Ring in the New Year

Well I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. Time to get ready to celebrate the New Year and Carol has chosen our theme this time around at CD Sunday Challenge Blog. So let's all 'Ring in the New Year' together.

I've used a backing paper and image from the House Mouse triple CD collection by Joanna Sheen for my design. The die cut stars are also from Joanna as part of her Signature Dies collection. The embossed clocks are Crafter's Companion.

I'm just catching up after a tiring trip to Swansea and back over Christmas. Neil's mother is 94 and blind so we always go and look after her over Christmas. The trip back yesterday took 7 hours so I have lots of catching up to do - some of it on sleep!

I'll be around blog land later to check out you are ringing in the New Year in style.

A Cool Yule

First this week we say goodbye and thank you to Pauline and Meg for being such great Guest Designers for the last three months. 

We now have two new Guest Designers joining us at CD Sunday – Jane and Shaz and they will be with us for the next three months.  

Sue’s these for this time is ‘A Cool Yule’ and I do hope you will be able to join us. 

I have taken the backing papers from Romany Christmas by Crafter's Companion and used a stamp from the same set and used paper piecing for his hat, scarf and buttons. 

If you still have a few cards to make then this will hopefully give you some inspiration to get them finished. Don't forget to visit CD Sunday Challenge Blog for more ideas. 

Colours of Autumn

Time for a new challenge at CD Sunday this week and it's my turn again to choose the theme. We still have a few leaves left on the branches in our garden with some lovely colours to admire so I thought we would have a go at 'Colours of Autumn' this time.

Wynn chose our last challenge and she had some lovely entries to select her top 3 from. I hope you will all feel inspired to put on a wonderful display of colours of autumn.

This is my card:

I used papers and the main image from Fabulous Shoes which is a Katy Sue CD. The only extra things I added were a piece of recycled ribbon rescued from some packaging and a happy birthday stamp.

My fellow teamies and our guest designers have some wonderful inspiration to share with you so to visit CD Sunday Challenge Blog and take a look. We would love you to join in, all you need to remember is to use something from a CD in your design and let us know which one you used.

Sprinkle of Snowflakes

We had some great 'H's last time around for Carol to choose her top 3 but this time it is Wynn's turn to choose and she has picked a Sprinkle of Snowflakes for us to play with at CD Sunday.

I chose an image from Barkley Christmas CD from Crafter's Companion. I wanted to use a die I have purchased to make a snow globe. This is a useful die and all sorts of images can be used with it. I think it would make a nice birthday card too with a different image. Anyway, I added lots of tiny gems and glitter as it's for Christmas and also the corner dies cut from silver mirri card.

The dies I used are:

Snow globe by Impression Obsession
Corner snowflakes by Memory Box
Inner Circle in silver on globe by Spellbinders

I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs so please join our challenge and don't forget to use something from a CD and let us know which CD you used. It may be one we haven't got yet lol!

Something beginning with ..... H

Carol has chosen our theme for this time at CD Sunday Challenge Blog and it is something beginning with H. My fellow teamies and our guest designers have come up with some wonderful ideas so do please go and have a look.

Here is my card. My H is for Christmas Hugs and I've used this lovely image from Polkadoodles Angelberry Christmas CD. I used a Crafter's Companion die to make the cut and embossed background and used some gems for the centre of the snowflakes.

The Christmas Hugs is a rubber stamp and to finish I just added some ribbon.

I hope you all had a fun Halloween. We had a dinner party:

Don't forget to go to the CD Sunday Blog to find out how to enter the latest challenge. 

Baby Love

I had some bloomin' lovely entries for my theme of bloomin' marvellous at CD Sunday Challenge Blog and I shall be choosing my top three soon.

In the meantime it is Sunday again and it is Sue's turn to choose the theme and this time is is Baby Love. There is lots of lovely inspiration for you over at CD Sunday so do stop by to take a look and see how you can join in. All you need to do is incorporate something from a CD in your design and let us know which CD you have used.

Here is my card:

Apart from the ribbon, some black card for layering and a few black gems everything was from the CD Meerkat Madness for the Girls - simples!

Bloomin' Marvellous

Well what beautiful weather we are having. I do love this time of year. Just look at these colours.

This is my garden Saturday afternoon

and the following 3 photos are from Sheffield Park on Tuesday

I'd like to thank Wynn for choosing our previous theme of Pearls and Lace. Don't forget to check out CD Sunday Challenge Blog for our new challenge which was chosen by me this time around. Wynn will be letting you know her top three later....

So, this fortnight I have chosen 'Bloomin' Marvellous' for the CD Sunday theme and as you can see from the above photos it certainly is at the moment.

Here is my card:

I've used Winston CD by Polkadoodles for all my blooms. The main card was constructed using a Crafter' Companion accordion die and the matching overlay die.

Here is a closer shot so hopefully you will be able to see the detail.

The construction was a bit fiddly so I don't think I will be making these in bulk but it does make a very pretty card and something a little different. 

Please dust off those CDs and join us this fortnight for a 'Bloomin' Marvellous' time. As usual I will have a little prize for the winner.