Christmas caroling!

Hi everyone! Today I have a new Christmas card to share with you. I used one of my very first awesome Lili of the Valley stamps which came super fast and are absolutely lovely! I used patterned papers from the Stocking Fillers paper pad (First Edition). I coloured them with my distress inks (not bad for my first attempt I think!) and I enjoyed it very much!

With this card I take part at Lili of the valley challenge (Anything goes), ABC Christmas challenge (V- Very Merry Christmas) (I used an October Afternoon stamp with this sentiment), Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes) and Sketch Saturday Week #333 using the very inspiring sketch.

So I hope you like my cards and got inspired. You have still time to create a card for these challenges if you wish. Have a nice weekend and keep crafting!

Serenity at the waterfalls of Edessa

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing a new layout with you. I was very inspired by the CSI challenge this week and the Sketchabilities sketch and I wanted to create a new layout with a photo of mine. It was taken during me and my husband's honeymoon when we had a trip at Macedonia (Greece). The waterfalls of Edessa was one of the places we visited.

I used my favorite Webster's pages papers (Western Romance collection), felt flowers that I made, lots of die-cuts for the leaves, the tag (journalling spot behind the photo) and the frames, gesso, Distress and Prima inks for the distressing, pearls, ribbon.

I used the CSI colour combo, flowers-ribbon (at the bow down the flower cluster)-paint (distress inks) (for the Evidence) and a tag behind the photo as a journaling spot (for the Testimony).

I also followed the Sketchabilities #125 sketch

I hope you like my layout and I would like it very much to know your opinion. Thank you so much for your visit! Have a nice cozy weekend everyone!

Colorful Creations "Favorite Things" Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Colorful Creations My Favorite Things blog hop!  If you have arrived here from Sandrine's blog welcome to the hop!! If you have stumbled across this by chance and want to play along then you can head back to the Colorful Creations site to start at the beginning.
Make sure to comment & follow my blog in order to be eligible to win the prize!

My name is Christina  and here is my project showcasing my favorite things. So, some of the things I really love to include in my creations are die-cuts, stamping aaaand... glitter! Of course it's common knowledge to the people who know me that Christmas is another one of my favorite things. I can create Christmas cards anytime of the year while listening to Christmas music. I'm a winter's child after all!

So I created not one but two Christmas cards for our blog hop including also all the favorite things of mine. What do you think?

The dies that I used come from Magnolia's Doohickey Club, vol. 2 which is full of Christmas yumminess. I also used glittered cardstock and stickles.

Thanks so much for joining us on the blog, make sure you hop on over to Christina's P. blog for more inspiration!

Make sure you make Colorful Creations your last stop on the hop to see how to win the wonderful prize up for grabs!

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Crafty Steals Challenge

Hello bloggers! Back today with a Christmas card for the Card challenge at Crafty Steals. I followed the much inspiring sketch and I used an October Afternoon stamp, Spellbinders dies and First Edition paper. What do you think?

I watercoloured the image and used some glitter pens, stickles and blings for extra sparkle!

This is the Crafty Steals' sketch which I followed:

So, go check the challenge and take part with a new card! Have a nice day!

OUAS October Challenge

Hello bloggers! Today I'm going to share with you a layout I created for OUAS October challenge which is about the women/girls in our lives. Although it's very difficult for me to do some serious scrapbooking the last month (I have a broken leg...) Nadia's sketch is amazing and I couldn't resist.

So here is a layout with one photo my first daughter which I had to scrap (love the way she looks here).

The photo is very poor as today the sky is totally cloudy and the natural light was terrible.

And here is Nadia's lovely sketch:

I used My Mind's eye paper from a kit I have bought quite some time ago from Lena. It's the Follow your Heart collection. I did a lot of fussy cutting (something that you know I love), Tattered Angels masks, gesso, die-cuts (I used Memory box dies), paper doilies and pearls.

I hope you like my layout. I'm waiting for your comments. Thank you for stopping by! Have a nice weekend!