It's a Christmas Dragon!

There's a DT call over at Stampin Dragon Designs and this image of Jiggy has been supplied for applicants to play with! It's a fab image and as soon as I saw it I knew what I wanted to do with it. I'm afraid there are quite a few pictures in this post, so the page maybe slower than normal to load - sorry!

Jiggy has been coloured with Promakers, his wings have been given the stickles treatment and he's had a Glossy Accents manicure. I've cut him and the frame out and then filled the aperture with coloured card. The holly wreath was one of those jobs I started and regretted! I couldn't find my holly leaf punch and as result ended up cutting out hundreds (well a slight exaggeration, but it certainly felt like hundreds) of leaves. They've then been curled slightly and glued onto the frame and given a coating of distress stickles. I've then dotted red glitter glue around the wreath and added some candy canes and ribbons.

The base card and DP's have been distressed and the edges inked as have the sentiments. To finish the card off I've added some faux stitching and some card candy.

Tools
Tim Holtz Blender Tool
Tim Holtz Distressing Tool

Materials
Base card - Craftwork Cards
DP's - Papermania, Home for Christmas
Plain coloured papers/card - from stash
Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Tea Dye, Walnut Stain
Image - Stampin Dragon Designs
Sentiments - Papermania
Card Candy - Craftwork Cards
Promarkers - leaf green, forest green, moss green and mulberry
Gold and white gel pens - from stash
Stickles - Forest Moss and Diamond
Candy Canes - from stash
Ribbon - white ribbon from stash coloured with Promarkers

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Stampin with the Dragon - Distressing
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Distressing
Totally Stampalicious - Inside Out
The Pink Elephant Challenge - Something Yummy
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Out of This World
Paper Pretties - Glitter
One Stop Craft Challenge - Patterns
Paper Sundaes - Stitching
Ellephantastic Challenge - Distressing
Our Creative Corner - All about Christmas
Christmas Card Challenges - Non- traditional image
City Crafter - Yum

Bookatrix Butterfly & Blooms Birthday Card

Finally my missing mojo has returned. Not sure where or why my mojo went, but it totally disappeared! I sat and stared at card blanks, stamps and pretty papers for two hours and created nothing but frustration. So I took some time out, went to visit a fellow crafter and bingo it's returned and hopefully will be here to stay (it needs to, as I have loads of cards to make this week for birthdays).

This is the card I've made for my SIL's Birthday. It took a little time as I've stamped, heat embossed and painted the butterflies with pearlescent paints. The flowers are handmade and I've also handcut the vines. Due to a lack of planning, I had to make the stand for the Bookatrix. Fingers crossed that she likes it!

Side View 

Materials
Green & Cream Cardstock - The Papermill
Tim Holtz Distressing Inks
Assorted Die-Cut Flowers  - Poundland
Brads - from stash
Perfect Pearls
Pearlescent Paints - from Oyster Stamps
Vine Leaf Digi Stamp from here
Butterfly Stamps from EJ Craft Designs
Versamark Ink
Heat It Up Gold Embossing Powder
Sentiment - computer generated
Create & Craft Micro Foam Pads

Tools
Glittergirls Bookatrix Embossing Board
Tim Holtz Distressing Tool
Tim Holtz Blender Tool
Heat Embossing Tool
Bigshot
Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Sir Stampalot Challenge - Butterflys and Blooms
Dare you to digi stamp Friday - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special
YNS Challenges - Cut it out & pop it up
Meljens Designs - Flowers & Blooms