Time To Have Fun

Good Afternoon

I hope you're having a good day.  Doesn't it go dark early now?

I had a lovely surprise this morning, I had an email from Janet at Pink Gem Designs to say that I had won the October prize draw.  My prize is my choice of 4 of their Funky Animal stamps, how great is that?

Co-incidentally, last night I printed off a Pink Gem digi stamp ready to make a card for the current Gem of a Challenge.  I've had such fun making up this card today and here it is:

I coloured him in using coloursoft pencils.  I then faffed around for ages looking a for a toning blue backing paper which I then decided to emboss with a snowflake design.  The corner punch is Martha Stewart.  I added flowersoft to his hat, coat and boots, sparkling snow glitter to the snowballs and Pinflairs Ice Diamond to the ground.  The tree is die cut from holographic card using a Memory box die, and gems added.  The sentiment is Lili of the Valley.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Crafts and Me Challenge - Winter Blues

Totally Papercrafts - Use Glitter

Bah Humbug - Use die-cuts

Christmas Card Challenges

One Stitch At A Time - Christmas Card

Pile It On Challenge - Keep Warm

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Bingo - I chose Use A Punch, Sentiment and Bling

Ladybug Crafts - Non-traditional Christmas Card

Stamps R Us - Masculine theme

St Lukes Charity Cards - Christmas Card

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes plus bling

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Let It Snow

Good Afternoon

My title isn't a request!!!  Here is my card for today which follows the current challenge over at Willow Sketchie Challenge which gives us a sketch to follow with the addition of a snowflake:

My main image uses a Dimension Fourth stamp from this months project club.  The snowflake is made up of lots of 'Christmas Words'.  I stamped it using versamark and then mixed some of my very neglected mica powders with some clear detail embossing powder.  It looks lovely and sparkly in real life but unfortunately I can't capture it on camera. I die cut a large snowflake using my ironworks die, added some gems, and placed this under the stamped snowflake.  The snowflakes and sentiment are from the same stamp set.  The doily is a gorgeous Marianne die and the corner punch Martha Stewart.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Bah Humbug - Glitz and Glitter

A Gem Of A Challenge - Let it Snow

Saturday Challenge - Sparkle

Whoopsi Daisy - Let's Do Christmas

Papertake Weekly - Use 3 Different Shapes

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Inspired By A Christmas Song (Let It Snow)

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Reminds You Of A Song (Let It Snow)

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Christmas Songs

Bling It On - No Patterned Paper

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x