There's magic in the air & Sketch Saturday

The challenge this week on  There's magic in the air is to use this weeks free digi, any of the previous freebies or an image from Nina's new store Paper cupcakes. I was finding it hard to decide between this weeks digi or the digi I won on There's magic in the air blog hop. So the end result is two cards! The first card is made with the beautiful Afternoon tea image (thanks Nina!) and is coloured with my new water colour pencils that my lovely hubby got me for Christmas! I also used this weeks Sketch Saturday sketch.

The second card is made with this weeks cute image, Orson with cake. I coloured it in my usual way, using colouring pencils and Sansodor. I added glitter to the cake and stars for the bonus challenge (glitter, bling, stars).

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Funny Poem :)

Here's a poem that I found on Danielle's blog and I just had to share it!


Twas the night before Christmas,

I’m glued to the tree.

I’m wondering what Santa brought just for me.

Could it be cardstock or ink pads or lace?

Or some stamps, I said, with a smile on my face.

And that’s when I heard him ... “Hi Santa” I said

He replied, “You know ... good girls should be in their beds”.

“I know I should Santa and now I’ve been caught.

But I was just so excited to see what you brought”

“Well, let’s take a look in this room where you work”.

He shook his head quickly, and left with a jerk.

I heard him exclaim as he put it in gear.

“You’ve got enough crap, I’ll see you next year!

It's Christmas Eve!

Happy Christmas everyone! I hope your holiday time is filled with lots of love and happiness and is shared with everyone special to you. Enjoy your Christmas dinner and lots of fun and games. Stay safe and warm :)

Holiday hugs to you all :)

Merry Moose-mas

For this week's challenge on There's magic in the air we got this cool free image, "Merry Moose-mas" by Nina and a fab sketch by Danielle to work with. I love sketches and this one was lots of fun to use. The pp and sentiment stamp is by Smirk, which was was part of the yummy blog candy that I won on Susie's blog! If you love Nina's cute digi stamps as much as I do, make sure to check out her new store Paper Cupcakes :)

I'm also submitting this card for the challenge on Rosie D's for their Rudolph theme.

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One card for three challenges

 I just had to try out some of my new goodies that I received from my sweet friend Lisa :) The  embossing folder (Stamping Up/Sizzix, petals a plenty) that I used on this card is one of them and I love it! Thank you Lisa! The image is a digi from There's magic in the air and the pp is by Papermania. The challenges that I'm entering this card to, are:

There's magic in the air

Sue's sketch challenge on ISC

Simon says challenge

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Christmas Pudding....

This weeks challenge on the Recipe card challenge blog is to share a recipe from around the world. This card is for an Irish Christmas pudding. As the recipe is very long, the ingredients are on the front and the method is on the back as to not crowd the front of the card. All products used on the card are Papermania, except the red & green flower, which was a gift from my lovely friend Tasia!

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Progressive Dinner challenge

This weeks challenge on the Recipe card challenge blog is "Progressive Dinner". I have never been to one of these but it sounds like so much fun, you travel from house to house eating each course of a meal! For my card I used one of my favourite recipe's, broccoli soup as a starter. It's really quick and simple to make and it's really yummy too! If you are looking for food related craft products check out Scrap book store at your door for lots of sweet goodies!


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There's magic in the air blog hop

If you love recipe's then you are going to come across lots of yummy ones on the There's magic in the air blog hop. The hop is in honour of Nina's new store, I love the store slogan  "Paper cupcakes where the main ingredient is love", isn't it perfect?!

Here's a recipe card that I created for the hop challenge using the cute freebie "fancy surprise" :)

The recipe for this challenge was:

Use 1 tag
Add 2 textures
Mix in 3 pattern papers
fold in 4 pieces of ribbon
and sprinkle with 5 brads or 5 buttons

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Sweet trouble....

Here's a card I made for the Cuttlebug blog glitter challenge and There's magic in the air, - make a clean and simple card, that would be easy to mail and to use this weeks freebie "sweet trouble". I added glitter to the image and the blue cardstock and a little gem as a button to the dog's coat. I also used the Tartan Cuttlebug folder and some Papermania ribbon.

Don't forget  There's magic in the air blog hop starts tomorrow!

Have a great evening :)

Sketch Saturday

This beautiful Sarah Kay stamp is my sister's. I love it so much that I'm going to have to get myself some Sarah Kay stamps! I used sketch #80 on Sketch Saturday, the pp and brad are by Papermania,  ribbon is American Crafts and the flower is a Prima.

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So charming...

The challenge over on Simon Says Stamp is to create something using a charm. I have lots of charms but hardly ever use them, so hopefully from now on I will start putting them to more use! I also used this weeks sketch on Stamping 411.

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Star gazing...

This cute stamp called "Bronson star gazing" is a digi from Tales from Pollycraft. I used Barbara's sketch for this weeks PCMB challenge and Robin's colour challenge - light blue, light green and white on ISC. The sentiment stamp is by Carolyn King for Gina k designs, both fibres are Kars and I used the snowflakes Cuttlebug embossing folder.

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Fantastic news!

I have fantastic news to share with you all! I have just received an e-mail from Julie at the Recipe card challenge  blog saying that I have a place on her Design Team! I'm also going to get to work with lots of goodies from her store Scrapbook store at your door! I am so thrilled!!!!!! I start in January (what a fun way to start the new year!) and I hope you can all come and play along with the fun weekly challenges :)

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Winter love

The theme over on the Simon says stamp challenge blog is "Winter Love". I made a gift tag using DCWV pp, cardstock, twine, glitter and Snowman stamp by Corolyn King. 1 gift tag down, many more to go!

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Snowy flight

I made this recipe card for two challenges - There's magic in the air....anything but a card using this weeks cute freebie digi stamp and The recipe card challenge blog....anything but turkey.

There's magic in the air are having a blog hop on December 9th - 13th. Be sure to join in because it's going to be lots of fun!

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