Wedding Wishes

Good morning

My eldest daughter was asked to be a bridesmaid for her friends mum who was re-marrying this week.  The wedding was up in Scotland and they are travelling home as I type.

This is the card I made:

The base card I used is a beautiful pearlescent cream card.  The deep red is the colour of the bridesmaids dresses.  I embossed some cardstock with a cuttlebug folder and die cut the flowers, leaves and butterflies using Marianne dies.  A pearl was added to complete the flower, a ribbon bow and a co-ordinating rub-on sentiment were used to complete the card.

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

Paper Sundaes - Beautiful bows

Pile it on - Anything with a p (Pearl)

Divas by Design - Monochromatic

Creative Craft Challenge  - Anything Goes

My Mums Craft Shop - Things with wings

Flutterby Wednesdays - Open Challenge

Moving along with the times - Ribbons and bows

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Monotone

Craft Your Days Away - Buttons or bows

Creative Card Crew Challenge  - Monochromatic (thanks Jan)

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  Have a lovely weekend.

Jo x

Collecting The Christmas Tree

Good morning

My card for today is from the decoupage section of Joanna Sheen's Nostalgia cd-rom:

I love this image, particularly the couple in the car who have just collected their Christmas Tree.  I think it's such a lovely scene.

I printed the dcoupage onto matt photo paper and layered it up with Collall glue gel.  The sentiment is also from the decoupage sheet.  The backing paper, also from the cd-rom, is printed onto Crafters Companion satin paper.  I used the same paper for the insert and added a 'white area' to write in.  Some pinflair snow dust was added to one of the trees on the backing paper for extra texture.

My card is for the following challenges:

CD Sunday Challenge  - Trees

Moving along with the times - Let it snow

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Christmas

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Festive

Shopping Our Stash - Christmas/Winter

Jo x

Happy Birthday Emma

Hello

I was meant to post this card yesterday but had a really bad day do didn't get it done.  I'm really struggling with my pain at the moment so will keep this brief.

Yesterday was Emma's 11th Birthday and yesterday morning she headed off on a school trip, due back Friday.  This is the card me and hubby sent her:

Emma is a big Manchester City fan and one of her presents was the new away shirt.  I photographed the shirt to use for her card.  I created the football boot out of black, red and gold card, added silver eyelets and metallic red cord for the laces.  The wording was created using an x-cut alphabet die.  The backing paper is from a Crafters Companion cd-rom.  She loved her card - and her new shirt!

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

PaperPlay Challenges - Shaped cards

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenge - Free For All

I'm missing Emma already but know she's going to have a fantastic time.  On Friday we're going to have a birthday tea (a takeaway of Emma's choice).

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Thank You

Good Afternoon

It's a while since I joined in with the Less Is More Challenge, and as I needed to make a Thank You card, I decided to tie it in with their challenge for this week which is Silhouettes.

I started by embossing the card using a Nestabilities die. I stamped this lovely stamp from Dimension Fourth and heat embossed with white detail embossing powder. With the die in situ, I used ink dusters to apply ink from a Big & Juicy Waterfall ink pad. I added silver peel offs to the card to complete (I'm not actually sure about the positioning of the peels offs, but they're firmly stuck now so will have to stay.

My card is for the following challenges:

Less Is More - Silhouettes

Allsorts Challenge - One Layer Card

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Give Thanks

Crafts and Me Challenge - Keep It Simple

Sentimental Sundays - Thank You Card

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo xx

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