Christmas Cuttlebug Card...

Having a great time in Sunderland and have been having a play with Irene's cuttlebug folders. This is one of my finished cards I've made while playing.

The inspiration for this came from a card that Irene made the other week - she is incredibly clever at using two cuttlebug folders together and has passed the skill on to me. Well that's what friends are for isn't it?

Pink - Green - and Blue...

At http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ the challenge is colour based and the palette allowed is pink, green and blue. I already had this cute bear (a recent ebay purchase - oh I love ebay) coloured in blue and green so I got out my pink and green papers and card and made this card.

The green embossed background was made using a Fiskar's embossing board.

Tags...

Our challenge this week at Ooh-la-la-Creations is tags and there is a whole host of tags as a blog candy prize for one lucky person who enters the challenge. Do pop over over there and have a look.

There is also a few notes (I won't call it a tutorial cause I'm not that professional) and pictures showing how to create a tag folder card like the ones above.

All the images and rose background paper I used are from the 'Passion for Fashion' CD by Ooh-la-la-Creations.

Christmas at My time to craft...

Lots of challenge blogs are encouraging us to start early on our Christmas cards and I just think this is such a good idea. Like many other crafters, last year I got myself into a real panic trying to make my own cards and special commissioned ones for other people.

Thanks to various challenges Christmas this year will be a doddle (famous last words!). My card for the challenge at http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ has a tartan theme. The image is one from the Passion for Fashion CD by Ooh-la-la-Creations and the tartan backing paper and tag are by Kanban. The red vellum is also by Kanban - I love the effect of vellum over a pattern so that you can see the pattern but it's not as 'in your face'.