I'm on TGF DT *excited*

Hey, hey!

I've been wanting to share this news with you for a while, but couldn't. Today s finally the day that I can shout it out ... I'm on The Greeting Farm 2016 DT. Woohoo!!! 

They have tons of adorable rubber and digi stamps (as well as paper pads, dies etc.) so be sure to check out their store. 

Our first challenge of 2016 starts on January 1 and I hope many of you will participate in it. See you on the first day of new year! :)

Hugs! xx

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Merry Christmas!

Hello my crafty friends. I want to wish you a magical Christmas. I hope you'll get to spend this special day with your loved ones and that there will be lots of joy and laughter. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Favourite thing about Christmas

Good morning my crafty friends! :) How are you doing? Are you ready for Christmas? Have you bought/made all your Christmas presents yet? I am pretty much ready, just need to pack everything and I'm planning to do this over the weekend. This year I'm being very organized - I'm even surprising myself. lol 

In the evening they are opening up a Christmas town in town square and I'm planning to go and check it out. There will be some music shows, stalls with ideas for last minute gifts etc. Should be fun. And I just might get another thing or two to add to the gift bags. ;)

What would you say if someone asked you what was your favourite thing about Christmas? This is the theme of our challenge that just started at Crafty ribbons blog. I've said it before, but I'll say it again - I love everything about Christmas. So while this theme looks super easy, it might also be a bit tricky. I mean, seriously, how to choose just one thing?! O.o I like the food, Christmas lights and decorations, time spent with family and friends, the smell of cinnamon and oranges ... So when I saw this challenge I started scratching my head, thinking what to do. At the end I decided to make a card which presents sharing joy, giving gifts and spending time with your friends/family. 

I think these adorable penguins from Whiff of Joy show those things perfectly, don't you agree? Papers I used on this card came from DCWV and from my stash, grosgrain ribbons are from Crafty ribbons and the other embellishments came from my stash. I received the Christmas ornament die cut and the greenery die cuts a while back with a RAK from my friend, so unfortunaltely I can't tell you what's the brand of those, but I can tell you that poinsettia was made with LLLC die, bigger snowflake is a Sizzix die and smaller snowflakes were made with craft punch.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Faber Castell and Giotto pencils. On the hats I also used liquid applique and Stickles. It's very hard to see in the picture, but I also used Stickles on poinsettia. You know me - I love me some bling. He he. ;)

I hope you are ready for the most magical time of the year and that you will share your favourite thing about Christmas with us.

Have a wonderful day and happy holidays! xx

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

Craft heaven shop: CAS or Fussy and fancy (Fussy and fancy for me)

Live and love crafts: Sparkle

Bunny Zoe's crafts: Sparkle

Scrap and craft inspiration: Anything Christmas

Emerald faeries: Merry Christmas

Sweet stampin': Christmas presents

The ribbon girl: Anything goes

Deep ocean: Anything goes
Hiding in my craft room: Super scraps Saturday

Shaped Christmas card

Hello my crafty friends! How are you doing? I'm enjoying my time off. On Saturday me and my sweetie went to the capital - they turned on the Christmas lights and opened the "Christmas town" the day before and we were curious what it was like. While we were there we also did some Christmas shopping and I met with my friend for a coffee and chat, while my sweetie went to the book fair. I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but I had a wonderful time. I'm all ready for the most magical time of the year. :)

We have a new challenge for you at Crafty ribbons blog and this week we want to see your Christmas themed shaped cards. This was quite a challenge for me, as I don't have any dies big enough to just cut out the base for my card, so I had to experiment. I have to admit I am quite happy with the result. It turned out better than I expected.

Again I chose the non-traditional colours. I just love purple and blue in combination with gold and/or silver for Christmas. I only used scraps of paper on this card. Image is from Mo Manning and I coloured it with Promarkers, Faber Castell pencils and Giotto pencils. On the white parts of hat and dress I used liqued applique for the fluffy look.

From Crafty ribbons store I used H/C saddle stitch tan Christmas ribbon, gold stars Christmas ribbon and volcan viscose lace - beige.

I hope many of you will participate in this challenge. I can't wait to see what you'll make. :)

Have a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Inky chicks: Merry Christmas
Wags 'n Whiskers: Ribbons and/or pearls
Papertake weekly: Anything goes
Card mania: Christmas
Sparkles Christmas challenge: Die cuts for Christmas
Through the purple haze: Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper
AnMa Creatief: Anything goes

Christmas sock

Good morning my crafty friends. How are you doing today? I had a very busy day at work yesterday and today is gonna be a crazy day as well, but after that I'll be able to relax a bit. I hope to be able to do some crafting over the weekend. I still need to make a couple more Christmas cards and I want to be working on those. Are you done with yours yet?

I enjoy doing Christmas swaps (either just card swaps, but also Secret Santa or surprise Christmas swap) and I'm always up for them, so I signed up for one of those on Facebook and the card you see here was made for my swap partner. I hope she will like it!

This card was also made for the new challenge that started on Crafty ribbons challenge blog today. This week we want to see your Christmas creations with ribbon and Christmas sock(s). You are probably wondering where is ribbon on my card ... It is there, I swear, I didn't cheat. ;) See those golden stars? They are cut from the Christmas ribbon - gold stars.

I coloured the image with distress inks and I added a lot of glitter too. Love me some bling. :D He he. Papers, doily and crystals came from my stash.

I hope you'll join our challenge. I can't wait to see your Christmas creations! :)

Have a great day! xx

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

Wags ' Whiskers: Embossing (I used embossing folder for the stars)

Inky chicks: Silent night (Christmas card)

House Mouse and friends: Use plaid

Sparkles Christmas challenges: Christmas decorations

Love to scrap: Anything goes

Sweet stampin' Christmas: Stars
TimbroScrapMania: Christmas is coming
Simon says (Wednesday challenge): Christmas
Sugar Pea designs: Home for the holidays

Little bee

Hey, hey! How are you doing? I hope everything is fine with you. I had a terrible pain in my back over the last couple of days, but luckily it's getting better. Today I even managed to sit down for a while. Looks like all the rest and massages helped. Due to the back pain I couldn't do any crafting this weekend, but I do have a card to show you - it's a card I finished last week and I haven't posted it here yet.

On this card I used tons of those small leftover scrapf of paper that I had in my stash. In the past I had all of those in one big box, but a while ago I sorted them out by colours and since then I'm using them much more, so going through that huge pile of all the small and big pieces of cardstock and decorative paper was definitely worth it.

Image is from Mo Manning and I coloured it with distress inks. It's a bit hard to see in the picture, but I covered the wings with glitter glue and on the flower I used gloss gel for the shiny look. All of the embellishments came from my stash. 

So much from me today. Have a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
The ribbon girl: Use any image
Little miss Muffet: Anything goes
Cute card Thursday: Birds/animals
Crafty calendar: Sparkle, bling and embellish
Bastel Traum: Glitter (wings are covered with glitter)
Scrapbook stamp society: Anything goes
Creative inspirations: Anything goes (+ optional sketch)
The sisters of craft: Anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Candy winners

Hey, hey!

This is just a quick post to announce my candy winners. Thank you all who participated and for all the lovely messages you left me. :)

And now to the winners.

The baby candy winner is ...

That's you Debra.

And the Christmas candy winner is ...

That's you Kath.

Congrats ladies! :) You have one week to claim your prize. If I don't receive an e-mail from you within one week I will draw another winner.

Have a great day! xx