Little Santa

Good evening, crafty blogger's.

I'm here to share another Christmas card.

I made a promise to make one every month to make sure I have enough to go around.

Christmas is my favourite theme and holiday season.

I used Little Santa from The waiting For Christmas 2014 Collection.

The image is stamped with Memento rich cocoa ink onto neenah cardstock and cut out using a Joy Crafts Noor Design oval.

I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils.

For my shaped card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design A Gift For You papers.

Other dies used are Marianne Design Anjas vintage decoration, Ivy circle and Christmas tree.

Sizzix on the edge snow flurries. Cheery Lynn snowflake 5 and french pastry doily. Joy Crafts Billes flourishes and banner. Di-Namites merry sleigh.

I inked all the die cuts with Tim Holtz frayed burlock distress ink and coated the snow flurries with Snow - Tex.

The pretty lace is from Live & Love Crafts.

The sentiment is Joy Crafts English banner text.

I have coated the Christmas tree with Twinklets diamond dust.

I coloured the presents on the sleigh and coated them with ArtDeco glamour dust.

The sleigh is coated with Snow - Tex.

The bark star and bell are from Live & Love Crafts. I coated them with Snow - Tex too.

I used a selection of flowers, berries, and a pine cone from Wild Orchid Crafts, Live & Love Crafts and The Ribbon Girl. They too have had a coating of Snow - Tex.

Here is a closer look at the merry sleigh.

Here is Little Santa! I love him!

I added glamour dust to Santa's hat trim and cuffs. His buttons are embellished with glossy accents.

The gold jingle bell is from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I dotted Santa's cheeks with a Inkssential opaque white pen and added a few white liquid pearls around the image.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and a Joy Crafts Noor Design oval.

I hope you like my 2nd Christmas card of 2015?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Time For Magnolia Christmas Challenge #81..............Anything Goes In Christmas Theme

Magnolia Mania Challenge # 106.................Winter Wonderland

The Ribbon Girl Magnolia Only Challenge.................Add Lace

Tilda's Town Challenge #143...................Your Favourite Holiday (Christmas.)

Thank you for stopping by to visit today and big thanks for all the lovely comments I receive.

Have a great week.

Crafty hugs

Donna xx

Tilda Hiding Rose Bouquet And A New Challenge At Simply Magnolia.

Good morning, crafty blogger's.

I hope you are well? 

At long last we have central heating and hot water after 10 days of waiting for the boiler to be fixed.

Today we have a new challenge starting at Simply Magnolia and this time our challenge theme is

CAS or Fully Loaded. A nice easy one!
Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is The Ribbon Girl with a £10 voucher for one lucky winner!

I have another commissioned card to share for this challenge and I chose fully loaded.

I used Tilda Hiding Rose Bouquet from the Lost & Found 2014 Collection.
The image is stamped with Memento rich cocoa ink onto Neenah cardstock and cut out using a CartUs oval which I have matted onto a Joy Crafts Noor Design oval.
I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils

For my shaped card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design Coffee In The Arbour papers.

Other dies used are La - La - Lands heart doily border and cherry blossom branches. Marianne designs clock and heart balloon. Joy Crafts lattice heart, Billes flourishes and banner..

The Happy Birthday sentiment is Joy Crafts.

I have inked the die cuts with Tim Holtz spun sugar distress ink and lightly sanded the papers.

I used a selection of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, The Ribbon Girl and Live & Love Crafts.

The bronze vintage ornate oval frame is from The Ribbon Girl. I have painted it with white Gesso and adhered 3 and 5mm white pearls into various recesses around the frame.

I have die cut the 60 with Memory Box classic numbers.

Here is a close look at Tilda.

I added glamour dust to Tilda's apron and used Ranger white liquid pearls on the bouquet.

I dotted Tilda's cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and a Joy Crafts Noor design oval.

Our challenge is 2 weekly and we would love you to come and join in.

My teamies have designed some gorgeous creations. Why not pop on over for a peek?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Thank yo for stopping by to visit and big thanks for all the lovely comments.

Crafty hugs

Donna xx

Tilda Rose Scent And A New Challenge At LHOSM

Good afternoon, crafty blogger's.

It's been quite a week. I have been staying with my Mother since Monday as I have had no hot water or heating due to the fact that my boiler packed up. It's only 3 years old and it has packed up once before. The service has been absolutely dreadful. Last Wednesday he engineer cancelled due to sickness and the appointment was scheduled for the next day. I sat in a freezing cold house all day waiting for the engineer to arrive and received a call from customer services at 4 pm to say the engineer wasn't coming out to fix it. By that time I was absolutely furious and spitting feathers as I had been informed that another engineer wouldn't be able to come out until Monday next week.

Do not buy an Ideal boiler.

I have been unable to craft. I have card making orders due to go out this coming Friday and I am not sure if I am able to make them which means letting people down
. I am extremely unhappy about it.

Anyway, on to a nicer note. Today's challenge at Lovely Haenglar Or Sweet Magnolia is

PEARLS & LACE

We don't have a sponsor for this challenge but, if you would like the chance to be GDT then please come and join in.

I would like to share a commissioned card I made for one of hubby's work colleagues.

I used Tilda Rose Scent from the Lost & Found 2013 Collection.
The image is stamped with Memento rich cocoa ink onto Neenah cardstock and cut out using a CartUs oval. I then matted it onto a Joy Crafts Noor! Design oval.

For my shaped card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design Coffee in the Arbour papers.

Other dies used are La - La - Land heart doily border and cherry blossom branch. Marianne Design clock. Cheery Lynn french pastry doily and Joy Crafts Billes flourishes.

