The top ten of 2010

Suzi, a girl I follow on her blog (who creates amazing cards BTW) decided to host a little blog hop.  The objective is to let all the cardmakers/crafters out there in blogland showcase cards they have made this year.  You don't need to create anything new, all you need do is select 10 cards/projects you've made this year to share on your blog!
Do you want to take part? If you do follow these simple steps...

1. Create a post on your personal blog featuring your 10 favourite cards/projects of 2010.  Set your post to go live on 28th December.
2. Link your post to the Blog Hop Post that i will have created on this blog.  Suzi will keep the inlinkz open for 24 hours.
3. Come back on the 29th December, Hop along leaving lots of lovely comments for people
4. Come back on the 31st December to see if you've won any prizes.

There will be prizes available, and will post full details on the main Blog Hop Post.

All you have to do now is decide on your Top 10. I have mine picked out! It was HARD to decide on just 10!!

This hop is purely for fun, to let us look at the awesome creations that have been made this year.  All winners will be picked randomly from commenters on participating blogs.
If you've any question they please leave a comment or email me at mrsweyremaster at hotmail dot co dot uk.

Day 12 Tag (PRIZE INVOLVED)

On the 12th day of Christmas, the design team gave to me...

A Tag made with 12 letter stickers!

I had a hard time coming up with a Christmas saying that had 12 letters in it! I finally came up with Feliz Navidad! I tried out some shading in Photoshop when I coloured this image but it's kind of hard to see.

Go check out the Sassy Studio Designs blog to see the contest posted there. It runs till December 23rd!

Blog Candy Alert!!!

My fellow TSB (The Stamping Boutique) design team member is offering some superb blog candy for her birthday! Yes, it's HER birthday and she's giving presents! :D I like this kind of birthday!!!

Here are the details: (follow this link)
The fabby stuff on offer is:
Two digis of your choice from The Stamping Boutique

Three digis of your choice from Digital Delights

Two digis of your choice from Paper Cupcakes

AND - a few surprise candy bits that I've gathered together!!!!

And so, how do you get your hands on the sugar sweet candy??

• You must be a follower.
• You must post about the candy (with a link to this post) on your blog
• Lastly, leave a comment and include your name and blog addy.

The candy will run until 30th December. Check out her blog and get your name in the draw!!! :D I'm off to post a comment on Marie's blog! Thanks for the giveaway Marie! I hope your son pulls my name!!!!!!

Day 11 Tag

On the 11th day of Christmas, the design team gave to me...

A tag made with 11 buttons!

I thought I should get here to post this before the day is done! I've been knee deep in Christmas shopping and cleaning but I wanted to post today's tag!

I used the mini buttons from Basic Grey for my embellishments for this tag...these buttons are so cute! I sometimes lose them very easily but they make for cute, little additions to my projects.  

Hope this inspires you! Watch for tomorrow's tag! The last one in the reveal!! Thanks for checking them out!

Cheerio!

Day 9 & 10 Tags/Challenges and Sponsorships

This is kind of a long post! Lots of pictures!!!  

Here is my day 9 tag for the 12 Days of Christmas event going on at Sassy Studio Designs. Day 9 is using 9 brads. They are under the watermark and my images is "Hanging on the Wreath". 

Here is Day 10's tag. I have 7 teal jewels along the edge the tag (under the watermark again!) and three black ones on the snowman's "coat".  

This is for a sponsorship! The challenge was USE A DIGI STAMP! :D That's pretty much it! Plain and simple! This one is on it's way down to Florida to see the in-laws! 

The reindeer girl was just PERFECT for what I envisioned this card to look like!

 

And lastly, this one is for the Dare to Be Thursday challenge...we were supposed to do a non-tradition card and put it on Mr. Bee's desk. 

Thanks for letting me share! Now I'm off to bed! Night Night!!

Day 7 & 8 Tags

Here are my two tags for Days 7 and 8 at Sassy Studio Designs.....

Day 7 - Using 7 ribbons...not hard to see how I did that one!!

Day 8 - Using 8 colours. Colours used: Brown, Orange, Green, Red, Blue, White, Black and Salmon. I added the logos to the bags she was carrying! Thought it might be fun! :D This is for my step-niece! I hope she likes it! I'm getting an Old Navy gift card to go with it :D Happy Shopping Sam!!!!

Day 6 Tag

It's Day 6 at Sassy Studio Designs for the 12 days of tags!  This is mine. Today's prompt is using 6 patterns. I've got the five pattern papers and the embossed tag for the 6th pattern. Don't you just love this image? She was a lot of fun to colour with all that hair! It was fiddly with the PSE but I figured out how to get zoomed in and colour the small spots!

Also, Sassy Studio Designs is having a design team call! You can find all the details here. Don't hesitate to get your application in. You will love working with these images!!

Design Team Application and Day 5 Tag

 I'm applying for the design team over at The Stamp Fairy and these are my new Stamp Fairy creations. 

The poinsettias were coloured in Photoshop Elements (yes Mom! I FINALLY played around with it and it's AWESOME!!)  I printed them all out and then hand-cut them and created the wreath with the different sizes and layered them with foam tape to give some dimension.

This one is for my grandfather for Christmas. I wanted to colour him teal because I LOVE red and teal together for Christmas creations.  He's a pretty cute little bear! I printed it off twice, then coloured it grey for the "shadow" (it's hard to see from this angle of the photo). I popped it up with foam tape too. (I love foam tape!). The poinsettia was a little addition when I saw a mark on the card. There are no mistakes in cardmaking! Just cover-ups!

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And here is Day #5 for the Sassy Studio Designs daily tags.  This one is done using the new Driedal image. (I apologize to any Jewish viewers if I've spelled "driedal" wrong). The challenge is using 5 cardstocks. I cut out circles from cardstock in 5 different cardstocks. I embossed a couple of them to give them different textures. 

Thanks for checking it out! 

Day 3 Tag

On the third day of Christmas, the Sassy Studio Designs design team gave to me....

A tag using 3 pearls!

If you've been following my blog, you've seen Day 1 & 2's tags...today is a tag using 3 pearls. I made a tag set. Hopefully my mom doesn't look at my blog today because this is for her for Christmas! (Sh! Don't tell!) 

The set I made has 3 pearls on the actual tag and I made a matching gift bag with the new "Nutcracker" image.  Don't you just love the Sugarplum paper? It's from a digital freebie I got a long time ago and I've been WAITING to use it!
It's PERFECT for this image!

I've been colouring my images with Photoshop this month. Just makes it simplier for printing out this many images!  I put a pearl on her dress to collate the tag and bag. 

Hope you like it! Thanks for checking out my blog today!

Hazzard Country Challenge

So 2 of my friends who just happen to be scrappy friends as well started a challenge blog called Hazzard County Card Challenge!! I don't think you need to channel the Dukes or wear short shorts (feel free to if you want though!)...I think you're supposed to step out of the box and get creative!! Be HAZARDOUS in your creations!

Well this past month's challenge is using Black, Grey/Silver, Blue and White for a Christmas card...well, I know it's December already but only day 2 so I'm still throwing my hat in for the challenge! :D

I learned how to colour using Photoshop...let me say it saves me some time! I had at least 12 images to print off for the 12 days of tags at Sassy Studio Designs so I needed to get them coloured FAST! This was an extra print-off! Hope you like it! The background paper is the freebie from last month's release created by Larisa Hohman...my fellow Sassy Sistah on the design team!

Thanks for checking it out!