Rudolph Day!

It's the first  Rudolph Day of the year over at Scrappymo's blog and the first time it has been hosted there as well, Sarn having retired from running the challenge at the end of last year. Now in the ast I haven't joined in toll later in the  year but thought I'd start early this year to support the challenge in its new home. the rules are simple - make a Christmas card - just one!
Here's mine:

I even managed to use some old stash up and snippets too! I've had the decoupage for ever, the papers were a pad I bought in 2013 and never used, so I was extravagant and used a whole sheet! the green mat was the snippet, the sentiment came with the decoupage but I recoloured it with Copics. So I'm also going to head over to Pixies Snippet Playground  - there's rumours of a horse being there last week so must see if it's still there(lol), and as I've completey covered the card front with paper I'm going to join in with Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge. 

As you can see I also had some help sorting out my snippet box!

Sunflower Pretty

I have set myself a task of using up some of the UFO's and bits and pieces lying on my desk, that I've got out then not used for whatever reason. This card has used up the LSS image I coloured to use here, but of course I had the original left over after scanning it and using it digitally.

 

The paper is from a Simon says monthly kit but can't remember which on, and the flowers are from my stash and recoloured with Copics as was the sentiment.I'm afraid the photo is rubbish as it was very dull when I took it. The colours IRL are much brighter. Papertake Weekly have an Anything Goes challenge this week so I'm entering it there.

Butterfly Birthday!

Happy New Year! A bit late I'm afraid! Sorry for my lack of posts just don't seem to have had time to blog even though I have done a little creating!

I had a play with some of the new stamps in the Spring/Summer catalogue to make a card for a friend's birthday. Now that her birthday is past I can show it.

I used a pretty new set called Butterfly Basics which comes with a matching set of framelits to cut out the butterflies. I also used Work of Art to make the background. The flower was fussy cut and popped up with silicone glue as the stems were a bit too narrow to easily use foam pads. I am going to enter this in Time to Craft who are looking for stripes - think my stripes down the side should qualify, and Seize the Birthday without the topping.

Editedto add: Darnell has kindly reminded me of her NBUS challenge, never thought about entering this as it is new stuff and I always think of NBUS as being older stuff! Anyhow I'm heading on over there now to enter.

 

The Male Room - Time

Hello all,it's time for a new challenge over at The Male Room, and this week it is "Time"

 

I decided to go with coffee time which gave me an opportunity to break open a Simon Says Stamp monthly kit. I think this was the September one which I had only looked at and not played with. I sponged a white card blank with the khaki inkpad from the kit, then randomly stamped a watch in the same colour. The stamp was a magazine freebie from a long time ago!. I paper pieced the coffee mug and added one of the embellishments from the kit as well.