It's beginning to look a lot like..............

I am not going to say the actual word....but it's that time of year when crafters minds start to turn towards a certain festive period!

Isn't it funny how you always want to do Spring colours in the depths of winter (to cheer yourself up on those cold dark days).....and yet in the summer we can't wait to get our hands on a frosty snowman! Well that's how it works for me anyway :o)

So on to my card for today which I made for Stamp Addicts using their new Christmas Tree stamp and an oldie but a goodie snowman, also from SA.

As you can see, they are both quite sizeable stamps so they really fill a 6 x 6 card. I actually went a little out of my comfort zone and did the thing where you go outside of the borders of the card. I like the look, but I'm not sure how I'm gonna get it in a 6 x 6 envelope - lol!!

I created a background for this card by sponging with turquoise dye based ink and stamped the snowflakes with a Stamps by Judith stick.

The snowy ground was plain paper sprayed with glitter spray and, you can't see it very well on this picture, but it is actually slightly raised so that one of the christmas trees fits behind it.

The trees are stamped with marvy matchable ink pads which have strips of different tones of the same colour so that are great for adding a bit of shading.  Finally my lovely snowman is  coloured iwth pro markers...what a cheerful chappy he is!!

Well I hope you like my card for today and my masterful avoidance of a certain festive word!

I will leave you with some lovely challenges that I would like to enter this week.

http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-37-evergreen-trees.html
http://hobbyhousechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-3-christmas.html
http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/stamp-n-doodle-challenge-14th-august.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Stamp-n-doodle+(Stamp-n-doodle)
http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-49-christmas-in-august.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/red-and-green-must-be-seen.html
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk

Thanks for visiting me today.

Sharon x

A quick post to show you something new...

The very talented Donna at Bearly Mine has just released a second set of Steampunk set....Steampunk Fantasy 2.

Now I will be completely honest and say that I am not really in to Steampunk, but I REALLY like these papers, and those from the first set as they are not too hard core and there are also some lovely colour combinations in there aside from the normal browns and blacks.

If you fancy a closer look at the Steampunk Sets, or indeed any of the other lovely digi papers then hop over to Bearly Mine and feast your eyes!

Sharon x

Anything Goes at Bearly Mine

It's time for another challenge over at Bearly Mine and this time it's everyone's favourite - Anything Goes. One things for sure .....my little typing fingers will be aching as there will be lots of lovely entries to  look at and lots of comments to be made!

I am  posting a card with a double shout out today as I have used a page from the lovely patchwork party set from Bearly Mine and paired it with the new thank you heart stamp from Stamp Addicts.

Isn't the paper gorgeous - lovely tones of brown which would make the perfect background when you're in the mood for making a Sepia toned card. It also happens to match really well with the Flexmarker browns six pack, which is what I used to colour the image.

As for the stamp - as you can see I have decoupaged it......It's lovely and easy to cut out too! Stamp Addicts have a show coming up on Crate and Craft this Friday, which will feature this stamp and I believe some lovely Christmas ones too, so look out for that one.

Well that's all from me today.

I hope you will hop o over to Bearly Mine and have a look at the other DT creations, and perhaps join in the fun :o).

Sharon x

Keeping it Simple

Today it's time for my Bearly Mine Post, featuring a lovely paper from the Vintage Fantasies range.

For this card I have printed one of the more delicately patterned sheets and stamped directly on to the paper before colouring in with promarkers, in a selection of pinks and purples.

I used a fine tip to add some faux stitching around the edge and finished off with some candy dots and a lilac satin bow......and that's about it - very quick and simple.

Here are a few lovely challenges that I would like to enter:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/mim152-with-cc-designs.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/anything-goes.html
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/week-210-theme.html
http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/stamp-n-doodle-challenge-7th-august.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Stamp-n-doodle+(Stamp-n-doodle)
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-19.html
http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-50-thank-you.html

Thanks for visiting this evening.

Sharon x

Stamp Addicts father christmas and trees

I thought I would show a card today that I made a little while back using nothing but plain card and some Stamp Addicts Stamps.

The Father Christmas is part of a duo set called Mr and Mrs Christmas that was released last year and, don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure that it is available at half price at the moment.

The trees have only recently comes out and I think they're really pretty because you can variegate them using multishaded ink pads, as I have done here, but the little snowflakes will always come out lovely and white because they are etched out of the rubber.

So, as you can see I have made a very basic step card and torn some white ppaper to make some snow drifts which I just had to glitter!!

My trees where stamped with a Marvy Matchable inkpad in shades of blue and I gave them a bit of spark with some spray glitter from Crafters Companion.

Finally, Father Christmas was coloured with my Promarkers.

I hope you like my little seasonal offering!

Here are some challenges that I would like to enter today:

http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/october-challenge.html
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/190-snowflakes.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/mim-162-with-nicecrane-designs.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/challenge-29.html
http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/stamp-n-doodle-challenge-16th-october.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Stamp-n-doodle+(Stamp-n-doodle)

Right - that's enough Christmas for one day...right now it's back to Halloween cards for me!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x

It's Christmas in August....

http://thelittlestamper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/flowers-galore-at-bearly-mine.html

Welcome to another challenge at Lili's Little Fairies and this time the theme is Christmas is August.....well it's never too early to start making your Christmas cards right?

For this week's card I've chosen one of the lovely LOTV boys and coloured him with alcohol markers. Unusually for me, I coloured him first and then tried to find matching papers afterwards, which turned out to be more difficult than I thought, but I eventually found some old Dovecraft papers in my stash which seemed to match pretty well.

For the embossed panel I used some Coredinations card stock which I sanded, after embossing to help the snowflakes show through. I also couldn't resist throwing in my favourite Memory Box snow flake die in the as well for good measure!

Here's the little laddy close up....I think he is so cute, all togged up for winter.

Well that's my design to fit this week's challenge. I hope you will pop over to Lili's Little Fairies to  see what my talented Team mates have come up with.

Finally here are a few other challenges that I would like to enter:

http://hobbyhousechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-3-christmas.html
http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-107-embossing.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/anything-goes.html
http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/stamp-n-doodle-challenge-7th-august.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Stamp-n-doodle+(Stamp-n-doodle)
http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-123-punches-and-dies.html
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-281-die-ing-to-punch.html
http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/crafty-calendar-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/mim152-with-cc-designs.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-19.html

Thanks for stopping by.

Sharon x

What a week!

Well, what a week it has been.....soooo busy! Starting on Monday with my birthday (and no this card is not how old I am!) and then in to am massively busy week at work involving working all sorts of wierd and wonderful hours, and trying to fit taxi service for my son, and all the other domestic stuff in between.

In short the week has gone in a whirl and I am only just finding time to sit down for a bit of blog time.

So here's a card that I made a while ago, to fit in with a request form a friend for their mother's 70th birthday.

I have used a lovely SWALK image, which I coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and printed the backing papers from one of my Cute Companions CDs.......one of the first CDs that I ever had, so it's good to see that I am still getting good use out of it.

I have gone mad with my nesties and grand nesties to make the actual card and, since it's a birthday, I just had to throw in a bit of glitter and pearl drops as well!

I hope that you like the card. Here are a few challenges that I would like to enter:

http://natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/a-challenge-and-dt-call.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/challenge-225-anything-goes-option-of.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-280-anything-goes.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-18.html
http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-47.html
http://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/week-31-birthday-girl.html
http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/crafty-calendar-challenge-anything-goes.html

Thanks for coming to visit today.

Sharon x