We wish you a Merry Christmas!!

This is a quick post.

I would like to thank

all my lovely blogging friends from around the world,

for taking time in their busy lives,

to visit my blog and to leave me treasured messages.

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a 

prosperous, healthy, peaceful  2019.

I know this picture is not Christmas related,

it is a 'Home' sign, where lots of us will be for the holiday.

It sold on it's first outing!!

All the flowers are hand made, which I really love doing.

So more rewarding than sticking my bought ones on!

Thank you so much.

Big hugs to you all,

Carol

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This and That!!

Firstly, I would love to thank Julie,

who joined my blog as a follower.

I hope you enjoy what you see.

Just another quick post but lots of pictures!

I had been searching for this Woodware stamp

for ages. I found it a few weeks ago in a Craft Shop,

Noble Crafts in Great Yarmouth.

It was in a clearance box too!!

I can remember playing with this stamp

on a Demo Day at The Craft Barn.

I was in the studio with Chris Dark (an amazing artist)

over the other side of the room.

We were having great fun with the customers.

She saw this card and shouted over to me

'How on earth did you do that!!'

So this time I made 3 with different colours!

I can still hear her!!

Christmas has finally arrived here!!

It took me 41/2 hours to do all the decs.

How long does it take you!!

The little Santa on the floor, I made for my Daughter's first

 Christmas. She was 45 on the 30th November!!

The tree!!

These I made separately but they go quite well together.

Well that was supposed to be a quick post!!

Thanks for popping in and I treasure all your

lovely messages.

Big hugs,

Carol 

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Last 2018 Challenge

This is the last 2018 Challenge for 

Winter Wonderland. It will go until January 3rd 2019.

This image, Selfie Santa is from our sponsor

Dr Digi'stamps

I coloured the image with Copics 

His fluffy bits on his trousers are fluffy flock and 

using 3D Pinflair glue, Snow-It 

from Noble Crafts Shop in Great Yarmouth.

The theme for this challenge is 

Anything Goes.

So you can enter any of your beautiful cards you have made.

I am now going to finish making mine.

I have just completed selling at 22 Craft Fairs

from March until 4th December.

In November I did 7 in 4 weeks!!

I wonder why I am shattered!! All these 6am starts

in the mornings might have something to do with it!!

So I wish all my lovely blog friends a

VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS

AND

A FABULOUS NEW YEAR

Thank you for taking some of your precious time,

not only to visit my blog,

but to leave such kind messages.

They are all so appreciated.

BIG HUGS

FROM

CAROL

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A Nutty Angel....Or Two or Three!!

A very quick post today.

I was at a Christmas Craft Fair yesterday, in 

The John Grant School in Caister. 

WOW!!!

It was only 4 hours but I came home with 

2 of my big storage boxes totally empty!!!

So a big thank you to Lyn, who with her team, put 

on an amazing day.

All the items below were just a few of the small

things that went.

This is my Nutty Angels decoration.

It is a real nut that I have had for years.

I have one myself but wanted to decorate this one,

in a better way than I have mine. So made the clay angels.

I then added the greenery and ribbons.

This is my Snowball Bauble!!

Made and sold loads of them. The leaves I cut from felt.

Just got 2 left.

This hanger I sold at the last Craft Fair.

I made loads of these baubles.

This was a medium size. Made with 80 pieces

of fabric and double that of sequin pins.

The big ones had over 120

pieces of fabric and over 240 pins!!!

Then added cones, berries, leaves and ribbons.

This is a small one and this was sold but have 3 small ones left.

I only have 2 small and I large Snow Family scenes left.

I am now going back to my desk to finish making 
a couple of unicorn boxes and a Unicorn plaque.
I make the Unicorns with clay.
They all flew away today!!

Then I have to paint a watercolour picture of the sea and a beach,
on a plaque. Sold out of them today!

Thank you for finding time to pop in and leave me a message.
It is so busy for us crafters at this time of year.

Big hugs,
Carol
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Winter Wonderland Challenge and A ' Sorry'!!

Firstly, I must apologise for the lack of commenting.
I usually do it every day, but with the pressure of
doing 5 Craft Fayres already this month and
another on the 24th, tomorrow, I have 
a lot of stock to make for it.

It's great for my charity I support, that sales have been very good!!
But I do have a job keeping up with
the more intricate things I make.

I know......I can hear you saying, I should make more simple
things then!! Lol!!

Well this card is a simple one! The sweet image is from 
our generous sponsor for this Winter Wonderland challenge.

The sponsor is
Twinkle Lane Designs
and this image is Skater Girl and can be found here.

She is coloured with Copics and Stickles .

Along with the Girl image, you also get 3 pairs of mittens.

I coloured them with Copics and then cut them out.

Also 3 sentiments too, one of which I used.

Well it's up to you now to win a lovely prize,

from our generous Sponsor.

Just enter your card and I suggest that you 

read the challenge rules, on the Winter Wonderland blog first.

Thanks for popping in and good luck.

Big Hugs
Carol
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Birthday Poppy

Just a quick post tonight.

I cannot understand why I have so many summer flowers, 

still giving a colourful display!!  Crazy!!

Even my Acer has only just started to drop a few leaves.

