Pink Snowman

Now before you all shout snowmen are white....I know.... but I fancied a change so if you add cochineal to snow you do get pink...lol. This little cutie has been painted with Sakura pens using 3 pink shades with a hint of green and copper as well as everyones favourite clear.Flowers are from Tabby crafts, papers are DCWV....love these pink christmas papers,and the stamp is WOJ and the sentiment stamp is Papermania. I have entered this card into several challenges:
Creative Card Crew....'strings attached' used a thread type ribbon from Papermania,
Spoon full of Sugar...... Babies first Christmas.
Cute and Girly.............Winter wonderland
Mojo Monday............. followed the sketch
Stamparctic................. Pink Christmas card, this is a fab site for all things inspirational.
Creative Inspirations.... Sparkle
Charisma.................... 'Merry and Bright
Cooking it up with Katie..this weeks recipe is a flower used slightly differently (used mine as part of the sentiment), something clear i.e. dew drops and use a sketch from another challenge (my sketch is from Mojo Monday)
'....thinks thats about it never entered so many challenges with one card so this is a record for me.

Sakura Pens

This is my first card painting with Sakura pens and I'm totally hooked, when I went to the NEC on Sunday I went to the workshop using the pens to colour with. I have had these pens for a while and just coloured in with them solidly but never used them as a medium for watercolouring, the lady who did the workshop (sorry I forgot her name) was fab she had a great sense of humour and we learnt alot, so now I'm hooked because they are so subtle and shimmer beautiful.

Materials used
Sakura pens
DCWV pink christmas papers
Stamp-Fairy from Craft Companions
Punch-snowflake from Woodware
gems and ribbon from stash.

I have enterd this card in the following challenges Sketch and Stash, love this sketch and the new stash I have used is my Christmas papers brought at the NEC. Cupcake have the theme of snow much fun, Cooking with Kate has the criteria of christmas sparkle and a border ( I inked and added sparkle as a border around the card)

Red White and Blue

This weeks challenge at 'Anyone for Anya' is a colour theme of the colours of the national flag hence red white and blue. I followed the sketch from 'Sketch and Stamp', over at 'Winter Wonderland' the theme is Jingle Bells so I added the little bell charm at the bottom and at 'One stop Craft' you have to include text or newspaper as an element so being as both backing papers are text backgrounds this meets the criteria for this challenge

My First challenge Card

This is my first card as a design team member at  My Time To Craft the theme this week is RIP IT UP, so this is my take on the challenge. The papers I have used are from the Paperbox, as I love plaid I just had to buy this paper not bad at £3.49. The edges have all been torn and distressed inked. I inked the edges of the background paper and then stamped the border.The sketch is from Sketch and stash (the papers are new)