Another Quirky 'Snow' Card (Links to Freebie Papers and Font)

Hi everyone. This is the third DT card I made for this fortnights 'Snow' challenge over on Quirky Craft's Challenge blog. The image, little Sophia making Angel Wings, was kindly supplied by our sponsors, Paper Pretties

The freebie spotty paper I downloaded years ago (Luckily I write on all my printed out downloads to remind me where I found them and where they've been saved on my computer...ohh I sound sooo organized! (not!) otherwise I'd never remember!) from Free Digital Scrapbooking called Muted Spring Painted Blue Dots and is still available. HERE (stay awhile, click on their sidebar to find more freebies)
First I printed the image out twice leaving enough 'white' below one to act as the 'snow' and also printed the 'Let It Snow' sentiment under it. I used the wavy insert in WordArt. (You can make it 'wave' a lot more)
The Font is a freebie it's called Thread Fun, and you can download it HERE (or Google the name)
I coloured the image with ProMarkers. Covered the top half of the card with the spotty paper then the white paper with the image, after cutting it into a 'snowy' shape along the top. Glued it in place with PhotoGlue.
I cut out the other image as close to the edges as I could, cutting off the scarf and hat trimmings (as you'll be able to see them from the image below it) I fixed this over the first image with silicone glue so it pops up a bit, added a smidgen of Liquid Appliqué to act as the 'hollowed' out snow. Here's a Liquid Appliqué Youtube video.
The gems, tree and snowflakes are from my stash. Lastly I added a touch of Stickles glitter and the die cut corners.
You can just see a pair of mittens inside the card, also from Paper Pretties.

I hope your Monday went well. I managed to get through the day without forgetting to do too many things...although I did forget I'd been invited to watch a Nativity play staged at our local primary school. Luckily after a reminding phone call, I nipped round to watch it. Sooo different from when my two were doing their Nativity plays. The story was told in the eyes of all the animals that lived in or around the stable...so of course there were cats, dogs, mice, cows, sheep, goats, donkeys, camels, pigs, doves and cockrels and.... well you get the picture!! No octopuses though! That's it for now! My last Quirky 'snow' DT card coming up next....not your usual Christmas card! Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges
Cardmadfairy 22-winter wonderland

By the cute and girly December- let it snow

Sweet stampin-it is snowing

Delightful- let it snow

Totally papercrafts 95: let it snow

One stop craft 160-let it snow

One stitch at a time 91- be square

Come and get it-anything Christmas

Gingerloft 30-Christmas and winter

Pollycraft 120- Christmas fun

Fairytale 29-Christmas

Raise the bar 86- it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Simply create too - all about Christmas

Stampin with the dragon-anything goes - Christmas

Christmas cards all year round December-anything goes (3rd Card)

Bee crafty-it's Christmas

Stamp, scrap & doodle-holiday card

PanPastel UK 11- the great outdoors

It's F-F-Friday!!

Yesterday it was blowing a hoolie, luckily today was nice and sunny. Hubby, John, baked me some yummy brownies, (coz it's my birthday tomorrow) so I could take them to work to share with the workmen. I carefully cut the (large crunchy top with a very soft sticky chocolaty centre) 12x12 square into nice man-size chomping pieces, put some on a plate, wrapped a couple more pieces up for the gardener, left one bit for little me and a few more for the 'family' who were out. Off I went telling the two Labrador's to... stay. You've guessed it, by the time I came back from the workmen's cabin and the gardeners greenhouse, the two naughty Labradors and finished off what was left of the brownies!!

They looked up at me as if to say, "Yummy Yum Lyn, that was sooo much nicer than those dried old bones you usually give us! Any more?"

