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Hello, did ya miss me😀.

Life has been super busy here but as soon as I saw Karen Burniston's flower pot POP STAND I knew I had to have it. I squealed with delight when it arrived this week.

The cute characters are a freebie set from PAPERCRAFT ESSENTIALS magazine. Issue 140.

Thanks for looking, see you again soon.

Karen Burniston October design challenge

Hello and welcome to October! This year is truely flying by too fast. So this months challenge is one I really enjoyed. Karen challenged us to 'Characters in Costume' something I love to do. I chose Chilly the penguin for this challenge and created this very cute snow-penguin.

I used the carrot from Karens new 'lucky the rabbit' die set which is coming soon to elizabeth craft designs. The cute christmassy hat is from the Karens merry and bright pop it up props set #5.

Have you seen the new stamp sets you can also get now on elizabeth craft designs? I stamped Karens 'marry christmas' with the 'and a happy new year' on Karens tags from the tags pivot dies set and pegged them to my card. The candy cane that is included in Jolly the mouse die set is an excellent accessory for the frosty all seasons tree.

 The adirondack chair pop up die set makes for a lovely scene.

I hope you enjoyed looking at this card as much as I enjoyed making it. Don't forget to check out all the other wonderful cards the rest of the design team have created.

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Karen Burniston December challenge advent accordion album card

so here is my second card for Karen Burniston's December challenge which was to choose a month of the year and make a card for a special occasion or holiday for that month.

originally I had planned to make an accordion album 12 days of Christmas card but when I sat down to plan it I realised I didn't have the dies I would need. My none crafty friend Lisa was with me and suggested I think about an advent card and bam the ideas just started flowing. 

I used Karen's Fancy Label accordion album die and all 6 different edging dies you can get from Elizabeth Craft Designs. As I don't have a number die set small enough to fit on I used jewels and gems to create the numbers.

For the surprises behind each door I used Els silk microfine glitter on double sided adhesive and promarker technique which can be seen here.

 Each of the picture is a Elizabeth Craft Design peel of sticker.

 For the Rudolf face I used a round peel off sticker and hand drew a smiling mouth and eyes.

On the last page in order for me to write my message neatly I glued some little clothes pegs and cut out the largest size fancy label die which comes with the fancy label accordion album die set. I can then when I need to remove the label write my message and then peg the label back in place again.

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CAS Christmas cards...

With only 114 sleeps to Christmas its time to seriously make Christmas cards, right? :). A friend of mine pinned a really simple but pretty evergreen tree card on Pinterest and I thought I'd have a go at it. You can see the original card here.

I used the bowler hat from Karen Burniston's props die set for the bucket to sit the tree in and the cute little hearts that came with the pull card and oval accordion dies sets.

happy crafting  :)

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New Elizabeth Craft Designs christmas dies...

I managed to wangle a few hours at my crafty friend Helens house playing with her new Elizabeth Craft Designs dies. There are sooooo many lovely dies coming soon I just know, like me, you are going to love them all!!
Look what you can do with the new word dies!!! This Merry Christmas one fits perfectly on Karen Burniston's new Lorna label pop it up die.

But even more exciting look at the new stocking die that also fits so perfectly too!!

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Cute peel off sticker robin card...

There are only 308 sleeps to Christmas so I thought I'd join a few Christmas challenge blogs. This card is made using Karen Burniston's Katie die and I am going to enter it into the merry Monday Christmas challenge which stipulated I need to put holly somewhere on the card. I used a tiny holly stamp I got as a freebie from a magazine last Christmas, and added teeny tiny red pearls as holly berries.

The peel off sticker is an Elizabeth craft design bird that I coloured using brown promarkers and red embossing powder. The merry Christmas is also an Elizabeth craft design die.

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It's a wrap...

I used Karen Burniston's decorative strip trellis and chevron dies as well as her banners and border thinlits dies to christmasify these gifts.The label is from Karens gift card holder thinlits set.

I found this great bow die by Robert Addams at www.papercrafts.co.uk. He has some fantastic dies that I'm looking forward to purchasing after Christmas.

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