ABC Christmas - H 🎅and I 🥶

 This month Carol is hosting the challenge at ABC Christmas and the theme is
H for ho,ho,ho and I for Ice. 

I made a tag for Ice, using image and die cut from My Favourite Things Polar Bear Pals. 

There's a lovely prize up for a lucky winner

So do join us for a chance to win.

🎄ABC Christmas - E, F and G 🎁

 This month Fabiola is hosting the challenge at ABC Christmas and the theme is E for Embossing, F for Focal sentiment and G for Girls. Lots to choose from!

I opted for the focal sentiment. The wreath is made with a Lavinia stamp, the sentiment is from a clear stamp set from Amazon somewhere. 

Up for grabs is a $30 gift voucher 🎁so hurry over and enter for your chance to win!

Other challenges:

Crafty Catz - A/G Add a sentiment

Merry little Christmas - A/G Christmas

Shopping our stash - Think ink

Polkadoodles - A/G

Allsorts - CAS

Inkspirational - CAS

ABC Christmas - C and D

 Morning,

it's time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas and it's C for Cute and D for Die cuts. I dug out an old Magnolia stamp and coloured it with distress inks. The backing paper is from a very old Tim Holtz paper pack and I used one die cut to make the image backing and another to make the corners of the card. It's a very long time since I coloured a Magnolia image but I really enjoyed it. 

Other challenges:

Addicted to stamps and more - make your mark

Everybody art - Die cuts and punches

Holly and Ivy - Anything Christmas goes

Creative crafters - Anything goes

Papercraft challenge - Winter wonder

GirlzcreativeChristmas - lace, ribbon, twine

Stampingsensations - Anything goes

Avenue 613 - Anything goes

Allys angels - Anything goes

ABC Christmas - A and B

 It's time for the first challenge of this year at ABC Christmas and it is A for Anything Christmas and B for buildings.

I went for Anything Christmas and made a card using a napkin as backing paper, yes a napkin. I wanted the texture and frayed edges you get when ripping napkins, so I painted it with watercolors and ripped the edges while the paper was wet. Then I added the diecut reindeer and trees and embossed the stars in white. 

This is the prize on offer for a lucky winner so good luck to you all!

ABC Christmas reminder

 The current challenge at ABC Christmas is Y for Your favourite colours and Z for Zoo animals. This card is for Y for your favourite colours. The blue winter sky combined with the bright red berries is such a great effect and I love it.

I used a circle stencil to do the moon and used Stormy Sky and Blueprint Sketch distress inks to create the winter sky. The berry stamp is Lavinia, coloured with Candid Apple distress ink and I made snow using a white posca pen. And then I took out my precious silver glitter paper that I've just admired and loved for so long, held my breath and cut a piece for backing. 

Other challenges:

Little red wagon - Merry Christmas
Shopping out stash - My precious
Sweet Stampin - Christmas Creations
Allsorts - Lots of white or Anything goes
Christmas Kickstart - Anything goes Christmas
Creatalicious - Anything goes Christmas
Inkspirational - use stencils
My time to craft - something snow-related
Alphabet challenge - S for silent night

ABC Christmas - Y and Z

 It is time for the last challenge of this year at ABC Christmas. It is Y for Your favourite colours and Z for Zoo animals. 

I went for zoo animals in creating this card with stamped animals from Lili of the Valley and a brick stencil where I used grey and green acrylic paint. 

I'll return before Christmas with my take on the Y for Your favourite colour :)

Lavinia winter witches

 There is still a couple of days left to enter the current challenge at ABC Christmas where the theme is W for Watercolor and X for Xylophone (inspirational colors). 

I am posting a winter scene featuring the adorable witches from Lavinia stamps. I used black cardstock and made the moon with a circle stencil and white pan pastels.

Challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes/Winter holiday
Pinspirational - Anything goes
Inkspirational - Mood board - the chalk board obviously ;)
Allsorts - Anything goes
Polkadoodles - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes
Creative moments - Winter
Sisterhood of crafters - Anything goes
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes/Winter
We love stamping - Winter

🎄ABC Christmas - W and X

 I am back from a wonderful adventure to Kansas City, Missouri, and the International competition in barbershop. My chorus came in on a 17th place and we are so very proud of our debut in the world championship.

And it is time for the November challenge at ABC Christmas where Fabiola will host the theme 

W for watercolor and X for xylophone. 

And to avoid any confusion we are aiming for the bright colours of the xylophone for kids, there's a photo inspiration for you over at the challenge blog.

I made a card coloured with my distress inks for W. I cannot remember where the stamp with the carolling children comes from but at least I remember that the embossed stars/snowflakes are Lavinia :)

And as X for xylophone I made a bright background with watercolours and I´m quite sure the image is a Lili of the Valley. Gosh, I'm really bad at keeping track of where my stamps come from.