Bah! Humbug! Challenge - Penguins

Good morning to all my blogging friends and welcome to the latest challenge from Ann & Max who are of course Bah! Humbug!

Sadly this is my last week of being their Guest Designer, I have had a fantastic time and thoroughly enjoyed being a part of their weekly challenges.

The month has been a tough one as the challenges required a lot of research to come up with designs I thought they would like. This weeks challenge has had me thinking ever since I received their list and if you bare with me I will explain.

No Penguin stamps, no backing papers with penguins, gosh what was I going to do!

Well, we have foxes around our area and we frequently see them in our garden, parents and 4 fox cubs and guess what they left for me!!!!

This lovely cuddly Penguin, obviously taken from a garden nearby and no doubt the cubs had fun playing with it before leaving it for Colin (my OH) to find. He knew the theme so he picked it up and sat him on our well so I would find him.

I couldn't resist taking a picture and decided there and then what I would use the picture for.

Hope you are still with me, LOL

I took the image into Craft Artist, resized and inserted him onto backing paper, added the holly sprig and the christmas trees.

He was then layered onto card from Artylicious Seasons Greeting CD before layering again onto Happy Christmas card from the same CD. A Happy Christmas banner has been added along with a couple of gems to finish the card.

End of story, phew!!!!

My second card is a Digi Image, sorry I can't remember where from. He has been coloured with Promarkers then layered on Burgundy Card cut with one of my Nestability Dies.

The backing paper is from the above CD which I put through the Cuttlebug using Divine Swirls embossing folder and then layered onto green card which had been embossed using Lattice embossing folder from Creative Expressions.

I hope you have taken all this in and I ask you give the ladies at Bah! Humbug! some support by joining in their weekly challenges. I now have 6 more cards for my christmas box.

Thankyou Ann & Max for selecting me to be one of your Guest Designers, I promise I will do my best to join in on a regular basis.

Nephews Birthday Card

Something to share with you at it is my eldest Nephews birthday on Saturday.

We always have a laugh between us plus a little banter so I decided to make him a fun card.

The backing paper and topper are from Cupcake CD - Wild Animals and I chose this cute Meercat.

I added a Happy Birthday Sentiment using a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder and cut the shape with a Nestability Die. Decided to add a couple of brads to finish off the card.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to you all and welcome to our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY

Thanks for your entries in last weeks challenge, we enjoyed visiting your blogs.

We half way through the month of June and we still have the lovely Jocelyn as Guest Design Team member. She has done us proud so please pop over to her blog and show your support.

Our challenge this week is

TASSEL TIME

and my DT card is shown below.

I used Joanna Sheen's - Elegant Fans CD and printed the matching backing papers for the topper onto Pearlescent card from my stash.

A border has been punched using a Martha Stewart punch - Vine Leaves.

Careful scoring using, of course, my Hougie to show both of the backing paper designs.

My beautiful topper has been printed onto Glossy Photo Paper and a couple of Die Cut Flourishes from Tim Holtz are added.

I chose to add a Burgundy Tassel attached to the topper with a matching Brad.

A few holographic gems complete the card.

We hope you will join us this week, just remember our rule - use something from a CD and say which it is you have used.

Do pop over to our blog to see the rest of my teamies contributions, gorgeous as always.