CD Sunday - Little boys

Hello, it sunday and for me it means one thing - well two actually but the main thing is a new challenge over on CD Sunday, the other thing is no work so it's a win win day for me.

This week Caz has chosen her theme to be Little Boys and I decided to do a card for a little boy rather than put an image of a little boy on a card.

For my card I've used a couple of cd's, it's good to go through the older ones you have in your collection and give them an airing. This week it's Just Inklined and Bearly Mine Designer Extreme, there are some useful things on both of these cd's so I must remember that I've got them and use them again.

The card is a 6 inch and I used two different backing papers and no extra mats, this is so it will go into the post on a normal stamp and not cost a fortune to post. The greeting is cut from some Tattered Lace dies using some glossy cardstock, makes a change from stamping.

I hope you can come over and join us and have a look what the rest of the team have done.

Bye for now!

CD Sunday - Shop til You Drop

Good morning, the sun is shining and I'm on holiday from work so it's a great day! Over at CD Sunday this week it was my turn to choose a topic and I decided on Shop til You Drop, the team have made some great cards so I do hope you will pop over and join us  this week.

For my card I used Craft Artist 2 and the Butterfly garden kit, I also used some digi images that I have had for quite a while and can't remember where I bought them from so if you like them and wanted to buy them for yourself I'd have to do a bit of digging to find out for you.

I built the scene up and then printed the topper off so it was flat to go into the post, it would be quite easy to decoupage if you wanted to but I didn't on this occasion.

Hope you can join us and I'll have a little prize for the top three winner. x

Reds and Greens

Over on the Graph' It colour challenge it's Red and Green so I've used another new stamp and have made a Christmas card. I need to get on with my cards and have only made a few up to now so this is a good excuse to get another out of the way.

I haven't bought any of the Graph' It pens yet so I've used flex markers and promarkers on my image. I didn't keep a check on which pens I used but I think for the hair I used Light Fawn flex marker and then over that I used several promarkers, for the angel wings I used vintage white and I do know I used both Lipstick Red and Poppy promarkersfor the skirt and Chartreuse flex marker with mint green promarker for the top. I will make an effort to list the markers as I get them out next time!

The snowflakes are cut from a couple of Joy dies, I used double sided sticky sheet and put glitter on one side then cut them out and once I'd removed the backing just popped them onto the card.

I don't think the sparkle really shows in a photo but those snowflakes are very sparkly.
That's it for today, four posts in one day is unusual for me, I don't normally do that in a week but I've enjoyed playing today.

Pretty in Pink

Over on the Joanna Sheen Challenge blog this time it's Pretty in Pink, I've just bought a new stamp so thought I'd have a play and this is the result. I stamped the image with Distress Ink Frayed Burlap so I could use flex markers to colour it. I have used my dies to make a pretty card but so very easy, the sentiment is embossed with WOW sparkling silver and I've added a couple of little hearts to cover the wholes in the die cut as I didn't want them showing.

A New Home Card

I made a new home card and when my friend saw it she wanted me to do one for her, the trouble was she didn't want the same size as I had done an 8x8 to allow the team in work to sign it. The original card had the topper and matt cut from an oval die but I couldn't get it to look right on the smaller card so went with one of my Marianne dies and an X-Cut that I've had for ages.

The image and the backing papers are from a Polkadoodle cd, A Double Sprinkle of Kraft there are some great images and backing papers on this cd and I took the image into Craft Artist and added the words. The leaves are Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies and the flower is another set of Heartfelt Creations but this time Vintage Floret which I've cut out of the backing paper, I bought these sets from Oyster Stamps and I think they are quite reasonably priced.

I hope you like it, oh and the word sold on the sign was added by me it was Now Let on the one I did for work, I love being able to add these bits and wouldn't be without Craft Artist now.

Scentimental on CD Sunday

Hello everyone it's Sunday, it's the 1st September and I'm on holiday from work for two whole weeks so all is well with my world.
Over on CD Sunday this week we are being sponsored by Jems Designs and they have given us a cd to give away, this time it's Scentimental and it is a lovely cd with old fashioned images and it's quite nostalgic in feel.

