Sundays With Santa - Week 1

Happy New Year my Crafty Followers! I hope 2012 is everything you wish it to be!
Following my 1st ever sober Christmas and Hogmanay I'm feeling refreshed and raring to go :-)

Here is my 1st card of 2012. We are starting again at the Sundays with Santa Facebook Group. Week one's challenge was 'Anything Goes' just to break us all in gently. I hope you like it?

The image is a Sugar Nellie stamp called Snow Buddies and I've coloured it with my ProMarkers. I've added sparkle to their fluffy bits using Glamour Dust.

The DP is DCWV Rose Tinted Christmas. The snowflake in the corner is cut using a Marianne Creatables die and everything else is from my stash.

Here are a couple of close ups...

All comments welcome. Thanks for looking

I am entering this in the following challenges:
The Sugar Bowl - Challenge 74 Sketch (without optional theme)
Passion For ProMarkers - Celebrations
I ♥ ProMarkers - Anything Goes
Pollycraft Monday - Punch it (corner punch used on image section)
Dream Valley Challenges - Christmas
Pile It On - Anything Goes
Craft Your Days Away - Snowmen
One Stop Craft Challenge - Winter Wishes

Polly Penguin - Purple & Green

Oh yes its another Christmas card! This time I have used Polly Penguin again from Digistamp Boutique.

I've been going back trying to complete the weeks I've missed out on the Sundays With Santa Facebook Group. This is for Week 15: Purple and Green. Not normally my first choice for Christmas cards, but its turned out fab!

I've coloured the image in with my ProMarkers. I've added Glamour Dust to the snow and round the edge of the image.
The DP is old Papermania and everything else is from my stash.

All comments welcome. Thanks for looking

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Totally Papercrafts - Christmas in August
Christmas Crafting - Cute Christmas (2nd entry)
Christmas Card Challenges - Glitter
Digistamp Boutique - Use a Digistamp Boutique image
Totally Gorjuss - Cute and Cuddly

Snow Buddies

Time for another Christmas card. Its less than 19 weeks away now you know! Eek!

This time I have used my new stamp Snow Buddies by Sugar Nellie. I won it on the Sugar Nellies Facebook Group challenge for my Summer card (see further down) :D

On the Sundays With Santa Facebook Group it was Week 32: Snowmen, so this stamp was perfect!

I've coloured the image in with my ProMarkers and added Glamour Dust to the fluffy bits.
The DP is old Papermania I think. The 'lace' is made using my Martha Stewart punch. The snowflake is a Marianne Creatables die and everything else is from my stash.

All comments welcome. Thanks for looking

I am entering this in the following challenges:
The Sugar Bowl - Maria Therese's Sketch with optional blue theme (2nd entry)
Sugar Nellies Facebok Group - use punches (lace border & snow flake) (2nd entry)
Fussy and Fancy - Use a Lot (17 pearls!) (2nd entry)
Top Tip Tuesday - Straight Edges
Christmas Crafting - Cute Christmas
Fab 'n' Funky - It's Christmas!

Sundays With Santa - Recipe Card

Back to Christmas cards again! The way the weather is just now it feels like winter already!

This week on the Sundays With Santa Facebook Group the challenge was a recipe: (week 31) Snowflake + Ribbon + 3 buttons.
I've used Polly Penguin again from DigiStamp Boutique. You'll be seeing a lot of this cutie on here! lol

I've coloured her in with my ProMarkers. Not sure about the purple holly, but I was determined to stick to purple, pink and grey.
The snowflake is white card cut with a Marianne Creatable die, coloured with Promarkers and then covered with Glamour Dust (love that stuff!)

I am also entering this in the following challenges:
DigiStamp Boutique - Monthly Competition
Stamp Something - Use a Digi
Pollycraft Monday - Recycle (used buttons off old clothes)
Truly Scrumptious - Buttons & Bows
Crafts and Me - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Christmas in July

Have you started your Christmas cards yet? I'm well on with mine thanks to a group I joined on Facebook back in January called Sundays With Santa. Every week there is a theme and you are encouraged to make a Christmas card using that theme. We are already on week 29, so by December I will have about 46 cards! There's no prize as such, but the satisfaction I will feel come November will be enough. I must confess though I've only completed 19 of the 29 weeks, but am determined to play catch up over the next couple of weeks!

Here is the card I have made for week 26 - Animals. Hopefully penguins can be classed as animals? The digi stamp was June's freebie from DigiStamp Boutique

I've coloured her in with my ProMarkers and added some Glamour Dust on the snow.

I am also entering this in the following challenges:
Passion for ProMarkers - animal crackers
DigiStamp Boutique - July customer competition
Sketch N Stash - sketch and stash (green ribbon & snowflake peeloffs I've had for years!)
Pollycraft Monday - Christmas in July
Crafty Creations - Christmas in July
Fussy and Fancy - Christmas in July