Crafty Calendar Challenge - Love and Marriage

Good Morning

Don't the months pass by quickly?  Today see's a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge and this month our theme is Love and Marriage with the option of lace and pearls.   This month we are sponsored by the lovely Heather Ellis, and my card uses one of her digi stamps.

I used a 6 x 6 scalloped card blank to which I added a lovely swirly vellum, punched along the bottom with a Martha Stewart border punch.  The mat the gorgeous image is sat on was cut using a Nellie Snellen die.  The image is coloured with a mixture of promarkers and spectrum noirs, and some stickles glitter glue was added to the flowers.

The three flowers are printed from the La Pashe 'The Big One' cd-rom from the Build a Blossom section.  These were layered up and some pearls added to the centres.  The ribbon was from my stash.

I do hope you'll join in our challenge this month, and please pop across to the challenge blog and have a look at the super cards my teamies have made.

Our Boss at CCC, Lynne, has had a tough few weeks, and I want to send her lots of Get Well Hugs.

My card is also for the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenge - Bingo (Ribbons, Pink, Gems)

Ladybug Crafts Inc - Love

My Time To Craft - A for Adorable

Bling It On - Love

Penny's Challenge - Love is in the air

Stamps R Us - Love/valentine

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Love Is In The Air

ABC Challenge - In Pairs

Saturday Challenge - Hugs and kisses

Allsort Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I look forward to seeing your creations.

Jo x

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