Bah Humbug. Feeling Blue and some snowy pics

Hi there its the last challenge of the year from those lovely ladies at Bah Humbug, the theme is 'Feeling Blue' and I do , feel blue that is. Blue with cold in this freezing weather but also blue as we won't be Bah Humbugging again until next year, although it won't be long will it. I would be feeling smug about all the cards I've made BUT aaaaarrggghhhh I haven't done any of the inserts yet.

As you know I'm not the worlds best photographer so I've tried scanning this as I've used loads of glimmer mists etc on this card but its not a deal better than with the camera but never mind.

The stamps are all from Elusive images, the snowy house scene is stamped and embossed with blue EP, painted with stormy skies DI and liberally glittered. The royal blue blackground uses a resist technique and lots of midnight blue cosmic shimmer spray and silver firework ink. I made the other background using the same stamp, embossed in blue and then distressed with stormy skies DT again. The sentiment is from Paula P, its not showing up very well as I stamped it and then triple embossed but added some holographic sparkle EP to the final layer, its lovely and shimmery IRL though honest lol. The icicles are made with glitter and my favourite Marianne icicle die

I've had my first day being snowed in today, I don't think we've had this much snow since I was at school (back in the olden days lol). Here's a pic of my back garden this morning and we've had more snow today

The snow is literally knee deep and more is forecast tonight. Apologies to everyone fed up of the snow, we had a fair bit of snow but not enought to stop me going to work although the journey was a nightmare so I was doing a snow dance all day yesterday  - looks like it worked lol. The dogs LOVE it and have been sooooo excited today, here's a pic of them playing in the garden

 

Anyway back to my card, I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: Monochromatic

Stamp it Crazy: anything goes + holiday theme

Ooh La La: Christmas Song (Blue christmas)

Order of the Opus Gluei: Getting Frosted

Totally Stampalicious: Anythig goes

City Crafter: Blue Christmas

The Stampsmith challenge: Tis the Holiday Season

thanks for visiting today, I bet you're ready for a cup of something after wading through this long post. Keep warm if you can, this is great crafting weather :-)

Claire xx

Lovely in Lilac

Hi, my weekend seems to be going far too quickly. It'll be Monday morning before I know it but I've managed to make another couple of Christmas cards. This one is for the 'Lovely in Lilac' challenge at Bah Humbug

I had to use this gorgeous purple and gold card from Hunky Dory for this card and thought it would be a great background for some baubles made with Paula Pascaul stamps. I've just got these from the lovely Linda at Jazzlins Designs and they are FAB! I think they are going to be used again and again.

I've stamped a variety of the stamps to make the baubles, they are all embossed with gold EP and inked with Dusty Concorde DT. I just added some scraps of gold ribbon to make them into baubles for a really quick card.

I'm also entering this one in the following challenges:

Delicious Doodles: Anything goes

Daring Cardmakers: We three... baubles (lol)

Crazy 4 Challenges: Add circles

Southern Girls: Favourite Colour

Thanks for visiting. I'm going to have a lazy Sunday afternoon with a piece of homemade Rocky Road and my feet up in front of the TV

Claire xx