A Birthday Rose

Good Morning

My card for today features one of the delightful  images from Lili of the Valley.  I followed the sketch over at Creative Inspirations and here is my card:

One thing's for sure - it's definitely pink!

6 x 6 card blank.

Pink sorbet card from Papermill embossed using a Beatrix Potter embossing folder from Crafters Companion.  For a change I decided to use both the embossed and de-bossed side.

The papers are from some old copies of Making Cards Magazine.

Mirror board from my stash.

Spellbinders label 5 dies used to create the image and sentiment mats.

The white flourish is a Marianne die.

I used Cheery Lynn's fanciful flourish mini die with green card, and then added mulberry paper flowers from my stash.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Crafts and Me - My sentiments exactly.

Diva's By Design - Add texture

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Die-cuts and/or punches

Delicious Doodles - Flowers

Challenges4Everybody - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges - Go Pink

Sentimental Sundays - Anything goes (plus a sentiment)

Thanks for visiting my blog, and for all the lovely comments you leave me, I love to read them all.

21st Birthday Easel

My card for today is an easel card, I love this style of card.

Martha Stewart Vintage Floral Punch Around The Page (I've wanted this punch for ages, I'm very happy!!)

Centura Pearl card

Backing paper came free in a magazine, it's gorgeous.

Joanna Sheen Cameo stamp used to create the butterfly lace corner, heat embossed with white fine detail embossing powder.

Spellbinders floral oval dies, largest embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

Marianne die used to create large butterfly, flourishes and large flower.  Memory box die use to create smaller flowers.

Pearls from my stash used to complete the card.

I also made a box for the card:

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

Polka Doodles - Flowers

The Ribbon Girl - Add pearls

Songbird Challenge - String of pearls

Crafty Cardmakers - Winged things

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Lace and Pearls (I hope my lace stamp counts)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Case It

Flutterby Wednesday - Birthday card with a butterfly or fairy

Crafts and Me Challenge - Add a flower

My Mum's Craft Shop - Anything Goes

Happy Birthday Grace

This is the birthday card I made for my niece's birthday:

8 x 8 card blank

Decoupage, backing papers and bunting 'Cookie's Birthday' (fab quality)

Lilac glittered card used for matting and name, letters cut with an x-cut alphabet die.

My card is for the following challenges:

Crafts and Me Challenge - Birthdays

Moving Along With The Times - Happy Birthday

Paper Play Challenges - Flags/Pennants/Banners

The Poodles Parlour - Cute and/or Cuddly

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Polka Dot With A Birthday Theme

Time For Golf

My card for today uses the paper embroidery technique.  This is very theraputic to do, although quite time consuming too:

DL linen effect card

Pattern from Form-a-Lines

Gold metallic thread used for stitching

Spellbinders die and peel offs used for sentiment.

My card is for the following challenges:

Less Is More - Something Shiny (I hope the metallic thread qualifies for this challenge)

Allsorts Challenge - Paper Piercing

One Stitch At A Time - Stitching Real or Faux

My Mum's Craft Shop - About The Boys

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Cards For Men - Sports With A Sentiment

Thanks for visiting my blog today and for the comments you leave, I really appreciate each and every one.

Meadow Cottage Bears

Hello

This post is much later than I had intended - it has been another of those days!!!

My card for today is made using the gorgeous new Meadow Cottage Bears cd-rom from Crafters Companion:

Decoupage image printed onto glossy photo paper.

Backing papers printed onto Satin paper from Crafters Companion.

Ribbon from Create & Craft

Flowers, buttons and twine from stash.

Sentiment Lili Of The Valley, stamped with Blue Denim distress ink, matted onto bronze cardstock cut with a Nellie Snellen die.

My card is for the following challenges:

Ready Teddy Go Challenge - Bingo (I chose ribbons, buttons, punches or die cuts.

Sketch and Stash - Sketch plus Meadow Cottage Bears cd-rom (newest stash)

TotallyPaperCrafts - Animals

Totally Gorjuss - Something New (cd)

Cutie Pie Challenge - Die Cuts and Punches

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything goes with a sentiment

Crafting For All Seasons - Many layers

Crafts and Me - Add a Ribbon

80th Birthday Card

Hello Again

This is my entry into the current challenge at The Joanna Sheen Challenge which is Happy Birthday.  I was asked to make an 80th Birthday card for a friend to send to her mum and this is what I came up with.

Topper from Joanna Sheen's Jane Shasky Heart of the Garden cd, made into decoupage.  

Mirror card using for matting and sentiment tags, cut with Spellbinders dies.

Backing paper from same cd, printed onto Satin paper.

Couture Creations embossing folder - Tied Together, pearls from Joanna Sheen.

