The Carol Of The Bells

Marillion released this fabulous Christmas single yesterday in aid of a charity to raise money to buy a life prolonging cancer treatment for Matt Elworthy (see the JustGiving page here).  It was originally made as a Christmas gift to the members of the fan club but has been so well received that the band decided to release it.

It is available as a download for 89p from Amazon and for 79p from iTunes

Take a look at the video and if you enjoy it, perhaps you could consider supporting this fabulous cause by downloading the song.

DigiStamp Boutique Snowmen

As well as using the cute santa digi stamps that I had used yesterday, I also used some lovely Snowmen which also came from DigiStamp Boutique.

DigiStamp Boutique Santas

In an effort to speed up the amount of Christmas cards I was able to make this year for my fundraising, I bought some lovely digi stamps from DigiStamp Boutique that had already been pre-coloured.  All I had to do was print them, die cut them and then glitter them up ready for my cards.

Here are some cards made with the Santa stamps

Stripey Christmas

Week 28 of the 52 card challenge was to use deckchair stripes.

I had a load of stripey paper that was a magazine freebie and paired it with other papers from the same collection and some cute Penny Black stamps -

This lovely Santa and snowman stamp was my favourite Penny Black purchase from last Christmas and I am entering this card into this month's Penny Black Saturday Challenge and also into the Penny Black and more monthly challenge

Cute Kitty Christmas

The theme for week 42 of the 52 cards challenge was Oh So Cute, a perfect challenge for me as I am a sucker for cute images and my favourite stamps Penny Black, just ooze cuteness.

I made some cute kitty cards using a couple of Penny Black T for transparent stamps -

Other supplies used -

Nestability circle dies
Go Kreate oval dies
Craft Creations snowflake paper
Kaisercraft sentiment stamp
Assorted pearls and gems from stash

Lovely Christmas Leftovers

Here are the Christmas cards that I made for week 17 of the 52 cards challenge which was to use project leftovers.  I had a load of scraps from a Sarah's Cards Christmas kit and managed to make 8 cards from them.

I think the papers are My Mind's Eye.

September Sketchy Scrappers - Friendship

This was our sketch to use for the September Sketch Scrappers challenge -

And this is the layout that I did using papers from Sarah's Cards September 2011 kit - Fancy Pants 'It's the Little Things'

The photograph was taken at this year's UK Marillion convention in Wolverhampton, me with two of my lovely Marillion sisters - Vivi from the Netherlands and Laura from Sardinia (we are a very international family).

Thank you Caroline for finding a lovely sketch for us to use.