Elf n'appiness

Good morning everyone, here we are only nine more sleeps before Santa Comes lol!!! hopefully you are all finished with shopping, wrapping, and making cards ..... right lol!! well maybe not everything so our challenge this week over at Papertake Weekly is 'Last Christmas Card'... giving us another chance to make that final card and we can now say 'Finished at last' lol!!..  for my card I've used a lovely stamp from Lyndsay Mason, I don't know where you would buy him now as Debs and I got this set from a crafting show we went too... a few years back!... He is adorable though isn't he!! I've coloured him with my inktense pencils and fussy cut him... the wall at the back is my new die from Marianne.

 Photo's are a bit rubbish but wanted to show you the curve on the sentiment

A Peak at the inside

Card Recipe

Image - Stamp by Lyndsay Mason

Colouring Medium - Inktense Pencils

Embossed Wall - Marianne

Papers - Craft work Cards 'Mistletoe'

We are sponsored by Mary and Andrea at the 'Ribbon Girl' this week so a lovely prize on offer.. always something luscious to get from these lovely ladies!!

Do hope you are able to join in this week, I know it's hard as everything is rush, rush but if you get a minute grab a mince pie and sit down for five minutes and have a play lol!! Do pop along to the main challenge blog and see what wonderful makes my DT buddies have made..

That's it from me for now, off too work soon...

Take Care everyone..

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Christmas Tree Guy

Good morning everyone, Brrr!! it's cold this morning, and we've also had a little bit of sleet this week-end!! Do You think we will have a white Christmas!!  Well it's Tuesday and time for another challenge over at Papertake Weekly.. we had a fabulous response last week well over 300 entries!!! Our challenge for this week is 'Paper Play'... Dawny would love to see you make your own flowers, borders, embellishments etc from paper, that's what a lot of us do any way, so nice and easy... you can also add some ribbon if you fancy:)....  I have used this super cute image from Karen's Doodles called 'Christmas Tree Guy'... he is such a happy chappy and so easy to colour, I used my Inktense Pencils, the paper wasn't the best to use for these pencils but it doesn't look too bad does it! I glittered it all up with Glamour Dust and added gold glitter to his little bells on his shoes... on the sentiment I added Gesso to add a bit of texture...

We are sponsored by Katherina this week at Whiff of Joy Stamps, so a lovely prize up for grabs... I know you are all very busy as it's so close to Christmas, but if you get a chance, sit down with a nice cup of coffee, maybe topped up with something warming... purely just to warm you of course lol!! and take some time out and join in with us... we would love to see your lovely makes!

Card Recipe

Papers - LOTV - Festive Trimmings by Mary Fran

Image - Christmas Tree Guy Digi from Karens Doodles

Sentiment - Free Sentiment from Hannelie at Desert Diva (Lovely Lady)

Snowflake - Joy Crafts

Christmas Tree - Marianne

Challenges entered

Brown Sugar - Winter

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes with a Winter Feel
Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes
Always Something Creative - Christmas
That Craft Place - Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas - Anything Goes

Well the count down has begun now only two weeks left!!, do hope you are organised, not like me still running around like a headless chicken lol!! Have a fabulous week everyone, try NOT to get too stressed... do pop across to the main challenge blog and see what FABULOUS makes my teamies have made for your inspiration:) 

Take Care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

You're Wonderful

Good morning everyone, it's a real winters day here in Yorkshire, cold, wet and blowy bbrrrr!!! Santa's on his way lol!!  I think I only realized that yesterday when the calender went forward and there, with a red ring around it, was the date when my lovely family from Germany arrive!! eek!! it's only three weeks away and still so much to do lol!! We went away for the week-end to Debs and had such a relaxing time, went to the Christmas Vintage Fair at Worcester, and had mulled wine, and roasted chestnuts mmmm!!! and the weather was very kind to us too!!

Anyway onto my card for 'Papertake Weekly'... which is 'Anything Goes' with the option of making a Christmas gift or decoration.  I haven't had much time this week for myself, so I would like to share this card I made for a special lady who I met whilst shopping for crafty goodies, and we have become quiet good friends, you can see her fabulous blog here.

The gorgeous paper is from a pad by Craftwork Cards called 'Time Flies' and the sentiment is a LOTV Verses and Quotes stamp (Set 61) which I stamped straight onto the paper, no colouring required lol!.. I added black pearls and ribbon and a lovely butterfly from Magnolia it also has black pearls on but doesn't show on the photo's  and a filigree corner from La La Land.
Isn't this little tag gorgeous... I won a lovely prize from Bugaboo digi stamps and this is one of the images I chose. ( I wouldn't of known if it wasn't for Carole... she told me to check my challenges:).. I coloured the little butterflies with my inktense pencils to match the papers...

Now you could win a fabulous prize too as LOTV are sponsoring our challenge this week and are giving the winner a lovely voucher to spend in there shop.. do pop across to the main challenge blog and see what amazing makes my lovely teamies have for you this week, there is a lovely lady joining the team this week too!!

Challenges Entered

Crafty Cats - Anything Goes
ALBC - Anything Goes - but NOT Christmas
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes #122
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Birthday with a sentiment

That's it from me for now, I know you are all quiet busy at this time of the year, and I appreciate all the lovely lady's that have popped in and left me sweet comments.... Mwah!!!!

You all take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx