Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge Nr 5 & Rudolph Day

Good Evening,

Just a quick make from me today.

Since seeing Di & Jules (Always With A Heart) make cards for Rudolph Day and the snippet challenge I decided to try and do the same.

I had this image coloured since before Christmas but I never got round to making anything with it.  The image is 'Christmas Door' and can be bought from Cuddly Buddly.

The gold snowflakes came free with a magazine, would love to know where to get them though as they are lovely.  I sprayed the gold backing paper with Candy Red Glimmer Mist.  It doesn't show up well in the photo, but the end result is very effective.

Can't quite believe I have made a Christmas card in January, but one down, about 50 more to go!

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What a week!

Good Evening all,

I hope you have all had a nice weekend.  What a busy week it has been. As I mentioned in a previous post me and Jamie booked our wedding last week & we have 5 months to get organised, so its been full steam ahead.  My only crafting this week has been making paper flowers. I am a complete wimp & terrified of bees and wasps and for the wedding I don't want to be carrying around a punch of flowers which are going to attract those pesky buzzy wasps, so paper flowers it is for me! I think I have finally decided on the Tim Holtz tattered floral die for making them, will come back and show you some of the practice flowers.

However tonight I thought I would share with you the card I made for the latest Less Is More challenge, this week Chrissie & Mandi gave us a sketch to follow.

The stamp was part of Papermania 'Persimmon Collection' by Tina Higgins.  The sentiment was a rub-on but not sure of the make.  I have mounted the white card on dark green cardstock but not sure how well that will show up in the photo.

I am hoping to get back into blog hopping properly soon, so I apologise for not having the time to visit you all, however as soon as I get on top of the wedding planning I will be back into full swing.

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Wreath Poll Results & Exciting News

Thought I would quickly share with you all the results of the poll I ran for my bauble wreaths.

In first place with 31% of the vote was the bronze and gold creation

In second place with 27% of the vote was the purple and gold

In joint third place with 13% were these two wreaths

In fourth place with 9% was this blue creation

Fifth place with 4%

And finally the wool wreath which did not receive any votes.

Thank you very much to everybody who took the time to vote, I really appreciate it.

Finally on to my exciting news, me and my fiancée, Jamie, have booked the date for our wedding. We are getting married at the end of June this year! Lots to do and I will be sure to share any crafty makes for the wedding with you all. Also I apologise if I haven't got round to visit all the wonderful blogs out there, hopefully now we have a date finalised I can back into blog hopping properly.

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Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge Nr 4

Good Evening All,

Can't believe its Sunday evening already, this weekend has just flown by.

Di over at Pixies Crafty Workshop has opened up the playground for this weeks snippet challenge.  On Saturday I made my first ever easel card (you can see it here) and I had some snippets left over.  They hadn't quite made their way into the snippet box so I decided to use them up out of the way.

The stamped image was a freebie I got with a magazine so I'm afraid I can't tell you the make.

Well that's my make for the day, I have got a number of cards and other bits and pieces to make for other people coming up so keep an eye out for them.

Away for a nose round the rest of the cards in the snippet challenge.

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What happened to hedgie?

I did promise to show you something different from me today and minus the hedgehogs!

I had left over acetate from my clear stamp storage and fancied trying to use it in a card.

I used the challenges in both Less Is More and Cas-ual Friday as the starting point for my card.

Chrissie & Mandi over at Less is More have challenged us LIMettes to create a card featuring a hole or an aperture (hopefully filling the hole with acetate is within the rules!) and qver at CAS-ual Friday the only colours we are able to use are black and white.

The butterfly stamp on the card is from Hobbycraft and the border stamp is from Papermania.


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More Hedgehogs

Good Morning,

I can't believe its almost a week since I posted something, I think I was having a bit of a crafters block because I just couldn't think of anything to make! Thankfully come Friday and Saturday most of my favourite challenges kick in and always provide me with some inspiration to make something new.

Supplies Used
Pink, Purple & White cardstock
Penny Black - A Great Suprise
Promarkers
My Minds Eye - Fine & Dandy True Blue 6x6 pad
Sentiments stamps - Both part of a free gift with a magazine.

Challenges Entered
Winter Wonderland Challenge - Easel Card
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Crafty Bargains

I have never attempted an easel card, but I am rather pleased with the result and really enjoyed making it.  Don't be surprised if you see more of these from me.

For the Penny Black Saturday Challenge the theme was 'Crafty Bargains', in my card the bargain is from the My Minds Eye paper, I managed to buy this paper pad in the sales half price, very happy, there is some gorgeous papers in this pad and nice summery colours!

I will be back later with my card for the Less is More challenge and it will be something a different from  me again (and no hedgehogs)

Hope you all have a nice weekend.

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Birthday Snippets!

Another make from me today, two in one day! Honestly I am never normally this productive.

Di over at Pixies Crafty Workshop has started her week 3 of the snippet challenge so off I went on a trawl through the snippet bin.

My hedgie image (Penny Black 'Hobble & Cuddle') was already coloured in and the green paper is from Pink Petticoat.  I can't recall where the pink spotty paper is from though.  The only new bits to the cards are the flowers and the pearls.

I have also decided to enter this card into the Winter Wonderland Challenge, this weeks challenge is 'Birthday Wishes'.

Can't believe how quickly my weekend has gone, although I have been rather productive in the crafty department, same can't be said for the housework though!

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