Final Christmas cards for 2018

Hello again,

 Well I didn't anticipate that it would take me this long to make a new blog post in December, but with all the goings on and attempting to avoid the heat box I craft in during the hot summer weather today is the first time I have managed to find some time to blog. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year, Sydney is already on countdown for the big fireworks display, people already staking out their vantage points. Christmas Day down under was a hot day very much like Santa in the scene on the two cards below and there is no apparent end to the hot summers days we are having which are unusually hot for our area.

I have been making some changes to my blog in the wake of Google+ closing down in the next few months and as that was the only comment system available when I started my blog, in a simple click to swap to the now available blogger commenting system all previous comments have vanished, never to be seen again.

Two final Christmas cards which went to my city physio and local acupuncturist, this was my bank tellers favourite card last year and she has spent all of this year trying to find the red rubber version of the Aussie Santa from Make It Crafty which she found in November at a craft show.

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
White 12.6.17.8cm card blanks
Cloud papers from 6" paper pads
Distress Oxide ink background (Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans)
Kaisercraft sand and boardwalk paper
Sugar Crystals Stickles
Ultimate Crafts Sydney Harbour and Opera House dies
Scrap papers, grey, off white (metallic sheen), sandstone and Christmas patterned
Make It Crafty Aussie Santa Digi
Beccy's Place Sentiment stamp (Aussie Christmas)
Fiskars corner rounder
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Wink of Stella (liberally over beard and tinnie)
Clear embossing ink
Black embossing powder

I would like to enter these cards in:-
ABC Christmas Z is for Zero Embellishments
Christmas at Sweet Stamping Anything goes
Christmas Crafts All Year Round Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers December Anything goes with Dies
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 418 Anything Christmas or a New Year card
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything Christmas
12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything Christmas
Snippet's Playground #342- must use snippets

Wishing you all New year full of peace, good health, happiness, love and craft time

Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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LPoCF #96 Christmas Rosey

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Anything goes Challenge for Lil Patch of Crafty Friends the last of 2018( and I am running late!), we would love to see what you have been making, all comers and crafts are welcome, we have a lovely sponsor this fortnight Fred She Said Designs will be giving the lucky winner a $10 gift certificate. 

Fred She Said Designs 

PRIZE $10 gift certificate

I have used an image from our sponsor called Christmas Rosie to make a Christmas card for my stash; this card is off to a lady who adopted a new dog earlier this year after its owner had to go to a nursing home. I have used pre-coloured images and my paper roses Merry peek-a-boo die with the sentiment heat embossed in white.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White cardstock 

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Fred She Said Designs Christmas Rosey 

Hero Arts Merry cut and stamp (stamp only)

Paper Roses Merry Peek-a-boo die

Whispers Seafoam White embossing powder

Clear embossing ink

Tiny red circle stickers

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam tape 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Christmas Crafts All Year Round December Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #416 Optional things with wings
12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything goes

Thank you for looking in….

Have a Wonderful week…

Megan

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Do what you love

Hello again,

Well I have finally finished all 30 days of challenges for this years month of holiday card making challenge with Beccy of Beccy's Place, Beccy has been one very very busy lady commenting on every entry and there are currently 792 entries for the month. 

Today's final challenge is to Do what you love... this year I have fallen in love with using distress oxide inks and creating pretty backgrounds for cards with either stamped or die cut detail, so out came the distress oxide inks and I created a coloured background to stamp some until now unused Christmas stamps from a magazine, inked in clear ink and heat embossed with white powder.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Seafoam Kaisercraft cardstock
Mauve cardstock ? AC 
Magazine Freebie stamps
Clear embossing ink
white embossing powder
Darkroom Door 'Season's Greetings' sentiment stamp
Silver star stickers
Silver self adhesive flat backed gems (Kaisercraft)
Distress Oxide Inks broken china, picked raspberry and wilted violet +mini mister
Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-
Beccy's Place Final day Do what you love Month of holiday cards
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes
Crafty Creations Challenges Anything goes
Make my Monday Challenge Non Traditional Christmas Colours

I laid all of the Christmas cards out on our carpet and took a two pics as I couldn't get them all in one go, I made a few extra's along the way and finished with a total of 33 card made in the last 30 days, I think I will still have a few more cards to make and some of those are semi made already..... I thought I was going quite mad when I checked through the gallery by finding my name and discovered that one of the my mobile phone entries had kept my blog name as entry name, so here's the alphabet and extra challenges for this year! 

