A taste of winter

We certainly had a taste of winter here in the south at the weekend. I woke up to sleet and this sight greeted me and Billy as I opened the back door.

 Billy ran down to my studio veranda and then decided to come straight back to the warm.

On Sunday it was crisp and bright and I loved seeing the patterns on the leaves.

 There are lots of berries around for the birds.

It was too cold to work in my studio so I decided to make a less inky card for my next Funkie Junkie card and I also wanted to enter a few other challenges.
I am still a week behind, this is Linda's week 8 tag here

 For those of you who are new to Linda's challenge you can read all the rules of it here. In a nutshell you use her weekly tag for inspiration and you can create anything crafty and as long as all 12 projects are completed by 22 Dec. You also have a chance to win one of her generous prizes. I was lucky enough to win $25 dollars last year  to spend in her wonderful on line boutique which sponsors the challenge. Do have a look here at her shop, her stock is enormous and her prices really keen.

I choose to use the challenge to create 12 special Christmas cards.

I was inspired by the die cut ornaments she used, the gingham paper, the holly leaves and the pennant paper strips . Here is my take on her tag.

I recently won some new LOTV  fun little robin stamps and I thought one would sit well inside the die cut ornaments which I own. I had fun colouring  them with distress inks and then cut 1 out. I can use the other for some more Christmas cards

 I made my backing card using archival ink through a holly stencil and then added some distress inks.

 I have lots of snippets of paper in my Christmas stash and thought the pennants are a great way to use a few up

 I chose these 3 as I like the holly and tree details. You can also see my Marianne bouble die cuts above which I cut in mirror card.

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 Here we go.

 I also used some gingham ribbon and made 3 bows

Then it was time to put on my creative hat...I had several goes at the layout and this is my final card.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

                                           The Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas 2015 #8

Pixies' snippets playground 2/3  #204 I used a snippet of card for my holly and a snippet of ribbon.

We love to create anything mixed media/creative #24

Noor UK anything goes

As you like it favourite season and why 3/3 mine is winter for the single reason that it includes Christmas which is just my favourite celebration.

                                                             Bunny Zoe 3/3 sparkle

                                        That Craft Place 1/3anything goes mixed media

                    The Craft Barn snowflakes there are snowflakes on my glitter die cut sentiment.
                                                Sparkles 2/3 Christmas decorations
                                                 Mixed media world anything goes
                                             Simon Says stamp Wednesday anything goes
                         Simon says stamps work it Wednesday 1/3 holiday/Christmas card
               Papertake Weekly take your pick I chose 3 of the themes; the red/green colour option and used both,the bauble shape and there is also some glitter here!

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Bye for now,

Jane x