CD Sunday Plus Challenge #157 - Hosted by Pamela

Good morning and welcome to my blog.

I hope you've had a lovely Easter and managed not to over-indulge on the chocolate.  We had a lovely time with family and the sun even shone for us!

It's hard to believe that it's time for our next challenge already and we're almost at the end of April!  I must say though, I'm very glad of the warmer weather and longer daylight hours!

For my card today I revisited one of my many hardly used cd-rom's.  It's artwork by the fabulous Pollyanna Pickering from A Winter's Tale cd-rom by Creative Crafting World

I recently discovered that you can change pdf files into jpegs using microsoft!  Happy days!  So I changed the image into a jpeg, took it into My Craft Studio and made it into decoupage.  Now unfortunately, you can't really see the dimension in the photo, but in real life the robin and other layers really stand out!

It's such a gorgeous image I didn't feel I needed to add much else, so just added the gems to the corners and left it there.

I must say, I find My Craft Studio quite challenging!  If anyone can recommend any other graphics programme that are more 'user friendly' (and good for someone who struggles with technology!), I'd be very grateful.

I look forward to you joining us over on the challenge blog.

Jo xx

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

 Here is my second entry into the current House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge which is Anything Goes with the option of Spring/Easter:

I took the image from Joanna Sheen's House-Mouse cd-rom and turned it into decoupage, then matted it onto some silver card.  I printed the accompanying backing paper from the cd-rom.

I then quilled the 3 ducks using strips of the appropriately coloured paper and added a bead for each of their eyes.

I decided against putting a sentiment on the front of the card as thought it could be used for a number of different occasions.  This was such a fun card to make!

Thanks for visiting.

Jo xx

House-mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

 Hello

This is my entry into the latest House-Mouse & Friends challenge.  I don't enter many challenges these days, but do like to try and enter this one.

The theme for this challenge is Spring or Easter so |I went with spring.

The image is from Joanna Sheen's House-mouse triple cd-rom, and I took the image into My Craft Studio to make it into decoupage.

I used the accompanying backing paper, which I cut in half and used the other half as the insert.  Yellow caes from my stash was added to complete the card.

I hope you have a lovely Easter weekend and get lots of yummy chocolate!

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #156 - Hosted by Meg

Good morning and welcome

It's already time for a new challenge over at CD Sunday Plus - how the week's are flying by!

We were recently invited to a wedding and this is the card I made for the bride and groom.

I used various Sue Wilson and Memory box dies to make my card.

This is the insert which was printed from A Touch of Elegance cd-rom by Creative Crafting World.  I thought it worked well for a wedding card.

Carol is still not able to join us for this challenge so Meg is our hostess.

I look forward to seeing your fabulous creations over on the challenge blog.

Jo xx

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge #437

 Hello & welcome

This is my entry into the latest challenge at House-Mouse & Friends - Anything Goes.  I've made this card for my sister's birthday.  I used an image from the Gruffies & Happy Hoppers cd-rom.

I lovely the happy hoppers and took the image into My Craft Studio and turned it into decoupage.  I embossed some toning card with a cupcake embossing folder.  I have lots of embossing folders, many never used, and am determined to include more embossing on my cards this year!

This is inside the card

I used the matching backing paper from the cd-rom

Thanks for visiting.

Jo xx