A-J plus extra challenges

K-Z

Many thanks for dropping by...
Have a wonderful weekend...
Megan

P.S. a Huge Thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Colour Challenge

Hello again,

Well today brings us to the end of the month long Holiday card making challenge with Beccy from Beccy's Place, I have managed to play along with most of the days but was a little stuck with the colour challenge from day 5, custard, cocoa, moss and bisque. I was digging around looking for a particular stamp and came across an old paper pad from First edition, which I knew had the cocoa and moss colours covered, peering through I had a narrow strip of plaid paper which appeared to have three from four of the colours or as close as I was going to get anyway.

Beccy's Challenge was also to surpass last years card record which was 743 cards made during the month, I still have one more card to make for todays final challenge and the total currently stands at 791 with several more hours to go.... and I still have the final day to type up.... 800 or more here we come!

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
First Edition paper pad Christmas Village
FTHS Birdbrain 'Deck the Halls' digi (store closed)
MFT gift tag greetings
Colorbox 'cocoa' inkpad
Clear embossing powder
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Stitched square die
Circle punch
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam dot

I would like to enter this card in:-
Beccy's Place Month of Holiday Cards challenge Day 5 colour challenge

Many thanks for dropping in...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment.... I truly appreciate them all!

Z for Zebra

Hello again, 

Well today brings us to the last letter of the alphabet with the current month long challenge with Beccy’s Place to make our holiday cards, I have gone with ‘Z’ is for Zebra. A very quick card from me today, with the little zebra taking centre stage. 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Christmas sentiment paper
X-Press-It gold glitter tape
Memory Box Typewriter Holiday Sentiments
Memento Tuxedo black ink
White card for printing
Scrap of red card
Faber-Castell pencils
Oddball Art Digi Kawaii Christmas Zebra Zeddy as Santa 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards- Z is for Zebra


Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan 

p.s. many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment. I appreciate them all!

J is for Joy and Jewel

Hello again,

Well there are only a few Christmas cards left for this years current month of Holiday cards challenge at Beccy's Place, I am still flitting back and forth as I complete the alphabet, today I have gone back to J is for Joy, I have used WPlus9 stamp and die combination to create the sentiment and decided to try out my Poppystamps Poinsettia Peace set, I heat embossed the stamps and coloured them with Prismacolor water colour pencils and painted them in pinks and red ending up with two cards, the first is a pretty purple using Kaisercraft 'Jewel' paper pad, the second has a more natural colour palette with the poinsettia in red, with some rescued ribbon from a present.

The photo's have turned out not as bad as I thought, today we are having one whole months of rain according to the weather predictions, an estimated 100ml or close to 4 inches throughout today. People in Sydney have had severe flooding and a number of accidents on the roads. A good day to stay warm and dry inside making cards....

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
White 12.4x17.5card blanks
Poppycrafts Poinsettia Peace stamp and die
Kaisercraft 'Jewel' and 'Letters to Santa' paper pads
WPlus9 Hand lettered holiday stamp and die
Silver mirri card
Clear embossing ink
Silver, black and white embossing powders
Prismacolor water colour Pencils (+water)
Apron lace edge die
ribbons and silver thread
MFT Hand lettered Christmas sentiment
Sequins and tiny flat backed rhinestones

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Beccy's Place J is for Joy and Jewel
12 Months of Christmas linkup all tied up
Make My Monday Challenge Non traditional Christmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in..
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. Huge thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Ho Ho Hot!

Hello again,

Today brings us to the beginning of another challenge with the ladies of Crafting by Designs and as always at this time of the month we have our popular and our final Get Ready for Christmas Challenge for 2018. This week we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps who are giving one lucky winner their choice of 3 images from the store.

 Bugaboo Stamps  

Prize 3 images of choice

I think that this card is sure to make its way to a teenager, featuring a super cool Santa enjoying an Aussie Christmas at the beach… I have used an embossing pen from Ranger to add clear embossing powder to his sunnies to make them shiny… 

This challenge is open until December 4th, you can add your project by using the Linky tool over at Crafting by Designs . Please be sure to link your project back to us.

Here is my card:- 

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7”)

Black paper and card stock

Bugaboo image Tropical Santa Surfing 

Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils

Doodlebug Design Paper ‘Merry Argyle’

Red spotty paper 

Rose Red versa color ink pad

Clear embossing powder

MFT stitched rectangle die

Sentiment stamp (magazine freebie)

Adhesives:- Double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-
Beccy's Place H is for Ho Ho Hot (summer Santa)
Crafts Galore Encore #57 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week..
Megan

P.S. A little note of thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I appreciate them all! 

