On the twelfth day of Christmas

HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you.
I love this card, it says it all... with the presents wrapped and the wine open all that is left is to enjoy a lovely christmas dinner, whether yours is turkey or something else have a wonderful day and I will be posting again soon X x

For the eleventh day of Christmas countdown

A truely magical christmas is wished for you.  I love this wizard, just a shame the flash was in the wrong place!  Well it is not far from the magic hour... have you done everything you were going to do?  I read a funny line earlier in the week about 'to do' lists.  It suggested you put "eating chocolate" at the top, then you might at least get one thing done that day!  I know it is certainly going on the top of my list.. and next to it for tomorrow will be open a bottle of wine.
I hope santa brings all you have wished for, thank you so much for stopping by at this busy time, I will make one final christmas post tomorrow. X x

For the tenth day of Christmas countdown

Another really enchanting card from the 'enchanted' collection by papermania.  The card is a stepper card, I have kept the decoration simple but just loved making this one.  The background paper is from the set of papers and decoupage.  To make the icicles on the front I used a martha stewart punch (if you use it the other way up it looks like grass! - a really clever idea).
The bauble was cut from fantasy film, I have used fantasy fibres inbetween then passed it through a dotty embossing folder.  Got to go now as I still have presents to wrap! Thank you for poping by see you again soon x x

For the ninth day of Christmas countdown

Another Tatty teddy stamp, this time dressed as santa.  I have used the same idea of the vellum star as I used earlier for the penguin card, but I think it looks quite different, I hope you like him too.   As it gets closer to Christmas I guess you are all really busy with your own preparations so thank you for taking time to stop and look X x ... and can I say a BIG thank you to all those lovely ladies that have had the time to send me Christmas cards, they are really so appreciated :)

For the eighth day of Christmas countdown

The is one of my favourite christmas stamps, it comes from woodware and looks fab just inked up in black.  On some of the later ones I have coloured in the holly and the berries and gently smuged the boot over with a sponge and a light tea dye ink pad for effect.  To get the snow sparkle I have used a snowflake mask, rubbed very gently through the 'holes' with my versamark stamp pad till all was sticky, removed this and covered the card in a kaleidoscope embossing powder... heat and the effect is sparkling brilliance!.. Thank you for reading my post today, be with you again tomorrow. X x

For the seventh day of Christmas countdown

That little bit of snow soon came and went!  But I don't mind, it was more like a thin white blanket in our garden for a short while, it will be back later in the winter and with it a chance to build plenty of snow men!  In the mean time a very favourite teddy has built his best friend and is sharing his christmas carols... this is a lovely card. I have used a border die to cut the stars and threaded it through with ribbon.  The sentiment is one of a collection from Lili of the Valley, and the snowflake is punched from vellum using martha stewart's 'arctic snowflake' punch.  I hope you enjoy your day and see you again soon X x

For the sixth day of Christmas countdown

Did you have snow today?  we did... well not much, but enough to cover the ground for a little while.  Yesterday we went to Derby to the theatre to watch The BFG, it was the most wonderful performance, full of giants and little people!  So my post today is an enchanted card... the Snow Queen.  I really hope you like it, it is one of my favourites.  Hope this finds you cosy and warm, thank you for droppin by X x