A Bit of Pepper on Christmas Eve

Hi Peeps! Happy Christmas Eve! Sorry if there's any spelling mistakes, but I've just had some Spiced Rum and coke and it was very nice!
Hope you've done all the things you shoulda done by now! This is my last Christmas card before Christmas, well, the last one I can show you~there's a few more to come yet, which were made before this one, which has gone off to John's sister and hubby. I was hoping to reach my 1000th post before Christmas, but it'll have to wait now until the end of the year, I might just manage it!

For this card I've used Pepper & Friends Stamped image (heat embossed with black ink and clear embossing powder) coloured with Promarkers. Loads of added micro and Stickles Glitter, a bit of a die cut from Memory Box. Papers came free from a magazine last month. Sentiment done on the computer. Free Font is called Abbyline. I've also added some red stretchy Christmas glittery tinsel to the top, and red miri board.
I'm in the middle of tidying my craft room, at least we have no one staying over this year, last time that happened we spend days clearing most of everything out of my smaller craft room to make room for a bunk bed! And who slept in it?? Yep...me and Mr Spyder.... (John on the top bunk!)
Tomorrow, will be the first time for years, John isn't cooking, (so that means he won't be wearing his naughty Michelangelo's David pinny and scare any would be visitors! We're going to my parents for Christmas lunch and John's sister's for Christmas Tea, staying over and then, thinking we had the whole day off, were going to find the Boxing Day Point To Point...but, John has to go in to work for a few hours. At least not at silly o'clock in the morning, (I'm still driving him in though, just in case he's had too much to drink the night before!) That's it for now! Don't eat too many minced pies, have a good time, be safe and be merry. Bye for now!

Challenge

Papertakeweekly-last Christmas
Top tip Tuesday - anything Christmas
Paperplay challenge - Christmas
Paper creations - Something old - something new (old stamp, new papers and die cut)
Simon Says - Bingo (Twine, gems, glitter)

Have a Puurrfect Birthday Deb!

Evening everyone, Hope you're all well! It's my Sister-in-law's birthday today. Happy Birthday Deb! She loves cats, (she has two) so of course her card had to have a cat on it!

I've actually followed I ♥ ProMarkers sketch for this very quick and easy card. I've used a blank Craft Creations card and a stamped, heat embossed image by DoveCraft/TrimCraft Pepper & Friends. Coloured with Promarkers, (with a bit of added red gel pen on the heart to make it glitter) and a tiny butterfly charm, to go with the butterflies on the papers and image. All the papers came from the 6x6 paper pack Forever Friends, 'For You'.

The Fonts. The sentiment on the front of the card (Just Puurrfect) is called Linda's Lament, you probably already have it on your computer if not, Google the name.
The little butterfly on the sentiment is really the capital letter K from the font Sloneczko, (download HERE) which I've also used inside the card. It's all capital letters, so if you press for a capital, instead you get a little bee, fly, car, pencil, happy or sad faced sun, star or moon, etc.
I thought the butterfly font went well with the butterfly papers, charm and the butterfly on the image too.
I've also used Woodware punches, Martha Stewart fern punch and a Xcut punch for the front part of the flowers. It was the first punch I ever bought! It tore the paper the first time I used it and it still tears it now! Sharpening it the usual way doesn't seem to make any difference. Shame really, as I like that flower shape, but I'm really reluctant to buy another one as my other Xcut punch is rubbish too, but, my border Xcut punch is really good, and I'm very happy with that. But, on saying that, I do like the way it sort of 'tears' the paper, and makes the gingham paper look like cloth. Hopefully you won't notice the blue brads are slightly different blues, don't think that really matters!
That's it for now, oh except I did add some eye-lash wool...not sure if that will stay though. I thought it looked a bit cat whiskery! Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges
I ♥ ProMarkers-sketch
C.R.A.F.T-cute
stamptacularsunday-punch it
Make it Monday
*Update! Was picked as Trimcraft's card of the month!

Atc's Where's Spring, or Can you see The Easter Bunny Yet?

Just a few of my ATC's that have either already gone off to their new homes or are waiting to go. I'm doing a bit of a 'Spyder's Swap' on one of the forum's so think I might add all the other ATC's that arrive at my house during the month. I think it gives everyone an idea of what everyone else is doing and I think people like to see their lovely work

First off... here's some of mine... including a freebie image from Bee Crafty and not Bugaboo as I said before!! (sorry! No one said!) Anyway, there's a blog hop going on at the moment over on Bugaboo. The rest are some stamped images from Pepper and Friends and Penny Black. The backgrounds are all my own.

Back later with the OSAAT's New Challenge!!!!

Don't forget to scroll down to HERE to see my 'Quirky' DT Girl with Axe card for the sketch, and also click over to Quirky Craft's Sketch Challenge, which is running for another week, so there's plenty of time to enter!
Also!!! Quirky has a new DT call with a very easy Sketch for you to follow if you'd love to join the design team.. so go express your Quirkyness!!

Challenges
Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog-Let The Sun Shine in.
Polly Craft Monday- Anything Goes.