Deedee's Digi's - September Guest Designer - Week 5

This is my final week as Guest Designer for Deedee's Digi's and I just had to add a Christmas card to the collection!  These Merry and Bright penguins are so cute and fun - coloured with Promarkers plus a little glitter glue and glossy accents on the fairy lights.

I've kept the card simple so the image shows itself off - layered onto black and red card to make it pop, along with the sentiment, I've just added some glitter glue and half pearls for extra detail.

The card blank has been made from an offcut of card from making a square card blank previously - I save all these offcuts just for cards like these!

I've really enjoyed my month being Guest Designer for Deedee's Digi's and for their generosity.  If you're not familiar with Deedee's Digi's, check out the store as there is bound to be something for you in there!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

A Snowflake's Promise:  Christmas / Winter Theme
Artistic Inspirations:  Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers:  Make It Sparkle
Christmas Card Challenges:  Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge:  Stick It Down

These Are My Parents!

And here is the final new release from Jellypark this weekend! I liked the stamp so much I made two cards (one is for my parents and the other is an order!) Isn't the stamp wonderful?!

For the first card I've used DCWV papers plus ribbon and diy Poinsettia's from my stash plus a computer generated sentiment. I've coloured the image with Aquamarkers.

The second card I've given to my parents and the papers are from the Merry and Bright digi collection from Creativity by Crystal plus some dark red card from my stash and a wonderful string of fairy lights!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

First Card
Colour Create: Red, White and Green
Sweet Sketch Wednesday: Sketch followed
Pixie Dust Studios: Colour Combo - Holiday Cheer
Desert Island Crafters: Paint (Aquamarkers - do they count?!); Green and Blue; Christmas Theme; More Than 5 Layers; Glitter

Second Card
Kathy's Waffle Sketch File: Sketch followed
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle: Holiday Card

• Image: Jellypark
• Papers: DCWV and Creativity by Crystal
• Sentiment: Computer generated
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Simply Create Too Challenge 1 - Christmas

It's time for the first challenge at the new look Simply Create Too challenge blog! And its a lovely and easy theme for the next two weeks:

All About Christmas

So basically, anything Christmas goes! If you want more details and to see the rest of the Design Team creations, pop over to the challenge blog!


I've used this very sweet Angel Girl Nativity digi stamp from Jellypark (there is a 20% off sale on right now!!) and coloured her with Promarkers plus glitter glue. And I've made more than one card too!
I've used papers from Creativity by Crystal - Merry and Bright digi paper collection from Jessica Sprague - just two papers in each colourway - one mad bubbles and one plain and layered with the contrasting paper.

The sentiment stamp is a 99p Studio G acrylic stamp and I found some plastic star shaped clear beads in my stash and as I have loads of them, I used them on the cards as they looked quite Christmassy!
So that's another 6 cards off my total - very near my final goal!

Good luck with the Simply Create Too challenge and I hope you will join us! And as an extra special treat we are offering 3 sets of blog candy as prizes to the top three entrants as picked by the Design Team!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Purple Frog: For Someone Special (these are going to my fellow Jellypark Design Team as they are all special!)
Dutch Dare Challenge: Recipe (Image, Patterned Papers, Embellishments)
Diva's By Design: Monochromatic
Flutterby Wednesday's: Open Challenge (Angel with wings)
City Crafter Challenge: Pink Christmas
Creative Card Crew: Monochromatic
Christmas Cards All Year Around: Sketch followed and the required 5 cards made (well, 6 actually!)
Ladybug Crafts: Winter Blues

• Image: Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue
• Papers: Creativity by Crystal - Merry and Bright Collection
  
• Sentiment: Studio G acrylic stamp
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Crimbo Crackers Challenge 3 - Santa

It's time for another Crimbo Crackers challenge! A record entries for the last challenge - 1 more than the previous and a total of 234 entries - wow!!

The theme this fortnight is a nice and easy one again:

Santa

Anything that features a Santa qualifies - go to the challenge blog to enter your creations!

I'm so lucky to be sponsored by Dude Time Doodles (thank you!) and the prize for one lucky entry is a $10 Gift Certificate to spend in the store - to visit the store click on the banner below:


I've used a Dude Time Doodles image - Santi Beaches and he is included in the 50% sale of last years Christmas images but be quick - sale ends on 30 November! He's been coloured with Promarkers plus a little glitter glue.

I've used papers from the digi pack - Creativity by Crystal called Merry and Bright, bought from Jessica Sprague. The string of tiny fairy lights is from my stash and I've used two gold star brads to attach them to the card. I've added faux brads to the bottom of the card - dots made with Promarkers and then glossy accents over the top!

Good luck with the challenge - deadline is Wednesday 7 December at 12noon GMT and pop over to the challenge blog to enter!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers: Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon: Christmas Theme
Everybody Art Challenge: Christmas Card
Karen's Doodles: Celebrate with Santa

• Image: Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue
• Papers: Creativity by Crystal - Merry and Bright collection
• Everything else: My stash