An Enchanted 21st Birthday

Good Afternoon

My card to share with you today is another using Joanna Sheen's fabulous Enchanted Dreams cd-rom.

The colours on this cd-rom are amazing.  The image I've used is from the Toppers - Flowers section, printed onto glossy photo paper and matted onto silver mirror card.

I used an 8 x 8 card blank, onto which I matted some beautiful mottled lilac cardstock from PaperMill out of which I had die-cut one of the corners using a beautiful Marianne die. I then embossed some lilac glitter card with my Tied Together embossing folder and added lilac gems at all the junctions.

The sentiment is computer generated, printed onto white cardstock, distressed slightly with Milled Lavender Distress Ink and then matted onto a scalloped circle.

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

CES Challenge - Flower Frenzy

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Challenge - Things With Wings

Bling It On Challenge - Shades of Lilac

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Love and Marriage

Good Morning

Don't the months pass by quickly?  Today see's a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge and this month our theme is Love and Marriage with the option of lace and pearls.   This month we are sponsored by the lovely Heather Ellis, and my card uses one of her digi stamps.

I used a 6 x 6 scalloped card blank to which I added a lovely swirly vellum, punched along the bottom with a Martha Stewart border punch.  The mat the gorgeous image is sat on was cut using a Nellie Snellen die.  The image is coloured with a mixture of promarkers and spectrum noirs, and some stickles glitter glue was added to the flowers.

The three flowers are printed from the La Pashe 'The Big One' cd-rom from the Build a Blossom section.  These were layered up and some pearls added to the centres.  The ribbon was from my stash.

I do hope you'll join in our challenge this month, and please pop across to the challenge blog and have a look at the super cards my teamies have made.

Our Boss at CCC, Lynne, has had a tough few weeks, and I want to send her lots of Get Well Hugs.

My card is also for the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenge - Bingo (Ribbons, Pink, Gems)

Ladybug Crafts Inc - Love

My Time To Craft - A for Adorable

Bling It On - Love

Penny's Challenge - Love is in the air

Stamps R Us - Love/valentine

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Love Is In The Air

ABC Challenge - In Pairs

Saturday Challenge - Hugs and kisses

Allsort Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I look forward to seeing your creations.

Jo x

Cold and Frosty

Hello

I hope you have had a lovely Christmas and are enjoying the festivities.

My card for today is one I made for friends this Christmas.  It uses the fabulous Thomas Kinkade cd-rom from Joanna Sheen:

I used an image from the decoupage section for this card and added lots of glitter!  The backing paper is from the same cd, printed onto pearlised paper.  The sentiment is also from the cd-rom, sat on a mat cut using a spellbinders die.

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

ABC Christmas - F for Frosty

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - White Christmas

Alphabet Challenge - W for White Christmas

St Lukes Charity Challenge - Let It Snow

Bling It On Challenge - Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas

PaperPlay Challenge - Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges - Christmas

Crafts Your Days Away - Snowmen

Divas By Design - Merry Christmas

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

The Dog's Whiskers

Good Evening

Two posts in a day - wonders never cease!

This is a special Christmas card I was asked to make for someone with a Westie:

I went straight to the fab Furry Friends cd-rom from Joanna Sheen and found the perfect image.  The backing paper is also from the cd-rom.  I made the shaker window using a wonky rectangle spellbinders die and then ran it through the big shot with swiss dots embossing folder.  Pinflair Ice Diamond and snowflakes punched with a Martha Stewart punch were used to create the shaker elements.  Marianne dies were used for the ribbon border and the poinsettias, and crystal glitter was added to the centres of the flowers for extra sparkle.  The sentiment is Lili of the Valley stamped with Fired Brick distress ink.

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

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes plus Glitter

Top Tip Tuesday - Let It Snow

Ladybug Crafts Challenge - Snowflakes and Sparkle

Creative Inspirations Challenge - Snow Much Fun

Crafts and Me Challenge - Winter Snow/Snowflakes

Winter Wonderland - Let It Snow

Saturday Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small

The CD Sunday Challenge - Things with Whiskers

Bling It On - Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Jo x

A Christmas Wave

Good Afternoon

My card for today is made using the adorable Snowman cd-rom from Crafters Companion:

This is from the decoupage section and the backing paper is from the same cd. The mats are all made from holographic card, the snowflake border is a Memory Box die, the sentiment is Lili of the Valley, sat on an Spellbinders ironworks die.  Some frosty card candy has been added to complete the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Jingle Belles - Christmas Card

Raise The Bar - It's begining to look a lot like Christmas

Here Come The Boys- Card For A Man

One Stop Craft Challenge - Let It Snow

Top Tip Tuesday - Let It Snow

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Snowflakes

Creative Inspirations- Snow Much Fun

Crafts and Me Challenge - Winter Snow/Snowflakes

Crafty Creations Challenge- A Card with a Sentiment

 Totally Papercrafts Challenge - Let it Snow

Paperplay Challenges - Snowman

Moving Along With The Times - Last Minute Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge - Yippee It's Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas

Bling It On - Christmas

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Jo x

A Thank You Note From Teddy Bea

Good Morning

I am in the middle of a batch of Thank You cards for my daughter to send to thank everyone for her 18th birthday presents.  I've had to keep them fairly straight forward but had a bit of a mental block to say the least!  The current challenge at Teddy Bo is Clean and Simple, so I decided to sit and colour my favourite bear to use on one of the cards.

Teddy Bea is coloured with coloursoft pencils and then matted onto some lovely mottled cardstock that I got from Papermill.  The flower and flourishes are cut using Marianne dies and a gem added to the centre of the flower.

My card is for the following challenges:

Teddy Bo Challenge  - Clean and Simple

Saturday Challenge - White plus one other colour (not including the colour of the image)

The Crafty Pad Challenge - Monochromatic

My Time To Craft Challenge - Punches and dies

Creative Inspirations - Monochromatic

Bling It On Challenge - No patterned paper

Pollycraft Monday Challenge  - Girls, girls, girls

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Free and Easy

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I'm off to try and finish the rest of the Thank You cards.

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

Christmas Weaving

Good Afternoon

My card for today uses a new-to-me technique and makes good use of some papers I've had in my stash forever!

This is my first attempt at paper weaving and I was surprised at how long it took to do!  The snowflake in the centre was stamped in versamark and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  The sentiment was also stamped and heat embossed.

My card is for the following challenges:

Bling It On - Weaving

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Use something over a year old (all the papers and the stamps I've used are much older than that!)

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x