John's promised to make me some more... But enough of that. It's card time! And look, I've made one using my own digi. Most of Tuesday evening I was doodling. It turned out to be a dancing Leprechaun, but by the time I moved from the table, in the sitting room where I'd been drawing, to the hall... I was telling myself. Nope...he's no good. I quickly grabbed another bit of paper, it now being well past midnight, and scribbled this one out in about five minutes... plus the time tidying him up on the computer/Wacom.
I've 3D-ed him and the top bit of the mushroom, coloured with ProMarkers and added a bit of gold glitter to his 'gold'.
I really wanted to add a Good Luck charm or horse shoe, but didn't have any... (I hunted everywhere) even tried to make one using shrink-plastic...but it looked like a lost claw from some vulture-like bird. So I gave up on that idea and used the fiddle and the heart instead.

Freebies.? Well yes (of course) The Leprechaun digi, (until next week, scroll down to download him and join in with Spot The Difference and win a digi ) and the papers, and font. I just knew I had rainbow papers somewhere and remembered they came from Summer Drigg's fabulous blog. It's called, 'Owl Always Love Spring' kit and you can download it HERE
The font is called 'Black Boys On Mopeds' and you can download that HERE
Before I nip off to add those 'green' challenges I've found...
New Followers! Hi and a big (((wave)) to Sandi's Samples, all the way from Arizona! And Diane Fowler who used to have a blog! That's it from me, thanks for stopping by!

Challenges
Cardmakinmamas_Something green
.Meljensdesignsdt -Green
Craftycatzweeklychallenge-colour combo yellow & green
Iftheshoefitsscrapit. St Patrick's Day
Sewmanychallenges-St Patrick's day
Fairyknoll-St Patrick's Day
Pattiescreations-go green
Digiswithattitude-Anything goes.
Craftuscrazy-one with nature
Tellens place-leprechaun or green
Aifactory-luck of Irish
Shellys images-something green
Paperplaychallenges-shades-of-green or good luck
Little Redwagon-St Pat's Day green
Pennys challenges-Going For The Green
The sisterhood of crafters- leaping leprechauns
House of gilli-Go Green
Kaboodledoodles-go green
The Shabby tearoom-luck of the Irish
Delicious doodles -use green for St Pat's day
Onestitchatatime-use a charm
doyoustackup (DYSU) -layers
Passion For Promarkers- food & drink (beer and mushroom?!)

Quirky Craft's Challenge is Rubbish!

Ok! I'm not being rude! It's true! Well, sort of! The Challenge over on Quirky Crafts has started. Did anyone guess what it is?? Nice and easy, with a little twist...

*Recycled Romance*

Ohoooo sounds a bit saucy... Anyway!! This weeks Challenge is being sponsored by the fabulous...

Digital Delights!

Which means, three lovely digi's will go to the Design Teams favourite crafty make. This challenge was set by Caro. So we would all love to see what you can come up with. Anything romantic (and crafty) but!! You have to use some thing that would normally (by normal people) either be thrown away or put into the recycle bin (or bag in my case)
I started off with a bent blank card, which I'd put by to use the card as card and not as a card, if you get my meaning, inked the edges with TH distressing ink, then found a scrap of Summer Driggs paper to cover that, and set about it with more ink and a nail file. I then decided to keep with the Summer Driggs papers, (freebies) but fixed those lovely heart papers (dance with me) on to some black 'felty type' paper, which was used as stuffing in a parcel, not nice enough to use on it's own, but too good to throw away... I then added a cardboard heart, a lovely red ribbon from 'ParkHouse' jewellery, no..not mine, in the bin at one of my other houses. (not my house!)
The tiny red hearts I started punching out years ago. Any time I had a nice box or packet too nice to throw away, I'd set to it with my punches. Most of these were Easter egg or perfume boxes. On some of the hearts you can see writing, I think it sort of 'adds' to it! (I bet you try to read it!) The flowers were fun to make, a bit fiddly, mainly because the punches didn't like the newspaper (too thin) so I punched out the newspaper, the brown parcel paper and the cellophane sweet wrappers at the same time, after I'd inked, scrunched them all up and then sprayed them with my only bottle of Cosmic Shimmers. The golden hearts were cut using my BigShot from... photo glue tubes, empty of course! Oh yes, the little Raccoon is Cupid Ridley and he can be found Here.
There you go! Sorry about the odd sized writing, blogger just HATEs it if I paste and copy!! (and I've already typed it all out again! Anyway!!! Pop over to Quirky Crafts and join in.
Now I did find some challenges for this card and now I'm back from skiving off somewhere I'll add them! One more thing, because I made this card last week, I've changed the colour of Ridley (as I now have a darker grey Promaker!) I've also added mock stitching, Stickles red glitter to the flowers and added a sentiment. The Font is called Pea Leslie's Happy Font and you can download it for free Here. Right! That's about it!
Oh one more thing, ever fancied drawing your own doodles? Try it here, go on, it's fun!!

