One post or three?

Sometimes when I have lots of things to blog, I don't know whether to split it up into individual posts for each item or whether to just go all out in one long post.

Today, I decided to go for the one long post.
First I will start with the Stampotique Challenge, where the theme is Christmas in July. I didn't think I had any Christmas-sy stamps from Stampotique, but then I remembered the legend of the Christmas spider, a story I have had a fascination with for a long time. You can read about it here.
So I decided to use Mr Stripes and make a simple tinselly card that fits with the legend.
Stampotique stamps are available from Happy Daze in the UK.

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Today I also have this simple cupcake card for a young boy featured on the Frantic Stamper blog, please visit and leave a comment as this month there is a prize again for a comment picked at random from a random post. it was a great prize last month so don't miss out. All the instructions, stamp credit etc are there.

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Also from the frantic stamper is this Apple stamp from The Frantic Stamper's own range of stamps, I made this for the Marker challenge at Gingersnap Challenge as I have coloured the apples by blending whispers markers. This card will also be featured on the frantic stamper blog at a future date.