Favourite Christmas Cards of 2012

Good afternoon hope everyone had a great Christmas and got lots of nice goodies.  Thought I would join in the fun at Debbie's blog who is inviting us to share our favourite 5 Christmas cards of 2012.   

After much deliberation here are my top five:-

This was my favourite Tilda Christmas stamp this year.

This card was for hubbie using a LOTV die cut and I love the traditional colours on this card

Loving the Sylvia Zett Christmas digis and the colours on this card

And of course the gorgeous Saturated Canary Christmas images!

I had to finish with another Tilda card - I love the two images and die cuts on this one.

Hugs Sarahxx

One Stop Crafts Challenge DT Card - Inspired by a Christmas Song

Good morning all and the weekend is finally here.  I have now finished work for just over a week and the kids have broken up from school.  Lots still to do before the big day but everyone is starting to get very excited now!  At One Stop Crafts Challenge we have a great challenge for you this week which is inspired by a Christmas song and this is our last challenge of the year.  We are sponsored by Prairie Fairy and we got to play with one of their images and I used this cute snowman image and here is my card inspired by "The Power of Love" used in the John Lewis advert.  This is my favourte Christmas advert this year.

Items used:
Image Snow Friends from Praire Fairy Designs coloured with Promarkers
HOTP papers
LOTV sentiment
MC snowflake
Ribbon Girl trim

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Pick of the Year - sketch 69
Passion for Promakers - Happy ,,, (2nd entry)
Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas (2nd entry)
Crafts and me - Winter Wonderland

Please pop over to the One Stop Crafts Challenge blog for some more gorgeous christmas carol inspiration and we would love to see yours too.

This will be my last post of 2012 so I would like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2013.

Big Hugs Sarahxx

Charisma Cardz DT Card - Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Good morning all - only 2 more days left at work and school and then the Christmas festivities can begin!  Only 5 more sleeps until the big day and our challenge this week at Charisma Cardz is Santa Claus is Coming to Town and here is my card:

Items Used:

Kanban topper
HOTP Christmas papers
Bakers twine and card candi

We have three amazing sponsors this week:

PRIZE ONE

One lucky winner will receive 4 stamps or 1 stamp set!

PRIZE TWO
Marker Pop

Marker Pop are a brand new sponsor of ours!! They are generously offering a $10 voucher for their online shop, be sure to pay them a visit!!

PRIZE THREE
Cedarchest Designs

$10.00 Winner Certificate

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Sketch n Stash - Fab Sketch 103 - stash = HOTP papers
Deep Ocean Challenge - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Christmasy
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen - With Love at Christmas

Please pop over to the Charisma Cardz challenge blog for more fab inspiration.

Hugs Sarahxx

One Stop Craft Challenge 209 DT Card - Distressed Christmas

Good morning all and welcome to the weekend again - where did that week go.  Only five more days left at work before I break up for Christmas but still have loads to do.  Will be doing more shopping this weekend, then the food shopping needs to be done and all the wrapping.  I need more hours in the day at the moment.

Today we have another great challenge for you at One Stop Craft Challenge which is distressed Christmas and we are sponsored by the fab Fred She Says designs and we were lucky enough to get to use one of their gorgeous images.  I have used this cutie called Catching Flakes which can be bought as part of a bundle including pre-coloured images which is what I have used.  It also comes with some coordinating papers which I have also used.

Fred She Said pre-coloured image and paper
LOTV sentiment
Dies/Punches - Doohickey fence, MC snowflake
DI - broken china

Our sponsor this week who are offering one lucky winner a very generous $15 voucher to spend in their online store

Please pop over to the One Stop Crafts Challenge for some more inspiration from my teamies.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

 

Bunny Zoe - Celebration (Christmas)

Songbird Challenges - Merry Christmas Everybody

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Christmas

CRAFT Challenge - Winter

Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas Projects

Stamping For Weekend - Let It Snow

Dream Valley Challenge - Christmas

Have a great weekend whatever you are doing.

