Christmas In Pink

My card for today follows the sketch over at Delightful Challenges and the theme at The CD Sunday Challenge which is Christmas in Pink.  I've used the Christmas In Mulberry Wood cd from Crafters' Companion to create my card.  Here is my card:

6 x 6 card blank

Image printed onto Watercolour card
Polar white flowersoft was added to the hat.

Core'dinations card embossed with a Darice embossing folder and sanded.

Both backing papers are from the cd-rom, printed onto Satin paper.

The sentiment is again from the cd.

I cut some of the left over backing paper into triangles to create some paper beads to add to the card.
I tied a double bow on the bowdabra and then attached the beads.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Totally PaperCrafts Challenge - Twinkle, twinkle Christmas star.

Raise the Bar Challenge - Anything goes

Challenges4Everybody - Anything goes

Christmas Card Challenges - Christmas Card

J & C Creations - Contemporary Christmas

Crafty Creations Challenge - No flowers

Crafty Calendar Challenge, July

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Calendar Challenge and this month our theme is Fun In The Sun with the option of shimmer and shine.

This month we are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish who kindly provided us with some images to work with.

I followed the sketch over at Sketch and Stash for my card.

6 x 6 card blank

Backing papers all from making cards magazine.

Image printed onto Neenah card, coloured with coloursoft pencils and blended with baby oil.

I used tumbled glass distress ink for the sky and followed Hazel's fab tutorial which can be found here.

Beachcomber embossing powder was added to the sand for extra texture.

Ribbon was tied on the bowdabra (available from Joanna Sheen), shells from my stash.

Please do pop over to the challenge blog to see the lovely cards by the rest of the DT.  I do hope you can join in the fun.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss - Sweet and Simple

One Stitch At A Time - Use A Digi

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Summertime

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes

Craft Challenge - Splashy/water-themed

Totally Papercrafts - Anything Goes

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Summertime

Delicious Doodles Challenge - Summer Holidays

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

CD Sunday Challenge - Old McDonald Had A Farm

There's nothing like cutting it fine!  This is my entry into this weeks' CD Sunday Challenge:

Images from Joanna Sheens Furry Friends cd, printed onto glossy photo paper.
 Backing papers from same cd.

Centura Pearl Card used for card base.

Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles dies.

EK Success paw punch.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Pile It On Challenge - Two or more folds

Totally Papercrafts - More than one fold

St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge - Furry Friends

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

Meadow Cottage Bears

Hello

This post is much later than I had intended - it has been another of those days!!!

My card for today is made using the gorgeous new Meadow Cottage Bears cd-rom from Crafters Companion:

Decoupage image printed onto glossy photo paper.

Backing papers printed onto Satin paper from Crafters Companion.

Ribbon from Create & Craft

Flowers, buttons and twine from stash.

Sentiment Lili Of The Valley, stamped with Blue Denim distress ink, matted onto bronze cardstock cut with a Nellie Snellen die.

My card is for the following challenges:

Ready Teddy Go Challenge - Bingo (I chose ribbons, buttons, punches or die cuts.

Sketch and Stash - Sketch plus Meadow Cottage Bears cd-rom (newest stash)

TotallyPaperCrafts - Animals

Totally Gorjuss - Something New (cd)

Cutie Pie Challenge - Die Cuts and Punches

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything goes with a sentiment

Crafting For All Seasons - Many layers

Crafts and Me - Add a Ribbon

Fairy Among The Flowers

Good Evening

This is my second post for today, whatever next? ;)

I've combined a few different challenges to come up with my card, and here it is:

I followed the sketch over at Totally Gorjuss for my layout.  I used the bingo challenge at TotallyPaperCrafts and I selected Blue, Die-cut and Flowers.  I used an image from Pollycraft and coloured her with spectrum noirs.  I made the flowers out of fabric to tie in with the current challenge at Pollycraft Challenge.

The backing paper for the card is from my stash.  The mat she is sat on is a Spellbinders die cut from Core'dinations card.  The decorative strip across the card is also Core'dination, embossed using a Darice Embossing folder available from Crafters Companion.  The flourish behind the flowers is also a Spellbinders die, cut from white card.

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

ABC Challenge - M is for magical

My Time To Craft Challenge - Fairy Nice

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Use lots of shapes

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Anniversary

Good Morning

My card for today is made using a combination of die-cuts and embossing folders.

The base card is a pearlescent cream from PaperMill.  I embossed some gold mirror board with D'vine swirls embossing folder.  I then embossed some of the cream pearlescent card with a swirly frame embossing folder.  I printed the wording in gold in the centre of the frame.  I combined 2 gold ribbons to make the bow, and die-cut the flowers and leaves from gold card using Marianne Dies.  A pearl was then added to the centre of the flower.

My card is for the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - Ribbons and/or bows

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Bingo - I chose Swirls, Flowers and Pearls

One Stitch At A Time - Use a digi or no image

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Celebrations

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today.

Happy 90th Birthday

Good Morning

I have been asked to make a 90th Birthday card for a Mum.  This is what I came up with.

