Pink Poinsettia

We're once again off on a trip over Christmas🎄 so the usual pattern of not a lot of decorations ( about 3!) to be put up in the house hooray (bah humbug 😁) and very few Christmas Cards being sent resumes!

I do send a couple of cards tho so have set to over the last week and made some.

Once again into the 'Should Chuck Away But It May Come In Useful' drawer I went and this card is the result!

The flower petals were cut from some leftover smooshed pieces which I think were Picked Raspberry and Kitsch Flamingo and the leaves were again odd scraps of watercolour card so I smooshed them with Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron.

I used an embossing pen and made a few dots in the centre of the petals and heat embossed in silver.

Once again out came the Posca pen - I LOVE splattering! Who would guess??😉

My hammered cardstock was used for the base and I ran a scrap piece through with a wood embossing folder for the centre panel.

The mirri card wording also from a small leftover piece.

Sharing over at CAS Christmas which has a theme of 'Poinsettia' and Krafty Chjcks whose theme is Christmas and I am also visiting the Playground with my leftover make before the gates shut!
Thanks for looking today. Hope everything is OK with you in your part of blogland! x  

Pretty Papers

Time to sort out some of your paper stash for the challenge this time at TRY IT ON TUESDAY! 

The theme is 'Pretty Papers' - so lots of things to do with that pile that's lurking in your craft space!

My paper is from a 12 x 12 pad bought a while back in The Range. 
Bought for no other reason than I liked it.

No idea why really as I prefer to make my own backgrounds rather than use patterned paper but it was a nice paper pad so it came home with me!

I used some of the pad to make 'Exploding' boxes and this was left over. 
Luckily I had a few pieces which I could trim up into triangles for the front.

I die cut the flowers and foliage from odd pieces in the 'Should Throw Away But They May Come in Useful ' box!  

Stamped the sentiment, layered it onto am scrap of pink card and cut round it with scissors.

Come and join us with your pretty papers for this challenge!

Hope all is well in your part of blogland and thanks for looking today. x 
Sharing over at
Snippets Playground #541
Beautiful Blossoms #45
Paper Rocks Scissors #20
Love those Pretty Papers

Colourful at Try It On Tuesday

Here we are with another challenge at TRY IT ON TUESDAY and this time the theme is 'MAKE IT COLOURFUL'

I opted to do a simple and easy make using strips of coloured card - you know from all the millions of odd bits we save cos they'll come in useful....... and in fact never use!

I used up quite a few odd scraps cos I made a couple of these and made the fronts different by using different flower dies and using different greetings.

They'll be handy in the card box and am also linking up to Snippets Playground with my snippets make!.

Hope you can join us - pop over to the challenge blog and have a look at the colourful creations from the DT!

Thanks for taking the time to look in on my blog. x