Whiff of Joy challenge - sparkle

Hooray!! It's Wednesday and that means another challenge at the Whiff of Joy challenge blog. Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries to Marga's sketch!! We have a nice easy challenge for Christmas card making this week.....sparkle!!! So get your glitter, gems, glimmer mist and all that sparkles out!! My card this week is to be my Daughter's Christmas card, hence the pink theme using these gorgeous Kaisercraft Christmas papers from the Hobby House. They have all been punched top and bottom with MS doiley lace punch, distressed with tattered rose distress ink and the lacey part covered in glitter glue.

I couldn't decide which of the gorgeous Norma Fickel gnomes from Whiff of Joy to use so decided to use all four that I have! The first panel shows Wee and Christmas tree, coloured with copics and I have added lots of glitter to the shading around her feet and lilac and pink gems to the Christmas tree. The snowflakes have been punched with MS arctic snowflake punch in pink and glitter card.

The next panel shows Wee with Reindeer......

The next panel has a pocket at the bottom with a sentiment from the Whiff of Joy winter kit "snowflakes are winter's butterflies"..........

......and a removable tag to write a personal message on, showing Uru and bird.

The final panel has Wee with Drum. The large rose is from Hobby Craft and the small ones from Wild Orchid Crafts, sprayed with pearl glimmer mist and I have also added some leaves punched from glitter card using a Woodware punch.

A ribbon runs underneath the images so that the card can fold up and be closed with a bow.

Thanks for looking and I hope you can join us this week, I do love visiting your blogs to see your creations! Please pop over to the challenge blog to see the rest of the DT's work! x

Mini Whiff of Joy candy winner!!!!!

Thank you to everyone who entered my mini candy to win the Whiff of Joy Henry with Bauble stamp. Here are the random numbers....

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......which makes the winner Lilacanglia!!!!! Congratulations!!!! please can you email your address to me so I can get your stamp in the post!

If you weren't lucky this time stay tuned as I have more Whiff of Joy candy to come! x

Stamp Something - glitz something

Phew, this is the second of the cards I made on Sunday night, this is for my husband to give to a colleague. I made three more yesterday too, I am on a roll LOL! I am entering it into Stamp Something challenge which this week is to glitz something, which I have done in buckets on this card LOL!

The papers have glitter on them everywhere, I was lucky enough to win these so I'm afraid I don't know the make and design, sorry. I have distressed the edges with weathered wood distress ink.

I have used Uru with Bird from Whiff of Joy, did I tell you I love these gnomes LOL?? I've coloured him with copics and added red stickles to his top and shoe buttons and covered his entire hat and shoes in glitter glue. The edges of the image have been distressed with weathered wood and again covered in glitter glue.

The gorgeous ribbon is from The Hobby House, as is the sleigh charm.

The snowflakes have been punched using MS snowflake punch with some glittered paper from my stash and I have added some tiny turquoise gems to the centres.

Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x

Friday sketchers

Boy was I busy last night! I managed to make 3 cards!!!! totally unheard of for me, but needs must, I sat down with hubby at the weekend with all the Christmas cards I've made thinking I had far too many and it turned out we were 14 short...yikes! So, here is the first card I made using the wonderful sketch at Friday Sketchers challenge.


The paper is Basic Grey Wassail collection and has been distressed with brushed cordoruy distress ink and edged with glitter glue.


I'm just loving these new Norma Fickel images from Whiff of Joy aren't you?? They're soooo cute and I love colouring them. This one is Wee with Christmas tree, coloured with copics. I have also stamped some snowflakes from the Whiff of Joy winter kit with antique linen distress ink and then sprinkled some MS glitter over them while the ink was still wet. I have added red stickles to the baubles on the tree.


The sentiment is from the winter kit also and the snowflakes are punched with a Woodware punch on some glittered paper from my stash.


Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x

PS If you haven't already entered my candy to win a Henry with Bauble stamp from Whiff of Joy you have until 8pm tomorrow, link is on my sidebar

A break from Christmas for Sketch Saturday

Ugh, not a great card today but I thought I'd share it anyway. I needed a card for an 8 year old boy.....hmmmm tricky but I refuse to buy cards since I started this hobby and am determined I will make every card our house needs no matter how challenging the recipient LOL! I needed inspiration big time for this and found the sketch at Sketch Saturday perfect as I knew I was going to use the Tim Holtz grunge skull and crossbones so the square was perfect for a pirate flag! Luckilly this only took about 20 mins to make which is just as well seeing as hubby and I sat down last night to look through my Christmas cards and allocate them to people only to find I need to make fourteen more!!!!! I thought I'd have excess as it seems like I've made so many over the last 3 months LOL!

Anyway, back to the card. The papers are from a K&Co pad and have all been torn and distressed with weathered wood distress ink. The "flag" has been torn from my son's coloured paper pad as I didn't have any black paper or card. I have painted the grungeboard skull with pickett fence crackle paint and then distressed it with weathered wood ink.

I wrote the sentiment myself with my calligraphy pen.

Instead of the flower and ribbon elements on the sketch I have used a bit of rope I saved from something or other and a couple of wooden buttons which were from Tabbycrafts.

My son thinks its a great card and that his friend will like it so I suppose that's all that matters LOL! thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of your weekend, I'll hopefully be back tomorrow with another Christmas card! x

Just Magnolia DT monthly project - special Christmas card/project

Woo hoo! It's time for another challenge at Just Magnolia, and this week it is our special monthly challenge with that fantastic prize from Simon Says Stamp! Thank you for all your wonderful entries last week I really enjoyed looking through them! This month's challenge is to create an extra special christmas card or project for someone special. Great excuse to get all those gorgeous christmas stamps out (like we need an excuse). I have made a card with a rather gorgeous fold which I just had to try after seeing it on the lovely Marga's blog. The gorgeous papers are by Magnolia, managed to get my hands on some at last and they truly are gorgeous!

I have used Tilda with Mistletoe, coloured with distress inks. I have added some liquid pearls to the buttons on her shoes. Around the edge of the oval I have stamped just the mistletoe part of the stamp with peeled paint distress ink before covering the edge with glitter glue.

There wasn't much room for embellishments, think I will make a larger version next time I do one of these! I have added a tulle ribbon tied in a simple knot to one side and three roses from Wild Orchid Crafts, that have been sprayed with glimmer mist.

I punched some branches using MS branch punch from white card and sponged the edges with brushed cordoruy distress ink and then covered them in glitter glue for a frosty look.

On one corner of the "stand" part of the card I added another rose and some branches to match the front of the card.....

.....and on the other corner I added a small sentiment and again stamped the mistletoe part of the image around the edges.

Thanks for looking, do check out the rest of the DT's creations, they are stunning and I hope you can manage to join us this week! x

If you have time please see my other post today for the Crafty Calendar Challenge! x

Crafty Calendar challenge DT card

As it is the first friday of the month it is time for another challenge at Crafty Calendar challenge! The entries last month were gorgeous, thank you all so much! This month we would like you to create a winter themed card or project with the added option of sparkle - a perfect accompaniment to winter cards! It doesn't have to be a Christmas card, it can be a winter birthday card, wedding card, whatever you fancy!
I have used two gorgeous stamps from the Whiff of Joy winter kit, Freezing Willow and the sled packed with gifts. I have coloured them with copics in colours to match the papers which are K&Co. I have added glitter glue on the presents and MS carrera marble glitter underneath the sled. I distressed the edges of the image mat with a mixture antique linen and weathered wood distress inks and then I have stamped the three snowflakes from the Whiff of Joy winter kit with white Q chalk and while the chalk was still wet I added glitter to them.

The sentiment was cut from one of last years' Christmas cards LOL - I save so many bits like this, it came in useful eventually! The writing matches the cardstock I used perfectly!

I punched snowflakes using a MS snowflake punch from mirrored turquoise card (saved from the same card as the sentiment) and white card which I have covered in glitter. Turquoise gemsones complete the snowflakes. You can see in this photo that I made Willow's cheeks pinker than I usually colour to represent the fact she is really cold!

The gold chiffon ribbon is from my stash and I have rippled the tails of the bow in various places and adhered to the card with silicone glue.

Thanks for looking and I hope you can join us this month. Check out the rest of the DT's creations, they're gorgeous! x