Yes it's that Quirky time again, the time where there's nothing much on telly and you and the cat keep falling asleep on the sofa if you don't
do something!! So, here I am, with a cup of tea and a chocy bisqwit, poised and ready to start typing, splinted finger, stuck up out of the way! So I think I'd better load up my DT Christmas Card!!!
Yay!! Who guessed right?? I know, it was easy, you spotted the snowflake on the sneaky peak didn't you? It's Cassy's turn in deciding what to do this time round and she has chosen a Christmas Theme!! Which is quite good really, seeing I've made this Chrismas card!
Other DT members have made an Exploding Box, a Tilda Christmas card, some Christmas tre
e cards and an altered decorated tin! All good stuff!
I'm also going to enter this card into
two other Challenges. (she sez as she flips tho' all the open pages on FireFox trying to find them!)
First one is
Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge Blog, (try saying that fast with your teeth in upside down!) This weeks Challenge over there is to use Freebie papers from Crafty Magazines! Well, you've all got loads of them haven't you!!? All these papers I've used in making this card were from
Cardmaking
and Papercraft Magazine. (choose Quick Cards Made Easy, Issue 66 for these papers when you click on the link above and you'll be able to download three sheets of Christmas backing paper..but there's loads of others there too!) Every month you get a set of freebie papers with the magazine, but what I like most is, you can go to their web site and download them and keep them forever! (Or until you're bored or your computer blows up!) In my view the papers are better printed than used straight from the mag. Some Mags print a different design on the other side so you have to choose which one to use. (
Silly b-b-bears)
The Digi Santa is a freebie download from the
Digital-Ink Co Challenge Blog...In this Challenge you have to create any paper craft, using at least one Digital-Ink Co. Stamp and also a line from any Christmas Song (I think, but you know I'm a rubbish speller and reader it might mean the whole song!) Anyway! I've typed Jingle Bells on the inside of this card as there wasn't enough room on the front! With the freebie Santa there's also a Snowman's face and a ...squirrel!
Another freebie?? The Font of course! It's called
Teacher's Pet and you can download it
HEREThe larger font I've used inside the card for the Merry Christmas is also a freebie, (it must be somewhere if I've got it!) but only if you can find it!! Most sites want money or a password! It's called
Freehand519 BT and as soon as I've found a freebie link I'll let you know!
Well, that's it! Add a bit of Stickles Glitter and a few 3D foam pads to finish off.
We've had quite a productive afternoon/evening here. Tom and Emma have had a go at Heat Embossing and have 'borrowed' my Heat Gun for the week...I know what someone will be getting in their Christmas stocking this year besides a lump of coal, an orange and some mixed nuts....!!
and it won't be a squirrel! Thanks for stopping by!
I love this little image, it's so cute isn't it! The Nativity Scene. I was lucky enough to win this and a few other lovely digi downloads just before Christmas, as one of my cards won a prize on the Digital Ink Co Challenge Blog! (Yayyy!!)
image in with Promakers. It was a very quick and simple card as it was replacing those Christmas Cards I'd made earlier and still can't find! They're going to turn up in the most unusual place, like the boot of my car...or my wellies... I found a candle and a Fudge bar in one of them yesterday! (The mind boggles!) Oh, my car keys went missing too. I was talking to my sister-in-law on the phone when suddenly something she said made me think of the Airing cupboard!!! And there, amongst the towels were my keys! So, now it's a running joke, if I lose anything...look in the airing cupboard!
