Buttons and Pins

This is the first card I have made using the Shabby Chic Haberdashery cd-rom form Debbi Moore.  I had such fun making this card:

I distressed all around the edges of the backing paper with my distressing tool and then matted it onto gold linen card.

I cut out the dress bodice and then cut a circle from a co-ordinating paper and folded it to make the skirt.  Again I distressed the edges of the skirt.

I stamped the sewing machine from Joanna Sheen's haberdashery stamp set, and the buttons and thimble image from Debbi Moores stamp set, onto shrink plastic and attached the twine before shrinking them.  I then threaded the twine through a button, which was attached to a picot edged circle, along with a couple of pins.

A few buttons were added to the card for extra dimension.

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

Craft-room challenge - Collage

One Stop Craft Challenge - No floral embellishments

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft Challenges - In Stitches

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Distressing

Birthday Wishes

My card for today is made using Joanna Sheen's Heart of the Garden cd-roms.  I love the artwork on these cd's and can highly recommend them.

8 x 8 fancy edge card blank from Cupcakecrafting

Backing paper printed onto satin paper and edged with shaded lilac distress ink

Decoupage image printed onto super smooth decoupage paper and matted onto silver mirror card.

Swirl cut with a Dienamics die from lilac card from PaperMill and gems added

Floral arrangement created using pins from Wild Orchid Crafts, Charm from ebay, flowers and feathers from my stash.

Sentiment is a WOW stamp, stamped in metallic silver ink.

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

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Use metal

Squigglefly Challenge - Use an old or new technique (decoupage)

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Flowers

Papertake Weekly - Pins and Needles

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Cupcake Craftroom - Fresh and Summery (Lilac and Lime)

Wild Orchid Challenge - Summer Blooms

Craft-room Challenge - Pins and/or charms

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Summer

Stampin' For The Weekend - Pearls and Swirls

Thanks for visiting my blog today and for all the comments you leave, they mean a lot.

CD Sunday - Beautiful Ballerina

This is my card for the current CD Sunday Challenge:

This is one of the decoupage images on the Paintbox Poppets cd-rom from Crafter's Companion, matted onto silver holographic paper.

Backing paper printed from the same CD.

Centura Pearl card with the corners cut away using a Marianne Anja die.

I cut up and re-arranged two 5 inch doiles to form a mat then used an ink duster to lightly brush the edges with Big & Juicy Hydrangea Ink.

5 gems were added to each side to complete the card.

I was delighted to be chosen in the top three for the last challenge, thank you.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Bingo - I chose Doilies, Die Cuts, Gems

Crafty Ann's Challenge - It's a Girl Thing

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Girls, girls, girls

A Guiding Light

Hello

My card for today is for the current challenge over at Joanna Sheen Challenge - It's A Man's World.  Here is my card:

This is made using the Thomas Kinkade cd-rom from Joanna Sheen, and is a fabulous triple cd set.  So useful for men's cards.

I find there's something very magical about lighthouses and I love this image with the waves crashing against the rocks.  I printed the image onto glossy photo paper, and the backing papers onto a textured paper.  All the matting and embellishments use a gorgeous pearlescent card I got from PaperMill.

I used various Spellbinders Fleur de Lis dies, I think these work so well with seasidey images.  The largest die reminds me of a ships wheel, and I decided to add some spirelli to this shape using a variegated thread.  Bakers twine was added to another die and finally some little sea shells to complete the card.

My card is also for the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad - Use dies

Pile It On Challenge - All about S (Sea, Shells)

Bunny Zoe's Craft - Use ribbon or twine

Shopping Our Stash - Macsuline

Papertake Weekly - Water, water everywhere

Crafts and Me - 3d embellishment

Thanks for visiting my blog today, and for all the comments you leave.

Happy Anniversary

Good Morning

My card for today is made using a combination of die-cuts and embossing folders.

The base card is a pearlescent cream from PaperMill.  I embossed some gold mirror board with D'vine swirls embossing folder.  I then embossed some of the cream pearlescent card with a swirly frame embossing folder.  I printed the wording in gold in the centre of the frame.  I combined 2 gold ribbons to make the bow, and die-cut the flowers and leaves from gold card using Marianne Dies.  A pearl was then added to the centre of the flower.

My card is for the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - Ribbons and/or bows

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Bingo - I chose Swirls, Flowers and Pearls

One Stitch At A Time - Use a digi or no image

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Celebrations

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today.

Happy 90th Birthday

Good Morning

I have been asked to make a 90th Birthday card for a Mum.  This is what I came up with.

I thought that this image from Joanna Sheen's Jane Shasky cd-rom was perfect.  This is from the decoupage section, printed onto glossy photo paper.  It took some cutting out but was well worth the effort, it decoupaged beautifully.  I used some pearlescent card for the base card, and scored the diamond pattern using my boxer board from Crafters Companion.  The sentiment mat is a spellbinders die to which I added a peel off and some gems.

I wanted to make the card extra-special for such a landmark birthday.  I have tried to make this style of card in the past, but have never been very happy with the finished result.  Well recently, I purchased a Crafters Companion Ultimate Pro with the loyalty points I had built up.  I followed the instructions and hey presto - this is the inside of the card:

It all came together perfectly.  I printed one of the backing papers from the Jane Shasky cd directly onto pearlescent cardstock, twice.  On one of the sheets, I scored and embossed using my ultimate pro and cut out the butterfly shape.  The dangly butterfly is a Marianne die, which I cut twice, once on co-ordinating cardstock and once onto yellow vellum.  I layered them together and added gems on the butterfly wings.  This was then attached using tiny jump rings.  I die cut two shapes using spellbinders ironworks motifs, added the number 90 to the centre of each, and attached to the inside of the card with foam pads.

Finally I printed a smaller panel of the same backing paper, which was added to the back of the card for the sender to write their message on.

I would like enter my card in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Girly

Totally Papercrafts - Rainbow of Colour

CES Challenge - Lots of layers

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

The Crafty Pad Challenge - B is for - Butterfly

Sentimental Sundays - Shaped Cards plus a sentiment

If The Shoe Fits - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Celebrations

Phew, sorry for the long post, thanks for stopping by.

Jo x

An Elegant Lady

Good Afternoon

I thought I'd share another calendar with you today, I hope you're not fed up of seeing them!

This is made using Joanna Sheen's ATC cd-rom, this was one of the first craft cd's I ever bought.  The backing papers are also printed from the cd-rom.  I decided on an easel style again as I think they display really nicely.  I used brown and gold cardstock for the matting and layering.  The calendar is sat on a mat cut using a Marianne die.  The butterfly is also a Marianne die with some pearls in the centre.  The roses and leaves are once again a Marianne die.

My calendar is for the following challenges:

Flutterby Wednesday's - Open plus fairy, butterfly or angel.

Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time - Use 3 embellishments

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Photo Inspiration

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

Have a lovely evening.

Jo x

Time To Relax

Good Morning

Today is my brother-in-laws birthday.  I couldn't decide what theme to use for his card so had a look through my Nostalgia cd-rom from Joanna Sheen.  This is the card I came up with:

I'm really pleased with how this came out.  I always seem to struggle with stepper cards and had to work out my own dimensions for this one.  I printed a backing paper from the cd-rom onto card stock to produce my base card.  The images are all printed onto glossy photo paper and matted onto gold linen card.  The sentiments are Lili of the Valley using versafine ink.  All the sentiments are matted onto gold linen card too, the circular sentiment mats cut using a Nellie Snellen Lily die which I got for Christmas.

My card is for the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Celebrations

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Fancy Folds

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

Pile it on challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes Challenge - Something Old (Stamps) Something New (Dies)

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Use new stash (Dies)

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Christmas Wishes

Good Morning

After seeing the lovely book cards over on Edna's blog, I was inspired to have a go!  I always struggle with ideas for Christmas gifts for the teachers at Emma's school and thought this was the perfect gift. I need to make 3 more!