I thought that this image from Joanna Sheen's Jane Shasky cd-rom was perfect.  This is from the decoupage section, printed onto glossy photo paper.  It took some cutting out but was well worth the effort, it decoupaged beautifully.  I used some pearlescent card for the base card, and scored the diamond pattern using my boxer board from Crafters Companion.  The sentiment mat is a spellbinders die to which I added a peel off and some gems.

I wanted to make the card extra-special for such a landmark birthday.  I have tried to make this style of card in the past, but have never been very happy with the finished result.  Well recently, I purchased a Crafters Companion Ultimate Pro with the loyalty points I had built up.  I followed the instructions and hey presto - this is the inside of the card:

It all came together perfectly.  I printed one of the backing papers from the Jane Shasky cd directly onto pearlescent cardstock, twice.  On one of the sheets, I scored and embossed using my ultimate pro and cut out the butterfly shape.  The dangly butterfly is a Marianne die, which I cut twice, once on co-ordinating cardstock and once onto yellow vellum.  I layered them together and added gems on the butterfly wings.  This was then attached using tiny jump rings.  I die cut two shapes using spellbinders ironworks motifs, added the number 90 to the centre of each, and attached to the inside of the card with foam pads.

Finally I printed a smaller panel of the same backing paper, which was added to the back of the card for the sender to write their message on.

I would like enter my card in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Girly

Totally Papercrafts - Rainbow of Colour

CES Challenge - Lots of layers

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

The Crafty Pad Challenge - B is for - Butterfly

Sentimental Sundays - Shaped Cards plus a sentiment

If The Shoe Fits - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Celebrations

Phew, sorry for the long post, thanks for stopping by.

Jo x

The CD Sunday Challenge - Zodiac

Good Evening

My card for today follows the theme over at the CD Sunday Challenge and the fab sketch over at Willow Sketchie Challenge:

This lovely image is from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams cd-rom.  This just happens to be my star sign, and I love this image and the gorgeous colours.  I printed the image onto glossy photo paper.  The backing paper, also from the cd-rom, is printed onto a pearlescent paper for a softer look.  The other panel is core'dinations card, embossed using Divine Swirls embossing folder and then sanded slightly.  The ribbon border is 2 different widths of organza ribbon gathered.  I decided to try my hand at making flowers from the ribbon, and am quite pleased with how they've turned out.  I then threaded a hat pin with some co-ordinating beads which I added to the flowers.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Crafts and Me Challenge - Use pins

PaperPlay Challenges - Ribbon every which way

TotallyPaperCrafts Challenge - Make your own flowers

Allsorts Challenge - Needles and pins

Crafty Cardmakers - Use beads

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Have A Furry Happy Birthday

Good Afternoon

I can't get warm today, have been sat with a hot water bottle on my back all day! 

I have a few birthdays around Christmas.  This is the card I have made to send to an old school friend.

I used the fabulous Furry Friends cd-rom again for this card.  I do love this cd (you may have noticed lol).

I cut the image with a spellbinders label die and then hand-cut a slightly larger mat from Coredinations card stock.  Both backing papers are printed from the cd-rom, one of which I punched around using an EK success paw punch.  I created a smaller mat for the sentiment, for which I used a glittery peel-off.  Some pearls were added to the sentiment and finally 3 buttons were added.

I printed a matching insert from the cd-rom which I personalised before printing.

My card is for the following challenges:

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Bingo - I chose buttons, punches/die-cuts, pearls.

Crafting When We Can - Friendship

Totally Papercrafts - Anything but Christmas

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Creature

CD Sunday Challenge - Things with Whiskers

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Sentiment

Moving Along With The Times - Cats or Dogs

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

The Cat's Whiskers

Good Afternoon

This weeks challenge over at The CD Sunday Challenge is Things With Whiskers.  Having been asked to make a couple of calendars with cats on, I turned straight to Joanna Sheen's Furry Friends cd-rom and came up with the following:

I made lots of these desk calendars last year and they were very popular, and I've received a number of requests for them for 2012.  Inside the little drawers I put a post-it note and pencil.  I bought the tutorial as a down-load after seeing them on my lovely friend, Edna's blog.  The tutorial is by Jenny Moors and her blog is www.stampingmoments.blogspot.com.

My calendars are for the following challenges:

The CD Sunday Challenge - Things with Whiskers

Totally Papercrafts - Anything but Christmas

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Have a lovely evening.

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

Oh Holy Night

Good Afternoon

I'm sorry I've not been around much.  My condition has deteriorated again so my GP is increasing my medication to try and get the pain under control a bit better.  It's all making me feel even more 'out of it'.

My card for today shows the true meaning of Christmas:

I used a lovely brown linen card, gold mirri board and papers from Making Cards.  Spellbinders dies are used and a pearl in each corner and finally some peel-offs to complete the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Totally Paper Crafts Challenge 94 - Christmas

Winter Wonderland Challenge - Nativity

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Decorative/fancy corners

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

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge - Christmas With Pearls

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Nativity

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Time To Have Fun

Good Afternoon

I hope you're having a good day.  Doesn't it go dark early now?

I had a lovely surprise this morning, I had an email from Janet at Pink Gem Designs to say that I had won the October prize draw.  My prize is my choice of 4 of their Funky Animal stamps, how great is that?

