Birthday Buzz

Sorry I've been a bad blogger recently ... feelin the pressure of a crafty Christmas!!  Not long now till it's all over and normal service will hopefully be resumed!

This wee card uses some super-old DP and a stamp set from There She Goes.  Simple and quick, just the way I need them these days!!
Woodware flower punch and Memory Box corner die

Layout from The Craft's Meow December challenge
Tuesday Alchemy #44 - anything goes
Sweet Stampin - dies / punches

Xmas card #26

Christmas arrived today!  We got our tree and deccies up, and the weather's certainly cold enough too!
It's Movie Night, so no chat in me tonight.  Showing tonight is "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" ... it'll be my fault if its rubbish, though an hour or two looking at Ewen McGregor is never wasted!!!

Layout from MFT Wednesday sketch challenge MFTWSC101
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge #102 - reindeer
Totally PaperCrafts #146 - one for the boys
Crafts 4 Eternity R#101 - colour theme - red, brown, green, gold
Charisma cardz #48 - Christmas
CRAFT #184 - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp - snowflake
Top Tip Tuesday #91 - Christmas

CAS Christmas

Another super quick card (yes, it's the usual last minute Christmas rush for me!)  I used my washi tape again and die cut a star border, the bits that popped out of the middle of the border were used in the sky.
Image from CC Designs - coloured with promarkers and popped up on dimensionals.
Paper Smooches sentiment.
Dienamics Star border die

Layout from Clean&Simple 220
I love Promarkers #146 - anything goes
Creative Card Crew #25 - Star
Die-ing for a Challenge - Christmas

White and silver

I had a go at an all-white card and just embossed the BG with snowflakes and cut a few trees (Marianne die); silver stars from stash; knotted Tim Holtz silver tinsel ribbon; Paper Smooches sentiment.  Easy and quick!

Stamping Sensations December challenge - trees
Card Makin Mamas - silver and /or gold
Simon Says Stamp - snowflakes
Crafty Creations #199 - winter scene
Cupcake craft #221 - It'll be all white

Birthday Balloons

Just a quickie post ... I'm just about ready for bed but thought I'd get this post up so I don't have to do it tomorrow!
I'm still on a mission to get some cards made for pressies and thought I'd have a go at a male card using this super old balloon stamp (no idea of the make).  The cityscape is also an oldie from Hambo.  And I happened across this balloon themed DP in my stash, so coloured my image with promarkers to match.

Layout from Tuesday Morning sketches #175
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - 'Happy' something
Creative Card Crew #25 - star (my die cut)
ABC Challenge - c for clear it out

Anything High Hopes!

It's a nice easy challenge this week at High Hopes ...

Anything High Hopes!

So no excuses not to get your High Hopes stamps out and play along for a chance to win a new stamp of your choice!

I bought this bottle for my friend's birthday, so thought I'd have a go at making a fancy bottle tag .... look at me, getting all adventurous in my old age :)
By the way, my friend loved her bottle tag and put in a request for 7 more of the same :o)

I've used Drink Lemonade (but I think my friend would much rather have a wee drink of vodka and coke LOL) and teamed it with the alphabet from Paper Smooches.
I've also another first for me on this tag ... washi tape.  I think I'm gonna need a whole pile more of these, I love it!!

Other challenges:
Tuesday Alchemy #43 - anything but a card
Casual Friday CFC80 - gift tag
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
The Corrosive challenge #163 - anything goes

Card for Will

I've loads to get made for Christmas pressies and still haven't finished my own cards yet, so when a friend asked me to make her a Birthday card it was almost the last straw.  So I thought I'd have a go at the 10 minute craft dash challenge.  I must confess though to having precut my papers and cut out my image before I got the stopwatch going.  Total time for stamping, colouring and sticking ... 9 minutes 56 seconds!!!  (most of that was colouring in time!)

Sentiment from Paper Smooches
Treasure Map and Peg Leg Pete from High Hopes.
Coloured with promarkers.

Colour combo from 10 minute craft dash #7
I love Promarkers #145 - anything goes
Sketch from i-spy ISSC44
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Fab'n'Funky #149 - 3 of something (3 gems / 3 stamps)