Christmas | baileyrosy

Welcome back to another fun challenge at Colorful Options. First, a big thank you to all of the fabulous entries we had for our Red challenge. You really do make it difficult to choose winners.

Let’s embrace the festive cheer this December with a splash of red, green, and/or gold! We invite you to tap into your creativity and bring these classic holiday colors to life. Choose one, two, or all three—whatever inspires you most! Let your imagination run wild and see where these colors take you. Whether you’re drawn to the season’s rich, traditional hues or the stamps’ joyful energy, we can’t wait to see how this inspiration board sparks your designs.

If these colors aren’t quite your style, don’t worry! You’re also welcome to join us with a rainbow-inspired craft. Have fun, and let yourself enjoy!

I made a couple of cards for this challenge utilising some of my new goodies.

I used a combination of dies, the Emerald Cut Labels dies from spellbinders for the frames with the coordinating shaker dome, and the snow person and snowflake are courtesy of Tim Holtz for Sizzix using The Vault Winter Wishes set. A smattering of snow and sequins inside the dome and a touch of embossing popped up on Kraft card.

For this card, I used Spellbinders Fresh Picked Labels dies and a coordinating shaker dome filled with sparkly snow, the candles and greenery are also from Mr Holtz’s Winter Vault series which are the perfect size to fit inside the domes.

We hope you will join us at Colorful Options as the Design Team has once again outdone themselves.

In other news, I’m posting a little late as we had a major storm here in Greece over the weekend which cut our power and flooded our home an absolute nightmare but hopefully, the worst is over.

I’m also linking up to the following challenges.

AAA Colorful Challenges Colorboard #10

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #482

NBUS #69 sharing with Darnell and the gang as everything on both cards are brand spanking new.

Well, that’s all for me, wishing you all a fabulous week our heating has just come back on so am off to have a lovely hot shower!

Take care

Marie

Hopefully while you are reading this I shall be sunning myself at my summer-house in Halkidiki that’s if WordPress does its magic. There was a huge kerfuffle ( no idea how to spell that neither does spell check…...Vicky ) in the crafting cave last week as the dogs got wind of my plans to replace them with felines. Not wanting to point any fingers but I will anyway, I think that Valerie of Bastlemania is the guilty party as she said she was going to send them an email and spill the beans, don’t know how she got it as even I don’t even have it ! The beans have been spilled and now I’m left cleaning up the mess ! After much whining and growling and that was just me ,we have decided that if there is to be any future in our relationship then we need to get away from it all ( crafting ) and try to work through our feelings and see where our priorities lie. So I am packing up the doglets their toys and such like and leaving my crafty supplies behind for a few days. I have managed to smuggle the I Pad into one of my bags while they were getting their swim suits ready and hopefully will be able to do some sneaky commenting when they go to bed. Valerie if you tell on me I will be very annoyed !!!!l

I do hope we can work things out as I do love them dearly and this little break will give us the opportunity to explore our inner most feelings. Another thing is that many of you shared you feline experiences with me and its rather put me off……better the devils you know !

Goodness got all carried away with the R & B saga and nearly forgot to post my card !!!! Over at Addicted to Stamps its time once again for our new challenge and our illustrious leader Kylie has chosen a corker !! Christmas in July. My heart sank when I saw it I mean it’s about 38 here today and I had packed up all of my Christmas stash and of course I can’t find it ! Its most probably went the way of lots of other valuable crafting items in other words, the bin, so I am making do with what I could find .

I created the yellow ( well it is Christmas in July ) frame with my Cameo and cut out the central circle with a spellbinders nesting die. Stamped old Santy Clause there with one of my lovely Waltzingmouse stamps and embossed with SU grey embossing powder. Framed the image again using red card cut with Spellbinders. Used one of my TH on the edge dies to cut the top piece of red felt and attached to the card, added some red pearls and a lovely yellow resin flower and that’s me all done !

This is especially for the visually challenged among us so you can see how naff my embossing is.

Do please pop over to Addicted to Stamps to see what the other talented and lovely ladies have created to inspire us all and thank you all so much for taking the time to pop by it really is appreciated. Must dash as I have to finish packing and find Rosy’s water wings otherwise all hell will be let loose. Did you know that French Bulldogs can’t swim ? If you are really well-behaved while I’m away I might just share some holiday snap of the mutts frolicking in the waves .

Ta ta

Marie