Snowy Winter's Cottage II

Hello, lovely blogger friend's.
It's official, Christmas 2016 has arrived.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year!

Here is my final Christmas card of 2016.
I have used another gorgeous image from Pion Glistening Season.

For the shape of my card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design

 'Enjoying Outdoors' 6 x 6 paper stack from The Ribbon Girl

Other dies used are; Marianne Design Anja's Vintage decoration and Ivy circle. Spirit of Christmas snowflake border, Joy crafts Ice crystal circle, Noor! oval  and Vintage flourishes holly leaves. Cheery Lynn French pastry doily and pine branches.

I have inked the die cuts with Tim Holtz frayed burlap distress ink.

The gorgeous 'Marie Therese' lace and double row pearl trim are from LLC

A close look at my Festive floral arrangements.

I used  white flower sprays, larch cones, silver beaded berries, large frosted berries and Vintage pearl pin from LLC The 25mm olive green opens roses and 30mm light Ivory wild roses are from WOC.

I coated the arrangements with Snow - Tex.

I  tied a bow with twine and a metal jingle bell to the Wycinanka reindeer's neck.

A close look at snowy Winter's cottage II.

The image and 2mm pearl bead string that I have adhered around the outside of the mage are from LLC

I used glamour dust on the snowy areas of the image to add some Festive sparkle.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and the smallest of a GoKreate large frame frilly #2 die cut.

That's it from me..............I  will be back next year!

I am entering my card into the following super challenge's

LLC Challenge #54.....................Smorgasbord

B) Louise's Bingo Board...............Metal Flowers Pearls)

J) Photo Inspiration Collage

Weekly Christmas Card Challenge #2

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #36..................Anything Goes (3rd Entry)

CHNC Challenge Extra For December 2016

Thank you for stopping by and big thanks for all the lovely comments that you so kindly take the time to leave. I appreciate every single one of them.

Have a wonderful Festive time.

Festive crafty hugs

Donna xx

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Tilda With Little Rudolf - Inspirational Card For The Ribbon Girl

Hello, Lovely blogger friend's.
I hope you are well?
4 more days until Santa arrives! 🎅

I'm here to share another Christmas card using lots of gorgeous products from 
The Ribbon Girl online store.
I used Tilda With Little Rudolf from Magnolia Aspen Holidays 2016 Collection.
The image is stamped with Memento rich coca ink onto Bristol board extra smooth cardstock and cut out using a CartUs oval die.
I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils and matted the finished image onto a Joy Crafts Noor! oval.

For the shpe of my c ard I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design ' A Vintage Romance' 6 x 6 Paper stack.

Other dies used are; Cheery Lynn English tea party doily, French pastry doily and Pine branches Sizzix on the edge snow flurries, Marianne Design clock and Ivy Circle.

Joy Crafts Ice crystal circle and Vintage flourishes holly leaves.

I have inked the die cuts with Tim Holtz Vintage photo distress ink.

Here is a list of the gorgeous embellishments that I have used on my card from

 The Ribbon Girl

Just click onto the links below to send you directly to the products;

Maja Design 'A Vintage Romance' 6 x 6 Paper Stack

38mm Charlotte Elizabeth Vintage Style White Lace, 16mm Willem Blue Velvet Ribbon, 10mm White Square Pearl Trim, Magnolia Ivory/White Flowers, Blue 30mm Wild Roses, Pk Of 5 Small Pine Cones, White Beaded Stamens, Bunch Of 3 Green Apples, Small White Lily Flowers Pk Of 5, Ivory 20mm Open Roses WOC, 3mm s/a White Pearl Flatbacks, 3mm White Pearl Bead String & Large Brass Colour Gingerbread Man Charm

A close look at my flower arrangements.

I covered the arrangements with Snow - Tex and dabbed the gingerbread charm wit white Gesso.

A close look at adorable Tilda with little Rudolf.

I have sprinkled shabby white embossing enamel around the image and adhered a length of 3mm white pearl string around the outside.

Around the image I have adhered a few 3mm white pearl flatbacks and used Glamour Dust on Tilda's hat trim, pom pom and cuffs. I used Glossy Accents on the button of her coat. 

