Friday 7 September 2007

DCM - Christmas

I am very fortunate to have been asked to be guest designer over the next two weeks for the ladies on the DCM blog.
This is my first card challenge.

Well, the time has come for our first Christmas card dare of 2007.But as loads of you have already shown some fab Christmas cards on your blogs, we thought we'd make things a little more Daring, interesting, tricky or downright mean - depending on your point of view!
So, we'd like you to make and show a Christmas card which incorporates the following:
Some Paper Tearing
The colour Purple
AND
It has to have at least one hole somewhere in the design!
......BUT by "hole" we don't just mean the sort of hole you poke a brad through, or the holes you make for/with stitching - or even the hole you make to put an eyelet in - although you can use all those techniques too if you want.
We want you to be a bit/lot more inventive and creative than that, and we think you'll be able to come up with some wonderful ideas for making cards to fit this recipe.We'll leave it to you to guess which team member said "if I put Baby Jesus on my card, will that be "Holey" enough?"


Paper is from the old Icy rainbow pad, HOTP have now revamped it. (Have to say I don't like the new one half as much) Stamps are large holly, Anitas. Snowflakes, Dovecraft/Hampton Arts. The holly was stamped twice. The first had a leaf cut out & then the second stamping was heat embossed & attached with sticky pads to raise it up. Purple gross grain ribbon, papermania. Greeting compouter generated.

This has now been updated from my first attempt at work very sneakily this morning!!
The pic was too small!!!

18 comments:

Hazel said...

It's good to see you as GD on DCM - what a tough challenge! But so far I've seen fantastic responses by the team, including yours, of course.

Pearl said...

Congrats on the GD stint indeed, Paula ! Wonderful ! Great take indeed on the challenge ! I'll probably pass on this - too lazy to make it work ! lol

Gillian said...

So lovely to have you as our GD Paula! I hope you have lots of fun with us :O)
Love your card, beautiful use of the purple/lilac and love that you've used a 'tall skinny' card, I reckon they are the hardest of all cards to design with! But you've mastered it!

stamp and scrape said...

Wow Paula, I hope you now realise how much we love your work.
I'm with Gillian on acknowledging the difficulties of using the tall card; you've done a marvellous job!
Ros

Deb said...

Beautiful card Paula, congrats on being a guest designer for DCM, fab news!!!

Rika said...

Congrats Paula!!
Your card is beautiful!!

Lynne said...

Paula I'm so happy you agreed to be our latest guest designer, we love your work.

Your card is beautiful.

Patsy Jackson said...

Congrats on being a GD on DCM! Your card is lovely - really pretty :)

Anonymous said...

well done at being asked to be GD thats so fricking awesome!!! Go you!! I am so proud of you, enjoy it and have fun. Now about that card, wow and I am with the others well done on the tall skinny card and fufilling that challenge that was a ahrd one for your first dare. Well done!!

Kaz said...

Great card Paula, well done on being asked to be guest designer. Enjoy!

Marjolein said...

Congrats Paula, and that card.. is awesome, love the purple colors!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Paula!!!

That's awesome, i'm so pleased for you and hope you enjoy your time as guest designer.

Anna said...

Great to see you as Guest Designer Paula. I love the design of your card. The tall card really shows off the holly and your fantastic stamping.

Anne said...

Hi, thanks for stopping by my blog. I really enjoyed your first challenge, well done, and your card is lovely, too! Enjoy your free days when they come, and I have a good idea what you'll be filling them with, lol!

The Cryer Family said...

Great card, and congratulations on being guest designer!! Thanks for your encouraging comments on my blog!

Anne said...

Congratulations Paula!!! what a fantastic honour! You go for it! ;o) This is a fabulous example! Enjoy your stint! x

Sarah said...

Lovely card Paula!

Alhambra Club said...

Congratulations on being guest designer, this card is great.