It's a Very Quirky Christmas!

Evening Quirky people! I'm back from dog walking, dog/house and baby sitting! Yay, baby Niamh is growing very fast! And smells so much nicer than a dawg!!
Anyway, it must be time for another Quirky challenge over on the Quirky Crafts Challenge blog , so lets get on with it!!
 This fortnight, it's my turn to come up with the theme and this time we're sponsored by my favourites...

Bugaboo Digital Stamps! 
who are offering the winner 7 digi's of their choice!!
 And Crafty Ribbons!!

who will be offering some lovely ribbons!! (of course!) The challenge is...

Christmas In August...with a Twist! 

What's the twist??? Easy! To make a Christmas card or anything else Christmasy and add at least 3 things from the cheesy looking circle at the bottom of this post (don't forget to tell us what you've used!)

Here's my card. I started off with a silvery white pearl card and then went a bit lilac to go with the non- traditional Christmas colours. I've used a Bugaboo image (of course!) these two cute bench buddy penguins that you can find HERE, Little Penguin Winter bench, which is almost a scene without having to add anything else. And to make it pop I've 3D-ed (decoupaged) the image.
First, I printed out the whole scene, then just cut out the bench and the buddies with bits missing and then just the penguins, with more bits missing!
I've coloured the scene with lots of shades of lilac and purple Promarkers, I've even coloured the tiny bits of lace with a lilac Promarker so it would match.
I've used lilac/ purple Pink Petticoat papers and Bazzil card.  I've also added a few punched out tiny purple holly leaves, added gems and pearls (for the snow) as well as sparkly flower-soft and a sparkly twisted lacy lilac cord.
 There's a little bit of  silver micro glitter, silvery white flower-soft as well as some Stickles glitter glue plus I've used some triangle layers.

The font I've used is a freebie, it's called Curlz MT download it HERE or just Google the name. It's used alot in advertising.  I thinkthat's about it! (I'm sure no one reads any of this, but they might!!)
Hope you come and join in with my challenge over on Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog!!!

 New Follower! Hi and a big (((wave))) to  Darnell Knauss from DJKardKreations! pop over and see some fabulous creations! I'm hoping to add this card into some...            Challenges

Catch the bug-August bingo challenge

(Bug Image, Bold Colours, Pearls, Lace begins with D= Decorated Tree)
Crazy challenge-animals

 Deliciousdoodles-christmas in august.
Audsentiments-anything but a birthday card

52Christmas Card Throw-down-august theme- Holly 

All that stickles-the great outdoors-linky-party (I used diamond)

Scrapbitzcopics-(or Promarkers) Anyway You'd like
 Crimbo-Crackers-it's snow business

Hobbyhousechallenge-Christmas
ABC Christmas challenge- P is for...
Purple, Penguins, Promarkers, Pearls,  Pink Petticoat Papers, Pastel (blue) Pink, Punch.

 Alphabet challenge-newest stamp or decoupage

Creativecorner- anything goes

Creativefingers-Anything Goes

Jwscrapshack-anything goes

A Bugaboo Candy Bear

Isn't this little Candy bear (by Bugaboo of course) sooo sweet! And you could've got him free, if you'd subscribed to their last Newsletter, like me! So, go and sign up, that way you'll never miss any extra freebies! And you'll get to know what's going on too. meanwhile, you can find him with the latest new releases HERE. Half price at the moment!!
My Card. I've used three backing papers. Two are by Papermania, as used in the post below, plus the gingerbread men paper, which came from a 6x6 pack I had free with QuickCards made easy, magazine, called Cosy Christmas Collection.

 I haven't used them yet, but Cardmaking and PaperCraft (Big sister of QuickCards) have some lovely freebie papers for you to download. You have to 'login' HERE and then just scroll down a bit and click and save!
Back to the card. I've used red and green card, Nesties and  Woodware punches. Adding tiny butterflies, (for a challenge, now I forgotten which one!) and tiny gems to the teddy's feet, paws? No, I'll stick with feet! And last but not least, the Christmas card Candi.

I've 3D-ed the little bear, so he has three extra heads and  two extra paws and two extra feet and extra 'hearts' on his feet as well, but just the one candy cane, coloured with Promarkers.
I made the sentiment on the computer using WordArt and filled in with red with a darker red outline. Only used up the scraps for the inside. Didn't put too much on the left , as this card is a little lighter  than I usually use and having a few layers on the front makes it a bit top heavy if there's also more layers inside too.

The freebie Font is called Janda Happy Day, and you can download it HERE or just Google the name. There are quite a few 'Janda' fonts.

I'm not here at the moment, well, I am, as I'm typing this, but you know what I mean! We're dog sitting/ walking all this week, so I'm just nipping in when I can. Hoping all this walking will get me fit!! (We did walk miles today, so glad it didn't rain) That's it for now. Thank you for stopping by!!

Challenges

Catch the bug blog-Anything goes
OSAAT- Anything Goes.
Kaboodledoodles-Anything goes
 Through The Craftroom Door-Anything goes
Cute Daisymay-Christmas Cards 
abc christmaschallenge v for vibrant colours

Purrrfect Pumpkin

Here's my second pumpkin card of the week. Another little Halloween card made using Bugaboo's Halloween peeker cat ~also seen hiding in this scene here too! 
I've 3D-ed the pumpkin, coloured everything with Promarkers. Papers are all Pink Petticoat. (Sorry for using the same colours again...but I like them!)

 I've used  Black card first, Woodware fish skeleton punch, Martha Steward cobweb boarder punch, Xcut Nestling Die-cut, black card-candi, purple and black ribbon and some carpet non-slip stuff! All stuck together using photo and silicone glue.

