Oriental Lofty

Good Morning!

Happy Saturday, I hope you are well.

Yesterday I had a visit from some friends who I haven't seen for quite some time. It was lovely to see them all. We exchanged belated birthday presents, and as they know of my love of giraffes, my presents included some gorgeous giraffe pyjamas. I want to send them a thank you card, so last night sat down and created this card.

I'm ashamed to say I've had this lofty stamp set for a long time and it has barely been used. It seemed very appropriate for the card.

All the images are from the same stamp sheet and were coloured with Lyra's. The lovely backing paper is from Joanna Sheen's Eastern Treasures cd-rom, and I printed it onto pearlescent paper.

I really like this style of card but find it really difficult to make. I coverred it with the backing paper and then added a punched border, made using a Martha Stewart punch. The frame is a Marianne die cut from gold mirror card.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion Cutie Pattootie, she is definately a cutie!

Crafty Ann's Challenge Oriental

Dream Valley Challenges Dig Out The Old To Use With The New - Old Stamp, new cd used for backing paper

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Let's Punch It Out

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Jo x

Patchwork Polly and Friends

Good Afternoon

This is a card I have been working on for the last few days. I couldn't decide which stamp to use so decided to go with them all!

I love this stamp set and now only need to get Patchwork Jenny and the set will be complete.

All the stamps were stamped onto watercolour card using versafine ink. I coloured them using watercolour pencils. I find these really difficult to use but am determined now I've bought them to keep trying!

The shape of the card was made using a get in shape template.

Here are some closer photos of the different characters.

The base card was cut in one from white cardstock and then inked round the edges using Big and Juicy Hydrangea Ink.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Crafters Companion Challenge Girls Birthday

Crafting For All Seasons Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Children's Cards

Divas By Design One For The Girls

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts Don't Be Square.

Thanks for visiting today, I'd love to know what you think.

Jo x

Viva La Divas

Good Morning

My cards for today are made using the Viva La Divas cd-rom from Joanna Sheen. It's such a lot of fun this cd, and you can change all the captions to personalise them if you want to.

This uses one of the toppers from the cd, and I've changed to wording slightly. I've used a Martha Stewart Punch around the page for the mat and then added some prima flowers. The leaves are made using an x-cut embossing punch with a bit of colour added for the veins.

The second card is decoupaged and I have used the sentiment on the cd.

Just some simple matting and layering for this card and then I added the ribbon border.

The sun is back this morning, and I hope it stays for a while. My pain is definately affected by the wet weather.

I hope you have a lovely day, whatever your plans.

Jo x

A Round With Teddy Bo

Good Morning

My card for today is one I have made for Fathers Day, using the lovely Teddy Bo. I couldn't resist making a penny slider.

I've taken 2 photos to show how the golf ball moves around the card.

Teddy Bo is coloured with pencils. The backing paper is printed from Joanna Sheen's house mouse cd-rom. The golf ball is made using a circular die, which I then added dimples to using an embossing tool. The grass is cut with a Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment was created using the Krystal Tips alphabet stamps from Dimension Fourth, and then layered onto a hexagonal die-cut mat. Whilst the wording looks a bit crooked in the photo, it is in fact perfectly straight. It's a bit of a mystery to me the way photographs can distort cards!

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

Cards For Men Someone Special

Crafts And Me Anything Goes

The CD Sunday Challenge Die-Cutting

Teddy Bo Challenge Just Teddy Bo

One Stitch At A Time Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious Challenge Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

In The Country

Good Morning

My card for today is made with the fabulous In The Country stamp set from Hobby Art.

I stamped the images using Versafine ink onto watercolour card. I painted using Lyra Aquacrayons and then went over the water with some shimmer paint.

For the mount, I used some dark green cardstock and embossed the lines using a scoreboard.

I'm still getting the hang of building scenes with these stamps and have to say I'm quite happy with how this has worked out.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Ahoy Teddy Bo

Good Morning.

It's a new challenge over at TeddyBo today, and this is one I always look forward to. I must have been a bit psychic this week, because the card I had ready to post for today fits the challenge perfectly!

Meet Pirate Teddy Bo.

Teddy Bo is coloured in pencils and then I've cut round the image so I could add him to the card with a bit of dimension.

I printed off a treasure map, crinkled it up and then went all over it with vintage photo distress ink to give it an 'aged' look. I then made the little bunting from coloured card, to match the bunting on the image and add a bit more colour to the card.

The insert in the card again uses the treasure map, with a white panel to write in.

I am entering my card into the Teddy Bo Challenge which this time is Teddy Bo only (I hope Bea isn't too upset).

Birthday Girl In Aqua, Pink and Lemon

Good Afternoon

I hope you're having a good day.

My card for today is a birthday card made using a digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs.

I love this image and really enjoyed colouring it in using my coloured pencils.

The backing paper is from my stash. The pink paper was punched around the edges using a Martha Stewart PATP. The yellow butterfly border was made using an EK Success punch. The mat she is sat on was die-cut using a Nellie Snellen die, as were the flowers and sentiment. Little pearls from Joanna Sheen were added to the centres of the flowers, and the little butterflies are the one's cut out from the punched strip. The sentiment stamp is from the Patchwork Polly range of stamps.

