This week at Bah! Humbug! we are digging deep into our craftroom stock and finding those long forgotten peel offs.  I still love to use peel offs for borders and sentiments, but when I first started cardmaking with my daughter, we seemed to buy some very weird and wonderful peel off sheets that have never seen the light of day.

Well, this week with the challenge of using peel offs to create a Christmas card at Bah! Humbug! I got some of them out.  I found a sheet that I really liked with small Christmas trees on and a stag in full flight.  With fingers crossed I got out my Cuttlebug village embossing folder to see if the proportions would fit together okay.  I was really pleased to find they did and went on to create these two cards.

I used core'dinations cardstock and the village Cuttlebug embossing folder for the main scene on both cards.  After embossing I sanded the card to reveal the white core and then used a white glaze pen and glitter to touch up the roof tops, etc.  The peel off tree and sentiment were stuck directly on to the scene in the second card.  The deer was stuck on to blue card and then attached to the base card.  Then I glittered the surrounding area to create the snow effect.

Another Easter card using one of the fabulous Pollycraft images I won recently.  How lucky was I?  Just love them.  As well as the cat and the duck being super cute I love the tree on this image, because it lends itself to adding paper flowers or gemstones as I have done on this card.   The image was coloured with Promarkers and the designer paper is from the DCWV Spring stack again.

Challenges...

Short post today as busy getting house ready for very important guest...

Another Easter card and this time it's for my daughter Shelley, who like me is a real softie when it comes to rabbits.  The image is one of the amazing collection of digi images I was lucky enough to win from Pollycraft.  Oh such a cute collection.  My friends will be seeing a lot of these this Easter.  Love the rabbit and the duck (although not on this card) is just adorable.

The daisy border was punched using another of  the new punches Laura bought me for Mother's Day.  The sentiment is from a collection by Making Memories and the bunny paper is another design from the DCWV Spring stack.

Challenges...

• Pollycraft Monday Challenge - sparkles
• Pile it on - Furry friends
• Promarker Passion - Springtime with an animal
• Digital Tuesday - Springtime
• Sketch Saturday - sketch

 

It's all very well being organised for Christmas thanks to our Bah! Humbug! challenge site, but things like Mother's Day and Easter keep creeping up on me!  Anyway with still over a week to go I have started my Easter cards - yeah I might not be meeting myself coming back on the day before the event as I normally am.

This is my card to give Laura.  Hope it's 'pink' enough!  I've used one of my all time favourite stamps by C.C. Designs  at All that scraps.  I'm not sure whether this stamp is still available, but I just love it.  That wheelbarrow is just so useful.  Last time I used the stamp on this card  I filled the barrow with little paper flowers.  This time I used a craft knife to put a slit in the top of the barrow and then used an egg shaped punch to make tiny Easter eggs out of the DCWV backing paper, which is from the Spring Stack.

My Easter card is for the following challenges...

Time for a sketch challenge at The Pink Elephant and wow what a sketch!  So different and really inspiring.  Such a shame that one of the DT needs to hang her head in shame - ME! I'm not one bit happy with my contribution for this challenge.  This is the other card I made in a hurry for Shelley's birthday on Friday.  It had to be purple and black as they are Shelley's favourite colours and I must admit she loved the card, but I don't, even though it does look better in real life than on screen. 

As you can see the Nellie Snellen die came out again.  I'm addicted to that at the moment - it seems to be appearing on every card.  The small circles were cut using Nesties and the letters were cut on the Cricut using half and one inch lower case letters.

Have a great day everyone and if you want to see some amazing designs by my fellow DT members do pop over to The Pink Elephant where the rest of the team have entered some fabulous creations.