December Challenge at the A Bit More Time to Craft Extra Challenge - Anything Goes

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a good day yesterday. Today is the first day of my hubby's retirement. It is shame we are still in lockdown as it would have been nice to go somewhere to celebrate. I am now working on a list of jobs for him to do. I am sure he is looking forward to this. 😊

Today the new Challenge at the A Bit More Time to Craft Extra Challenge Blog starts. The theme is always Anything Goes.  This will be my last challenge with this lovely team. I am sure that my craft time will be diminished with my hubby being around more. I still want to make cards but I don't really want to have a lot of deadlines to work to.  

For this card I used the Vintage Flakes Digi papers set. There are papers on offer as prizes for the winners of the challlenge. 

Our challenges are always fun. Click on the badge above and you will be taken there. 

This oh so cute little penguin is from Conie Fong. I am not sure that is it available anymore. I used my Primsacolor pencils to colour the image. I used the Double Pierced Rectangle dies from Creative Expressions to cut out the image and its mats. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 45 at the " Crafty Critters Crazies Challenge blog

Challenge 45 at the Crafty Animals Challenge blog

Challenge 53 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 29 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

I hope December is kind to you. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas cards made with Recycled Packaging

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? What things have you been up to. Our neighbours have finally replaced the broken fence between our properties. I have been holding back from doing any planting in our front border in case in got trodden on. Now I have the delightful prospect of working out which plants to put in.

I have challenged myself to join in with the Rudolph Days challenge every month. The challenge is for Christmas cards and starts on the 25th of the month and runs until the end of the month. I was doing quite well with making Christmas cards earlier in the year but just so much else to do I haven't made so many. If it wasn't for the Rudolph Days challenge I might not have made any. I really don't want to be making them at the last minute the way I did last year.

I was looking for something in my Christmas stash and I came across some packing for some slipper socks that I had saved. I love the snowflake border around the edge of the panels I matted and layered the panels. 

I found a square image for the top of the card. 

The sentiment cut with a John Next Door die fitted onto one of the flaps. 

The second card was made in the same way. 

I cut a sentiment with a Creative Expressions die in white glitter card. 

This snowflake was on one of the panels I added a die cut snowflake over the top. 

Here are both cards together both made from the same packaging. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The April Rudolph Days Challenge

Challenge 434 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

Challenge 183 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 48 at the Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 9 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

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Cute Penguin Christmas card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are all well. My husband has had a nasty cough and on Monday he went to the doctors and was given antibiotics. It was recommended that he go to the walk in X-ray department at our local hospital for a chest X-ray. That is what we did yesterday. Today he is working from home. The cough at last seems to be responding to the antibiotics.

It is hard to craft when there is someone poorly in the house. Yesterday I actually  felt like making a simple card. In my stash I had spotted a sheet of foil edged  strips of patterned papers and I wanted to try the snippets technique with them,.

This is what I made. The sheet was an old Kanban one. I found a silver glitter die cut square in my scraps pile. That made one of the mats and I cut a dark blue outer mat. I then cut a piece of card to fit inside the piercing on the silver mat. This was then covered with strips of paper from the sheet. 

I looked back through my stash and found a sheet of cute images this is also an old Kanban sheet. If you look carefully the pattern round the image matches the pattern on some of the strips. The sentiment I used I found in my stash. 

I entered a giveaway competition on Facebook I think back before Christmas. I was the chosen winner and my prize arrived yesterday. There are 23 stamps all designed by Sharon Callis for Personal Impressions. The stamps are all Christmas themed and they are lovely. I am looking forward to using them. 

I did make three other cards with the strips once I had got going it was fun to do. I am hoping to get a bit of crafting done this afternoon. I do need to stay out of the way while my hubby is working. 

Enjoy the rest of the week 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:

The January Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 420 at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

Challenge 6 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 22 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

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Always Fun Challenges - Challenge 63 Sketch

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How was your weekend. We were busy as usual. Invigilating is all finished now. So I have some time to catch up on things.

Today sees the start of Challenge 63 at Always Fun Challenges this time the theme is to follow  the sketch.

I have had a pad of the beautiful Christmas paper for a while.

The challenges are always fun why not join  us?

This is the sketch to follow. 

This is the Penguin Elf Digital stamp from Whimsy Stamps and it is available HERE. I made him a background in Publisher. Then I printed onto Neenha card stock and coloured with my Promarkers. 

This seems to be my go to Christmas sentiment at the moment it fits into very small spaces. 

I cut snowflakes in glitter card to replace the hearts in the sketch. 

Shall I let you in to a little secret? I am well behind with my Christmas card makes. So I have decided that where I can for my Design Team makes I am going to make Christmas cards. 

Happy Crafting

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The June challenge at the Christmas at the Sweet Stamping Challenge blog

Week 372 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

The June Challenge at the Color It Create It Show it Off Challenge blog

Challenge 86 at the Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Challenge 390 at the Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

Challenge 211 at the Crafting from the Heart challenge blog

Challenge 24 at The Merry Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 390 at the Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

Week 24 at the Digi Choosday Craft Challenge

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Christmas Cuties

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? It is always a tough week when we go back to school. It is so easy to slip into the stay at home lifestyle.

Last week I made a few Christmas cards. Surprisingly, this year where I am so busy I have managed to make more Christmas cards than I had at this point last year.

I was looking through my collection of old cards (people love giving them to me 😊) and I found two cards that had obviously come from the same set. The little images were so cute I had to use them.

The original card were just these images in the centre of a white card which made them super easy to cut out. 

There is not a lot to say I used the Double Pierced Squares and Rectangles dies to make all the mats and layers. The papers were in my stash. 

I would like to enter the April Rudolf Days Challenge. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

 Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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