Christmas Card DT - No Embellishments

Hi!

Sunday again, the weeks are passing by at an alarming rate!  It was a lovely day yesterday in my little corner of the world and after getting caught up with the housework and ironing Mr C and I spent the afternoon in the garden.  The grass is growing like wildfire ... as are the weeds!  The garden is looking good again, it just takes a wee while to lick it into shape after winter.  

It's time for another Christmas Card challenge and this time there's to be no embellies.  Now even for me, the clean and simple type, that's quite difficult but I think I've nailed it with this card.

Enjoy your Sunday whatever you're up to.

Hugs

Anne x

Elements :

Image - Train Home at Christmas by La Pashe

Sentiment - Modern Christmas by Clearly Besotted

Challenges :

Christmas Stampin - Anything

Completely Christmas - Anything

Crafty Hazelnut Extra - Anything

Fab n Funky - Christmas

Suzy Bee's DT - Frame It

Hi peeps!

How remiss of me, I completely forgot to post my DT card this morning, must be the sunshine gone to my head!  What a beautiful day, let's hope it lasts for the rest of the Easter weekend at least.

It's been a busy old week in my world but I'm hoping to have a lazy, crafty day tomorrow.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Hugs

Anne x

Elements :

Image - Frame It, Thank You by Bugaboo

Papers - Dreamcatcher by 1st Edition

Dies - Curved Borders One by Spellbinders : Frame & Swirls LR0116 by Marianne Design

Pearls - The Hobby House

Card Candi - Craftwork Cards

Sponsor :

Challenges :

Delightful - Include Flower

Fab n Funky - Flowers

Party Time Tuesday - Die Cut

Southern Girls - Stripes

MAWTT DT - Sketch

Morning!

Time for my team on the MAWTT challenge blog and today it's the turn of Red to pick the theme.  She wants us to use a card she made long time ago as the sketch outline and that created the other part of the challenge - show the first card you made or blogged!  Ooh, nasty, nasty!

Hugs

Anne x

  

                         Sketch                                            First card ever blogged!

Elements :

Image - Newton's Law CD

Paper - Pink Petticoat

Sentiment - Bloomin Marvelous by Stampin Up!

Dies - Square by Xcut : Frames #9 by Crafts Too : Circles / Scalloped Circles by Spellbinders

Challenges :

Allsorts - All About a Boy

Daring Cardmakers - Xcut Dies

Fab n Funky - Male

Simply Create Too - Animals

Christmas Card DT - Heat Emboss

Hi!

Sunday again and it's time for Christmas cards.  I'm so pleased that my box is filling up and I hope you are managing to keep up with us too!

The challenge today is for heat embossing but when I had my craft meltdown I sold all my embossing stuff so I got special dispensation to do dry embossing, so here goes.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Hugs

Anne x

Elements :

Image - Tiny Treasures by Pink Petticoat

Sentiment - Handwritten Christmas by Pink Petticoat

Ribbons - stash

Embossing - found it in the bottom of my box, think it's Marianne Design 

Nailhead - JosyRose

Challenges :

Completely Christmas - Anything

Crafty Hazelnut - Ribbon or Twine

Fab n Funky - Christmas

Kaboodle Doodles - Ribbon

Golf Time

Hi friends!

Back again ... twice in one day!  What a lovely day Mr C and I ended up having yesterday.  We went out to lunch with friends as it was their wedding anniversary.  We had a lovely meal and spent the rest of the afternoon chatting, couldn't ask for better.  The 'boys' play golf together so this card is very apt as they were doing a lot of golfing talk!

Mr C is away for the next couple of days so I'm chief dog walker ... and the weather is awful, I hate walking in the rain, worse still ... snow!  Daughter and Granddaughter are popping in for tea tonight so I'd better get a wriggle on.  See you soon.

Hugs

Anne x

Elements :

Image - from Vintage Boys Art Pad by Lili of the Valley

Paper - from Wellington collection by Docraft

Sentiment - Flonzcraft

Dies - Circles / Scalloped Circles by Spellbinders

Brads - The Hobby House

Challenges :

Allsorts - Colours beginning with B (brown, blue, beige)

Crafty Cardmakers - It's a Man's World

Fab n Funky - Brads

Make it Monday - Anything

Totally Papercrafts - Cutie

Snowflakes

Hi!

Me again.  I made this card the other day when I was playing.  Sometimes when you've finished a card it says 'lovely' to you and this is one of them.  I'm really pleased how this one turned out and it's yet another CAS one!

I'm scheduling this post as Mr C and I have decided we are going out for a seniors lunch.  Great I thought, no cooking today again!  I love eating ... hate cooking.  I'd rather clean or bake any day and since Mr Lottery hasn't decided we're on his list of good causes I can't afford a Michelin Star Chef!

Hugs

Anne x

Elements :

Sentiment - from Snowy Days collection by Pink Petticoat

Dies - Snowflakes LR0123 from Marianne Design

Pearls - The Hobby House

Challenges :

Fab n Funky - Words

Sisterhood of Crafters - Winter Snowflakes

Dandelion Clock

Hello Everyone!

