Passion for Promarkers Mega Christmas Challenge

Hey there bloggers, no card from me today but just wanted to let you know about our awesome Mega Christmas Challenge that starts today over at a Passion for Promarkers.

It  runs for a whole month and ends on January 7th 2014!  and we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs.

Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is a nice easy one “include a sentiment”.  You are welcome to make Christmas cards but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation as long as it includes a sentiment of some kind.  As time is precious for our DT at this time of year we are limiting the number of entries you can make to just 3 for this month long challenge.  Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

You can check out the fabulous makes of Team 2 here and Team 1 will be posting their cards in a fortnight.

Waltzing Mouse Christmas messages

Hi there folks, I'm currently running around like a headless chicken, so my apologies that I've been around even less than usual.  I've just about finished my Christmas cards now, and got a lot of shopping done over the weekend. 

These are a few of my quick Christmas cards, made with some Waltzing Mouse stamps that fit these Nestie labels, and some Waltzing Mouses sentiments.

I made them in a few different colour ways and papers.

I am loving my Waltzing Mouse stamps and  dies more and more!

I've got some more Waltzing Mouse makes  to show you over the next few days!

I hope your Christmas preparations are going to schedule!

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!

Sketch N Stash

Happy December everyone - the panic festive season has begun!  We made a start on putting up our decorations yesterday, most of it's up - just got to add a few more lights and garlands and we'll be done until it's time to decorate the tree in a couple of weeks!

On to today's challenge at Sketch N Stash and we're using the sketch below from our back catalogue with an optional theme of Snow.

I loved this Memory Box candle die when I saw it and bought it ages ago but this is the first time I've used it. I've seen some gorgeous cards made with it blogland, and need to use it more!

The papers are from Craftwork Cards, and I added some mesh ribbon from stash, copious amounts of Frantage for the snow option, a few flowers and a couple of rusty jingle bells, which I just love!  Bought these from the Ribbon Girl and they'd already run out of the teeny ones! The little lantern die is from a Memory Box set.

One lucky winner gets to win these goodies 

from Crafty Individuals

My teamies over at SNS have got some fabulous cards to share with you, so check them out here... and then come and join in our challenge!

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!

Lavinia Stamps - a new addiction!

I've finally succumbed to the fabulous Lavinia Stamps and this is my first card using this technique!  I just love all the little elements you can buy to make up your scene and it makes a change not to colour up an image first!  

I wasn't going to do the embelllishment thing with this card, but was actually pleased I did, as I like the overall effect.

I finished off with a Punch a round the Page set from Martha Stewart.

I made the card for my younger sister whose birthday was this week - the first since her husband passed earlier this year and the moon has special significance for her and her family, so I wanted to reference that.  

Such a difficult time still, and she is doing amazing!!

A Trio of Valeries from Mo Manning- warning - picture heavy!

I think these images - Valerie in Winter Trio - are going to be my new favourite stamps from Mo Manning - I just adore them, and when I couldn't decide which one to colour up first, I decided to colour all three and make three similar cards, whilst I had all the colours, papers out etc.

I think this one of Valerie hugging her frosty friend, is my most favourite of the three but only just!

The papers I've used are from a Tim Holtz 12x12 pad - I love the mix of designs on the papers - it meant I could make what actually turned out to be quite quick cards.  The sentiment on this card, is from Stampin Up.

I also love this one of Valerie with her puppy who has all but disappeared under the snow - just gorgeous!

The mittens are a Memory box die and the nordic print buttons are from Hobbycraft

The Let It Snow sentiment is from Waltzing Mouse.

Finally a picture ( a rubbish picture) showing the three together!

I think I've now made about 60 of my cards for this year - only another 25 to go!   I'm not ready!  Hope you're doing better than me!!

Mo Blog Hop - Make a Tag

Hi Everyone, it's the third Thursday in the month which means it's time to hop with Mo's Dream team.  This month's theme is Gift Tags and is being hosted by our fabulous Alexandra, so that is where you should start if you want to hop along from the beginning.  If you're already hopping, you should have arrived here from Gretha's blog, who I 'm sure had an awesome tag to show you.

For my tag, I've used First Christmas Girl - she is such a sweetie. I've used a Prima Mixed Media tag for my base - it's nice and large which optimises the embellishment potential!

The stocking embellie is from a Tando set which I 've paper-pieced and added snow flock to the cuff. I then added some teeny parcels and some chipboard candy canes which I painted with white acrylic and then added the stripes with a red flex marker. The tree is a die I bought on sale in the US, and I've added more teeny bauble shapes, painted white and then coloured with the same red flex marker. 

The little snowman and large parcel are from a K&Co set that I just love and the lettering was cut witth a Tim Holtz die.

Thanks for stopping by and for joining in our hop.  Dont' forget to leave a comment along the way as there are two Mo's Digital Pencil  vouchers hidden on two of our blogs and  one could be winging it's way to you.  Your next stop on the hop is over to Debby Y's blog - she'll have a wonderful tag to share with you!  

The full hop order is below, (links in my side bar).

Alexandra, Anneke, Danielle, Kaly, Mina, Jak, Gretha, Julie, Debby.Y, Heidy, Alice, Vili