Another glitter wreath

Finally got round to finishing my own wicker glittery wreath and after nabbing an idea from the heart shaped wreath I made the other week I got the perfect finishing touches for this one. I tried to keep it simple and originally it didn't have the glittery flowers but it just looked a bit bare and one-sided so after trip to hobbycraft was required! Although you can't see it the ribbon actually ahs 'merry christmas' written on it in gold caligraphy. The poor floor under this wreath is now covered in red glitter and shall be sparkling for months to come lol!

I'm linking this up to the fab linky parties shown on the right hand side!

Bauble Wreath

I felt the need to make a bauble wreath after seeing so any lovely ones out there on everyone's blogs.. so now our house has a few wreaths but hey I'm sure I can find many places to hang them..
The one thing all the tutorials forget to mention is how fiddly, messy and infuriating the whole process is and after an hour of frustration glueing baubles on I spent another hour picking all the excess glue off lol.
Dread to think how many baubles I've used, I stopped counting after emptying the 4th box, though I was using quite small baubles compared to the majority of people so it's no surprise I needed so many. There was glitter everywhere, over my desk, the chair, the floor and now all down the stairs to the front door where it hangs now lol!

I'm linking this to:

• Someday crafts - whatever goes wednesday
• fireflies & jellybeans - show off your stuff
• a glimpse inside - catch a glimpse
• blue cricket design - show and tell
• crafty cierra - wild wednesday
• creations by kara - look what i made
• the shabby nest - frugal friday
• chic on a shoestring - flaunt it friday
• finding fabulous - frugalicious friday
• funky polkadot giraffe - too cute tuesday
• a little lovely - saturday soiree
• taterots & jello - weekend wrapup
• be different act normal - show and tell

Glittery wreath

Started the christmas craft work and thought I'd start with the biggies.. made mum's wreath as she fell in love with my wreath that I made (will blog that one later, but it needs a few extra bits now I've been to hobbycraft again today n got some extra bits lol).

I've used (oh how hobbycraft love me after my shopping sprees):

• Heart shaped twig wreath
• White snowflake ribbon (good ol' tesco deals)
• Silver glitter poinsettas
• Glittery pinecone decoration
• Red berry decoration
• Snowy twig decoration
• Glue gun
• Pebbles to counterbalance

I'm linking this too:

• My repurposed life - catch as catch can
• The shabby nest - frugal friday
• Chic on a shoestring - flaunt it friday
• A glimpse inside- catch a glimpse
• a little lovely - saturday soiree
• be different act normal - show and tell saturday
• tatertots & jello - weekend wrapup party
• i heart naptime - sundae scoop

Holiday wishes

Ooops nearly forgot to blog my DT piece for this week's Crafty Creations challege 'Holiday Wishes'!
I've used:

• White mottled card
• Blue snow paper (thanks donna)
• Snowman and boy image (thanks donna)
• Dark blue paper
• Blue dotty ribbon
• Felt flowers with metal charm centre
• Merry Christmas peel off

FF xmas card

Yet another xmas card, I'm making spares as someone is bound to ask for some just before xmas lol... Anyhoo this card is my entry for this week's ABC challenge 'T is for threes' and Forever Friends 'Contemporary Xmas'....

I've used:

• Mint green card
• 3 papers from Kaboodle doodle contemporary xmas kit
• 3 sage flowers
• 3 buttons
• Merry Christmas banner
• FF image (thanks donna)
• Watercolour pencils
• Foam pads

Kaboodle Doodle challenge #14

This week's challenge over at Kaboodle Doodle is 'Scalloping Away', as I don't have a scallop punch I decided to just cut one out of paper and use it as a mask for me to ink around to create my scallop up the right hand side. It also fits in with this weeks Daring Cardmakers 'Pink & white xmas' challenge and ABC challenge 'S is for snow' as my pink paper reads 'Let it snow!'
I've used:

• White ribbed card
• Contemporary xmas kit (kaboodle doodle)
• 4 pearl buttons
• 1 large white button
• 1 candy pink button
• Pink stripy ribbon
• Pink inkpad
• Medium pink flower
• Xmas teddy image (thanks linda)
• Glue dots

Forever Friends Sketch

I've just come across a new (well new to me) challenge blog after blog hopping all the lovely people who left me comments recently.... it's the Forever Friends challenge blog... this week it's a sketch challenge so I used it as another chance to whack out a card to go towards my box of cards to sell... and it also fits with this week's Arty Girlz challenge 'Favourite colours' and mine are red, black and white :)
I've used:

• Forever Friends image (thanks donna)
• Xmas black paper (thanks donna)
• White ripple caardstock
• Red and white flower
• Black and red brads
• Black and red butttons
• Red dotty ribbon
• Merry Christmas peel off
• Black and red paper

'Broken' Swing Card

I found this card idea whilst blog hopping and thought I'd give it a try.. it originates from a swing card, but the designer cut too many lines and cut the swing part off lol so she added a centre piece attached by invisible thread so the centre piece spins round when it's opened. The card also fits in with 2 of this week's challenges... Papertake Weekly 'Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow' and Cute Card Thursday 'Snow+Snowflakes'.

