Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge #63

Good morning,

Another scheduled post from me today because when this goes live I will be en route to Edinburgh for a meeting with work.  Hopefully the weather will be fine, my boss is driving us down.  I hope you're impressed with how organised I am so far this year, I do hope I can keep it up as I have a lot of crafty plates to keep spinning and some exciting new things coming up soon.

Anyway, today I'm sharing my DT card for this fortnight's Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge, as always our theme is Anything Christmas Goes!  This is my first Christmas card of the year but with 2 Christmas Design Teams and 3 cards to make a month it most definitely won't be my last lol!

So for this challenge I decided to use some of my Stampin' Up goodies I bought from the Christmas 2019 collection.  I bought the papers from the collection a few months ago when the new catalogue came out and I loved them so much I bought the stamp set and tree punch to match.  SU might be a little more expensive but you always get fantastic quality and lots of the products mix and match with each other so you get great mileage out of them.  I can't wait for a peek at the new collection!

Materials used:

Papers - Stampin' Up - Wrapped in Plaid

Stamp set - Stampin' Up - Perfectly Plaid

Tree punch - Stampin'up

Star punch - unknown kids punch (Tesco?)

Gold cardstock - Crafters Companion Centura Pearl

Remaining cardstock, cord and jingle bell from stash

That's all from me for the moment.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cute, Clean & Simple with the Cutie Pies

Good morning,

And a happy new year too!

It's a scheduled post from me this morning as I'll be at work.  I'm impressed that I survived working a whole week last week after the short Christmas and New Year weeks.  It's another full week this week and for the next few weeks until mid February, although I'm off to Edinburgh with work on Tuesday so that'll break up this week a bit!

Anyhow, on to my card... today I'm sharing my design team make for the Cutie Pie Challenge this month our theme is Cute, Clean and Simple (CAS) and we are sponsored by My Besties from Sherri Baldy.

I have to say I struggle a bit with CAS cards, it's not like I over embellish my usual cards but I'm never sure when I've done enough if that makes sense.  Anyway, this card did not go to plan!  I spent a lot of time colouring the beautiful image as it's quite detailed and I was really quite happy with the result, it was getting late and I was getting tired and I then had a look for some coffee related sentiment stamps I have in my stash and was working out which to use and where to stamp them when I suddenly discovered I'd smudged Memento Tuxedo Black ink all over one side of my coloured image aaaargh!!!!  I stepped away from it for a while to calm myself down then went back to rescue it as best I could.  I ended up cropping the image further to get rid of the smudges and added some spotty paper which I hadn't planned using but is a great match all the same.  I was too frightened to go back to the sentiment stamps just in case of further disaster so I printed out my own sentiment on the pc.  I added a button to complete my simple yet near disaster of a card lol.  It may not look as I originally planned but I'm quite happy with how it's turned out now!

Materials Used:

Digi stamp - Sherri Baldy, My Besties, I Love Coffee

Promarkers

Papers - Recollections Valentine

Vardstock, button & twine from stash

That's all from me today but I will be back with you very soon.

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges: