Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge

Hello

This is my card for the Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge which this month is Birthdays:

This is my first card made using the new Toread's cd-rom from Crafters Companion, and of course I went straight to the decoupage section!

8 x 8 card blank

Image and backing paper printed from cd-rom.

Romantic rectangles die used for main image and embossed panel.

Darice leaves embossing folder

Spellbinders Floral Flourish dies and Memory Box Petal Party dies used to create flowers.

Buttons from my stash

Doily from ebay, coloured with Antique Linen and Shabby Shutters Distress Inks

Ribbons and twine from my stash, tied on the bowdabra.

My card is also for the following challenges:

The Sweet Shop Sketches - Sketch

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash- Tic Tac Toe - I chose Embossing, Flower and Yellow

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Paper Play Challenges - Cute

Ruby's Rainbow Challenge - Cute and Cuddly

A Special Hug

Good Morning

Christmas Card Challenges has a great sketch for us to follow, here is my card:

6 x 6 card blank

SWALK winter cheer stamp, stamped onto Neenah card using London Fog Memento ink and coloured with Spectrum Noir Pens.

Papers from Swalk Winter cd-rom, printed onto Satin Finish printer paper, distressed around the edges with Faded Jeans distress ink.

Snowflakes cut using a Cheery Lynn die from silver holographic card.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - Anything Goes

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge - Best Friends

The CD Sunday Challenge Blog - Gorgeous Green

Good Afternoon

A very warm welcome to my new followers.

This is my card for the current challenge at The CD Sunday Challenge which is 'Gorgeous Green'

8 x 8 card blank

Backing paper and scene from Summer Adorables cd-rom, printed onto satin paper, matted onto Core'dinations card

Images from Summer Adorables stamp plate, coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.

Ribbon from Joanna Sheen, buttons from my stash.

Sentiment tag cut with a Spellbinders die from Core'dinations card.

This is the inside of the card:

Panels embossed using Keepsake Majestic embossing board.

Image printed from Summer Adorables cd-rom

My card is also for the following challenges:

Here Come The Boys - Anything Goes

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Time To Embellish

The Crafty Pad - Use Ribbon

The Poodles Parlour - Fathers' Day/Male Card

Penny Black at Allsorts - My favourite things with stamped main image (decoupage and ribbons)

Raise The Bar Challenge - Hello Summer

Pile It On Challenge - Fathers' Day

Cards For Men - Fathers Day

Spring Kitten

Good Afternoon

The current challenge over at Crafters Companion Challenge is 'Spring'.  I chose to use one of my lovely new stamps from the Strawberry Kisses range:

I followed the sketch over at Willow Sketchie Challenge along with the theme of Embellish it.

The backing papers on my card are printed from the accompanying cd-rom.  The image is coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and a paper-pieced the plant pot using the backing paper.  The orange cardstock is core'dinations.  The flowers are punched using Nellie Snellen punch and emboss punches, finished in the centre with a little pearl.  The swirl leaves are a Marianne die cut from Core'dinations card and sanded slightly.

The centre of my card has been decorated to co-ordinate with the front:

My card is also for the following challenges:

The CD Sunday Challenge - Spots and Dots

Divas By Design - Citrus Colours

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Three in a Row

Thanks for stopping by today.

Strawberry Kisses

Good Morning

I hope you're keeping nice and warm.  It's a lovely bright, sunny morning here although bitterly cold.

My card for today uses the new Strawberry Kisses stamps and cd-rom that hubby got me for my birthday last week.  This is the first time I've used them and thoroughly enjoyed making this card, and I'm delighted with how it's turned out.

The card base is made from A3 card which I added an extra layer to strengthen it.  I stamped the two adorable images with memento ink and coloured using coloursoft pencils blended with babyoil.  Stickles glitter glue was added to the shoe and parts of the cupcake. The mats were cut with a spellbinders die from Core'dinations cardstock.  The backing papers are from the cd-rom and the numbers were stamped and cut out of the backing paper.  The mat the number 40 is sat on was embossed with a sizzix embossing plate and then lightly sanded.

The Happy Birthday was stamped and embossed with silver detail embossing power.  The flowers are 'Build A Blossom' from La Pashe with some gems added to the centres.

My card is for the following challenges:

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes

The CD Sunday Challenge - A La Mode

The Crafty Pad Challenge - Spring Colours

Stampin' For The Weekend - Embossing

Paperplay Challenges - Get In Shape

Crafts and Me Challenge - Bright Colours

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

A New Baby Boy

Good Afternoon

Thought I would share a new baby card with you today:

The main image is stitched using a paper embroidery pattern and metallic threads.  I paper-pieced the blanket.  This is then matted onto blue holographic card.  The base card is a white linen, punched with a Martha Stewart deep edge punch.  Peel-offs complete the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - New Beginnings

Snow Is Softly Falling

Good Afternoon

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

This is the first time I have made a card where the whole front is acetate.  I printed one of the scenes from the cd-rom which I applied to a sheet of white card. I then attached the acetate to the white card and added a strip of mirror board, punched with a Martha Stewart punch, to hide the join.  The image on the front of the card is from the decoupage section of the cd.  The large snowflake is a spellbinders die and the sentiment is Lili of The Valley, embossed with silver detail ep.  I then added some pinflair snow dust to the front of the card.