I dotted Tilda's cheeks with a white gelly roll pen and adhered a tiny red rhinestone on Rudolf's nose.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and the smallest of a GoKreate large frame frilly #2 die cuts.

I hope you like my Christmas card?

Our December anything goes - any image challenge is currently running over on 

The Ribbon Girl challenge blog.

The challenge runs until Saturday December 31st, 9pm UK time so there is still plenty of time to enter and be in with a chance of winning some fabulous prizes!

I am entering the following super challenge's

Midweek Magnolia's Challenge #154..................Anything Goes With A Magnolia Image & Blog Hop

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge....................Anything Goes Christmas

CHNC challenge #312....................Cute or anything Goes as long as its Christmas

CHNC Challenge Extra For December 2016

That's all from me today.

I will be back on Saturday with my final Christmas card of this year!

Thank you for stopping by to visit today and big thanks for all the lovely comments you so kindly take the time to leave.

Festive hugs

Donna xx

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'A Time To Care' December Anything Goes - Any Image Challenge At The Ribbon Girl

Hello, Lovely blogger friend's.
I hope you are well and looking forward to the Festive period?
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 Today is the final challenge of 2016 over on The Ribbon Girl challenge blog.
Our challenge theme is................ANYTHING GOES - USE ANY IMAGE
There are 3 wonderful prizes up for grabs! More details can be found at the end of my post.

I have made another Christmas card.
I used 'A Time To Care' rubber stamp from Lili Of The Valley which is now only available as a digi stamp.
I stamped the image with Memento rich cocoa ink onto Bristol board extra smooth cardstock and cut out the image using a CartUs circle.
I have coloured the image with Prismacolor & Polychromos pencils and matted the finished image onto a Spellbinders stately circle.

For the shape of my card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design 'A Vintage Romance' Papers.

Other dies used are; Marianne Design Anja's Vintage decoration and Ivy circle.

Spirit Of Christmas snowflake border, Joy crafts Ice crystal circle, Winter sentiment and Christmas trees. Cheery Lynn pine branches.

I have inked the die cuts with Tim Holtz Vintage photo distress ink.

Here is a list of the gorgeous products that I have used on my Christmas card from

 The Ribbon Girl Online store.

Just click onto the links below to take you directly to the products;

Maja Design 'A Vintage Romance' 6 x 6 Paper Stack, Charlotte Elizabeth Vintage Style White Lace, 16mm Willem Blue Velvet Ribbon, 10mm White Square Pearl Trim, Pk Of 3 Flatback Ivory Gardenia, Pk Of 5 Small Pine Cones, Dusky Blue 20mm Open Roses, Bunch Of 3 Green Apples, White Beaded Stamens, Pk Of 5 Vintage Style Ivory Pearl Trinket Pins, 3mm White Pearl Bead String, 3mm White s/a Pearl Flatbacks & Silver Plated Christmas Robin Charm

A close look at the flower arrangements.

I have coated the arrangements with Snow - Tex.

A close look at this adorable little angel caring for the robins.

I have surrounded the image with shabby white embossing enamel and adhered a length of 3mm white pearl bead string around the outside of the image.

I used Glamour Dust on the angels wings and dotted her cheeks with a white gelly roll pen.

Around the image I have adhered a few 3mm white pearls.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and the smallest of a 

GoKreate large frame frilly #2 die cut.

I hope you like what you see?

We would love you to come and join in with our current December challenge.

The challenge will run until Saturday December 31st, 9pm UK time.

Here are the 3 wonderful prizes up for grabs for 3 lucky randomly picked winners!

1st prize is a £10 voucher from Lili Of The Valley

2nd prize is a £10 voucher to spend at The Ribbon Girl

3rd prize is this gorgeous selection of crafting goodies from Marianne Design

If you are looking for more inspiration then why not pop on over HERE where you can see the gorgeous deigns that my teamies have created.

I an entering my card into the following super challenge's;

Addicted To Stamps challenge #138.......................Snowflakes With An Image

(Snowflake border & Ice crystal snowflake)

Noor! Design UK December Challenge #25................SPARKLE

I still have a couple of Christmas to make so I will be back sometime next week to share them with you!

Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog today and big thanks for all the lovely comments that you so kindly take the time to leave for me to read.

Festive hugs

Donna xx

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Tim Holtz Village Dwelling/Bell Tower And Village Winter

Hello, lovely blogger friends.

I hope you are well?

A few weeks ago I made a gingerbread house using Tim Holtz village dwelling and gingerbread house Bigz die cuts. 

If you want to see the gingerbread house then you can find my post on how I made it HERE

To complete my Christmas village I have made the bell tower and village Winter to go with the gingerbread house.

WARNING! PICTURE HEAVY!

The church

I sprayed the structure of the village dwelling and bell tower die cuts with silver craft spray and inked the roof, portico,porch posts, bell tower roof , windows and front door with Tim Holtz Vintage photo distress ink.

The angel charm above the door and the wreath charm on the door have been painted white with Gesso and sprinkled with glamour dust.

I couldn't resist adding floral arrangements on top of the roof front and back.

The gold bell inside the tower is one that was tied around a Lindt chocolate Santa.

Hubby ate the Santa! Lol!!!

I used a soft tooth brush and Snow - Tex to flick the snow on and around the church.

An angled view of the church

The back of the church

For the floral arrangements I used Cheery Lynn pine branches and Joy Craft Vintage flourishes holly leaves, larch cones, Silver berries,15mm tan open roses and 10mm 2 tone blue open roses.

Here is the third addition to my village.

I used village dwelling and village Winter Bigzs die cuts for my little house.

I sprayed the base, roof, portico, chimney, front door, step and porch posts with silver craft spray and inked the structure walls of the house with Tim Holtz Vintage photo distress ink.

I kept the windows white.

For the door knob I used a white brad and adhered a white snowflake die cut that my special crafty friend sent me to the front of the portico.

I decorated the roof with white pearls on wire and made small snowballs with pom poms and coated them with glamour dust.

Again I used a soft tooth brush with Snow - Tex to flick the snow on and around the house to make it all Wintry.

An angled view of the house.

My completed Christmas Winter village.

Inside the houses and the church are battery operated tea lights to illuminate the village at night time.

A photo is to follow.

I hope you like my village as much as I liked (loved) making it?

I am entering my village into the following super challenges;

The ABC Challenge.............V Is For Varied (Anything Goes)

Crafts Galore Encore December Challenge...................Merry Christmas - Anything Goes

(2nd Entry)

Deep Ocean Challenge #144.................Silent Night

Thanks for stopping by to visit and big thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.

Festive crafty hugs

Donna xx

Berry Tilda - Inspirational card For The Ribbon Girl

Hello, lovely blogger friend's.
I hope you are well/
Only 2 weeks to go until Christmas eve! 😊
I'm here to share another inspirational Christmas card using lots of gorgeous products from
The Ribbon Girl online store.

I used Berry Tilda from Magnolia Aspen holidays 2016 collection.
The image is stamped with Memento rich cocoa ink onto Bristol board extra smooth card stock and cut out using a CartUs die.
I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils and matted the finished image onto a Joy Crafts Noor! oval.

For the shape of my card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design 'I Wish' papers.

Other dies used are; Spirit of Christmas snowflake border, Marianne Design Ivy circle, Joy Crafts Ice crystal circle, winter sentiment  and Vintage flourishes holly leaves.

I have inked the edges of the die cuts with Tim Holtz Vintage photo distress ink.

Here is a list of the gorgeous products that I used from The Ribbon Girl

Just click onto the links below to take you directly to the products;

Maja Design 'I Wish' 6 x 6 paper pad
38mm Charlotte Elizabeth Vintage Style White Lace, 16mm Lilac 9609 Velvet Ribbon, FB 10mm White Square Pearl Trim, Magnolia Ivory/White Flowers, Pk Of 5 Small Pine Cones, Pk Of 5 Exotic 35mm Lilac Blossoms, 20mm Vintage Lilac Open Roses, 10mm Lilac Open Roses, Bunch Of 10 Silver Satin Rose Leaves, Bunch Of 3 Green Apples, Pk Of 5 Vintage Style Ivory Pearl Pins, 3mm White Pearl Bead String, 5 Metre Bundle Of Natural Hemp Twine & Silver Angel Cherub Charm

A Close look at the flower arrangements.

