Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Hello, it's Wednesday and today I have an appointment at the hospital because I've been having great pains in my back and shoulder.  I've been going to the physio too but I wasn't having any improvements so I'm going there now hopefully this will help! Wish me luck :)  ... The Italians left yesterday morning, and thankfully everything was fine .. so I was really happy and so relieved :)

Anyway, today it's time for a new challenge at
Crafting By Design
It's still too early for Christmas, but we at are having just that :)
Well, not really lol , but that is the theme for our new challenge that started today

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

For my card we got to use  an image from our sponsor Drawn By Krista and I chose this sweet penguin. I colored it with my promarkers and cut it up to mount it on some embossed card. More die cuts and of course some fun DP.

Not being in a very crafty mood, I think it turned out quite ok :)
The lucky winner this time will get 3 digi images from our sponsor.


The challenge will run through May 2nd so lots of time to join in.

I am entering my card in these ANYTHING GOES challenges today:

The Corrosive Challenge April 
A Bit More Time to Craft 42 
A Perfect Time to Craft 04 
Crafty Animals 01

and in these as well:
Tuesday Throwdown 340 - EMBOSSING
Scrap N' Challenge - EMBOSSING

Crafty Catz 367 - ANYTHING + OPTION USE A NUMBER

Winter Wonderland - CUTE CHRISTMAS

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 412 - CHRISTMAS

Thank you for looking

xxx

Anything Goes with Crafty Friends

Hello everyone, and a happy weekend to all. I've just been to the hairdresser to do my hair as  tonight we got dinner out planned with friends for the end of the year. Some partying afterwards if hubby is up to it :) Have you done any New Year resolutions ?? I don't usually do but this year I HAVE TO as I stopped all my training and don't like this. .. so I have to do a resolution to start again. Trying to get hubby to come with me but it looks like it's more difficult than finding a pin in a haystack! Will see. Anyway, so this is the last card for this year, a DT one this time for the new challenge that started today at

CRAFTY FRIENDS

and of course I had to do another Christmas Card when the theme is

ANYTHING GOES

For my card I decided to use another of my cute Melonheadz stamps ... I did tell you I loved these images and that I would be using the other ones from the set, so here is another one! I got the other ones printed off but still didn't manage to use them yet. Hopefully I will soon.. and they would be ready for Christmas 2017.. and then for once I wouldn't be late in posting them :P

Back to my card. To make up the card this time I didn't use any DP but stamped the background with my snowflakes stamps from Inkadinkadoo. Then I added some other embellishments and a bow to finish it off. Quick and easy and cute of course :)

We are this time sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps and they are offering a $12 voucher to spend in the store to one lucky winner.

I am entering my card in these challenges today 

Holly Jolly Christmas 86 - CHRISTMAS
I ♥ Promarkers 325 - ANYTHING GOES

Melonheadz Friends Challenge - TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

Cute Card Thursday 458  - ANYTHING GOES 

Southern Girls 150 - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking

Wishing you a Happy New Year

xxx

Another Christmas Card

Good morning everyone. I am hoping you all had a lovely Christmas :) Unfortunately ours wasn't good at all... in fact I think it was the worst ever for us as we spent it in hospital! Hubby had severe pain due to a kidney stone which started early morning on Christmas day! I took him to hospital and they kept him there for three days until he passed the stone. Luckily, which is quite rare, we were going to be alone at home for Christmas lunch, as we were going to lunch to his brother's but they called it off as they were unwell, so at least we didn't disrupt others as well.

On a positive note,  was really excited with a 5 day booking for the end of year at my rental place in Qawra, Malta :) but it was also during the time when I was going to and fro to hospital so I was really really busy with the preparations and everything and I had no-one to help me. 

Anyway, all is good now and he is back home and we are on two days vacation as well :) so I thought I would share this cute Christmas card that I did. I had said that I would be using my other digi stamps from Melonheadz and here is another one.. so cute :)

I colored the image with my promarkers, oldie DP, some die cuts, a sentiment peel off and other small embellishments to finish it off. Love how it turned out and it was quite simple to do.

Entering my card in these challenges today

Holly Jolly Christmas 86 - CHRISTMAS
I ♥ Promarkers 325 - ANYTHING GOES

Passion for Promarkers 375 - USE YOUR DIES and PUNCHES

Melonheadz Friends Challenge - TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

Some exciting news now to finish off :)

Just found out that I made the Top 3 with my other Melonheadz card at Melonheadz Friends

     

Thank you for looking xxx

Here Come the Holidays Card no 2

Hello again and as I said I have two cards today, both Christmas cards and both DT Cards for the new challenge that started today at

Crafting By Desgins

The theme for this week is

HERE COME THE HOLIDAYS

Holidays can be any holiday, so you can do any holiday, not just Christmas!

