Debbys' Fave Five Christmas Cards from 2010...

I couldn't resist joining in with Debbys' Favourite Five Christmas Cards of 2010 - possibly because this is the first year I've actually made five Christmas cards...

First up is the first one I made with this years Stampavie Christmas release - the Dearest Deer love affair began right about then... :)

Another Stampavie 2010 release next - love that this image is utterly gorgeous with very little colouring effort, definitely my kinda stamp!

This adorable li'l CC Designs Angel has to get a spot - purely for reminding me how much I love CC Designs.

Stampavie's Pile of Penguins are next - I adore penguins!

And this teeny tiny Pink Petticoat card to finish - I loved this one so much I ended up making a LOT of them, they were the cards I sent to all the grown-ups ;)

I'll finish with a big thank you to Debby - that was fun! 

Hugs,

Merry Christmas!

A gift for you...

I have a couple of little gift cards to share today - they're made up of yet more Cosmo Cricket and CC Designs Sugarplums I'm afraid!

Love little Reindeer Trevor - he was my fave stamp from last Christmas :)

Tracy has a whole stack of adorable CC Designs stamps in stock over at Dies to Die For

A few challenges for this one:

Allsorts "Anything Goes"

Totally Gorjuss "For Someone Special"

&

Creative Cowgirls "Winter/Christmas"

That's a LOT of challenges for me! Thanks to the DT's on all for the inspiration :)

Gorgeous silky ribbons, sweet little bells, bakers twine, glassine bags and a whole heap of other scrumminess can be found over at The Ribbon Girl - it's my new favourite place to hang out :)

Once finished, the little gift cards have been popped in a glassine bag and tied up with ribbon. Couldn't resist tucking in a candy cane too - I love making things Christmas-pretty!

Enjoy your day,

Oooops...

...I didn't mean to leave it quite so long between posts!

Here's a quick little card I stuck together using the latest Club Anya sketch...

The latest theme over at CCT is "One for the Kids" - go check it out, there's a $25 MFT voucher up for grabs :)

Hope you're all staying warm and cozy - I'm off for another quick play in the snow before it gets dark...

Hugs,

Floral Frenzy? Too right...

This weeks CCT theme is 'Floral Frenzy'...

I have my suspicions that this challenge was set just to traumatize me.

It did.

Hopefully the damage is not permanent and I'll be back soon with my usual bitsa-string-and-absolutely-no-flowers-kinda-cards.

Laters ;)

Jingle all the way...

I have a quick little card to share today using the super-cute Dearest Deer from Stampavie.

I managed to squeeze in two challenges for this one too - A Spoon Full of Sugars' "Christmas Card" and  I Love ProMarkers' "Christmas Carol/Song" - see the little bell tied on to the bow? Every time I see those bells on my desk I start humming Jingle Bells :)

Speaking of Jingle Bells, the big Horror is leading the brass section of the school band in their Chrimbo concert next week. I've listened to endless renditions of Jingle Bells over the past few weeks. I am of course, very proud, but I swear, if I see him emptying the spit valve all over the carpet again I will be wrapping that freakin' trumpet round the nearest wrappable thing I can find...

Have a good 'un ;)

Snowflakes...

I kinda doubt that anyone who's been visitin' my blog for a while will be surprised to see another card with a CC Designs image on it - I do after all, have a habit of getting a little massively obsessed with them...

This little one's for the latest ATS Wednesday Challenge and their snowflake theme.

Catch y'all tomorrow - possibly with yet another CC Designs card... ;)

Merry Kiss-mas...

There's much scrumminess over on the Pink Petticoat blog this week...

More pics and a list of supplies for my contribution can be found here :)

Stay warm!

Taggin' along...

I've had most of the little bits for these sat on my desk waiting for sticky tape for the past week - seeing that this weeks ATS challenge is Tags finally spurred me into a bit of sticky tape action...

These are destined for the Princesses IzzyBelles and EllaBella {aka my nieces}

 

I've stitched a little pocket onto the back of each tag - perfect for tucking a gift card in to.

Or your AA card for photographic purposes if you've yet to actually do any Christmas shopping...

 

A big thank you to the ATS girls for the tag-tastic inspiration :)

I'm off now to make a boy version - my 16 year old nephew totally needs a glittery, be-ribboned tag in his life...

Laters - thanks for visiting!

Warmest wishes...

A little peek at my Pink Petticoat project for this week...

More pictures and supply deets can be found by hopping on over to here.

Hope you're all wrapped up snug and keeping warm :)

Let it snow...

