CD Sunday Plus Challenge 66 - Hosted by Pamela

 Good Morning

The weeks are certainly flying by and today sees the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Plus Challenge. Please check out the blog for full details of how to enter and I hope to see you there!

I am sharing another page from my calendar, and today the star of the show is the lovely Maddie.

I used Lynda Chapman's 8 x 8 card blank, kraft card and Bree Merryn cd, together with an image and backing paper from Joanna Sheen's furry friends cd.

Bailey is growing at an alarming rate.  He can now get himself up and down the stairs and onto the couch.  Nowhere is safe!!

Thanks for visiting today. Stay safe.

Jo x

A Card For A Friend

Hello and welcome to my blog, thank you for visiting.

I'm busy creating items to sell on my stall at an upcoming Christmas Fayre.  Everything I sell is to raise funds for my Lourdes group so I hope there's a good turnout on the day!

My card today is one I made for a friend to let her know I was thinking of her:

I used a 6 x 6 card blank to which I added Lynda Chapman's Kraft Card.  I die cut the lace layer, and the mat the flowers are sat on, from Co'oredinations card using Tattered Lace dies.  The decoupaged flowers are also from Tattered Lace using a charisma image.  These dies and images are all from the recent Here and There collection. The sentiment was die cut using Tattered Lace sentiment dies.

I'd like to enter my card into the current challenge at CD Sunday Plus - Challenge 23 which is anything goes.

Please leave me a comment, I'd love to know what you think.

Jo x

Just For You

Hello

Now I know my card has reached the recipient, I would like to enter it into the current challenge at CD Sunday Plus Challenge 21 which has a theme of 'Anything Goes' as long as something from a craft CD, USB or a Digital image has or have been used somewhere in the making of your project.

All the dies used are from Tattered Lace.  The frame and floral dies are from the Here and There collection and the dies are from a Sentiment collection that I've had for ages.  I used Lynda Chapman's 6 x 6 card blank, Lynda Chapman's Kraft Card and the red card is Core'dinations which I bought from Crafters' Companion.

I made this card for a fellow crafter, Carol, who has recently had eye surgery.  I've been online friends with Carol for a long time and thoroughly enjoyed making this card for her.  I'm delighted to say that she was both surprised and pleased to receive it.

Thanks for visiting my blog.  I'd be delighted if you'd leave me a comment, they really do make my day!

Jo x

A Bree Merryn Birthday Card

Hello

My eldest daughter has recently celebrated her 26th birthday! I don't know where the time has gone!  She loves wildlife, so I turned to one of my Bree Merryn CD-rom's from My Craft Studio to make her birthday card:

I folded an A4 sheet of card lengthways and slotted my sentiment through a slit in the top. The sentiment is a Crafters Companion die cut from Lynda Chapman's chocolate brown card and layered onto her craft card.

The images were printed onto watercolour card and I created decoupage layers for each image.  These were then added using foam pads, with the central image raised higher than the  other two.

I'd like to enter my card into the current challenge at Cd Sunday Plus Challenge - Anything Goes.

And also the current challenge at Crafty Sentiment Designs which is Birthdays.

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

Many Happy Returns

Hi

I hope you are keeping safe and warm wherever you are.

This is my second entry into the latest challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  Sketches can be so helpful when you are struggling for ideas:

This is a card I've made for a friend who likes to cook.  I used a decoupaged image from Joanna Sheen and printed a backing paper from Joanna Sheen's RHS cd-rom.  I embossed some orange card from PaperMill using a Crafters' Companion embossing folder.  The red card is also from PaperMill and the black card is from Lynda Chapman at Creative Crafting World.  The red eyelets are from my stash.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Jo x

Tranquil Days

My card for today is made using the stunning Tranquil Days collection from The Paper Boutique range from Creative Crafting World, and also uses one of Lynda Chapman's fabulous new dies.  They cut so beautifully, release without any effort, and I really can't recommend them highly enough.  In fact, I can honestly say that about all the products I've bought from Creative Crafting World (and there are many!!).

This is the front of my card:

I used and 8 x 8 card blank and Lynda Chapman's Kraft card for the mat on my card.  The corners were punched using a Martha Stewart punch, and an edge punch from the same set was used for the decorative strip.  I kept the little punched out flowers and added them to the corners.

The beautiful doily was also cut using Kraft Card, navy card from PaperMill was used for the decorative strip and circle mat together with the sentiment which was die cut.  A number of lavender gems from Joanna Sheen were added to complete the front of the card.

This is the middle of the card:

I added one of the beautiful inserts from the same collection.

I would like to enter my card in the current challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches

Jo x