Snowmen in February!

For my final guest designer spot at the Cut It Up challenge blog,

we were challenges to make a card using "snowmen" 

with Oddball Stamps. 

I used Chilly Willy Snowman... and it's only a dollar!!! 

 I flipped the digital image, so that I could have 2 snow-people, 

looking at each other. 

When I had placed them inside the window

(I cut out the inside frame so I could see both snowpeople properly

and pushed the frame right up to near the top, to make 2 small top windows ),

I decided that they looked like they had kissed

so made a little mistletoe for the top of the frame.

The sentiment is from Craftwork cards. (I've had it for years!)

I embossed the bottom piece of backing paper, to resemble panelling on a wall. 

So in all, the window frame, snowflakes, and robin are all diecuts. 

I coloured the snowpeople with my promarkers and other alcohol pens.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative fingers - atg - 11 March

Creative knockouts - atg - 3 March

I love promarkers - atg - 1 March

Digi choosday - atg - 6 March

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 7 March

Crafty Catz - atg - 4 March

Rainbows follow bad weather

Over at The Colour Crazy Challenge this time, 

we are being sponsored by Oddball Stamps.

I have used the image: Rainbows, from the Creepy Cutie Collection

I just loved this image and sentiment and coloured it with my 

promarkers and other alcohol pens. 

I used a white sakura pen for the white highlights. 

I fussy-cut around the rainbow, and kept the bottom of the card intact. 

A piece of blue card slipped behind the rainbow, 

and I dry-embossed and inked the edges. 

I found some rainbow washi tape, which I ran along the bottom, 

and added a couple of punched butterflies. 

I would like to enter this into the other challenges:

I love promarkers - atg - 1 March

Paper Funday - atg - 2 March

Digi Choosday - atg - 1 March

Through the craft room door - atg - 1 March

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 9 March 

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 21 Feb

 

Love

Over at the Cut it Up challenge blog, 

I've designed my second card for them as guest designer. ..

I embossed a piece of kraft card in my bigshot

 and inked the ridges to draw out the wood-look.

The Love die is from Crafters Companion and the heart die is from

Memory Box - it's the precious hearts die and I carefully cut the heart off the bottom

of the string.

I felt it needed a bit of something ore so after inking the edges,

I added some washi tape. 

The butterfly was printed on the pc and fussy-cut. 

I think I will give this one to my hubby for Valentines day.

 i would like to enter this into the following challenges:

CAS on Sunday - male - 17 Feb

Creative knockouts - love / valentines - 17 Feb

Crafty gals - add a heart - 8 March

Lil red wagon - be my love - 16 Feb

Crafter's Cafe - CAS - 13 Feb

Dies R Us - love / valentines - 14 Feb

 Mirtillamente - atg - 1 March

Cardz4guyz - love - 22 Feb

Love

At Patties Creations this month 

the theme is "anything goes and / or Love"

I love Patties image called "apothecary jar" and decided to make it into my own...

 The jar comes with the lid attached - I carefully cut it to separate it.

I drew some hearts inside the jar, coloured with my promarkers and a few other alcohol pens.

I used some baker's twine to attach a little (X-Cut) diecut label,

on which I handwrote the sentiment.

The embossed background is from an embossing folder I'd forgotten I had!

I really like it though and will be using it more.

A line of dry embossing around the textured piece finished this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Pink gem - atg -12 Feb

Di's digi designs - red and / or pink - 19 Feb

The Paper shelter - for the one you love - 19 Feb

Simon says stamp - with love - 10 Feb

Paper fun day - atg - 1 March 

Dies R Us - atg / love - 14 Feb (X-Cut die label)

Digi Doodles - love / friendship - 1 March

Shopping our stash - my heart BEETS for you - 15 Feb

Jans digi stamps - atg - 7 Feb