Design team make featuring the House Mouse Decoupage cdrom

Hello everyone...Genny here. Today I have been lucky enough to work with the wonderful cdrom, brought to us crafters by Joanna Sheen, which features the well loved artwork of Ellen Jareckie. I just love all the artwork of this lady..it always make me smile. This cdrom also features Happy Hoppers and Gruffies, as well as other friends of the mice. This cdrom features 170 pages of decoupage. It also has a selection of backing papers. The papers that I have used on both of these cards are from the House Mouse triple cdrom. I find that they work so well together that I tend to mix and match.

When deciding which to pick, I thought that I would pick a theme. And I decided to pick coffee. Even though I have made these two images into cards, I am thinking that they would be nice pictures on the wall of my kitchen. So many times we are busy making items for everyone else, that we forget to make them for our selves.

I have photographed the card and them a close up of the decoupage. On this card, I love the tiny mouse that is bouncing with his caffeine hit.

I hope that you are all having a good day and that the weather is being kind to you. Here in the mountains it's raining and seems much more like the middle of winter. The only bright side to the weather is that it's the perfect weather to craft. So until next week...take care and happy crafting.

Design Team Makes using Joanna Sheens..House Mouse Decoupage cdrom

Hello everyone ...Genny here. For this weeks design team makes, I am using the latest House Mouse cdrom from Joanna Sheen. It's called The House Mouse Decoupage cd and is available from Julie here at JB-Crafting Supplies. If you adore House Mouse as I do, then just ask Julie to get it for you. On this cd there is house Mouse, Gruffies and Happy Hoppers, all with decoupage. There is also 4 sections of Christmas designs. Of course with every design it's up to you whether you want to do the decoupage or nor or just how much decoupage you choose to do.

I have been meaning to share this cd with you for a while...I admit to having a bit of a thing for the Happy Hoppers. For 2 of the 3 cards that I have done today, I have made with you all in mind. Over the time I have been on this wonderful design team, I have noticed all the wonderful creations that you all have made...knitting, sewing and card making...so these cards are all for you. The first card features this ball of wool with the two cheeky house mouse. I know in my house it's the cats that won't leave my wool alone! All I have done for the card is make up the decoupage and place it on a card...perfect for a knitting fanatic. 

The second card is a card which I would make a perfect card for any friend that loves sewing. I chose to do no decoupage, just to show all the detail in the image itself. I'm thinking of doing this one, to be framed for my sewing room...every time I see it..it makes me smile.

For my last card is using the image in it's entirety. The backing paper is from the House Mouse Triple cdrom. I have mounted the backing paper and the image onto spring green card. I have decoupaged the image.

If there is anything you need crafting wise just ask Julie. I hope that you all have a good week..I'm currently working with some Stampendous stamps, ready for next week. I love working with these stamps as they are so easy to use and the detail is fantastic. So until next week...take care and happy crafting.

Design team makes....Joanna Sheens ...One Summers Day

 Hello everyone...Genny here. For todays design team make I am using the fabulous 'One Summers Day 'cdrom brought to us from Joanna Sheen. There are just so many designs on this cd...it's a pleasure to use. For todays cards I have picked two very simple floral designs, just to share the thought that all cards don't have to be decorated up to the nines...that sometimes simple works just as well. For both these cards I have just used the image from the cd, alongside it's backing paper and added a bow. The only other thing I have done is to mount both the image and the backing paper onto some holographic silver card.

On both sheets containing the images there are a choice of matching greetings, which I have also used. These floral images are just so delightful that they could be used for any number of occasions and I think they would be well received.Just lately the trend seems to be to chuck everything in your stash at a card, but I think that both these cards prove that it doesn't always have to be the case. Somedays you may feel like making an elaborate card and have the time to do just that. But somedays you just want to be able to make a simple card in a hurry and yet you still want it to be special for the person that you're sending it too. There are just so many wonderful different images on this cd..it well worth adding to your stash.
I hope that the weather is being kind to you all...the wind is raging here in the mountains today. A perfect day to settle down to some card making. So until next time...take care and happy crafting.

DT make - vintage Paris candle

 

Hi everyone! Hope your weekend has not been too bad - we've had rain but no thunder & lightening yet. Still very humid though.

When I was looking through the design sheets on the Vintage Floral CD from Crafter's Companion I thought that the Paris images would look good on a candle.

I picked a design & colour out. Taped some tissue paper onto some copy paper & printed the design onto the tissue.

Tried the images around the candle to see where I wanted them.

Placed some greaseproof paper around the candle, pulling it tight & making sure there were no creases on the image sheet.

Carefully heated the image with my heat gun, making sure the greaseproof was held tight & watching for creases.

This was the first time I had tried this with a printed image & I am pleased wth how it turned out.

Hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by,

Bev xx

Crafter's Companion DT post

Hi - hope you've had a good week. I am looking forward to the men's final at Wimbledon later today. The Tour de France lands here later today that's making getting around a bit difficult but only for a day - can't move on our road.

I printed off a design sheet to use as a backing paper, co-ordinating paper, postcards from the vintage ephemera sheet & a few embellishments all from the Crafter's Companion Vintage Floral Collection CD. I printed these onto super smooth paper as I think this gives a better finish.

Adhered the design sheet to my card, then set about cutting out the rest of my elements. 

Matted the postcards onto the co-ordinating paper.

Arranged all the elements onto my card until I thought it looked ok.

Hope you like it.

Ruby Wedding Card!

A Ruby Wedding card made from the Robert Addams CD called Roses.
I have used this CD time and again, I have to say it has paid for it's self which is great!
Everybody loves roses!
The nice thing about this CD is it is not difficult to cut the decoupage sheet.
I love it!

Julie

Another Silver Wedding Anniversary Card

Morning everyone!
Today's card was made for my Mother-in-law to give to Stephen & Gill for
their Silver Wedding.
The background paper came from a book, Hot of The Press i think.
Decoupage image from the Roses Cd by Robert Adams.I love this Cd it is amazing how
many cards I have made using it!
This is a large card using A3 card, first time I have made a card this big!

Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Aother Art Deco Lady & Tabby!

I thought you would like to see Tabby our other stray cat, this photo was taken a couple of weeks ago. We have had a good talk about him over the last few days and decided to keep him as part of the family. We could not part with him now, we love him too much!

Most of you know he was in a huge fight last weekend and he has not been himself all week. He had a slight eye injury which turned quite nasty by Thursday. So we phoned the vets yesterday and made arrangements to take him down this morning. Tabby has got a badly infected eye and paw so he had to have an injection of antibiotics and a course of tablets. The vet squeezed his eye and all this pus came out, it was horrible!
For a stray cat he behaved extremely well at the vets, I was so proud of him!
We also found out that he is only a year old.
When he has recovered the next step will be to have him seen to and get some pet insurance this time!

I could not resist doing another Art Deco lady card today!

Think I will get allot of use out of this CD.

Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Black & White Art Deco Lady

Good morning every one!
I thought I would get today's card on before I go to work.

When I went to the N.E.C. last November I bought the Art Deco
Timeless Keepsakes CD and it has been sat in my craft room ever since.
So I thought I had better use it!
I really love all of the images on this CD and hope to get some more cards made soon.

Enjoy looking at the card!

Have a great day

Julie