A Special View

Good Morning

My card for today is one I made for a 70th birthday card.

The inspiration for the design came from my blog header, which is a photograph of a view that has special meaning to me.

I used the Hobby Art In The Country stamps to build the scene, which I then coloured using brushmarkers.

A sentiment was then added which has been put onto a tag cut with a spellbinders die.

Thanks for visiting today. Have a great day.

Jo x

Clean and Simple

Good Afternoon

I've been following the new Less is More Challenge blog and decided this week to be brave and have a go!!! I'm not sure I'm getting it right though!!

This week it's a theme challenge and the theme is 'Spring'. So I took a sheet of plain white card and turned it into a card blank. I then took a Dimension Fourth corner stamp from one of their monthly project clubs, and stamped directly onto my card blank four times to create a circle. I then chose 3 spring colours and coloured in the design using brushmarkers. Finally, I took a small accent stamp and stamped a tulip in each of the corners.

Now I was thinking no layers, 2 stamps, 3 colours would produce the right sort of card, but now it's done I'm not sure if it's too 'busy' for the challenge. But, you live and learn and so I decided now it's made I may as well enter it and see.

I'd love to know what you think.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Jo

A Gem Of A Challenge

Good Evening!

Only just made it today!

Today's card is my entry into A Gem of a Challenge. I needed a bit of cheering up today so decided to go colourful!

The fairy and fairy dog stamp were some of the first stamps I bought. I stamped them both onto watercolour card, and coloured using brushmarkers and then added some Diamond Sparkles glitter to their wings.

The striped backing paper is from my stash. I cut and embossed the circle frame using blue pearlescent card and a Marianne die. The pink border is embossed using a sizzix die. The orange oval was cut using a Nellie's die, and the gems and peel-offs were from my stash.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Jo x

Tea and Cake Anyone?

Good Afternoon

Another dull, grey day here mean't I needed cheering up!!  So today I decided to use brighter colours, and two of my favourtie things, to come up with this thank you calendar for my friend.  We love to share tea and cake together and she's one of those people that you always feel better after talking to.

I've seen some lovely shaped cards on blogs just recently, made using some of the XL dies that are available.  I don't have any of these dies, or the machine that can cut them lol, but it reminded me about my layering templates from Stamps Away, that I'd tidied up before Christmas.  So then I was on a mission to find them, which eventually I did.  Incidentally, from my experience, and reading those of others, it makes me think we'd all be much happier not tidying our crafty goodies away.  Since my last tidy up I've had my large acrylic block, 2 bone folders and a craft magazine go missing.  And they're just the things I can remember!!!!

Anyway, I cut the base card out of cream cardstock, and then cut the same shape out of pink cardstock, but slightly smaller, then smaller still for the dotty backing paper.  I stamped out all the images using a stamp set from Dimension Fourth, and then coloured in using brushmarkers.  A bit of jiggery-pokery was required to shaped the pink cardstock that the calendar sits on and again for the sentiment, but I think it worked out ok in the end.  I do enjoy colouring the images from this stamp set, I feel that 'anything goes' with them.

I do hope you like it.

My body is not letting me do much again today, so I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon making up some house mouse cards, another guaranteed way to bring a smile.

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

Birthday Rascals

Good morning.

Today's card I have made using the L'il Rascals stamp set from Dimension Fourth, this time using both the boy and girl.

 

This is a lovely set of stamps to work with, the boy, girl and fence are front and back stamps, which makes them very versatile.  I coloured all the images with brushmarkers.  The base card is made from Pearlescent white cardstock from PaperMill.

I hope you have a lovely day, whatever your plans.

Jo x

A Few Creations To Share

Hi

It's good to be back in cyberland.  I feel like I've been given my right arm back!!!!

I hope you don't mind, but as I've not been able to post for a while, I've got a few creations to share with you today.  If I can work out how to upload them that is!!!!!

But firstly I had to share this photo of Murphy trying out my laptop with you!  He's such a character.

This is a selection of some of the desk calendars I have made - I've made 30 so far!!!!  These are all decorated using images from a selection of Joanna Sheen cd-roms.

An 18th birthday card I was asked to make, using Nancy Watt papers and vellum from an issue of Making Cards magazine.

 This card was made using Happy Hoppers Decoupage from Joanna Sheen, and the backing paper printed from the Messy Rabbit Christmas cd-rom also from Joanna Sheen

and finally ........

 A birthday card for my nephew.  I stamped the image using Dimension Fourth's Li'l Rascals stamp set (front and back) and then suspended him on some invisible thread, fastened between the apertures.  I coloured him using brushmarkers and the number and Happy Birthday text were also stamped using Dimension stamps.

Sorry for such a long post today!!!!!

Jo

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Good Afternoon

I hope you are keeping warm and well.

Today's card is made using a stamp set from Dimension Fourth, these were November's project club stamps.

The main image was stamped onto white card using black versafine ink.  I then coloured Santa using brushmarkers and added polar white flowersoft to his beard, moustache and fur.  The Happy Christmas sentiment and the holly sprigs were stamped using versamark, then I used gold detail embossing powder.  I used the main stamp randomly around the frame, again with versamark, and applied gold embossing power.

I really like this stamp, he is a very traditional Santa.

Jo x

My Sister, My Friend

Good Morning!

It's a bright and sunny morning here today, but very, very cold.  

My card for today is the card I made for Emma from her big sister.  Turquoise is Emma's favourite colour.  The finished card was 8 x 8 which is quite a large card for me, but I wanted to fit her name on and also use the lovely die-cut circle which a friend sent to me.  I love the effect of the die-cut, and when Santa brings me my new die-cutting machine, it is quite likely I'll order this die.  This image is from Crafters Companion Swalk Set 2, and the backing papers are from the accompanying cd-rom.  I love this range, they are such fun to colour in.  The image is coloured in using brushmarker, and the ink around the die-cut is from Big and Juicy hydrangea applied with cut n dry foam.  The cardstock is pearlescent white from PaperMill and is such a lovely quality.

Now Emma has had her birthday, I need to get cracking towards Christmas, not least of all with my Christmas cards!!!

Thanks for stopping by today, and a huge thank you to everyone who has left me comments - they really make my day.

Have a lovely day.

Jo x

Doggy Birthday Card

Hello

Today's card is the one I made for my daughter's birthday yesterday.

The shapes were cut using Stamps Away layering templates and then all joined together.  The stamps are from Joanna Sheen, Dimension Fourth and Pink Gem Designs.  I used various cardstock from PaperMill and the images were coloured using brushmarkers.

I enjoyed making this card, although it did take quite a long time, but most importantly, Emma loved it so job done!!

Thanks for your visit today.

Jo x