Here is another image of the card stood up:

My card is for the following challenges:

If The Shoe Fits - Try something new (Style of Card)

Craft Your Passion - Snow

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Two's Company

Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Friendship

My Time To Craft Challenge - Take Two

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Let It Snow

Thanks for visiting today.

Jo x

A Christmas Card

Good Afternoon

I was thrilled to bits last week to learn that I had come runner-up in the Crafters Companion Birthday competition.  I am now a gold member until December 2012.  How good is that?  Well it would have been rude not to put my membership to good use, so I bought myself the Winters Tale cardmaking kit.  Here is the first (of many) cards I have made using the kit.

I took one of the card blanks and cut it in half and then mounted it onto some pearlescent cardstock.  I used on e of the image stickers on the front of the card together with a text rub-on.  The snowflake border is cut from silver glitter paper.

This is the inside of the card:

Another text rub on was used and the tree was cut from the silver glitter paper and some gems addeds to complete the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Clean and Simple

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - For Someone Special

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Let It Snow

Thanks for visiting today.  Please let me know what you think of my card, it's lovely to hear from you!

Jo x

Let It Snow

Good Afternoon

Well today I finally got a chance to play with the fabulous new SWALK range from Crafters Companion.  This is my favourite image from the Winter Cheer range.

I stamped the image onto watercolour card using versafine ink.  I then watercoloured her using brushmarkers. I found some fab holographic card in my stash out of which I cut a frame using a spellbinders die.  I used an ironworks die to cut the fabulous snowflake out of silver glitter card, and used the same card to die cut the bauble using a Marianne die.  The gorgeous backing papers, borders and flower are all printed from the accompanying cd-rom.  The sentiment is LOTV embossed with silver detail embossing powder.

I used the remainder of the printed papers on the inside of my card:

My card is for the following challenges:

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Pink and Green

Willow Sketchie Challenge  - Sketch

Jingle Belles - Softly falling snow

Totally Papercrafts - Lots of layers

The Secret Crafter - Wrap up warm

Paper Sundaes - Flowers and sparkle

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Christmas Songs (Let It Snow)

Now then, which image shall I play with next????

Have a lovely evening.

Jo x

Sparkling Snowflakes

Good Evening

Here is another Christmas Card I've made today:

Unfortunately, it's not an easy card to photograph, in real life it's lovely and sparkly.

The base card using a lovely platimum pearlescent card I got from papermill.  The snowflake is made from pearlescent paper using spellbinders dies, layered up and glittered with sparkling snow glitter.  The border is made from that same paper, edge punched with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch.  The sentiment is stamped in versamark and heat embossed using silver detail embossing powder.  The bottom edge of the card is cut using some fancy-edged scissors and then a couple of embossed lines added.

My card is for the following challenges:

Card and a Half - Fussy Cutting

Less Is More - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash - No Colouring Allowed

Jingles Belles - Here Comes Suzy Snowflake

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Christmas Wishes

Sentimental Sunday  - Monochromatic

Thanks for stopping by.  Please let me know what you think.

Jo x

All Dressed Up With Places To Go

Good Evening

Welcome to my new followers, it's a pleasure to have you :D

What an improvement in the weather, so much so that Emma had sports day this afternoon for the first time in four years!  Luckily hubby was able to get the afternoon off and take me up to watch all the fun.  The children were brilliant, encouraging each other all the way.  Emma's team won, so needless to say she was delighted.

My card for today uses the Appley Dappley's Nursery Rhymes cd-rom from Crafters Companion.

I used a dark brown linen cardstock for the base card, and added backing paper printed from the cd-rom.  The spotty paper is also from the cd-rom and I used an EK Success border punch to add some interest.  The main image is decoupaged.  The sentiment is placed onto a spellbinders die-cut, cut from matching brown linen card.

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

Crafting For All Seasons - Furry Friends


Crafters Companion Challenge - One For The Boys

Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge - Use punches

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

A Perfect Day

Good Evening

I hope the weather has been kind to you this weekend.

My card for today is made using some of the new Summer Adorables stamps from Jayne Nestorenko.  I'm still awaiting for the majority of them to arrive, but I had this one which fitted a number of challenges perfectly.

The base card is made using a dark brown linen card.  The backing papers are printed from the cd-rom onto centura pearl paper.  The scene is also printed from the cd-rom and then cropped down to the diamond shape.

This lovely little boy, together with his binoculars and cane are stamped in vintage sepia versafine and then coloured with Lyra's.  The sentiment is also from the stamp plate, the buttons are from my stash.

