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. 

🎄ABC Christmas - U and V

 It's time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas, we have reached
U for Unusual Christmas colors and V for Velvet. 

I chose teal, a favourite color of mine and an unusual Christmas color. Raindeers and trees are die cut from black cardstock, the background is done using a circle stencil and distress inks. 

ABC Christmas - S and T

 It is time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas and we have come to S and T.

S for Stencils and T for Traditional Christmas Colors. I chose Traditional Christmas colours in red, green and gold and used a wreath from Poppy Stamps. 

Other challenges:

Holly and Ivy - A/G Christmas

Addicted to stamps and more - Make your mark (using my distress inks)

Allsorts - Autumn Colours or A/G

Polkadoodles - A/G

Inkspirational - Make your mark (using my distress inks)

🎄ABC Christmas - P, Q and R

 It's time for the August challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge and we have arrived at P, Q and R. I'm hosting this challenge and the letters represent P for Pink, Q for quartet (four of something) and R for Rudolph. So many possibilities! 

I chose R for Rudolph and made a soft grey card using Lavinia stamps and distress inks. Sentiment is computer generated. 

A lucky winner will receive two Fizzy Moon stamps, I figured that after Christmas you might need to send some Happy New Year cards and then these will come in handy 🥂

🎄ABC Christmas - N and O

 This month at ABC Christmas Fabiola has set the theme to N for No stamping or O for Off the edge.

I made a gift tag using a stencil and some gold acrylic paint and decorated it with a circle topper surrounded by some die cut lace. No stamping in sight 👀

🎄 ABC Christmas - L 🕯️ and M 🎵

 Hi all,

the challenge at ABC Christmas this month is L for lanterns and M for music. A challenge right up my alley.

So this is my take on L for lanterns 🕯️. Image is Lili of the Valley, coloured with distress ink and masked to make the night background.

And this i M for music 🎵. Another Lili of the Valley image, coloured and masked in the same way.

Other challenges:

Card 1

Crafty gals - A/G 

Holly and Ivy - A/G Christmas

 Merry little Christmas - A/G Christmas

MAWTT - Early Christmas

Creative moments - boys or men 

Avenue 613 - for the boys

Card 2

Christmas cards all year round - Dogs and/or cats 

Simon says stamp Monday - Let the music play 

stamps+fun=creativity - pick a season (obviously Christmas season)

Lil patch of crafty friends - A/G

🎄 ABC Christmas - J and K 👑

 Time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas, this time it is J and K so get ready for J for Jesus and/or K for Kings.

I used an image from Lili of the Valley (not really a big surprise there) and masked it off to create the dark sky background. 

This challenge goes on until June 8th, wow June, it's weird to even think about how close we are to the summer now 😎. 

Other challenges:

Crafty calendar - A/G

613 Avenue - A/G for the kids

Polkadoodles - A/G

Fab´n´funky - for a child, baby or teen

Creative Fingers- A/G

Merry little Christmas - A/G Christmas

Let's craft and create - baby blue or pretty pink

🎄 ABC Christmas - H and I

 This month at ABC Christmas our lovely Carol is hosting and the theme is H for Hats and I for Inky. For H, I made a gift bag and decorated it with an image from Rick St Dennis. 

Other challenges:

Polkadoodles - A/G 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - A/G

The holly and Ivy - A/G Christmas

For I, I used a stencil and two colours of distress ink to make the inksplash background and a polar bear stamp from MFT. 

Other challenges:

Allsorts - A/G Animals

613 Avenue - A/G plus a splash of colour

Digichoosday - A/G

The prize this month:

ABC Christmas - E, F and G

 It's time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas, and it's E for embossing, F for faux and G for gingerbread. Lots to choose from!

I chose G for gingerbread and made this gift tag. 

Coloured with pencils and a little faux snow on the santa hat. 

ABC Christmas - C and D

 Hi all, it's my turn to present the February challenge, running from today until Saturday the 9th of March. The theme is:

'C is for Cats'

&

'D is for Dogs'

And a lucky winner will get a $10 gift card to one of my favourite digistamp shops: 

My card today is a Lili of the Valley-stamp, coloured with distress inks and cut with a "torn paper" die.

I know it's Valentine's Day today but I'm sticking to Christmas creations, maybe I'll pop by later with something hearty - who knows 💕

ABC Christmas - A and B

 I'm a day late with my first post of the year for ABC Christmas, not exactly starting on top, but I'll blame the fact that it was my birthday yesterday so I had lots on my plate.

So, we have A for Anything Christmas and B for Berries.

I used a Stamping bella image and wintery watercolours for Anything Christmas.

And a mistletoe wreath with lots of sparkling berries.

Helen, our host, is offering this great prize for a lucky winner. 

Other challenges:

Card A

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

Crafty Gals - Winter fun

Paper minutes - Birds

Welovestamping - something new (the image and the watercolour palette are new)

Allsorts - moodboard (inspired by the squirrel and the bird)

sweet stampin - What's new with you (image and watercolours)

Card B

Christmas Craft creations - glitter and sparkle 

The Holly and Ivy - A/G

613 Avenue - A/G

crafty calendar - A/G

As you like it - favourite paper. My favourite paper is the silver backing paper that is actually a Christmas wrapping paper, it's sooo sparkly and still soft and easy to use and glue on.