Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone!!

I hope you are well and ready for Christmas. This is my first "live post" in ages!! As some of you know I made the silly decision to move house the week before Christmas (something I wouldn't recommend doing!!)....its been chaos to say the least and to make it worse my lovely internet provider has messed up my internet!! I'm currently at my sister's house and so I wanted to pop by and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Thank you for everyone's lovely comments over the last couple of weeks and I am sorry that I haven't been around to see everyone's fab blogs in ages! I also want to say a BIG thank you to my Design Teams for putting up with my abscence recently, everyone has been extremly understanding!

Soooo......I haven't got a card for you today as I'm still not sure where all crafting goodies are!! However, it wouldn't be right to have a Christmas post without some cakes would it?

Merry Christmas!

Wedgie xxx

Hello there....

.....Happy Saturday!

This is my second post for today...if you are looking for my Sweet Stampin post please scroll down!

We have another cute challenge for you over at My Time to Craft this week.....after seeing your santa creations last week....we'd like to see animals in the snow.....

 

Hee, hee...yes its that cheeky little DigiStamp Boutique penguin again! Isn't he the cutest??

 

I've gone with a blue colour scheme for this card....along with some sparkly snowflakes and a glittery snowball! My penguin is coloured with my Promarkers.

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week.

 

Thanks for popping by,

Wedgie xxx

Seeing Double.....

Hello there, I hope you are keeping well!!

Today over at Sweet Stampin we have a fab challenge for you called "seeing double"...yes, we'd like to see two of something on your card!

I've opted for two cute penguins....

 

Told you they were cute! I've coloured my Stamp Fairy penguins using my Promakers and I have added some glossy accents to the floor to represent the ice. For the backing paper I decided my penguins might want something to keep them warm!

 

Pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog to see the gorgeous DT cards that Team Abi have created this week!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Anything goes at Christmas!

Hello there!

Happy Tuesday! I hope you are keeping well!

Soooo....I am very excited right now....tomorrow is officially my last day at work in 2012! After tomorrow I won't be back until January....how lovely!

Tomorrow is also my mum's Birthday....so I will wish her an early HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We're taking mum up to London on Sunday, we're going for brunch at One Aldwych and then seeing a movie in their private cinema.

Anway, today is Tuesday and therefore its time for a new challenge at Celebrate the Occasion...this is a bit of a sad challenge for me as its my last one at Celebrate the Occasion. I've been part of the fab DT for six months now, and its been brilliant being part of such a talented team. I will miss the team and will no doubt be popping by next year to join in some of the challenges!

Soooo....whats my last challenge at Celebrate the Occasion? Well, its "anything goes" at Christmas time! So, what are you waiting for....get crafting....

 

I hope by now you've sent all your Christmas cards! This is such a sweet image and therefore I decide to go with a traditional colour combo for this card. The image is coloured with my Promarkers and I've added some glitter to the snow.

 

Pop by the Celebrate the Occasion blog to see what the other members of the DT have created.

 

I would also like to enter this challenge over at Make it Monday!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Santa's Coming!

Hello there! Happy Saturday!

I hope you've had a fab week! Soooo....this is another scheduled post from me...hopefully I'm currently packing and moving lots of boxes!!

So onto this week's challenge at My Time to Craft and its a cute one....we want to see your Santa creations! This is the magical bit of Christmas and I love it! My Brownies were excitedly telling me about their letters to santa recently, they all looked so happy as they chattered away!

I have the perfect image for this challenge....it always makes me smile....

 

Hee, hee, hee!! Isn't it fab??

I've coloured my StampFairy image with my Promarkers and added a lot of glitter to the snow. I've gone with backing paper which might explain why Santa got stuck in the chimney!

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see the fab DT cards that have been created this week! 

 

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas

Papertake Weekly - Snow white (either a white card or feature snow)

 

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Snowflakes everywhere!

Hello there,

Happy Tuesday! I hope you are keeping well.

Sorry I've been rather quiet recently...but I have some fab news....I am moving house! This is of course causing me all kinds of chaos (between packing and internet providers!!) and therefore I'm relying a little bit on scheduled posts at the moment. I've also been a bit limited in the card making and the baking!! This is a very sad state of affairs!!  However, in a couple of weeks time we will be settled into our new home and I really can't wait!!

Anyway, enough of me moaning....we have a new challenge for you this week at Celebrate the Occasion...we want to see your punches or dies this week. I got a little bit carried away with this challenge and made two cards.....

Card one is made using a fab image from our current sponsor Floppy Latte.....

 

I've gone with an icy blue and grey colour scheme to match the cute north pole image...my snowflakes are punched from white paper and are covered in glitter glue. The image is coloured with my Promarkers.

 

Card number two uses the same punch, but with a fab santa image.....

 

 

I've used polka dots and snowflakes in the background to compliment my glittery snowflakes. My cute Stamp Fairy image is coloured with my Promarkers and I've added a little sparkle to Santa's hat with my Stickles.

 

Pop by the Celebrate the Occasion blog to see what the fab DT have created for you this week!

 

I'd like to enter this santa & rudolph card in the following challenges:

 

Make it Monday

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Merry Christmas

Love to Create - anything goes

 

Pop by all these fab blogs to see what the DT have created for you.

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Christmas...but not traditional colours!!

Hello there...fancy seeing you here again today!

This is my second post for today...if you are looking for my Sweet Stampin blog please scroll down!

