Challenge #101 - Let's Wreath it Up! Reminder

 

I'm delighted that we have the very lovely and talented Greta as our Elfin Muse for August. I love that Greta headed her launch post: 'On Elf Duty'. So cute.

We've had some of the classiest, loveliest cards for this challenge thus far - Greta certainly picked the perfect challenge theme for us!

Just take a look at the beautiful card Greta has created for our Reminder!

You can visit her blog here to find out all the details and to leave her some love.

 

Here's what Greta made to kickstart her Elfin Mission with us:

Isn't Greta's card a dream? I was going to talk through the things I love about her card, but where do I start as everything is simply stunning, STUNNING! I love the big cream bow, the different shades of green AND the sparkly red accents, the placement and style of the gorgeous sentiment, the thin red border. It's all just lovely and totally harmonious.

OK, I'll stop the whole fan girl stuff! Here's what I made, inspired by Greta's card... I wanted to place my sentiment and bow at 5 to 5 just like her original, but it just wouldn't work. Thankfully, everything else seemed to fit together nicely.

I had so much fun CASE-ing/being-inspired-by Greta's card 😉.  I know I made a much more visually interesting card because I drew on Greta's superior design abilities and her adorable signature style! Thanks, Greta!

Here's Cool Dude Rudy with his Random Raffle Prize for August...

Greta and I both hope you'll come Wreath it Up with us before the end of the month.

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The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #100 - Reminder

 

It's REMINDER time here at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge! 

We're celebrating a milestone challenge in the very good company of my dear friend, Gail from CraftyNomad.

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Challenge #100 - Merry go round

Here's Gail's card from the launch post...

I have to say that the more I look at this card the more I love it! The pup is Taco John from LCD, and I love that Gail added a Santa hat at a jaunty angle for extra festive fun. Just look  how Gail created a stripey background and nestled John in amongst a bevvy of baubles. Nice!

Gail's attention to detail is top notch as she has then stamped Ho, Ho, Ho into each bauble. I love the tone-on-tone look of the baubles and so grabbed that look as the inspiration for my card!

I used Wow! Confetti Circle stencil set for my circle and spots, and then added a tone-on-tone snowflake and greeting using (now retired) Snowflake Season from Reverse Confetti. 

Rudolph has done us proud for this celebration challenge and he's offering a prize for not one but two lucky randomly drawn winners.

Lovely!

 

Gail and I hope you'll come and join the fun!

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Christmas Kickstart Challenge #99 - Reminder

Welcome back, card fans. This month we have the lovely Dani from Dani Doodles as our Elf. 

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Dani has chosen a fun theme for us to play this month:

Challenge #99 - Christmas Critters

Here's a little reminder of her card...

You can find all the details about Dani's card over on her Instagram Account, and you can visit her shop here for cute stamps and here for naughty stamps. Whether you're looking for sugar or spice you'll find that Dani's stamps are currently on SALE!

Dani has a little message for potential shoppers: 'All stamp sets are now just £6 on the website! When they're gone, they're gone!'

I loved Dani's card and had so much fun creating my Inspired by... version. 

I wanted a critter in a festive predicament so opted for Fluffles from Stampendous.

Here's Rudolph with his Random Raffle prize for June. As you can see he's offering some adorable critters to one lucky random winner.

 Dani and I both hope you'll have as much fun with this theme as we have and very much hope you'll come and join the challenge!

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The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #97 - Reminder

 

Welcome back! It's Reminder time here at Christmas Kickstart as we play...

Positively Poinsettias

with our good friend the very talented Bobby from Bits and Pieces.

 

Bobby has kindly created a second card for this challenge and it's another stunner! 

You can find all the details about Bobby's card over on her blog here. 

Here's a little reminder of Bobby's first card for our challenge together.  

And here's my 'homage' to Bobby's card. I love her colour palette and knew I wanted to 'grab' it for my card. Thanks again to my mom for supplying the dies. The packaging is missing so I can't give the details.

This was fun to make as I don't usually create die cut cards, however I seem to be having a little run of using dies and I'm quite enjoying the change of technique. 

Rudolph's Random Raffle this month is offering a cute little set of dies, and he kindly requests that you read the Challenge Guidelines so he can include you in his random draw. 

As I'm typing this we currently have #17 beautiful entries in the challenge. None too shabby for April, but this is such a fun theme so I hope we'll see a few more before the challenge ends on April 30th. 

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The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #96 - Reminder

 

We're in excellent company this month as our elf is none other than my dear friend, Arlene from A Bit of This and That...

 

We've had some gorgeous entries with stunning colour palette's thus far. It's interesting to see your colour choices when green, red and gold are off the menu, and it seems that pink is very popular with shades of green not far behind. You guys rock!

Arlene has very kindly created a brand new card for this Reminder. Don't you just love the snow dudes basking in the Winter sunlight. Such fun, and another great colour choice too. Thanks so much, Arlene. 

Here's a quick reminder of Arlene's first card for this challenge. I think her palette is just so pretty and harmonious, and I wish I had her eye for colour combos. 

Here's my 'Inspired by Arlene...' creation. This beautiful stamp called Darkroom Door Christmas Post has sat unused in my stash for ages, and after seeing Arlene's mail inspired card I knew it was time to ink it up and get stamping. 

The ink is clear embossed and gives a lovely sheen to the card. I left my colouring sparse to avoid making the design look too busy.

Rudolph is offering a sweet price again this month...

Please make sure you check the Challenge Guidelines before you enter so that Rudolph can include in the draw for his Random Rafflle Prize. 

So come and play along with Arlene and me: Step away from the traditional and see what you can create using a colour palette that's NOT the norm!

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