September Challenge at CCAYR - Food

Hello and welcome to September's challenge at

 Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round

 hosted by the Gingerbread Gals.

September Challenge ~ Food

Prize:
In order to celebrate the 11th anniversary of Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round, Deanne is offering a $20 gift certificate to an online craft store of your choice!

Oh yum! I love everything about Christmas, especially the food :-)

I'm Portuguese and we celebrate just about everything with food :-)

We all sit around a large table, eating, drinking and catching up and yes, we sometimes all talk and laugh at the same time, but no, no-one is mad at each other :-)  We're just a fun loving people that really enjoy our food and carry recipes through the ages from family member to family member!

So with this being said, you can imagine that this challenge was not a hard one for me :-)  One of the things I enjoy at Christmas time in December is that the weather is perfect for hot cocoa with marshmallows and of course gingerbread cookies :-)  You see, when we lived in South Africa and spent our Christmas at the beach, we enjoyed anything that was cold and refreshing.  Christmas in the summer is not very conducive to having hot cocoa and cookies!!
So without further ado, here is the card I made for this challenge.

**Crafty Ingredients**

Card size - 5.5" x 5.5"

Card stocks - GinaK.

Stitched patterned - my stash

Image - Kadoodle Bug Designs

Greeting stamp - Christmas Sayings - Creative Expressions

Holly stamp - very old from my stash - no info on it

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I'd love for you to create a project and join in the fun by linking it to our blog at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

You have till the end of the month to link your projects.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Merry Little Christmas Challenge
Love to Craft

Till next time,

Crafty hugs,

Gingerbread Sweetness!

Welcome back, crafting friends.

It's  the 1st of November, so time for another challenge at CCAYR, hosted by the Gingerbread Gals.

November Challenge ~ Candy and/or Gingerbread

Prize ~  please visit the CCAYR blog.

As you may already know from a previous post, I'm making 100 cards to donate to the Caring Hearts Card drive.  This was started by a very special lady, Vera, and has grown worldwide.  For all the details and to find out how you can contribute, please see Vera's post here.

I had already made 40 cards, you can read about those on this post.   Now I would like to share with you the next 30 I made, especially with this month's challenge in mind :-)

This A2 card base is from the Paper Studio.  The design file is from Silhouette and the cute little gingerbread men are from the Christmas Cup Gingers from KaDoodle Bug designs. White and green cardstocks are also from The Paper Studio.

On the inside I stamp the Christmas greeting with Versafine Black Onyx ink.

The stamp is from a very old set and unfortunately, I have no information on it.

And here are the 30 cards, all signed and ready to be added to the other 40.

70 done ... 30 to go :-)

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you enjoyed your visit and will play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your Christmas project to the CCAYR blog.  Please take a few minutes and visit the our blog to see all the wonderful projects made by The Gingerbread Gals.  And don't forget to come back on the 15th, when the Christmas Belles will post their projects for your mid-month inspiration.

Till next time,

Happy Crafting