Pollycraft Christmas

Good morning, it's a bit chilly here this morning, my fingers are like ice, hope it's nicer where you are!
Here is my card for the current Pollycraft challenge which is called Five 'S's' (I think) you have a list of 5 things that you have to have 2 or more of on your creation, these are : snowflakes/spots/sparkle/stripes/swirls. If you manage to use all 5 you can choose a digi image for free, how fab is that, especially as I have done just that!!!!! WooHoo!!! I have glittered the swirls on the trousers, bobble and stitching on the hat, the picture doesn't show this very well unless you enlarge it :0(

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At A Spoon Full of Sugar we are going all christmassy! Yes this week we would like you to make something for christmas, this could be a card, a tag, a gift, anything.
I got out my trusty snowman stamp that I used and loved (and still love) from last year, gave him loads of sparkle, sadly the photo doesn't pick this up, teamed him up with papers from my Anita's classic black and white christmas pad, a few sticky gems and a couple of die-cut snowflakes.

We are sponsored by Belle's 'n' Whistles and Summer has kindly donated 2 super nice stamps for the winner, these are perfect for those halloween projects!
Please as always check out the blog for the rest of the girls examples, and I know I say it every week, but they are outstandingly gorgeous this week!!!

I am also going to enter this card into a few challenges, which are :

1)Lili of the Valley = sketch
2) One Stop Craft = Die-cuts
3) My Time to Craft = Snow Buddies

A couple of cards

Good morning, boy it was panic this morning, we were casualy getting ready for school when I remembered the photographer was going to be there and anyone wanting family group photos had to be there before 9am!! With a quick dash and wet wiped faces for Lillie and Hollie we made it and were about 6th in the queue, and the photo's are pretty good! They will have them taken individually but it's cheaper having them done together lol!! and I don't know if I'm the only one, but they don't get put up anyway!

So onto my first card, this covers 2 challenges,
1) Cute Card Thursday - Buzz Off (yellow and black)
2) Cupcake Crafts - Cute as a Bug.
I am not fully happy with this card, I feel there is something missing maybe some pearls to the right of the image on the black backing, or something in the left top corner, but it's ok until I decide!and this card is using the first outing of my Pollycraft 'winter elves' stamp and I have used the Friday Sketchers sketch for the layout. Well it's off to work for me in a little while, chicken bites, wedges, peas and choc pud with choc sauce is on the menu today!!

Just Magnolia and Secret Crafter combi and a bump!

There is a lovely sketch over at Just Magnolia which I have used for this card. The image is one I received in a swap with my friend Lisa, and as Tilda has love written on her top I went with this as my theme! I've used papers from my Papermania 'love' pad and lace which I got from a shop when we were in Clacton, the sentiment is from my stash.I am also entering this for the Secret Crafter challenge 'one for the girls' and what girl doesn't like a bit of love?

Hollie had her first full day at school on Monday and it was my first chance to pick her up, with me working mum had had to pick her up for me the first couple of weeks as they finished early. Thankfully she came out smiling and had gotten on ok, and she has been all week!

Yesterday I had a phone call letting me know that Lillie and Hollie had had a bump in the playground at lunchtime, and Lillie's face was a bit of a mess, so not to be shocked when I picked her up.

This is what she looks like :-

It looks worse in the flesh! Hollie let slip that Lillie was giving her a piggy back and she tripped with Hollie landing on top of her resulting in a bump of the head for her. Both had ice/cool packs applied, but poor old Lillie I think she missed half of her afternoon lessons but had re-joined them towards the end of the day. She slept fine, and this morning the bump on her head is hardly noticable, her eye is scabbing over and her eye lid was all puffy, but she went off to school ok. Maybe now she'll actually realize we were right when we kept telling her she isn't big or strong enough to carry or piggy back her sister, she's nearly the same size as her!

Charisma Cardz

This weeks Charisma Cardz challenge is 'Getting Sporty'.
I had no idea what I was going to make, I have 1 sporty image that I received in a swap and didn't know what I was going to do with it. Then when I was in Wilkinson's on Saturday I spotted they are selling Create and Craft products, hooray, there in front of me was a die cut topper pack theme or motorcycle racing. I am gobsmacked at just how perfectly this paper matches the image, I tried various embellishments but nothing looked right and I quite like this simple look. With 2 motorbikers in the family and a dad that loves to watch it, this card won't be in my box for too long!!!

I remember way back when, when I was a little girl going all over the place, Brands Hatch, Silverstone, Donnington etc to watch the motorbike racing with mum and dad, we used to love it. My all time favourite was Barry Sheene and have many a photo of him, another was Ron Haslam who's son now races! Oh the good old days!!

Anyway, our prize this week is a DT spot for one week and a collection of Wimsie Doodles digi images (value £10) which have been kindly donated by our very own Carly. The girls have made some fabby examples, please take a look and lets get sporty!

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Good morning, at A Spoon Full of Sugar we have a fabby sketch for you which has been designed by Nikki. Now at first I saw all of the different elements/layers and thought aarrghhh.... but once I got my papers out and started arranging them onto my card I began to like it more and more. I've gone autumnal with my colours again, I've used old and new papers from my stash, flowers are ones I purchased from Dunelms ages ago and dismantled the rest is also from my stash. I've used the sister sentiment as my girls both have birthdays in the not so distant future so one can send it to the other lol!!!!Our sponsor this week is Silly Monkey Crafts and Bryony has kindly donated a CC Designs Autumn Trevor stamp for the lucky winner.
Please check him out on the blog, and drop by to let the girls know how fabulous their cards are to!

I am also entering my card for the My Time To Craft challenge which is called 'autumn fest'!

Charisma Cardz -flower power

As the title says we are going 'flower power' crazy over at Charisma Cardz. We would like to see flowers as the main feature of you work, you can make anything and add anything you like!
I've gone for one of my fave makes, yes a bag-a-lope, I just love this black,white and pink colour combo the pink really stands out!