Oh Christmas Tree

Another card for the Winter Wonderland Challenge, this week they want to see a Christmas Tree on the card. I've used one of the fabulous Lili of the Valley stamps I bought last year. I picked this stamp up as I was leaving the shop and to make up the numbers for an offer that was on at the time. It has turned out to be one of my most used stamps. I also managed to use up a few more scraps that have been laying around for a couple of years. Another card ready for Christmas, I will nearly have completed everything I need, no more rushing at the last minute.

Happy Birthday

Today is my best friends birthday and each year I try to make her a special card. As Theresa is getting into card making herself, she takes the card and analyses it until she works out how it has been made. Each year I try and make a better card than the previous year, for a while I have been admiring these cascade cards and after a couple of attempts I finally worked it out and came up with this

 

It was lovely to watch her face as she opened the card and examined it. She has even taken it with her on holiday.Now I have to come up with something unique for Christmas.

PPPPP Pick up a Penguin

I can't believe I've blogged every day for a week, even more I've crafted every day. Today's challenge is  on the Winter Wonderland blog. They want to see a penguin on the card. I had the perfect stamp from Lili of the Valley. I had to get this stamp as soon as I saw it and I still think it is incredibly cute.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

I'm posting this page but its one I've struggled with quite a bit over the week. In fact this is as far as I've got and I can't work out why I'm not happy with it. Ironic really as that's the title of the page. This challenge was to use the name of one of the dwarfs as the title on  the page. I am posting it as it is but I think it is one that will be revisited until I am completely happy with it.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Well I am really on a roll at the moment with my pages, its amazing what a challenge can do to get me motivated. I have made a page everyday this week and that is after a full days work. The Scrap Whispers Challenge I have completed today is the Jack and the Beanstalk challenge, we had to include some polka dot paper to represent the beans (the blue background paper), the word 'Giant' for the giant (the 'Giant' Easy) and some leaves to represent the beanstalk (around the photograph).
New Orleans was a fabulous surprise when we saw it, I'm not sure why, I don't know what I expected but all I know is when we left the Big Easy didn't do it justice it became a joke that it was the Giant Easy. So I really had to go searching for my photos of New Orleans to record this.

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

Well look at me, still going with the National Scrapbooking Day Challenges, almost a week later. I came home from work and ate my meal, then straight into the craft room to see what I could conjure up. This Scrap Whispers challenge was to use three on the layout. What ever you used there had to be three on there. So I used three photos, papers word title, journalling blocks, stars and sticker embellies. I think that qualifies.

The Frog Prince

Still celebrating National Scrapbooking Day with another layout for the Scrap Whispers challenges. This one is themed around the Frog Prince, how on earth was I going to interpret this challenge. The remit was a free for all so we could interpret this anyway we chose. I went back to my newly discovered pack of old photos and there without too much searching were these photos. I could actually have entered this into the Cinderella challenge had I thought about it earlier as these photos are so old, the little boys in the photos are now into there 30's! The embellies on the page are as old as the hills as well, I would put them at least 8 years old. Too late though as they are going into the Frog Prince Challenge. Hos so I hear you ask? Well the journalling tells the story of taking my nephews fishing and coming home with nothing more than a jar of frog spawn. I have even put some dew drops around the photo to represent it.