Guess who's coming to town?

Supplies:  Waltzingmouse Stamps - Vintage Ornaments, Santa's coming 

to town set, Memento Black Tuxedo ink, Spellbinders Vintage 
Ornament Dies 2010, Clear embossing powder, versamark ink, Tea dye 
distress ink and blending tool, pop dots, adhesive, kraft and black 
cardstock - Folia, mini bell - Paperchase, Anita's A6 card blank
and embroidery floss.

This week the challenge on Paperplay Challenges is "Cracked Glass" and I have this santa's silhouette stamped and "cracked" for the past few weeks on my desk and hadn't manage to make anything with him.  So here is my card using non - traditional Christmas colours and various techniques.

This is an upclose shot of the "crackle/cracked glass".

Waltzingmouse Stamps have had a Christmas Card Challenge running since the beginning of the year and I have taken part in April's one but really wanted to do more.  Going to add this card to February's Challenge which was "quick pick" - use something on your desk (mine was the cracked glass silhouette lying around begging to be used!).

Also entering this card to the following Challenges

Delightful Challenges - Snowflakes

Jellypark Challenges - Non traditional Christmas Colors

Cards for Men - Christmas Cards for Men

Paperplay - "Wedding"

This week's challenge on Paperplay is "Wedding" and it is very kindly sponsored by Waltzing Mouse Stamps.  The prize is a stamp pack of the Winner's choice.

As the wedding season is well and truly upon us I have made quite a few wedding cards in recent weeks.  This is one that I made at the weekend on the request of my SIL.  She asked me to make a Wedding "shaker" card.  So I used a slightly larger card blank, white pearlescent paper (as the overlay) and some scalloped pp's inspired by Lucy here.  While these are fun they are a little fiddly to make and somewhat time consuming, but I do like the result.  Let's hope the bride and groom do too!

Supplies: Large Card Blanks by Anita's, Pearlescent cardstock, Forever Friends stamp,

Spellbinders Scalloped Circles Lge, textured cardstock black and white by Papermania,

Embossing folder - dots & circles, pop dots and misc sequins

The top layer is raised on foam dots with a square of foam tape around the edges of the scallop to act as an enclosure for the sequins which I used in the shaker.

Entering it into the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - monochromatic card.

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you get a chance to play along with Paperplay this week.

Royal Battle at The Greeting Farm

Don't know if you have been following the new challenge over on The Greeting Farm blog.  They are calling it the Royal Battle.  I am on a team with........ big fanfare please..... the wonderful and talented Fika and Kathy... yes, only in my dreams did I ever think that I would be on a team with these gifted ladies... so the team name is ... you guessed it... The Dream Team.  Voting has started - so if you are on a team and like our card... (have just discovered that ANYONE AND EVERYONE CAN VOTE!!!) we would love if you voted for us.  I believe there are 60 or so teams with over half "bowing out" of the battle this week!.... our card is here and to vote you need to leave a comment.

The Challenge was to create a Retro-esque type card with this photo as the colour inspiration.

I got the job of making the card this week with lots of wonderful input from my fantastic team mates.  Thank you so much Kathy and Fika for making it a fun week. 

I have my fingers and toes crossed that we get to the next round of Royal Battle!!!  I had a great birthday weekend and our out of town guests have just left.  We did fun sight seeing and tourist things and I will post a few photos over the coming days.  Thanks again for the wonderful best wishes.

The wonderful and creative Donna is having a giveaway on her blog - she made stunning little canvas flowers and one lucky commenter will receive one pack of sticky backed canvas by Claudine Hellmuth and the Hero Arts dot background cling stamp - you have until the 2nd April to leave a comment.  So why don't you drop by right now here. 

Happy Monday to you all - hope you have a wonderful day.

Paperplay Challenge - Easter Theme

Where did the week go?  It's Thursday again ... so it's Paperplay Challenges time.  This wee's challenge is to create a card/project with an Easter theme.

I used a wonderful digital image called Easter Bunny by Elisa aka Mami Doodles (our sponsor from last week) which is available here.  I coloured the bunny with copics, used my Label 8 Nesties, CB embossing folder and DCWV textured card blank.... and some ribbon from Papermania.  Will probably use stickles on the next one I do..... on the bunny's nose, ears and paws.... soooo cute.

Thanks so much for peeking and hope you will get a chance to play along with this week's Challenge.