May All Your Days be Dashing...

3 minutes and 54 seconds later...

With officially less than 10 weeks til Christmas, this combo of 10 Minute Craft Dash and CAS(E) this Sketch may go some way towards catching up on my Christmas Card to do list LOL!  A super fast card today - especially as Simple Stories had so perfectly designed this 3x4 flash card. All I needed to do was adhere it to a sheet of Authentique paper, round the corners and pop dot.  Now only nine hundred and ninety-nine to go!!!

Playing along with Simon Says Stamp Christmas / Happy Holidays Challenge too!

Retro Red Merry Christmas...

 

ETA. Playing along with the Moxie Fabulous Holiday Cards & More - Holiday Card Challenge

You have until September 2 to join in the fun!

I thought that it was high time to get a head start on Christmas cards, especially since I was fortunate enough to recently win this gorgeous Poinsettia stamp set from Uniko Studio (who are having their very first Challenge over here, so if you get a chance, pop by and say Hello before August 14th). I stamped the poinsettia several times onto Basic Grey paper and fussy cut, mounting the five layers with foam tape, and then added Annabelle Stamps Blackcurrant Sprinkles as the buds on the poinsettia and to decorate the border. To play along with Shopping Our Stash Use Your Oldest Punch, I created the border using my oldest punch, a Fiskars Scalloped Border punch.  The weathered wood paper is from Simple Stories.

Believe it or not, this card started off using this gorgeous Retro Sketch as it's springboard, and dived off into a whole other pool!!!

I do have a couple more ideas in mind for this sketch, which you may or may not see this week LOL!  

Playing along with Merry Monday Anything Goes Challenge, 

Little Red Wagon Christmas in July Challenge and
Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes too!

This made me smile

A Dashing Farewell...

9 Minutes and 15 seconds later...

I'll still be playing along for fun, but for now this is my final 10 Minute Craft Dash as part of the Design Team.  The lovely Paulina invited me to continue for another term, but I thought it was time to let someone else take a turn to inspire you - plus now I'll be eligible for some of those fantastic prizes, like this weeks Denami Design Gift Certificate LOL!

With such a fantastic colour combo matching these gorgeous My Mind's Eye chipboard flowers and sentiment, I thought I'd try and do a super quick card this week, but the best laid plans don't always go to plan!!  I completed this card at a friends house, and used her Big Shot rather than my more familiar Cuttlebug, and lost almost half my dash time trying to work out the correct "sandwich" for the Big Shot - ooops!!!  I love the added texture achieved by using this fabulous textured material paper from Gina K Casual Friday, paired with the weathered wood paper from Simple Stories Vintage Bliss, and the faux stitching from the Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangle die cut.  To add to the texture, all the elements are pop dotted for added dimension.

10 Minute Tips

• Ready-made chipboard shapes and/or sentiments are a great go-to for timed challenges.
• If you are using unfamiliar equipment, or a technique you have not used for a while, make sure you have all your tools together and know what you are doing BEFORE you start the timer LOL!

Play along for your chance to win this fabulous Denami Design Gift Certificate!

Playing along at Lets Get Trendy Now! 3 Textured Layers Challenge too.