Y is for Yeti or Yowie

Hello again,

In an effort to keep on track with my Christmas cards I have been trying to join in with each of this years month of holiday cards with Beccy from Beccy’s Place, each day bringing a different challenge, todays challenge is …. Y is for Yeti or Yowie, I did contemplate making a yellow Yeti but decided that it looked much better in plain white.

The Yeti or Yowie (Australian mythical creature) is holding on to his Christmas wish list which I added from the Lawn Fawn Baah Humbug stamp set, I found the sentiment online and typed it up to create my own for the card.

I have made a total of 28 cards for the month long challenge a couple of days I made two similar boosting my total for the year.  Beccy is aiming for more than 743 entries this year to blitz last years total… just 10 more cards until we reach that mark.... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.5x17.8cm card blank

Lawn Fawn Yeti Set Go stamp and die set

Lawn Fawn Baah Humbug stamp and die set 

Sentiment from MFT Jingle all the Way set

Derwent Pencils

White cardstock

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Paper twine

Striped paper 

Scraps- blue, white, silver

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday Cards Y is for Yeti or Yowie
12 Months of Christmas- optional theme all tied up (twine)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #413

Thank you for looking in..
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

X for Xyron

Hello again, 

Today has brought us to perhaps the most difficult letter of the alphabet for Christmas, the only thing I could come up with from my collection was from the Baah Humbug stamp set which has a xmas list included, alternatively using twine or similar to form an 'x', then this morning on checking  on the Beccy’s Place blog she had suggested Xyron and X-Press-It, so I used my tiny xyron sticker maker to adhere the sheep to the card and added a single strip of gold glittered X-Press-It tape. My card is slightly skewed on the card, handmade, it some times happens.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x 17.8cm card blank

Lawn Fawn Baaah Humbug stamp and die set

Lawn Fawn Trim the tree stamp and die set

Derwent Coloured Pencils

Circle die

MFT pierced fishtail flags die

X-Press-It glitter tape

Scrap green cardstock

Doodlebug Design paper 

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Adhesives: Double sided tape, Foam dots and Xyron Sticker maker

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘X’ for Xmas, X-Press-It and Xyron

ABC Christmas Challenge W is for WISHES and X is for XMAS 

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

N for Navy and Nativity

Hello again,

Well I have skipped a few days with the challenges here and there and today I am returning to the letter ‘N’ I have gone with N is for Navy and Nativity. I had a few problems making this one, I had it all finished when I realised that the main panel was skewed which lead me to rescue the panel and attach it to another card, it was then to narrow to fit the same card blank and I had to come up with something else. Out came a tent fold card (spine along short side) and you guessed it the panel was too wide which lead to trimming it off bit by bit.. I then decided it looked too plain and dug around in my white scrap bag and found the embossed panel which I cut in half and added to each side.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.4x17.4cm card blank

White embossed card (Embossing folder from Snippets Playground)

Impression Obsession Nativity and shepherd dies

White, silver and navy cardstock all from my scrap bags

Memory Box Typewriter Holiday Sentiment stamp

Silver embossing powder

Clear embossing ink

Check ribbon

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and adhesive sheet.

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place N is for Nativity and Navy
12 Months of Christmas optional theme All tied up
Aud Sentiments Challenge Winter or Christmas Sentiment


Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week... 

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

A for Angelic

Hello again,

Today brings us almost to the end of the alphabet and since I didn’t start off well I have leapt all the way back to ‘A’ is for Angel, I made this card into a simple easel card as it seems quite plain.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Silver embossed cardstock

Tiddly Inks image Wryn Angelic Wishes 

Faber-Castell pencils

Circle and apron lace circle dies

Wink of Stella clear

MFT sentiment strip die

Memory Box Typewriter holiday sentiments

Lili of the Valley Sentiment circle

Silver embossing powder

Patterned paper from Kmart

X-Press-It silver glitter tape

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place month of Holiday cards A is for Angel

Back to basics and Beyond- Basic easel card

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything goes
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful day...
Megan

P.S.  Many thanks to all of my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

V for Vintage

Hello again,

Still working my way through the alphabet now getting to the sticker end of things, yesterday brought us to the letter V and my card is V is for Vintage, I have used paper from 12” ‘Yuletide’ Kaisercraft paper pad which has been in my collection for many years 6 or more, and an image from Tiddly inks called Wryn Caroling. I was having a lovely time playing catch up yesterday that I ended up losing the natural light to take my photo.... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Maroon cardstock from stash

Kaisercraft ‘Yuletide’ papers

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Tiddly Inks Wryn goes Caroling digi stamp