For my card I've used an A5 landscape and some of my newer dies, the corner die is possibly the most difficult die I have ever encountered but I love the result so it's worth it. The flowers are Delicate Asters and they are cut from the backing paper and plain white to go with the matt for the image. The image and matt were cut using my circle cutter from EK, it is such a useful tool, it cuts in plenty of small increments and is handy to have on the desk rather than get the die cutter out or use the Cricut.

We have a new guest this week, Anne, she has been joining us on a regular basis and makes some beautiful things so I hope you will support her and also go and visit her blog which is Stargroves she'd love to have you say hello.

CD Sunday - On the Beach

Good morning all, today over on CD Sunday it's On the Beach as chosen by Caz, please go over and have a look and even join in if you can.

My card is a 7x10 landscape and is from the cd that comes with a project book by Tom Meilko brought to us by Joanna Sheen.  I have used some red card to match the bits of red in the umbrella and punched a strip with a large Martha Stewart border punch.

Add a Number with CD Sunday

Good morning it's a lovely sunny morning here so lets hope it stays that way, this week over on CD Sunday we have a challenge to Add A Number this was chosen by Jocelyn.

I was given a photo by someone who wanted a card for her friends 40th birthday so this card is what I came up with.

I took the photo into Craft Artist and just played about until I had something that would work, I used a steampunk kit for the map and the charatcters.  The card has already gone to it's new owner and they loved it, the words and numbers were cut from a provocraft set but I can't remember the name.

We still have our lovely guest Linby with us so I do hope you can come over and see what she and the rest of the team have done and hopefully join in too.

CD Sunday - Quick and Cute

Good morning bloggers, another week gone by so it's time for CD Sunday again. This week it's Sue B's turn to choose the topic and she has been very kind to us with quick and cute.
For my card I've used an old cd from Ella's Designs called Plush Pals which I've for quite a while but only use occasionally.
I had to do a card for a little boys christening and ths is what I did.

The team have enjoyed this one and all the cards are quite different so I hope you can come on over and join us.

CD Sunday - Transportation

Morning! Another Sunday and another challenge over at CD Sunday, this week we have a new guest, this week it's Linby who is also sponsoring us as she has offered us a Debbi Moore cd - Shabby Chic Mechanical

For my card this week I chose to use the Tom Meilko cd from Joanna Sheen, I've used this several times as I really like the images so it was a good buy for me.

Sorry it's not a wonderful picture but I do find easel cards a bit difficult to photgraph at times, this one is a 7x10 card and I ended up putting at 50 on the stopper as it was my friends 50th birthday last month.

The image is quite a large one and I guess it would work well on an 8" square card but as I'd bought some 7x10 cards to try I used one of those so I could add the extra bits. I do think the backing paper is really pretty and very useful as it's not anything specific to the image on, just some pretty little flowers.

I hope you can join us and support Linby in her first spot as our guest, looking forward to seeing you over there. x

Black and White with IndigoBlu

Last week I won a stamp of my choice from IndigoBlu so chose Live, Laugh, Love as my prize. I wanted to join in with a Black and White Challenge so decided to use them, as always with IndigoBlu stamps they give a perfect impression every time.

I haven't been doing much stamping recently but this has awakened the need to do some more so watch this space as I start to play again.  Mind you I should be emptying my craft room to do a bit of decorating but I get so easily sidetracked.
Jenny x

CD Sunday - Garden Pleasures

This week over at CD Sunday Christine has chosen the theme Garden Pleasures to tax us, I recently bought the Tom Meilko project book from Joanna Sheen and decided to go with one of those images. This card is a 7"x10" and is made in landscape to accommodate the design. The project is a decoupage one so it makes it so much easier then trying to decide which bits to cut out, I'm not sure it shows too well in the picture.

The team have made some lovely things this week so I do hope you can pop over and have a look and hopefully join us, we love to see you.
Jenny x

CD Sunday - Dreams and Dragons

Good morning it's Sunday and that means another great challenge over at CD Sunday, this week it's Dreams and Dragons as chosen by Sue. When you see the cards the design team have done you will notice that the cd I've used features quite a bit.
I've used Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams and the images are perfect for this challenge, my card is 7x10 and comes from the decoupage section of the cd.

The flowers are Heartfelt Creations Delicate Asters - my new favourite flowers, so much so that I have now bought the stamps to go with the dies.

i hope you'll come and have a look at the teams work and join in with us, we love to see what you've created.

