Time to crack out the Christmas crafting!

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend!
I am hosting another card party in a couple of weeks so have cracked open the Christmas craft boxes - seems mad in August! But everyone is always after a good card early, I suppose it's one less thing to do when the madness of December hits!
I have played around with a few bits and bobs this weekend and this card is probably my favourite from all the ones I made.
I used a 6x6 card and used the new Christmas paper range of docrafts for the backing paper. I then used a sizzix framelit square to cut the square out of the middle. On the inside of the car I used a Marianne tall house die from the creatables range. The tree is also Marianne with added gems for a bit of sparkle! The banner is Lala land dies. To finish off, I used a wodden 'joy' sentiment.

I hope you like! Simple but a bit festive! :-) Hugs xxx

This card is being entered for the Christmas blog challenge http://craftinboutiquechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/christmas.html 

La la land - cute as a button images

Hi everyone! It's the weekend! Hooray! Hope you have all had a wonderful week.  I am halfway through my holiday already, it has flown by, but the great thing is I've been able to get back to Birmingham and see all my family and friends and be 'Kerriann' again rather than 'Miss'! It's been lovely! Friend, daughter, auntie, granddaughter, they have been the roles I have fallen back in to so far!

I bought some more digi stamps this week from la la land crafts, which, if you are friends with me on facebook, you will know they are my newest obsession!

I coloured the girl using spectrum noirs (TN7,3,2 for the hair, FS9,4,1 for skin, PP5 and 2 for the dress,  IB3 and 1 for all the blue detail.)

The circles are sizzix framlits and the curved border is spellbinders. 

Hope you like! Have a wonderful evening everyone! xxx 

New dies

Good evening everyone! Hope it has been a good week for you all and you have nice things planned for over the weekend.  I have had a really busy week, been into school for 2 days just trying to get everything ready for it all to begin again September. Took a day off from it all today to chill a bit! 

I had some deliveries of new dies this week and I have used 2 of them on this card. All the papers I have used are all First Edition 'Blank Canvas' and they are really pretty colours. It's available in the Range for £7.99. I first used the Spellbinders die Floral Ovals before using Marrianne Designs Creatables Cupcake.  This is a wonderful die, there are so many things you can do with it.  As well as the 4 elements you can see in my cupcake, there is also a flower and candle die as part of the set to put on top of the cake. 

I finished it off using the La la Land Heart Banner which is possibly my new favourite! 

The bow is from the new Lilibet collection, also available at the Range.

Hope you like! I see myself using these dies a lot more! :-)

Hugs xxx