WOW LIM BNFL

Or in other words - White on White, Less Is More, But Not For Long!!!

Well I looked at the new challenge over on Less Is More on Saturday and thought I wouldn't be taking part this week!!! I've never made a white on white card in my life and didn't know where to start. BUT, there's something about this challenge that really grabs you. I think so many of us really do find it a challenge, and want to push ourselves to achieve it. Also the hostesses Chrissie and Mandy are so encouraging and so many LIMettes visit other blogs, it really feels like a special community.

So I've spent the last few days trying to think of an acceptable idea. Over on Joanna Sheen's craft forum I've seen some beautiful WOW cards made by my Sheenie friends, and today I've finally got a card to post! So here it is.

It's made with a combination of Centura Pearl card and white glitter card. I used a cuttlebug folder to produce the embossed frame, the flowers and leaves are cut using Marianne dies, as is the butterfly. The flower was layered slightly using glue gel and a little white pearl popped in the centre to complete the card.

But, then I kept looking at it, and I couldn't help it, I had to give it the 'ribbon treatment', I'm sorry Chrissie and Mandy!!! I used a combination of organza and satin white ribbon, and then added some small pearls to the ends of the organza ribbon to hide the glue. So here is version 2. Not so LIM!!!!

I'd love to know what you think. I'm now off to visit some fellow LIMettes to see what they've come up with for this challenge.

Have a super 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

Teddy Bea Among The Flowers

Good Morning

I've been out this morning woo hoo!!! We've all been up to the dentist for our 6 month check. I'm in so much pain now, with getting in and out of the car, the wheelchair, the dentist chair! Murphy is sulking big time, he always sulks when I've been out. I keep telling him I've not been out having fun, but will he believe me? Well the look on his face says it all.

With a bit of look he'll have forgiven me by weekend!!!!

Anyway, onto today's card. This is my latest purchase from Teddybo.com, mind you it is Teddy Bo Tuesday and there are some adorable new releases out today, so I could well be adding to my collection :D. I LOVE colouring in these bears (you may have noticed lol).

Here is Teddy Bea wearing a beautiful necklace she has made from flowers. I couldn't resist this backing paper, I thought is went so well with all the flowers, and is also very sweet. The mat she is sat on is die-cut using a Nellie Snellen die. The ribbon border is a Marianne die, as is the butterfly which is made using glitter card. The flowers are from my stash and the leaves are cut using a woodware punch.

Teddy Bea is once again coloured in using pencils. I decided this time that she could wear a red dress and hat, to pick out the colours of the ladybirds in the backing paper. I put her on the mat using glue gel to add further dimension to the card.

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

Raise The Bar Flower Power

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Lady In Red

ABD DT Challenge April Showers Bring May Flowers

Crafty Sentiments Flowers

Dream Valley Challenges Flowers

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Things with Wings

Cutie Sunday Butterfly

Thank you for visiting my blog today, and for all the lovely comments you leave me, they really make my day.

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

A Special Wedding Card

Good Evening

I hope you've had a lovely weekend.

A friend asked me if I could make a 'special' wedding card, and this is what I came up with.

The design, which is out of a Framecraft booklet that I adapted slightly, is stitched onto 18 count white aida. I made the aperture frame from silver mirror board, lilac pearlescent card, and centura pearl card.

This is how I did the inside.

I used vellum from my stash, and a Martha Stewart deep edge punch.

I made a matching box out of Centura Pearl, but forgot to take a photo of it!!

My friend was delighted with it.

Jo x

Teddy Bea and Bo Hanging Out The Washing

Good evening

I'm back again with my favourite Teddy's and this time they're hanging out the washing!

Isn't this image so adorable? I love it. The design is coloured using pencils. The backing paper is from an issue of Making Cards magazine. The corners are made using a Marianne die. I couldn't resist adding the little pegs to the card, and the tulip pegs to hold the sentiment.

I went with bright and cheery colours to brighten up a very dull day.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar Challenge Teddy Bears

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

Teddy Bea Among The Stars

Good Evening

Today's card is my entry into the current Teddy Bo Challenge which this time is to make an easel card.

I have used a gorgeous image of Teddy Bea sat on the moon, surrounded by stars. I coloured the image using pencils and then embossed the moon with a sparkle embossing powder.

The shape for the easel card was made using a 'Get In Shape' template, and I couldn't resist making a shaker card! Various stars and micro beads make up the shaker elements. The stars around the shaker are stamped using a Dimension Fourth stamps and heat embossed with the sparkle powder.