For this book card I used papers from Making Cards magazine, sillver mirror card for matting and layering, and I die cut some Marianne flourishes out of the silver card.

I die cut some of the ironworks dies to add to the spine of the book.

I cut out a frame for the inside and ran it through my big shot using Divine Swirls embossing folder.

I attached some silver organza ribbon to tie the card shut and the tealights are attached using foam pads.

My card is for the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - Christmas

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Fancy folds/shapes

Winter Wonderland - Let it Snow

Allsorts Challenge - It Takes Two

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Traditional Christmas (Tree, snowflakes, candles)

Paper Sundaes - Anything Christmas

ABC Christmas - Christmas Project

Top Tip Tuesday - A Gift

Anything Goes Challenge - Anything But A Card

Alphabet Challenge Blog - W for White Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting, I'd love to know what you think.

Jo x

Oh Holy Night

Good Afternoon

I'm sorry I've not been around much.  My condition has deteriorated again so my GP is increasing my medication to try and get the pain under control a bit better.  It's all making me feel even more 'out of it'.

My card for today shows the true meaning of Christmas:

I used a lovely brown linen card, gold mirri board and papers from Making Cards.  Spellbinders dies are used and a pearl in each corner and finally some peel-offs to complete the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Totally Paper Crafts Challenge 94 - Christmas

Winter Wonderland Challenge - Nativity

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Decorative/fancy corners

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - A Christmas Carol (Oh Holy Night)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge - Christmas With Pearls

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Nativity

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Fairy Bea

Good Evening

I'm back with another card for today, this time featuring the gorgeous Teddy Bea.

Teddy Bea is coloured using coloursoft pencils.  She is then matted onto silver glitter card and lilac pearlescent card cut using a Martha Steward PATP.  The flowers are die cut using a Nellie Snellen die, and then a tiny lilac gem added to the centre.  The sentiment mat is a spellbinders floral die, with peel-offs in the centre.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Top Tip Tuesday - Sketch

Teddy Bo Challenge- Bea On Her Own

Paper Play Challenges - Things with wings

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Fairies

Totally Papercraft Challenge - Girly Girl

Divas by Design - Pastels

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Jo x

Fun At The Beach

Good Evening

I hope you're all well.

I had some slightly upsetting news from my GP last night.  The recent tests they've done have shown that my heart rate is still far too high, which is why I'm getting breathless so easily.  He has referred me to a cardiologist at the hospital.  I don't know quite what to expect really, I'm already on medication to slow my heart rate down!

Anyhow, on to today's card.  I didn't think Jayne Nestorenko could better the Patchwork Polly range of stamps, but her new Adorables range are just fabulous.  I didn't get all 12 stamp sets, but I did get the cd-rom.

The lovely seaside scene is printed from the cd-rom.  The little girl, bucket, spade, shells, starfish, crab and boat are all stamped onto watercolour card using versafine ink, and then painted with Lyra's.  The base cardstock is a cream linen, and the scene is mounted onto gold linen card.

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

Creative Inspirations - To The Seaside

Totally PaperCrafts Challenge - The Beach

One Stop Craft Challenge - Summer Time

One Stitch At A Time Challenge - Anything Goes

Pollycraft Monday Challenge - The Great Outdoors

Shopping Our Stash - In With The New (this is a new cd-rom and stamp set).

Dream Valley Challenges - Summer Theme

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Fun In The Sun

Thanks for stopping by.

Jo x

Brothers

Good Morning

My card for today uses one of the Moments In Time stamps from Flowersoft. I love this image.

The image was coloured used Lyra Aquacrayons and a little flower soft added for the grass. The base card used a navy blue cardstock, and as I was asked to make the card for a Preston fan, I created a simple backing paper using the Preston logo. The paper with football boots and footballs on is vellum, and I attached this to the card using dark blue eyelets. A Happy Birthday sentiment completes the card.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe Crafts One For The Boys

Here Come The Boys Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Challenge Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday Open Challenge

Diva's By Design Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes

Have a good day.

Jo x