This week's CCT challenge is a very, very fab one - you get to choose from the previous 139 which one you'd like to do this week.

Pretty cool, huh?

I had huge amounts of fun searching through the blog and after a lot of giggling settled on Challenge #37 - Snow/Snowflakes. 

The theme over at the Simon Says...challenge this week is also Let it Snow - thanks for the suitably frosty challenge and inspiration girls! {it started snowing on my way home from work - very exiting. No sign of the white stuff by the time I got back home though - not so exciting.}

 

Hope you have fun with this weeks Blast From the Past challenge - feel free to come back and let me know which of my earliest card making efforts actually made you wee your pants with laughter...

Hey pretty Angel...

I stumbled upon a coupla challenges I fancied joining in with and couldn't resist colouring this little sweetie up again - I do have previous form on getting a little obsessed with CC Designs cuties...

Image: Christmas Angel

Papers: Crate Paper Snowy Day 

Snowflake cut with Marianne Designs Creatables Snowflake 3 and Martha Stewart snowflake punch

Coloured with ProMarkers

Ok - first challenge is the ever fabby Anyone for Anya who have a Girlie Fun theme, second is the brand new Creative Cowgirl Anything Goes challenge that I found via the lovely Poppet's blog.

Hope you're having a warm and cosy kinda day - thanks for stopping by :)

Sparkly hugs...

Couldn't resist colouring this little lovely in when I saw the latest Simon Says... Sparkle challenge - I dug out possibly the longest neglected bottle of Stickles ever for her wings!

You can check out all the sparkly yumminess over here - thanks for the challenge girls!

Got milk?

A quick little card to share today - I was in a colouring mood last night and couldn't resist this adorable pair...

They're the li'l Angels I was supposed to have...

Oooooh and you've all made me howl with laughter over the comments you've left on this post - seriously peeps, there's no need for tears.

Unless of course, they're tears over the fact he broke my freakin' nose...

And if you have a spare minute, go congratulate Rebecca. Her bro's just announced she's gonna be an Auntie - now that's cool :)

Hope you're having a good 'un!

Big Brother...

You were the boy in charge of the army who destroyed Barbie's Dream House.

You were the boy who decided all My Little Ponies would actually look better with no tails.

You were the boy who threw the ball that led to a broken nose.

You were the boy who drew moustaches on Girls World in permament marker.

You were the boy who 'accidently' broke an entire set of Take That tapes.

You were the boy who told the Father Christmas secret...

...................................................................................

You are the man who promised to break the legs of any boy who made your little sister cry.

You are the man who held your little sisters hand when a boy did make her cry.
{we won't dwell on what you did actually do to the boy...}
You are the man who has spent endless hours reasuring your little sister that no, her nose doesn't look like it has ever been broken.
You are the man who doesn't complain too much about your little sisters habit of playing Take That as loud as possible anytime she's driving.
You are the man who knows the secrets that do need keeping...

Happy Birthday Bruv...

Anything goes...

My little card for this weeks CCT "Anything Goes" challenge...

Image: Oh Boy! Ian

Papers: Pink Paislee Old School

We have a fab sponsor as always and there's some serious eye candy to be seen from the rest of the DT - do go take a peek :)

That's all I have for you today my lovelies - I'm eagerly awaiting the return of Misfits tonight.

In the absence of the Inbetweeners and my beloved Simon, Nathan'll just have to do...

WOYW #75...

...couldn't resist joining in this week...

Yup, why play with bits of paper when someone has sweetly left you Lego to play with instead?

Make sure to head on over to Julia's blog for this weeks desk-fest :)

Thanks for visitin'!

Oh Christmas Tree...

I went a little bit pink, pretty and very out-of-character for this week's Pink Petticoat christmas tree inspiration card.

Image: Little Helpers Christmas Tree

Sentiment: Tiny Christmas Sentiments

Pink and be-ribboned?

I must be coming down with something...

Something Special...

Well, I'm still on a tag kick today peeps - my excuse being the fab Stamp Simply challenge I stumbled across earlier :)

Image from TGF's Roll Call Kit

Sentiment from TGF's Special Autumn set

Papers: MME Alphabet Soup Boy

Coloured with ProMarkers

I added a little pocket to this one, just perfect for tucking in a little gift card {or your Game loyalty card if that's all you can find for photographic purposes!}

Think that's it for today my lovelies - thanks for stopping by :)

I'm off for a drool over at No Time Stamp - it may just be the new place I stalk  my newest love

...sigh...