SPS - Blog Hop

Good day gorgeous peeps.  Just something a little different today :) :) :) Sweet Pea Stamps are having a Blog Hop where we have all created something Christmassy but without using a Christmas image - quite a hard task and great to get the old grey matter working lol.

For my creation I have used 'Dream of Iris' by Ching Chou Kuik available in both rubber and digi.  I just love this image.  I know the Iris flower is not related to Christmas in any way but the dreamy expression on this lady's face just made me think of all the kids dreaming about what goodies would be wrapped under the Christmas tree.

I am in Kenya at the moment visiting friends and a long way from my craft room.  I knew I would be itching to make something so packed a small box to bring with me to hold what I thought would be essential items lol so I thought I would share with you my mobile craft room :) :) :)

Right back to the card - here is a close up of the coloured image, I used Faber Castle Polychromos crayons.

Before coming to Kenya I did do a search for craft superstores - well you never know :)  When I lived here 30 years ago there was no such thing but to my surprise I found one this time.  Not a big shop by any means but they had a few rubber stamps and other bits and bobs and some lovely paper from Thailand which I treated myself to.  Two of the sheets have been used in this creation.

 After fussy cutting the digi (an not having any foam pads to mount it with in my box) I made small pegs from spiralled strips of paper - that worked just fine.

 Next, using a coffee jar lid and a jam jar lid for templates I drew two circles and mounted them together to make my tag.  I added some wee flowers I brought with me and the pearls in the centres of each flower have been coloured with my gold pen lol.

And here we have the finished creation.  I used some of the leaves from one of the papers and cut them out to make my sudo die cuts, added some black lace from my mobile craft room

We hope you will join in with our blog hop :) and if you would like to try out Sweet Pea Stamp images we have a discount coupon for you too :)

Please visit each of our talented team members' blogs and leave a little love - a comment on every hop post will enter you into a drawing for a $20 gift code to the Sweet Pea Stamps store! As an added bit of fun share the hop on Facebook tagging Sweet Pea Stamps for a chance for a $10 gift code to the Sweet Pea Stamps store! Winners will be chosen around the first of next week.

Sweet Pea Stamps blog http://sweetpearubberstamps.blogspot.com/
Ria http://dragonmagicscrapkaarten.blogspot.nl/
Suzi http://www.suzannebakermckenzie.blogspot.com
Holley http://holleybarnhartsblog.blogspot.com
Aletha http://ajsdesigns.blogspot.com/
Tera http://stampqueen.blogspot.com
Milo http://milolilja.net
Denise  http://thruthelookingglass-glassgraffitix2.blogspot.com/
Sande http://sandensupinat.blogspot.fi
Jane http://craftyanimal.blogspot.com    (you are here)
Nataliya http://lovecraftsforever.blogspot.com

Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a great day.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Come and Get It - W, Unlimited - Merry Christmas (Entire Month of Dec)
• Glitter n Sparkle - W - #114 Modern Christmas Colors
• Robyn`s Fetish - W - #241 Christmas Cards
• That Craft Place - 2W, 1E - Christmas
• Noor! Designs UK M, P1 Merry Christmas
• The Craft Garden -M, P1 , E3 CHRISTMAS
• Di's Digis Designs 3E 2W SIO - (W1) CHRISTMAS!
• Open-Minded Challenges - 2W, 3E  (W1) Unusual Christmas
• Cut it Up- 2W, 1E, Must have Die Cuts - No. 59 - (W2 of 2) - Non Traditional Christmas Card (hope my hand cut elements from my DP class as die cuts :) )
• Delicious Doodles - W,1E, SIO – No. 113 - Non-traditional Christmas