

Debs xx

White on White Christmas Card

Good Afternoon everyone.  Hope you're having a good one.  Just starting to brighten up now but we had terrible rain this morning with thunder and lightening.

My card today is my weekly Christmas Card.  These are all I seem to do lately, I haven't made any other type of card since the beginning of July, I'll have to rectify that very soon.

Image - Penny Black Jolly Friends Set coloured with Promarkers and Prismas

Sentiment - See D set and white embossing powder (Hope you can see it)

Backing embossed with swiss dots and stamped and embossed See D snowflakes

Ribbon and pearls from stash

Glamour Dust for snow

Martha Stewart Punched Snowflakes

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bah Humbug - White on White

Winter Wonderland - White on White

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Gimme the bird

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Robins

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - The Sketch

Cute Card Thursday - No Designer Paper

Thanks for looking.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Penny Black Christmas

We were going to go to Mum and Dad's caravan today but with all the rain, gales, thunder, hailstones and upside down rainbows we decided to stay put and have a lazy day instead.

My card today is my weekly Christmas card and as usual I am entering it into a few challenges.

Image - Penny Black 'Welcome Party' coloured with Promarkers

Glitter Card - Wilkinsons

Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Sentiment - Clear Art Stamps Impressions Kit

(I thought this was suitable as Dogs, Cats and Mice are supposed to be enemies lol)

Bah Humbug - Mice

Winter Wonderland - No Red or Green

ABC Christmas Challenge - N for No Nonsense

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Christmas in July

Moving Along with the Times - Christmas in July

I love Promarkers - Clean and Simple

House of Gilli - Lots of Sparkle

Gingerbread Card

Well got home from Snowdon about an hour ago.  Me and Em got there about 3.15am and sat in the hotel waiting for the teams to get down.  Chris and his team finally arrived at 6 am which gave them a total time of 26 hours and 1 minute.  He was a bit disappointed because he knew they could have done it in 24 hours if they had had a bit of luck with the road travel.  They lost about an hour and half travelling from Scotland because the traffic was so bad around Glasgow and then on Snowdon one of the team was feeling poorly so they had to slow down for him.  I'm really proud of him though, they came 15th out of 36 teams and only 8 of them managed less than 24 hours.  Chris's team alone have made about £3000 for Action Medical Research, a children's charity.

Anyway back to the card I made yesterday.  The ladies over at Bah Humbug have set a fab challenge this week which is 'Surprise'.  I really enjoyed making this one as it was a new technique for me.  I made a wiper card, the instructions can be found here.

 Card Closed

 Card Opened and wiper pops up.

Closer look at the pop up wiper.

I have used 2 Kraft card blanks which I had in my stash drawers.  The backing papers are from the Cricut Celebrations paper pad matted onto cream and dark brown card.  The really cute gingerbread man is a digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs and I have paper pieced the hat, scarf and icing and the robin is from the Penny Black Jolly Friends set.   The snowflakes are furry stick ons from Paper Cellarand the ribbon is from my stash.  The sentiment is a SeeD.

The challenges I am entering are:

Bah Humbug - Surprise

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Doodlebug ( I doodled the snowflakes, the white stitching and the zig zags on the icing)
Winter Wonderland - Food for Christmas

Southern Girls Challenge - Start of Winter Christmas

Paper Creations Ink - Ribbon or Lace

ABC Christmas Challenge - K is for kids/Kraft

Christmas Card #8

Good Afternoon Bloggers. Isn't it a lovely day, blooming cold though!!  My card today is again my weekly Christmas Card.

I started off making it for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is more than one fold.  I wanted to do a gatefold card but scored my card in the wrong place so ended up with this offset gatefold card.  I quite like it though lol.

I am also entering it into the following challenges:
Bah Humbug - Embossing
Winter Wonderland - Snowflakes
Sketch Saturday - The Sketch
Simon Says Stamp - Recipe 1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments
DCD Christmas Club - Inspired by a song (Oh Christmas Tree)
Top Tip Tuesday - Favourites (swiss dots embossing folder, love it)
ABC Christmas Challenge - E Embossing and Embellishments
Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Red and Green
Crafty Hazelnuts - Embossing

The cute stamp is from the Penny Black Jolly Friends kit and coloured with Promarkers.  The papers are from Stamping Up.  Strip of red card embossed with Swiss Dots folder.  Martha Stewart Snowflake punch covered in Glamour Dust. Gems and ribbon from stash and Sentiment made on computer. 

Paul's 40th Take 2

I kept going back to look at Paul's card from yesterday and just couldn't put my finger on what was wrong.  Then I got a fab constructive comment from Abi saying that the background was too white.  That's exactly what was wrong with it so I took it all apart and printed off another stripey digi paper, again from Summer Driggs and now I like it a whole lot better.

What do you think?

Christmas Card (Sort Of) #7

Good afternoon everyone. Another miserable day here in Manchester, drizzly rain and freezing cold.  The crocus have started to pop up though so hopefully it will warm up soon.

