Advent catch up.....

The last few days have been a little crazy, the forensics have come back from the lab so our case officer came round to take statements (they took statements on the night but they have to do it again just in case you're overly emotional at the time). An hour after the officer had left the Asda delivery showed up, once we had packed all that away we finally grabbed some dinner. Friday wasn't much better and then yesterday my husband decided to do the back-up which took the entire day!!! MENTAL!!!!
I promised to share my creation for advent window 13 but what I should have said was a peek.

It's a birthday card for a football mad friend and I don't want to give the Game away.

Just before we get on with the advent calendar.....I will be offer 2 crafty candies in January, one for UK followers and one for Worldwide followers.....so if you want to start following now so you don't miss the event...

But let's get on with a few more days shall we......

"In the 14th Advent window 

my calendar gave to me

a creepy little spider web"

"In the 15th Advent window 

my calendar gave to me

a beautiful diamond ring"

I decided to combine the last two into a homage to my wonderful sister-in-law. She has refused to marry her other half for the best part of 2 decades so I created an ATC to express the long wait..

I used a dark grey backing, die-cut the web from light grey and added a little black ink. I ruffed the edges. I added a little blue gem to give it a bit more dimension. I die-cut the bow in mirri-card wihich I then scrunched up. The red fabric is a tiny scrap thet was left over from the waistcoats I made earlier in the year.

She has said she'll marry him when england win the world cup......She never specified if it had to be the mens team 😁 !!!!!!Go ladies!!!!!

I'm entering this into:

• CASology - Grey 
• Creatalious Challenges - Anything Goes optional Monochrone
• Aurora Wings - Anything but a card 
• Whimsy Stamps - Anything Goes 
• Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything but a card

 The 16th and 17th will follow very shortly, as well as I peek at my happy holidays collection.

See you tomorrow

Hugs and happy thoughts

Buffy xx

 

In the 4th Advent Window

Christmas is getting closer, shall we carry on with the calendar? Of course we will, why should children be the only ones to get excited by an advent calendar.

In the 4th Advent Window

My calendar gave to me

A winter wonderland snow flake

Talk about perfect timing, this was exactly the little touch I needed to finish my christmas cards. So I started going a little carzy with the die cutting

I used purple card and a Silver Shake It pen, to give them extra wintery sparkle. I then printed out a few LOTV Smowman digi stamps and hey presto....

The first of many christmas cards. I also die-cut blue snowflakes and circles. I'm thinking of doing some line green ones too (just to be different). I have also added glitter to the orbs around the snowmans head.

I have seen a few interesting challenges I am going to enter this cute little card into:

• Christmas Card Throwdown - Pick a previous challenge from 2012 to 2013(I chose 2013 #22 No Red or Geen)
• Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes
• Whimsy Stamp Callenge - Anything Goes
• Just Add Ink - Just Add Glitter

 I hope you will return tomorrow to see what delight the advent window reveals

Oh I almost forgot, we almost have a living room wall :-)  photo tomorrow   Hopefully they will finish rebuiling it by the end of the week. Then we just have to wait for the new window.......so exciting

See you soon
Hugs
Buffy xx