Take a Tag

I really must be getting old... the weeks are flying by and it's already time for another challenge from My Time to Craft. Here is my DT card and the theme is entitled Tag Along.
I made the tag, carefully shaping the top, which I then promptly covered with the bow... Hey Ho!
I haven't really done much collage stamping so I thought I would give it a try. I found it a little more difficult than the demonstrators in the videos I watched on You Tube made it appear, but after a couple of abortive attempts I came up with this. I understand now the purpose and order of using inks in gradually deepening tones, and have used a whole bunch of stamps to get the finished effect.
I started with a Stampabilities music manuscript stamp, then the side panel with the stars on, then the Hero Arts  flower, finally adding the Artemio Christmas foliage stamps and the Papermania sentiment in the deepest shade. After I'd done that lot I distressed the edges with Distress Ink.
The background paper is from Papermania and the leaves are from X Cut punches.
Job Done!
Do join us in this challenge and let's see your fab creations.

Not a card

I love messing about with templates and this was no exception!
I don't actually remember where I looked for this one, but it appealed immediately.
After printing and cutting out the template, I decorated the cracker with my SU  Baroque Border Stampin' Around Wheel, heat embossing the design in gold.
I added a Vintage label punched out with my Scallop Circle Punch. I thought that these might make good Christmas Day place markers... with a small gift inside!
Catch the Bug - Christmas Challenge
Our Creative Corner - 3D challenge
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - A time for giving
Winter Wonderland - Make  decoration

Not a good day for your birthday

Tomorrow is my son's mother-in-law's birthday and she is going into hospital for replacement hip surgery... not the best way to spend one's birthday, but no doubt she will be so relieved to get it done as she has been in considerable pain since her  hip began to disintegrate!
She loves butterflies and so here is another card with a butterfly for her.
Hero Arts French Script stamp
Stampin' Up butterfly,
Personal Impressions sentiment.
I doodled the butterfly's trail.
I find it very difficult to photograph cards with a lot of white, which is rather a shame as I make quite a lot of them! I'm sorry this is such a rubbish picture, but I hope you can see it clearly enough.
I'll be wishing her luck as well as a happy birthday tomorrow!
Alphabet Challenge - D - Doodling

Color Dare

This is a stamp from a Stampin' Up set, Polka Dot Punches, which I was given for my last birthday.. I really ought to get the punch which goes with this stamp to save myself all that cutting out!
I love them and have used one this time for the challenge from The Color Dare . (It was the winner)
The specified colours are Pacific Point, Melon Mambo and Blushing Bride.
I actually don't have these exact colours, some are on my wishlist with my SU rep Victoria, but I looked in my catalogue and matched the colours as closely as I could.
Clean and Simple, and I find the result rather pleasing! I hope you think so too!
We had a lovely progressive supper last night with our neighbours, but today I feel rather tired... I don't usually go to bed so late!
Sentimental Sundays - Thank You