Challenges
Delicious Doodles - Valentines
The Crafty Pad.- Hearts
2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Hearts

C.R.A.F.T. (Trimmies) - Valentines

Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge - Valentines

Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturday - Love is in the Air

Little Claires - Anything Goes
One stitch at a time- make it pretty...(I think!)

Crafty Ann's - Love is all around

The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge - Valentines Day/Romance

Dutch Dare - Love

Cute Card Thursday - Hearts and Flowers

Crafty Calendar - Love

For Fun - Hearts

Crafty Cardmakers - Hearts

Happy Hauntings ATC's

Oh it's sooooo good to be back! Sorry it's taking me ages to get into the swing of blogging again, as I'm soooo behind with everything I'm never sure where to start!! First thing I think, is to go on a blog hop and visit all of you!! ((Try not typing so much, no body reads it! Just scroll down to the bottom where it says Freebie font! And Freebie Papers))
My Laptop is still Jet-lagged and keeps going off line for some reason, so I hope I can get this done before it falls to sleep! Just before we left John took everything off my hard drive and put it onto my add-on hard drive so, of course, I can't find anything!
I'm waaaay behind with swaps and forum birthdays cards, (sorry!) but if you're on my list you should have your birthday card very soon, probably in time for next year!! (No change there then!!)

There's nothing like a good scare is there! And these ATC's are nothing like a good scare! (Well, I tried my best!) I started them just before I went away and then finished them over the weekend and today, for a forum swap, or was it a competition? I've forgotten now, and anyway, I'm too late now. Never mind! I think there was supposed to be four but I've done five. (Actually, I've done more than that but I didn't like the others!) They won't be wasted, The Quirky Forum are having an Autumn or Halloween Challenge this week, which I missed because I wasn't here, so I'll pop one of these over there later, don't forget to pop over and enter anything spooky or Autumny that you've made, you might win a prize! And Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog also has a Halloween theme going on too, so I might pop over there later!
I've used a mixture of PinkPetticoat papers from last year (They have some new spooky papers for this year) and a download from Scrap Booking Mad, They have single downloads from about 20p and I think Hocus Pocus was only about £1.20. Look out for their freebies while you're there!
New Added Bit!! The green spider and the purple Boo! background paper are from two sets of Halloween papers called Spooks and Boo from Free Dital Scrapbooking. If you haven't already found this site on my side bar, go take a look! Lots of lovely freebies to downloan!
I've printed some of the papers out in the normal size and others really small so they fitted onto the ATC. (Artist Trading Cards. They are about the size of a playing card and are made only for swapping! and showing off your talent!)
The haunted houses are normally a lot bigger. I've added a bit of Sticklers Glitter to give them a bit of bling and some of the writing has been covered with Sticky-back-plastic to give it a bit of shine.
While we were over in the States visiting Maria, Jesse and new baby grandson Mason, we noticed a lot of the houses over there are made of wood. Actually, where Maria lives in Monroe, they all were! And many of them looked like these haunted houses! It's a bit like driving into an Old Western, only in a car and not on a horse! Nearly every home was decorated with lights, cobwebs, witches, tomb stones and pumpkins. One was completely covered in black shredded bin liners, or maybe they were just trying to gift wrap it!! They can move their houses! We came across a whole town that was being 'moved' as the soil had been contaminated by a train derailment. So one by one the homes were moved back, the soil, cleaned and then the homes, even the hotel, put back! (Only in America!) Halloween is a big market out there. You can buy anything from radio controlled flying bats to Y-fronts! (They were scary!!)
Of course i bought some papers and something that's been on my wish list for the last eigthteen months, some Martha Stewart Punches. The Cobweb, which I've used on 'Spoooooky" (the corner and the edging) A lace punch and a fine fern leaf, which worked out about £6 or £7 each that I didn't think was too bad! The Woodware type punches though, I thought, were a lot dearer.
Another bargin I bought back was 60 12x12 'My Minds Eye' scrap book papers, which were priced just under $25 but were in a sale for well under five English pounds, so I had to have them!
Now the font I've used on these ATC's is of course a Freebie down load. It's called Buffied and you can download it HERE or even HERE
Oh! I mustn't forget our four new followers!! Thank you for joining Spyder's Corner. Irmina Dulniak I have found you Irmina or someone with the same name but so far no real link to where you are! (I love a mystery!) So you'll have to pop in and say Hi! Lottie hasn't a link either but luckily she popped in and said hi! So you can find Lottie over on Lotties or Lotties ATC's where you'll find some fabulous tote bags, some yummy dinners, lovely pictures of all sorts (I love the buttons!) and some excellent ATC's! You'll also find some lovely makes over on Susan's blog too. Pop over to Saramar-dreamkeeper and have a look! And last but not least Carol Ann from Purple Moments (I have a few of them!!) who has some really lovely cards, tags, notebooks and some fabulous altered CDs!
Okay! Back tomorrow or maybe Friday with a few more makes and pictures. Thank you for stopping by!!

