🎄ABC Christmas - N/O

The July challenge at ABC Christmas is N for No layers and/or O for Ornaments. I chose O for Ornaments and I used my bauble stencil from Poppy stamps with distress oxides in green and pink. The raindeer and trees from Lavinia were stamped before removing the stencil so that they seem to be inside the bauble. I then added some puffy paint as snow and a little glitter around the moon.

Lynda/Loopyloo is our host and she's offering a wonderful prize for a lucky winner:

Other challenges:

MTTCC - Christmas animals

Craft rocket challenges - Christmas in July

Happy little stampers Christmas - A/G, option twinkle

Ellibelles crafty wednesday - A/G

Unicorn challenge - No design paper

Get creative challenge - Christmas in July

Happy little stampers Watercolor challenge - Christmas in July

Christmas with the cuties - Fur or feathers

Cutie pie challenge - CAS

ATSM - Die cuts or stencils (obviously I chose stencil)

Holly and Ivy - A/G

Merry little Christmas - A/G

Most magical time of the year - A/G

Try it on Tuesday - 3 colors (green, pink and black)

Ally's angels - A/G

🎄 ABC Christmas - L for layers or M for mice 🐭

 It is time for our June challenge at ABC Christmas and the theme is L for lots of layers and/or M for Mice. 

I used an image from Clearly Besotted, coloured with distress inks, on a backing of die cut gold paper. It's a fairly simple card so obviously I chose M for Mice 🐭

Friendly card

 I made a card using a stamp from the set Floral Spray by Clearly Besotted, die cut with the coordinating die and coloured with distress inks in blue and green. I paper pieced the dotted paper and die cut the focal sentiment.

It's really warm and sunny at the moment, warmer than we usually have up here in May, and I figured it would be a good day to take pictures but still this photo turned out rather dark and dull. There is actually some gold on the buds and flower centers and some sparkling dust on the rose...

Challenges:

Happy little stampers watercolor challenge - A/G, optional flowers
Crafting Happiness - A/G, optional flowers
Allsorts - A/G
Get Creative Challenge - Flower frenzy
Use your stuff - technique (die cut, paper piecing, water coloring)
Simon says stamp Monday - watercolor
Avenue 613 - A/G, option say it with flowers

ABC Christmas - J and K

 It's time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas and it's my time to host it. The theme is J for Jingle Bells and K for Kissing.

I chose J for Jingle Bells with this adorable little robot holding a tiny bell, the sentiment is computer generated. I noticed that I seem to have a theme going on here, with masking the image off and smudging Distress Ink Pumice Stone around the image. It's make it pop nicely. 

The prize for a lucky winner is two Christmas inspired images from Fizzy Moon.

ABC Christmas - H and I

 Gosh, time flies... It's time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas with H for Houses and I for Indoors. I went for H for House and used this adorable bird house from Milybloom. After coloring the image with distress inks I masked it and lightly brushed on some grey ink to make the white pop. I also put some puffy snow on the roof. 

Helen is hosting and she has this amazing prize for a lucky winner:

ABC Christmas - E, F, G

 Hi all, 

time for a new challenge at ABC Christmas, this time it's:

E for Elves
F for Food
G for Gold

Lots of great options and I'll probably do more than one this month. But I'll start with G for Gold.

A gorgeous poinsetta from Power Poppy, coloured with distress inks and some gold watercolor for the berries. The gold backing is an adhesive paper meant for kitchen tiles :)

Lynda is hosting the March challenge so hurry over and see what's on offer. 

ABC Christmas - C and D

 For February the theme at ABC Christmas is C for Checks and D for Die Cuts and is hosted by Lynda.

I used only die cuts to create my contribution; the red mirror background, the poinsetta and the leaves. 

So hop on over to our challenge site and join in. 

ABC Christmas - A and B

 I've had a little "meh"-moment cause this was supposed to be posted a couple of days ago but obviously that post disappeared into the great unknown. 

So here it comes - the first challenge for ABC Christmas this year is A for anything goes and B for bear. This is my contribution to it. 

Other challenges:

creatalicious challenges - A/G
mmm challenge - #182 Friendship
sparklesforum challenge - friendship
allsorts challenge - A/G winter blues
crafty catz - A/G, add an animal
as you like it challenge - fav reason to send a card (cause I love making them and I love how happy it makes the recipient)