It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It's beginning to look like Christmas and we are in full Christmas mode at For Fun Challenges.    We'd love to see your Christmas cards this week.

I'm in full Christmas mode now!  I really enjoyed making this card, both my kids sat at the table and coloured with me, the first time that's ever happened.  I'll have to post their attempts next!  You can't tell from this photo but this card really sparkles.  I've used stickles on all areas covered by snow and all around the edges of the card.  By the way, the colouring is not smudged in places, it just seems to be the way the colour is reflected in the glitter.  Grrr.  I've tried taking several photos but it seems to show up somewhere in all of them.  The image is from Michelle Perkett, our sponsor for this week.  I love her snow family images.  Of course I love anything related to snow!  Probably because we get so little here.

Challenges this Card Meets:

Crafty Catz - Snowmen

Crafty Catz - Snowmen

Everybody Art - Christmas

Paper Sundaes - Winter Wonderland

Stamping with the Dragon - Christmas

Stamptacular Sunday - Christmas

Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

Peaceful Wishes

I love this snow globe image from Class Act Rubber Stamps, a Canadian company (YEAH!).  I've been wanting to play with it for ages.  Unfortunately, I realized that I don't have that many Christmas stamps that fit inside.  Oh no, I'll just have to go shopping!  The tree is the top of a larger stamp Flourishes.  The sentiment is from Christmas Expressions by Cornish Heritage Farms.  All the stamping was stamped in Versamark and then embossed in white.  I know that embossing is no longer "cool". But it gives such a clean look that I love it, especially for Christmas cards.  I know it seems dark but the dark panel is actually Night of Navy.

Challenges this Card Meets:
Crazy 4 Challenges - Snow
Creative Card Crew - Monochromatic
Everybody Art - Christmas
Incy Wincy - Trees
Mark's Finest Papers - Make It Masculine
Oldie But Goodie - Let it Snow (Tree image and sentiment are over a year old)
Paper Sundaes - Winter Wonderland
Stamping with the Dragon - Christmas
Stamptacular Sunday - Christmas
Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

Merry and Bright

Christmas is around the corner - how crazy is that!  I have been cleaning/decluttering for months and opened my card stash up to friends in the summer.  I just went to look for my Christmas cards and realized I've been almost completely wiped out!  Let me know when you get bored of Christmas.

This week's challenge at For Fun is a recipe challenge to use one image, two designer papers and three buttons or brads.  I found this challenging because I often don't use DP and rarely buy co-ordinating paper.  I have lots; it just doesn't co-ordinate.  The papers are scraps from my stash.  I love how the design elements on the DP give the illusion of a Christmas Tree.  It's really just the way I cut my paper.  The buttons and brad used up some stash in my odds and ends box and I had fun playing with my pearls and rhinestones.  The image is from Clear Dollar Stamps, our sponsor this week.  I've just found them and love their images.  I lucked out and won their new digi calendar in a blog hop this week.  Stay tuned for those images later.

I do hope you'll join us!

Challenges this Card Meets:
Cards for Men - Christmas
Christmas Card Challenge - Holly or Wreaths
Crafty Catz - Use a digi image
Paper Sundaes - Use a digi image

Happy, Happy Birthday

This photo doesn't do the card justice.  Our challenge at For Fun Challenges is to make a birthday card for your best friend.  My glitter and shaker cards are always the most raved over by my friends.  Anything that you can play with is always a big hit.  So I combined them.  This cute Bugaboo image was coloured in copies.  I then layered a large piece of score tape over the image and poured glitter over the whole thing.  I used my finger to press the glitter in and shook off all the excess.  A large shaker window was built around the image and I used cake decorating sprinkles as my beads.  Just a warning - this card won't go through the mail since the sprinkles will shatter and the sprinkles can begin to bleed colour after about six months.  The flower is made using my Tattered Flowers dies and fabric from two of DH's shirts.  The fabric was too nice to throw away!  The sentiment is an old one from Stamping Up and the DP is from Bo Bunny.

I do hope you'll play along.  The winner will receive 7 images of their choice from Bugaboo.