Hi there, we've reached mid week, downhill to the weekend!

Morning readers,

Been a while since I made a Christmas card .. it seemed it was about all I COULD make early in the year but I stopped and then struggled to get back to it! However, with yesterday being Rudolph Day .. and there only being FIVE more of those till it's too late to worry about it, I thought I should crack on once more. Some friends and I had been talking about patterned paper and I was reminded that I actually had a storage box with patterned papers in so ... I dug it out. Inside was an unopened pack of Bo Bunny Christmas papers, nothing for it but to crack the seal ..... one sheet used in its entirety but there are still plenty more where that came from!

My card

A closer view of the image panel

 

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of card (one white one Bo Bunny Christmas Designer Paper) cut to fit
• One Piece of pearlised gold card, cut to mat
• WRMK nesting rectangles used to cut rectangles from snippets of white, DP and gold card
• Bronze satin ribbon
• Dimensional foam tape
• Inkadinkado snowflake (98250-LL) stamped using Memento Paris dusk ink
• Elsewhere on my card and envelope I also stamped a Paper Artsy sentiment (from JOFY17) using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Diamond stickles used to bling up the snowflake

I'll be entering the above for the following challenges:

1. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenges - challenge No. 444 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
2. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 1925 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - June challenge - PATTERNED PAPER 
4. Happy Little Stampers - June Christmas challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) NON TRADITIONAL
5. Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - June challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) NON TRADITIONAL COLOURS

Onwards and upwards, I've another make to share with you today .... cracked the seal on new stash again, with the fab Aall & Create coneflower - check it out

My card

And a closer view of the image

 

 The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of textured (DCWV) crushed strawberry card, cut to mat
• Aall & Create image (set #140) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• TCP sentiment (S-5845-CL) stamped using Versafine purple delight ink
• Imagination Crafts stencil (MU17) placed over my image and the flower head protected with a little low tack tape before applying Memento rosebud ink through the stencil
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils to colour image
• Diamond stickles added to bling up the flower head and stem

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. AAA Cards - challenge No. 143 - ONE CORNER + (optional) FLOWERS
2. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 398 - SPOTS - 2nd entry but I had to delete it as I realised (TOO LATE) it was supposed to be a ONE LAYER CARD - oops!
3. Crafts Galore - challenge No. 64 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Just For Fun Rubber Stamp Challenge - June challenge - USE A STENCIL
5. Tuesday Throwdown - challenge No. 434 - KEEP IT SIMPLE