Merry Christmas

not long to go now ............. and it will be Christmas Day!

Today's card is a CAS card ... well, CAS for me LOL

Two Gingerbread Characters stamped with StazOn, coloured in with Copics and highlighted with Kindy Glitz & scattered stars.

I spied the Gingerbread people in the background of the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge and it fits in with the current AAA Cards Challenge :)

 

The 'Merry Christmas' sentiment is from an unknown Stampin Up set.  I bought a heap of loose SU stamps from Marketplace.  If anyone can let me know which set it belongs to, that would be great!

Linking With the following challenges:

AAA Cards - Game #229 - small & few & baked goods

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog #47 - Anything Goes

CAS on Friday - #245 - Greeting Card

Peace on Earth Christmas - Photo Board

Items Used

Cardstock:  200gsm white cardstock

Inks:  StazOn

Stamps:  Stampin Up 'Merry Christmas', Gingerbreads unknown brand

Tools:  Copics

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Love You ..... Big Time

Hi everyone

You may remember back in January, one of my cards made the 'top 3' for the Cut It Up Challenge #243 and they asked if I would like to be a guest designer for one of their future challenges!  Yes, me!  WOW!  You could have knocked me over with a feather ......... ofcourse, I said 'Yes'

So here we go, my first ever 'Guest Designer Spot' 

The challenge is '#245 - Love/Valentines Day', and ofcourse, you must use a die!  

It will be our 40th Wedding Anniversary on 13th February, and ofcourse Valentines Day is on the 14th.  

So, this is what I came up with.

Handmade background using Stampin Up inks - Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip; Delicata inks Golden Glitz & Champagne.

Honey Bee Sentiments stamped with StazOn Ganache, 'love you' die cut 3 times, layered and mounted with 3D foam squares.

Topper mounted onto Dark brown cardstock.

Gold Hearts embellishments, Heart shaped punch with '40' gold stickers added with 3D foam squares.

I do struggle a little bit when making cards for Mr Fixit - I try to make them masculine and not have too much bling .... he is not a blingy guy LOL and he HATES glitter (mainly because it escapes the craft room and gets EVERYWHERE!) 

A nice simple card, with not too much fuss and just the right amount of bling!  Who says a CAS card has to be white?  ;)

The As You Like It Challenge asks 'True Love or Fabulous Friendships' ..... well it may depend on the time of year the question is asked, but I really do love it when I get to make a card for 'my man/my true love' and feel confident that he will love it too!

Linking with:

As you Like It Challenge:  True Love/Fab Friendships

Double D Challenges - Hearts Challenge

CAS on Friday Challenge #224 - Male

With Sympathy | Thinking of you

Sadly, I have been in need of two sympathy cards this past week .... both for some very dear school friends :(

My primary school friend Debbie lost her Mother-in-Law just before Mother's Day, and one of my High School friends, Jill, lost her Mum on Tuesday after Mother's Day.

I had been having a tidy up and came across a 6" paper stack that came free with a magazine, and that started me on my colour theme - soft teals and oranges.

I had also just purchased some Just Rite stamps and had a lovely flower that matched the papers beautifully! The flower was stamped on the back of some embossed DP which give just a hint of texture.

Then I came across the most perfect sketch at a CAS #241 - but as I worked with the layout, I decided to make it square

I would like to submit these cards to the following challenges:
CAS #241 - sketch
CAS-Fridays #101 - stamp on DP
CASology #44 - Bloom
JustRite - colour theme: orange, teal and cream/beige

Linking with:
52 Card Pickup 2.21 - HERE

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.