Wild Rose Studio Singing Penguins and Clearly Besotted Christmas cards

 Hello everyone, and welcome back to the ABC Christmas Challenge!

Thanks to everyone who played along last month...we had some beautiful entries so don't forget to check on the blog to see if you were a lucky winner. Well, I don't know how it happened - but we are halfway through our year of challenges already!  However, thanks to this great challenge, my little pile of Christmas cards is growing nicely and I am on track to have no last-minute card-making panic. Even if you haven't started yet, there is plenty of time to climb on board and join us. 

We have two fabulous challenge themes for you to choose from or combine this month
 and they are:

L for Little

and

M for Music

Julie is our host this time and she has this cute Spellbinders Special Delivery Die Set as  the prize for the lucky winner

This is my L for Little

For this card, I used the small fawn stamp and die from Clearly Besotted and created a frame for him with the MFT Rectangle Peekaboo die. The background is a birch stamp from Clearly Besotted and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I couldn't resist giving the fawn a little red nose with a Nuvo Drop because he looks like a young Rudolph to me!

My M for Music card:-

For this card, I stamped the Singing Penguins stamp from Wild Rose Studio and coloured it with Zig Clean Colour markers before masking it to create the background. I cut this panel with a stitched rectangle die and then cut another piece in white card because I wanted to extend it to become a square piece. A little strip of red card covered the join. The sentiment was stamped in red ink and clear embossing powder was added and heated to give a shiny effect. I matted the panel onto some red card and then added it to the base card before finishing off with some stickles on the white hat trims. Then disaster struck! The stickles went too near the edge and some of the red ink leached onto the white fur trim making a complete mess of it. At this stage, I was very reluctant to bin it so I stamped it again on some scrap card and carefully fussy cut just around the hats. I then stuck these over the ruined hats and added a little fluffy ball to each of them. Whew!

Our Challenge runs until the 9th July and our lovely Design Team has some great inspiration over on the ABC Christmas Challenges blog. I hope you will join us this time.

I'd like to play along at

Peace on Earth Challenge #17 - anything Christmas goes

Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge #137 - cute Christmas critters

12 Months of Christmas Challenge # 89 - anything Christmas goes

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge June - - anything goes

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #117 - anything Christmas goes

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Memory Box Bauble Snowflake Frame and Wild Rose Singing Penguins Christmas cards

Hello everyone and welcome to the last ABC Christmas Challenge of 2020. It's hard to believe that Christmas will soon be upon us in all its strange circumstances. Let's not go there! Instead, I really hope that you have enjoyed all the challenges we have brought to you over the year and if you have joined in with us, I hope you have a nice stash of cards ready to send out and bring cheer to your family and friends.

This month we have two themes for you:

'Y is for Your Favourite Things'
&
'Z is for Zzzzzzzz'

(Sleeping image)

There's a little prize for the lucky winner, donated by our lovely Samantha:

Well, I have been quite the dufus recently so my contributions for this challenge are a bit off-kilter.

My first card was actually made for last month's W for Winter Wonderland challenge but I mislaid it and didn't find it in time for the challenge. Of course, it was actually right in front of me all the time, although I was convinced that the elves were playing tricks on me. Luckily it also fits the Your favourite things challenge because it uses stacked die cuts which I love to do because it makes the image really pop out from the background of the card.

The die is the Bauble Snowflake Frame die from Memory Box and the sentiment stamp is from Papertrey Ink.

For my next cock-up. I present my Z for Zzzzzzs.

When I first saw the challenge I didn't see that it meant us to use a sleeping image. My little brain started hunting for something in my stash that began with Z! Well, apart from a zebra that really didn't fit a festive theme, I didn't have anything suitable, so I told myself to think outside of the box. I came up with making a z fold card, and I was pretty pleased with it until I came to write this post and discovered that I should have used a sleeping image :-( Well, I wasn't going to leave it out - so here it is ...

I used a starry background stamp on some white card and matted it onto some blue card. I cut a couple of labels from an old Spellbinders labels die set and added a sentiment for the inside one and stamped and coloured the cute NBUS Singing Penguins from Wild Rose Studio that I've had for 3 or 4 years for the one on the front of the card.

 

Well, there you have it - our last challenge of the year!  I hope you will pop over to the ABC Challenge blog to see some great cards from the team and get some inspiration for your last minute cards.

I'd like to play along at

Fab n Funky Challenge #505 Winter Wonderland

Simon Says Stamp - Fun with dies

Double D challenge - Santa hats 

Retro Rubber Challenge #149 Merry Christmas

Try it on Tuesday - Winter Wonderland

Dies R Us Challenge #158 - Christmas

Thanks for joining us throughout the year and we'll see you again for a new challenge in 2021!

Hugs

Carol x