CD Sunday - 'Christmas' chosen by Meg

Our theme for the next two weeks very appropriately is 'Christmas'.  If you are like me you are trying to get most of them done before it all becomes too much.

For my card for this challenge I used a background of delicate Mistletoe leaves and berries from a  Joanna Sheen CD - Victorian Xmas Cards.  It matched the new die I bought so perfectly that it was a 'must use'.

Here is the card:

I used white half pearls as the Mistletoe berries and hopefully the green card that I chose is a good colour for Mistletoe. Sometimes the leaves have a strong yellow tinge but I hadn't got a sheet that colour.

Whilst finding out about Mistletoe I found these facts:

"Mistletoe is toxic to people, but the berries and leaves provide high-protein food for many animals. Many bird species rely on mistletoe for food and nesting material. Butterflies lay their eggs on the plants and use the nectar as food. Mistletoe is also an important pollen and nectar plant for bees."

I like the simplicity of the card and may well make some more. As long as those to whom I send them  don't live next door to each other no one will know!

Please come and join us in our challenge. You only need to add a little something from a CD to your card and we would love to see it.  But no more than three entries per person.
Don't forget that we now are on Facebook and you can read all about us here and the link to CD Sunday is on my sidebar.

Have fun and til the next time
Hugs
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Christmas 2018

I have spent most of the weekend catching up on some Christmas card making.  A bit different to my usual ones but here are some of them:

The first two were made using Serif CA and Daisy Trail.  The next used a new die and an Artylicious CD background.  For the two stitched cards I used some patterns I found somewhere? but I can't remember where as it was quite sometime ago.

I think I had better tidy up the mess I have made everywhere. The dining room table has disappeared!

Hugs
Carol
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ATC Swop UK

For October this year our Facebook Group has  a double theme . The first is the shape. They must be the 'new' ATC Coin. This is a circular ATC with a 2 . 5" diameter. The second suggested theme is Autumn but we could  actually choose what ever we want and I have chosen 'Halloween'.
I must admit I didn't find all this as easy as I thought as everything in my ATC world is set up for the standard 'playing card' size and shape.  But after all  challenge is a challenge!

Here are my five 'coins'.  Not presented as neatly and tidily as I would like as I put them on little stands to photograph them.  If you do this with a group of standard shaped ATCs it is easy to crop before presentation but my graphic manipulation skills are very limited - in fact non-existant so my apologies for the odd looking photo.

In fact - all moaning aside - I did enjoy making them.  I bought some new dies especially for the project and who doesn't like buying new dies?

The words - Spooky and Boo were by Tonic.  The tiny wee ghosts, cats, web, spider and bat are from a Marianne Design Craftables Cutting Punch Die - 'Halloween'.  The little Punch Dies from Marianne Designs are wonderful. I now have 18 sets and use them all the time.

I don't think that 'coins' are going to be 'my thing' but as an experiment I enjoyed it in the end.

Hugs
Carol
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Off the cutting room floor! - chosen by Carol

I was asked to do an extra challenge choice and this is what I decided would be fun.  As long as a CD is used somewhere in the making the rest can be made up of all those bits and pieces you were going to throw away or have kept because you just might need them.
That is exactly what I did. The background is from a CD - La Pashe - The Big One Backgrounds.  The die was the gift on my then latest Die Cutting magazine and I used all sorts of little bits of card from my scrap box. Even the sentiment was cut from a small piece of leftover.

Here it is:

It is a bit bright I know but at least it won't be missed and it is another for the Christmas box.

I hope you will join in with us and use up some bits and pieces.   It doesn't have to be card of course.   How about an unused layer of decoupage that you couldn't bear to throw away - just in case - or a trimming of background paper!

Please don't forget  that you can find us on Facebook and the link label to CD Sunday is in the sidebar.

I am looking forward to visiting your blogs and finding out what you were going to throw away.

Hugs
Carol
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