CD Sunday - Christmas in July

Hello everyone and welcome to my place in blogland, this week over at CD Sunday we are trying to get ahead so have chosen Christmas in July as our topic this week. To be honest looking out of the window and seeing such fabulous weather doesn't exactly inspire the cold feeling of a snowy scene but we have to start early so what better time than now.

For my card I have used the Best of La Pashe 2012 and this is from the Pickles and Podge section, it's a fairly simple card but most of my Christmas cards are simple only do elaborate ones for family.

This was printed onto 160gsm paper and the red card is from a pad bought from C&C quite a while ago but they are still selling them but I only paid £4.99 each for mine, the sentiment is from a Polkadoodles cd cut out with one of the smaller bits from a spellbinders set, they don't get used that often as they don't seem to fit with anything most of the time.

I do hope you'll join in with us, we love to come and visit.
Jenny xx

The rest of today's cardmaking

I have loved being outside crafting in this beautiful weather, I had to sit under the umbrella as the sun was so strong that I would have fried if I'd sat out in it. Anyway these cards still need some embellishments but I thought you may like to see the cards just using the printed page. If you needed some quick cards these would do the job but wouldn't look like they are so easy to do.

These cards are either A5 or 6inch square, the square ones are designed to be a lot bigger but I opted to print two pages on an A4 sheet thus reducing the size down so I could make the smaller square instead of the 8 inch, hope you like them.

Craft U Print Designs

I needed a new baby card so went over for a look on Crafts U Print, well I found the design I wanted but a few others also fell into the basket, you know the way that happens.

I printed some off yesterday and had a little play while I was sitting soaking up the sun in the garden, I had seen some of the fifties style ladies on a forum so bought a few of those and here they are, they are printed onto matte photo paper and they look like real fabric. I'm quite pleased as I kow where these will be going very soon.

The baby cards are so easy to make up and I think they are quite pretty.

I'll be back tomorrow with another couple I'm in the process of making.

Jem's Designs at CD Sunday with hats

Over on CD Sunday this week we have a great sponsor, Jem's Designs have agreed to give a cd of the winners choice away so what better reason could there be to join in, the team were give the cd Hat Box Confections to play with and to be honest I wasn't going to use this design for my card but as I'd just bought the lush corner dies I cut them out in the lilac card and the whole thing just went from there.
This is an 8 inch card and I sent it to a friend who was 60 this time so in the end I put a 60 in the top right corner but I had already taken my picture so you'll just have to imagine it.

So what did I use this time;
 Design from Jem's cd Hat Box Confections
Lilac card is Centura Pearl
The dies behind the topper are Decorative Blossom corner from Heartfelt Creations. You have to have a lot of patience with these dies as they don't cut very easily.
The flowers are also Heartfelt Creations and are called Delicate Asters.
Finally finished the whole thing off with some flat back pearls which came free with my carousel from C&C.
Hope you can come over and join us and check out my team mates blogs, they have done some stunning things.

Dance with CD Sunday

It's Sunday so it means another challenge over on CD Sunday, this week Carol has chosen Dance and the team have all had some good ideas but quite different so I do hope you will go over and have a look and maybe join in.
My card this week is made from an older cd, Seraphina through the Ages which I don't even know if you can still get. I thought this image would be perfect for a little girls birthday.
Jenny x

S is for ...........CD Sunday

Over on CD Sunday this week Beryl has chosen S is for........ so I have chosen Style or Stripes and have used the Fabulous Fashion cd from Katy sue designs. This is a great cd and fun to use, I've used it quite a bit and hope that the cards made will sell well on a fundraising day we are having in work.. The pearl butterflies are from a pack that had both butterflies and dragonflies in and I bought them from Stamps by Chloe.

I hope you can join us and please go over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the team have done, there are some that are not so obvious as mine.

Tom Meilko from Joanna Sheen

I recently bought the Tom Meilko project book from Joanna Sheen, I very rarely follow any of the projects but thought this was a pretty idea so decided to make one.  In the book the card used is aqua but I decided to use white centura pearl as the base.  This is a lovely set of images and no doubt will have plenty of use, I do like a really useful cd.