Showing posts with label favourites. Show all posts
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Friday, 26 December 2014

My five favourite Christmas cards - 2014

The super talented Debby, over at A Scrap Journey is running her annual challenge - to pick your five favourite Christmas cards, made by you during 2014.

Join me on Christmas Eve

Sheesh, running the Playground and picking a selection out of the super cards etc. made by others is bad enough. But, for the opposite reason, I took ages to pick my own five - mostly as I don't think they're that special. But here goes, not in any particular order:

One of my latest, which was such fun to play with, for the current Snippets Playground where there's a two week chance to win one of an assortment of prizes:
 
More details can be found here.

Folk who know me will know that I just love pink, so this card had to be included:
More details here, back in October. 

I just adore this die, and also the poinsettia ribbon I used to make the flower - really it's a card that almost made itself!

More details here, back in August.

This card is possibly, along with the pink one, my favourite one of all the Christmas cards I made this year.

More details here, back in November.

Gosh, so far every card has been made using dies, I realised the other day how hooked I am on dies and my stamps must be feeling neglected so here's one I stamped and coloured:

More details here, back in May. 

And another stamped image, which makes six (oops, sorry Debby!). I just adore this Penny Black owl stamp :)

More details here, back in July.

Do hop over to Debby's blog - her cards are so inspirational (and often a trigger for me ending up spending my pocket money!!) - plus there are some really lovely links over there already. I've spotted Jules, Kath and Carol L already and I'm typing this on Christmas Eve!

And a heads up too, it's most likely that Debby will be asking for your favourite five for 2014 at the end of the year or possibly earlier, not just specifically Christmas cards! Get those thinking caps on :)

Di
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Thursday, 2 January 2014

My favourite five creations of 2013

Eeek, even harder, hot on the heels of our favourite five Christmas creations Debby now wants us to post our favourite five 'other' creations of 2013. Here goes:

Although this card used a pre-coloured LOTV art pad image, I picked it because it's so sunny and cheerful, and I adore sunflowers.

This card, made for Moira my 'bestie', just makes me smile :) And it was such fun to colour.

A change from cards, great fun to make by just colouring images stamped onto white tissue paper and then gently setting the image into the candles by using a heat gun.

This House Mouse easel card was great fun to colour and in real life the sparkle and gloss looked pretty darn good too.

And this final card was inspired by Debby herself - if only she knew just how much of my craft stuff was all her fault inspired by her!

Breaking the roolz again - I just found this sixth card, made for my step-mum. Added it here 'cos it makes me smile, reminds me of the Playground for some reason and took me ages to make :)

Di
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