Madcap Manor

Hi there! We have an interesting Challenge at My Time to Craft Christmas - anything BUT a card! I made a little box using Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Treat Box die. I used Christmas paper from my stash and decorated it using an old Poinsettia die from Marianne, with 3 gold gems for the centre. The tag is made with a Memory Box bauble gift-tag die, I cut the pattern from glitter cardstock and the base from plain green.  I hope you're all on top of things at this stressful time and that you find time to craft and to join in our challenge! Check out my teamies' creations for inspiration!  Thanks for looking and take care!  love Mags B x

  Good morning! I hope you're all looking forward to a relaxing weekend. There's 2 weeks to go until the Big Day and the pressure is mounting - but I hope you can find some quiet time to yourself to do some crafting. Check out our latest challenge at My Time to Craft! where we're looking for Christmas Animals. I used This sketch by Jess Crafts. She has a Youtube channel, too, where she shows how to use up patterned papers leaving no scraps - so useful!  The adorable deer are from Lawn Fawn's Cheery Christmas stamp set, and I added little Christmas hats. The silver-embossed sentiment is also by Lawn Fawn, it's from the Simply Celebrate Winter stamp set. My teamies have made a lovely variety of cards on our them, take a dekko to be inspired!  Thanks for looking and keep well!  love Mags B x

Did you see what I did there? Yes, our new challenge at My Time to Craft Christmas is to Use Kraft card. I just can't resist a good (bad!) pun!  I used items from the latest Papercraft Essentials Magazine free gift, which is a gorgeous collection of wintry papers and cute animal toppers. The soft blues and whites are lovely, and contrast so well with a kraft card base. The image is edged in glitter, and the spotty ribbon from my stash is also subtly sparkly.  My teamies have made beautiful cards as usual, do check them out.  Thanks for looking and take care!  love Mags B x

  Hello, my lovelies! Our new challenge at Dream Valley is the last one of the year, and the theme is Christmas. The challenge continues until 10th January 2022.  We have a collection of wonderful sponsors: Polkadoodles , Di's Digital Designs , All Dressed Up and The Paper Shelter. So there are lots of chances to win!  I used an older stamp from Di's Digis, this is 'Jingle Bells' which is now no longer available. I love the pleased expression on Rudolph's face as he prances along to the sound of all those bells! Di has a Christmas sale on at the moment, so do check it out! The background paper is from my stash, as is the ribbon. I used red mirror card for the corners and the sentiment is from MFT's Jingle All the Way stamp set.  Go and see my teamies' fab creations and join the fun!  Thanks for looking and take care!  love Mags B x

  Eeek! I'm so sorry that I'm late with my post for the latest Challenge at My Time to Craft. We have had the exciting delivery of a new fridge-freezer and I've spent the day chucking out stuff from the old freezer (why did I have 3 bags of pastry remains in there?) and organising everything into the new one! It's a dark grey colour, and my hubby thinks it looks like the dark and mysterious block of stone from the film '2001: a Space Odyssey'! Anyway, back to our challenge, which is Stitching - real or faux , I made a mini slimline card for a change, it is 3" x 6". The cute toy teddy bear has stitching down her tummy, and I used a stitched die to cut out the panel. The image is from an old Mama Elephant stamp set, and the sentiment is from an old Paper Smooches set. Sadly, neither is available any more. I used my scoreboard to emboss 5 lines behind the image and a die-cut gold heart that I hd in my die-cuts folder.  A die-cuts folder is so us...

  The Challenge will last until 11th January 2022.   Hiya, all! Christmas seems to be coming faster and faster now! It's the last challenge of the year at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge.   I have used items from 'Oh Santa!', the November 2021 card kit by Love from Lizi. Unfortunately the kit has sold out but check out the Christmas goodies in Lizi's shop! Everything came from the kit, including the cute Santa image and the pretty ribbon bow. I used an old sketch from Mojo Monday: the challenge blog has closed, but Julee now has a sketch challenge on her blog, Poetic Artistry.   Check out my teamies work and enjoy your Christmas crafting!  Stay safe and well and - merry Christmas!  Thanks for looking! love Mags B x

The Big Day is getting closer and closer! To help with the preparations we have a new challenge at My Time to Craft Christmas. Our theme is Christmas Treats. Gingerbread people were always a Christmas treat when I was growing up, so I've used a stamp from Lawn Fawn's Simply celebrate Winter stamp set of row of dancing gingerbread lads and lasses. I stamped them in a pale dye ink and coloured them with Copics, then re-stamped with Versamark and gold-embossed the outlines. Embossing and alcohol markers don't mix, but using a Misti this technique works!  I hope you're looking forward to a good weekend: my daughter is visiting from Ireland and she's organising us! We have already taken 3 bags to the charity shop, and she's been here less than 24 hours! It's always easier to tidy and sort when you have good company.  Go and see the yummy cards that my teamies have made to inspire you!  Thanks for looking and keep well.  love Mags B x