Bah Humbug Challenge 45

This  week's challenge at Bah Humbug is 'lovely in lilac' and now there is only one more week of these challenges for this year - sad but at least they are coming back in the New year with some more so that is good news.  My card uses background paper from Papermania from a couple of years ago when lilac seemed to be very popular for seasonal cards.  The little stockings were stamped onto coloured paper using a stamp from a free set given away with a recent magazine (why do I always fall for them). Snowflakes were Spellbinders dies and I added some Cuttlebug embossing and a bit of Stickles.

Another Reindeer

It was such a wet miserable day yesterday that I treated myself to a day in the craft room with a few breaks to sit by the fire with warming cuppas.  I made a Christmas card and realised that it fits the Bah Humbug challenge so that will be two cards for that one this week.  Image was stamped and coloured with Copics using a stamp which came with a bargain grab bag many years ago and the poinsettia was die cut using a Marianne die set which I only bought on Monday.  Background papers are from Papermania, ticket came from Cuddly Buddly and the poinsettia was overpainted with champagne shimmer paint.

Embossed Tree

Another brownish card today - well it is a tree!!  The tree was embossed using a Crafts Too embossing folder, butterflies were die cut from gold card using Joy Craft dies, background paper is by My Minds Eye.  A few pearls were added along with a greeting on stampin Up punched shapes.  The tree was embossed onto Core-dinations  card and then sanded to show the lighter inner core of this particular cardstock.  Unfortunately my local shop doesn't seem to be stocking it now which is a pain as it gives great effects used in this way and came in a good range of colours. I am aiming to get away from the brown phase so a Christmas card might well be the next thing - have to do something cheerful today as it is dark, very wet and very windy.

Studio Sketches

This set of stamps was a Stampin Up Hostess gift and I realised that I'd not actually used them yet - probably another sign of an over-abundance of stamps!!  Stamped onto kraft card and coloured with Copic pens, mounted up on Nellies diecuts.  Background paper is from Papermania Hampstead range and some green card embossed with a Tim Holtz folder - I just added a stamped message and a punched tab with some card candy to finish this off. I know this still has a brown look but there is quite a lot of green and I thought it  maybe a good for a man

Cameo

This cameo  - a Quickcutz diecut - has been sitting in one of my many bits boxes for absolutely ages so I decided it was about time I used up some of these bits and pieces.  It has been mounted onto a Marianne doily diecut and the background papers are from the Hampstead range by Papermania.  The flowers are also Marianne dies and the sentiment is a computer one using SU punches.

Looking at this and yesterday's post it appears I am in a brown mode!