Ribbon from Create and Craft, rose and hat pins from my stash.

Challenges entered:

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - In the Garden

Hooked on Crafts - Flowers

Ooh La La Creations Challenge - Ribbon and/or Twine

The CD Sunday Challenge - Easy Elegance

The Crafty Pad Challenge - Bingo (I chose line Ribbon, Flowers, Bling)

Paper Sundaes - Pretty In Pink

Shopping Our Stash - Bingo (I chose Pink, ribbons, free, pearls, yellow)

Crafts and Me Challenges - Fabulous Flowers

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.

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.

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

The CD Sunday Challenge - Zodiac

Good Evening

My card for today follows the theme over at the CD Sunday Challenge and the fab sketch over at Willow Sketchie Challenge:

This lovely image is from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams cd-rom.  This just happens to be my star sign, and I love this image and the gorgeous colours.  I printed the image onto glossy photo paper.  The backing paper, also from the cd-rom, is printed onto a pearlescent paper for a softer look.  The other panel is core'dinations card, embossed using Divine Swirls embossing folder and then sanded slightly.  The ribbon border is 2 different widths of organza ribbon gathered.  I decided to try my hand at making flowers from the ribbon, and am quite pleased with how they've turned out.  I then threaded a hat pin with some co-ordinating beads which I added to the flowers.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Crafts and Me Challenge - Use pins

PaperPlay Challenges - Ribbon every which way

TotallyPaperCrafts Challenge - Make your own flowers

Allsorts Challenge - Needles and pins

Crafty Cardmakers - Use beads

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

Thank You

Good Afternoon

It's a while since I joined in with the Less Is More Challenge, and as I needed to make a Thank You card, I decided to tie it in with their challenge for this week which is Silhouettes.

I started by embossing the card using a Nestabilities die. I stamped this lovely stamp from Dimension Fourth and heat embossed with white detail embossing powder. With the die in situ, I used ink dusters to apply ink from a Big & Juicy Waterfall ink pad. I added silver peel offs to the card to complete (I'm not actually sure about the positioning of the peels offs, but they're firmly stuck now so will have to stay.

My card is for the following challenges:

Less Is More - Silhouettes

Allsorts Challenge - One Layer Card

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Give Thanks

Crafts and Me Challenge - Keep It Simple

Sentimental Sundays - Thank You Card

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo xx

A New Baby

Good Morning

I have a new baby card to share with you today, created using the paper embroidery technique:

All the sewing uses metallic threads.  This was then matted onto holographic card, and finally white linen card to which I'd punched a border with a Martha Stewart punch.

My card is for the following challenges:

Sentimental Sundays - Colour of your birth flower (mine is iris, hence the blue)

Crafty Sentiments - No designer paper

Ladybugs Crafts - Oh Baby

Raise the Bar - Stitching

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Clean and Simple

Crafts and Me - Use blue

Creative Craft Challenges - Fancy Edges

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Boo To You

Good Afternoon

A very warm welcome to my blog.  My card for today is a spooky card for Halloween:

The image on the card is a digi stamp from Pollycraft and I have coloured her with coloursoft pencils.  The spiders web was one of those bright ideas that ends up taking an age to do.  The outer shape was created using a Marianne Die and I then threaded black cotton through to create the web.  The wording is die cut using an x-cut alphabet die and the pumpkins are from a My Craft Studio cd.

My card is for the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Halloween

Cutie Sunday - Halloween

Crafting For All Seasons - Fall Flowers/Pumpkins

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Halloween

My Time To Craft - Orange and Black

Shopping Our Stash - Spooky and/or orange and black

Crafts and Me - Use orange

Thanks for calling in today.

Jo x

Birthday Girl In Aqua, Pink and Lemon

Good Afternoon

I hope you're having a good day.

My card for today is a birthday card made using a digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs.

I love this image and really enjoyed colouring it in using my coloured pencils.

The backing paper is from my stash. The pink paper was punched around the edges using a Martha Stewart PATP. The yellow butterfly border was made using an EK Success punch. The mat she is sat on was die-cut using a Nellie Snellen die, as were the flowers and sentiment. Little pearls from Joanna Sheen were added to the centres of the flowers, and the little butterflies are the one's cut out from the punched strip. The sentiment stamp is from the Patchwork Polly range of stamps.

The inside of the card matches the front.

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

A Gem Of A Challenge - Use Aqua, Lemon and Pink

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Happy Birthday

Stamps R Us - Goin' Digital

Papertake Weekly - Fancy A Punch

Easy Craft Projects - Pastel Colours

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes Challenge - Birthday

Thanks for visiting today, and for the comments you leave, I love to read them.

Jo