JJ's Christmas Cheer

Good morning everyone and welcome to my blog.  I can't believe it's November already and only 36 days before we leave for Dubai, Ireland and then England and then onto Europe.  Yes we must be mad leaving our New Zealand summer for an English winter.  It's the only time of the we can do a trip like this with the boys on summer vacation.

Congratulations to our mighty All Blacks for winning the World Cup Rugby last weekend. Three times winners and back to back winners what more could a country ask for with only 4 million people in it.



On to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 congratulations to our winner and to our Top 3 cards, it was so nice to see more entries this week as we all put a lot of time and effort into our cards especially for you.

This week's Sketch 73
it's really easy and very effective.

Shots of JJ's Christmas Cheer in different positions as we all know what JJ is like!!!

This week we have one of our very favourite sponsors sponsoring us this week the wonderful Jodie Mackrell owner of 

Bugaboo Stamps. 

Bugaboo Stamps

Bio:

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugar sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Jodie is offering over very lucky winner 

Now it's time to grab a coffee and check out what Team Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 have created using Bugaboo images.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. Glitter 'N' Sparkle Challenge #161 Anything Goes

2. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #23 Use A Digi Stamp Anywhere On Your Project

3. CCC Digi Creation Challenge# 36 Anything Goes

4. Imagine That! Digi Challenge for November 
5. Winter Wonderland Challenge Anything Goes
6. Whoopsi Daisy Digi Challenge Lots of Layers
7. Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge #223 Freestyle
8. Allsorts Challenge Week # 335 Christmas 
9. 52 Christmas Cards Pick A Previous Theme Challenge
September Theme Challenge For A Man
10. Sweet Stampin Challenge Dies and or Punches

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Kraft Card and Red Kaisercraft Card

3. Design Papers: Cream and Gold spot is Kaisercraft Christmas Book and Holy and Berries is by Anna Griffin

4. Image: JJ's Christmas Cheer

5. Colour Medium: Copics and Black, White and Green embossing pens and gels pens.

6. Tools Used.

7. Dies Used all Spellbinders.

8. Embellishments: A flower from my stash I've broken down and used a red button and twine, also a Silver Christmas Tree charm all from my stash.

9. Inside my card and the finishing touch of the back of my card.

Take care everyone wishing you all a wonderful week and happy crafting.