3 French Hens

I made this card with the Penny Black Saturday blog in mind but was 22 mins too late to upload it..but I will enter Pennyblack at Allsorts November -All creatures great and small  (my camera battery was flat!) This lovely stamp is actually a birthday stamp and has 4 hens and a birthday cake but a bit of masking and cutting out and embossing and extra present instead of the birthday cake and Volia! a christmas card is born LOL.  I am very into chicken stamps at the moment as I am still in the honeymoon period with my three 'girls'  actually one is a White Sussex and I was getting pretty fed up that she had stopped laying since moving them to the poly tunnel for the winter....until I went to put some tools away and discovered 8 white eggs laid in the corner behind the tool rack! 
I would like to enter:Sweet stop sketches #sss134-November  I reveresed the sketch
Really Reasonable ribbon.#36 cas christmas ribbon RRR36  using the fab gold mesh ribbon
Ribbon carousel # 29 sketch  which I turned over
Christmas crafting #5twelve days of christmas
Crimbo-crackers Callenge #2 Make it sparkle!
Creatalicious challenges - for Christmas and make sure it sparkles.I just LOVE sparkle, I have been making christmas cards and using glitter all year!
I used: Image: new Penny Black 'Cluck Cluck Cluck' stamp, Promarkers,Nesties & Marianne star dies, SU punches, beautiful gold mesh ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, card and dp from stash, gold embossing powder on the presents.

Congratulations!

It's Week 30 at Less is More

So this week we are back to Sketch or Recipe

Take 3 Challenges

We have to choose 3 from any of our previous 29 and combine them in our designs.

Week 13 - Congratulations Week 15-  Embossing, Week 16 - Butterfies

I would also like to enter Little Claire's  challenge this month, Wedding/Anniversary   I used: Cuttlebug embossing folder, Crafters Companion pearlised cardstock, Spellbingers lable, Marianne butterfly and flower dies, glitter card, ribbon, pearls from stash, Tonic border punch. Rub on sentiment. I have made a few cards with this design

 

 

 

Less is more #2 *Top 3 at Little Claire Challenge** Wow!

As Chrissie quite rightly pointed out there wasn't much white space on my first one layer LIM card!  I did get a bit carried away with the distress ink and embossed stars!LOL so using another Little Clair digi image printed straight onto the card blank (I coloured really fast in Paint shop Pro) and decorated with stickles.  I embossed a cuttlebug snow folder on one side only, I could not resist adding a Marianne star.   Less is more week 15 - one layer card
OK really back to packing!  oh almost forgot to enter it as my 2nd little claires Sparkle!

Art Deco Birthday

I made this card for my cousin who is 40 this month, she likes Art Deco and Dogs so a good excuse to use my fav digi image, a Helen Fuller from the 1920s, I coloured it in Paint Shop Pro, the backing paper is Pink Petticoat, the sentiment was a freebie, the black glitter cardstock is Papermania, the blue is from my stash. I used Marianne dies for the flourish, nesties for the image and embossing the framse and a friskars circle punch...WHY do none of my many punches actually go together? . My new toy the Woodware trimmer was used to cut the long backing paper. I would like to enter the following challenges:
Pile It On - Say it with style
Allsorts challenge week-98-anything-but-square
Crafty catz weekly challenge -77-embossing
Cardmaki Mamas-Embellish it!
paper-crafting journey challenge-7 for-ladies-in-your-life
Shannons sentiments challenge-21-include an animal
Gingerloft - Weve-got the- blues
Sentimental sundays - challenge-50-treasured-memories
The fuzzy wuzzy challenge -8- Inspirational-photo  (my dog looks like a fox)
The stampman challenge -20-embossing (Nesties)
Craft challenge 97-animals/pets
Crafty sentiments - glitter-it-up!
One stop craft challenge -126-monochrome
Our daily bread designs No-ribbon.html
Totally gorjuss-75-fluffy
Paperplay challenges -11-week-14-critters-galore
Cooking it up with katie. 56-scalloped & diecuts
Crafts and me -29-glitter
 Creative cottage -36 white/blank-space
The paper shelter -8-anything-goes
Woodware usa--22-anything-goes
Die cuttin divas -10-time-to-mix-it-up
Paper take weekly- anything-goes
Totally stampalicious.-anything-goes
M partne rin crafting crime.24-layer-it-up

Mother's Day

I wanted to come up with something special for my Mother in law and decided to dust off my '460 Iris Folded Card to Make' by Maruscha Gaasenbeek and Tine Beauveser. This is my second attempt as on the first one I got my papers all muddled up!
I used: Marianne die leaf swirl
Rub on sentiment, origami papers and iris folding irredecent papers from my stash,
Papermania Gem
Rose template from the book above.

I would like to enter it in the following challenges:
Ooh la la Creations - Mother's Day / Special Friend
Dream valley challenges - Mothers Day
Sparkles 7 - MothersDay
Papertake weekly - Its-mom-thing-or-just-be-girlie
For fun challenges- Something with flowers
The shabby tearoom -54-bingo (Gem, flower, die cut)
Scrapbooksisters 28 - Anything goes