Icy

It's time for me to post my latest card for the challenge sponsored by http://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/ 

I can't believe the challenge is almost over, it's the first year that I've managed to participate thanks to the fact that we've not flown the coop to spend the winter in our little chalet in the mountains!

This is Linda's tag to inspire us which I love and as ever I've gone & done my own thing inspired by her snowflakes and the industrial silver look.

I rummaged around and found a piece of metal (foil dish) that was large enough to fit the folder that I planned to use. I trimmed, embossed scrubbed with a copper pan scourer and then rubbed some ink into the scratches in the metal, it's gone a lovely shade of blue/grey.

I die-cut 3 sizes of snowflake from different silver card and layered them using foam sticky pads. 

The wishes has also been raised, it's been sitting in the Xmas stash box for about 3 years!

The snowflakes that are embossed around the edge of the frame have had some silvery blue slickwriter

dots added, something else that has been in the craft box for years (probably about 25!!!)

This is a close up of the metal (minus the pearl blue dots)

Time to link this one with the challenge for week 11 http://thefunkiejunkie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-12-tags-of-christmas-funkie_8.html

Only one more to go!

Yellow snow

Ahhhh! I've just realised what I've used as a title.....NEVER EAT YELLOW SNOW!

3 Mondays left & our alphabet is in it's final throes... Y for yellow this time and I've used a fabric label that I received in some Happy Mail

Over at the twinchies it's snow....

Now that it's a larger photo I can see the stamp has slipped slightly on the silver card :-(

Keep safe & wrap up warm, no panicking as Christmas looms ever closer....and I'll see you all again soon.

December tag

Once more & for the final time in 2014 I've been called on to improvise 'au max" as the French would say!

I followed Tim's instructions but as I had  none of the real ingredients it's been fun to try & come up with substitutes :-)

No sprays so it was a blue ink cartridge in a mini mister (added a little water), brushed pewter stain again in a mini mister.

2 different alphabets to die cut winter wishes (inside out & alphabetical )

Deer from reindeer flight

Snowflake stamps (rubber tapestry & freebies)

Vellum embossed with Swiss dots

Festive greenery & memory box for the foliage.

The ribbons, charm, tinsel & bell all came from my stash

On the second version I've substituted the vellum with some wrapping from a winter bouquet that has snowflakes on it, jingle bells (Jolee Boutique ?) and I have a Yuletide muse to add but I cannot lay my hands on my jump rings at the moment!!!

Poinsettia

Another card creation for the challenge across at http://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/ who are also the sponsors.

For this one Linda has used several things that I like....trellis die, holly, gold/red colour scheme

I've, as usual, improvised! That's half the fun of course :-)

A 4x4 kraft card for the base, spellbinders trellis die - I put some wide double sided tape on the back of the white card before putting it through the cuttlebug to make life easier. The foliage is from the Sizzix winter greenery & I've used some gold scraps, the poinsettias have been cut from red mirror card (scraps again) using the mini movers & shakers die - I've added gold brads for the flower centres.

Hard to get a decent photo of this one because of the reflections!

Time to link myself...http://thefunkiejunkie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-12-tags-of-christmas-funkie.html

Santa

I cannot believe the first week of December is already a thing of the past! Soon it will be time for Santa to start yo-yo-ing up & down chimneys across the land & beyond and there you have the 2 clues for Mondays inchie (yo yo) and this weeks twinchie (Santa) 

The yo yo has been drawn by hand.....

Santa came from a free stamp set....

I've had a busy weekend, the Xmas cards are posted, the tree is up & decorated, I've made a start on wrapping the presents ( some will be delivered next weekend to Edinburgh).

I've started my Funkie Junkie challenge - it will get finished today once we return from seeing the hip specialist. My fingers are firmly crossed that Bill will get the all clear and be able to start driving again- he takes the car in& out of the garage for me as I find it too tight a fit! And I still have to decide what to get with my Simon Says Stamp gift money as well as think about the final Tim Holtz tag of the year & maybe  even think about doing the ones from earlier in the year, but that's for another day!

See you all again soon.....

Doodle

This week across at Journal 52 Chelle wants to see doodling....

I put my tree up on Wednesday as we have visitors this evening for drinks before we all head over to the town hall for the panto (Snow White & the 7 Drawfs) and , YES, I did spell that correctly :-)

Here is my page, websters + distress paint, stain, ink.Tims Branch tree used as a stencil for the outline that I've filled with doodles, added baubles & stars, presents & borders.

Some posca white pen for the snow sitting on the branches. May add more pressies as it looks a bit bare under that tree :-)

Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is!

I'll be back soon.....

Poinsettia

Managed a quick create....with remnants that were on my desk after I'd written all my Christmas cards!

A moo for the latest challenge