On Your Wedding Day

Good Afternoon

Today I would like to share a wedding card with you:

Base card Centura Pearl Snow White

Card used for matting and flowers - Old Gold Pearlescent from Papermill

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder.

Flower and leaves cut using Marianne dies.

Hat pin and pearls from ebay.

Feathers from my stash.

Sentiment computer generated.

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

Divas by Design - Flourishes (embossing)

ABC DT Challenge - Graduation or Wedding

Moving Along With The Times - Celebrate

Paper Play Challenges - Card for a Couple

Thanks for visiting my blog and the lovely comments you leave.

The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond

Good Morning

My card for today is one I have made for my brother-in-laws birthday.  He lives up in the Highlands and loves to go cycling, so hopeful he will like my card:

My card is made using photo inspiration from CRAFT Challenge and follows the sketch over at Sketch and Stash.

I stamped a number of different stamps from the Hobby Art Scene-it sets, In The Country and British Countryside.  The In The Country set have been rather neglected!  I stamped onto watercolour card using Versafine inks.  I coloured the image using Lyra Aquacrayons. The image is then matted onto pearlescent and Core'dinations card.

I embossed some co-ordinating card using embossing folders and then sanded the card slightly.  I also distressed all the card edges.  The flourishes are cut with spellbinders die, as is the sentiment tag.  I added the bicycle charm with bakers twine as he loves to go cycling.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash - Water Themed

Craft Your Days Away  - Metal

Dream Valley Challenges - Earth Tones

ABC Challenge - N for Neutral

Clear It Out Challenge - Based On A Song (The Bonnie Bank O' Loch Lomond)

My Mum's Craft Shop - Based On A Movie (What Lies Beneath?)

Thanks for visiting today and all the lovely comments you leave me.

Easter Duckling

Good Morning

I've another Easter card to share with you today, again made with the lovely Giordano decoupage from Joanna Sheen.

I followed the sketch over at Willow Sketchie Challenge, along with their theme of embossing.

I used an 8 x 8 card blank and embossed some core'dinations cardstock.  I used a co-ordinating backing paper from an old issue of Making Cards magazine which I matted onto silver mirror card.  The sentiment mat was cut with a spellbinders die and I added a glittery flower and some silver leaves to complete the card.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Polka Doodles Challenge - Easter and they're also having a fab blog hop.

Craft Your Days Away - Easter

One Stop Craft Challenge - Easter

Hooked On Craft Challenge - Easter

ABC DT Challenge - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Happy Easter

Thanks for visiting.

Cute as a Cupcake

Hello

My card for today uses one of the fabulous images from the Pollycraft, Swings and Slides range of digi stamps.

I printed the image onto Neenah cardstock and coloured her with a combination of Promarkers and Spectrum Noir pens.  I die cut the oval with a Nellie Snellen die onto Core'dinations cardstock, as a mat for her to sit on.  The backing paper is from Joanna Sheen's Daisy and friends cd-rom, matted onto the same card.

I took a double edge satin ribbon in pink, and placed a narrow red satin ribbon down the centre.  Two red flower buttons were added to finish my card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Fetch A Sketch Challenge - Sketch

ABC DT Challenge - Red, white and pink

Pollycraft Challenge - Ribbons and buttons

My Time To Craft - Cake

My Mum's Craft Shop  - Buttons and Ribbons

Paperplay Challenges - Card for a Female

Thanks for visiting.

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Good Morning

Welcome to my blog today.

I've another Christmas card to share with you today, and here it is:

The decoupage and sentiment on this card came in a goody bag I bought recently.  This is the first time I've bought a goody bag, but I really liked the look of the contents of this one.  The backing paper was also in the goody bag and is excellent quality.  I matted the Santa decoupage onto a frame made using a Spellbinders die.  I added the ribbon to hide the join and also added a buckle cut with a memorybox die so that it looks like Santa's belt.  The sentiment is sat on an ironworks die-cut and the pearls are from my stash.

My card is for the following challenges:

ABC DT Challenge - Christmas Card

CES Challenge - Inspired by a song (Santa Claus is coming to town).

Have a lovely day.

Jo x

An Enchanted Christmas

Good Afternoon

My card for today is made using the gorgeous Enchanted Dreams cd-rom from Joanna Sheen.

I'm afraid I've struggled with my photographs again today because of the lack of light, but hopefully you get the idea!

The main image is printed onto photo paper and then matted onto holographic silver card.  The backing paper is again printed from the cd-rom.  The holographic snowflake is a spellbinders die, and the lili of the valley sentiment is matted onto a Marianne Bauble cut from the same holographic card.  Some bakers twine to hold the bauble completes the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - A Christmas Card

ABC DT Challenge - A Christmas Card

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Bright colours and/or sparkle

Allsorts Challenge - Anything but a square

Thanks for visiting today.

Jo x

Back To School

Good Evening

I am pleased to see I have a couple of new followers.  It's lovely to have your company :o))

I was lucky enough to win some digi stamps from Di's Digi Downloads and this card is made using one of the stamps I chose.

 I made a square card blank from some dark navy cardstock, and then matted some backing paper from Making Cards magazine onto some gold mirror board.  I cut a border from co-ordinating paper and cut one edge with a Martha Stewart punch.

The image was coloured using coloursoft pencils and then matted onto a die-cut circle of the same dark navy cardstock.

I cut some stars using a die-namics die from gold mirror card and dark navy card.  These were then layered up and added to the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Di's Digi Design Challenge  - Anything Goes

Crafty Calender Challenges  - Sleeping Bears (3rd entry)

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 6 - Sketch

If The Shoe Fits Scrap It - Back To School

ABC DT Challenge - Back To School

Divas By Design - Back To School

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Back To School

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Back To School

Clear It Out Challenge - Back To School

Thanks for having a look.  I'd love to know what you think.

Jo x

Teddy Bea Among The Flowers

Good Morning

I've been out this morning woo hoo!!! We've all been up to the dentist for our 6 month check. I'm in so much pain now, with getting in and out of the car, the wheelchair, the dentist chair! Murphy is sulking big time, he always sulks when I've been out. I keep telling him I've not been out having fun, but will he believe me? Well the look on his face says it all.

With a bit of look he'll have forgiven me by weekend!!!!

Anyway, onto today's card. This is my latest purchase from Teddybo.com, mind you it is Teddy Bo Tuesday and there are some adorable new releases out today, so I could well be adding to my collection :D. I LOVE colouring in these bears (you may have noticed lol).

Here is Teddy Bea wearing a beautiful necklace she has made from flowers. I couldn't resist this backing paper, I thought is went so well with all the flowers, and is also very sweet. The mat she is sat on is die-cut using a Nellie Snellen die. The ribbon border is a Marianne die, as is the butterfly which is made using glitter card. The flowers are from my stash and the leaves are cut using a woodware punch.

Teddy Bea is once again coloured in using pencils. I decided this time that she could wear a red dress and hat, to pick out the colours of the ladybirds in the backing paper. I put her on the mat using glue gel to add further dimension to the card.

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

Raise The Bar Flower Power

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Lady In Red

ABD DT Challenge April Showers Bring May Flowers

Crafty Sentiments Flowers

Dream Valley Challenges Flowers

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Things with Wings

Cutie Sunday Butterfly

Thank you for visiting my blog today, and for all the lovely comments you leave me, they really make my day.

Jo x