Hi... I'm Oak Elffrost!

Just sharing a card I sent to a friend who wasn't feeling great back in April 2010.   A plan was hatched late last year and the amazing Deborah organised for us all to send cards/encouragement notes to a wonderful lady who needed some smiles/hugs at that time.  We all got our slots and reminders of when we needed to mail our cards/messages and it worked a treat and today in the season of Secret Santa - there is a big reveal.  Check it out here.

I coloured the Pure Innocence digital stamp with colouring pencils, added a few tiny gems to the flower centres and little epoxy hearts in three different colours by Heidi Grace.  I also broke open my new Papertrey Ink stamps to stamp the sentiment.

I didn't realise until I had mailed the card that the photo seems to be a bit wonky!! so sorry about that... but you get the idea!.  

Thanks for peeking.

Tiffany Doodles - TD07

 Can you believe that it is Tiffany Doodles Challenge Number 7?  Where did the time go?  This is my last challenge as part of the TD Design Team - I really enjoyed working with Tiffany and the amazing group of gals on the DT.  

This month's challenge theme which runs until the 31st December is CHRISTMAS.  Again, amazing digis up as prizes and a few new DT members strutting their stuff.  Check out all their wonderful creations here.

I am partial to a sprig or two of holly!!! LOL!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Hero Arts Giving Thanks & Colour Challenge

Supplies:  Hero Arts Seasons Greetings Collage Digital kit (printed just the 

holly image from the collage) Black cardstock, Papermania red textured 

cardstock, Fiskars Upper Crest Border punch, kraft knife, Jillibean Soup k

raft card blank, diamond stickles, copics and glossy accents.

Another entry for this month's challenge over on Hero Arts.  I also incorporated the featured technique - adding shine.  I added shine by using stickles and glossy accents on the digital stamped holly from the Season's Greetings Collage digital stamp.  I just printed the holly part of the collage (I also flipped the image to have a different orientation - don't you just love digis!)  This kit is only 99 cent.... check it out here.

Thanks for peeking, stay warm! Minus 6 here again today (21.2 in farenheit speak!)

Seasonal Thanks!

 Supplies:  HA Digital stamp- Season's Greetings Collage - available here, 

HA Sentiment CL129, Jillibean Soup kraft card blank, Bristol Board white paper, copics, 

black cardstock and adhesive.

Hero Arts December Challenge is now underway - full details are here.  This month's theme is Giving Thanks a Colour Challenge. 

I won this fabulous digital kit last week - "Season's Greetings Collage" (thanks Hero Arts) and used it to create my card.  I opened the digital stamp and isolated the holly part and printed it out, cropped and coloured with copics.  On other cards I have added glossy accents to the red berries, but I didn't to this card as I needed to use it right away!.

Also entering it into the Wee Memories Challenge this week - "Holiday Song Inspiration" - my inspiration was the song - "Deck The Halls".  Now I bet you won't be able to stop humming it to yourself!

Hope you get a chance to play along with these wonderful challenges. Thanks for peeking.  Stay warm!.

Christmas Hugs and Wishes

Don't you just love when your papers and collections/ranges from other companies all co-ordinate?  Love when that happens - especially around this time of the year when it is like a card factory in my craft space!

I used PTI - Holiday Vintage Prints "try me" paper cubes which I machine stitched to some textured cardstock by Papermania and added the chipboard bauble from the Basic Grey - Jovial range and a pre printed die cut sentiment from last year's stash.

Quick and Easy!  Don't you love that? 

This morning started out cold!!! It was minus 5 degrees when I got into the car to bring the boys to school... that is very cold considering we are so near the coast!.  Just hovering around the freezing all day.   Hope you are warm and safe where-ever you are.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Paperplay - Monochromatic

Wanted to post the card I made for the 90 min scramble over on the Hero Arts FLICKR group on the 30 November hosted by Judy.  These are so much fun and it was the first time I managed to play along.  The Challenge for this "scramble" was a one layer card.

Got very inky and the time goes VERY fast but lots of fun.  There is a timetable for the scrambles right here.

I used the inking technique demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire in her holiday thinking inking class - block background (week two, project one) using distress inks (I used milled lavender) and memento london fog (grey) for the sentiment and snowflakes.  The snowflakes were from the Hero Arts Tree-mendous Poly Clear set CL465 and the sentiment from CL343 Holiday Sayings. 

This card is from a box of 50 white card blanks by Royal Langnickel (slight watercolour texture to the paper) - purchased in Cork Art Supplies/Cardz n Scrapz.

Still doing the happy dance that I won a fab Digital kit from Hero Arts for this scramble.  Off to play with it now.... thank you Tami, Judy and Hero Arts.

Now, not my week on Paperplay - but it is Thursday so that means a new challenge.  This week's challenge is Monochrome and is set by Vera.  We would love for your to play along and have two new wonderful DT members strutting their stuff today.  Feel free to check out all the DT creations here.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Stay warm!.

November CCC

Supplies:  Fluffy Digi by Tales from Pollycraft, Washi tape from

The Greeting Farm, Sentiment - SRM Sticker, copics, pop dots and kraft card blank.

I went with the colour combo and theme - "Friendship" this month for November's Card Chain Challenge.  I got to sent this card to Sheila one of the wonderfully talented ladies in the HA Flickr Group.

I received this wonderful card from Anette - isn't it a stunner?  Another amazing member of the HA Flickr Group.

Check out her amazing creations here in FLICKR. 

Deborah normally does her big reveal on the 1st of the month of all the CCC cards - but all is quiet at the moment on her blog ... but just in case check it out here in case it posts later today.

Stay warm!!! and thanks so much for stopping by.