Sing a Christmas Carol with The Winter Wonderland Design Team

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Oh what a relief, today being Friday sees the beginning of the weekend, and oh boy do I need it this week.

  However more importantly it is the next challenge at

Winter Wonderland,

but I cannot move on without saying to all our lovely followers that if you have as many cards as me in your store, then you have been keeping up with us at Winter Wonderland, as although I only became a DT in March, I had made a New Years Resolution to make a card a week, although I actually have done more than this.  So some of you will have lots of card all ready for sending out.  There were some absolute stunners last week as well, and it is lovely to pop and see you all, but so difficult to select a top three.

 The theme this week at Winter Wonderland has been set by our very talented Marianne, who as we speak should be spending lots of cash and doing us proud at the NEC in Birmingham. She chose the theme of 

SING A CHRISTMAS CAROL

and we have the fabulous Pink Gems sponsoring us too

Here is my creation for this weeks theme

The base card is white with a layer of black and topped with dove craft papers.  The cuttlebug was used to cut out the snowflake frame and the inner image plate.  I also embossed the frame using the cuttlebug. I placed some black pearls in each corner and one on top of the bow and ribbon.  The ribbon and bow are from the Papermania Capsule Mono collection.  I added stickles red glitter to the frame embossing.  The image is one of the first I ever bought and is a Penny Black creation.

I am entering this creation into the following challenges

Cooking It Up With Katie - who wants to see our texture (embossing) our swirls (embossing) and black (think that is obvious or may be not?)

ABC Challenge - W is for Winter Wonderland

Penny Black Allsorts Challenge - "It's beginning to look alot like Xmas"

Corrosive - I cased Joan for her penguins
CRAFT - dry embossing (the nestie frame)
Dezina's World - Song/Dance/Music (please pop over and join in with her theme)

I would like to say hello to my new followers, to my existing followers and those lovely visitors that take the time to leave me a comment so I can pop over and say hi and look at your lovely work too. Thank you.

Mr Blogger will very kindly publish this for me again this week, he is such a gentleman you know, and I will at some point link via mobile blogging and if not after the weekly food shop.

Have a great weekend all of you

Hugs Kate x

An Angel of a Card for Winter Wonderland DT

Good morning bloggers

It is Friday and don't they come around so quickly.  If you are not sure why Friday is so good, it is the beginning of the weekend and even better it is the commencement of the next challenge at

Winter Wonderland

Last week we had some amazing entries and it was great popping over to visit you all to read all your entry posts and look at all those lush holly berries, I think I managed to pop to see all of you

If I have not popped to snoop yet on your WOYWW it is because the desktop computer decided it had finally given up and a new one got ordered, this is as we speak working its way to mega setup mode and I will shortly be able to whizz through my comment catch ups.

I am also as I said on my last post mega excited as today also sees the commencement my Dragon's Lair Guest Designer spot. 

If you would like to pop to see some of the items I have created for them here are the links again

http://stampindragondesigns.freeforums.org/

The Dragon's Den

Crafter's Digital Art Center (CDAC)

So after all that excitement here is even more as the new challenge at Winter Wonderland is

A Masculine Christmas Card

and this week we are sponsored by a fabulous sponsor

Digi Doodles

This challenge was chosen and is hosted by our very talented Lynsey

Initially I got to a slow start on this one, but eventually just had to use one of my new digi stamps from my winnng's at the Secret Crafter, this image is Angel Boy and he seemed just perfect, such a shame I could not do a purple and silver card and join in with them this week, but I don't think boys do those colours much, do you?

So this is what I created

The base card and trim along with punched edge and scrolls is gold mirror card, and on top of this is the Dovecraft new papers I think (hope I remembered correctly)  The deckled edge rectangle nestie was just perfect for the image and the sentiment is an MSE.  The ribbon just finished it off nicely but now not sure where this one came from sorry.

Here is a close up of the image coloured with my usual copics and for those sparkly wings a clear sakuro glitter pen.

