Penny Black Dainty Doves and WPlus9 Pretty Patches Christmas card

Hello friends and welcome to the February Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenges. Yay for getting to February and being another month closer to spring. I don't know about you but I always struggle in Jan/Feb and then always perk up come March when the flowers and leaves start appearing in earnest. We do have some snowdrops peeping through and shoots of daffodils are appearing so I know mother nature is busy getting everything ready. Anyhoo, back to our challenge - any Christmas card will be welcomed but why not have more fun by playing with our twist this month which is Xmas Wings?

I used my NBUS Penny Black Dainty Doves for this card and kept my resolve to try more postage friendly designs by keeping it fairly flat.

I also used the Reverse Confetti Stitched Hexagonal Tag die and placed the dove over the hole so it looks more like a panel than a tag. Well, you've got to get as much flexibility from your stash as you can, haven't you?

The sentiment is from an old WPlus9 stamp set called Pretty Patches: Tree and I think it goes well with a dove of peace image. I found the scattering of hearts in my leftovers and thought they added a good finishing touch.

My Teamies have some great inspiration for you over on the HLS Blog and they would love you to visit them.

I'd like to play along at 

Penny Black Friends Saturday Challenge - anything goes with the option of 'love is in the air'

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #28 - red

Get Creative Challenges # 88 - use hearts

Crafting Happiness Challenge #34 - anything goes with a twist of hearts

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink and Reverse Confetti it's your day celebration card

Hello everyone and I'm sorry I haven't been around much this week. I lost my voice for a few days (which some in may think is no bad thing!) and then developed a hacking cough that is refusing to budge and as it is particularly bad when I go to bed, sleep has been in short supply. My birthday came in the middle of it all which was a nice distraction, but I haven't been in partying mode so I may have to jump aboard my husband's birthday celebrations next week! Anyway, enough of my woes and welcome to another challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More. We have our Photo Inspiration challenge this week and Kylie has given us this lovely butterfly photo to inspire us.

I was inspired by the beautiful butterflies and gorgeous colours to come up with this card.

I used some butterflies from the Papertrey Ink Butterfly Dreams stamp and dies set and coloured them with Copic markers.

The central panel is the stitched hex tag from Reverse Confetti and I just arranged the butterflies so that the hole was covered.

I've had the background stamp for a long time and I think it was from Hero Arts but the label has escaped so I can't be sure.

I do hope you will join us this week, and I look forward to seeing your card in the gallery.

I'd like to play along at

Dream Valley Challenges #210 - things with wings

International Art and Soul Challenge #67 - things with wings

Pattie's Creations Challenge #162 - things that fly

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Reverse Confetti Easter packages

 Hello everyone.

I hope you had a lovely Easter, and still have lots of chocolate goodies in your stash. Here are a few little gift packages I made up using the Reverse Confetti Box Dies and Layered Bow dies, along with some papers from my supplies.

These gift bags are also from Reverse Confetti and they are ideal for holding small gifts. I managed to get a surprising amount of chocolate into each one!

The tag die also comes in the set, and on this one, because children love to see something just for them, I added the recipient's name in glitter stickers left over from my scrapbooking days.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Hugs

Carol