Christmas card Challenge # 6 - Horses in Snow.

Welcome to a new Christmas Card Challenge!

 

This week we have an inspiration photo for you:

 

 

In detail:

 

And this is my card:

 

I chose Sleigh Ride from Eat Cake Graphics colored with Copics and mounted on a small cards with paper from Tiger.

 

Have a look here to see the amazing cards my teamies have made for this challenge and to check winner from challenge # 5.



Season's Greetings.

Good afternoon!

 

I'm happy to show you a new Christmas card:

 

 

A sweet scene of kids on a sleigh among houses and snow...

 

Although weather is miserable here, we have rain and rain and rain, it's not too cold for November and both winter and snow seem quite far away.

I enjoyed myself making this card and imagining how happy and excited these kids (and the dog) should be!

 

For this card I used Sleigh Ride from Eat Cake Graphics, colored with Copics and positioned on a patterned paper from the Eskimo Kisses collection (Basic Grey).

There is also a version of the same sleigh with the landscape: you can find it here in Eat Cake Graphics shop.

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafting Calendar November Challenge: Christmas

Creative Card Crew Challenge # 74: Christmas Joy

Glitter'n'Sparkle Challenge # 109: Anything but Square

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes (+ optional twist add sparkle)

Stamping Sensations November Challenge: Simply Christmas

2 Cute Ink Challenge # 112 - Animals.

I'm so excited I can finally share great news with you: I've been accepted in the 2 Cute Ink Stamps Challenge Team!!! Yippie!

 

I've always loved Heidi's cute images and you may have had the chance to see some of her digis on my cards but now it's official! You'll see them at least twice a month!

 

Today there's a new challenge and the theme is: ANIMALS!

Heidi has created some super-cute horses which I LOVE! It was so fun to work with it and a pleasure to color with girly girl pinks!

 

This is my card:

 

 

It's called Nerdy Horse and it's part of the Nerdy Horses set (you can find it in 2 Cute Ink shop here). It was perfect for me: my daughter loves horses and loves to read too so I imagined her sitting on the grass reading her favourite books!

 

Are your ready for the challenge?

 

You can find the rules here.

 

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge # 70: Polka Dots

Crafting by Designs August Challenge: Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge: Anything Goes

Crafty Calender August Challenge: Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge # 83: Summer Colors



 

I Love Colors...

... and my daughter loves unicorns!

Well, she actually loves My Little Pony but there are unicorns there so when I saw a digi in 2 Cute Ink shop I thought I - we - should have it!

Differently from my daughter, I don't have a passion for ponies, horses or unicorns, but this stamp was too cute even for me!

I decided to use it for something different from a card and made a large post-it cover, this one:

It is Lucky Unicorn and I wanted to make something colorful with it. I stumbled across this paper from the Country Drive paper pad (Echo Park) while searching for papers for another project.

I kept embellies to a minimum and glued the image directly on the paper pad without 3D dots to keep it practical and less delicate.

This little unicorn is so happy and cheerful!

I'd like to enter my project into the following challenges:

2 Cute Ink Challenge # 103: Anything Goes

Love to Create Challenge # 110: Anything Goes for Kids

The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge # 67: All Creatures Great and Small

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge # 62: Yipes, Stripes!

Challenges 4 Everybody # 40: Anything Goes

Cards for Emily - Part 1

A few days ago I read about "A Card for Emily"on Dustin Pike blog.

Emily is a 7 year-old girl who is fighting leukemia and Dustin let us choose one of his Daisy and Buttercup images to make a card to be sent to her.

I asked my daughter if she would like to make a card for this little girl and she made this:

She used the Daisy and Buttercup image from Dustin Pike, colored it with colored pencils and glitter and embellished the card with paper flowers, rhinestones and a pretty pink satin bow.

She also wrote a very moving message inside the card, which I translated into English hoping to be able to keep the same atmosphere. I suggested her not to write about illness or recovering and she really wrote THE perfect message.

I'm finishing my card and I'll post it as soon as ready.

If you want to send a card to Emily, you can read about it here.

Thanks, Dustin!

Oops... I Forgot!

I forgot to add another card for Paper Playtime Digi Monday Challenge!

My daughter made a card which I sent to our DT coordinator, just in case she had a spot and... she has chosen her as Special Guest Designer!

This is her card:

When I saw this digi in Di's Digi Shop I knew she would have loved it: she loves horses and she rides with no fear.

She colored the digi and chose papers among those I was using for my DT card. My only advice was to suggest how to use the papers I had cut for her and arrange the flowers. Since I was a little behind her with my card, she didn't let me use the same papers so I had to go with a lighter color scheme... I let her look for something in my embellishments drawer (which she loves!), and she chose three rhinestones and some flowers. I also gave her the sentiment and the punched circle.

I love these summer days spent together in our craft room chatting and making things!