Just In Time

It's been 10 days since I posted last and I've been extremely busy, I have 5 more Christmas cards too make to hit my total and would love to get them done before I go to bed tonight. I was just taking some time out and catching up on some blogs when I realized that I hadn't submitted my entry for the Cute Card Thursday blog challenge. I've had the card made since Saturday and thought I would get it in before the challenge closes.


















The card was made using the sketch on the blog and I chose an image from Pollycraft which I colored with Pro Markers. I also used stickles on the wings and white glitter on the hat and snowballs to give added sparkle.

I have 1 more post to go and then I'd better get back to it.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Next Challenge

Here is my second card that I am entering into the below challenges,

All Sorts Challenge Blog - Week 78 - A Sketch 4U
The ABC Challenge - H is for Holidays



















The image is from Pollycraft, I colored the image with Pro Markers and added white glitter to the hat trim and the bobble. This post is going to be short and sweet as I have housework to do before I can get back to making more cards.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

It's Challenge Time

I've spent the weekend working on Christmas cards again!!! I have managed to find 5 challenges to enter though which is well worth it.




















The image for my first card is from Pollycraft they have some gorgeous digi stamps and last week I just had to treat myself to some, I coloured this cute bear in using Pro Markers and as I didn't have card stock or paper in just the right shade of green to match the Pro Marker color I used the pro marker on some scrap card and also around my scalloped circle. The challenges I am entering this card into are below,

Sketch Saturday - Week #129 - Sketch
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 138 - Anything Goes!
Stamp Something - DIGI DAY

Now it's onto my next post.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

The wrong type of card

Just a quick post before I run out the door to go to work, I brought some lovely Christmas digi stamps from a site called Pollycraft on Sunday and I was having a play with them last night. I managed to color two of them images in (pictured below) but I noticed the pro marker in spread a bit, it's not that noticeable until you look really closely. I've never had that happen to me before and the only thing I can think is that I'm using a different card stock.

Unfortunately there are 4 shops in town that I have brought card from in the past, 1 of them I can rule out as it's what I used last night. Today I have the mission to go and buy card from each shop and then test them all tonight. Even with the slight spreading of the colours I do like how they turned out.
















Happy Crafting

Michelle

My First Easel Card

I know that I've gone into blog posting overdrive today as it's my 3rd post of the day but I couldn't help but share my very first easel card. I've seen lots of lovely looking easel cards and I always thought they were complicated to make but as I was looking over some videos on You Tube I came across a few tutorials and decided it was about time I knew how to make them.

I was so surprised when the tutorials made it look really easy and I just had to go into my craft room and give one a go myself. It's not the finished article as I still need to add some more decoration to it but I wanted to share it anyway.






















That's it for me tonight, I'm off for a shower and am going to settle down and get an early night.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

On A Roll

This is the second post of the day and as I said earlier I have another card to share that I'm entering into another 2 challenges. I've decided to take a break for the rest of the afternoon and relax a little, plus I have a mound of washing up to do after lunch.

I managed to use up some old bits and pieces I've had laying around for the last few Christmases on this card, the image itself is probably 4 years old and the vellum paper around 2 years. A couple of weeks ago I thought I was going to run out of Christmas stuff so I went through my whole stash and pulled out everything and I had a lot more than I thought, some I forgot I had.
















The 2 challenges I am entering the card into are -

Cute Card Thursday - Gently Does It!
Alphabet Challenge Blog - B For Birds

So now I am off to enjoy a nice relaxing evening,

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Finally some cards

I've just found a spare couple of minutes before I head back upstairs to my craft room to make more Christmas cards, so I thought I would use the opportunity to post a couple of pictures of a couple of cards I made that I remembered to photograph.

I know I have been rather lapsed over the last month at posting and entering challenges and I do feel really guilty about it but give me another 3 weeks and I should have more time on my hands.






























After doing the maths this morning I've calculated that I've now made 255 Christmas cards, it sounds a lot but 180 of them are 18 sets of 10 cards, the rest are single's in various sizes. I would love to get that figure up to 300 so I have another 45 cards to go and 3 weeks to do it. As well as the cards I still have mini books to make so you can see why I've not had a lot of time.

Back to making cards now.

Happy Crafting

Michelle