As You Like It Challenge (DT) Favourite Christmas Sentiment

 Only one more week and you'll hear me screaming, but for now it is simply a whimper!

It's time for our last As You Like It Challenge of 2021 and the theme is

Favourite Christmas Sentiment (and why)

I use all sorts of sentiments at this time of year, some are chucklesome, some sarcastic, but my favourite is any one that mentions Christmas, whether it is Merry Christmas, Happy Christmas, or, in this case Best Wishes for Christmas.

Your Next Stamp - Very Merry Wise Men

Lawn Fawn 6x6 papers

HobbyArts Christmas Sentiments

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) and badly fussy cut!

Our fabbie-dabbie sponsor for this challenge is

LEE HOLLAND DESIGNS

The AYLI team are taking a brief break at the end of this challenge, but we will be back in 2022, coming soon to a craft room near you.

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AYLI (DT) Favourite Christmas Colours

Hello peeps, happy Thursday, and of course that means it's As You Like It day.

For this new challenge our theme is

Favourite Christmas Colours (and why)

So, this was another challenge that had my scratching my head.  I love all sorts of colour combos for making Christmas cards, but for Christmas itself with all the decorations at home, I don't think you can beat the traditional red, green and gold for warmth and richness.  It just makes Christmas feel so cosy.

This little lass doesn't look too impressed with her Christmas jumper this year

Stroppy Girl - Christmas Jumper stamp from LOTV

Painted in red, green, and gold - Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Sentiment from Hobby Arts

Chevron die from MFT Die-Namics

Papers are magazine freebies from Making Cards

Red cardstock from Hobbycraft

The sponsor of this challenge is

Prize - £10.00 Voucher

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Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

Trekking through the snow

I've already had an argument with myself about how to spell treking - or is it trekking?  I've gone for two k's, so apologies if my brain-fade has it wrong!

Anyhoo, inspired by the Lili of the Valley Facebook colour challenge for November, I made this little card.

I wish I could remember the name of the stamp, but he's an old one in rubber

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

I think the sentiment is from HobbyArts

Snowflakes are Lavinia Stamps

and that's it.

Hugs to all

Vague Squirrel

xx

Last Day of Spring

Well, that's it, today is the last day of Spring, so tomorrow will be Hello Summer!  No, really, summer.  Days of endless blue skies, hot sun, ice-creams, school holidays, Wimbledon, strawberries and cream, wasps ....... honestly, Summer.

Anyhoo, to celebrate the final day of 2016's Spring, I'm bringing you this:

So, we have Spring Medley stamp from A Random Fan

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

The birthday words collage is from Hobby Arts

and the rubbish doodling is all mine

I was going to mask this little lady to stamp the words but in the end I fussy cut her

and laid her over the top to get the positioning how I wanted it

So, that's me for now,  I'm about to head outside into glorious sunshine.  Just where did I leave my umbrella, shower jacket and wellies .......

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

The Perfect Snowman

Morning all, hope this finds you well.  Slightly later than planned because I have been for the six weekly tail trim and wasn't organised enough to schedule this, so you have a live Squirrel today!

I seem to be making a lot of these 6x4 CAS cards this year so I hope you are not getting too fed up with them.

You might have guessed this is a reminder for the SNOW-VEMBER challenge, so if you haven't got your snowies inky yet you have until the end of the month to enter.

For this one I have used:

LOTV stamp - The Perfect Snowman

Sentiment - Hobby Arts

Medium - Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Matting layer from scraps box and a 6x4 card base

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

Addicted to CAS

Afternoon all, hope this finds you well.  A beautiful autumn day here in Suffolk, in fact it has been a beautiful week weatherwise, perfect for getting out and about on the holibobs which is what we have been doing.  I'm not back at work until Tuesday so I am planning a craft day on Monday as I won't have Toad around itching to go out.  There are times when I wish he was more of a couch potato!

Anyhoo, I've not been around in blogland much this week - mostly due to being out in the sunshine, but partly due to being occupied with a couple of orders that took up quite a bit of my time.  I am relieved to say they are completed now and the customer has seen photos and given her approval, phew.  So as an antidote to a couple of large and detailed cards, here is one of my favourites, small and CAS!

Addicted To Stamps And More - Clean and Simple

Apart from stamping straight onto the card base, they don't get much more CAS than this.

LOTV stamp - Festive Lantern

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Hobby Arts sentiment

Red card matting layer

I am very excited that Strictly is back with us, and enjoyed last night's show a lot.  I love Claudia's new look with the toned down eye liner and her trimmed fringe, it really shows off her pretty face, and I have to say that Tess did a great job.  I am sure they both had first night nerves and will soon, like the dancers, settle in to the series.  I did see a comment on FB complaining about Tess "touching" the celebrities a lot while she was talking to them - obviously that person never noticed how much Bruce used to do that!  Looking forward to tonight's show and hoping that Greg Wallace isn't as flat footed as I suspect he might be.  Unlike previous years, I don't have a favourite right from the start but I would like to see Simon Webbe do well (didn't realise he had such a sense of humour).  Bring on the sequins!

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

PS.  Thanks to everyone who asked whether Toad liked his pirate birthday card - the answer is a resounding yes!

PPS.  The Great Penguin Challenge 2014 closes at 6.00pm (UK) on Monday