My project today is for the Bah Humbug Challenge which this week is Ann's Challenge 'Use a CD/DVD.  I checked on Splitcoast Stampers and found the instructions to make a CD/DVD holder.

and here's a pic of it open

Emily is a real film buff and always gets loads of DVDs for Christmas so I might make a few more of these.

I have used the Penny Black stamp Winter Snuggles from the Jolly Holly set and coloured with Promarkers.  I have used glamour dust for the snow.  The papers are Stamping Up and the Sentiment is from last years Bah Humbug win.

I am also entering this into:
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Anything but a card.
Secret Crafter - Fancy Folds

Christmas Card #2

My second card today is a Christmas Card. 

The challenges I am entering this card into are:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Buffet - Choose 4 items from the buffet

Bah Humbug - Stencil ( I have used a stencil to emboss the holly in the corner.

Simon Says Stamp - The Sketch

Winter Wonderland - Paws For Thought

The stamp I have used is Welcome Party by Penny Black coloured with Promarkers.  Paper is Stamping Up.  Charm from  The Works.

Penny Black Baby

My second card for today is a baby card. There are 3 babies due shortly so I thought I better get some done just in case they make an early appearance.  The first one I have made is for a baby girl (the pink gives it away lol)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - New Beginnings

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - The Sketch

Cute Card Thursday - Out with the old (embossing die/folder and spotty paper)

Simon Says Stamp - New Beginnings

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Hello, gosh it's been ages since I last made a card. I have put all my crafty stuff away for Christmas so we can use the dining room for what it was meant for lol.  Found out on Friday that a lovely lady at work has just had her full registration come through so she can now apply for jobs as a doctor.  She is already a qualified GP in her home country but had to go through a lot of training and exams to work here so she has been helping me part time with summarising new patient notes and she has been a great help, I have learnt such a lot from her. 

I am entering this card into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is to use 3 papers, one ribbon and one charm.  The image is 'bubble of joy' and the papers are Stamping Up.  Ribbon, charm and gems from stash.

Another Snowy Card

Good Afternoon everyone, isn't it cold brrr!! Well there are a lot of 'Snowy' challenges around at the moment so I just had to use my Penny Black 'Snowy' stamp didn't I.

The first challenge I am entering it into is the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is this gorgeous sketch by Pauline.   The second challenge is one of my favourites, my weekly Bah Humbug challenge and this week it is to use lilac.  I have coloured 'Snowy' with Promarkers.  The colours I have used are Lilac, Lavender, Orchid, Cool Aqua and Berry.

I am also entering into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - X for Xmas

I love Promarkers - Snowmen

Totally Gorjuss - Non Traditional Christmas

One Stop Craft Challenge - Snow People

Die Cut Dreams Christmas - Anything Goes

Simon Says - Sparkle

Anything Goes - Let it Snow 

Bah Humbug Challenge 43 - Fancy Folds

Oh my goodness, this card seems to have taken me forever.  The challenge set by the Bah Humbug team this week is to use Fancy Folds.  Popped over to Splitcoast Stampers to see what tutorials  there were and found this one.  I do like it but don't think I'll be doing one again in a hurry.

I have used the gorgeous 'Snowy' stamp from Penny Black coloured with Promarkers.  The backing papers are a new download from Zoe Pearn available at Sweet Shoppe.   Punched snowflakes and gems.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:
Winter Wonderland -  Sing a Christmas Carol
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Let it Snow
I love Promarkers - Snowflakes
ABC Christmas Challenge - W Winter Wonderland
The Stamp Man Challenge - Christmas Anything Goes

Penny Black meets Winter Wonderland meets ABC Challenge

My second card for today is another Christmas Card. I am entering this one into 3 challenges. The first is the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which is to use triangles or zig zags.  I have used this cute PB image coloured with Promarkers.

The second challenge I am entering is the ABC Christmas Challenge - V for vertical.  There are 2 sketches to choose from and they are asking you to put 2 more V's on your card.  My 2 words are Vellum and Vivacious.
The third and final challenge is the Winter Wonderland Challenge - Have a Mousey Christmas.

4 Challenge Card

Just got back from Manchester, we were watching the Great Manchester Run, don't know if you caught any of it on the telly but it was blooming cold.  Great fun though, the atmosphere around us was great.  Chris has just put kettle on to warm us up so popped on here to upload the card I made last night.  It is for my sister and her husband who are celebrating their third wedding anniversary next week.

The first challenge I am entering is the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Flowers.  I have used the Penny Black Stamp 'You're a Treasure' and coloured it with Promarkers.

The flowers are from another challenge win and I have used card candy for the centres.  The daisy charm is from The Works.  The second challenge  is Sketch Saturday where there is  a fabulous sketch.  The third challenge is One Stop Craft Challenge where the theme is Summer Breeze.  I think the colours I have used are Summery colours and the final challenge is Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge which is to include something 'Metal'.  The papers I have used are Stamping Up, sentiment is a SeeD stamp, Martha Stewart Border punch 'Doily Lace' ribbon and gems from stash.