Sunday, 29 December 2024

Christmas Holly

I'm running a bit close to the end of the month for some things this month.  I have managed to finish all of them with two days to spare.  Yay.

I would like to enter:

The Outlawz Progressive Freebie Challenge - December Image
https://theoutlawzchallenges-freebie.blogspot.com/2024/11/december-2024-progressive-freebie.html

Can You Handle the Pressure - Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder
https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2024/12/anything-goes-embossing-with-twist-of.html

The image is by Anne's Digital Art

Friday, 27 December 2024

Rustic Christmas

 During the quiet period between the Christmas rush and New Year, I am trying to catch up on a few things.  I realised that whilst I had completed these ATC's, I hadn't actually posted them on my blog.

I would like to enter:

Gecko Galz ATC Challenge - December ATC Kit
https://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/p/atc-monthly-challenge.html

The cards have been constructed using mainly items from the ATC Kit.  I did also add some highlights and writing using a metallic pen.

Friday, 20 December 2024

Pull That Sled

I am a few days late posting this inspiration for the Anything Goes Challenge at The Paper Shelter.   I have had quite a bit of time away from the computer recently and am now playing catch up.

I have used an image by The Paper Shelter called Here Come The Christmas Penguins.

The digital paper is also from The Paper Shelter.  Colouring is with copic markers.

I would like to enter:

The Paper Shelter - Christmas Break Challenge (I can't find the start date so hopefully this one is okay)
https://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/2024/12/chistmas-break-challenge.html

Christmas Kickstart - Anything Christmassy
https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/challenge-93-if-its-christmassy-link-it.html

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Christmas Transport
https://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/12/183-christmas-transport.html

PINspirational Challenge - Anything Goes
https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/12/pinspirational-challenge-320-december.html


Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Yuletide Cheer

 The monthly challenge at Incy Wincy Designs is closing at the end of this year so this will be my last Design Team post for them.  This is particularly sad for me as Incy Wincy Designs was my first Design Team, which I joined back in October 2013.

I have used items from freebie pages of the Yuletide Cheer kit by JoeyCardmaker.  

I would like to enter:


Monday, 2 December 2024

Today Celebrate You

 The first December Anything Goes Challenge is sponsored by PolkaDoodles.

I have used an image by Polka Doodles called Flower Bouquet - Noodle Panda Bear.

I have used a paper from a paper pad.  Colouring is with copic markers.  I added some ephemera.

I would like to enter:

I will add some challenges later

Sunday, 1 December 2024

Merry Christmas

I saw the stars on this image and immediately thought Christmas.  I don't know if it was meant to be a Christmas image or not, but it is on this card.

 


I would like to enter:

Gecko Galz Card Challenge - December Image
https://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/p/monthly-card-challenge.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The digital paper, image and sentiment are all by Gecko Galz.

Fa La La La La

The Steampunk Image for the December Challenge at Gecko Galz is a Steampunk Santa.  I pulled the blue from the image out to the paper and matting.

I would like to enter:

Gecko Galz Steampunk Challenge - December Image
https://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/p/gecko-galz-monthly-steampunk-challenge.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The digital paper, image, sentiment and embellishment (tree) are all from Gecko Galz.

JOY

This owl "tree" is adorable.  I know someone who likes owls so this card will go to them.


I would like to enter:

Gecko Galz Christmas Challenge - December Image
https://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/p/gecko-galz-monthly-christmas-challenge.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The digital paper, image, sentiment and embellishment are all from Gecko Galz.

Christmas Blessings

This is the other card using scraps from yesterday's Craft Roulette card.  I had to place the patterned piece at the top this time otherwise the writing would have been upside down.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image and sentiment are from Beccy's Place.  Colouring is with copic markers.

Sending Warm Christmas Wishes

This is another card with scraps from yesterday's Craft Roulette card.  I have another similar one to post later - I'm uploading this one while I wait for the oven to heat up so I can cook dinner. 

The left over pieces from the Criss Cross parts of the Craft Roulette card were a perfect fit for this card.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image and sentiment are by Beccy's Place.  

Peace

 I had quite a few scrap pieces from my card for Card Roulette.  This is another card using some of the larger scraps.  I still have some more scraps left and I'm working on additional cards.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

Snowman Season

This another scraps card that I just fitted together some of my November scraps.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image and sentiment are by Beccy's Place.