For a first time of colouring him it went OK and I love the wings.

Now you know how us ladies of the WW Design Team love to combo their creations, so here is what I am entering this card into this week

Sunday's With Chrissy - Sparkle and Shine with a digi

Crafts and Me - For a Teenager

Creative Inspirations - Xmas in September

The Lollipop Ladies - Candy Stripes

Tuesday Throwdown - punches

Totally Gorjuss - Xmas

Sew Many Cards - Digi Stamp and Christmas

and 

the sketch was by Sketch Saturday

I would like to say thank you to those of you who pop by and take the time leave me such lovely comments, I really do enjoy reading them and returning to visit you all.

So I think that all is left for me to say is have a great weekend and enjoy your crafting

Hugs Kate xx

Winter Wonderland DT want us to Sketch It......................with your Xmas Cards this week!!!

Oh and don't you just love a Friday, when you get that Friday feeling, it is fabulous!.  Why? - as Friday is the Winter Wonderland new Challenge and the weekend is upon us......................

We had 30 amazing entries this week, the numbers just keep rising..... it is great and the WW teamies and I love hopping about to see all the beautiful creations and meeting some lovely people out there in the world of blog...

So this week the theme is Sketch it.............................

and here is the sketch, which is my first attempt, so my fingers are crossed that it goes down well. My teamies have really done it proud, as has Evi our Designer in the Spotlight this week.

and as it is the fourth Friday of the month, we are generously sponsored by our monthly sponsor

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who are providing a $15 certificate for the lucky winner to spend in their fabulous shop.

Oh I wish I could enter, I love shopping here :(

So onto my DT creation for this week, oh and I really had fun with this and a new purchase from the Hobby House too (see above where I shop)

The base card, is the deep purple foil card, and on top of this is the ever so amazing and very popular Papermania Capsule Collection, papers, I believe this one is the Heather range.  I then went mad with the scallop and circle nesties.  I made two circles one from another of the lighter papermania capsule papers and another for the image plate.  I stamped my favorite Gillian Roberts little cute mice on the image plate.  I then made a smaller circle for the sentiment which is a Whiff Of Joy sentiment.  Each of the circles was edged with some more of my new glitter from the Glitter Man, gorgeous glitter (totally addicted to it) I then used another lighter purple foil card, to create the frame of the main image using the scallop nestie and the original purple foil for the smaller sentiment, and a large scallop nestie, for the arc,  I removed the centre using a circle nestie.  I then used another smaller scallop nestie and the lighter purple to create the plate for the little bow. Large and small pearls to decorate.

I used the Marianne Design Creatables Christmas Poinsettia, purchased from the Hobby House to create this lovely home made flower using the two different coloured foils and covering the centre with glitter and finishing with a large pearl.  I curled the leaves for a little depth.

The image is Gillian Roberts and is one of my favorites as I said, I used some liquid applique for the mistletoe berries and they are sat on polar flower soft (snow to me) hope their little bottoms are not to cold.  I added the same glitter to the female mouses spots on her top.

Well as you know the Winter Wonderland Teamies and I love to encourage combo's and this week is no exception, although I never actually worked towards anything other than the sketch and my own preferences.  So I am lucky to be able to enter this creation into the following fabulous challenges.

One of my favorite Challenge is Totally Gorjuss who have a theme of Thinking of You, and although this is a Xmas card, I believe the sentiment shows that the sender is especially thinking of that special some one.

Another is Paper Sundaes - who have a theme this week of make your own flowers, was so excited to be able to enter my new purchases.

and how could I resist Papertake Weekly - Cutie Patootie, when all I want to do is cuddle these lovely little mice.

another favorite of mine the Stamp Something Challenge - with something flowery this week again love to be able to show off my new purchases :)

and finally but definitely a great themed challenge this week, The Creative Cottage Challenge Blog - whose theme is Touch Feely -lots of texture on your cards such as embossing, flowers, ribbon, fabric, sewing etc... so I have flowersoft, pearls, ribbon in the bow and the embossing on the poinsettia flowers as well as the puffed up liquid applique.  Great idea for a theme.

