Bah! Humbug! Challenge ... Christmas Trees...

Wow a really easy peasy week at Bah! Humbug! this time.  Christmas Trees - how much scope is there in that theme?  For my card I used a Dreamweaver brass stencil, embossed it using my Big Shot and then coloured using ink dusters and shades of green Adirondack ink with a touch of yellow for the star and brown for the base.  The strip of green in the lower part of the card was scored on my Scor pal and then pleated.  I attached it using Pinflair to give the pleats support.

Spotty paper by DCWV I think!

Additional challenges...

• CCEE Stampers - Create a Christmas Card
• Crafty Purple Frog - Green
• Some Odd Girl - Pleat Something

Have a great day everyone.  I'm off to the NEC so I'm really excited.  Do try to pop over to Bah! Humbug! if you have chance.  It's the last week for our Guest Designers and they have really gone out with a bang.  Their contributions this week are totally mind blowing.

Ann xxx

Bargain alert ...

Just the other week I used some really fab puffy glittery stickers on some holiday pages here.  I bought them at one of the pound shops, but I know a few people went in to get some and they just weren't available.  Anyway today I popped in to 'The Works' and found they were selling the same stickers even cheaper - yeah - so I went a little mad and bought a couple of alphabet sets, a zoo set and a funky flower set.  The sea creatures was on sale too, but naturally I already have them.
Happy bargain hunting.
Ann xxx

Molly Bloom Day...

Only just finished the project we did in the morning on the Molly Bloom workshop I went to at the Craft Box at Elsecar last Saturday.  I don't think I'm cut out for these workshops as I found it so difficult stamping and colouring on the card provided.  In the end I bought some good quality card in the shop and stamped the images to colour at home, which I've just finished doing.

Wow, matching the colouring to the patterned paper was tricky and I'm still not totally satisfied with the results, but they are passable.  I love the work that Clare, the designer of the Molly Bloom range does and was thrilled to be able to go on the course.  However, going on this day out has made me realise that I really don't like following someone's design even if they are brilliant.  It takes the excitement out of a project.

I did enjoy the day though and learnt a quite a useful few things...

• how to do this funky button and ribbon embellishment - very useful as you only need tiny bits of ribbon

• how to create a cool basic basket and cover it with designer paper
• that Art Glitter glue is magic for attaching braid to tops of baskets
• that punched strips are just amazing for creating handles 

This is the other side of the basket showing the boy and the hen. All great stamps for creating fabulous scenes.  Our afternoon project used even more of the stamp range and was truly stunning.  I may be showing mine later in the week if and when I finally finish it.

I'm not entering this project into any challenges as it's not my design.  I'm thinking these stamps would match up brilliantly with that bird house I bought at Poundland the other week so maybe I'll get round to doing that time permitting and if I have any spare images left.

Have a great week.

Ann xxx