The inside of the card matches the front.

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

A Gem Of A Challenge - Use Aqua, Lemon and Pink

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Happy Birthday

Stamps R Us - Goin' Digital

Papertake Weekly - Fancy A Punch

Easy Craft Projects - Pastel Colours

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes Challenge - Birthday

Thanks for visiting today, and for the comments you leave, I love to read them.

Jo

Ice-Cream For Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea

Good Evening

I hope you've had a lovely weekend. It's not stopped raining here!

My card for today is a gate-fold card. I've not made one of these for ages, and had forgotten how difficult they are to photograph, so I've taken 3 separate photos.

This is the photo of the inside of the card.

The backing paper is one I've had in my stash for ages, and I thought would work really well with the image. The mat Teddy Bo and Bea are sitting on is a Nellie Snellen hexagonal die. I've coloured the Teddies in pencil, aren't they just the cutest? A couple of feathers were added.

On one side of the card front, I embossed some silver mirri with the swiss dots embossing folder. The flowers are made from pearlescent card and are cut with dies that came in the hexagonal set. They are simply layered and then a little pearl (from Joanna Sheen) added to the centre of each flower.

The other card front is made from pearlescent card embossed using a cupcake embossing folder.

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

One Stop Craft Challenge Ice-cream (which gave me a good excuse to buy this image!!!)

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Let's Feel It, I've added lots of different textures to my card.

I was delighted to find that I had won last weeks challenge at Rainbow Lady's Challenge, it made my week, thank you.

The digi stamp I used on my card, along with lots of other adorable images of the teddies, are available from Teddybo.com

Thanks for visiting my blog. I'd love to know what you think of my card.

Jo x

Less Is More - One Layer Card

Good Evening

Must start my post by congratulating Manchester City on winning the FA cup. There's been great excitement in our house, even Murphy joined in!

Thank you to everyone who visited my blog and commented on my last LIM card. Unfortunately a lot of comments were lost due to the problems with blogger this week.

This is my entry for this weeks Less Is More challenge.

I used dark blue cardstock which I dry embossed using the Majestic embossing board. I then stamped the dandelion clocks from the Inkylicious Meadowbreeze set of stamps. I stamped using versamark and then heat embossed using fine detail silver embossing powder.

The sentiment was also stamped in versamark and heat embossed using the same embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I'm off to have a look at the other entries.

Jo x

Go Manchester City!!!!!

Good Morning

My card for today is a Good Luck card for Manchester City in the FA Cup final this afternoon.

The card was inspired by one made by Clairebears which can be seen here. Thanks Claire.

The image is from Teddybo.com, and I coloured him in City colours using pencils. I made the backing paper using the logo.

Thanks for visiting today.

Jo x

Ruby Wedding

Just a quick post today after all the issues with blogger. I haven't half missed visiting all the usual blogs today.

This is a card I made for some friends Ruby Wedding Anniversary this weekend.

The layout is similar to the WOW card I made earlier this week, but this time I used my new Marianne English Roses die for the flowers. I tried to roll some tighter than others so they were more like buds.

The inside of the card was decorated to co-ordinate with the front. The card has been delivered this evening and I'm delighted to say they loved it.

Great excitement building in our house tonight in anticipation of the FA cup final tomorrow. I've promised Emma I'll watch it with them and am actually quite looking forward to it. Go City (Manchester City that is!).

Jo x

The CD Sunday Challenge - Let's Go Oriental

Good Afternoon

I was all set to post this morning when Mr Blogger decided to have his difficult head on. This also meant I couldn't visit other blogs, so I'll be doing my visiting later.

I am actually showing 2 cards today. I enjoy entering the CD Sunday Challenge, and the DT there are a really lovely group of ladies who always take the time to comment on your cards. The theme for this week is 'Let's Go Oriental'.

I went straight to my quite recently purchased Eastern Treasures cd rom from Joanna Sheen. I selected my image and backing papers and decided I was going to make an Invertage style card for a change.

I decided to use both accompanying backing papers, together with some silver mirri, and I layered the images using 1mm foam tape. Some ribbon and a couple of pearls were added to complete the design.

I decorated the inside of the card to co-ordinate.

I realised when cutting the invertage that it left me with the same layers in Pyrimage, so rather than waste them, I decided to make a second card.

Slightly different layout this time, still using the same backing papers, and in my wisdom I decided to try and create some paper flowers to look like the flowers in the image (I think it's a peony).

I didn't have a suitable punch for the petals, so cut out rough petal shapes by hand. Would you believe it took me almost 3 hours to make these flowers!!!! I was sat resting because my pain was at full pelt again, and needed something to do to try and detract from it.

The middle of the card is decorated in the same way as the first.

Thanks for having a look today.

Jo x

Thank you to those of you who left me such lovely comments on this post. Regretably, with the problems with Blogger over the last few days, it appears that these comments have been lost.