The July challenge at ABC Christmas is N for No layers and/or O for Ornaments. I chose O for Ornaments and I used my bauble stencil from Poppy stamps with distress oxides in green and pink. The raindeer and trees from Lavinia were stamped before removing the stencil so that they seem to be inside the bauble. I then added some puffy paint as snow and a little glitter around the moon.

 Another Christmas card using distress oxides on a bauble stencil from Sweet Poppy stencils and stamps from Lavinia placed in the middle. 

I love my new stencil and will probably use it lots :), and might I remind you of our current challenge at ABC Christmas where the theme is N for New and O for Old.

Challenges:

Allsorts - Christmas in July
Lilpatchofcraftyfriends - A/G
613 Avenue - A/G
AAA cards - Christmas (pets) in July
Dare2Bartzy - Christmas in July
CHNC - Anything Christmas
Less is More - traditional Christmas
Inkspirational - Favourite color in monochrome
Taylormadecards4U - Holidays in July
CRAFT challenge - Christmas
CraftyGalscorner - Christmas in July
The holly and Ivy challenge - A/G
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
Alphabet challenge - Holidays

 I've had the grand kids over this weekend so I got to sit down in the craft room and breathe a bit now. They're a bit too young to have in here among the inks, and dies and sharp weeding tools. But the older one is four so I think I might have to set up a small work space for him very soon :)

I made a rather large card today, it's A5 size, but it shows of the Lavinia stamps wonderfully. Using the Lavinia stencil and a soft colour gives a nice and lively background and I wanted to use a stencil cause of the prizes at We love stamping :). Not that I'm very likely to win since I don't live in the UK but a girl can dream. 

Challenges:

Allsorts - anything goes with the option of red flowers 
We love stamping - anything stamped with option of adding stenciling
Stamping sensations - anything goes with the option of wings (no wings here though)
River of creativity - anything goes
Crafty calendar - anything goes
The fairy and the unicorn - anything Fantasy
Cards4Galz - make it sparkle
Craftrocketchallenge - sparkle and bling

 Made a book cover today. 

Challenges:

 This will be the last post of 2021, so I will wish you all a pleasant New Year's Eve and I hope to see you in 2022. Today I have two tags, made with lavinia stamps. I got a tree stamp recently and I really like how it can be used on the edge so that only some of the branches show. It gives a nice dimension to the scene.

Challenges:

Cards4Gals: New stash
Crafty creations - AG
Creative Moments - AG
Through the craftroom door - AG
Welove2create - AG
InspirationStation - photo inspiration (she looks like a fairy in the forest)

And here is the second tag, I really like how the stars pop when you use silver embossing. 

Challenges:

Use your stuff - snow or winter
Christmas Craft creations - make a scene
Watercooler Wednesday - AG

 I've got two makings today, a card and a tag. The tag I made using some new Lavinia stamps I recently got, including the fox Bandit - adorable! The card is a Christmas card with a die cut poinsetta as focal point. 

Challenges for the tag:

Stamping sensations - choose a theme and stamp it
613 Avenue - A/G
Creative fingers - A/G
Fun Friday - sparkle and shine

Challenges for the card: 

Allsorts - use a die
Country view - christmas A/G
The flower challenge - Christmas
Winter wonderland - Anything christmas

 Lavinia stamps, a background made with a Lavinia stencil and distress oxides and lots of white dots and shiny glitter. 

Challenges:

Lavinia stamps creative challenge - My favourite colour (which is the distress oxide Seedless preserves, I keep reaching for it again and again 😊)

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes

Allsorts - Magical words

through the craft room door - anything goes

Stamping sensations - I love (my Lavinia stamps, my distress oxides, especially these colours)

 Morning,

this card, using a Lavinia stamp and a hand written sentiment on distressed and glimmer misted background I gave to my youngest grand child since he is really fascinated by the moon right now. 

 I have been told to leave the Design Teams of both Allsorts and We love Chocolate Baroque due to the fact that I am not active enough when it comes to replying to e-mails and comments and not compliant enough about rules and sponsor changes. All fair enough. I am totally to blame. Against better knowledge I accepted the position on We Love Chocolate Baroque and soon realized that I was not well suited for this due to the specific demands that are so separate from Allsorts. So I freaked out and instead of doing the proper thing, which would have been to immediately step down from WLCB in January, I hung in there. Trying to cope. Feeling that every comment on all DT blogs, both WLCB and Allsorts, was directed specifically to me. Not replying but instead trying to change and do better. Failing miserably. 

So the decision to kick me off the teams was a proper one, I haven't been a great team member at all. I've been stressed and nervous and I have checked and double checked everything and still managed to get it all wrong.

So I will just post all the work I've made - yes all DT samples for 2021 are made already 😊, but a few at a time and in a random order not to reveal any challenge themes ahead of time out of respect for my former DT teams. 

So first out are these three:

A Lavinia stamp on a background made with Distress Oxides.

And finally a Rick St Dennis digi image on a background made with a butterfly stamp and a gelli plate.