Crafty Calendar Challenge - Halloween

Hello to all my lovely followers.

It's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge and this month we want to see your Halloween creations.  I do hope you can join in with our challenge.  The lucky winner will get to choose 5 digi stamps from Whimsy Stamps.

This month I have made a trick or treat bag:

I printed the pumpkin design onto card stock and made it into a liitle bag, threading ribbon through as a handle.  The cute witch is a digi stamp from Pink Gem designs which I decoupaged and the added to the bag.  The purple card stock is from Papermill.

Please do hop over to the challenge blog to see the fabulous creations from the Design Team this month.

Time To Have Fun

This is my entry into this weeks Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge which gave us a fabby sketch to follow:

7 x 5 card blank

Decoupage from Pink Gem Designs printed onto super smooth decoupage paper.

Spellbinders labels 22 cut from Core'dinations cardstock.

Argyle embossing folder used.

Silver Mirror card for matting and layering.

Co-ordinating paper from Making Cards magazine.

X-cut star die.

LOTV sentiment stamped using Faded Jeans Distress Ink

Card candy used to complete the card.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Pink Gem Challenge - A Boy Thing

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Forever Friends Challenge - Embossing

A New Baby Girl

Good afternoon

I didn't think I was going to get to post anything today as my camera has had a major blip and I can't work out why. Anyway, managed to borrow one to get this photo taken.

Thought I'd have a change from the bears today, so this is a digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs which is very cute.

I printed the image onto watercolour paper and coloured using Lyra's. The mat the image is sat on is cut using a Spellbinders Fleur De Lis die. The spotty paper underneath was cut using a Get In Shape template. Some ribbon and a few little buttons added to complete the card.

As luck would have it, the current challenge at One Stop Craft Challenge is spots and dots, so I'm entering my card into the challenge.

Thanks for visiting today.

Jo x

A Gem Of A Challenge

Good Afternoon

This is a quick post, I feel like Anneka Rice against the clock! I hadn't realised the the current A Gem Of A Challengefinishes today.

We had a sketch to follow, and here is my entry.

I was lucky enough to win some digi stamps in a Pink Gem blog hop recently, and this is one of the stamps I won. He's lovely isn't he? This is the first time I have used a digi stamp, the first time I printed him he filled a A5 sheet, lol. I printed him onto watercolour paper, left the image for a couple of days to make sure the ink was properly dry, and then watercoloured him using Lyra Aquacolours.

I gave him little rosy cheeks because I'm sure all pirates have rosy cheeks! He's sitting on some gorgeous pearlescent cardstock which has been die-cut using a Marianne's die. The backing paper is printed from Crafters Companion Boys cd-rom, and the border has been cut out of the same paper using my fab new spellbinders fleur de lis die. I embossed some pearlescent paper using a cuttlebug die, then added some buttons from my stash.

Phew! Stop the clock!!!!

A Gem Of A Challenge

Good Evening!

Only just made it today!

Today's card is my entry into A Gem of a Challenge. I needed a bit of cheering up today so decided to go colourful!

The fairy and fairy dog stamp were some of the first stamps I bought. I stamped them both onto watercolour card, and coloured using brushmarkers and then added some Diamond Sparkles glitter to their wings.

The striped backing paper is from my stash. I cut and embossed the circle frame using blue pearlescent card and a Marianne die. The pink border is embossed using a sizzix die. The orange oval was cut using a Nellie's die, and the gems and peel-offs were from my stash.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Jo x

Doggy Birthday Card

Hello

Today's card is the one I made for my daughter's birthday yesterday.

The shapes were cut using Stamps Away layering templates and then all joined together.  The stamps are from Joanna Sheen, Dimension Fourth and Pink Gem Designs.  I used various cardstock from PaperMill and the images were coloured using brushmarkers.

I enjoyed making this card, although it did take quite a long time, but most importantly, Emma loved it so job done!!

Thanks for your visit today.

Jo x