Papertake Weekly Birthday Blog Hop .... and a new challenge ....

Humphrey is plodding through the snow to wish PTW a very happy birthay - he's all wrapped up with his warm coat and scarf - he's so cute - (I know it isn't snowing yet, but it soon will be and I couldn't resist using this image from the new Christmas collection available from Crafters Companion )

I cut around the image with my new deckle edge die and matted it onto elephant grey/blue card, then onto a white background to make it stand out from the patterned paper.

The Papertake Weekly challenge this week is anything goes with the option of using punches - I punched a large snowflake which I covered in glue then glittered annd added an 18mm sparkly button and tied it on with ivory button twine.. Then I made the very pretty snowflake lace border, using a Martha Stewart punch.  I used the pieces which were punched out to decorate the card - the rest of them decorated the floor, the sofa, the dog - you get the picture?  While I was finishing off the bow of white satin ribbon I accidentally tore the corner of the punched snowflake lace but  found making the lace very fiddly - it took a couple of attempts before I achieved a piece long enough for my card so wasn't inclined to remake the whole card!!  Sparkly button, button twine and white satin ribbon all from here.

Papertake Weekly celebrate their birthday this week with a blog-hop and there are super prizes to win from Sir Stampalot, Lili of the Valley, The Ribbon Girl, Dies to Die For plus manhy other prizes which are shown on individual blogs. 

The prize on my blog is a £10 voucher to spend in the Ribbon Girl online store

You should have arrived here from Jo's blog  and the next blog to hop to is Andrea

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning on of the great prizes is to leave a comment on each of the blogs you visit, and of course, enter this week's challenge!! but most of all, have fun

Mary x