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.

Riding On A Donkey

Hello

I love the images on Joanna Sheen's Nostalgia cd-roms, and have used them to make a few Fathers' Day cards this year.  Here is one of them with an image which reminds me of many happy holiday in Llandudno.

I printed the image onto Crafters Companion watercolour card.

The backing paper is printed onto Crafters Companion satin paper and matted onto gold linen card.

I embossed some core'dinations card using a darice embossing folder and sanded slightly.

The sentiment stamp is Lili of the Valley, stamped in Faded Jeans distress ink and sat on a Spellbinders Fleur de Lis die.

My card is for the following challenges:

Craft Challenge - Male Card

One Stop Craft Challenge - Fathers' Day

Pile It On Challenge - The Great Outdoors

Creative Card Crew - Song Inspired (Riding On A Donkey)

Dream Valley Challenges - For That Special Guy

Forever Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Cold and Frosty

Hello

I hope you have had a lovely Christmas and are enjoying the festivities.

My card for today is one I made for friends this Christmas.  It uses the fabulous Thomas Kinkade cd-rom from Joanna Sheen:

I used an image from the decoupage section for this card and added lots of glitter!  The backing paper is from the same cd, printed onto pearlised paper.  The sentiment is also from the cd-rom, sat on a mat cut using a spellbinders die.

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

ABC Christmas - F for Frosty

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - White Christmas

Alphabet Challenge - W for White Christmas

St Lukes Charity Challenge - Let It Snow

Bling It On Challenge - Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas

PaperPlay Challenge - Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges - Christmas

Crafts Your Days Away - Snowmen

Divas By Design - Merry Christmas

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

Christmas Fun

Good Morning

Thank you for all your good wishes yesterday, hopefully the new medication regime will start to help very soon.

I've another Christmas card to share with you today:

The image is from the decoupage section of Joanna Sheen's Nostalgia cd-rom.  By way of a change, I used a Glitter Girls embsoosing board to produce the frame.  The sentiment is Lili of the Valley, sat on a memory box die-cut.

My card is for the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Christmas Wishes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Vintage

One Stitch At A Time - Seeing Red

Paper Sundaes - Winter Wonderland

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

Raise The Bar Challenge - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

 

Dream Valley Challenges - Sparkle

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Inspired by photo

Totally PaperCrafts Challenge - Let It Snow


Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x