Sooo....it was fab to see all your snowpeople over at My Time to Craft last week! This week we've got another Christmas challenge...but this time we don't want to see any tradtional colours!! Get your thinking caps on.....

 

I love these bright colours...perfect on a miserable grey December day! I think they kind of remind me of Christmas lights! Anyway, I've coloured my fab penguin image with my Promarkers and have added some gloss to his hat using my glossy accents.

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see what fab creations my fellow DT have come up with this week!

 

I'd also like to enter this card over at Papertake Weekly in their "anything goes" challenge!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Lets see your dies and punches!

Hello there!

Happy Saturday! Hope you've had a fab week!

Sooo....did you see that we launched a fab new challenge blog this week as part of Sweet Stampin?? We will now celebrate Christmas every month of the year with our fab challenge blog ....Christmas at Sweet Stampin! Launching officially in 2013, this will be a monthly Christmas challenge blog and we wanted to start the fun a little early with an anything goes challenge! Pop over to the blog to meet the team and join the fun!

We also have a new challenge for you over at Sweet Stampin this week....we'd like to see your projects which features dies and/or punches this week. Here is my card....

 

Its a bit of a shame really as you can't really see my punches...but I promise they are there!! I have gone with a simple colour scheme for this cute card...colouring my image with my Promarkers and adding some sparkle to the snow with my Stickles. I have then added some punched snowflakes that have been coated liberally with more glitter!!

 

Pop by the Sweet Stampin blog to see the fab DT cards that Team Abi have created this week!

 

I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments - snowmen or ladies

Tuesday Throwdown - White Christmas

 Oldie But A Goodie - Let it Snow (my oldie is the paper which I bought last Christmas!)

Simon Says Stamp - Snowflakes!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xx

How Exciting!!

Good Morning All!

Soooo...if you popped by yesterday you'll know that I was going to a local Christmas market last night with my sister and mum. Well, it turns out that we were a little early....in fact we were a whole week early! I had dragged my poor sister and mum on the train to Farnham for no reason at all! Luckily they saw they funny side....we still had dinner and a thoroughly nice evening! What am I like??

Well, I told you I was in the Christmas spirit....and what a way to show it....today we have the first (unofficial) challenge for you over at Christmas at Sweet Stampin! This is a fab new monthly challenge blog, brought to you by the fab ladies over at Sweet Stampin! We were due to launch in 2013...but we can't contain our excitiment and decided to bring you our first challenge a month early!!

This month we have a special "anything goes" challenge....next year we will bring you a different Christmas challenge each month...but we thought we'd start off easy!

Here is my card....

 

I love this cute Digi Stamp Boutique image.....isn't he fab??

 

I've coloured my image using my Promarkers and have added some sparkle to the snow using my Stickles. I have also added some shine to the huge snow ball, using some glossy accents.

Pop by the Christmas at Sweet Stampin blog to meet the team and see what everyone has created this week...there are some fab projects!

I'd also like to enter this card at:

DigiStamp Boutique monthly challenge

Love to Create - Holiday cheer
Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Christmas without red or green!

Hello there! Happy Tuesday!

Its lovely to see you today...I hope you are keeping well! So, its the beginning of December and I am definitly enjoying the Christmas spirit! I am visiting a big Christmas market with my mum and sister tonight and I can't wait! After the fair we'll go for some dinner too, its a lovely tradition that we have started in recent years.

So, another Tuesday means its time for a new challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion....and this week we're flying in the face of tradition! We'd like to see your Christmas creations...but you cannot use any red or green on your card anywhere!!

I've opted for a modern sentiment to go with my modern Christmas card.....

 

I love this sentiment...it always makes me giggle!! I've opted for pinks and blues for my card, along with that fab Merry Christmas backing paper.

 

My cute DigiStamp Boutique image has been coloured with Promarkers and I've asdded a little sparkle to her shopping bags with my Stickles. A simple, but pleasing card I think!

 

Pop by the Celebrate the Occasion challenge blog to see all the other fab DT cards that have been created this week!

 

I'd also like to enter this card over :
 Make it Monday!
The Pink Elephant - make it girly

EXCITING NEWS - starting this week we have a DT Call over at Celebrate the Occasion, so if you fancy joining a fab team of talented ladies pop by the blog!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Time for some snowmen.....

Hello there...Happy Saturday!

Hope you've had a fab week!

Soooo...have you seen that wonderful advert with the snowman and his girlifriend??As you may be aware I LOVE christmas....and I'm a sucker for a good advert...especially at Christmas time and those snowpeople are soooo cute!!

Anyway, over at My Time to Craft this week we have a fab new challenge...we'd like to see your projects featuring snowmen...so you better get watching that advert!!

The fab DT have come up with some wonderful creations this week, and here is my card.....

 

To match my cute Pollycraft snowman I have gone with non-traditional Christmas colours....opting instead for some snowy blues and whites! I've gone for a blue background, topped with gorgeous polka dot backing paper. Across the middle is some pretty white punched paper, and I've also added some faux stitching to the edge and some fab snowflakes.

 

My image has been coloured with my Promarkers and I have been very liberal with the Stickles....there is glitter snow on the image and the snowflakes have been coated in glitter too!!

 

I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 

Make it Monday

Love to Create - Non-traditional holiday colours

 

Pop by these blogs to see the gorgeous DT cards that have been created!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx