Fa la la la la

Hey hey! I'm back with another card. :) This one was made for my guest designer position at the Caffeinated Christmas card challenge where the theme this month is "green". 

And the sponsor of this challenge is The Cat's Pajama's, which kindly donated a $25 gift code to the lucky winner.

I have to admit that green isn't really the colour I would often use on my cards, so it was quite a challenge for me to create a green card, but I jumped in with both feet and here is the result ...

It doesn't get much greener than this, does it? ;) It's no secret I loooove adding layers on top of layers on top of more layers :P on my cards, so I had lots of fun making this one. And when I was going through my stamp collection, looking for one that I could use on my card, I found Let is snow stamp set from The greeting farm and I knew immediately I wanted to use this adorable polar bear from the set on my card. I coloured the image with polychromos, fussy cut it and glued it on my card. The sentiment is from an old stamp set from Hobby Lobby. I embossed the sentiment with the gold embossing powder and I glued some die cuts around it to make the whole card more festive. At the end I just added some red crystals. Other embellishments that I used are a doily and a piece of pompom ribbon.

Here you can see the dimension and the lovely foiled paper I used on the card better ...

This is all from me for today. Have a beautiful day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

A blog named Hero: Animal crackers

ABC Christmas challenge: D is for die cuts

Crafty animals: Anything goes (with an animal)

Critter crazy: Anything goes (with an animal)

Reach for the stars

Hey, hey! How are you? We are slowly getting back to "normal". Can't believ the holidays are already over. We sure had a lot of fun and we spent much quality time together. But I guess it's time to go back to "real life" now.

I had some free time and I used it to play with some of my new goodies. First thing I inked were these adorable bunnies from The Greeting Farm; they are from the Let's go stamp set. I fell in love with this set the minute I saw it and I am soooo happy I finally got my hands on it. (Thank you, my sweet friend, for getting it for me!) 

One thing I learned while making this card is that I am terrible at ink blending and I really need to practice it. I created the cloudy background with the spun sugar distress ink and then I gold embossed the sentiment in the middle and glued some small gold star sequins around it. For the white cardstock, I stamped on some stars from the stamp set with the weathered wood distress ink and then "coloured" the stars with Stickles. Then I cut a rectangle out of it and a hole in the middle of it with another die. I fussy cut the bunnies and clouds and glued them on the card. I did the colouring with polychromos. I finished the card with some crystals. 

I'm sorry the photos are not the best and really don't do the card justice, but I hope you can see the bling and the dimension better here.

My lil one's birthday is soon coming up and she claimed this card for her birthday. I'm really glad she likes it so much.

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Vesela hiška: Hitro, hitro pod odejo

Allsorts: Something new (new stamp set)

Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Something new (new stamp set)

Critter crazy: Anything goes with a featured critter

Word art Wednesday: Anything goes

Crafty animals: Anything goes (must include an animal)

DL Art: Anything goes (January challenge)

Creations in pink: Anything goes (but mainly pink)

CRAFT: New

Magnolia-licious blog hop

Welcome to our BLOG HOP!!

We decided to have a surprise Blog Hop over at Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog and there is a great prize involved, which is Pop Up Box #2, from Farm to Market. This box is full of various stamps, dies and laces. The theme is from Farm to Market from Magnolia Sweden.

To have a chance to win this amazing prize you need to do the following ...

You will need to go to each person to get details of their makes, and collect the 1 red letter on each blog as well as leave a comment. When you have finished looking at them all, Maya is the last stop, collect her 1 red letter and figure out what Christmas word we have scrambled and comment the answer on Maya's post (that's ME).

Here is the list of people participating in the hop:

Ivy Ling

Kerri Boucher

Karen Balcanoff

Rosette Camilleri

Rene Bowen

Maya Go - you are here

For the hop I created this mini loaded envelope.

I decorated the envelope with some papers and embellishments from my stash.  Once the envelope was finished I filled it with some crafty goodies, tags and some yummy hot chocolate. :D The Christmas ornaments image is from Magnolia and I coloured it with distress inks. It's an old image, so unfortunately Shawn doesn't have it in the store anymore, but there are many other gorgeous Christmas images from Magnolia available in the store, including the new Christmas party collection 2017. :)

The tags I put in the pocket are made with Doohickey die. You can find a large selection of doohickey dies in Magnolia-licious store.

And here's my envelope "unloaded".

The sentiments on the tags are old Stampin' up rub-ons. 

And just another side view. ;)

You should have come here from Rene's blog. If you are just starting the hop, you are at the last stop, so you better check out all the other posts if you fancy winning a wonderful prize from Magnolia-licious.

Remember, to be in for the win of the blog hop, you must leave a comment on each person’s blog, and guess the correct word on THIS post.

You have til midnight on Sunday, 17 December, to complete the hop. And you can check back on the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog to see who the winner is on Monday, 18 December.

Good Luck to everyone and have fun!!

Merry Christmas,

Love from,

Ivy, Kerri, Karen, Rosette, Rene, Maya, Shawn, and Kim

P. S. Comment moderation is ON, so if you don't see your comment don't worry. I see it. ;) I will publish all the comments before the hop ends.

Happy holidays

Hello there! How are you doing? Did you have a nice Halloween? Did you do anything special on the scariest night of the year? We don't really celebrate Halloween here so it was just an ordinary day for us.

Now that the spooky holiday is behind us we can concentrate on Christmas. Yay! :D Have you done any Christmas shopping yet? I have already bought some presents, but not all. And for a change I am also on track with my Christmas cards this year - score! I'm about to show you the most recent one I made. This forthnight we have a sletch challenge at The sketchy challenges and the ard I am going to show you was made as inspiration for this challenge.

As you can see I decided to make another card in non-traditional colours. The papers I used are from Lawn Fawn and I really like them. The adorable snowman is a Stamping Bella stamp. I did the colouring with pencils. I embellished the card with some lace, crystals, sequins and "happy holidays" metal charm.

I hope you will come play with us. Have a wonderful day!

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper
Noor design: Winter
7 kids: Anything goes
As you like it: Christmas or non Christmas: I chose Christmas, because that's my favourite holiday
Cute card Thursday: Anything goes
AnMa Creatief: Christmas/Winter
Crafty creations: Anything goes
One crazy stamper: Christmas/Winter fun
Creative inspirations: Sparkle
Deep ocean: Inspired by a song/movie (song Frosty the snowman)