Food and Drink

Hello!  I hope that those of you who celebrate Christmas have had a wonderful time.  We were at home and although most of yesterday was spent cooking, it was worth it when we sat down for Christmas dinner yesterday afternoon!

Our festive challenge themes continue at Sweet Stampin' and the new one starting today is Food and Drink.  Possibly the last thing you want to think of today!

I'm joining in with Team Jacky this week and put together a very quick and simple card:

The MFT image was coloured with Copics and cut out with a Lil' Inkers stitched square die.  I faffed about trying to match card to the paper and then remembered my stash of doilies; I thought this would make a pretty mat for the image and also fit well with the challenge theme.

We're being sponsored by the lovely Emma at Flat Friends who is giving away some of her fabulous digis to our randomly chosen winner.

Have a fabulous, restful weekend.

Hugs

Tracey xxx

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas is the theme for this week's challenge at Sweet Stampin'.  I'm feeling more harrassed than merry, to be honest, but I think once we finally break up from school and I can get my decorations up, I'll be more in the Christmas spirit.

I thought I'd do something non-traditional this time and got my much-neglected Papertrey Ink stamps out to create the background in soft tones of pigment ink. The die cut sentiment is made from a Mama Elephant die, layered up and coloured with a silver marker before being given a coating of Glossy Accents.  A few sequins for some extra sparkle and the job was done.  In fact, even allowing for the drying time of the pigment inks this card was reasonably quick to make - so much so, in fact, that I think I'm going to get a little production line on the go and get ahead with my cards for 2016!  You can remind me of this when I'm ordering my cards from John Lewis again next year!

I do hope you'll be able to find the time to play along with us this week.  As ever, the Sweeties have made the most lovely inspiration projects and what's more, we're being sponsored by the fabulous Crafty Ribbons.

I'm hoping to get some crafting done over the holiday period to make up for my lack of creative time this year.  This having to work for a living malarkey really does interfere with your hobbies, doesn't it?

Huge hugs

Tracey xx

Father Christmas!

We're well and truly into December now, so there's no putting off the fact that Christmas is just around the corner.  To help you along with those last minute Christmas cards, we've picked a nice and easy theme for this month's challenge at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'.  We've chosen Father Christmas, so we'd like to see images of Santa on your projects, please.  If you're in a Christmas card rut,  just hop on over here to see what the CaSSettes have made to help you get your mojo back on track.

I treated myself to a Santa-themed stamp set from MFT recently and just had to ink up this dancing Santa image.

To give a bit of interest to the background I stamped and embossed the black card base  with sparkly embossing powder.  The image was coloured with Copics and I added some Glamour Dust to Santa's hat. The fun sentiment comes from a stamp in the same set.

I hope you'll be able to play along with us this month.  We're being sponsored by the lovely Emma at Flat Friends so there will be digis for one very lucky winner - make the most of being able to get these lovely images as I understand they won't be around for much longer!

Have a fabulous week everyone!

Hugs

Tracey xx

It's Snow Time!

I suppose I'm lucky in that we usually have a lovely view of snowy mountains from the front of our house during winter.  The down side is that we often have snow at lower levels, ie. in places where it's a complete nuisance...  it's pretty to look at but unless school is closed (a rare event) and I can stay indoors, I'm not a great fan of snow!

However, I can cope with snow on my card and this week at Sweet Stampin' we have a snowy challenge for you, sponsored by All Dressed Up.

ADU very kindly gave the Team Abi Sweeties some digi images to play with and I was lucky enough to be able to use this cute snowman image.  I printed him onto some Neenah Desert Storm cardstock and coloured him with my Prisma pencils. I used my Cheery Lynn die to cut the stepper card base and added panels with a snowflake design (Papermania? Dovecraft?  Sorry, can't remember!)  A few embellies in the form of sequins, a Hobbycraft star topper and some glossy accents were added for a bit of dimension and I used a gel pen to create a snowy topping for the sentiment.

I do hope you can join in with this week's challenge.  The Sweeties have created a beautiful array of  projects to inspire you - you'll find them here.  And as ever there's a lovely prize up for grabs, courtesy of All Dressed Up!

Enjoy your weekend!

Hugs

Tracey xx