I inked all of the die cuts with Tim Holtz frayed burlock distress ink.

The pretty lace is from Ebay and the 2mm white pearls are from Grafton Crafts.

I used a selection of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and The Ribbon girl.

The resin frame is also from The Ribbon Girl. I painted it with white Gesso and then I rubbed it with frayed burlock distress ink.

The numbers have been cut using Memory Box classic numbers die.

I computer generated the sentiment using a Vintage digi  from Pink Gem Designs.

The Resin dove is from the ribbon Girl.

Here is a close up of the resin frame..

I added glamour dust to the pom pom on Tilda's slippers and perfume spray.

I dotted Tildas cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and a Joy Crafts Noor! oval.

We would love you to come and join in with our 2 weekly challenge.

My teamies have designed some gorgeous creations. Why not pop over for a peek?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Tilda's Town Challenge #142...............Anything Goes - Optional Bling

Thank you for stopping by to visit today and big thanks for all the lovely comments.

Crafty hugs

Donna xx

Tilda With Wrapped Heart And A New Challenge At Simply Magnolia

Good morning, crafty blogger's

I hope you are well?

We have a new challenge starting today at Simply Magnolia and this time our challenge theme is

Love Is All Around

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Crafty Ribbons with a £10 voucher for one lucky winner!

I have made a shaped card featuring Tilda With Wrapped Heart n sepia and red.

I used Tilda With Wrapped Heart from the Sweet Crazy Love 2012 Collection.

The image is stamped with Memento rich cocoa ink onto Neenah cardstock and cut out using a CartUs oval and matted onto a Joy Crafts Noor Design oval.

I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils.

For my shaped card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design It's Christmas Time papers. Yes..........you read it correct. Christmas papers. Lol!!!

I have lightly sanded the papers.

Other dies used are La - La - Land heart doily border, cherry blossom branch and heart cogs. Cheery Lynn french pastry doily, Joy Crafts Billes flourishes and doohickey Vintage box lacing coffee.

I inked the die cuts with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink.

The pretty lace across the bottom of the card is from Ebay.

I used a selection of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Live & Love Crafts.

The sweet bee charm is from The Ribbon Girl.

The sentiment is everyday grungy from Lili Of  the Valley.

Here is a close up of Tilda.

I have adhered a string of 2mm white pearls around the image and adhered a 3mm white pearl onto the bow in Tilda's hair. 

The buttons on the straps of Tilda's have been embellished with glossy accents.

I dotted Tilda's cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen and used Ranger white liquid pearls around the image.

The tiny butterfly I have punched out using a Woodware punch and design paper.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and a Joy Crafts Noor Design oval.

I hope you like what you see?

Our challenge is 2 weekly and we would love you to come and join in.

My teamies have designed some gorgeous creations. Why not pop over for a peek?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Tilda's Town Challenge #141 Fussy & Fancy or Clean and Layered

(Fussy & Fancy)

Allsorts Challenge #297 Love is all around

The Ribbon Girl LOTV Challenge It's Charming

Deep Ocean Challenge #96 Lace & Pearls

Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog today and big thanks for the lovely comments I receive. 

Have a great week.

Crafty hugs

Donna xx

Tilda With Rose Basket And A New Challenge At Lovey Haenglar Or Sweet Magnolia

Good afternoon, crafty blogger's.

I hope you are well? 

I can't believe we are in February already.

We have had lots of snow here in Derbyshire and the temperature is freezing.

Anyway..............Today we have a new challenge starting at  Lovely Haenglar Or Sweet Magnolia

This time our challenge theme is Love or Hearts.

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is The Ribbon Girl with a £10 voucher for one lucky winner!

I was asked to make a Birthday card so I chose to use hearts on it.

I used Tilda With Rose Basket from the Pink Lemonade 2014 Collection.

The image is stamped with Memento rich cocoa ink onto Neenah cardstock and cut out using a Spellbinders floral oval.

I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils.

For my shaped card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design Coffee In The Arbour papers.

Other dies used are Marianne Designs Anjas vintage decoration and clock. La - La - Lands heart doily border and cherry blossom branch. Joy Crafts lattice heart and Billes flourishes.

I inked all the die cuts with Tim Holtz spun sugar distress ink.

The pretty lace is from Ebay. You can find it HERE

For the floral arrangement I used a selection of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and The Ribbon Girl.

The heart shaped pins are also from The Ribbon Girl.

The butterfly is Magnolia butterfly kit. I coloured it with Polychromos pencils and adhered a 2mm white pearl to each wing.

I coated the shabby bark heart from Live & Love Crafts with Snow - Tex. I then painted it with white Gesso and sprinkled glamour dust onto it while the paint was wet.

The Mum letters are cut from a sheet of Pion studio of memories paper.

The sentiment is everyday grungy from Lili Of The Valley.

Here is a close up pic of adorable Tilda With Rose Basket.

I adhered a few 2mm white pearls around the image and used Ranger white liquid pearls on the flowers. I dotted Tilda's cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen.

Inside the card is decorated with Maja Design paper and a Spellbinders floral oval.

We would love you to come and join in with our 2 weekly challenge.

My teamies have designed some gorgeous creations. Why not pop on over for a peek?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Live & Love Crafts Challenge #32.................Heart(s)

Magnolia Mania Challenge #105................Special Kinds Of Cards

Bunny Zoes January Challenge...................Hearts

Stamp & Create With Magnolia Challenge #54.......................Hearts

Thank you for stopping by to visit today and big thanks for all the lovely comments.

Crafty hugs

Donna xxx