Aud Sentiments #43 Anything Holiday

We're continuing the theme of "Anything Holiday" at Aud Sentiments this time with sponsorship from Prairie Fairy and a new sentiment from TLC. I've used Holly Fairy on my card and used the sentiment on the inside (silly me forgot to take a pic though!!).

Image is coloured with promarkers and highlighted with stickles and a gelly roll pen. Base mat has been cut with a Martha Stewart punch, circular mat is a Marianne design die which I've embossed with it's nesting dies, snowflake is a Spellbinders shapeability die which I've embossed with vanilla ice sparkle and sprinkle EP. Card is finished with punched snowflakes, gems, seam binding bow, ribbon rose and sentiment.

Do pop over to the challenge blog to see the inspiration of the rest of the team.

Challenges entered:

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - winter wonderland

Crafty Catz - colours of Christmas

Catch the Bug - anything goes

Di's Digi Designs - WOW

Card Cupids - winter themed

Pile it On - bling it up

Quirky Crafts - snow

Sparkles Forum - one you love at Christmas (for best friend)

Whoopsi Daisy - snowflakes

Craft your Passion - anything goes + glitter

Crafty Bloggers - shades of winter

Digi Makeover - cut it out

Heart Song Inspirations - red, green and white Christmas

Kaboodle Doodles - Christmas colours

The Pink Elephant - snowflakes and sparkle

Crafty Sentiments - snowflakes

Creative Card Crew - tis the season

Deep Ocean Challenge - let it snow

Ladybug Crafts Ink - snowflakes and sparkle

Passion for Promarkers - celebration

Top Tip Tuesday - let it snow

Tuesday Throwdown - celebrate the season

ABC Christmas Challenge - y for yipee (anything goes)

Cooking it up with Katie - anything goes

Crafts and Me - winter, snow, snowflakes

Creative Belli - winter and Christmas

Pixie Dust Studio - glitter and bling

Crimbo Crackers - embossing

Colour Create - red, white and green

Southern Girls - ribbon madness

Carol x

Christmas Challenges (with sketches) #15

Just over two weeks until the big day, are we all ready? My Christmas cards are all sorted but I'm still madly trying to get the presents bought! Time for a new challenge at CCWS and this week it was Betina's turn to provide the sketch, we also have an added extra this time of incorporating twine and a charm into your design. We are being sponsored by Stempelstudio.

Image is called Fairy Little and is from Prairie Fairy she is coloured with promarkers and highlighted with stickles. Pink card is embossed with various embossing folders by Cuttlebug and Crafts Too (snowflakes, stars and swiss dots). Flowers are a Marianne Design die. Card is finished with Bakers Twine, a snowflake charm, pearl star and DI.

You'll need to visit the challenge blog to find the sketch and see how my team mates used it.

Challenges entered:

CCEE - snowflakes and bling

Rainbow Lady's - Christmas Carol (Oh Holy Night, the stars are shining brightly)

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - celebrate

CHNC - monochrome

Drunken Stampers - monochromatic

OSAAT - be square

Dasiy Doodles - something sweet

Incy Wincy Designs - Christmas, non traditional colours

Paper Creations Ink - bling it up

The Crazy Challenge - anything goes

Bearly Mine - untraditional Christmas

Celebrate the Occasion - Christmas, no green

The Stamping Boutique - non-traditional Christmas

Craft Room Challenge - make own flowers

ABC Christmas Challenge - Y for Yipee

Carol x

Trick or Treat

Well after all the LIM cards this week I thought I'd bring you something completely different. I don't really 

"do" Halloween as a rule but there are some gorgeous digi images out there and I won this cute Pumpkin Witch from Delicious Doodles. I decided to make a decoration for the house as DD is going to have a Halloween party with a few of her friends - hopefully the kitchen will have been pulled apart and put back together by then.

The main image has been digitally layered onto a free backing sheet from Jak Heath and printed onto pearlised paper and coloured with promarkers then highlighted with a gelly roll pen and mounted onto a scalloped nestie rectangle. The backing papers front and back are freebies from Bearly Mine (I've used a Martha Stewart punch on the striped one). I've used Grand Nestie scalloped circles to cut the black base and purple and copper mirri card layers. The front is finished with some flowers which I've distressed with TH black soot, lots of lovely purple fibres, a button and the letters for "treat" are "Halloween Felt Alpha" from Raspberry Road.

The back has been decorated with black ribbon, a button, some glittery monsters (from Hobbycraft) and the letters for "trick" as before. I won the pumpkin digi too from Prairie Fairy and it has been coloured in promarkers. The bat is a freebie from Dude Time Doodles and he's been coloured with promarkers and I've added a felt top hat from my stash.  I've used gorgeous orange ribbon to hang it with.

I still need a spider to finish this off - should have kept the bl**dy big one running across my kitchen floor yesterday lol.

This is my first attempt at making something purely decorative and I've rather enjoyed making it - I may get some more made before the party (I've got a whole month to do it!!) but just in case we bought some bits at M&S yesterday (hangs head in shame lol).

Thanks for your visit today and I hope you like what you see.

Challenges entered:

Cupcake - black and purple

Ribbon Carousel - add fabric (felt top hat)

Delightful Challenges - Happy Fall Y'all

The Paper Variety - home (home decor item)

Pixie Dust Studio - circles

Incy Wincy - distressing

Happileigh Scrappin - T Time (trick or treat)

Paper Sundaes - felt (top hat)

Delicious Doodles - cute as a button

Paper Pretties - use buttons

Lollipop Crafts - anything but a card

OLLC - punches and dies

Heart Song Inspirations - orange or buttons

Bearly Mine - buttons

Creative Craft Challenges - buttons and bling

Creative Stamp Friends - anything but a card

Corrosive Challenge Blog - punches and/or dies

Carol x