Lorraine's Loft

Hi all :-) It's time for a new theme over on the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge,

This time the challenge will last for 4 weeks over the holiday period and the lovely Carol is hosting and the theme is

Anything Goes

+ the option of Sparkle and Shine!

I used a new Little Drummers Cling Stamp and made a Christmas card but I think this image would be great for birthdays too!

I used a Misti Tool to stamp the image with Memento Tudedo Ink, coloured with Copic markers and then stamped again with Archival Black to add crist definition. I kept the design CAS and easy to fit into a normal envelope. Most of my Christmas cards are sent international so they need easy posting ;-)

The sentiment is from a Christmas Mini Clear Stamp Set and the paper is from an older Photoplay Christmas 6X6 pack but there are similar ones available. I also added a couple of strips of glitter card, Star Dust Glitter and a sprinkling of Martha Stewart Gold Glitter over the top for extra sparkle.

and here is a close up ;-)

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Challenges:

The Paper Players. Christmas

52 Card Christmas Throwdown Previous theme: Non Traditional Image July 2019

Crafty Calendar. Christmas

Creative Knockouts. T'is the Season

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Happy Crafting
Luv Lols x x x

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

This week the challenge is

Fun With Dies

DieCember® is a very special month in the Simon Says Stamp calendar and this week we are showcasing some of the new release of DieCember® Craft Dies and previous release dies! If you have any Simon Says Stamp Dies we would love to see them used.

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz on the challenge blog post!
You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your creative makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

Please pop by the challenge blog to see what our lovely DT have made :-)

I used DieCember® Sneaky Kitties Die and Scripty Happy Birthday Die and made this card for a very special helper at the Gozo SPCA animal sanctuary. She spends many hours cuddling kittens an getting them used to being handled so they are tame enough to be re-homed :-)

I kept the design very simple and coloured the kitties all in grey, they are from the same litter ;-)

and I made an envelope using the leftover strip of paper to decorate.

For my second card I used this stunningly beautiful DieCember® Dainty Snowflake Die and used a gorgeous Bohemian Plate Die for the background.

I am going to mass produce this card, I just LOVE these dies together!!! Simply gorgeous don't you think!!

For the sentiment I used a C Z Design Reverse Christmas Sentiment Strip, I love these and have ordered loads, no more white embossing on black card and getting flecks everywhere. no matter how hard you try to avoid ;-)

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Challenges:

Christmas Card

Cardz 4 Guyz. Traditional Christmas

Shopping Our Stash. Let It Snow

CAS on Friday. Snow

Sparkles Christmas. Non Traditional Christmas Colours

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