Here Comes Santa Claus

Beccy's Place December Challenge is an optional sketch with the image supplied.  How could I not do the sketch when I have been in sketch mode during November.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place Monthly Challenge - December Image
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-challenge.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I added the paper and and cream cardstock to a white base before embossing.  The image and sentiment are by Beccy's Place.  I added some glitter foam snowflakes as embellishments.

I followed this sketch:


 

Joy

I'm working through some more cards and uploading them every so often as my eyes are up to it.  Hopefully I can get all the ones that I have started, actually uploaded today.  I think I'll still have some scraps left over from the November cards but I have made serious inroads into using them up.  This one is made up of some leftover strips.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image is by Beccy's Place.

Joy To The World

This is the sketch from Jess Crafts You Tube Scraps Video that I didn't think I would end up using.  However, the scraps from my card for Craft Roulette worked perfectly - alone with a scrap piece of glitter cardstock.  The sketch doesn't have the strips at the top or bottom but I had a strip of the same pattern as the smaller square so decided to use it to break up the white a bit.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

Thinking of You at Christmas

I decided to create a second card with the sketch at Creative Sketchy Girls.  This one uses up some more of my November cards scraps.

I would like to enter:

Creative Sketchy Girls - Sketch
https://creativesketchygirls.blogspot.com/2024/11/challenge-97.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I have used an image and sentiment by Beccy's Place.  The embossing folder has Pohutukawa flowers on it and is known as the NZ Christmas Tree as it flowers around Christmastime.  The tree is a coastal tree and is related to the myrtle tree.

Christmas Countdown 5

I held back on posting the last set of five pennants, etc for my Christmas Countdown until I hung the entire 25 up.  I hung them up this morning and took some photos of them.   This is like an advent calendar (with no chocolate in sight) crossed with a December Daily.

At the end of today, I will take down #1 and write something about today - as Beccy's Place Month of Holiday Cards is still running through today (I am in December already), that will be one thing that will be written on it.

This is a close-up of tags 1-14

and tags 15-25

And this is the full banner with the clock in the middle to take some of the weight of the full banner.  I also get to look at the banner every time I check the clock.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

Silent Night

 This is the first card for Craft Roulette for December - technically it is still a November Craft Roulette but by the time I finished the card it is December 1st here.

I would like to enter:

Craft Roulette - Episode 243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtq1lT_D5J4

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image is by Beccy's Place.  Colouring is with copic markers.

The tutorial for the Criss-Cross Card is also by Beccy's Place.

Blue Snowman

I had some smaller scraps that were in a similar colour palette as well as the circle which I had cut as an aperture for an earlier card.  I went back to a scraps card style that I have used in previous years for this card


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image is by Beccy's Place.

Saturday, 30 November 2024

Candy Cane Bouquet

This is Sketch 10 from the Scraps You Tube Video by Jess Crafts..

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image is from Beccy's Place.

Snowflake

 I'm making my way through the sketches from the Scraps You Tube Video by Jess Crafts.  This one is #8.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image is from Beccy's Place.

Christmas Ornament

This is another card following the sketches from the Scraps You Tube video by Jess Crafts.  This is Sketch #6.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The pre-coloured image is by Beccy's Place.

Cardinal

This is Sketch 5 from the Scraps You Tube Video by Jess Crafts.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

All I Want for Christmas is a Nap

 I decided after I liked the design of one of the cards from Natasha Foote's presentation at Stress Free Cardmakers Summit, that I would create another one with a different colour scheme.  I kept the "grout" gold for this one too.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

Do What You Love

 Day 30 of the Month of Holiday Cards at Beccy's Place and the prompt is a great one to finish the month on - "Do What You Love"


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards - Day 30 - Do What You Love
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/day-30-do-what-you-love.html

What I Love:

Beccy's Images - image by Beccy's Place

Colours - yellow and orange (happy summery colours)

Fun Fold - Cube Step Pop-up Card - tutorial by Sam Calcott

Destination Unknown

 This is the thirdd and last of the Gecko Galz Challenges that I have managed to complete this month.  With only an hour or so left until the challenges close, I'm not attempting to get any more done.

