Willow Sketchie Challenge

The current challenge over at Willow Sketchie gives us a sketch to follow and/or a theme of bold and bright, I have followed both and here is my card:

Digi Stamp used - A Spot of Gardening from Willow Designs printed onto Neenah card and coloured using Spectrum Noir pens.

Owl and Bird - TN1, TN2, TN3, PP2

Skirt - GT1, GT2

Boots - EB3 TN4

Spade - EB3, EB2

Plant Pot - TN3, TN4

Grass - CG1, CG2, CG3

Flowers - GT1, GT2, OR1

Leaves - CG3

Backing paper and Sentiment tag from an old issue of Making Cards magazine

Mat cut with a Spellbinders die from Core'dinations card

Punched border is a Martha Stewart deep-edge punch (I love it, it's so pretty)

Bakers twine, flower charm and gems from my stash.

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

Cute Card Thursday - Here Comes Summer

Totally Papercrafts - Photo Inspiration (I've used the colours)

Crafting When We Can - Summer Fun

Sentimental Sunday - Cute and Girly plus a sentiment

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Things With Wings

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Birds of a Feather

Paper Makeup Stamps - Anything Goes with a Digi

Creative Craft Challenges - Tweet Tweets

Stampin For The Weekend - Show Us Your Style - Lots of Layers

Diva's By Design - Tag You're It

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

A Butterfly Trapeze

 Good Morning

My card for today is a birthday card I sent my lovely blogging friend Edna last month:

I wanted to make something a bit different so decided to make a trapeze card.  I embossed the outer card with a Sizzix embossing folder and added seed beads for extra detail.  The butterly in the centre is decoupaged.

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

Allsorts Challenge - Going round in circles

Creative Craft Challenges - Stitching

Flutterby Wednesday - Use a butterfly, angel or fairy

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Wedding Wishes

Good morning

My eldest daughter was asked to be a bridesmaid for her friends mum who was re-marrying this week.  The wedding was up in Scotland and they are travelling home as I type.

This is the card I made:

The base card I used is a beautiful pearlescent cream card.  The deep red is the colour of the bridesmaids dresses.  I embossed some cardstock with a cuttlebug folder and die cut the flowers, leaves and butterflies using Marianne dies.  A pearl was added to complete the flower, a ribbon bow and a co-ordinating rub-on sentiment were used to complete the card.

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

Paper Sundaes - Beautiful bows

Pile it on - Anything with a p (Pearl)

Divas by Design - Monochromatic

Creative Craft Challenge  - Anything Goes

My Mums Craft Shop - Things with wings

Flutterby Wednesdays - Open Challenge

Moving along with the times - Ribbons and bows

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Monotone

Craft Your Days Away - Buttons or bows

Creative Card Crew Challenge  - Monochromatic (thanks Jan)

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  Have a lovely weekend.

Jo x