Mooey wishes

Beccy of Beccy's Place has started a new challenge. April's prompt was to use any one of her images (either one of the many freebies or an image from her new shop) and combine it with chocolate-coloured papers, embellishments and so on.

For my card I used the pre-coloured version of the quilted cow. This offered a good opportunity to play around with my new digital kit by Nitwit Collections (Affection - FQB & Solids) and it tied in nicely with the various animal-themed challenges that are going on right now (maybe Spring is in the air?). The layout is based on this week's sketch over at Papertake Weekly.

Other materials used:

Scalloped square die - Lifestyle Crafts

Swirl - Silhouette

Combined lace/ribbon - Ladybug Crafts Ink.

Cardstock - Core'dinations

Sentiment - computer-generated

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Beccy's Place - Use one of Beccy's designs + chocolate-coloured papers and so on

Papertake Weekly - #64 Sketch

Bunny Zoe - #23 Ribbon or twine

Crafter's Companion - #22 Four-legged friends

Aud Sentiments - #53 Anything goes

Fussy and Fancy - #61 Punches and dies

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - #214 Animal magic

Totally Gorjuss - #129 Congratulations

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - #183 Cute n fluffy

A present for you...

Just a quick post to show you yet another Christmas card.

For the layout I used the following Sketch Saturday sketch:

Materials used:

Image and sentiment - Humprey's corner by Crafter's Companion

Colouring - Spectrum Noirs

Papers - Unknown brand (square) and Marianne Design (triangle and "ribbon")
Square scalloped die - Lifestyle Crafts

Snowflakes - Silhouette (large) and MD (small)

Gems - Papermania

Glitter glue - from stash
Faux stitching - Sakura souffle pen

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday - Sketch 204

OLLCB - #103 Bold & bright

Crafter's Companion - #23 Four-legged friends

CCAYR - Photo inspiration

Penny Black & more - Oh so cute

Tuesday Throwndown - #95 Sparkle

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Totally Papercrafts - #114 Saturated colours

Crafty Catz - #130 Anything goes

Aud Sentiments - #53 Anything goes

Fussy and Fancy - #61 Punches and dies

Crafty Ann's - #64 Stitching, real or faux
One Stitch at a Time - #110 Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - #214 Animal magic

Peace on EARTH(DAY)

The Jingle Belles are challenging us to "create a holiday card which re-uses, re-purposes, re-cycles, up-cycles, or in some way "rescues" a bit of... well, SOMETHING... which you'd've either thrown away, or perhaps just overlooked in terms of card-making?"
This fortnight's prompt at Simply Create Too is also to create a project in honour of Earth Day.

Since I'm one of those people who find it hard to throw away anything, this theme was right up my alley. I had been saving a few old Christmas cards that my husband had salvaged from the waste paper bin at work back in 2005! You're wondering how I remembered the year? Well, the card said 2005 and I used the number 0 on my card below. I'm still thinking about how to reuse the other numbers. I love those little Santas and red and cream are just so perfect for Christmas, don't you think?

Anyway, here's my card:

The panel behind the image came from the packaging of the large star sticker I used some weeks ago and the red mat is from a scrap. I inked the panel with Antique linen distress ink (Ranger). I was having some trouble finding the right ribbon, since they were either too small, too wide or the wrong colour. But when I opened a drawer to take out the extension cable for my daylight lamp, my eye fell on this ribbon, which had previously been used for displaying our Christmas cards (using paperclips). A perfect match!
The embossing on the card was done using a Crafts-Too embossing folder and lightly rubbing the embossed image with Antique linen distress ink. The sentiment stamp is from a Woodware set and was stamped with Frayed burlap distress ink.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles - Peace on EARTH(DAY)

Simply Create Too - #11 Earth day

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - #15 Colour me happy: favourite colour combination

MAWTT - Merry Christmas from MAWTT

Bling It On - Monochrome