The Greetery Christmas Pudding favour boxes and Mama Elephant polar bear Christmas card

 

Hello crafty friends. I hope you had a good Christmas and I wish you health, happiness and all the good things you hope 2023 will bring you. Last year was a bit of a shocker for the world and my hope is that this year peace breaks out and spreads around the planet as fast as Covid did.

I'd like to welcome you to the first challenge of the year at ABC Christmas Challenges!

 I hope that you will join us this year in our bid to be prepared for next Christmas! Perhaps you were lucky enough to receive some new Christmas craft gifts in your stocking...or snapped up some bargains in the post-Christmas sales...perhaps one of your New Year's resolutions is to have your Christmas cards ready in plenty of time this year...or maybe you just haven't tidied away your Christmas stash away after making last year's cards yet! Whatever the reason, I'd love to have you play along with us.

Helen is our lovely host for the first challenge and she has this great gift for the winner.

Our themes this month are 

'Anything Christmas Goes'

&/or

'Bears'

My anything goes is a Christmas Pudding favour box

I used my new dies from The Greetery to create these and popped a Cadbury's Pud in each one

They were fun to make and easy to mass produce when I put on some Christmas music and went on a die cut frenzy! I cut the bows from red card but the other pieces were cut from white card and inked with a blending brush.

This is my Bear card

I began by stamping the Mama Elephant bears on a panel of card and then masked them off along with a snowbank stencil and the moon. I then inked the card with distress oxide inks - love doing this -  and splattered on some diluted white gouache to create the snowflakes. When everything was dry, I removed the masks and added some shade to the bears and snow with grey Copics, before stamping Santa from Inkyliscious in the sky with black ink. To finish off I added the sentiment along the bottom, cut out a little speech bubble and wrote ho ho ho on it.The scalloped frame is from My Favorite Things.

Our challenge will end on 4th February and if you pop over to the ABC Challenges blog, you will find lots of great inspiration from my DT buddies. They would love to hear from you.

I'd like to play along at

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - anything goes

Christmas Kickstart #70 - stencils and masks

Creative Crafting Uncles #36 - Christmas/New Year

Papercraft Challenge #89 -  Deck the Halls

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #31 - anything Christmas goes

My Time to Craft Christmas #51 - Use your favourite technique (ink blending)

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x