Snippets wreath

Another week another Christmas challenge. If you have been following us or the other Christmas challenges, you'll have a nice stack of cards all ready for December. Maybe you like to make yours all at once when Christmas is looming. I've done that too. 
Our challenge this week at 52CCT is a great colour challenge:

That should get you thinking and I'm sure we'll have lots of variations and inventiveness. 

My card is fairly simple and I chose green as my +1 colour and made a wreath. I cut the leaves from a snippet previously inked and scrunched. Some of it looks yellow here, it's not. I also managed to emboss Swiss Dots without a sharp edge showing by layering up a cutting plate, embossing folder, embossing mat and silicone mat as I did once before on here. This is useful when your embossing folder is not as big as you'd like it to be. 
I'm pleased with my clean and simple card. I hope you like it. 
I used a set of dies which came with a recent Die Cutting Essentials magazine. There are a number of small dies and I have used them on several cards, all very different. The sentiment is Penny Black. 
You have one week to join in the challenge, we love to see your ideas. 
Thanks for visiting. x

French blue butterflies

This card is a 'commission' from a friend who wanted it for her daughter. I hope she likes it, she hasn't seen it yet. 

I've used thin interfacing type fabric for the flowers, dyed with Brushos. I died then cut then died again. It's best if you cut, then die. 
I added the flowers and leaves and felt it needed a little something else. Mrs A's Butterfly challenge gave me the answer. French blue butterflies. 

It's the letter F and I've used French blue and butterflies only. 

After I'd stamped and inked the circle on the base card I decided to spritz it to give some blurring. Mistake. Of course, it warped the card and even flattening it under a book for days did not straighten it. I had some success by very slightly dampening it again and putting it back under the book. I should know better. 
I'm also popping over to Pixie's Snippets Playground to show off as it's all made from snippets. Can someone explain why the snippets mountain is growing even though I always go to them first? 
Thanks for visiting. x

Christmas bubbles?

Hi Everyone, 

Here is my latest card for the 52CCT weekly challenge. This week it's a sketch:

I've been fairly literal with this. I'm sure other people will be much more inventive. 

It's not what I intended. I 'd hoped for a Bokeh effect but was let down by my white inkpad again. There are some white bubbles/baubles but they don't really show here. 
Also I don't think it's very Christmassy. Tell me what you think. Should I have made them into Baubles?

July Rudolf days ( a little late due to ScrappyMo gadding about on a cruise) Anything goes for Christmas
Craft Hazelnuts Christmas Challennge, #397

Stripes

Morning lovely crafters, 
I needed a card for a young man. Always tricky for me but the Less is More challenge of Stripes seemed like a good place to start. 

For this card I cut a rectangle in a piece of paper and sponged ink through to create the stripes. Then I spritzed with water and watched the ink spreading. I'd used mixed media paper so it worked beautifully. 
Also interesting as I didn't add any green ink, only teal.
The challenge is also One Layer which was fine except for the fact that the paper is slightly warped even after ironing. 
It almost looks like a birthday cake with candles...

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

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She runs two challenges every month supported by her great design team.


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Golden snowflakes

Hello lovely crafters, 

How is everyone? I hope you are enjoying your summer. 

Our challenge for you this week at 52CCT is to use stickers. 

I remembered that I had this in my stash.

It something I salvaged from work a while back. We've used the stickers but there was a good bit of sticky gold left around the edge. Don't tell me you would have thrown it away...
I used it to cut out snowflakes and then arranged them on my card. A bit of embossing, some gems and it was done. 

I like the contrast of the kraft and red. What do you think?
Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

I'm hopping over to Pixie's Snippets Playground with this as I've used snippets. 
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge. #396 Crafty Hazelnut has now been blogging for 11 years and has very generous blog candy available to win. 

Christmas trees all in a row

Hello lovely crafters
Welcome to another week at 52CCT. Our challenge this week is:

We are no strangers to the non-traditional here. Sometimes our colour challenges raise eyebrows but our brilliant players always come up with fantastic cards. 

In spite of owning a huge number of stamps and quite a few dies, I freestyled here and cut out the trees by hand. I chose a few papers without too much thought and then lined up all the trees. That was probably the hardest part as I like things to be straight. 

I think this picture is more like the real colours. 
Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x