I want to ride my bicycle...

I have a quick and simple gift bag for a cycling enthusiast to show you today. The plain bag is from Hobbycraft...I stamped my Hero Arts 'Classic Bicycle' stamp randomly over the front of the bag, and over the front of a mini tag to match. I used my X Cut 'Ribbon Slot' punch to punch holes through both sides of the top of the bag, so that I could tie it closed using the string on the tag.

Challenges for this bag:

• C.R.A.F.T. - Anything but a Card
• Crafter's Cafe - Father's Day/Male
• Shopping Our Stash - No Patterned Papers
• Simon Says Stamp - Father's Day/Masculine
• Simply Create Too - Father's Day/Male

Teddy Bear Christmas

This card combines three challenges: the Allsorts Challenge sketch & 'Torn Edges' theme; the Secret Crafter colour combination of 'Turquoise & Brown'; and the Roses on Paper Challenge to use punches with a sketch of our choice. I've made a Christmas card...although the colour combo doesn't scream Christmas...I found these gorgeous papers amongst my BasicGrey 'Figgy Pudding' pack, and I coloured my 'Teddy Bear' image (by Rachelle Anne Miller for Stampavie) to match. I went for a snowflakes theme...embossing the brown paper with my Cuttlebug 'Snowflakes' folder, punching three small snowflakes (using an X-Cut punch), and using a Cuttlebug die for the larger snowflakes. The sentiment is from the 'Holly-Jolly' set by Penny Black, I used my Fiskars 'Deckle' tearing ruler on the snowflake paper, then distressed the edges of all of the other layers to match.