Hedgehog with Bauble

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is for the Sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.
• The colour challenge at Color Throwdown was Red, Kraft/Brown and Green.
• The challenge at If the Shoe Fits Scrap It asked for mostly Red.

I used Magnolia Christmas papers and the Green papers is a Nitwits paper. The border punch is from XCut (these punches are definitely as good as Martha Stewart - but pretty) I added Kanban jewels and ribbon from the red Capsule Collection. The image and sentiments are from Penny Black. I coloured the image with Promarkers.

xx Mia xx

First & Latest

The challenge at Crafty Cardmakers asked to see your oldest and latest cards.

This card is one of my firsts:

Not one of my bests....

This one is one of my newest cards and I just love this image:

xx Mia xx



Pink & White Penny Black

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is for the sketch at Truly Scrumptious.
• The challenge at Christmas Cards All Year Round asked for Anything Goes.

• The challenge at Penny Black Saturday asked for the recipe of 3 Papers, 1 Ribbon and 1 Charm.
• The challenge at Lexi's Creations asked for a Pink  Winter Birthday creation.
• Elegant was the challenge at AiFactory.

I used papers, tag, greeting and snowflake embellishments are all from the DoCrafts Penelope and Percy Christmas collection. The gems are from the Capsule Collection and the ribbon was one of my mother's old ribbons. The snowflake charm is from my local craft store Sew Simple.

xx Mia xx

Thomas with Flowers

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is for the sketch challenge at Crafty Calendar.

• The challenge at The Play Date Cafe is a colour challenge.
• Glitter was the challenge at Stamp Something.

• Birthday using circles was the challenge at Moving Along With The Times.
• Celebration/Party was the challenge at The Pixie Cottage.
• Anything Goes was the challenge at Christmas Cards All Year Round.
• New Crafty Stash was the challenge at Creative Inspirations Challenge - this is the Capsule Collection items.
• And lastly the challenge at Paper Pretties was a choice and I choose to take circles from it.

I used a Lili of the Valley image with one of my favourite of their characters Thomas and coloured him with Promarkers. The sentiment is also from there. I also used flowers from Papermania Capsule Collection and also jewels and floral ribbon from them. The largest flower is from a QVC kit I got last year. The pattern papers are all from the Hawthorn & Bramble DoCrafts collection. The swirls are from a Marianne's die and the circles are Spellbinders dies and I covered everything with Glitz It Glitter Glue, because of course everything needs a little bit of sparkle!!

xx Mia xx

Black, Silver & Gold New Year

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is for the sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches.
• The colour scheme of Black, Gold & Silver is for the Creative Inspirations.
• Anything Goes was the challenges at Southern Girls, Christmas Cards All Year Round and Creative Craft Challenge.

• Anything with a Bugaboo digi image was the challenge at Catch the Bug.This gave me another excuse to use this Party Turtle image which I just adore.
• The Bee Crafty challenge asked for a Digi image and a New Year's Card.
• The Pixie Dust Challenge which asked for New Year and silver and/or gold.
• New Year was the challenge at Fun With Shapes and More and Celebrate was the challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges.

I used papers from the Papermania Elegance Collection, the jewels are also Papermania as is the pearlescent gold card. I coloured it with a black Promarker, a gold and silver Pilot pen. I also used some Silver paper and a couple of  Forever Friends Collection gold sparkly brads.

xx Mia xx

Fairy Thank You

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is for the Mojo Monday sketch.
• The card is a thank you card for the following challenges, Quixotic Inspirations, Papertake Weekly, Cupcake Craft Challenges, Cute Card Thursday, Winter Wonderland, Phindy's Friday Challenge Blog, Allsorts and C.R.A.F.T..

• It is thank you using a fairy image for the challenge at Magical Monday.

• The challenge at LOTV Challenge Blog asked for one of the Lili of the Valley images and some new crafty stash, this would be my new Card candy (see previous post) and the background the fairy is on is a new Marianne's emboss and cut die I bought. I also have just purchased the patterned papers used which are from the DoCrafts Hawthorn and Bramble.
• The challenge at Christmas Cards All Year Round asked for Anything Goes.

The greeting I have used is also from Lili of the Valley and the coloured card is from the Papermania range.

xx Mia xx

Reindeer Bear

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is a slightly tweaked version of the CPS Sketch - 178 for the yearly review at Card Positioning Systems.
• The themes at both There She Goes and Little Red Wagon were recycling which is the ribbon as it came off of my sisters Christmas cake and was too gorgeous to throw away.

• The challenge at Aud Sentiments was Anything Goes.

• The challenges at My Time To Craft and Really Reasonable Ribbon Ramblings were for something New and I choose new craft stash which was my Card candy from CraftWork Cards which was definitely a fantastic purchase and I will definitely be getting more colours and other items from the store as they are so beautiful.

I also used some pearlescent card that I got from QVC earlier this year. Also I used some Forever Friends papers and decoupage from the Christmas Range. the sentiment also came with the decoupage.

xx Mia xx