Dottie's World Sunday Challenge - Christmas

Yes - you read it right! It was Karen's turn to set the challenge this week on Dottie's World. We have to make something christmassy and also add one of the downloads. On offer too is a fantastic prize to the lucky winner.


Well I suppose its never too early to start on your christmas cards! We usually give the nephews and nieces money wallets at christmas so that they can buy whatever they want. So I made a start. To make the money wallet, I folded a piece of A4 into three, which gives you the right size of pocket for a £20 note or smaller. I used this great image from the Rock 'N Roll downloads which I know Greg will love as he is a budding guitar player. It has been coloured in using prisma pencils. For the backing paper I used paper from Dovecraft. The sentiment was created on the computer.

Just Magnolia Week 1 Challenge

Just Magnolia Challenge Blog has just started this week. For their first challenge there is a fantastic prize on offer. All you have to do is follow this sketch and of course add a stamped image from the Magnolia range.

I used the lovely Tilda one with the sunflower. I coloured her in with prisma pencils. I had some odd bits of sunflower paper hanging around in my stash and used this for the backing paper. Also used pale yellow paper which was cuttlebugged using the swiss dots folder. The dark yellow circle in the background was also cut using nestabilities and embossed with a cuttlebug folder. The ribbon used is from Dovecraft and thought it went beautifully. I made the sunflowers from the same paper and cut them out using nestabilities and cut them to the centre and shaped. The sentiment was printed off on the computer and nestabilities were again used and a gem which I coloured yellow/orange.

Dotties World Sunday Challenge - Hand Made

Its was Nicola's turn to set the Challenge this week. She wanted this challenge to be out of most peoples' 'Comfort Zone'. Everything has to be hand made, meaning no bought backing papers and if we wanted to use embellishments, then they too had to be hand made. Of course we also had to add a Charmed Card and Crafts Download, available here.

Here is my attempt. I liked this challenge this week. I used an old template that I have had for ages. It was made by a very talented lady called Shirley. Please visit her site here for more available templates. I had to cut it out all by hand. The backing papers I made up myself using my Paint Shop Pro and an image of the Aberdeen Football Club Badge. I used football George and paper pieced on an Aberdeen Football top image. The rest of him was coloured in using Prisma pencils. The other embellishments were "googled" for and printed and cut out. All have been attached using foam pads to make them stand out from the card a little bit. Finally a tag which I cut on the cuttlebug was added and of course red and white ribbons to finish it off. As you may be able to guess, Rob is a fanatic Aberdeen FC fan, so hopefully he will love this card!

Amy's Card Inspired by Dottie's World

Here is a card that my daughter made this week. She has been inspired by all the downloads available here at Charmed Cards and Crafts. She has used the Holly Hipster download and coloured her in using coloured pens. The background papers are from Pink Petticoat. The Ribbon is from Dovecraft and the flowers are Just Pots. To finish it off, she added a tag and used peel-off letters for her friend's name.