I coated the arrangements with Snow - Tex and hung the angel cherub charm natural hemp twine.

A closer look at Berry Tilda.

I sprinkled shabby white embossing enamel around the image and adhered a length of 3mm white pearl string around the outside of the image.

I added glamour dust to Tilda's wings and dotted her cheeks with a white gelly roll pen.

Around the image I have adhered a few liking lilac 3mm s/a pearl flatbacks.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and the smallest of a GoKreate 

large frame frill #2 die cut.

Our December card challenge is currently running over on The Ribbon Girl challenge blog.

The challenge will run until December 17th, 9pm UK time so there is still plenty of time to enter and be in with a chance of winning some fabulous prizes!

That's all from me today.

I am entering my Christmas card into the following super challenge's;

CHNC Challenge #311.............Colour; Grey Or Silver....A Little Or A Lot 

(Silver leaves & Silver charm)

Crafts Galore Encore December 2016 Challenge..............Merry Christmas!

Dream Valley Challenge #146...................Christmas

Addicted To Stamps Challenge #137..................Christmas

Midweek Magnolia's challenge # 153.............Christmas

Thank you for stopping by to visit today and huge thanks for all the lovely comments that you so kindly take the time to leave.

Festive crafty hugs

Donna xx

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Poinsettia Tilda And A New Challenge At LHOSM

Hello, lovely blogger friend's.
I hope you are well?
Not long to go now until the big day!
Today see's a brand new challenge at Lovely Haenglar Or Sweet Magnolia so for one whole month our challenge theme is.................ANYTHING GOES
Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is the lovely Sandy at Live & Love Crafts with a £10 voucher for one lucky winner!

I have made another Christmas card.

I used Poinsettia Tilda from Magnolia Aspen Holidays 2016 Collection.
The image is stamped with Memento rich cocoa ink onto Bristol board extra smooth cardstock and cut out using a Joy Crafts Noor! oval.
I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils.

For the shape of my card I used GoKreate large frame frilly #2 and Maja Design Coffee In The Arbour - Feel The Grass Between Your Toes.

Other dies used are; Marianne Design Anja's Vintage decoration and Ivy circle.

Spirit of Christmas snowflake border.

 Joy Crafts ice crystal circle and Vintage flourishes holly leaves and Cheery Lynn pine branches.

I have inked the die cuts with Tim Holtz Vintage photo distress ink.

The 'Marie Therese' lace and white double row pearl trim are from Live & Love Crafts

For my flower arrangements I used 30mm light Ivory wild rses and 25mm olive green open roses from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The white flower spray, larch pine cones, red beaded berries, large frosted berries, Vintage star pin red vax cord and beautiful bronze Oriental lantern are all from Live & Love Crafts

I have coated the arrangements with Snow - Tex.

A close look at adorable Poinsettia Tilda.

I surrounded the image with shabby white embossing enamel and adhered a length of 2mm white pearl string around the outside of the image.

I used Ranger gold liquid pearls in the centre of the poinsettia and adhered a few dark red 3mm s/a pearl flatbacks around the image.

I dotted Tilda's cheeks with a white gelly roll pen.

Inside the card is decorated with design paper and the smallest of a 

GoKreate large frame frilly #2 die cut.

We would love you to come and join in with our month long challenge.

My teamies have designed some gorgeous creations.

Why not pop over HERE for a peek?

I am entering my card into the following super challenge's;

Creative Inspirations Challenge #263.......................Christmas Creations

CHNC Challenge #310.......................Vintage Or Anything Goes as Long As It's Christmas

CHNC Christmas Challenge Extra For December 2016

Midweek Magnolia's challenge #152...................Anything Goes With A Magnolia Image

Addicted To Stamps Challenge #137.....................Christmas

Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog today and big thanks for the lovely comments you so kindly take the time for me to read.

Have a great Sunday

Crafty Hugs

Donna xx

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