🎄ABC Christmas reminder

 Hi,

just a card to remind you of the current challenge at ABC Christmas where the theme for March is:

E - embossing
F - fussy and fancy
G - glitter

You can pick one or you can pick all and there's a lovely prize for a lucky winner.

I chose F for fussy and fancy and coloured an image from LOTV with distress inks. I masked of the bunnies and the moon and went over the paper with distress ink Blueprint Sketch to create the sky. I sprayed some perfect pearls before I removed the mask. Sentiment is computer generated.

Other challenges:

Crafty Catz - A/G, option to add sparkle or glitter
Alphabet Challenge - Y for your favourite color combo (which is white and all shades of blue)
Colour Crazy - A/G
Creative Fingers - A/G
My time to craft - Animal theme
TTCRD - A/G
Winter wonderland - Christmas presents
52 Christmas Cards throwdown - Holly and/or Ivy
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas goes, option of no patterned paper
Polkadoodles - A/G
Craft Rocket - use an animal
Critter Crazy - A/G with critter
A bit more time to craft - A/G
A Perfect time to craft - A/G
Crafty animals - A/G
Happy little stampers Christmas - A/G
Happy little stampers watercolor - A/G
Fab ´n´Funky - hand coloured image

My home made ink blending daubers

 I've had my distress inks for a long time and they are, without contest, the things I couldn't get by without. But the blending tools have varied and I have a tendency to always get ink on my fingers regardless of how I do. 

But not any more!

I stumbled over a tip on Pinterest on how to make your own ink blending daubers so I did. I went to the local hardware store - Biltema for you Swedish lot 🛠️ - and bought plastic water pipe wide enough to fit my finger and a tool to cut them easily, the pipes not the fingers 😜. And then I ordered a bigpack of make up sponges, the triangular ones. I then just folded the sponge in half and pressed it in to the tube until it came out on the other side, making sure I didn't push it too far, I wanted a nice round dauber without any edges or corners sticking out. 

I store them in an IKEA box, dividers made from regular cardstock, and put a paper with all the colours on the inside of the lid.

They work perfectly, I've even used them to ink and blend entire card bases with great result. 

I keep the box on the desk top and my distress inks in a desk drawer, everything within reach. 

Plastic pipes
Tool to cut the pipes
Make up sponges