Another relaxing day crafting!

Hi All

Well, we have had another afternoon crafting today...I will have so many cards to take home with me but it is nice to craft with other people rather than trying to get the hubby to show an interest in my colouring! Hehe! I have made a couple of Christmas cards today (although I can only show one today....I have made another one to launch the new challenge at Christmas Crafting so you will need to wait till Monday for that one! ;-) ) and I have also made a couple of birthday cards...although I haven't put any sentiments on yet...

My first card is for the Winter Wonderland challenge this week which is to include a Fairy/Angel on your Christmas card. I had this really cute image from Lili of the Valley so I coloured her in wintery blue colours and added some stickles to bring out her sparkly wings! One of my sentiments (which are digi stamps from Cuddly Buddly) said 'Sugar Plum' so thought I'd include that as it was a little bit different to what I would normally use as a Christmas sentiment but seemed to fit the theme well!

My next card today is for the Just Magnolia challenge which is 'Buttons, bows and blooms,' and I'd also like to enter this into the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is a fab sketch. I decided to use a big organza bow for one of the elements of the sketch and I have used some gorgeous new papers I bought a few days ago called First Edition Papers 'Desert Blooms'-they are really lush!

My final card for tonight is for the Lili of the Valley challenge which again is another fabulous sketch and for the Allsorts Challenge which is another week of 'Free and Easy'. I have used a gorgeous little rabbit image from LOTV and have used some more of the papers from the pad I mentioned earlier. The colours I have used on this card are very different to what I usually use but I am quite happy with the end result so watch this space!

I was also very naughty earlier....I ordered some of the new Spectrum Noir pens and one new Humphrey stamp and two new SWALK stamps, all from Crafter's Companion,they have some fab offers on at the moment! I convinced myself that I was cheering myself up as I felt a bit fluey this morning....I am really excited about having a play when I return home though!

Well that is it for today. I am hoping to have a play with my Mum's 'AquaMarkers' at some point this week and I really want to make some more Snowman cards so of course I will share with you anything that we do. I also will be launching the new challenge on 'Christmas Crafting' on Monday 1st August so I hope you will come and join in-the current challenge will still be open until the 9th August (due to my lack of organisation at the beginning of the month!) and there is also a DT CALL which will also remain open until 9th August. Please feel free to get in touch if you fancy being part of the team and I will send you the details. Thanks for all of your support and kind words so far.

Happy crafting everyone!

Hugs

Arline

xx