This card was for a friend who is in her 90s.

She loved it and I enjoyed making it.

I have my friend, who is the Daughter-in-law of the lady

who this card was for, is coming up to stay with us

for a couple of days. 

She is coming to get her highlights and haircut done! 

It will be great to see her and we will have a girly day out,

on Thursday.

Thanks for popping in and thank you for leaving me such

lovely messages. 

Hope you are enjoying this mild weather too.

Hugs,

Carol 

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Silver and Blue

Morning, 

and I hope you have changed all your clocks!!

Why is the oven always the hardest to do?!!

Just a quick post, as I must get back

to my desk! More items to make for my Craft Fairs.

There are so many ideas in my head but not sure if I 

have the time left to make all of them!!

This is one of my new makes.

I love Silver and pale icy blue, as they blend so well.

The huge bead hanging in the middle, I found in my stash.

One of my lovely friends, saves things for me

that she thinks I can find a use for.

This was one of 5 of them!

So thanks Aileen!! Perfect!!

Enjoy the rest of Sunday.

Thanks for your lovely messages on my last post.

Hope you are going to join us at 

Winter Wonderland challenge.

Thanks for popping in and looking 

forward to reading your kind comments.

PS: Aileen and her Mother-in-law saw this

post and ordered a wreath the same as this one!!

Big hugs,

Carol

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Winter Wonderland Challenge

Hi everyone!

It's time for a new challenge at 

Winter Wonderland.

The theme is 'Colour It'.

As always, Christmas cards only.

There isn't a Sponsor for this challenge

but we will still be picking our top three.

They will get our Top 3 badge to display

on their blog.

I have used one of the new stamps from 

Lili of The Valley.

She is on the stamp sheet 

'Sweet Christmas'.

You even get an additional stamp for the

candle and holly.

I stamped and coloured it and fussy cut it

out, then 3D it onto the main image.

I coloured her with Distress Inks on 300gsm Water Colour card.

So get ahead with your Christmas card making and 

have a bit of fun with us here,

at Winter Wonderland.

Thanks for popping in and I will be commenting

on your makes too.

Big hugs,

Carol

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Christmas Fave!!

Evening all!!

Can't remember who always said that!!

Anyway a very short post, as I am snowman making!!

I have made one family this afternoon.

If you saw my facebook page, you would know

that I did 3 Craft Fairs last month and one already

this month and I sold all of my Snow Families!!

So, as I have another 11 fairs before Christmas, 

I thought I had better get some more made.

This pretty little lady below, is certainly one of my 

favourite stamps from Lili Of The Valley this year.

I stamped her onto water colour 300gsm

card and used Distress Inks to colour her.

I had made cards with all the new ones I bought 

and one couple bought them all! So I will have to find time 

to make more of them too!!

Does anyone know where I apply to have longer days than 24 hours?!!!

Well that's all the time I have, so back to my desk.

Thanks for popping in and please leave me a message, 

so I know you have been.

They are all read and treasured.

Big hugs,

Carol

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Winter Wonderland Challenge

Hi everybody,

we have a new challenge starting today, 

at Winter Wonderland.

An easy theme:

Anything Christmas Goes

We have a lovely Sponsor, LeAnn's World 101

 for this challenge, who kindly gave us this image to use.

I coloured her with Copics Pens and Red Stickles.

The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.

The winner will have 2 free Digis from

LeAnn's World.

So now you can pop over to LeAnn's shop and

 see what you can have if you are the winner.

You have 2 weeks to upload your cards to 

the Winter Wonderland blog.

So good luck.

Big hugs,

Carol

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A Touch Of Gold

Just a quick simple card.

As always it looks better in RL.

The bauble was a stamp I picked up at Thetford Craft Show.

 I stamped the bauble twice and 3D it and

coloured it with Copics.

It's a shame that pictures don't look anything like they

do in real life.

I don't know if it's the camera, daylight or position

of where you take the photos.

Never mind and I won't moan anymore!!Lol!!

Thanks for stopping by and I do enjoy reading your comments.

Big hugs

Carol 

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A Growing Family

It had to be done!!

They now have 2 little Snow People.

They have left their snowballs sitting on the letter 'L'!!

The strange colour on the letters is actually shadows.

They will all be going to Cherry Lane Garden Centre at Fritton,

near Great Yarmouth, on this Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd.

Their first outing to a Craft Fayre.

If you are in the area, you can pop in and see us.

The restaurant is very good too.

I've made lots of hanging Christmas Decs today.

It's always more enjoyable to make new things.

I will take some pictures tomorrow and will 

post them soon.

I have never had so many in 'Draft' as I have now!

Thanks for taking the time to visit and

just leave me a message so I know you have been.

Big hugs,

Carol

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A Christmas Sunset

Thanks for popping in.

I have just made this very quick card and thought

I would post it before going to my bed!

It only took 3 dies to make it. With a bit

of scrap card, coloured with Distress Inks,

for the sunset.

I did add the faux stitching with a white Sakura pen.

I have been doing loads more posts and 

they are in 'Draft' at the moment.

I did say a quick one, so off to bed!

Thanks for your lovely messages on my last post

of my Snow People.

There just might be another one of them to post!!

Big hugs,

Carol

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