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.

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!)

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.

 

Here's the Design Team:

Guest Designer

Kelli Jo

Patty

 Jane C

 Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn 

Cathy C  

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Be sure to check back Dec.10,11 & 12 for the continuation of our Blog Hop. We will be introducing the other new Stamp Sets for December.

MFP December Preview Week - Mini Swallowtail

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.

My card using this set is shown here and also on the MFP page

Here's the Design Team:

Guest Designer

Kelli Jo

Patty

 Jane C

 Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn 

Cathy C  

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Be sure to check back Dec.10,11 & 12 for the continuation of our Blog Hop. We will be introducing the other new Stamp Sets for December.

MFP December Preview Week - Lots of Words

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 are my cards which you will also find on the MFP page.

 

Here's the Design Team:

 

Guest Designer

Kelli Jo

Patty

 Jane C

 Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn 

Cathy C  

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Be sure to check back Dec.10,11 & 12 for the continuation of our Blog Hop. We will be introducing the other new Stamp Sets for December.

FOSTV101 - Anything but a Card

Hello - Happy Advent to you and welcome to my blog post for FOSTV101.  I hope this busy time of year doesn't leave you feeling stressed and you are able to look forward to Christmas like the young ones do.

The challenge this time around is anything but a card.  When the calendar stamp set was launched I promised I would make a calendar with it and today this is what I am sharing.  I have shared January on the FOSTV page so I am showing the remaining months here.  I have used a variety of images and made the pictures appropriate to the UK so I have added captions in case the picture does not make sense to you.

Valentine

St Patrick

Showers

Flowers

Wimbledon Tennis - Strawberries

Summer BBQs

Seaside Trips

Leaves and Acorns

Halloween

 

Guy Fawkes - Fireworks

 

Advent & Christmas

Thank you for looking.  Hope the week and any card writing / present buying / Christmas cooking go well for you.  

The lorry came on Thursday to collect the Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes for Azerbaijan and I think we will be finishing off the remaining shoe box checking this week.