Christmas card made for the Rudolph Days - January Challenge

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I can't believe how close we are until the end of January. This means it is time for the January Rudolph Days Challenge. It runs from the 25th until the end of the month for your Christmas makes. I do like this challenge it keeps me on track with my Christmas makes. 

Here is my contribution for this month. 

You know that I like using old cards. This card uses not one but two  cards. The image was taken from one and the background holly paper from another. I added some white foliage with the Holly Spray die from the John Next Door range. I also used one of his small sentiments from the Star Tags die set. 

I hope the rest of the week is kind to you. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Rudolph Days January Challenge

Challenge 508 at Fab 'n' Funky Challenges

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Rose Christmas card.

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How is your weekend going?  We have had quite quiet weekend so far. Yesterday we sorted out our passport applications which we did online with our own photos. When we came to send off our old passports we had to send them to different offices. My husband's is on the way to Durham and mine is off to Glasgow. Today it is more work in the garden and a meal out with friends in the evening. Altogether a nice weekend.

A while back I made this card for a competition. I didn't come anywhere but I thought I would share it when I found a photo of  it going through my files.

I found the backing paper in my stash and it has Christmas Roses on it. 

This is a Creative Expressions die cut twice to create a shadow. 

The robin was cut with a Tattered Lace die that came free with a magazine. He is sitting on a spray made with the Holley Spray die set and Festive Bough dies set both from Creative Expressions. 

I had the the Christmas Rose die set from Creative Expressions last year but I only started using it this year it is so pretty. 

I was quite pleased with how this turned out. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

I would like to enter the November Christmas card challenge at Beccy's Challenges and Challenge 26 at the Christmas Card Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

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Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog - Challenge 5

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I will start with an apology. I will be posting twice today. Two of the Design Teams I am on coincide today. It happens once a month. I know I made a statement about not blogging so much and I don't seem to be sticking to it.  Design team commitments often come at the start of the month.

Back to business. The new challenge starts today on the Emerald City Crafts Challenge blog it is our fifth challenge and the theme is always Anything Goes.

Linda has many wonderful things on her website. If you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

This image comes from the Joyeux Noel Ephemera available from Linda's website. 

I used a collection of Creative Expressions dies to make an embellishment that reflected the flower spray from the image. 

This is a stamp from IndigoBlu. I was really lucky and picked it up in a sale for 50p. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. We might be going to the NEC craft show on Sunday I won a ticket just one and there is all the travel and parking costs to think about. 

I would like to enter the November Challenge at Beccy's Challenges and challenge 54 at the Crafting with Friends Challenge blog.  

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

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Crafty Catz Challenge Blog - Anything Goes with the optional twist of use some ribbon

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The weekend is nearly here. I hope you have something nice planned. Today I will be popping up to our newly refurbished Co-op as apparently they will be giving out Prosecco. On Saturday we will be visiting our daughter and son-in-law to discuss holiday plans and on Sunday we are having some old friends round for lunch.

Being Friday the new challenge starts on the Crafty Catz challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of use some ribbon. The sponsor is Crafty Ribbons.

We are also on the look out for Guest Design Team members for November. If you are interested please put GDT after your name on your entry. We would love you to join us.

When I went to Ally Pally I saw a demo using weaving dies. I thought I ought to be able to do that with ribbon. 

They have some wonderful ribbon click on the logo and you will be taken to the store. 

I stuck the backing paper to the top mat and then with a Spellbinders bauble die I cut an aperture. I used red line tape on the back of the aperture to hold the ribbon in place. I only peeled back the backing on the tape as I need it. I laid strips of the green ribbon down first it is double sided do I alternated the colours. The I took the gingham ribbon and wove it in between the green. When I had finished I stuck a square of card over the back of the ribbon to hold it in place. I stuck pearls round the edge of the aperture.  

To decorate the top I cut the Festive Bough and Holly Spray dies from Creative Expressions. I used Berry Red Pearl PVA to  create the berries on the holly. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

I would like to enter challenge 38 at the Merry Christmas Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Rose Christmas Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? For some of us a long weekend is ahead of us. I hope you have something nice planned. We will be celebrating my mother-in-law's 90th Birthday, which was in June, this was the earliest we could get everyone together. People are so busy these days.

Yes it is another Christmas card from me. I was making a card for one of the Design Teams I am on and I liked the way the flowers and foliage worked together this inspired me to make this card.

This is a DL card. I found the script backing paper in one of my tidying sessions. 

This is the Season's Greetings die from Creative Expressions. In fact all the dies I used are ones designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

Last year I bought the Christmas Rose die set and this is the first time I had used it. I also used the twigs from the Pine Bough die set and the Holly Sprays die set. The holly berries were created with Berry Red Pearl PVA glue. 

I was very pleased with how this card turned out. I have another idea that I might just try out soon. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. 

I would like to enter the August Rudolph Days Challenge , Challenge 79 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog , Challenge 43 at A Snowflakes Promise Challenge Blog and the Summer Link-up at the Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge blog.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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