A Song For Christmas

My card for today follows the sketch over at The Sweet Stop Challenge Blog.  I've inked up one of my Adorable Christmas stamps for the first time to make the following card:

A5 'old gold' card blank

Images stamped in Memento Cocoa ink onto Neenah card and coloured using Spectrum Noir pens.

Papers came free in a magazine.

Martha Stewart corner punch, Spellbinders dies used for sentiment mat and image mat.

Ribbon and card candi both from stash.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Polka Dots/Spots

The Crafty Pad Challenge - Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time Challenge - Anything Goes

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Traditional Christmas Colours

Winter Wonderland - One For The Boys

Birthday Wishes

My card for today uses papers from Making Cards magazine:

A5 card blank

Martha Stewart punch used to create the border along with some gingham ribbon.

I embossed some cardstock using a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

A Nellie Snellen die (Flower Circles) was used to create the mat the poppy is sat on.  I folded some light card to create the Rosette effect (at least that was the idea!) and I used a template to create the poppy petals, finish off in the centre with a Nellie Snellen punch.

My card is for the following challenges:

Delicious Doodles - Poppies

A Gem of a Challenge - Flowers

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Ladybugs Crafts - Something beginning with P

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Willow Sketchie Challenge

Good Morning

Here is my card for Willow Sketchie Challenge:

6 x 6 card blank

Image from A Double Sprinkle of Kraft cd-rom, printed onto Watercolour card.

Papers from cd-rom printed onto Satin printer paper.

Spellbinders label 23 used for image and sentiment mats.

Mini fanciful flourish die used with Centura Pearl card, mulberry flowers and pearls from my stash.

Dotty ribbon from Joanna Sheen.

I have decorated the inside of the card to co-ordinate with the front:

My card is also for the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Lotsa Ribbon

Polka Doodles - Wings and Things (Ladybird)

A Gem of a Challenge - For The Girls

Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes

Songbird Challenge - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Craft Your Passion - Hip To Be Square

Bearly Mine Challenges - Pearls and Swirls

Thanks for visiting.

Time To Have Fun

Good Afternoon

I hope you're having a good day.  Doesn't it go dark early now?

I had a lovely surprise this morning, I had an email from Janet at Pink Gem Designs to say that I had won the October prize draw.  My prize is my choice of 4 of their Funky Animal stamps, how great is that?

Co-incidentally, last night I printed off a Pink Gem digi stamp ready to make a card for the current Gem of a Challenge.  I've had such fun making up this card today and here it is:

I coloured him in using coloursoft pencils.  I then faffed around for ages looking a for a toning blue backing paper which I then decided to emboss with a snowflake design.  The corner punch is Martha Stewart.  I added flowersoft to his hat, coat and boots, sparkling snow glitter to the snowballs and Pinflairs Ice Diamond to the ground.  The tree is die cut from holographic card using a Memory box die, and gems added.  The sentiment is Lili of the Valley.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Crafts and Me Challenge - Winter Blues

Totally Papercrafts - Use Glitter

Bah Humbug - Use die-cuts

Christmas Card Challenges

One Stitch At A Time - Christmas Card

Pile It On Challenge - Keep Warm

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Bingo - I chose Use A Punch, Sentiment and Bling

Ladybug Crafts - Non-traditional Christmas Card

Stamps R Us - Masculine theme

St Lukes Charity Cards - Christmas Card

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes plus bling

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Let It Snow

Good Afternoon

My title isn't a request!!!  Here is my card for today which follows the current challenge over at Willow Sketchie Challenge which gives us a sketch to follow with the addition of a snowflake:

My main image uses a Dimension Fourth stamp from this months project club.  The snowflake is made up of lots of 'Christmas Words'.  I stamped it using versamark and then mixed some of my very neglected mica powders with some clear detail embossing powder.  It looks lovely and sparkly in real life but unfortunately I can't capture it on camera. I die cut a large snowflake using my ironworks die, added some gems, and placed this under the stamped snowflake.  The snowflakes and sentiment are from the same stamp set.  The doily is a gorgeous Marianne die and the corner punch Martha Stewart.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Bah Humbug - Glitz and Glitter

A Gem Of A Challenge - Let it Snow

Saturday Challenge - Sparkle

Whoopsi Daisy - Let's Do Christmas

Papertake Weekly - Use 3 Different Shapes

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Inspired By A Christmas Song (Let It Snow)

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Reminds You Of A Song (Let It Snow)

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Christmas Songs

Bling It On - No Patterned Paper

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Birthday Girl In Aqua, Pink and Lemon

Good Afternoon

I hope you're having a good day.

My card for today is a birthday card made using a digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs.

I love this image and really enjoyed colouring it in using my coloured pencils.

The backing paper is from my stash. The pink paper was punched around the edges using a Martha Stewart PATP. The yellow butterfly border was made using an EK Success punch. The mat she is sat on was die-cut using a Nellie Snellen die, as were the flowers and sentiment. Little pearls from Joanna Sheen were added to the centres of the flowers, and the little butterflies are the one's cut out from the punched strip. The sentiment stamp is from the Patchwork Polly range of stamps.

The inside of the card matches the front.

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

A Gem Of A Challenge - Use Aqua, Lemon and Pink

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Happy Birthday

Stamps R Us - Goin' Digital

Papertake Weekly - Fancy A Punch

Easy Craft Projects - Pastel Colours

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes Challenge - Birthday

Thanks for visiting today, and for the comments you leave, I love to read them.

Jo

A Gem Of A Challenge 17 - Anything But A Square

Good Morning

I can't adjust to this new time at all. It's such a struggle to get up in the morning, Murphy's struggling even more than me!

Today's card is my entry into the current Pink Gem Challenge

This time the challenge is 'Anything But A Square'.

For my card I used the digi stamp Summer Milly, which I printed onto watercolour paper. I coloured her using my Lyra's. The shape of the card was made using my Get In Shape Templates. The card is from PaperMill. I arranged a few mulberry flowers and leaves onto some acetate which I added to the stopper for my easel card, which is die cut from one of my new Spellbinders dies.

Have a good day, whatever your plans.

Jo x

A Gem Of A Challenge

Good Afternoon

This is a quick post, I feel like Anneka Rice against the clock! I hadn't realised the the current A Gem Of A Challengefinishes today.

We had a sketch to follow, and here is my entry.

I was lucky enough to win some digi stamps in a Pink Gem blog hop recently, and this is one of the stamps I won. He's lovely isn't he? This is the first time I have used a digi stamp, the first time I printed him he filled a A5 sheet, lol. I printed him onto watercolour paper, left the image for a couple of days to make sure the ink was properly dry, and then watercoloured him using Lyra Aquacolours.

I gave him little rosy cheeks because I'm sure all pirates have rosy cheeks! He's sitting on some gorgeous pearlescent cardstock which has been die-cut using a Marianne's die. The backing paper is printed from Crafters Companion Boys cd-rom, and the border has been cut out of the same paper using my fab new spellbinders fleur de lis die. I embossed some pearlescent paper using a cuttlebug die, then added some buttons from my stash.

Phew! Stop the clock!!!!