Now that the birthday is past, I thought I'd show you the card I made for Andrew. I had all kinds of ideas about what I would do, bought a new Stampotique stamp and then never used it!
Here is the digital image.
Sorry to keep showing you Christmas cards, it's our 25th Club on BubblyFunk Forum. This month the theme is 'animals' so, as I did the reindeer ;) in my first card I thought I'd go for some different animals. There is a bit of sparkly Sakura pen on there too, but it's not showing up very well.
Yes, it's time for another Christmas card for the 25th Club on Bubbly Funk Forum. This time TraceyR suggested the theme of 'animals' inlcuding her own favourite Reindeer!
The Bubbly Scrumptious Challenge Blog, Vanilla Sugar, has Coasters as the theme for January. There were lots of interesting ideas by the Design Team but I really didn't need any more actual coasters, so I had a look at Splitcoaststampers resources to see what projects there were on there and found THIS little calendar. 
The project instructions link you to a place to print out your calendar. I used the photo of me with my boys that was taken at Christmas, I love this picture.
All Papers are Websters Pages 'Postcards from Paris' from Bubbly Funk Shoppie.
When it came to a little embellishment, I thought I'd make this bunch of cherries using some faux flower stamens I got years ago from Lakeland and a couple of bits of leaves from a leaf/stem ribbon.
Only the '25th Club' that is running on Bubbly Funk Forum. Last year the BFers had a 25th Club and pledged to make a certain number of Christmas cards each month. I didn't take part last year and ended up with a last minute scramble for C cards, so decided to take part this time. We had added a monthly theme to the challenge which helps to focus our 'club members' on the task in hand lol!
... a very poor woodcutter lived in a tiny cottage in the forest with his two children, Hansel and Gretel.
I painted the cottage with acrylic paint to get a 'gingerbread' finish. I had almost finished the cottage last night but hadn't put any decoration either side of this window. I'm so glad I left it because I found these little Gingerbread people when I was putting my Christmas decorations up, they were right at the bottom of the box and I remember that my Mum had used them on her Christmas cake one year and gave these two to me. They were just the perfect finishing touch.
I had to make my own candy canes and they are probably the thing I am least satisfied with, however, they are recognisable as candy canes.
Here is the opposite side of the cottage. I am most pleased with the roof which is simply made with punched circles of different coloured brown card. The 'snow' is made with the 'velvet' pen I bought last year at NEC, you use your heat gun and it puffs up.
The little hearts came with the cottage set and the charms were in my stash, I remember I bought them for the Recipe card swap we did on Bubbly Funk and I did the gingerbread man recipe.
Yes, that's the theme for this week's Bubbly Scrumptious Challenge. I was just waiting for an excuse to use this gorgeous image from 'Last Door Down the Hall', I love how the girl is a bit of a temptress, and what about that owl on her head lol! Anyway there is a bat and a cat for the beastie bit, so I stretched the criteria a bit so I could use this image. 
I'm telling you, I was not sounding like an angel when I made this card for the Bubbly Scrumptious monthly challenge. It gave me no end of trouble, wouldn't stick, stuck on squint. However, I got there in the end, I used a sketch prepared by Kaz of Slightly Wonky Crafts for last week's Bubbly Funk mini-crop. Image is from Last Door down the Hall, music paper is K&Co Madeleine and there is some Ranger Distress ink in Aged Paper.
Today was World Card Making Day and over at Bubbly Funk Forum, we have been having a mini-crop. I've been really busy today so haven't had much time to make anything other than this one card. It's from a sketch by Kaz of Slightly Wonky Crafts and uses the lovely 'My Minds Eye, Colourful Christmas' papers that came in the Bubbly Funk September Kit.
Sue has set the dare this week, here is what she asked the Daring Cardmakers to do:
I just didn't get around to last week's SCD, but I had this idea in my head and it just had to come out! Why I was thinking 'Love Shack' I just don't know, but there you are, there is nowt as queer as folk lol! I used the Cornish Heritage Farms Woodgrain backgrounder and cut it into strips to make my 'shack', the heart is an Elusive Images stamp, the digital sign comes from Digital Craft Cottage and there is one of those pins again.
This week the theme for SCD is 'Flowers' so here is my little house with some gigantic flowers, they are all stamped on either purple or yellow card and I used Sakura pens, glitter glue and Glossy accents. Papers are Verbena from the Bubbly Funk Kit for July.
The DCM Challenge this week is: "I would like you to make a 'Flip Flop' card........, no, not the sort of flip-flop that you wear on your feet but a card where the centre flips over to reveal an image or sentiment on the other side."
The Bubbly Scrumptious Weekly challenge is to use a pin or pins in your work.
My project started with this rather old and tatty plant stand which was in my garden shed. However, once I started I realised that I needed a pot for the stand too.
I used the papers from the 'Verbena' Bubbly Funk July Kit. I painted the pot with Gesso and then used Tim Holtz Distress inks and Crackle paint in 'Peeled Paint' to colour it before cutting and pasting the papers onto the pot. I also used some varnish to waterproof it.
The stand also got the paint treatment and a little of the alcohol ink that I bought in Belfast.
Of course, I had to go an buy some matching plants to finish it off!
The plants are Campanula White Clips, Thymus Red Start and Ajuga Burgundy Glow.
Over on 'Something Completely Different' challenge blog the challenge for July is Postcards size 6" x 4" any colour any style unless stipulated by the weekly theme. The theme for this week is "Vintage".