Me not having done much Christmas Cards yet have of course done just those.

So for my second card, I am again using an image from one of our four sponsors, but this time it's from Melonheadz. I colored the image with my promarkers, found some oldie DP and the top die cut is one of those flower dies which you turn around to make up a flower. Well I used it in a different way as you can see :) and I think it came out quite nice. 

The image is from a bundle of digis Christmas String Beans and they are all as cute as this one that I am using. I printed off six of them, but unfortunately only managed to use this one for now... but you will surely see me making them up in cards real soon as I just fell in love with them.

Our other three sponsors for this challenge are

Beccy's Place

Di's Digis

and Alicia Bel

So four great reasons to join in! and remember you can add up to 3 projects and the challenge runs till the 28th of December!

As for me, I'm entering my cards in these ANYTHING GOES challenge

Crafty Sentiments

Create and Makes 6 (Optional Green, Red and Gold)

Digi Choosday 49

and also in these other themed challenges

Holly Jolly Christmas 86 - CHRISTMAS

Passion For Promarkers 375 - USE YOUR DIES/PUNCHES

Come and Get It Challenge - CHRISTMAS

Christmas with the Cuties 1 - ANYTHING CUTE AND CHRISTMASSY

Dream Valley 146 - CHRISTMAS

Melonheadz Friends - WINTER IS HERE

Dragonfly Dreams - CHRISTMAS

Thank you for looking

xxx

Here Come The Holidays

It's already Wednesday, and finally I'm settling down again after the short break in Vienna and have managed to get my DT Cards done just in time! I'm always so busy after a holiday.. It's really true what they say that you need a holiday after a holiday ha ha :P 

Anyway, so onto my DT Cards for today's challenge at

Crafting By Designs

The theme for this week is

HERE COME THE HOLIDAYS

Holidays can be any holiday, so you can do any holiday, not just Christmas!

Me not having done much Christmas Cards yet have of course done just those.

So here is my first card and here I'm using the image, Rino and Reno. 

This is from one of our four sponsors  Alicia Bel.

 I have of course colored the image with my promarkers. The Christmas tree on this card was recycled from a shop bought card and then I added the bow and star and the red glitter as well.

Our other three sponsors are 

Beccy's Place

Di's Digis

and Melonheadz

So four great reasons to join in! and remember you can add up to 3 projects and the challenge runs till the 28th of December!

As for me, I'm entering my card in these ANYTHING GOES challenges

Crafty Sentiments

Create and Makes 6 (Optional Green, Red and Gold)

Digi Choosday 49

and also in these other themed challenges

Holly Jolly Christmas 86 - CHRISTMAS

Passion For Promarkers 375 - USE YOUR DIES/PUNCHES

Come and Get It Challenge - CHRISTMAS

Christmas with the Cuties 1 - ANYTHING CUTE AND CHRISTMASSY

Dream Valley 146 - CHRISTMAS

Melonheadz Friends - WINTER IS HERE

Dragonfly Dreams - CHRISTMAS

Thank you for looking

YOU CAN SEE MY SECOND CARD IN MY NEXT POST :)

xxx

Two Colors

Hello everyone and a happy Wednesday to all. It's another week and so time for another great challenge at

I♥ Promarkers

This week we are challenging you to use just TWO COLORS on your projects and of course use the Promarkers to color in your images.

For my card I got to use this fun image of Santa - Simply Santa from our sponsor Dr Digi's House of Stamps, and of course I just used two colors on my card... which are the red and brown.

When I was thinking of what colors to use, I had thought a Christmas card would be perfect because I could use the red and green, but then, on coloring the image, I noticed that there was his sack, which I didn't want to color green, so I had to just do with the red and brown. After all, I must say, I was really pleased with how it turned out, and it's something different from the usual red and green. Besides that, I had those background papers for such a long time, which I was never able to use, so I was really pleased with that as well.

To finish off my card I used a sentiment stamp from Crafter's Companion, added two pom poms and a Marianne Design die-cut Christmas tree and some gems as well.

I hope you will come and play with us this week.