A Back to 'Skool' Card For Oscar

Evening Everyone! And a Happy First of September! Just a quickie post tonight, no, honest! Thank you all so much for your kind words yesterday! It's really given me loads more confidence!! So much so, I've already made my card for my first challenge as a DT member! Which is really odd. Me, not only being on time but actually finishing something days before it's needed!! That can only mean one thing or possibly two...1 I'm not me, and someone's snuck in, in the dead of night and is impersonating me or, 2 I'm probably suffering from some kind of dreaded lurgie, as I'm NEVER on time for anything!! In fact, I've been sooo late going to bed some nights I've met myself getting up! (Oh...yeah, that was a mirror image..oho...sooo scary!!) and 3, Aliens paid me a visit again... (It's ok, I am me, I could never count!)
I made this card over the weekend. Tom my son-in-law, had asked me to make a card for little Oscar (a friends little boy, who's a bit like a nephew to him) who will be starting 'big' school next week. Easy I thought, as I knew I had some back to school type papers in my ScrapGirls (the tag) or Scrapwow folders somewhere but then Tom added, 'Can we have a little hedgehog on the front with a little rucksack on his back, carrying an apple?'
So, all last week I was pondering and then late Sunday afternoon just before they wanted to go home, I quickly drew this little hedgehog with a rucksack, carrying an apple for his teacher... I'm really pleased with it. Even though it took a week to think about and then about an hour to do! Penny Black? No, ((shhh!) Loony Lyn... I drew it, but even I wondered- did I draw that??? Just hope the fraud squad don't come knocking on my door!
The blackboard type freebie papers with writing on, I ended up finding in my Free Digital Scrapbooking paper file, they were just perfect! (The backing paper looks brown here but I may have been low on black ink or blaim it on bad lighting!)
Quick hello to two new followers!! (((Wave)) Janis from South Carolina with a lovely blog call Pause Dream Enjoy and another (((wave)) to Alysabeth from Canada with another fabby blog called Layin' Rubber Ink (who I've been following for a little while too!) pop over and have a look!
Back tomorrow, don't go away!