Merry Christmas from London

I spotted a fun Christmas challenge on the Winter Wonderland blog called "Across the Miles" and thought that a card with something to do with London on it would fit the bill (seeing as that is where I live, and I've managed to collect a fair few London/Union Jack/Jubilee crafty bits over the last year).

I love this stamp by Penny Black, and decided I would try to turn it into a snowy, wintry scene by combining it with some blue papers from a yummy Polkadoodles CD, and just a touch of colour from some Copics - and this is what I came up with!  I'm sure that I could have given it a more wintry feel with more colour and inks, but I quite like the clean fresh look of all the white with just a hint of colour.  What do you think?

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Winter Wonderland - Across The Miles
CD Sunday - Christmas
Make It Monday - Linky Party #110
Stamp and Create - Winter Wonderland
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Die Cuts and/or Punches

Materials Used:
Penny Black - London stamp
Polkadoodles - Here Comes Christmas CD
Copics - BG10, BG72
Spellbinders - A2 Matting Basics A and B, Holiday Tags
Letraset - fine line drawing pen
Craftwork Cards - A5 white card blank
Pale blue ribbon from stash

Fun Fabric

I bought some London Jubilee inspired fabric at the weekend, which I thought I would share with you.  I'm intending to make a bag with it, using a pattern from the book "The Bag Making Bible" by Lisa Lam, so now I just need to get the other bits n bobs needed and find some time to make it! So watch this space!

Polkadoodles Challenge - 3rd Place!

Yay!  I got 3rd place in the Polkadoodles Regal Colours Diamond Jubilee challenge for my "Keep Calm & Reign On " card! Imagine very excited 'happy dance' going on here :-)

Thank you Nikky and team for picking my card as one of the winners!

Keep Calm & Reign On

Continuing with the celebrations over the weekend, I made this card for the Polkadoodles Week 22 Regal Colours Diamond Jubilee Challenge

Materials Used:
Polkadoodles - Pretty Sweet CD: Amelia
Nikky Hall - Brittania digi papers that Nikky generously gave us on the Polkadoodles Facebook page: Union Jack and Crown
Serif Craft Artist Professional - to size the Union Jack background, and make sentiment panel
Promarkers- Lipstick Red, Ruby, Crimson, Tea Green, Grey Green, Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 2, Blender
Flexmarkers- Tea Rose, Linen, Light Fawn, Dusky Pink, Cappucino, Saddle Brown
Craftwork Cards- white card blank
Kanban - irridescent gem
Silver mirror card and black ribbon- from stash
Cocktail stick - from the kitchen! :-)

Queen's Diamond Jubilee Parade

How lucky were we - a place right at the front along Whitehall!  I really didn't expect to find a spot where we would see very much at all, and it was pure luck where we ended up really as after The Queen passed us in her car on the way to Westminster for lunch the people in front of us left - so hey presto there we were at the front ready for the procession!  And only a couple of hours to wait...

There were military bands on foot and horseback and troops marching by to help the time pass by

A little more waiting...

Then we heard the 60 gun salute start and before you knew it we could hear cheering from further down the road, and there she was - our Queen!

Quickly followed by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with Prince Harry

Sadly it was all over very quickly, BUT, we saw The Queen!

Happy Diamond Jubilee Your Majesty!

I hope you've all enjoyed the Jubilee weekend, its a pleasure to share some photos from my day with you on here

Jubilee Bunting

Ready to bring a little bit of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations into our flat I made some Union Jack Bunting for the balcony doors and a mirror, so now the country is in full swing celebrating, I thought it was time to share it with you. I spent a couple of hours printing, sticking, and tying ribbons, the difficult bit was attaching it to the rail above the windows (and rather frustrating it was too!)

Materials used:
Stamps Away - Bunting Stamp and Ink Board
Serif Craft Artist Professional - Cool Brittania digikit
JosyRose - white, navy and red ribbon