A Thank You Note From Teddy Bea

Good Morning

I am in the middle of a batch of Thank You cards for my daughter to send to thank everyone for her 18th birthday presents.  I've had to keep them fairly straight forward but had a bit of a mental block to say the least!  The current challenge at Teddy Bo is Clean and Simple, so I decided to sit and colour my favourite bear to use on one of the cards.

Teddy Bea is coloured with coloursoft pencils and then matted onto some lovely mottled cardstock that I got from Papermill.  The flower and flourishes are cut using Marianne dies and a gem added to the centre of the flower.

My card is for the following challenges:

Teddy Bo Challenge  - Clean and Simple

Saturday Challenge - White plus one other colour (not including the colour of the image)

The Crafty Pad Challenge - Monochromatic

My Time To Craft Challenge - Punches and dies

Creative Inspirations - Monochromatic

Bling It On Challenge - No patterned paper

Pollycraft Monday Challenge  - Girls, girls, girls

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Free and Easy

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I'm off to try and finish the rest of the Thank You cards.

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