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

Papertake weekly challenge - Sketch

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Here Comes Summer

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - One For The Boys

Allsorts Challenge - Free and Easy

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Taking A Dip

Good Morning

Well, the rain is back in Manchester!!  I enjoyed our 2-day summer!!

How about this for fabulous service.  I ordered some of the die-namics dies from Tracy at Dies to die for at    4 pm on Tuesday and they arrived yesterday!!  It's the first time I have ordered from them, but it definitely won't  be the last.

My card for today is made using one of the lovely scenes from the Cute Companions Summer Stories cd-rom, and some stamps from one of the accompanying stamp plates.

These stamps are such a lot of fun to work with.  I stamped the images onto watercolour paper using Sepia Versafine ink, and coloured them using my Lyra's.  The scene is decoupaged and then the characters added.

I really love this scene.  When we had our caravan, the journey there took us through a little village called Wrea Green.  It looks just like this scene.  One time we were waiting behind a car on the road at the side of the green.  We couldn't work out why the car had just stopped in the middle of the road until a mother duck and 5 ducklings waddled out across the road and back to the pond.  So sweet!!

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Here Comes Summer

My time to craft - Summer

Creative Inspirations -  Summer

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Patchwork Polly and Friends

Good Afternoon

This is a card I have been working on for the last few days. I couldn't decide which stamp to use so decided to go with them all!

I love this stamp set and now only need to get Patchwork Jenny and the set will be complete.

All the stamps were stamped onto watercolour card using versafine ink. I coloured them using watercolour pencils. I find these really difficult to use but am determined now I've bought them to keep trying!

The shape of the card was made using a get in shape template.

Here are some closer photos of the different characters.

The base card was cut in one from white cardstock and then inked round the edges using Big and Juicy Hydrangea Ink.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Crafters Companion Challenge Girls Birthday

Crafting For All Seasons Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Children's Cards

Divas By Design One For The Girls

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts Don't Be Square.

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

Jo x

Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge

Good Morning

My card for today is my entry into Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge where this month we are to make a card using Aqua and Brown.

I used Helene from the Patchwork Polly stamps for my card. Both Helene and her duck are stamped onto watercolour paper and coloured using Lyra's. How cute is that duck, don't you just love the socks? The backing paper is printed from the Appleby Dapply cd-rom and punched round the edges using a Martha Stewart punch. The mat she is sitting on is a Spellbinders die, as are the sentiment tag and the flowers. I used buttons for the centres of the flowers with a short length of cord tied through them. The leaves are cut using a Marianne die.

Thanks for visiting today.

Jo x

Two To Share

Good Morning

I've two cards to share with you today.

The first one is a birthday card for a friends dad, she particularly likes paper embroidery. I hadn't done any for a while and really enjoyed making it.

The pattern was from stitching cards, and it was stitched using metallic threads.

The next card is made using an image from the SWALK range of stamps from Crafters Companion.

I coloured her using Derwent Watercolour pencils and put her onto some white glitter card using 3d glue gel. I cut four corners using a Marianne die, and then inked through the die using Big and Juicy Soothing Sunset. The corners remind me of a tiara, so were just right for this card. The backing paper is printed from the accompanying SWALK cd-rom, printed onto Centura Pearl paper.

The flowers are made using the same backing paper and a Marianne Die, and the centres cut onto white glitter card. A pearl was then added to the centre of each of the flowers. A couple of flourishes were cut, again using a Marianne Die, and added behind the flowers.

The Princess and Heart charms were from ebay, and attached using narrow ribbon. The sentiment is from LOTV, stamped using silver ink and then embossed with clear detail embossing power. A few pearls in the opposite corner completed the card.

I'm sorry about the quality of the photos, very dull here again today, so I had to use a flash and it bounces off the centura paper.

This card is being entered in the following challenges

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge

Raise The Bar Challenge

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge

Yesterday was my lovely mum's birthday. She loved her cards.

Thanks for your visit today.

Jo x

An Adorable Christmas

Good Afternoon!

I can't believe the problems I've had getting a half-decent photo of today's card.  This, I'm afraid, is the very best I can do!

 

Once again, I got a bit 'carried away' and ended up with a much larger card then I had originally planned, I am pleased with it though.

I stamped the images from Jayne Nestorenko's 'Playing' stamp plate and coloured in using watercolour pencils.  I added some sparkling snow glitter and some of pinflairs snow dust to various places to add texture.  I then mounted the image onto some white glitter card.  The base card is made from white pearlescent card from PaperMill, and the backing papers are printed from the Adorables cd-rom onto Centura Pearl paper.  The sentiment is from the same stamp plate, stamped out using Faded Jeans Distressed Ink.  The ribbons are from my stash, as are the metal charms which I attached to the ribbon bow using invisible thread.

I am entering this card in the following challenges

 

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge

Top Tip Tuesday 

Enjoy the rest of your day, and please call back again soon.

Jo x