So nearly at the end.  I would like to welcome my new follower Karen to my little section of blog land, hi hun :)

Thank you all for the recent comments loving reading and returning the visit, and loved and smiled at all those fab comments.

Mr Blogger will be very kindly posting this for me this morning, as I will be on my way to York to meet a colleague, isn't he nice to do such a thing for me.  I will link when I get home, with hope that I will not be too late, as I need to go shopping, so that I can find some free time for crafting over the weekend.

Well hope your all looking forward to your weekend, as I am and hope you all have great crafty things planned.

Hugs Kate xx

Twas the Night Before Xmas........................................

Good morning to you all out there in blog land

Well we are half way through the year and if you are like me and have been creating a card for Christmas every week, firstly well done and secondly keep it up you are doing so well. (pat on the back for myself there too)

Last week we had some amazing entries into the challenge at Winter Wonderland, and I enjoyed seeing all the fabulous creations.  

This week Lynsey is hosting the challenge at Winter Wonderland and she chose the challenge them of 

"Twas the Night before Xmas"  

We are sponsored by Teri and her Delicious Doodles, she has some beautiful digi images to give away to our lucky winner.

 So when I first saw this theme, immediately I thought about my little ornament, that is a candle with some little mice around it and the words "Twas the Night before Xmas".  I did not have what I felt was a good image to meet my needs, so unlike me I went to look for a digi image and located something just perfect from Mo Manning - I have some of her clear stamps and love them, but I normally struggle with digi images.  However, I was pleasantly surprised, although the image was very light lined.  I think it worked beautifully.

Then to see what colours to use.  I started working my way through my stash and found some love paper that I thought only had the words "twas the night before ......." on - I thought it was lots of little bits of several rhymes, until Matt spotted it was actually the full thing all verses, just running off the page now and again until you picked it up somewhere else.  The papers are MME so cool.

On Sunday I had already decided to do a round easel card, that was after I had done the triangle one and was super impressed when the Sketch and Stash Challenge came out with a circle sketch - awesome timing ladies.

So I decided to add lace around the front and added the red pearlized circle on top of this, followed by a circle of the MME paper with some gorgeous turquoise glitter around it using my glue stamp pad. I then coloured up the image giving it the same glitter edge and used silicone glue just to hold it off the page so it really stands out.

Then for the return I decided to add the words on to the red pearl card.  I added the poinsettia and the holly leaves to hold the card up, I also added a piece at the back to support the weight of the front with all that lace.  I cut out all the words which fitted so well with the image and the theme to the challenge and used silicone glue to just hold them off the page. It still looked a little bare so I added some glue holly and added glitter to this for the finishing touch.  Just loving my new glitters can you tell.

and finally the image coloured with copics to pick up the colours in the MME paper.

Yep think I have a new favorite, what do you think?

So as always our WW teamies love to do the combo's and here are the challenges I am entering this card into.

Sketch and Stash Challenge Blog - the circular sketch

ABC Christmas Challenge - N is for Noel

Cards for Men - Xmas in July

Creative Card Crew - Di Cuts - I am hoping that this means my nesties :)

The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Christmas Time

Fussy and Fancy - Christmas in July 2

Stamp Something is a Recipe Something

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - free challenge

Bah! Humbug Challenge 26 - A special friend (this is a very special card for a very special person)

Well think that is about me, this will again post whilst I am at work and will be posted by the very kind Mr. Blogger.  I will on return from work (that would be on starting my weekend whoop whoop) link all the challenges up.

I would like to welcome alma1283 to my little section of blog land and I hope I can keep your interest and I would like to thank all of you who take the time to visit my little section of blog land and leave me such beautiful comments.

Well all that is left to say is enjoy your weekend and Happy Crafting

Hugs and lots and lots and lots of glitter 

Kate xx