Same stamp, different card!

I've used the same snow couple stamp here, but with a very different colour scheme. In what I think is a record for me, I've managed to combine four challenges into one card!! I'd love to have the time to make individual cards for all the challenges, but I'm just too busy at the moment, so have to combine if I want to enter more than one! Anyway, the challenges are: Penny Black (funky Christmas - an xmas card using a non-traditional, modern colour scheme), Secret Crafter (decoupage - although the photo doesn't show it that well, the stamped image has three decoupage layers), Cute Card Thursday (snowflakes) and Sketch Saturday (the layout sketch).

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Another double challenge card

My Christmas card for this week and another card that covers two challenges - Papertake, which is a sketch this week, and the new Forever Friends challenge blog - their challenge this week was to use three different papers in a card. The papers I've used are all from the FF Christmas Snow pack. The central paper includes the image of the bear, and I've then used two extra sheets of that paper to decoupage the bear to give him a bit of depth.

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A couple of family birthday cards

wo family birthday cards that I've done in the last few days. September used to be a really quiet month in my family, but then everyone had children in September and I inherited a nan-in-law and suddenly it's my busiest birthday card month!!

This one is for Darren's nan. It's based on a sketch by Katharina and uses a large peel-off painted with twinkling H2Os. The patterned paper is from a DCVW floral stack and the plain card is Bazzill.

The second is for my nephew Lewis, who was six on Saturday. The decoupage sheet and matching paper are PaperNation. I took a risk that he'd like pirates - he's really into Power Rangers at the moment, but I didn't have anything suitable (unsurprisingly!!), but my brother assures me he loves pirates too, which is a relief!

Now I've just got Darren's nephew, who will be six or seven this week (need to check!!), followed by his niece and my step-niece later in the month, plus my cousin's wedding in two weeks! With teaching starting this week, I think I'm going to be busy - Christmas cards will just have to wait!

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Some recent cards

Unsurprisingly, I've been doing a number of first birthday cards at the moment as my daughter and the other babies from my antenatal group all turn one. I've mostly used Dovecraft's baby paper pack and decoupaged the images - I think they're so cute!

Amelie's card:
For my niece Rebekah:For Amelie's little friend Hannah:

For twins in our antenatal group: