Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus
For this card I used decoupage and backing papers from MCS Delicate & Detailed collection and added a peel off sentiment to complete the card. I love the soft colours and pretty flowers in this collection - I really should use it more!
Please do visit the challenge blog to see the inspiration from my teamies and full details of how to enter.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Jo xx
Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus
Here is my card:
This gorgeous kingfisher image, and the backing paper, are from Pollyanna Pickering's Sketchbook collection. I kept my layers simple with black and white card and then simply added the tiny orange buttons, to pick out the orange in the kingfishers.
Please visit the challenge blog to see my teamies fabulous makes, and to enter our challenge.
Thanks for visiting.
Jo x
Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus and this time it's my turn to host. I look forward to seeing all your cards and always enjoy visiting your blogs.
For my card today I used one of my all-time favourite cd-roms, Kimono by Crafters Companion:
There are many layers to the decoupage, and it's a beautiful image, so I decided to keep the card quite simple. Just a simple mat and a few gems.
Thanks for visiting today.
Jo xx
Good morning and welcome to my blog.
I hope that you are getting some sunshine in between all the rain! Doesn't it make you feel so much better when the sun is shining?
I am still slowly sorting through all my craft supplies! I'm determined to get it all done! My current project is sorting through and labelling all my dies. It's quite some task!
I've recently introduced a close friend to crafting and am sorting out some craft supplies that I can pass on. It gives me so much pleasure that these items will be used. I'm also regularly sending crafty items to a Children's hospice, and of course, I continue to fundraise for Guide Dogs in memory of my parents.
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus. The advantage of sorting out is that you find stuff you forgot you had and are able to put them to good use.
My card for today was made for my teamie, Carol's birthday.
I used charisma and dies from the Portmanteau collection from Tattered Lace, which is my favourite collection. The oval frame was die cut using Teardrop and Sweep dies from Carnation Crafts - which have been my only crafty purchase in a long time - I love them!
The banner the sentiment is sat on is a Spellbinders die, and the sentiment was cut using Hunkydory dies. Pearls from my stash were added to complete the card.
I do hope you'll join in our challenge. Full details of the rules and how to enter can be found on our challenge blog.
Thanks for visiting.
Jo xx
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We actually have sunshine here in Manchester! Doesn't a bit of sun make you feel so much better. Bailey is finding it a bit warm at the moment and is booked in for 'a short back and sides' next week. In the meantime, he has his own little den in a shady spot in the garden and is enjoying lots of iced water!
I hope you're getting to enjoy some nice weather wherever you are.
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus. Full details of our challenge and how to enter can be found by clicking the link.
For my card today I have used artwork from Paper Boutique USB IX, Bumblebee Dance collection:
This is one of my favourite and most used collections from Paper Boutique. I love the delicate colours and beautiful images in this collection.
I used dies from Paper Boutique to cut the mats and frames on my card and added a co-ordinating strip to finish off.
A co-ordinating insert from the collection was then added to the card.
I hope you'll join in our challenge and also visit my teamies who have made some lovely cards to inspire you. Look forward to seeing your wonderful creations.
Jo xx
Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus
For my card this time I've used 'Geraldine the Giraffe' artwork by the fabulous Bree Merryn, from a My Craft Studio cd-rom:
I turned the image into decoupage and the added it to one of the lovely background papers, matted onto co-ordinating cardstock.
I hope you'll join us for this challenge.
Jo xx
Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus and the lovely Aimslee is hosting this challenge.
Here is my card which I made for a good friends' birthday:
All the elements for the front of the card are from Hunkydory. The image, frame and sentiment were from a Hunkydory magazine.
This is the inside of the card:
The insert was printed from Spring Whispers collection, Paper Pantry Volume VII
I do hope you'll be able to join us.
Jo x
Good morning and welcome to my blog.
The clocks have now gone forward and the mornings will be much lighter now. I'm an early riser so glad of this. We've had a bit of sun in between the rain here in Manchester, I always feel so much better when the sun is shining!
I've almost completed my major ribbon sort out! Phew! Next job is to sort through and catalogue all my dies. Another big job but will be well worth the effort.
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus. I make and send quite a few Easter cards and today I am sharing one of them:
My card was made using elements from the Spring Whispers collection, Paper Pantry Volume VII usb from Creative Crafting World. It's a beautiful collection.
I used card from PaperMill for my mats and layers and textured gold card from Create & Craft for the die-cuts. The flowers I made from a lightweight paper, finished with a bow.
Please visit the challenge blog to see the beautiful creations from my fellow teamies and for full details of how to enter our challenge.
Thanks for visiting my blog today.
Jo xx
Hello again
As well as being a card maker, I'm also a keen crocheter. I've crocheted a Gonk to fundraise for Guide Dogs.
Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus
I make so secret of the face that me and February don't get along!! However, this year my February had the best start when my youngest daughter passed her driving test. Due to the knock-on effects of covid, she had to wait over 6 months to take her practical driving test. I'm super proud to say she passed first time! She now drives down a busy motorway to and from work every day, has driven to Lancaster to see her uni friends, given me lifts places.....there's no stopping her now!!
This is the card I made for her:
I printed the insert from a My Craft Studio Click Print Go Simply Sentiments cd-rom. I've always called her my Super Stat so this was a perfect insert.
I hope to see your creations over on the challenge blog. Full details of Challenge Rules and how to enter can be found on the blog. You can also see the fabulous creations my lovely teamies have made. I hope to see you there!
Jo xx
Hello
A friend of mine turns 60 this week. He has a cat so I decided to use this super cute image from Joanna Sheen's House-Mouse triple cd-rom:
I turned the image into decoupage and then matted it onto grey adorable scorable. I cut some brown adorable scorable along the edges with a paw print punch and die-cut the sentiment from matching card, matted and layered onto the card using foam pads.
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
House-mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
Classic Design Challenge- Anything Goes with option of 4-legged friend
Thanks for visiting.
Jo x
Hello again
Get me....2 posts in a day!!
A friend has her 65th birthday this week, and as she is a big animal lover I knew I couldn't go wrong with a Happy Hoppers image. I made it to fit in with the new challenge over at House-Mouse & Friends which is 'Anything Goes With The Option Of Wet/Dry Embossing.
