Christmas Crafting Challenge # 5 - The Twelve Days of Christmas

Morning all!

 

It is time for a new challenge over at Christmas Crafting! Thanks to all of you who joined in last month and I hope you will join us again this year.....even though I know it is getting scarily close to Christmas!

 

Our challenge this month is 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' and we would like you to use this well-known Christmas song to inspire your projects! Be as creative as you like....it could be traditional but doesn't have to be! Let your imagination run wild!

 

We are very lucky to be sponsored by Robyn's Fetish this month and I have used their 'gilded dove' on my project taking the 'two turtle doves' line from the song. I hope you like it. I couldn't resist making my doves sparkly!

I hope you like it and will join in with the fun this month!

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

Arline

xx

A couple more challenges and a bit of baking!

 

Hi All

This must be a record for me…three posts in one day! Back to the blog world with a bang! Lol!

My next two cards were using a few more new stamps that I received for my birthday that I hadn’t had chance to use yet. My first card is using my new Lili of the Valley stamp…he is such a cutie sitting in his armchair with his mince pies! I have coloured him in with ProMarkers and would like to enter it into the Lili of the Valley challenge which is this fabulous sketch this week.

My last card today is using one of my new Humphrey Christmas stamps and again I have coloured it in using my ProMarkers. I would like to enter this into the Papertake challenge this week which is another great sketch. Love this little image…such a cutie…who can resist little Humphrey! Can’t wait to use all of my other fabby stamps…watch this space!

That is all my crafting for now…I am off to the NEC next weekend…on Saturday I am going to the cake and sugarcraft show and on Sunday I am going to the Hobbycraft show! Sooo excited! I am going with my friend, Becky and my Mum and we are staying in a hotel on Saturday night…a little road trip! Will hopefully update you on my purchases next week!

I really wanted to try some new things today when I started baking but I had lost my baking mojo, so I ended up making some old favourites, sausage rolls, cupcakes and a choccie cake…hadn’t tried this recipe before but it looked nice once it was done! (Haven’t got a piccie of the sausage rolls…they were eaten before I could get the camera out!)

So am going to now enjoy all of these goodies with a cuppa whilst I watch the final of The Bachelor (sad I know but I have been addicted since it began!!)

Thanks for looking!

Hugs

Arline

xx

Crafter’s Companion Challenge-Pink and Green

 

Hi All

Another post, two in one day! It has been really nice to get back into blogging today. I have had a few mad weeks at work…I was very much a stress-head for a while so now it is half-term it has given me a bit of space to really de-stress! I have loved getting back into my crafting……am also hoping to bake later on…only problem is I will then put on about a stone eating it all! Lol!

Anyway, back to my cards from today. My first card is for the Crafter’s Companion challenge this month which is to use the colours pink and green. I have used one of my new SWALK stamps that I have had for a while but never used…I know…hanging my head in shame! I have coloured her in using my Spectrum Noir pens and am continuing to practice my shading…what do you think? It is a work in progress! I have used a few pearls to finish her off as well as a fab sentiment I received in a crafty swap that I took part in.

I also used another one of my SWALK stamps to create my next card. The face didn’t go so well, she looks like she has had a spray tan! Lol! I have made another easel card and have used some tiny little flowers that I have had in my stash for ages just to finish her off! I would like to enter this into the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week which is this fabulous sketch.

That is it for now. Thanks for looking once again and I hope you have all been enjoying the unexpected sunshine today!

Hugs

Arline

xx

All About Me-Scrapbook Challenge

Hi All

Something a bit different for you today. I don’t do much scrapbooking as I never seem to find the time, so I have joined a group that the lovely Gill has started which is to create a scrapbook page each month in order to make a book ‘All About Me’.

As you know, last year I got married and have wanted to start scrapbooking it for ages so that is where I started. I absolutely love sepia colours for pictures, hubby hates them so I thought in my scrapbook I would use sepia coloured pictures! I have used just some wedding papers/cream card that I have had in my box for a long time. I then bought from my local craft shop, a sheet of card which had some lovely quotes on about marriage which I cut up and used. In order to add a little journalling, I used a little pocket from my ‘Smash’ bits and bobs that I received a little while ago. Just finished it off then with a couple of heart shaped doilies and some little pearls. I really hope you like it! I was really pleased with the end result. Please be warned-picture overload in this post!We were also asked to decide on a title for our book and what book we are going to use. My title is simply going to be ‘All About Me’! My book is a bit of a saga……I thought I had a simple beige scrapbook that I could use……but can’t find it so am looking for an alternative! Currently bidding on one that looks like the one below so I am hoping that I win this one! If not then I will see if I can find one similar! I liked the little picture slots as I thought I could put in four little pics of me from four different times in my life. Hope this is all ok and that you will enjoy following me and my scrapbook over the next few months!

Thanks for looking.

Hugs
Arline

xx

Winter Wonderland Guest Designer!

Hi All

 

I was really chuffed a few weeks ago when Suzi over at Winter Wonderland asked me to be guest designer. The challenge this week is 'Robin Redbreast' and here is my 'inspiration'! Hope you like it! It is a gorgeous little Pink Gem Designs digi image and I have used my Promarkers to colour him in....sooo sweet. I have used some really old flowers and some Christmassy paper....think it might be Papermania. I have also had a go at decorating the inside of my card....I never do this and really want to start doing it more!

 

Thanks for looking and please go and join in with the challenge this week! Thanks once again ladies for asking me to be your guest designer this week!

 

Hugs
Arline

xx

Christmas Crafting challenge # 4 – Little Robin Red Breast.

 

Hi all

Just a quick post from me this morning…..I am off to go Christmas shopping! I have to get all of mine done for my family by October half-term (three weeks away!) Eek!

Anyway, back to the purpose for this blog post! Our fourth challenge over at Christmas Crafting has been set by Debbie one of our design team members and it is ‘Little Robin Red Breast’. We want to see all of your images of robins on your Christmas cards/projects!

Here is my attempt this month. I have made another twisted easel card….think these might be my new thing at the moment! Lol!

So, please join us this month and get yourself organised for Christmas….not long to go now!!

Hugs

Arline

xx