Entering my  card in these challenges today:
Creative Card Crew 110 - DIE-CUT
Holly Jolly Christmas 69 - SANTA
Digi Choosday 14 - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking

xxx

Use Something New

Hello and a Happy New Year to all. Hope you had a good start and your 2016 will be a fantastic one. As for me, well I wasn't so well unfortunately, but after I spent two days in bed resting and taking pills and honey and lemon and all that stuff I was so much better by new year's eve and I  managed to go out for dinner with friends. We had booked quite some time ago and I didn't want to disappoint them! Anyway, that went well, and yesterday we had my FIL for lunch which was lovely, we were also invited over by my brother on Wednesday and tonight we are also invited at my brother in law for drinks and finger food. I'm really looking forward for next week, when hopefully everything will fall back into the normal routine and I start eating healthy again, and exercising, as even that took a back seat this week, and hope to get off the two kilos I gained!!!! 

Anyway, onto my DT card for today as this week it's time for a new challenge at 

Crafty Friends

The theme this week is

USE SOMETHING NEW

The new stuff that I'm using is the digi, Star Angel Sprite which I was lucky to have to make my card from one of our sponsors Aurora Wings. The prize is $15 worth of digis.

and I'm also using a a new die, the Merry Christmas sentiment, which, very lucky me, I had won sometime ago in a challenge here in blogland. It's from Wild Rose Studio and is actually one, but I cut it off in two.

 The image I colored it with my promarkers and added glitter to her dress and on the stars on her hair and on the star that she is holding and also all around the DP.

Our second sponsor for this challenge is Pretty Grafik Designs and they are offering a $20 gift voucher to the lucky winner.

I am entering my card in these challenges today:

2 Crafty Girls Challenge 9 - ANYTHING GOES

As You Like It - ANYTHING GOES

Pile It On 98 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS

Passion For Promarkers 326 - CHRISTMAS

Paper Creator's Crafts 43 - ANYTHING GOES
Bunny Zoe's December Challenge - SPARKLE
Craft-Dee BowZ January Challenge - ANYTHING WITH A HANDMADE BOW
Our Crafty Corner 4 - ANYTHING GOES
 

Thank you for looking

xxx

Another Christmas Card

With Christmas just two days away, I thought I would post one last Christmas card that I did, not that I sent out any this year! Not even one, but we just didn't feel we should with our mum passing away last month. As for the decorations at home, we just put out the crib and baby Jesus and that was all.

Anyway, onto my card, which I should have posted last week btw.. but to tell you the truth I was struggling with the theme , and then I was so busy at the office that I just didn't manage it! So today I thought that it's better late than never... and so here it is!

The image that I used is Holy Night from The Paper Shelter.

I colored it with my promarkers and used three different DPs from two different paperpacks. Two are from a Dovecraft paperpack and the striped one was a freebie in a magazine. There's also two different ribbon, ponsietta die cuts and also a recycled sentiment from another card.

Some exciting news now as I was the lucky winner at the ABC Christmas Challenge and won a fabulous die from their sponsor Wild Rose Studio. yippeee :)

Entering my card in these challenges today.

Crafty Creations 305 - ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Gals Corner 51 - ANYTHING GOES

Card Mania Challenge 75 - CHRISTMAS

Passion For Promarkers 326 - CHRISTMAS

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Cardmakers and More 54 - SNOW

Sweet Stampin' - MERRY CHRISTMAS

Thank you for looking

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

xx

Anything Goes

Hello everyone and a good morning to all. Hope you are enjoying your week. We had a public holiday here in Malta yesterday and it being a Tuesday, me and hubby took Monday off as well ... so coupled with the weekend that was four days off from work yay : ) Big happy smile :D We went to Valletta shopping and in the evening on Monday we had the staff cocktail party, which was really nice too. I also managed to buy me a really nice dress last Saturday, spent more than I was planning too, but aww who cares... you only live once !!!! .. and I can wear it for the New Year's Eve gala dinner party we are planning to go!

Anyway, back to today.. a Wednesday, back to work boo hoo : (  .. but back to blogging and sharing my new DT Card for this week's new challenge at 

I ♥ Promarkers

With Christmas just round the corner, and everyone being busy with Christmas preparations and all, the theme for this week is an easy peasy

ANYTHING GOES

Being an anything goes challenge I have of course made a Christmas card! For my card I decided to use this really cute clear stamp of Humprey's Corner from Crafter's Companion. First time using it and it was a lovely gift from my dear friend Pam. I colored it with my promarkers and then made some clouds in the background with ink and a clouds die.
The gorgeous DP, three different ones in fact, are from two different paperpacks which were free in the Quick Cards and the Cardmaking & Papercraft magazines.

We are this week sponsored by 

Dr Digi and the prize for this week is 2 digi images of the winner's choice.

I am entering my card in these challenges today:

Come and Get It Challenges - MERRY CHRISTMAS
Glitter and Sparkle 166 - ANYTHING GOES
Pile It On 98 - CHRISTMAS / WINTER
The Ribbon Girls - ANYTHING GOES
A Gem of A Challenge 159 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
Card Mania 75 - CHRISTMAS
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - ANYTHING PATTERNED PAPER


Thank you for looking
xxx

Christmas with Crafty Friends

Hello again, and a happy Saturday to all. Hope you're enjoying your weekend and have some nice things planned. As for me this morning I have a dentist appointment  :( but then I am going shopping as I need a dress for next week to go to our staff Cocktail Party. I was planning to wear something that I had bought some time ago, but hmmm trying it on again I decided that I wanted something different... so addio housework that I was planning to do after dentist.. and hello shopping :) hoping that I find something quick and nice he he :)

Anyway, it's time for another new challenge at  

Crafty Friends 

and the theme for this fortnight is

CHRISTMAS

so another Christmas card from me for this week!

To do my card we were so lucky to have an image from our sponsor Pink Gem Designs and I chose this cute image Polo in Scarf. I colored the image with my promarkers then made up my card with a DP from my Dovecraft paperpack and finished it off with a star die cut, sentiment, bow and some Christmas trees embellishments.... very simple, just perfect for those quick Christmas cards.

The prize this time is two digi images of the winner's choice from our fabulous sponsor  

Pink Gem Designs 

Hope you will be able to join us this week.

Entering my card in these challenges today.

ABC Christmas - X is for 4 X 4

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - STARS
Crafting for All Seasons 115 - BRRR IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
Simon Says Challenge - LET IT SNOW

Inky Chicks 60 - MERRY CHRISTMAS
Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES
Tuesday Throwdown 272 - CUTE and CUDDLY

Thank you for looking

xxx

Winter

Hello everyone, another week gone by and we're already in December now, so close to Christmas day already. ... so for this week's DT Card I decided to do a Christmas card as it fits perfectly our theme WINTER for this week at

I ♥ Promarkers

 

To make my card I used this gorgeous image from Mo Manning, which I of course colored with my promarkers, two different DP from a paper pack which was free in the magazine Cardmaking & Papercraft and then finished it off with a sentiment, a red and gold glittered bow, and red glittered reindeer and snowflakes die cuts. 

... nearly forgot... I also added three green gems on the snowflakes.

We are this week sponsored by Marianne Design and the lucky winner will get this lovely prize.

Entering my card in these challenges this time.

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas 257 - DIE CUTS or PUNCHES

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - PATTERNED PAPERS

Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES

Crafting From the Heart 88 - ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Sentiments - WINTER

Hiding in My Craft Room 227 - ANY HOLIDAY

Sweet Stampin' - SPARKLE and SHINE

Hope you will join us this week.

Thank you for looking

xxx

Traditional Christmas

Last week I mentioned that we were planning to go to the beach if the weather was still nice and sunny ... well we did go but we did not swim as the weather wasn't that nice :( In fact, it was cloudy and a bit windy too, so we just had a picnic by the beach, which was still nice. We had lots of goodies to eat and we really enjoyed each others company. Well, it looks like I will have to wait for next year .. and in the meantime we are already preparing for Christmas and making Christmas cards. In fact the theme for this week at

I ♥ Promarkers 

is

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

It's the first Christmas card I made for this year and I really enjoyed making it and getting out all my Christmas stuff.  Love the traditional Christmas colors.

The background DP was a freebie paper pack in a magazine, as was the 'Joy to the world' sentiment and the large 'NOEL' banner is recycled from an old Christmas card. I love it when I recycle something or use up something which I've had for quite some time...  like the Christmas tree here to which I added two bells and a bow. 

We have two sponsors this week.
The first one is the Stamping Boutique and the image that I am using today is from The Stamping Boutique. Prize is 2 images or 3 images if the entrant has used a Stamping Boutique image. 

Our second sponsor for this week is Letraset and here is their prize .. these fabulous new promarkers that have gone on sale in UK and Europe!!! Wow, I'd love that too !!

Some exciting news now as I just found out that I was the lucky winner at Kenny K's Krafty Krew challenge with my card from last week. Looking forward to more Kenny K digis to add to my every growing collection :)

     

Entering my card in these challenges today:

Inky Chicks 59 - SILENT NIGHT

Papertake Weekly - LET IT SNOW

Crafty Sentiments - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for looking 

xxx