10 weeks till Christmas Card 1

I finally started 10 weeks till Christmas challenge!
Card 1 is a sketch.

I turned the sketch on it's side. The papers are BasicGrey, the stamps are Katzelkraft and Inkadinkadoo.

Something Shabby (Chic)

This week's Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is Something Shabby.
The stamps are: PaperArtsy (part of the goodie bag won in the raffel on the ArtsyCrafts weekend), Nature quoes (in French) by Norris and JMC, and finally the background stamp is by JudiKins.
The papers are MME.

ArtsyCrafts weekend October 2010

What an amazing weekend! As always the extremely talented, Lin of LB Crafts and Leandra of PaperArtsy created these stunning projects to teach and stimulate our creative juices. Of course their wonderful helpers Blingy Lynne "Cheryl" and the 2 Marks were also on hand to sort us out.
The weekend was packed with new techniques, great ideas, wonderful colour combinations, and lots of fun and laughter. My amatuer photography does not really do the beautiful pieces justice, but it gives you an idea of what I made.
We had 3 colour choices for our 3 projects. My first choice was plae pink/pale green/silver.
The green frame is actually silver metal, painted with green.
This is a book (outside) :

Inside : the owl is in a boxed framed recess we created

My second choice was Red/Brown/Gold with this lovely deep boxed frame

Finally, our big project on Sunday was this gorgeous piece. I chose pale blue, cream and gold as my colours. My photography really doesn't do the textures and details justice, you'll have to come and visit and see it in person!

Apart from the wonderful (messy) artwork we played with, I also met some really lovely ladies to share the weekend with, and loved making new friends.
I was also very lucky, and won a goodie bag in the raffel.

All together, one of the best crafting weekends ever!

Birthday card and SSSS

A birthday card for my friend's son, Ross. It has has plenty of metal on it, so it also qualifies for this week's Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge.
The photo is of Ross, in fancy dress as Captain Jack Sparrow (thanks Win).

More Christmas Plaid

I liked the Tim Holtz Christmas Tag #3 technique so much, I made some more...