Totally Gorjuss 157 - Pastel Christmas.

Good morning everyone and since we're getting ever closer to Christmas and I'm up to my ears in Christmas cards this challenge is right up my street. Hopefully lots of you will find it useful too and join us this week. This week we're sponsored by Crafter's Companion. They've usually got some good offers so it wouldn't be difficult to spend your prize voucher.

I had an idea for a quick card. Well it had to be a quick card because I was rather late getting round to making it. I've lost two evening this week to meetings and was out all day meeting my friend. She lives in Lanarkshire and I'm in Aberdeenshire so we decided to meet at Dobbies in Perth. Unfortunately the traffic in Aberdeen was horrendous so I had to text her from Dundee to say I was running half an hour late! I was lucky it was only half an hour as when I reached Aberdeen I sat in a queue for 45 minutes to go about half a mile. Altogether to get through Aberdeen took about an hour and twenty minutes. This is ridiculous as at a quieter time of day it takes an awful lot less time. All I can say is that the clowns who object to the Aberdeen city bypass don't have to drive through Aberdeen!!

Anyway enough waffle. Here's my card and it's not a very good one from me this week. Luckily my talented teamies have made gorgeous cards to inspire you.

I used :-

Spellbinders 2012 Holiday Tree.

Sentiment :- Cheery Lynn.

Tree and sentiment embossed with Stampendous shabby white embossing enamel.

It was really fiddly trying to heat the embossing enamel. I put the tree and the sentiment on a sheet of paper and heated from underneath. The paper got a wee bit singed but the embossing worked!

Thanks for looking and if I find any challenges to enter I'll come back later and add them.

Nice and Simple!

I've seen this beautiful Spellbinders Christmas tree around the blogs. Erika has some gorgeous cards on her blog using this die. So when I saw the die at the SECC on sale for £13.50 it would have been rude not to buy it lol! I made these 2 cards with it at the weekend. Hope you like. I'm also getting good use from my Cheery Lynn Happy Christmas die.

I'm also getting good use from my Cuttlebug embossing folders just now and the lovely Glamour Dust. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Glamour Dust!

Well it's a full day at work for me today so I'll have to catch up later. The only thing about working all day is that in quiet spells I can read my papers and at lunchtime I can get some of my knitting done.

Thanks for looking and if you can tell me what you think of my cards that would be great.

Bears Love Christmas!

Well these ones certainly do!

Is it cheating to use these gorgeous LOTV die cuts to make your Christmas cards? No, thought not! Since it's now November I'm quite prepared to take the odd short cut. I was at my local crop yesterday and between yesterday afternoon and evening I managed to make 6 cards. These two are both very simple and quick to make. Some glitter, embossing, ribbon, candi and die cut sentiments and we're done.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV die cuts.

Sentiment :- Cheery Lynn.

Embossing folders :- Cuttlebug.

Candi, Glamour Dust and ribbon.

I've done a lot of embossing this year and a lot of red and white.

I think this card fits the challenge at St Luke's which is "Traditional Christmas." This is their last challenge so I hope they get a lot of entries.

Thanks for looking and I'm looking forward to hearing what you think if you've got a few minutes to spare. Now I need to see about a 21st birthday card for my great-niece and a birthday card for my grandson who'll be 3 on Friday.

Totally Gorjuss 156 - Anything Goes With a Button.

Good morning everyone and it's been another really quick week. I can't make up my mind whether it's an age thing or a time of year thing lol!

But it's time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week it's a really easy one. "Anything Goes With a Button." Sponsored again by Joanna Sheen. I've made yet another Christmas card. Quite a simple one. Again. I was inspired by a card I saw on Kath's blog. I've done lots of embossing this year but I hadn't thought of using it in a circle and not doing much more. Thanks for the inspiration Kath. I was going to use more buttons but it looked a bit busy so I left it at one. One naked button lol!

I used :-

Cuttlebug embossing folder, cut out with nesties.

Happy Christmas :- Cheery Lynn die.

Poinsettias :- no idea where I got them!

Glamour Dust, button.

I'm going to enter :-

Creative Inspirations - Let's Celebrate.

I said it had been a quick week but now it seems it's been a quick month as it's our crop again today. I'm hoping I've got enough supplies with me to make a few more Christmas cards.

Thanks for looking and I'll try to catch up later.