Happy Birthday CCT!

Cute Card Thursday is one year old today!
And I had the honour of giving this fantastic blog a makeover! woohooo!
Thank you Lynn, Deb and the rest of CCT design team for choosing me for the makeover and also for trusting me with your blog.
Happy Birthday CCT! xx

Cosmic card...

Cute Card Thrusday asked us to make a card for a child, here is my entry, I have used my new Crafters Companion 'Boys n Girls' CD rom to print off the papers and toppers, since taking this photo I have added extra glitter to the stars using a glitter gel pen.

Ha-bee Birthday

This card was initially made for this weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge, in which we have been asked to make a birthday card, yes as simple as that, thanks ladies, and also thanks to Sweet 'n' Sassy Stamps for the amazing blog candy that is up for grabs this week too! WOW!

I have used Bee Maggie from Bootiful Stampz on this card, and a HUGE fabric flower embellishment, the honeycomb backing paper I made myself on the computer, and I also printed the 'ha-bee birthday' sentiment and the 2 bees.



Now once i'd made this card I realised that it also qualifies for this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge, Feelin HOT HOT HOT, in which we were asked to use hot colours on our projects this week, well that flower certainly looks like its giving off some heat to me!!

3 embellies and a kitty

This week, the ladies over at Cute Card Thursday have asked us to use 3 different embellishments on our cards, and there's a fantastic prize up for grabs from Tracy Jane's Crafts too! wow!
I have used paper cellar bg paper from their celebrations range, the happy birthday stamp was bought from Catslife Press, their service from the US to the UK is outstanding and very friendly, prices are excellent too, I shall definately be using them again :)
I have destroyed a large fabric flower and used one of the layers as a backdrop for this sentiment, blue ribbon, and orange gems as my embellies.
The image was in my stash, I love this lil penny black kitty! sadly I don't have the actual stamp tho...(yet) ;)

Christmas Cutie

The ladies over at Cute Card Thursday have gone festive this week! You should go have a look at the amazing cards made by themselves, they're adorable!
Here's my card, I have used another Magnolia image sent to me by my friend Storm. The greeting is quite hard to see, but says 'Season's Greetings' and is a negative ink print from an embossing board, which I then cut out and wrote the letters back in with a pale blue gel pen.

Katharina's Sketch

Katharina has provided another great sketch for us, this time the sketch is for Cute Card Thursday

I have used this fairy image, admittedly not the usual cutesy rosy cheeks and dimples image but I think she's a cute fairy all the same.

A collection of challenges!

I didn't have any PSP work to do yesterday so I caught up with a few challenges.
Here are my entries...


Tilda & Co - Black and white
I like how this card has turned out, I drew the amp that Edwin is sitting on, the guitar is a die cut (Ellison thin cuts)

Inchy By Inch - Faces
Apart from the faces on my Maggie and Tilda stamps I don't really have anything that I could use for this challenge, so decided to draw on an inchie and colour it in.... picasso style LOL!

Papertake Weekly - Lime and lilac

A lovely colour combination imo, for this, I have used Bootiful Stampz Bunny Pocket stamp to make this ATC, I love this cute image! who can resist a bunny eh?

Arty Girlz - Travel/Places

I found this quite hard actually as I don't have a lot of stash on a travel theme, infact I would have preferred a cruise liner peel off or image instead of the yacht peel off. I got the definition from a book full of them that I received from my friend Kim, it's made by paper pizazz 'definitions & words ephemera'.

Tilda & Friends - Glorious green
Green is my favourite colour and frogs are my favourite animal so I've combined the 2 to make this ATC, Tilda normally has wings and a crown but I cut them off for a different look, altho I must admit it looks like Tilda has a flower crown now!





Cute Card Thursday - Vacation/Travel
Aaargh! another travel theme! .... LOL!
I couldn't submit the same one as my Arty Girlz entry, cos this is CUTE card thursday, so decided to use another cute Bootiful Stampz design, this time Cozzy Maggie on holiday, she is coloured in using brush markers. The bucket and spade are both Quickutz dies, the waves stamp used in the vertical stripe is by Tanda Stamps and is from their pirates set 2 sheet of unmounted rubber stamps. Flower from my stash.




Phew! thats it (for now)
I'm off to check my emails and then hopefully make a few more samples for Bootiful Stamps using the latest released images.

Jo xx

Piggy Birthday!

This weeks challenge for Cute Card Thursday is to use gems or jewels on your card.
I love this penny black image that I had in my stash, sadly I don't own the stamp itself though, ("party animals" i think it's called). I coloured it with watercolours, then added sequins to the top right corner and added the jewels dangling from the ribbon at the side. I didn't add a greeting as the image screams out "PARTY!!!" lol.

CCT challenge :)

This weeks theme is 'Girl's just want to have fun' at Cute Card Thursday, to make a card for a girl. I chose to use Heart t-shirt Maggie from Bootiful Stampz. I think she's so cute!

Cute Card Thursday...

..."Things with wings" is the theme over at Cute Card Thursday :)

This is my first time entering with this challenge blog, so I hope I've met the criteria... I have used Butterfly Maggie and have mounted the image onto lilac pearlised cardstock then onto pink funky foam, before mounting onto a card blank made from the same lilac cardstock. I think you'll agree Maggie is definately cute! I added the sheer lilac organza ribbon and buckle for added interest.