Co-incidentally, last night I printed off a Pink Gem digi stamp ready to make a card for the current Gem of a Challenge.  I've had such fun making up this card today and here it is:

I coloured him in using coloursoft pencils.  I then faffed around for ages looking a for a toning blue backing paper which I then decided to emboss with a snowflake design.  The corner punch is Martha Stewart.  I added flowersoft to his hat, coat and boots, sparkling snow glitter to the snowballs and Pinflairs Ice Diamond to the ground.  The tree is die cut from holographic card using a Memory box die, and gems added.  The sentiment is Lili of the Valley.

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

Crafts and Me Challenge - Winter Blues

Totally Papercrafts - Use Glitter

Bah Humbug - Use die-cuts

Christmas Card Challenges

One Stitch At A Time - Christmas Card

Pile It On Challenge - Keep Warm

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Bingo - I chose Use A Punch, Sentiment and Bling

Ladybug Crafts - Non-traditional Christmas Card

Stamps R Us - Masculine theme

St Lukes Charity Cards - Christmas Card

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes plus bling

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

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

The CD Sunday Challenge - Around The World

Good Afternoon

A warm welcome to my new followers, I'm glad you like my cards.

My card for today is for the current challenge over at The CD Sunday Challenge which this week is Around The World.  I decided to go to Paris, and here is my card.

I am very pleased with how this card has worked out.  I printed a decoupage image from Debbi Moores Art Deco Paris cd-rom, along with a couple of backgrounds. I matted the decoupage onto some lovely pearlescent cardstock I got some time ago from papermill.  I matted the backgound onto some antique gold card and added some glitter to the tower and fireworks.  The roses are made from the same gold using a Marianne die.  The leaves are cut from black cardstock and gold embossing powder added to the stems.  The buckle is cut using a Memorybox die with black organza ribbon threaded through.

I used a second scene to decorate the inside of the card:

I cut some white card using a spellbinders die and gold embossed the edges so there is somewhere to write.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Polka Doodles - Use ribbon

Top Tip Tuesday - Use layers

Time To Craft - Use punches, dies or both

Paperplay Challenges - Use black

Moving Along With The Times - Vintage

Totally Papercrafts - Layer upon layer

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Time For Tea Teddy Bea

Good Evening

As soon as I saw Nela's fab project over at Teddy Bo & Co I knew it was a perfect make for a friend of mine.  Here is my finished project:

The paper I've used on the teapot is from a previous Making Cards magazine and I went round all the edges with Milled Lavender distress inks.  Teddy Bea is coloured with coloursoft pencils and distress inks, and the pattern on the cup is made using a teeny-weeny stamp.  The sentiment is computer generated.  The mat Teddy Bea and the sentiment are sat on are Spellbinders Labels 22 and this is the first time I have used them.  Little gems were added to complete the design.

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

Teddy Bo Challenge - Use Your Favourite Colour

Totally Paper Crafts - Animals

Allsorts Challenge - Use A Bear

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - Favourite Colours

Hooked On Craft  - Anything But A Card

Digi Makeover Challenge - Anything But A Card

Thanks for having a look.

Jo x

Winter Friends

Good Morning

My card for today is another to add to my Christmas card stash:

and is my entry into Crafter's Companion World Cardmaking Day Challenge.

My card is made using the adorables cd-rom from Crafter's Companion and the papers are from the cd also.
I embossed the mirror board that the images are sat on with a sizzix embossing plate.  The snowflake is a Spellbinders Ironworks die.

My card is also for the following challenges:

The ABC Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - Lots of Layers

Anything Goes Challenge - Use Die Cuts or Punches

Creative Inspirations Challenge - Friendship

Raise The Bar Challenge - Furry Friends

Totally Papercrafts Challenge - Animals

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - All Things Bright and Beautiful

Humphrey

Good Afternoon

My card for today is made using the Humphrey's Corner cd-rom from Crafters Companion.

This is one of the lovely decoupage images from the cd-rom, layered onto silver mirror board which has been punched all around using a Martha Stewart punch.


The backing paper is from the cd-rom and the stars are cut into a co-ordinating paper using a die-namics star die.

The inside of the card has been decorated to match.

This is a lovely cd-rom which I know I'm going to get lots of use out of.

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

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Getting Cute

Totally Papercrafts - One For The Boys

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

Teddy Bea Is Two

Well, actually, my little niece is about to be two, but you get my meaning!!!!

You can't tell from the photo, but the number is cut from double-sided card, lilac on the outside, pink on the inside.  The lovely Teddy Bea is coloured with coloursoft pencils, isn't she gorgeous?  The wording was stamped using Dimension Fourth Krystal Tips stamps in Distress ink and heat embossed using detail clear embossing powder.  The silver stars are also stamped and heat embossed in silver detail embossing powder.

I was over the moon this week to learn that I was one of the runners up for the previous challenge.  I'm sure you all know how much I love these teddies so it was such a delight to win.  Thank you ladies :o)

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

The Teddy Bo Challenge - Bea On Her Own

Totally Papercrafts - Girly Girl

Have a lovely weekend.

Jo x