Best Friends at Christmas

I thought I'd share another of my Christmas creations with you today, this time a book card.  I've not decided what is going inside the book card as yet. I love the images of the children cuddling up with their dogs.  My daughter often sits with Murphy like this:

I used papers from Making Cards Magazine along with the sentiment.  The layering and the sides of the book were all made using antique gold card.  The poinsettia was created using a Marianne die and the gold ribbon was from my stash.

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

Winter Wonderland Challenge - Christmas Pets

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Christmas Card for a Child

One Stitch At A Time Challenge - Card for Someone Under 18

St Lukes Charity Cards - Couples

Papertake Weekly - Things That Make You Go Awwww

Olympic Dad

My youngest daughter, Emma, thoroughly enjoyed all the Olympic coverage, so when it was time for her to make a Birthday card for her dad, she decided to make her card have an Olympic theme:

Emma came up with the idea and then drew and coloured the card.  Then we printed off the faces which she attached to the card along with the speech bubbles.  I think she did an excellent job.  She spent many hours getting it just right.

Emma would like to enter her card in the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp - Children's Summer Holiday Challenge

St Lukes Charity Card Challenge - Going for Gold

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Power of Three

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you leave,  I know Emma will be delighted to read them.

Toybox Treasures

This is my second entry into this weeks CD Sunday Challenge:

When I saw the topic I also wanted to make a card with the lovely Paintbox Poppets cd-rom from Crafters Companion.

My chosen image is from the decoupage section printed onto glossy photo paper.  The backing papers are both from the cd-rom, as are the flowers.  The lovely ribbon is from Joanna Sheen.  The oval she is sat on is a Spellbinders die cut into Core'dinations card.

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

Fetch A Sketch - Sketch

St Lukes Charity Cards - A Bit of Bling (flower centres)

Paper Sundaes Challenge - Sundae Bar - I chose lace and die cuts.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

An Easter Bunny

Good Morning

A warm welcome to my new followers.  Thank you for joining me.

A very happy Mothers' Day to all mums out there, I hope you have a lovely day.

The current challenge over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog is Spring/Easter.  Here is my card:

I was lucky enough to receive the Giordano decoupage for my birthday, and used one of the lovely images for my card.  I punched the border of the purple cardstock with a Martha Stewart deep edge punch and then matted this onto the base card.  The decoupaged image was matted onto silver mirror card. I created the flowers out of tissue paper finished with flowersoft in the centres, in an attempt to re-create some of the flowers in the image.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Penny Black and More - Springtime

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Spring

St Lukes Charity Card Challenge - Spring

Crafty Sentiments Monthly Challenge - Easter

Totally Gorjuss - Spring

One Stop Craft Challenge - Handmade flowers

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Christmas Penguins

Good Morning

I am determined to work my way through my un-inked stamps, and here is another that has been used for the first time:

I love this stamp and it was a lot of fun to colour in.  I'm sure I'll use this much more.  I coloured the image using coloursoft pencils blended with baby oil.

I followed the sketch over at Jingle Belles.  The backing paper came free in a magazine.  The ribbon was saved from a Christmas Cake!  I can't resist but keep all bits of ribbon and twine from wrapping, it's such a waste just to throw them away.  The border is cut with a Memory box die and the other die cuts are spellbinders.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - Colour

Sentimental Sundays - Die-cut plus sentiment

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Colour Bingo - I chose green/red/yellow

St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge - Recycling (ribbon from Christmas cake)

Dream Valley Challenges - Animals

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Thanks for calling!

Jo x

Hop It

Good Evening

I hope you've had a good weekend.

My card for today uses a lovely digi stamp from Pollycraft.

Isn't he gorgeous?  I coloured him using Coloursoft pencils.  I followed the sketch over at Willow Sketchie Challenge.  The papers are from my stash, I've had them for ages!  The zig zag is a Martha Stewart punch and the shaped mat behind the main image an x-cut die.

