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Good Evening Everyone.

I hope you all well and have had a wonderful Christmas.

  I have enjoyed spending time with my family, it really has been lovely.

Unfortunately, I haven't got any new cards to show you today but I thought I'd join in with Debby's fun challenge and pick my top 5 Christmas cards this year.

I did enjoy looking through my cards but it took me ages to choose my favourites as I am my own worst critic and I am so indecisive!

Anyway, before I change my mind again here the are ( you can click on the title to take you to the original post)

Hedgy Shuffle! 

Thank you Debby for running this fun challenge. I have really enjoyed seeing all the wonderful cards everyone has been sharing.

Thank you all once again for your wonderful comments this last year, your support and encouragement means so much to me.

Bye for now

hugs

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week in preparation for Christmas. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Crafty Little Fairies Challenge.

This time our challenge will run for 2 weeks and we have been kind to you with our theme of

For this challenge we are sponsored by

DELICIOUS DOODLES and HOBBYKUTZ

So, onto my card. My final Christmas card to share with you this year. The fun image is one I bought from From the Heart Stamps after seeing Viv's fabulous card here. It just made me smile and hopefully the person receiving it will too!

Items used - 

Digi Stamp - From the Heart Stamps Seven Christmas Birds coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Doodlebug designs

Cheery Lynn Holly Leaves

Red Pearls

Stickles - Stardust

Polar White Flower Soft

If you take a look at the Crafty Little Fairies Challenge you will be able to see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

My Time to Craft - Christmas birds

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and had a good weekend.

We finally decorated our tree and put up our decorations yesterday so Christmas has definitely arrived here now and it looks lovely!

A couple of you have spotted that I just have reached 500 followers - I can hardly believe it! Thanks to each and every one of you for your continued support, I feel so honoured to have you there. I will be sorted out some candy after Christmas.

Today is the start of a new Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge

This time we are using sketch number 24 and our optional theme is Glitter and Sparkle.

Our sponsor for this challenge are

Inky Impressions and Ooh La La Creations

You have already seen the cards I made for my beautiful daughters so here is the card I made for my wonderful son. Do you spot a slight penguin theme going on, I do love them and luckily my family do too!

Items Used:

Stamp - LOTV Penguin Presents coloured with Promakers

Papers - LOTV Frosty Christmas

Sentiment - Pink Gem Designs

Stickles - Stardust

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Gems- Hobbyhouse Rhinestone Sparklers

Here is the sketch for you to follow

Hello again Everyone

As promised I am back with my second card of the day. 

Please scroll down if you would like to see my Joanna Sheen DT card, thank you.

My next card is to remind you about the Ready Teddy Go Challenge.

Our theme this month is

So cute!

Items Used:

Stamp - Wildrose Studio Christmas Teddies, coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV Krafy Christmas

Embossing folder - free with a craft magazine

Die-namics Pierced Rectangle Stax

Marianne Designs Creatables Snowflake

Ribbon and Gems from stash

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Small blue gems

If you pop along to the Ready Teddy Go Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Graph'It Markers - Anything Goes

Dis Digi Designs - Non Traditional Christmas Colours

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

I have 2 posts today so I will get straight onto my first one which is a reminder of the 

Joanna Sheen Challenge which is running to the end of the the month.

The theme is

The Prize for the lucky winner is a wonderful £30 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE CHALLENGE BLOG. This is the last Joanna Sheen challenge as the decision has been made to close it down. As you can imagine the DT are very sad about this. Not only did we love being part of such a fabulous team we know how much you enjoyed taking part.

Anyway, onto my card.

I have used a cute House Mouse stamp. There is lots of sparkle on the branches and flowers, I am not sure if you can see it too well on my rubbish photo.

The flowers are made from felt cut with Cheery Lynn Rose dies.  I stitched them together rather than using glue, they do look quite pretty in real life.

Items Used;

Stamp - House Mouse Winter Candle coloured with Promarkers.

Papers - Dovecraft Vintage Christmas and magazine freebies.

Dies - Cheery Lynn Holly Flourish

Cheery Lynn Holly Corner

Cheery Lynn Medium and Large Rose

Imagination Crafts Detail Sparkle - White Shimmer

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Cheery Lynn Designs - Sparkle and Shine ( unfortunately it doesn't show up too well on my card!)

I hope lots of you will be able to take part in what will be our last challenge!

Thank you for stopping by, I will be back later.

Bye for now

hugs

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

For me it will be a day of writing out my cards and wrapping presents which I love doing especially when I have the Christmas music on in the background.

So, before that, I am sharing a Christmas card made with some gorgeous goodies from the wonderful Dies to Die for.

I have used an adorable Bildmalarna Stamp. The gorgeous papers are by Echo Park layered onto my favourite red Garnet Bazzill card. 

 The wonderful Die-namics Blueprints 3 was used to make the paper bow and the cute mittens are by Memory Box.

Items Used:

Stamp - Bildmalarna Mimo Rocking Horse coloured with Promarkers.

Papers - Echo Park 'Tis the Season

Sentiment - Impression Obsession A Star Led the Way

Dies- Die-namics Blueprints 3

Gems - MME Faceted Gems Vintage Christmas

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges: