Wot - no snow ? :o)

This week's Christmas card challenge on Crafty Hazel's blog is  CHNC challenge 111: We don't want any more snow!  Well,  I don't think Mother Nature is listening, Hazel !! :o) Have you looked outside ? It's white. Again. But I don't think it'll last as long as it did a few weeks ago. I feel the need for Spring, now, as I'm sure everyone else does :o)

 

Anyway, in keeping with the no snow challenge, this is my very plain & simple offering, which I'm going to include in the CHNC challenge extra for February, as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll have a *P* please, Bob :o)

I wonder how many people are going to be disappointed by the blog title.  No doubt, some will think it's to do with that old game show *Blockbusters* & I'm sure others will think I'm desperate for the loo :o) However - apologies to all, it's just another Christmas card !! :o) And this time it's a puddin'-on-a-plate :o)

 

 

It's to go with my Bing-bing on CHNC challenge 110 - something begining with P & also on CHNC Challenge extra for February.

I promise to blog something other than cards soon :o)

Cold enough for Bing-bings ?

Another Christmas card to go in the box for Christmas 2013 :o) This one is not a penguin, as you might think, it's a *Bing-bing* because that's what my daughter used to call them when she was little & somehow, it's one of those silly things that have stuck :o)

 

As penguins are this week's theme on CraftyHazel's Christmas challenge 110, I hope this little Bing-bing will be acceptable !! :o)

 

I'm also going to enter it into CHNC extra February challenge :o)

Card swap-challenge-doobery :o)

Well, January has been & gone already, so it's on to February's swap-callenge-doobery, but first, because I'm always running behind & going backwards, here is one last card using some gingery-brown-tan colour card from Terri's January's swap.

 

 

 

My next door neighbour's oldest daughter has just got engaged, so this is the card I made for her.

 

 

February's swap theme was my choice, so I chose black, white & one other colour. Liz sent me black, white & lilac/purple, along with this stamped image. 

It's not my usual style, but I think it came out OK :o)

 

Now I need to make some more cards out of her parcel before I tackle Terri's in a couple of weeks time :o)

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Nativity Card no. 2 :o)

Yes, I know Christmas was only a month ago, & there may be a good 12 months between each one, but let's be honest - it comes round quicker every year :o) 

 

So, one of the items on my *MUST DO IN 2013* list, is to make at least 2 Christmas cards a month. I really should make more than that, but even if I did , I'd still get behind & end up with that mad rush in December, trying to finish everything in time. But - it's part of Christmas, really, isn't it, that panic about whether or not you'll get all the presents made or bought & wrapped, the cards written & posted, the cake made & iced, the pudding steamed & wrapped till needed   :o)

 

However - having said that, I am pleased to say that I've actually made 4 cards this month & this one, I am going to enter in to CHNC Challenge 109 - Nativity  & CHNC Challenge Extra for January, just like my first nativity card :o)
 

 

 

I have a feeling Liz may soon regret the challenge she set me for this year. She's created a challenge MONSTER !! :o)

 

Nativity Card

Liz's second challenge was for me to make a Nativity card & enter it into another competiton. She's only doing this to torment me - she KNOWS I'm a severe technophobe, & so, by challenging me, I have to learn how to link to other blogs :o)

 

So. Fingers crossed & here we go. This is the card:

 

 

& hopefully, this link to CraftyHazelsChristmas Challenge - 109 Nativity - will be active :o)

Update: I've just checked & by golly jingoes - I did it !! :o) I am a success !! :o)

I'm also going to enter it in the CHNC challenge extra for January, just for fun :o)

Christmas card challenge - GULP :o)

I'm not one for entering competitions but I have been set a challenge by my friend, Liz, to make & enter a Christmas card into Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge. I have never linked to another blog before & I have never entered anything I've made into a blog competition, so goodness knows if this is going to work !! :o)

 

So. Here is the card . . .

 

& here, I hope, is the link to craftyhazelnuts's challenge

 

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/chnc-challenge-extra-for-january.html