Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus. How quickly the year has gone by!
We recently celebrated our 35th Wedding Anniversary. This is the card I made for my husband that depicts when you first got together. He was thrilled with it.
I used vignettes and dies from Carnation Crafts 'Getting Together' collection, and a computer generated sentiment.
I look forward to seeing what you create.
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
This is the birthday card I made for my daughter's recent birthday.
This card took a long time to make but I had such fun making it! All the images are from Carnation Crafts garden safari, cut with the matching dies.
I used acetate to attach the fences. I love the dog hiding behind the gate! I made him as decoupage, and when the gate is closed, his nose peeps through!
The sentiments are all Carnation Crafts stamps.
Thanks for visiting today. I hope you'll join our 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 Jocelyn is hosting this challenge.
For my card today, I have used Teardrop and Sweep dies from Carnation Crafts for the mats and layers. The flowers and decorative panels are cut using dies from Dawn of Spring collection. The bride and groom are a Creative Expressions die and the sentiment is a Carnation Crafts stamp.
I do hope you'll join our challenge this fortnight.
Jo xx
Good morning and welcome to my blog
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus
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 I have the pleasure of hosting.
It has been a busy month in my household. My hubbie turned 60 this month and back in March I had the 'clever' idea of arranging a surprise 60th birthday party. Some close friends and family agreed to help, so it was all systems go.
We somehow managed to keep it a surprise and had a really lovely day with lots of close family and friends. Lots of special memories made.
My card for this challenge is a birthday card I made for my godson. It was a challenge I can tell you! Anyway, I got there in the end and this is the result.
I used Kraft card to create the card as it needed to be strong, eventually worked our the mechanism to make it move, and then added lots of images printed and cut using planes, trains and automobiles from Carnation Crafts Wonderful World Collection.
I'm pleased to say he loved his card and was very impressed with it.
I hope you'll be able to join our challenge this time, I look forward to visiting all your blogs!
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 Meg is our host for this challenge. Please do visit the challenge blog for details of how to enter.
For my card this challenge I used One Summer's Day cd-rom by Barbara Mock from Joanna Sheen. Matted onto blue card from Creative Crafting World, the letters were die cut from the same card. The image is decoupaged, although this doesn't shop up very well in the photo.
Thanks for visiting.
Jo xx
Good morning
I'm back from a lovely week away. Yesterday was my hubbies 60th birthday. We had lots of callers and our daughters came round for their tea. I made his favourite cake - chocolate with galaxy melted on the top! There are more celebrations planned for the weekend.
It was a friends birthday the other day, so I decided to use a house-mouse image for her card. I hadn't made a shaker card in ages, and thought this image lent itself to a shaker card!
The image and backing paper are from Joanna Sheen's house-mouse cd-rom. I cut an aperture into some purple card and again into the backing paper. Sugar strands were added as the shaker element, then I created some little party hats from the backing paper and some streamers from a toning yellow paper.
I would like to enter my card into House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - Anything goes with the option to add a butterfly.
Thanks for visiting!
Jo xx
Good morning and welcome to my blog
When this post goes live, I will be staying in Lourdes, France, so I hope that Mr Blogger has co-operated!
Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Challenge Plus
I used one of my 'little used' cd-rom's to create this card - A Country Life by Morgan Fitzsimmons from Crafter's Companion.
The image is decoupaged, there are quite a few layers but I'm not sure you can tell that from the photo. I matted the image onto some green and pink card stock and die cut the sentiment using Crafter's Companion sentiment dies.
This card was for some friends of ours who recently moved home. I was really touched when they said it was the nicest New Home card they received.
I'm still sorting through the mountain of craft products I've purchased over the years. I've recently sorted and labelled all my dies (that was a mammoth task), and I'm now sorting through my stamps. I feel (hope!) the end is in sight and will post some photos when it's all completed.
Thanks for visiting.
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 this time the lovely Carol is hosting.
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
