Father Xmas Gnome

I couldn't resist doing another wintery sky scene with Mo's Digital Pencil Christmas Gnomes.  This one is a merge of Father Christmas Gnome with his presents, and one of the Gnome Trees.

I've coloured with a mix of Promarkers and Copics  and there's also some Wink of Stella on the stars and tree berries but not picked up too well here. I created the snow by banging a White Posca pen with a ruler - so technical!!  The sentiment is a an old Cat's Life Press stamp which I still love!

I'm going to try and sort out some Christmas cards and paper for Holly's shop today- it's raining again, surprise, surprise, so other than housework, (sorry for swearing!) there's not a lot else to do!

Enjoy your Saturday!

Juliexx

Passion for Promarkers - Sketch

 

It's time for our new challenge at Passion for Promarkers and this week we have a sketch as drawm by our Lou - this challenge's hostess with the mostest!

I've used this brilliant Snowman image from Mo Manning. I must confess that he was lovely and easy, and quick, to colour with my Promarkers, which was just as well, as I almost didn't have time to make my card!  The panic season has set in for me!!

I teamed him up with some snowflake cardstock, and a couple of Memory Box dies and a Cat's Life Press sentiment.

And more gorgeously rusted jingle bells from The Ribbon Girl to finish off.

This week, our sponsor is Whiff of Joy and the winner of our challenge could win a lovely stamp from their range.

Do check out the makes of my PFP teamies here - they are fabulous, and it's a nice,easy sketch so come and play along with us!

Basic Grey Challenges - Happy Christmas

Time for a new challenge at Basic Grey Challenges and it's a nice easy one that we have for you this fortnight:

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

How easy is that -just don't forget that you must use a Basic Grey product and point out what it is.

I've teamed up Jovial 6x6 papers with this darling Mo Manning Image called Hanging the Stockings- just click on the link to find it in Mo's Digital Pencil.

It's the perfect Christmas scene don't you think - even doggy wants in on the act!

The sentiment is from Cat's Life Press and the holly is from a Marianne die.  Finally I added some Aged Ivory Frantage for the finishing touch.

As always, we have our one and only regular sponsor, Simon Says Stamp, and they are offering a fab $25 dollar voucher to the lucky winner of this fortnight's challenge.

My BG teamies have made some gorgeous cards, as always - check them out here

Have a great weekend!

Basic Grey Challenges Cold and Frosty

Morning and a Happy Saturday to you.  Can't believe that this time last week we woke up in sunny and warm San Francisco ready for our  journey home!  It's certainly cold and frosty here compared to San Fran!  Apparently it's their rainy season now but we didn't see a drop -  just lovely clear skies and warm, sunny days.  Quite funny looking at all their Christmas decorations in the sun! 

On to today's card and it's for our new challenge at Basic Grey Challenges where we have a theme of Cold and Frosty for you.  I struggled this week, what with jet lag, a heavy cold and being busy  at work, so decided to use one of the ready coloured images from a Lili of the Valley Christmas Art Pad. For me colouring an image is usually a big part of my card making, so I felt I was cheating (myself) but you know, I still put in a fair amount of time making the card.  

I also decided to kick off the frosty theme by covering the image with some transparent stardust embossing powder and I don't know if I'd have had the courage to do that if I'd spent a couple of hours colouring the image!  Especially as you get this effect where the image becomes very soft and muted - good for hiding any colouring mistakes though!

 

I cut out the card blank and frames with Go Kreate Frilly dies and then stardust embossed one of the frames which I then layered onto Basic Grey Lime Rickey Blue Moon 12x12 papers. I then added some clear twinkly embossing powder to the tree, deer fence and stars, and also over the sentiment to complete the cold and frosty vibe. The sentiment is from Cat's Life Press, and the various dies are Tim Holtz, Marianne and Whiff of Joy.  The chiffon roses are from the Hobby House. 

As always, our terrific sponsor is Simon Says Stamp who are again offering their very generous prize of a $25 dollar voucher to the lucky winner of the challenge.

Check out the rest of the Cold and Frosty fab makes from the rest of the BG DT here!

I've got a bit of shopping to do today, a bit of cardmaking, a lot of tidying up to do in my craft room and a lot of eagerly waiting for my youngest, Emily who returns from her three months travelling around Europe tomorrow!  Can't wait to see her and give her the biggest hug!

New Sketch N Stash Challenge

Me again after my first day back at work and it only took me 21/2 hours to get there - blooming trains!!

Anyhow, our new challenge starts today over at Sketch N Stash and this fortnight we're using the sketch below with the optional theme of TIME.  

I've shown a close up of my sentiment from Cat's Life Press which  has time in the definition.

I love the dark wintery colours  of these My Minds Eye papers with this Lili of theValley image.

The tree is a Marianne Die and the Mittens are cut with a Memory Box die - these are the only new item that I've used - everything else has been in my stash for at least 6 months - shocking!!

  Live and Love Crafts are  sponsoring us for this challenge with a fabulous £10 voucher for the lucky winner!

Hope you will plat along with us and if you'd like some more inspiration check out the stunning makes of my SNS teamies here!

Sketch N Stash Challenge 119

It's the start of a new week and the start of a new challenge over at Sketch N Stash and the start of my Christmas card makes for this year!  The sketch is below, and as you can see I've rotated it to suit the size of my image.

I've used this lovely Saturated Canary image and coloured her with my Promarkers.

My papers are from Prima 6x6 pads- I think Fairy Glen and Nature Garden, the flowers are cut with a Marianne Poinsettia  Die with copious amounts of  Aged Silver Frantage.  Finally, the sentiment is from Cat's Life Press.   

Oh, it's so good to get the first Crimbo card under my belt ... and I have another one tomorrow!  

And as the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog has an Anything Goes theme at the minute, I'm entering my card in there.

Our sponsor this week is........

Ooh La la Creations

Prize Cd of the winners own choice

and some bling

Wow, that  sounds like a great prize!  Check out  the rest of the team's cards here, and also say hi to all our new DT members - we're thrilled to  have such a great bunch of new teamies!!

Have a good week everyone!xx

It's Hopping Day at Mo's!!

Can it really be the third Thursday in the month again?  Just where are the weeks going!

Well, it is that day and so it means we have another fabulous hop for you at Mo's Dream Team and this month the theme, as chosen by our awesome Jak, is School.

Now, you should have arrived here from the blog of the fabulous Jane but if you haven't and want to hop along, then you should jump right on back here to Jak's Blog.

For my card, I've used the super cute Erasmus - isn't she a sweetie!

My papers are a mix of October Afternoon  School House and Pink Paislee Old School. (See following the theme through!).

The  Aa Bb stamp is by Cat's Life Press and the little pencil is one that came out of a Christmas Cracker!  The little slate is actually sold as a gift label and the wooden letters are from stash, whitened with some acrylic dabber.

Right now, you should continue on your journey to the awesome Debby's blog and don't forget to leave comments as you stop of at each of the Dream Team's blogs  as  there are a couple of lovely $5 dollar vouchers hidden along the way!

Have fun hopping!