My Valentine

This is the card I have made to send to my hubby.  I followed the sketch over at Fetch-A-Sketch:

8 x 8 card
Image from Do-crafts Country Companions cd, printed twice so I could decoupage the heart.
Papers from same cd.
Marianne dies used to cut frame for image.
Buttons from my stash threaded with metallic thread.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - Valentines

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Love

Cute Card Thursday - Love Struck

Totally Papercrafts - Valentine/Love

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Feature a Heart

Totally Gorjuss - Love

Allsorts Challenge - Valentines Card

One Stop Crafts Challenge - Love is in the Air

Dream Valley Challenges - Valentines

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

Flowers for Grandma

Good Afternoon

Welcome to my blog today.

My card for today was meant to be a quick card and finished up anything but!!!

I had such fun making this card.

The image is from Crafters Companion SWALK Winters Cheer range.  I coloured her with a combination of promarkers and coloursoft pencils.  My very first time using promarkers!  The mat she is sat on is cut with a Nellie Snellen die.  The backing papers are from the accompanying cd-rom, edged with gold embossing powder.  I stamped and coloured two of the flower baskets onto shrink plastic and added them to the bow as extra embellishments.  The poinsettias are Marianne dies, I added a little glitter to the centre of each.

My card is for the following challenges:

Bling it on challenge - Sketch

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Inspired by Poinsettias

Thanks to everyone who leaves me comments, they are very much appreciated.

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

18-carat Birthday

Good Morning

My card for today is my entry into the current Housemouse Challenge Adorn With Jewels.

The main image is a Happy Hoppers Decoupage from Joanna Sheen, and is matted onto gold mirror board and then orange cardstock. The backing paper is from Joanna Sheen's Messy Rabbit cd-rom. The flourishes are a Marianne Die and the gems are from my stash. The sentiment is computer generated.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

A Walk Together

Hello there.

It's a cold, wet, miserable day here in Manchester, so I'm working with some summery images to cheer me up.

Today's card uses another of the All Our Yesterday's decoupage sheets from Joanna Sheen.

The backing paper is from the House-mouse inserts cd-rom, teamed with purple cardstock from Papermill. The flowers are made from the same backing paper cut with Marianne dies. (I'm a bit addicted to these roses at the moment!).

Thanks for visiting today, have a good day.

Jo x

Bea's In Love

Good Morning

Hasn't the weather been strange over the last few days? Please come back Mr Sunshine!

I couldn't resist and just had to have another go at the current challenge over at TeddyBo. I love Teddy Bea and Bo and I love making easel cards, so here is my second entry to the current challenge.

I remembered to choose my papers before colouring in the image again, and these are some more papers from a previous edition of Making Cards magazine. I love the colour in these papers so it made it quite an easy choice for me. Teddy Bea is coloured using pencils. I've used a Marianne die (for the first time) to make the beautiful circular frame, and also the frame which holds the sentiment. The sentiment is a LOTV stamp.

The flowers are cut from the same papers using a Marianne die, the leaves are a x-cut embossing punch, and the centres are made using a punch. The ribbon is from my stash as is the heart charm which I felt worked really well with this card.

As well as the challenge at Teddy Bo, I would also like to enter my card in the Polka Doodles Challenge, which is also an easel card.

Today I really must finish my LIM card which is sat in bits on my desk!

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x