I've been working like a wee Trojan this morning so I've allowed myself some playtime in the craftroom!  I've no doubt I'll get a telling off from some of my followers who have been encouraging me to get my case packed but hey, it's only Sunday and we don't go away till Thursday ... plenty time :)

I always try to take part in the Less is More challenge so I've made this simple card for it.  I bought this image as part of a set last week and I love every one of them.  They are so easy to use and I think they're very effective.

Enjoy what is left of the weekend.

Hugs

Anne x

Insert

Elements :

Image - from Sketchy Flowers collection by DigiStamps Boutique

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Dies - Circle / Scalloped Circle by Spellbinders

Pearls - The Hobby House

Insert Paper - Waterfall Hearts by Pink Petticoat

Challenges :

CASology - Circles

Crafts & Me - Dies / Punches

Fab n Funky - Pastel

Less is More - Colour Chart

Pennys - Anything

Triple Stamping

Hello!
Welcome to my new followers, Pauline, Christine and Carole Ann.  I hope you enjoy my following my creations and I appreciate any comments you leave.

I've seen a few cards around blogland using the technique I've used here. They looked so classy (and difficult) and I'd no idea where to start.  I went onto the Splitcoaststampers website to see if I could find how to do this and, sure enough, there was a tutorial, and when I read it I couldn't believe how simple it was to achieve such a stunning effect.  If you want to try it out, just follow this link.  

Sorry this card looks a bit wonky, camera operator error!  It is straight in real life, honest!

Pretty cold and grey here in the East of Scotland but hey 14 sleeps and I'm off to Spain with Mr C for 3 weeks.  Can't wait to get some sunshine and see all the friends we made when we lived there.  I've already started getting stuff looked out that I'm going to take with me.  I won't be taking any craft stuff as I'll be going to card class while I'm there and June will provide me with goodies to make a few bits and pieces.  I started the class and June happily took over when we decided to come home.  I have got my knitting pins looked out though and Mr Postie brought me a lovely parcel of baby wool yesterday so I'm going to be busy again.

That's Mr C on his week off now and his first task is to take his car to the garage.  There's something wrong with the electrics and his dashboard is like Blackpool illuminations at times!

Hope you all have a good day.
Hugs
Anne x

Elements :

Image - Flourish by Woodware / Flower ???

Sentiment - Birthday comes from the Butterfly Wishes collection and Greetings comes from the Signature Christmas collection both by Clearly Besotted

Challenges :

Crafty Cardmakers - Flowers

Fab n Funky - Flowers

Pennys - Anything

Squigglefly - Sentiment

Sparkle & Shine

Good morning!
What a beautiful day it was yesterday.  My friend and I had lunch then instead of going home by the motorway, we took the scenic route through the hills and it was stunning.  What a difference a wee bit sun makes.

Today I've a card for Ooh La La Creations with a lovely theme of Sparkle and Shine.  I've added Star Dust Stickles round the image for the sparkle and the hearts and dots are the shine.  When I read the theme I didn't think a wedding card would be appropriate but after a bit of thinking (!) I liked this image and found it worked very well.

Hope you all have a good day whatever you're up to.  I'll get to the bottom of the ironing pile eventually then I need to hop into town.  My new bus pass is sure getting some use!
Hugs
Anne x

Insert

Elements :

Paper / Image - from For Everything Under the Sun collection on Everday Occasions CD by Ooh La La Creations

Sentiment - from Cronology collection by Papermania

Dies - Frames #8 by Crafts Too / Precious Hearts by Memory Box

Nailheads - Josy Rose

Challenges :

Craft Your Passion - Glitter

Fab n Funky - Decorake inside

Make it Monday - Anything

Ooh La La - Sparkle and Shine

Southern Girls - Bling

Heart

Hi

Sorry I'm a bit late on the go today.  It's been one of these days that nothing seemed to go as planned!  Not to worry, better late than never.

It's been another nice day here, dry and cold but I notice tonight on the forecast there's snow looming again.  I hope it stays away as Mr C and I are going to Inverness next week for 3 days and I don't want the weather to be bad then.  

Here's my card for the day.  I must enlist the help of my son and get these photos sorted out.  The colouring on the card is a lovely blue but it isn't showing up very well on the photo.  My son is a dab hand at photography so I've no doubt, when he has time, he'll give me some instruction!

I decided when I started crafting again I wasn't going to buy dies, punches etc that I was only going to use once or twice then they never see the light of day again so I scoured ebay the other day for die cuts and bought quite a few different ones.  At the moment it seems a better idea to me but you never know ...

I have left this card blank intentionally as it could be used for so many different occasions and I'll stamp whatever sentiment is appropriate when I need it.

Enjoy the rest of your evening.

Hugs

Anne x

Elements :

Papers - Big Dots / His n Hers Little Dots / Bluebell Plain by Pink Petticoat

Die - La Rue Heart by Memory Box

Pearl - The Hobby House

Cord - stash

Challenges :

Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Romance

Fab n Funky - Valentine / Hearts

Fresh Brewed - Hearts and Dots

Pennys - Ribbon / Bow

Simon Says - Heart