January Rudolph challenge

I always leave my christmas cards til it's too late. Ok, I do make the occasional one throughout the year, but I always need to do a last minute rush in December (happens to you too eh?) Anyway, this year, i'm determined to have a nice little stash of crimbo cards all ready. Over at Auntys forum, the 25th of each month will now be Rudolph day. January's challenge is a sketch and the option of a recipe (glitter, button, patterned paper and a stamped image)
So here are my first 2 Rudolph day cards...

Image: Gillian Roberts 'kitten christmas nap' coloured with promarkers
Papers: Stampin Up old olive DSP, Sizzix 'little sizzles - country', & Holly Hobbie christmas joy.
Others:  Woodware leaf punch, SU eyelet border punch, mulberry roses, red seam binding, computer generated sentiment.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Creative inspirations - anything goes (option of flowers)
Craft Us Crazy - The colour RED
Stamping for Pleasure - Rudolph day
The Paper Shelter - anything goes
Christmas cards all year 'round - anything goes

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Image: LOTV 'deck the halls' coloured with promarkers
Paper: Sizzix 'little sizzles - country'
Others: kraft, pale blue & gold cardstock, SU eyelet border punch, glitter, ribbon, button & charm from stash.

I'd like to enter this card at:
I love promarkers - anything goes
MAWTT - bling it on
Crafty Catz - cute as a button
Sweet Stampin - ribbon
Top Tip Tuesday - layers

Thanks for stopping by today xx

little bookworm

I love pink and brown together, such a lovely colour combination, don't you think?

The layout of my card made today was from Inkspirational's challenge last week, I'm too late to enter but still wanted to use the layout because I had the perfect image to use with it, a freebie from DigiStamp Boutique, who gave it out via facebook. The character is called Zoe, you can't find this particular image on the website (well I can't find it) but there are LOADS of others to choose from.
Here's the card...

The patterned papers are both by HOTP. Zoe is coloured with promarkers. The pretty scalloped edge was made with a xcut punch (think it's called 'sparkle'), talking of sparkle, I added some pretty pale pink gems along the same edge. Girlie, but not OTT girlie. Lovely.

I'd like to enter this card at:

Stampin' for the weekend - something girlie
Creative inspirations - anything goes
I love promarkers - anything goes
The paper shelter - anything goes
MAWTT - bling it on
Crafting by designs - polka dots
The pink elephant - inspiration photo
 also into DigiStamp Boutique's January competition

For Mom & Dad's special day

March 20th will be my parents 48th wedding anniversary.
I hope they like this card i've made for Jake to give to them...

Last week I was very fortunate to have won a prize over at Charisma Cardz *YAY!!* I got to choose 3 images from Crafty Sentiments Designs, and this is one of them, it's called Poppy and Henry, and I love it, it's so adorable and perfect for any card that is for a couple. Thank you again Charisma girls and of course thank you to Crafty Sentiments too :)

Again, I used my trusty promarkers, Poppy using tan, cinnamon and umber, her dress using denim blue, cornflower blue and pastel beige. And Henry using caramel, burnt sienna and umber.
I used this weeks fab sketch at Sketch Saturday *waves to the Saturday Girls*
I layered up my papers, which are all by SU (bella bleu collection).
Th kraft border piece was punched using another SU product,the eyelet border punch.
I added a bit of shine by using gold mirror card for the punched hearts and also for matting and layering.
The Sentiment is handwritten.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Charisma Cardz - Punch it! 
Sketch Saturday - sketch #242 
Crafting By Designs - use alcohol markers
Card Crafters Circle - layers
I {heart} Promarkers - layer it up 
Pennys Paper Crafty - teddy bears

FILs 80th

Exactly one month after my Dad's 70th will be my Father In Law's 80th birthday, this is the card I have made for him...

 

I started with the sketch, provided by Seize the Birthday challenge blog, who also want us to make a masculine card too.

