A Quartet of Challenges!

I'm sorry the picture looks a bit blurry to me and definitely wonky, I must check the settings on my camera, or maybe it's the photographer!!

I've made this Christmas card to fit four, yes four challenges!
Merry Monday are asking for trees,

Darnell is running her NBUS challenge again and the stamp I used and paper pieced from Simon Says Stamp had never seen ink!

Pixies Snippets Playground  always wants to see snippets used and my little bits of paper are all snippets as is the gold glitter card used fro the star and small"sequins". I did try real ones but didn't like them!

And last but by no means least Rudolph Day over at Scrappymo's.


 

Spect-acular card!

I was excited last week to be a Dynamic Darling with this card. Thank you ladies!

This week the challenge at Dynamic Duos is to use Basic Grey and one other colour. I chose Real Red.   The stamp is one of the single stamps that Stampin' Up! are offerring called Spect-acular.

I was very pleased when we got this stamp in the UK as I had admired a lot of cards in Blogland that had been made with it when it came out in the US. I highlighted one pair of specs by colouring them red and adding Crystal Effects to the lenses. I have used the sketch from this week's challenge at Freshly Made Sketches and quite a lot of snippets (all the red card!) so will go for a play at the Playground as well. It must be my turn on the slide now!!

Recipe:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Readl Red
DSP: Basic grey paper stack (just retired)
Stamps: Spect- acular single stamp, Teeny Tiny Wishes 
Markers: Real Red, Basic Grey
Other: Ribbon border punch, Jewellry tag punch (retired) card candy(non SU from stash)

Swallowtail and Dynamic Duos Number Two.

After finishing the previous card I had a stamped image that I'd smudged the colour over the lines on and lots of card scraps too. So rather than bin the image and add the cardto my overflowing box of scraps I decided to use them ther e and then. I cut the butterly out so getting rid of the smudge then played around for a bit with the card and came up with this.

I think I like this one better than the first! I'm entering it into Dynamic Duos as well - although I'm not sure I can enter two but couldn't see anything that said I couldn't, and as it is all scraps apart from the card base I'm going to pop along to Pixie's Playground too. Wienerhoneymooners has also reminded me that CAS-ual Fridays challenge is "over the edge". So I am going to rush over there too.

Recipe:

Cardstock: Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, Naturals Ivory
Stamp: Swallowtail
Ink: Black Stazon, Tangerine Tango
Other: Clear embossing powder, flower embossing folder(non- SU) Oval framelits