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Monday, 9 December 2013

FOSTV102 - White and Silver

We have gone for some pretty wintry colours over at FOSTV this week and our challenge is White and Silver cards (or other projects). These cards were difficult to photograph (several complained) so when you do join us this week you might want to allow plenty of photographic time and find a good light.

My card uses MFP stamps, some Spellbinders and Impression Obsession dies, ribbon and plenty of sparkle which doesn't show in the picture.

Please find an hour to join our challenge this week - we would love to see your creations.

I used the stamp sets All is Calm and Presents

High Hopes - Student Card 2

Here is another card made for one of my Maths students. I have again used a High Hopes Santa and this time I have used the Week 1 VLVSketch for December.

I have again used the crazy Maths paper. The added snowflakes are from Chocolate Baroque. I am again entering it in High Hopes Challenge 197. Thanks for looking.

High Hopes - Student Card 1

I am making Christmas cards for my students who I teach Maths to on a 1 to 1 basis in the evenings. This one uses the High Hopes trio of Santa images and some cute and colourful paper. It is a simple card but with all the colour going on I think it is enough. I believe the sentiment is from Inkadinkado.

I am entering it in the High Hopes Challenge 197 which ends today. Thanks for checking this out.

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Another quick post

I used Mojo Monday sketch (Number 322) for this quick card using the Cricut and some MFP dinosaur stamps and words. I need it for Wednesday this week and I hope the young recipient will enjoy it.

Thanks for looking in.

Happy Christmas Mum

Thanks to Angie Bode I recently visited Prickley Pear stamps and found 2 lovely dog stamps - a Golden Retriever and a Springer Spaniel which you can see here. I have also been seeing lots of wreaths created by Kittie Caracciolo so I tried one on this card for my Mum. It is a big card 7" square but I wanted to make something worthwhile with this image which I have coloured to look like Mum's maniac Tess.
I used dies to cut the ring, a holly punch and a Martha Stewart punch on the greenery. Red pearls were added for holly berries.

Thank you for looking - have a peaceful Sunday.

Saturday, 7 December 2013

Blue Christmas

I have been playing with my Cricut to get a few more Christmas cards done and while it was out I made a card for hubby today. I used the Cricut Teresa Collins December 25th cartridge to cut a snowflake and used the left over piece for this card (by design!). I used Chocolate Baroque stamps on the inside piece with sparkly embossing powders. Sadly some sparkle rubbed off when I added the background inks and it is hard to see the sparkle that did stay in the photos. The heart was also cut with my Cricut and stamped with snowflakes from Chocolate baroque. The sentiment was generated on the PC.

I used the sketch from VLV December Week 2 and I used the challenge colours from this week's Speedy Fox and Friends - Blue Christmas.

Thanks for looking and I hope you are getting through your to do list and having time for some fun!

Challenges
VLVDec2013 Week2
FCCB189
SpeedyFox189 (just for fun!)

Thursday, 5 December 2013

MFP December Preview Week - Butterfly Essence

December Preview Week

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Featured Dec. 3 - Lots of Words

Featured Dec. 4 - Mini Swallowtail

Featured Dec. 5 - Butterfly Essence

Please hop along with my team mates listed below. You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs each day for more chances to win! All three winners will be announced on Dec. 14, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Dec.. 13, 2013.

Here is my card which you will also find on the MFP page.