Lawn Fawn Build a Birdhouse Christmas card

 

Hello friends, and welcome back to another challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges.

Our lovely Fabiola is hosting this month, and she's offering a prize gift token to a store of your choice.

For our second-to-last challenge this year, we have:

**W for Wings** 

and/or 

**X for X Stitch** (any type of stitching will do).

I chose to go with W for Wings.

I used the Lawn Fawn Build a Birdhouse dies along with the Christmas Add-Ons, which were a recent purchase. I cut all the pieces from white cardstock and coloured them with Copic Markers. I added glitter to the roof and step pieces to give them a sparkly finish. Finally, I arranged everything on mats cut from The Greetery's Nordic Frame dies.

I really enjoyed making this card with some of my favourite dies. Although some of the pieces were fiddly, it was very therapeutic to sit and fiddle, and I made some extra pieces to make 3 copies as we're getting closer to the time for sending them out.

As always, our Design Team has some fabulous inspiration over on the ABC blog

I'd like to play along at

Shopping our Stash  - A Few of My Favourite Things 

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #195 - anything Christmas goes

Try it on Tuesday: - Get ready for Christmas

Unicorn Challenge #115 - Christmas/winter

Lawn Fawnatics #208 - Christmas old and new

Aud Sentiments Challenge #331- Glitter and/or Christmas with a sentiment

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Carol x

Spellbinders Colorful Expressions Blossom card

 

Hello everyone, 

I always find this a funny old time of the year. The clocks have changed, and we have darker evenings, so the days seem shorter even though it's the same number of hours. I am someone who tends to want to hibernate until spring, but I also love crisp, sunny autumn days when the trees are displaying their wonderful colours, and leaves are crisp underfoot. I like to spend more time crafting and reading, and this year, I want to try my hand at crochet if I can find someone to teach me. Do you notice changes like this, and have you any plans to learn something new over the autumn/winter?

Anyway, welcome to the new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. This time, we are looking for creations using die-cuts and/or stencils.

I came up with this card using dies

Spellbinders recently had a sale, and I snapped up the Colourful Expressions Blossoms stamp and dies. I'm not in their club, but this was a good opportunity to try their stamp of the month from a while ago.

I stamped and coloured the lovely flowers, then die-cut them with the matching die. I rooted through some old supplies and found the Pinkfresh Studio Braided Tag die offered a good mat for the background. This die cuts a hole at the bottom, so I covered that with my sentiment made with a Betterpress plate and die-cut. I will add this to my cards that can suit several occasions, depending on what I stamp inside.

The design team has lots of inspiration for you over on the ATSM Blog and we'd love you to join in with us this time.

I'm off to play at

Triple B Challenge November - blossoms

A Cut Above Challenge :November - use a die cut

hA Place to Start November - anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #265 - anything goes 

Dragonfly Dreams November Challenge - feminine

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Carol x

Spellbinders Joy Christmas card and Papertrey Ink Mistletoe Christmas card

 

Hello friends, and welcome to the new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges.

This time there are 2 themes, 

U for Uncluttered

and/or 

V for Vertical

If you want to join us, you can choose either theme, or both if you need to get working on your Christmas pile.

I came up with these cards using older things in my stash that needed some love, as I haven't used them in a long while.

U for Uncluttered CAS

I stamped and die-cut the mistletoe from Papertrey Ink and added a bow from Clearly Besotted. The sentiment is also from Clearly Besotted. I used a Papertrey Ink canvas impression plate on the background card to add a little texture, but keep an uncluttered look. To finish off, I added some tiny pearls as berries.

V for Vertical

For this one, I cut a stitched rectangle and some pretty paper and layered them onto a DL card base. I used the Spellbinders vertical Joy die, cut from red card and added it to the base. The die set has small flowers and leaves, and I cut several of these and added them here and there. For the JOY letters, I cut several white ones for stacking so they would stand proud of the base, and topped them with some red holographic card to make it pop.