My card is for the following challenges:

Willow Sketchie Challenge - Sketch

My Time To Craft - Punches, dies or both

St Lukes Charity Challenge - Male card

A Present For You

Good Morning

Emma loved her first day back at school and is very happy in her new class.  Murphy missed her terribly and is still sulking!!!

My card for today uses a Lili Of The Valley image.  This was one of 20 images that came free in a magazine.

I coloured the image using Coloursoft pencils.  The backing papers I've had for some time!  I punched the edges of one of the layers with a Martha Stewart border punch as I thought it worked well with the image.  The corner is a Marianne die with some little gems added.  The stars are cut using a die-namics dies, layered together.  I tied a bow into some bakers twine and then added two star charms to the tails of the bow.  The flower are the top of the card is a brad.

The inside of the card is decorated to co-ordinate with the front.

My card is for the following challenges:

Lili of The Valley Challenge - Sketch

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Lets Bling It

St Lukes Charity Challenge - Card Buffet - Pick 4 - Patterned paper, Gems, Charms, Punches

Craft Your Passion - Add a Flower

Flutterby Wednesday - Use and angel, fairy or butterfly

Truly Scrumptious - Decorate the inside of your card.

Jo x

A Day At The Beach

Hello

My card for today is once again using the Adorables range from Jayne Nestorenko.

The scene is a decoupage scene from the cd-rom.  I have then stamped a selection of images from the stamp plates onto watercolour card, and coloured using my Lyra's.

My card is for the following challenges:

St Luke Charity Challenge - Beach

The Secret Crafter - In The Sea

Stampin For The Weekend - Holidays

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today.

Jo x

Snow Is Softly Falling

Hello

My card for today is a Christmas Card made using some decoupage and backing papers from the fabulous new Snowman cd-rom from Crafters Companion. I haven't actually received my cd as yet, this was made using a download on Create and Crafts website.

Acetate is added to the card so they look like they're flying through the air, and I added some sparkling snow glitter to the acetate.

I created a double bow using silver organza ribbon and added a silver and white button to the centre. Some pearls were added to the ends of the ribbons.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Buttons

Craft Your Passion Challenge It's Magical

Here Come The Boys Myth and Magic

St Lukes Charity Card Challenge Come Fly With Me - I shall be sending this card onto St Lukes.

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

Playing In The Puddles

Good Afternoon

We have the strangest of weather today, we had hailstone not half an hour ago and now the sunshines back!

My card for today shows Teddy Bo playing in the puddles.

For once I chose my backing paper before I coloured in the image, so I could colour my image accordingly. I decided to pick the green from the backing paper to colour in his coat and hat. I had a real good sort out of all my papers yesterday, and this is from a crafthouse press book I bought yonks ago.

Teddy Bo is coloured in pencils and then I used glossy accent over the puddle, unfortunately it doesn't show up too well in the photo but looks very effective IRL.

I used an embossing folder that reminded me of waves on the red card, and cut a mat from the same card using a Marianne Die and the embellishment at the top is made using a Spellbinders die from the fleur de lis set. A few buttons were added to complete the card.

I am entering my card in the following challenges.

St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge Pick a Pattern, and I shall be sending the card to them to help with their fundraising.

Stamps R Us Challenge For The Men In Our Lives

Crafts and Me Challenge Swirls (my embossing)

Creative Inspirations Embossing

Stamp Something Use a digi stamp

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Flowers For St Luke's

Good Morning

A new challenge blog has launched this week St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge. If you click on the challenge name, you will be taken directly to their website where you can read all about this fantastic new challenge.

The theme for this month is flowers, and this is my card.

For my card I used a hammered white cardstock for the base. I took some lovely mint green cardstock and punched down the edge using a Martha Stewart lattice punch. I made a double bow with some narrow ribbon which I then threaded through the lattice. There were some very sweet stamps included as a free gift with Cardmaking & Papercrafts magazine, and I used some of these for this card. I stamped them onto watercolour card, and then coloured them using brushmarkers.

My completed card will be sent off to the address provided to be sold to raise funds for the charity.

Thank you for stopping by today. Have a lovely day.

Jo x