April Rudolph Days Challenge - Winter Scene Christmas card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How are things going for you? We are shopping for quite a few people. As long as we stay healthy this is fine. We are happy to help. I wonder how long all of this will continue. We keep hearing of more and more people who have been affected.

I love entering the Rudolph Days Challenge every month. When I am struggling to craft I often start a session by making a Christmas card. I am finding it hard to craft at the moment. I think it has a lot to do with my hubby being around all the time and my new love of doodling. I keep looking out for things I can draw.

This card was made almost completely from Snippets. All I had to make from scratch was the card blank. The background was made with some left over pattered paper and some left over glitter care. 

The circles were left over from making a frame on another card. They were cut with the Double Pierced circle dies from Creative Expressions. I have lots of these deer already cut. The trees were cut with a Tattered Lace die. The moon came with a die set that came free with a magazine. The Happy Christmas was cut with a Crafter's Companion die. I have all my Snippets organised by colour so when I need to cut a sentiment or something else small I can easily find the colour I need. 

This is another card for my stash. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The April Rudolph Days Challenge

Challenge 376 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge 209 at the Crimbo Cracker Challenge blog

Challenge 21 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 70 at the Holly and the Ivy Challenge blog

Challenge 487 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

The April Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 553 at the CRAFT Challenge blog

Stay safe and well

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Bit More Time to Craft - Challenge 102 - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? It was so wet yesterday but I did get out for coffee with a friend. Today I have a quiet day to finish things off and pack. Tomorrow we are going to London for a Bootleg Beatles concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It is part of In the End tour and will feature music from the Let It Be and Abbey Road albums. I am super excited about this trip.

The new challenge starts today on the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog. The theme is always Anything Goes and there are gorgeous digi papers on offer as prizes. I really enjoy working with these papers.

I have been busy making more Christmas cards. Last year I ran out and I don't want to do that this year. I used two of the paper sets the Gothic Flakes for the background and the trees were cut from the On It's Way set. 

Our challenges are always Anything Goes. Why not enter click on the logo and you will be taken to the challenge blog. 

I cut the Happy Christmas, Creative Expression's Die, from white glitter card. 

The deer family were cut with the Sizzix Winter Wonderland die set. I make the female by cutting the antlers from one of the die cuts. They were cut in Kraft card and the edges inked with Distress ink. The trees were cut with the Branched Birch die from Sizzix. It is very easy to extend this die. In the background you can just see some green trees cut with the Winter Trees dies from Creative Expressions. 

I did make two of these cards. That is a two more for my stash. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 195 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 58 at the Holly and the Ivy Challenge blog

Challenge 459 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

Challenge 31 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Challenge 15 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

The October Challenge at Your Scrapbook Place

Challenge 21 at the Creative Crafters Challenge blog

The Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) Anything Goes Challenge Week Beginning 15th October

The Crafter's Castle October Challenge #22

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Deer family in a Winter Forest

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your weekend been so far. For those of us lucky enough we have an extra day today. Although I no longer work I still love a bank holiday. It is an extra day to have hubby home. Later today we will go back to the barn where the Hampshire Open Studios event was held to collect my cards. We will also stay around to help tidy up. In the evening we are going out with our friends for a meal and a catch up.

I love the Rudolph Days Challenge  it runs from the 25th until the end of the month. This challenge has really kept me on track with my Christmas cards.

Back in July I had a day in Petersfield shopping with a friend. One of the charity shops were selling off packs of 10 Christmas cards for 79p. I picked out two designs that I knew I could adapt into my own Christmas cards.

The card blank is what was left over from cutting another card blank from an A3 sheet of black card. I have had the brown glitter card in my stash since the first time I went to the Newbury Craft Show and they gave out goody bags. There was even enough of the image left to make a tag. 

When I saw the original card I knew the the Winter Wonderland die set from Sizzix would suit it so well. If you cut the antlers from the male deer you get a female. 

I was rather pleased with how this card turned out. I will be using the other 9 cards from the pack to make other cards. 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:

The August Challenge at the Rudolph Days Challenge

Challenge 452 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

Challenge 191 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 11 at Crafting Happiness Challenges

Challenge 13 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Have a great week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Another Christmas Design using Snippets

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? It is half term round here so everything is a bit busier than usual. But is does mean that I can meet up with some of my working friends. Today I am off for another craft session with my lovely friend and one of our friends that works will be  joining us. We are going to be making flowers. Tomorrow my husband and I are meeting friends in town of a meal and then we are all going to visit the Festival of Light in Southampton. We also have a trip to London to plan with them.

I have been making Christmas cards again. This year I kept back a couple of handmade cards that I liked for inspiration. This is another one of the designs I wanted to have a go at.

The background is made from Snippets of patterned paper cut with the Stitched flags dies from Creative Expressions. There is a layer of inked patterned paper underneath the design., 

This is the Noel word die from Lil' Inker Designs, I was so lucky that I won this in the Christmas competition at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

Because of the antlers on the Noel die I decided to add a Stag cut from a small piece of Kraft card he was inked with Distress ink. He comes from the Winter Wonderland Collection from Sizzix. I am so glad I bought that die set last year. The shop where I bought this die set had another 20% off day recently and I treated myself to another Sizzix die set. I am sure I will be using this soon. 

I am pleased with how this card turned out. I did make two other cards like this at the same time. This is the one I like the most. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 346 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

The February Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 425 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

Challenge 44 at the Holly and the Ivy Challenge blog

Challenge 7 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 178 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 108 at Scrapy Land Challenges

Challenge 428 at Fab 'n' Funky Challenges

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Merry Christmas Wreath

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a great weekend and are ready for the week ahead. We found out on Saturday that our in-laws want to spend Christmas Day with us after all. This means that our plans have changed completely. I have written lists of everything and there is a lot to sort out. We will get it all done I am sure.

I have been looking back through my files for cards that I haven't shared yet and I came across this one.

I made this card with the free gift that came with issue 166 of Papercraft Essentials magazine. It was from the Winter Wonderland Collection from Crafter's Companion there were three dies and a 6" x 6" embossing folders. I used the embossing folder on the gold mat and the white centre. The wreath was cut with the branch die in two shades of green. I added dots of glue and some glitter to make it look frosty. 

The sentiment comes with its own mat which means that it shows up nicely. 

I added a tartan bow. 

This was a lovely free gift and I am sure I will be using it all again next year.

Have a great day

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 224 at the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge blog

Challenge 232 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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