I'd like to play along at:-

Farm Quest Country Christmas Challenge #25 - country Christmas card

The Holly and Ivy Challenge #193 - Anything Christmas goes

A Cut Above Challenge October - anything with a die cut

Neglected Stuff Challenge 10/25 - papers and dies have not been used in a long time

Girlz Creative Christmas #145 - anything Christmast-anything.html

Cut it up Challenge #340 - use more than one die

I do hope you'll join us - we love looking at your entries.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Carol x

Penny Black Floral Vines Birthday card

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new challenge at

This time we have a birthday challenge and I came up with this 5 x 7 card:-

 

I began by cutting a rectangular aperture from card to use as a stencil for inking the lilac background. I next added some stamping using Kristina Werner Splatter stamps. The flowers (from Penny Black Floral Vines Frames) were stamped onto watercolour paper and coloured with watercolours before being die cut. The sentiment was in my bits box, and I coloured it with green ink and then added some sparkle pen. To finish off, I added the frame, which was cut using my neglected Waffle Flower Lacy Layers dies.

I'd like to play along at

Neglected Stuff Challenge 10/25 - Lacy Layers dies

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #263 - anything goes

Hearts Quest Celebrations of Love #10 - birthday

Triple B: October 2025 - blooms

The Flower Challenge #107 - add purple

Why not head over to the ATSM blog to see some more inspiration, and if you want to join this time, you can link up your entry there.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Carol x

The Greetery Holiday Frames and Winter Crest Christmas card

 

Hello everyone, and welcome to the new Christmas Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

I used some NBUS stamps from the Greetery and came up with this card.

I cut the background mats with the Spellbinders Stylish Oval dies and embossed the white one with a snowfall e/f from Sue Wilson.  The rest of the items are from the Greetery Winter Crest collection

The design team has some great inspiration for you over on the Addicted to Stamps and More blog, and you can add your entry there if you decide to join us.

I'd like to play along at

A Cut Above: September Challenge - anything with a die cut

Peace on Earth Challenge #96 - anything Christmas goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge September - lots of layers

CRAFT Challenge #764 - Christmas

Creative Inspirations Challenge September- Christmas

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #192 - anything Christmas Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Carol x

Lisa Horton Spellbinders Nested Tree Frame Christmas card and Penny Black Stocking Stuffers card

 

Hello everyone.

I'm back for the latest challenge at 

and we have 2 letters for you this time.

S is for Stocking

and/or 

T is for Tree

Helen is our lovely host this time, and she has a lovely prize for the lucky winner.

This is my S for Stocking

I used a Penny Black die set called Stocking Stuffers for this one. I die-cut watercolour paper and coloured it with Zig watercolour markers before adding the greenery and branch. The background was cut with a Spellbinders die, and I embossed it with a star embossing folder.

T is for Tree

For this card, I used the Lisa Horton Nested Tree Frame die set. I painted some watercolour paper with a couple of green shades, and when it was dry, I die-cut the tree parts in the different shades. I embossed one of the trees with a snowfall embossing folder to add some texture, and then assembled them. The snow is cut from Spellbinders glitter foam, so it has a little sparkle IRL. For the background, I masked off a hill shape and then painted the sky using some blue distress ink. The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp sentiment sheet.

The DT members have some lovely inspiration for you over on the ABC Christmas Challenges Blog, and we'd love you to join us this time.

I'd like to play along at

A Cut Above Challenge September - anything with a die cut

Let's Craft and Create Challenge#223 - anything goes plus lots of layers

Farmquest Country Christmas Challenge #24 - - anything country Christmas goes

Inspire Create Challenge #200 - never too early for Christmas

Peace on Earth Challenge #95 - anything Christmas goes

Outlawx Festive Friday Challenge September - Christmas

Creative Moments Challenge #274 - trees

Creative Inspirations - September - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Carol x

Sizzix Hedgehugs and Lisa Horton birthday card

 

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

This time, you can go to town with whatever colouring medium you like to produce a card for our challenge.

I have had these cute Sizzix Hedgehogs in my stash for quite a while now, and I decided it was time to pull them out and ink them up.

This is a very simple card. Just a little ink blending for the background, the addition of a couple of sentiments, and a stitched square die to make a mat. The hedgehogs were stamped, fussy cut, and I added some gloss to the nose and feet with a black glaze gel pen. The mat was placed on a Lisa Horton Bubble die cut, and a couple of tiny butterflies finished it off.

 

I'd like to play along at

Neglected Stuff Challenge September 2025 - hedgehugs stamps

Paper, Rock, Scissors Challenge September #8 - fussy cutting on hedgies

Farmquest Challenge #32 - anything farm or country goes

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge September - Happy Birthday

Pattie's Creative Design Challenge #234 - - anything goes

Creative Inspirations Challenge #30 - - anything goes

I love autumn, so the arrival of September is always good for me. I always look for something new to try too - I think it is the start of a new academic year that does it. Are you trying anything new?

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Carol x