Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge #106

Hi again!

Today I’m sharing my DT make for the Holly & Ivy Christmas challenge.  You can enter our current challenge here, as always we are a just for fun ‘Anything Christmas Goes’ challenge!

For my card I’ve used an old favourite Woodware stamp and paper pieced it using the Jolly Christmas paper pad from Simply Creative.  I’ve also stamped out a couple of cute kitties from a freebie kit from Making Cards magazine and coloured them with Promarkers.

Hope you will join in with us if you can.  Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Shona xx

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

Cleverprints Florals

Well hello strangers!

It’s been the longest time since I last blogged!  Life got in the way and pretty much continues to get in the way and I probably couldn’t have chosen a busier time to start blogging again but here I am and here goes nothing!

Tonight I’m sharing a birthday card I made for a lovely lady Charmain Barrett who does a lot for the crafting community.  Her own brand is Dolly Dimples but she works tirelessly behind the scenes for other brands as well and is also one of the regular contributors in the Crafting Together With All Brands Facebook group.

My card uses a wealth of different floral stamps from Cleverprints Ltd.  That’s been another development since I last blogged - I’ve been lucky enough to have joined their design team.  You can find their online shop here, they have a fabulous selection of stamps, dies, papers and accessories.  I’ve used Ecoline brush pens to colour and I’ve doodled round the edge with a Sakura Micron fine liner to finish off my card.

Apologies for the photo quality, I’m struggling to get good light right now and a mostly white card doesn’t help! 

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you leave, it’s always appreciated!

Hugs, Shona xx

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

Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge

Hello,

If you could see me on this blog you would see me looking a little bit sheepish, well actually a big bit sheepish!  I feel like I'm in some sort of a confession but forgive me bloggers it's been over 3 months since I last blogged anything!  I'm currently taking a break from 2 of the  design teams I'm on and wondering where I go from here.  As always life is hectic even in lockdown there's no rest for the wicked as I'm still working full time hours albeit at home and as it's my daughter's exam year (although they're not sitting actual exams due to covid) I'm doing everything I can to help with her home schooling as it's possible that every piece of work she hands in will count towards her grades in the absence of formal exams.  I have also been feeling a bit bogged down with my crafting recently and am trying to find time to explore different brands and techniques, especially moving into art journalling more.  At the moment I am still on the DT for JMC Designs which is a real labour of love and one blog challenge DT for the Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge, I love my other 2 DTs too but at the moment I'm struggling to keep up with all my commitments and continue to grow as a crafter.  I know I've said this before but I find it much easier to keep up with Instagram and Facebook than blogging.  It's more instant and easily accessible.  I can't promise when I'll next post on here but I'm going to try to at least get my Holly & Ivy DT work on here, it's only fair to the challenge organiser that I try to keep up with that side of things, so hopefully that will be roughly every fortnight, anything else is a bonus.  That in mind here was my last card for the Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge using a fab pre-coloured image from Polkadoodles.

That's all from me tonight, hope everyone is well.

Stay safe.

Hugs,

Shona xx