Hugs Sarahxx

One Stop Crafts DT Card - Christmas Friends

Good morning and welcome to the weekend.  The weeks are going way toooo quickly at the moment and I need to get myself more organised.  We have a great new challenge today for you at One Stop Crafts Challenge and it is Christmas Friends.  We are sponsored by the amazing Saturated Canary and I was lucky enough to use one of their gorgeous Christmas images for my card called Stockings.  Here is my card:

 

Items used:-

Saturated Canary image coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment: computer generated
HOTP papers
Dies/Punches: Spellbinders floral oval, MC poinsettia and doily, Quickutz Holly and MS frond

Please pop over to the One Stop Crafts Challenge for some more inspiration from my teamies.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Sketch n Stash - 102 - Stash = papers
Deep Ocean - So this is Christmas
I Love Promarkers - Anything goes
ABC - C for clear it out = papers
Creative Inspiration - Case It = image
Paperplay - Christmas is coming
Cute Card - Red and Green
CRAFT - Christmas
 

Have a great weekend whatever you are doing - we are putting up our tree later today.

 Hugs Sarahxx

Charisma Cardz DT Card - Christmas

Good morning all it is freezing here in Bedfordshire this morning.  We woke up to about an inch of snow yesterday morning which was a complete surprise and it has all frozen now.  As it is Thursday morning that means we have a great new challenge for you at Charisma Cardz and it is a nice easy one of Christmas so another chance to get those Christmas cards completed girls.  Here is my card:-

For my card I have used:

Sylvia Zet image Heidi coloured with Promarkers
Paper is very very old - I think I got it from a Yellow Moon book
SEntiment - LOTV
Dies: Marianne snowflake and poinsettas, Magnolia fence and MB elegant scroll
Lots of glitter and liquid pearls too.

Our fabulous sponsors this week are...


PRIZE ONE - Simon Says Stamp who are generously offering a $20 voucher to their online store!!!

PRIZE TWO - Pink Cat Studio who are offering 5 digis of the winners choice!!


I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers - Mega Christmas Challenge - Happy
Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas
Oldie But Goodie - Let it Snow - papers verrrrry old
Simon Says - Snowflakes
Divas By Design - Let it Snow
Fab n Funky - Non Traditional Christmas

Thanks for looking and there is lots more inspiration from my teamies over that Charisma Cardz and we would love to see your Christmasy projects too.

Have a great day.

Hugs Sarahxx

Pretty Pink Magnolia Tilda Christmas

Good evening and hope everyone has had a good Monday.  I am back today for a change with a card I made at the weekend - I decided to spend some time in my craft room as it was sooo cold.  Here is my card:-

Items used:

Magnolia Tilda coloured with Promarkers
Dovecraft paper
WOC flowers
MS frond punch, spellbinders oval die

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Simon Says - Anything goes
Divas by Design - Glitter/Sparkle
Marvellous Magnolias - Monochrome
In the Pink - Gonna be a Pink Christmas
Tilda Town - Celebrate Christmas
Staming for Weekend - use some texture
Sweet Stamping - Snowflakes and ribbon
Sketch Saturday - sketch 236

Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of your week.

Hugs Sarahxx

One Stop Crafts Challenge DT Card - For the Boys

Good morning and welcome to the weekend - wow where did that week go and eek it is the 1st December.

 

We have a great new challenge today for you at One Stop Crafts Challenge and it is Christmas for Boys and we are sponsored by the fab Bugaboo and I was lucky enough to use one of their great Christmas images for my card called Reindeer Pocket.

 

Items used:-

Bugaboo image coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment: LOTV

HOTP papers

Dies/Punches: Marianne snowflake, spellbinder eyelet circle and MS doily edge punch

 

We are sponsored by Bugaboo Images and the lucky winner will receive 7 images of their choice.

 

 

Please pop over to the One Stop Crafts Challenge for some more inspiration from my teamies.

 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

 

Dream Valley - Non-Traditional Christmas

Songbird Challenge - Deeper Shade of Blue

Top Tip Tuesday - Kids/Teens

Fab n Funky - 3 of something - card candy

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

 

Have a great weekend.

 

Hugs Sarahxx