Click to make bigger

The outside Font is a freebie. It's called Skullphabet. Download it HERE  

The two fonts on the inside  are also freebies, I've linked before. The words 'Happy Haunting' has been done using Head Injuries download HERE  And the little Bat and Pumpkin come from a DingBat font (so cute!!)  called  Evilz  download HERE 

Since I've been having to use the 'new look blogger format, the 'normal' sized font is tiny and I have to use large...is large the new normal now? Wish it wasn't... That's it!  Short and sweet for once! Hope I have time to add this card to some... 

 Challenges

Catch The Bug- October Anything Goes
Anything Goes challenge-animals
 Crafty sentiment-anything-goes
Paper play time-trick or treat/die-cut or punch

OSAAT- Boo!
I love Promarkers-Halloween
Little scrap pieces-Halloween
Nomatterwhichchallenges. Halloween/ Halloween colours
Scrap-creations-Pumpkins

Make it Monday. (Anything Goes: link up)
Cutiepie challenge-use a digi  
Other Cutiepie Challenges entered here 
 and here

 

Monsterous! Quirky's Been Bugged By A Pike!

I know, how do I think up these titles?!? It's easy. Add Monsters, Sponsored by Bugaboo and Dustin Pike and you've got Quirky Crafts New Challenge! Cazzy is setting the theme this time and she wants to see...

Monsters!!!!

And as I said, Bugaboo and Dustin are our sponsors this time. Bugaboo are offering our winner 7 Digi's of their choice from their Bugaboo Store. And Dustin is offering $10 to spend in his Doodle Dragon Studios store! Here's my Bugaboo card. My Dustin Monster card is coming up in the next post!
I've used, on the outside of the card, Birthday-Monster-Sign. And on the inside of the card, Birthday-Monster-Balloon pop over and see all the other monsters! Don't you think they'd make great place setting for a Monster Party!?!

As almost always, I've 3D-ed the monster and coloured him with Promarkers. First added the whole digi, then just the 'Happy' with the monsters fist attached, then the monster's face and last the blue balloon in front.
The papers were freebies with a crafting magazine a while back, the spotty ribbon also came from a crafty mag, everything else from my crafty stash. The stripy paper has been embossed with a Happy Birthday embossing folder. I added the yellow paper clip because it just happened to be to hand and matched those tiny brad buttons!
Inside, The Font is a freebie, although a few sites do charge, it's called Curlz MT, and you can download HERE for free.
Well, that's it! Click over to Quirky Crafts Challenge blog and join in!! I'm not here for most of the week, so apologies for not answering email, although I will have my laptop with me (it's surgically attached to my hip!) I may not have internet connection... and if I do it's £5 per half hour!!!! Seeing what happened after I used Hubby's dongle last time, (Google closed my email and blog down thinking I'd been invaded by aliens from Saudi Arabia or Russia) I probably won't use it ever again! Nah, Hmmm... can I see me using it anyway! Look out for the next Quirky DT card coming up using seven of Dustin's Monster's!! Thank you for stopping by...Will try and add some...

Challenges!

Quirky Crafts-Monsters!
Challenges4everybody.anything goes **Winner**
Totallypapercrafts-for a child

Anything Goes at Bugaboo!

The Anything Goes Challenge has started over on Catch The Bug! Here's my Card. I love this image! I used Scene-it--Halloween-Witch don't you just love that haunted House and the little witch!?! You can find her on her own in the Bugaboo store HERE
I've coloured the image with Promarkers, done a wee bit of 3D-ing, the fence, pumpkins and the little witch. (Room to do loads more!) Also added loads of black, purple, and diamond Stickles Glitter and a black 'see through' ribbon, so the papers aren't hidden too much, black and purple card with a little added cobweb detail, using my Martha Stewart border punch (I love that!)
Now the orangey/yellowy bat background papers behind the house are freebies by Summer Driggs, her lovely Boo-tiful-night- scrap-booking kit
I used the Bugaboo digi as a PNG. I put both the image and the bat paper into My Craft Studio, played with them until they appear as you see them now, printed, including a plain digi, for the bit of 3D-ing and coloured them all up and wal-lah! Simple! (groan...my head hurts!)
I don't recommend using anything black or very dark as a background (I tied a PinkPetticoat 'Black with white Stars' first but too much of the detail disappeared into the background, see photo) Or of course you can just colour the sky in with inks! So much easier! I don't have very many (3) inks. I had a go at some inking on the inside sentiment and added the little witch cut out from a left over house.
The Font is a freebie, it's called Witches Magic down load it HERE
The purple halloween papers were freebies too. Had them for ages. They're saved on my computer as 'Halloween Freebie 04. jpg' Where's that!? I'd forgotten! (Oh no!!) Well good old Google found them over on Bearly Mine Designs! HERE (Yippee!)

I've put this post on timer...sort of unfinished. One, Blogger is again telling me I've used up 100% of my picture space (aaggghh!!) and two, I'm not here and I haven't finished the inside of the card yet. It's the village Fete today, so I'll be helping mum like I did last year... Nice to see my 'Flower Show' sign is still going strong and the Promarkers I used to do it, still look fabulous!
Don't forget to join in with the challenge over on Catch The Bug! If you're not in it you can't win it!! Use some of those freebies you've been collecting for ages!! That's it, back later to add or take things away, hope to add this card to some....

Challenges!!
I Love Promarkers-Anything goes
Send A-smile-4-kids-fall/halloween
Drsdesignsblog-ghosts and goblins
Platypuscreekdigitals-let's get spooky
Cardcupids-Halloween
Bearly Mine-anything that glitters
Crazy4challenges-Colour-Halloween, purple, orange & green
Lady bug crafts-anything goes