Tiddly Inks digi sentiment from Holly Jolly

Faber-Castell pencils

Musical Note punch

Tag die

Cross stitched oval die

Gold glitter paper

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape and adhesive sheet

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy's Place Month of Holiday cards V for Vintage
CCC Digi Creations Christmas or Winter

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

W is for Wisemen

Hello again,

I have been enjoying creating distress oxide backgrounds for my cards this year, love how the colours blend and the reaction with water always looks great, another background is one of the features of my card today, in colours of the night sky, with a die cut from Crafts4U an Aussie company.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.4x17.6cm card blank (fold on short side)

Metallic silver embossed paper

White cardstock (for distress oxide ink panel)

Distress Oxide inks black soot, faded jeans and broken china

White cardstock

Silver Mirri card scrap

Crafts4U Wise Men Die

Reverse Confetti sentiment stamp ‘Christmas Blessings’

Memory Box die ‘Star of Wonder’ 

Star stickers

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and adhesive sheet

I would like to enter this card in:-
Beccy's Place Month of Holiday cards W is for Wise men 
Southern Girls Challenge Inks and Sprays
Crafty Creations Challenges #378 Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers Anything goes with dies
Rudolph Day with Scrappy Mo

Many thanks for looking in...
have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A Huge thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

L is for Limeade

Hello again,

Still playing catch up with the 30 days of holiday cards with Beccy at Beccy’s Place, I printed off a couple of different pre coloured images from Beccy’s place and made a square card with Santa, with a large sentiment  and not that I can really see them in the photo clear embossed presents around the sentiment and Santa. I am linking this one up as 'L' is for limeade which is the colour of the patterned paper.

Last night I did some colouring of images which I have been working at getting on to different cards today but I have lost the light to photograph.... watch this space tomorrow

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 14cm card blank 

Red cardstock

Beccy’s Place Santa pre coloured image

Doodlebug Design Limeade ‘It’s about time’ paper

Scrap of striped paper

Colorbox inkpad ‘Green’

MFT Handwritten Holiday stamp

Clear embossing ink pad

Clear embossing powder

Present stamp from MFT Jingle all the Way set

Kaisercraft edge die

Adhesives:- Foam Dots, double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy's Place Month of Holiday cards L is for Limeade
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge optional make your own background

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all of my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to drop by and leave me a comment, I appreciate them all!

U is for Unicorn

Hello again,

Still working our way through the alphabet now getting to the stickier end of things, today brings us to the letter ‘U’ apart from Unicorns and the colour Umber I’m lost… but I bought a tiny stamp and die set featuring the first of the two I could think of, I found the Doodlebug speech bubble in my bag of Christmas scraps and decided it would work.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Striped paper from scrap bags
Circle die cut from scrap bags
Left over strip of Distress Oxide ink background (faded Jeans, broken china, peacock feathers)
Lawn Fawn Winter Unicorn stamp and die set
White card
Clear embossing ink
Silver embossing powder
Derwent Pencils
Wink of Stella Clear
Star hand punch
Silver and glitter cardstock scrap with adhesive on back
Doodlebug and typed sentiment
Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘U’ is for Unicorn

Daisy Chain Challenge 25 Christmas or Winter
ABC Christmas Challenge W is for Wishes, x for Xmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Many thanks for looking in...
Have a wonderful weekend...
Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

T is for Trio of Trees

Hello again, 

Well we are up to ‘T’ today with the current month long challenge over at Beccy’s Place, and I have gone with ‘T’ is for Trio of Trees, I made two cards earlier this year and decided that I liked that they had been relatively quick and simple makes and wanted to repeat them in slightly more masculine colours. I made a Distress Oxide ink background using Broken China, Faded Jeans and Peacock Feathers, heat embossed my Trio of Trees stamp by Stamp-It Australia in Silver and used my Paper Roses Merry die to repeat the earlier two cards, though this one in portrait.

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm (5x7”) card blanks

Blue paper from stash

White and navy cardstock

Silver mirri card scrap

Distress Oxide Inks Faded Jeans, Broken China and Peacock Feathers

Clear embossing ink 

Silver and gold embossing powder

MFT Hand Lettered Holiday stamp

MFT Stitched inner and outer oval die

Hero Arts Stamp ‘n’ cut Merry set

Paper Roses Merry peek-a-boo die

CCD swirl die

Stamp It Australia Tree-O of trees Stamp

Tiny Star stickers

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Beccy's Place Month of Holiday cards T is for Trio of Trees
Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge CAS
Aud Sentiments Challenge Christmas or Winter Sentiment
Southern Girls Challenge inks or sprays

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful weekend...
Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!