It's been a while.

So it's been nearly two years since I was last on here, and a chaotic two years at that. I completed my A Levels, my sister got married, I turned 18 and I've just passed my first year of uni. Hence the lack of crafting ha.

So anyway down to it.

Me and My Mum made a fair few challenges this week. She did more than me ha as I tend to plod along and it takes me a while to do it.

So the first one I did was the Winter Wonderland Challenge which was Red and Green Must Not be Seen.

So for this I used an Owl stamp by Kanban and coloured it using some ProMarkers. The Pink paper in the background, which just has Merry Christmas in various fonts, was from a pack of Christmas Paper my Mum shared with me, it may have been Papermania. The blue ribbon was just a roll of Papermania ribbon and the Christmas Greetings sticker was by Dufex. With the flowers I just tried to tie in all the colours and finished it with a Papermania felt Snowflake Brad.

I like the colours as I don't usually make anything pink, let alone for Christmas, and just thought it was really different :)

Next was my card I made for the Just Magnolia Challenge. This week it was a sketch that had to be completed, as well as the standard Magnolia image.

So all I used for this was some Blue snowflake printed card, which had a bit of glitter on, can't really tell from picture, and then for the main parts of the sketch I used glitter paper mounted onto silver mirror board. I then used this image for Magnolia, which my Mum had stamped for me ( therefore I don't know the name of her sorry!) and I coloured again using ProMarkers, trying to keep within the same colour palette. I didn't like her flat on the card so I made her raised off the card in the form of a boinger as my mum calls it.

You can just about see the little bit of mirriboard under her head here. All I did was folded it a few times to give and accordian effect then stuck it to the back of her then onto the card.
I then finished it off with a couple of flowers and a simple embellishment.

Next Challenge was for Lili of the Valley. I love Lili of the Valley and as I'm busy sorting my things out I couldn't find the stamps, so I went "old school" Lili and used the die cuts. The sketch that was the challenge I found quite easy to make, and I like how it looks simple but still nice.

The background paper was out of a Papermania christmas kit (I think!) and the starry paper and the reindeer were from a Die Cut pack I bought from Lili of the Valley a while back now! To complete the sketch I added a couple of flowers to the corner. I do like this sketch and think I will use it in the future.

Next up was good old Penny Black Challenge. The challenge for them this week was Christmas in July, giving me a wide range of ideas to use :). I ,again, raided my Mums stamp collection and found this cutie from the set Jolly Follies.

How cute please! I used some paper I've had for a while in my box as a background and attached some gold ribbon I had bundled up. The Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas Sticker is by Dufex, which I've also had for ages and the flowers just made it look less bare.

Another challenge I did was a combined challenge for Charisma Cardz Challenge, which was flowers, and for Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge, which was Get Well Soon.

For this I used Papermania Flower paper set I got forever ago with a little bit of purple sticky ribbon and some flowers. The sentiment was just a little Get Well Soon stamped, which I mounted onto the backing paper then raised it with 3D Foam. The image was a printed image I got at a shop near here which they'd ordered from inklined.com. Still need to investigate this site as I LOVE some of the images I bought ha.

My Final Challenge was for Sassy Studio Designs and the challenge this week was Red, White and Blue. I love the Union Jack so my first thought was maybe try and tie that in somehow but I couldn't find an image to go with it. So anyway this is my card.

I used a Sugar Nellie Pirate Stamp and tried to keep it all very simple. Red background, white flower and blue colourings. Even though it has a little black on it I hope it still can be included for the challenge!

That's all for now. I'm going to attempt to update my blog info and background now ha!

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