I would like to enter:

Gecko Galz - Gothic Challege
https://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/p/gecko-galz-monthly-gothic-challenge.html

The digital paper, image and sentiment are all from Gecko Galz.

Peace on Earth

 I'm down to the last hour or two before the challenges at Gecko Galz close.  I have this one and other other finished and watermarked.  With the one I did earlier this month, I managed three of the challenges which is not as many as what I usually join in with.

I would like to enter:

Gecko Galz - Steampunk Challenge
https://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/p/gecko-galz-monthly-steampunk-challenge.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The digital paper, image and sentiment are all from Gecko Galz.

Celebrate The Season

Back to cards from summits - this one from LV Handcrafts' presentation at Stress Free Cardmaker's Summit.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image and sentiment are from Beccy's Place.

Joy

I'm using up some more of my November Scraps following the sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I tweaked the sketch slightly as I accidentally cut my scraps on the wrong diagonal.  To balance out the sketch, I moved the sentiment to the top of the card.


I would like to enter:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch
https://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/2024/11/tuesday-morning-sketches-784.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image and sentiment are by Beccy's Place.

This is the sketch that I followed:


 

 

Blue Poinsettia

Today is going to be a day of trying to use up the remainder of the scraps from November.  I'm going to try and upload them as I go but we'll see how that goes.  This one uses another sketch from Jess Crafts You Tube Video.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I have followed Sketch 7 from the Scraps You Tube Video by Jess Crafts.

Happiest Holiday Wishes

 I have created another two cards with this same design earlier in the month but I realised that the photos I took of them don't show the dimension of the card.  So, this time I took two photos - an extra one with it pulled almost flat so that the dimension can be seen. 



 

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I have used the digital kit that came with Sassy's LLC presentation at the virtual Stress Free Christmas Summit.

Happiest Holiday Wishes

I made a card with this design earlier in the month and had cut out a spare of the base pieces.  I finally chose some papers (two from prompt Z) to create the rest of the card.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image is from Beccy's Place and the sentiment is from Sassy's LLC digital kit from Stress Free Card Summit.  The card style is from Kendra's Stress Free Card Summit presentation.

Peace on Earth

This is the final card of the 15 sketches for the Kendra's Card Challenge #16.  I finished with Sketch 8.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I have used an image and sentiment by Beccy's Place.

Sing Joy

I have managed to complete a further sketch from Jess Crafts using up some more of my November scraps.  This one is Sketch 4.


I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I have used Sketch 4 from the Scraps You Tube Video by Jess Crafts

Friday, 29 November 2024

Blue Bells

I'm steadily working through my November scraps following some of the sketches by Jess Crafts.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I have used Sketch 3 from the Scraps You Tube video by Jess Crafts.

Season's Greetings

 I have add a set of 10 tags that I bought some time ago that I have never actually used.  I decided to have some fun with them and create a card using three of them.


I would like to enter:

Crafts Galore Encore - Tags
https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-2024-crafts-galore-encore.html

The Paper Funday - Tags
https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-2024-challenge-71-anything.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The image is from Fred She Said.

Red Gnome

 I have finished another of the Scraps sketches by Jess Craft.  This one is Sketch 2

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

I have used scraps from November cards plus an image by Beccy's Place.

Joy

This is another card from a presentation at the Stress Free Cardmakers Summit which is a virtual summit that was held back in September.  The presenter for this one was Wendy Lee.  If I have more pieces of a similar size that work well together I may create another card using a mix of patterns.

I would like to enter:

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The sentiment is from Beccy's Place

Blue Gnome

This is the final one of the three sketches at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.   I managed to create with all three sketches again this month - and used up some scraps in the process.


I would like to enter:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch 85
https://sweetsketchwednesday2.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-at-ssw2.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html

The gnome image is by Beccy's Place.

I followed one of the sketches at Sweet Sketch Wednesday:


 

I wish you a Merry Christmas

This is my third card using the sketch at Cheerful Sketches for November.


I would like to enter:

Cheerful Sketches - Sketch
https://cheerfulsketcheschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-challenge-138.html

Beccy's Place - Month of Holiday Cards
https://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-month-of-holiday-cards-challenge.html