The sentiment tab is a spellbinders die, in a colour to tie-in with Bea's dress, and then a few more stars are attached to the base.

These images are so adorable, and this is one of an ever-increasing range of digi stamps available from Teddy Bo. It's lovely to see Teddy Bo and Bea appearing on so many blogs.

Thanks for visiting. Please leave me a comment so I know you've been :D

Jo x

Brothers

Good Morning

My card for today uses one of the Moments In Time stamps from Flowersoft. I love this image.

The image was coloured used Lyra Aquacrayons and a little flower soft added for the grass. The base card used a navy blue cardstock, and as I was asked to make the card for a Preston fan, I created a simple backing paper using the Preston logo. The paper with football boots and footballs on is vellum, and I attached this to the card using dark blue eyelets. A Happy Birthday sentiment completes the card.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe Crafts One For The Boys

Here Come The Boys Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Challenge Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday Open Challenge

Diva's By Design Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes

Have a good day.

Jo x

Silver Wedding

Good Morning.

Some friends of ours were celebrating their Silver Wedding Anniversary over the weekend. I was a bit stuck at first what to make, and then remembered a card making kit I'd bought from a C & C sale a couple of years ago. I've got quite a few kits in my cupboard that are relatively untouched. I find I usually prefer to start from scratch.

For this card, I took a card blank from the kit and then 'lined' it with white card, simply because I didn't think the card was strong enough for what I had in mind!

I added some decoupage from the kit to the front of the card.

Inside the card, I used a sheet of linen silver card, and embossed and cut out and oval in the centre with the help of my Majestic embossing board.

I embossed some of the same linen card twice, and cut this out to create the shape in the centre of the card. I added an embellishment to each side and added it to the card using jump rings.

(I forgot to check the photos before sending the card and some of them are a bit fuzzy!)

Some organza ribbon, tied with a bow, was added to the other 2 panels of the card and a gem added to the centre of the bows.

It's a while since I made this style of card and I enjoyed it.

Jo x

Teddy Bo Brings A Flower

Good Morning

It's very quiet here today now everyone is back at school, college and work! Murphy's decided to have a long lie-in this morning!

I'm back with Teddy Bo again today, these images are just so adorable I can't stop colouring them in!!!

Teddy Bo is coloured in pencils again and I like the softer look it gives him. He is then sat on a pearlescent lilac mat, cut using a Nellie Snellen die. Both lots of backing papers are printed from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse cd-rom. I thought the pink backing paper, which is a close-up of some knitting, was perfect to use with Teddy Bo. Finally, the corners are die-cut from the same pearlescent card using a spellbinders die, and a little pearl (from Joanna Sheen)was put in the centre of each flower.

I am entering this card in The CD Sunday Challenge

Thank you for visiting today. Enjoy the rest of your day.

Jo x

Less Is More -

Good Morning

My card for today is my entry into this weeks Less is More Challenge which this week is to make a Thank You or Congratulations card.

For my card I have used the Meadow Breeze stamp set from Inkylicious.

I used hammered white cardstock for the base card (my current favourite!!). I brayered some silk art card with Hydrangea Big And Juicy Ink then stamped the images with versamark ink and heat embossed with white fine detail embossing powder. I then stamped some more images using black ink.

The words 'thank you' use silver peel-offs. I have phases of using peel offs, and I particularly like the font on these. Unfortunately, I can't print directly to card as my printer won't take card stock.

I couldn't help thinking I should add something to all that white space, but I suppose that would take away from it being a clean and simple card so I sat on my hands!

Thanks for having a look. Do pop over to the Less Is More blog, it's a very friendly place to visit and you'll see lots of fabulous creations.

Have a lovely Bank Holiday.

Jo x

Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea Are In Love

Good Morning

Another lovely sunny morning - I could get used to this!

I hope this Sunday finds you well.

My card for today shows Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea together sharing a romantic meal.

I know I've shown a lot of cards made with these teddies recently, but I'm completely in love with them!!! I bought 8 more digi stamps in the sale last week, so lots more to follow!

This time these adorable teddies were coloured using pencils. The mat they are sat on is die cut onto pearlescent card using a Nellie Snellen die, and the border is made from the same card using a Martha Stewart punch.

I'm sorry I can't remember where I printed the backing paper from, I think it was Precious Petals from Joanna Sheen, but can't be certain.

If you too love these teddies, you can find lots of adorable images at the TeddyBo store.

Thanks for stopping by today. I appreciate you taking the time to visit.

Jo x