Viva La Verve One Sheet Wonder 3

I hope you all are enjoying a wonderful break, enjoying good company, good food, or whatever else it is you choose to do over the holidays. I was spoiled with too many presents, despite the "no presents" policy, which no-one can abide by, year after year. I got a beautiful silver horse necklace and some dishcloths with piggies on. They are adorable!!! I am stuffed full of good food and will soon move on from my Mum's place to spend a few days with Dad and his side of the family. Then I will meet up with a big bunch of old friends right before we head back home. It has been wonderful to see all my old friends and my family, but I can't wait to get home to my craft room. Two weeks without crafting is very hard. I bet I will not leave my craft room for at least 24 hours when we get home. 

This is what it looks like here right now
(well, about 10 minutes ago)

Today I'm showing you my third Viva La Verve December One Sheet Wonder Challenge. You can see my previous cards here and here. I really love the colour combo of brown, kraft and shades of turquoise. I know I have said it before, and I will say it again and again, but Tim Holtz Vintage Photo is the most amazing brown colour ever. The man is simply a genius. I'm also entering the following challenges in addition to Viva La Verve:
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog - #208 Anything Goes
Creative Moments - #58 Anything Goes, non-traditional Christmas Colours
Fresh Brewed Designs - Anything Goes Christmas 

I stamped the sentiment inside the card.

Card: Stampin' Up Crumb Cake

Stamps: Stampin' Up Ornament Keepsakes and matching dies, KaiserCraft Merry Christmas stamp

Ink: Tsukineko Versamark, Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo

Paper: Stampin' Up All is Calm DSP

Other: Stampin' Up Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, All Occasions Snowflakes dies, Stampin' Up Basic pearls

Christmas Ornaments

This is a quick card inspired by this week's Freshly Made Sketch and Colour Throwdown colours. I'm also joining the Christmas Card Challenge where Anything Goes. I think I have more than enough Christmas cards by now, so I'm hoping I can move on to non-Christmas themes again soon. And it's only two more weeks until I go back home for a long visit over Christmas, which will mean no crafting and probably a bit of a quiet time here on the blog. But it's good to take a step back from time to time and re-charge the mojo batteries. And there is still two dreadful weeks of work to get through before that. Like a whole day meeting in London today, making it really late before I get back home, hence unlikely to find any crafting time... Sigh! Oh well, less moaning and more crafting!

Card: Stampin' Up Whisper White, Real Red and Crumb Cake

Stamps: Stampin' Up Ornament Keepsakes, Papermania 12 Days of Christmas Word Banner

Ink: Stampin' Up Pool Party, Real Red, Crumb Cake

Paper: Stampin' Up All is Calm

Other: silver ribbon from my stash

Nontraditional Christmas Colours

Yes, it's another Christmas card post. I was asked to make some Christmas cards with Finnish and Swedish sentiments, so who am I to argue. This card was inspired by CAS(E) this Sketch. For the first card I used the colour combo from CAS - Colours and Sketches. For the second card, I picked the colour combination myself. 

I really like the Clean and Simple look of these cards. Unfortunately the colours don't show in the photos quite as nicely as they do in real life, but you should be able to get an idea. 

I also stamped a few Christmas ornaments inside the card for a finishing touch.

Card: Leonardo Stationery 300 gsm card, Coloured 240 gsm kraft card Teal, silvery grey card from my stash

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Joy to the woods

Ink: Stampin' Up Bermuda Bay, Basic Grey, Crumb Cakem Pear Pizzazz, Soft Sky and Wisteria Wonder, Hobbycraft pigment ink silver

Other: Stampin Up Island Indigo ribbon, grey ribbon from my stash, Stampin' Up basic adhesive gems