CD Sunday Plus Challenge # 174 - Hosted by Pamela

 Happy New Year

I hope you've had a lovely Christmas and that 2026 is a good one for you.

It's time for a new challenge at CD Sunday Plus and there are a few changes for this year.  Firstly, we no longer have a Facebook page and secondly, the challenge will now close at 9pm on the second Friday.  Any entries for this challenge therefore need to be posted by 9pm on Friday, 16th January.

Here is my card for this challenge:

I recently treated myself to the All Our Yesterdays collection from Highlight crafts as I thought it would fill in some of the gaps in my collection for men's cards.  I used some of the dies and downloads to create this card for a friends 30th birthday.  I don't often create this style of card, and really enjoyed making this one.

I hope you like my inspiration and you'll be able to join in with our challenge.

Jo x

By The Seaside

Good Morning

The day started off very cloudy with rain in the air but the sun has broken through to bring us another gorgeous day.  So my card for today is quite appropriate.

The card is made using one of the 'All Our Yesterday's' decoupage sheets from Joanna Sheen.  I love decoupage and these sheets are a real pleasure to work with.

The light blue base card is dry embossed using the Keepsake Splendour Embossing board.  I don't have a lot of embossing boards but this one really caught my eye, I love the shapes on it.  I then embossed some dark blue card using some of the corners on the board and then layered them up.  Light blue pearls (available from Joanna Sheen) were then added.

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

Crafts and Me Challenge - Summertime

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Dry Embossing

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Jo x

A Trip To The Beach

Good Morning

You may remember me showing you some cards made by my neice Grace.  Well today is Grace's 7th birthday and I'd like to wish her a very happy day.

My card for today is made using the fabulous All Our Yesterdays Decoupage from Joanna Sheen.

 I kept the card quite simple so as not to distract from the image and simply matted it onto some dark blue cardstock, and then some sandy coloured cardstock to which I had added some embossing using a glitter girls board.

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

Crafting for all seasons- Summer

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

A Walk Together

Hello there.

It's a cold, wet, miserable day here in Manchester, so I'm working with some summery images to cheer me up.

Today's card uses another of the All Our Yesterday's decoupage sheets from Joanna Sheen.

The backing paper is from the House-mouse inserts cd-rom, teamed with purple cardstock from Papermill. The flowers are made from the same backing paper cut with Marianne dies. (I'm a bit addicted to these roses at the moment!).

Thanks for visiting today, have a good day.

Jo x