The image is a Pollycraft one, and is called 'Maurice- Daddy Cool'.

Maurice is coloured with promarkers.

The kraft base card was stamped with a few number '80' and I used SU markers to crosshatch the pattern within them. Then faux stitched around the edge and around the image with the chocolate chip marker.

As you can see, I used my argyle embossing folder on the blue piece.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Seize The Birthday - Use the sketch AND make a masculine birthday card.
MAWTT - birthdays.
Totally Papercrafts - embossing

Dad's 70th

My lovely Dad will be 70 in March, this is the card i've made for him, plus I added a short sentiment inside... 

My Dad snoozes, infact he snoozes a lot more than he used to, well he is almost 70, so is entitled to eh? but of course, according to Dad, he's never able to drop off to sleep! ;)
I was going through my pooter and saw this digi which made me think of my Dad, although Dad isn't quite as hairy lol.
The image was a freebie and is saved on my pooter as one by Jens Digi Stamps, so I searched for the image on the website, but can't find it to link to it :(
I coloured bear with my promarkers (caramel, cocoa and umber) then stamped the '70' and coloured that with caramel too.
The checked paper is by sizzix.
The word 'Dad' was die cut using die-namics By The Letter dies, I cut it from blue cardstock but used the negative from it by putting kraft cardstock behind it so that it looks debossed.
I printed off the sentiment from the pooter, originally I wanted to add it to the front of the card, but then decided to put it inside instead.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Here come the Boys - BINGO
(blue, free, image) or if the die cut negative counts: blue, die cuts, patterned paper
Sentimental Sundays - negative space.
Totally Gorjuss - K.I.S.S
MAWTT - birthdays
Pennys Paper Crafty - Teddy Bears

Happy New Year!

oooooh long time no blog eh? 

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and I hope 2013 will be a great year for you all.

So this is my first post of the new year, the first of many I hope, because I'm going to try to get more cards and blogging done this year.

The following card uses a policeman decoupage image which was left behind after a previous card make a few years ago, I glued it to some cardstock before cutting it out so that the image would be sturdier than decoupage paper as I wanted to use foam pads to raise it from the base card a little.

The checkerboard design is from Tiddly Inks, I printed it straight onto the card blank. The little handcuffs charm in the top corner was put there because I loosely followed last weeks sketch from Sketch Saturday.

challenges:

cards for men - men at work

Tiddly Inks challenge - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp challenges - black & white and a splash of colour

This card uses 'Beer Bear' from Di's Digi Downloads, coloured with promarkers.

challenges:

Here come the boys - sketch

Totally Gorjuss - spotty

I love 'Tulips' from The Stamping Boutique, it's such a joy to colour (in my case, my trusty promarkers), it is a little fiddly to cut out for layering but the end result is so worth it imo.

The name was cut using 'By The Letters' dies by Die-namics.

The sentiment is a combination of 2 clear stamps from my stash.

challenges:

lexi's creations - anything goes

The Crafty Bloggers Network - flowers

MMCS blog - anything goes

MAWTT - floral delights

This little cutie is by LOTV and is called 'Me & My Cat', again coloured with promarkers then cut and layered with foam pads to stand out.

I used the same Die-namics dies for 'mommy'

(note to self: save up to buy uppercase and numbers too)

challenges:

charisma cardz - happy birthday!

Stampin for the Weekend - anything goes

This is my final card (for now), using a cuthbert image from Pollycraft from a while back. The number was handcut and glittered.

challenges:

TPE181 - celebrate

Pennys Challenge 109 - anything goes

I hope you like them, and I hope to be back real soon! 

Jo xx

Paper pieced Thomas

Just thought i'd show you the card I have made for a cute little 2yr old Thomas fan. Everything is cut or punched from card, the only bit of stamping is the sentiment, and I finished the facial features with a black pen.

Challenges i'd like to enter:
Here come the boys - diecuts/punches
Crafty Catz - male card (optional number)


Hope you're all well & happy xx