12 days of christmas box and FJ week 12

Hello there! Well the weather's getting more and more crazy here - last night we tried carol singing - but only managed 40 minutes before the hail was coming down so fast and hard we had to give up. Poor little Penny was crying bless her! Anyway - it gave me some time to craft last night so things all work out for the best in the end!

Today I'd like to share with you my 12 days of Christmas box - I got this and decorated it last year but have overhauled it this year so its all been done with LOTV stamps and papers.

The trees and snowflakes have been cut using die'sire dies. The hearts on the internal boxes are wooden and have been stained with weathered wood Distress stain. The two LOTV stamps have been coloured with speccies. The lettering is from Claritystamps. I have had a family photo done as a jigsaw puzzle - its got 204 pieces and I've split these between the boxes = we have the first box on Christmas day and a new box each subsequent day! I hope it goes down well - last year I bought hair clips and the like so its a bit different this year.

I'd like to enter this box into the following challenges:

LOTV ideastoinspirechallenge- ABAC
CFAS:craftingforallseasons ABAC
ALBCpaulaholifieldcrafts albc-christmas-cheer: Christmas cheer
ABAC:anythingbutacard Holiday twist
SSSMonsimonsaysstampblog: Use a stamp
CYPCcraftyourpassionchallenges: ABAC

Lastly I have my final tag from the funkie junkie's 12 tags of Christmas to share with you - this challenge is sponsored by the funkiejunkie Boutique and Linda's original tag can be found here. I took the horse and carriage as inspiration plus the sideways tag.

I used the only horse and carriage stamp I have - its from claritystamps. The snow stamp is from sheena douglass. I'd like to enter this tag into the thefunkiejunkie-12-tags-of-christmas tag 12 challenge.

Thats all for today. Thankyou for visiting my blog and leaving your pearls of wisdom and lovely comments - I really do appreciate it!

I'm off to the Hornby Ladies Christmas dinner tonight - looking forward to that as it was so beautiful last year! Here's hoping it will be as much fun tonight!

Big Hugs to you!

Rachel xx

Inspired by Funkie Junkie week 6 from the 12 tags of Christmas

Hello there! How are you? Very good I hope and keeping wrapped up in this cold snap. I can't believe all the snow that has been flying around on pictures in blogland - we've not had any yet - thank goodness! Just to report that Lucy had a great day too - she loved the canoe raft and the tree climbing and was absolutely shattered by the time she came home! So she'll sleep tonight - not sure about the other one though - she's lost her first tooth so is lying in wait for the tooth fairy I think!!!!!

Todays card is inspired by the tag here from Linda Coughlin of the thefunkiejunkie 12-tags-of-christmas challenge sponsored by the thefunkiejunkie Boutique. I was inspired by the plaid and the number , the gold bow and the red cardinals and also the tree.

The paper is from LOTV - the winter wishes pad - and the birds are cut using spellbinders dies. The trees are cut using a die'sire die and then brayered with sparkle medium (diamond) from Imagination Crafts. The numbers have been cut using a cuttlebug die set and the banner is a spellbinders die - I stamped the diecut with a script stamp.Then just added the lace.

I'd like to enter this card into the Funkie Junkie challenge week 6 thefunkiejunkie and also
Fab n funky week 2fabnfunkychallenges: AG
Rhedd and rosiesrheddandrosies: Christmas is coming
TPSthepapershelter: Christmas is coming
Penny'spennyschallenges AG
Tuesday throwdowntuesdaythrowdown: Snowbirds

Now how's about a little candy - its just for you followers and is a commenters candy - its a few things some stamps and papers and a pan pastel that got duplicated in a recent win I had - but if you'd like to be in the running please leave a comment on this post and be a follower. I will draw a winner next Tuesday morning. Just a little thankyou to all you lovely people who comment so regularly!

Thanks for dropping by today and hope to see you again soon! before I go news from Crafty sentiments!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Mid month inspiration post for CCAYR: Winter wonderland

Good afternoon all! I do hope you are well! Did you see Sheena's new stamps - fabulous images - they're going to be a must have for me!!!

Back again with a midway reminder post for CCAYR where we're having a challenge for the whole month called winter wonderland - so get making those christmas cards and link up!

Here's what I did:

The card blank is one of the newish ones from Craftwork cards - my mum and I decided to have a pack and share them and this is the first thing I've done with them. The stamp is from stampendous - I chose this with a £10 voucher I won for my mums craft shop - love this image and I'm sure it won't be the last time I use it this Christmas. I've coloured the image with promarkers and added glitter and decoupaged it up. The papers and sentiment are LOTV. The trees were cut by die'sire dies and then brayered with sparkle medium.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

CHNCcraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge: Outdoors
CHNC extracraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2: AG
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLTladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog: Use kraft
LEJlejdesignschallengeblog: Seasons greetings
PTWpapertakeweekly: Snow and ice
Divasdivasbydesignchallenge: Something snowy
charismacharismacardz: vintage

I'd also like to show you another card I've made for the pink and white LOTV challenge - this image is just adorable - such cute little angels:

I'd like to enter this into the LOTV ideastoinspirepink and white challenge and also
cute card Thursdaycutecardthursday: so angelic
CLFcraftylittlefairieschallenge: Top of the pops - there must be an angel (playing with my heart)
Bearly minebearlymine-challenges: Christmas in  pink
Ribbon Girl:ribbongirls Add sparkle

Thanks for dropping by today and if this is your second visit - double thanks go out to you. I really do appreciate your visits and any comments you leave.

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

WOW at Creative Inspirations and a little claire club card make

Good morning Lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are well and happy. I'm feeling a little more organised after buying the mulled wine and mince pies for the school christmas fair and sorting out some gift bags for the secret mums gift stall. I even managed to buy a Christmas cake for the luxury hamper we'll be raffling - and put posters up and secured some more help on the day! All good news!!

There's a new challenge today over at Creative Inspirations cinspirations and we're sponsored by the stamp fairy - that means I got to use one of the fab images of Barry - don't you just love him? Here's my card:

I used an embossalicious grande dots folder for the background along with a memory box border top and bottom and some trees cut from die'sire dies to the left - the sentiment is from LOTV. The image itself has been coloured with promarkers and I added a faux frame using the die as a mask.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
PTWpapertakeweekly: snow and ice
2 sisters:2sisterschallengeblog Christmas sparkle
CHNC:craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge Outdoors
CHNC extra: craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2AG
sweet stampin:sweetstampinchallengeblog Christmas is coming
allsortsallsortschallenge: White Christmas
sparkles Christmassparklesforumchristmaschallenge: Have a beary Christmas
ready-teddy-gochallenge- challenge-28-use-embossing
christmasatsweetstampinchallengeblog november-white-on-white-

I have another card to show you too made from the stamps and cards that I get monthly from the Little Claire stamp club. I kept a few of the card packs and took them with me when I was away over half term as something to do in the evening - this is one of the ones I did:

Hope you have a great wednesday - I'm running this morning then preparing for rainbows this afternoon - we're going to be having fun with shaving foam and inks and also doing some die cutting - should be fun!!! Thanks for dropping by today and for any comments you may leave! I really do appreciate each and every one and look forward to reading what you think!

Big Hugs

Rachel

CCAYR Challenge: Winter Wonderland

Hello there! Another scheduled post! My second today! Its time for a new challenge over at Christmas Cards all year around and this time the theme is Winter wonderland. We're looking for cards with a snowy influence! Here's my card:

I've had my brayer and sparkle medium out again - this time I've brayered die cut Christmas trees ( die'sire brand).  The image is LOTV and I coloured it with promarkers. The papers are also LOTV as is the sentiment.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

simonsaysstampblog: AG
craftyribbonschallenge: G with ribbon
paulaholifieldcrafts-albc-sparkle-and-shine
Crafters Companioncrafterscompanion-christmaswinter Christmas
Polkadoodles:polkadoodle AG Christmas
CHNCcraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2. 2: AG
cute card Thursday:cutecardthursday Sparkles

Thanks for visiting! Hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs Rachel