I've used:

• Blue marble card
• Snowflake blue forever friends paper (thanks donna)
• 2 xmas forever friends images (thanks donna)
• 2 fabric snowflakes
• 2 snowflake brads
• Swirl stamp
• Silver ink
• Clear beading thread
• Marvy pens

Kaboodle Doodle challenge #12

Week 12 over at Kaboodle Doodle and I picked the theme monochrome... so it can be a black and white project or a project made using shades of a single colour...
So I made a paper bauble usng a tutorial from here... cheekily this means I can enter my piece for the Arty Girlz challenge too as their theme is 'Blog Inspiration'.
I've used:

• Chunky white ribbon
• Kaboodle Doodle grey kit

Kaboodle Doodle challenge #6

Welcome to challenge 6 of Kaboodle Doodles, it's exciting that it's done so well to get this far! So this week's challenge is a sketch made by Andrea, i won't show you the sketch here you'll have to go visit for yourself ;) i like this card it's very me at the moment i love this colourscheme, have yourself a very mono christmas!
I've used:

• Kaboodle Doodle 'Grey paper kit'
• White mottled cardstock
• Forever friends image (thanks donna)
• Red and beige prima (thanks donna)
• Chunky black and white dotty brad
• Merry Christmas banner
• Silver and red marker pens
• Foam pads
• Black ink to distress the image edges
• Red mesh ribbon

So come along and join in this week's fun!

Xmas tins

Here's some little xmas tins that I've been working on for a fair while and only just managed to get the last pieces to complete them. These also fit in with this week's Arty Girlz challenge (well one does) 'Red', Cupcake craft challenge 'christmas' and also this week's Cute Card Thursday challenge 'Xmas Animals'.
I've used:

• Ikea tins
• Dotty paper (red tin)
• Snowflake paper (on right)
• Brown xmas wrapping paper (on left)
• Dotty ribbon (red, blue and dark blue)
• PB image 'Cozy!'
• Watercolour pencils
• Marvy pens
• Bath salts

Cupcake challenge sketch

Here's my entry for this week's Cupcake challenge sketch challenge.
I've used:

• Winter gifts papers
• Merry christmas banner
• PB 'Cozy!' image
• Marvy pens
• Blue glitter gel pens

Santa... define naughty!

Double challenge card again... This Thursday challenge is 'Stashbuster raid'... This week's Spoon Full Of Sugar challenge is a sketch by Nikki... and here's my christmassy take on them. The image has been buried deep in my images drawer for yonks!
I've used:

• Winter gifts paper
• Skinny card blank
• Chunky green ribbon
• 2 tesco star brads
• Santa define naughty image (not sure of the manufacturer lol, but it seems a stereotype essex girl image lol)
• Hand drawn sentment
• Olive paper
• Marvy le plumes to colour in (the blue edging around the image makes it look much softer)
  

H is for..... Holidays

This week's ABC challenge is H is for Holidays... so xmas, halloween, religious holidays, summer holidays, ski holidays... any holiday!
I've used:

• Winter gifts paper kit
• Ribbed card
• Merry Christmas banner
• Snowflake embellishments
• Green dotty ribbon (srcummy stash cafe)
• Spiral whisper image- Little gem with bauble, coloured in with marvys
• Red ink around the edges

Another cupcake sketch

So here's my take on this weeks Cupcake Challenge sketch by Taylor. Yes i'm on an xmas card bashing mission today so here's another...
I've used:

• White ripple card
• Winter gifts kit papers
• Little gem with wreath, spiral whisper stamp
• Merry christmas banner
• Foam pads
• Snowflake embellishments
• Snowflake brad

Papertake sketch

This week's Papertake Weekly challenge is another beautiful sketch from Katharina and the prize is a lovely whiff of joy stamp. Had to give it a go, and got another xmas card made at the same time :)
I've used:

• White ribbed skinny card
• Merry xmas banner
• Penguin tissue topper
• Winter gifts backing paper
• Star brad (from tesco!)

Sugar Nellie Xmas card

So here's my entry for this weeks Spoon Full Of Sugar challenge where the theme was to use check patterns and also for the My Time To Craft challenge where the theme was circles.

yes i know it's a little early for xmas cards but i couldn't get the bits i wanted for my first card idea off the laptop as there's no ink in our printer so couldn't print the papers i wanted...so i recycled a few bits of xmas stuff and made this card instead.

I used; sugar nellie image (from donna) all watercoloured in xmas colours, check print ribbon (from a cake originally lol), green cardstock, merry christmas peel off, 4 red gems, brown paper with xmas pattern and circles from a hole punch to make snow :)