Challenge 36

It's the last challenge of the year for A Gem of a Challenge and this challenge will run for one month!

We have this lovely sketch by Rebekah

......and here is my take on it

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to see the other lovely cards by the DT girls

I have used 'Teddy with Candy Cane' Digi which you can find here

The sentiment I have personalised for my little Grandaughter and you can see about ordering these in the post below

Nesties here

Personalised Digi Sentiments

Would you like to add personalised digi sentiment on a loved ones card?

I can make you a digi sentiment like the ones above with you choice of name and age (where applicable)

Just email me at pinkgemdesigns@googlemail.com with your requirements.

You will recieve a zip file with two black line images, 1 jpg with a solid white background and 1 png with a transparent background so you can print onto patterned paper.

The colour images above are just for copyright purposes and of course the white watermark will not be on your image.

We sell similar non personalised digis on our website for £1.25.... I will charge £1 extra for any to be personalised as it will involve extra work for me.

I will send you a paypal invoice for payment after the stamp is made

If there are any other sentiment stamps on the website here that you would like personalised just contact me at the above email address and we can see what we can do :)

Just Bought This!

.......and it's fab!

 I am decorating the tree as I listen to it

You can listen to the previews here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005UBFUA4/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_jHa3ob1Y9BNGG

Big December Sale!

Christmas has come early for all of our lovely customers!

We are not  making you wait until after Christmas to buy your bargain Christmas goodies.....we have decided to have a pre Christmas sale so you get to make your Christmas cards with your new goodies straight away!

I know not everyone is organised and there are still lots of peeps still card making (including me lol)

So what have we got?

.....take a look here

We have 25% off Christmas cutting dies here

We have 35% off Christmas Polymer Stamps here

Some Grey Promarker priced at £1 here (these come with a free fine nib too!)

 Only until stocks last!

Digi Scrapping meets Paper Crafting

Here is some digi scrapping mixed with papercrafting....what some might call hybrid.

It's a Christmas card I made for my parents.

I took the photo of Gem sitting on my bed wearing the hat (and doesn't she look happy lol). I removed her from the background and made her into  a png with a transparent background. You can do this with photo editing software.

I then transported her into 'My Memories Suite' and placed her on the snowy background.

I added words to the photo and also to  a tag from the same kit Christmas Party

I printed them out to make the card and added a few embellishiments.

If you would like 'My Memories Suite'  for yourself just use this code to save $10

Code  STMMMS66324

You will also get a $10 discount off the digi kits at the 'My Memories' store when you have paid for you softwear

So thats' $59.97 worth of stuff for $39.97......a bargain!

Another piccy of Gem looking happy in her hat.....I am such a cruel owner lol!

Birmingham At Christmas Time!

Yesterday we visited the German/Christmas market in Birmingham.

I have never been to the Christmas market there before and oh my word it was massive!

We had a few Christmas bevvies to keep us warm like Mulled Wine, Mulled Cider, Hot Cherry Wine and Fire Wine (mulled wine with rum) scrummy!

Then we finished off with a lovely meal in The Mailbox at a fab bar restaurant overlooking the canal!

Here are some photos that we took....we forgot the Camera so had to use our phones to take them

Merry Christmas

My Mum asks me every year to make her a personal card that she can send to  her next door neighbours.....so here is this years

I used my Grande Nestabilities to cut the card shape in my Grande Calibur

I am entering it for these challenges:-

Bah Humbug - Cute Christmas Critters

Crafty Callendar Challenge - Winter Wardrobe

Createalicious - For Christmas (Sparkles)

By the Cute & Girly - Let It Snow

Fab & Funky - Anything Goes

Simon Says - Anything Goes

I have used 'Teddy with Christmas Tree' digi stamp here

He comes in blackline to colour yourself (I used Copics) and a pre coloured version for when you need to make a card quickly!

Dowloadable papers here & here

Nestabilities here

Shapeabilities here

Marianne Creatables Poinsettia 1 here

I used my 2 way glue pen here and added lots of glamour dust

Ribbon and brads from stash

The Winner of the Christmas Candy Is.............

...................Number 39 Susan of Craftin' Suzie

Congratulations sweetie!

Please email me at pinkgemdesigns@googlemail.com with your details so I can post your prize asap!

Christmas Candy!

Here is a little 'Christmas Candy' for all of my followers to enter

All you have to do is leave your name with inlinkz below to enter the draw

A winner will be drawn at random on Friday 2nd December (1 week)

Good Luck!

All new posts will appear underneath until the candy is drawn

........and Another Quicky!

Heres another quick Christmas card!

I had a look at Terrie Bailey's blog this morning and felt inspired to make something similar.

I just love Terries modern and funky look!

Papers here

Shapeabilities here

Edgeabilities here

Pearls here

A Quicky Christmas Card

Mr mojo is walking out the door but I need more Christmas cards....."Come back Mojo!"

Just put this one together quickly using the current Pink Gem Freebie 'Poinsettia' here

Shapeabilities here

Adesive pearls here

....now a smelly little doggy needs a bath!

Bah Humbug!

Cheer up Gem it's nearly Christmas!

Challenge 35

It's Challenge 35 at 'A Gem of a Challenge'......where does the time go?

It's Christines turn to host again and she has chosen.....

  MONOCHROMATIC (shades of ONE colour) NOT XMAS + SENTIMENT

Here is my take on the challenge theme

I have used one of my new teddy digis 'Fairy Teddy' here

Sentiments are from the 'Birthday Numbers' A6 set here

Christmas Sparkles downloadable papers here

Edgeabilities here

Shapeabilities here

Cutting Dies Discount Weekend!

We have 15% off all our Marianne Creatables,Craftables and Craft Joy dies for this weekend only......so grab a yourself a bargain while you can! The offer ends on Monday morning at 7.00am

See our Marianne Creatables here

See our Marianne Craftables here

Our Craft Joy Dies here

A Teddy Little Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends in the US!

I am excited this morning as I have just upgraded to the newest version of 'My Memory Suite' Version 3.......and it's better than ever!

Had to go shopping too and bought a couple of Christmassy kits from the 'My Memories' Website

The one I have used is 'Joyeux Noel' but the little Teddy is my own digi character which you can buy as a digi stamp here. She is available in colour and blackline so you can colour her yourself if you wish.

I think I would quite like to get into designing digital scrapbooking kits myself one day :)

If you would like to buy 'My Memory Suite' just put in this dicount code at checkout to recieve $10 discount

Code  STMMMS66324

......and when you purchase your software you will recieve another $10 to spend on the lovely digi kits in the 'My Memories' Store