Folkestone Yesterday!

As I am unable to post any cards I thought I would post some photos of our days out.
Yesterday we spent the day at Folkestone, the weather was really hot, too hot really!
Not many people on the beach.
The town center has a few nice shops.

Magnolia Challenge This Week is Bugs!

This weeks challenge over on the Magnolia blog

is "bugs"

Sorry It's been so long!

Hi everyone, I am so sorry for not posting sooner but this has been a very busy time for me this year. I have been very busy with work, family, summer fair at school, card classes and getting things ready for our holiday. It was our 25th Wedding Anniversary last week and Kevin and myself went on holiday for a week on our own!

But more about that in another post!

Shadow Box Card

Today's card is from my Thursday cardmaking class and is an oriental shadow box card.
The template came from splitcoast stampers site which I have enlarged so it will now fit an A5 envelope.
The card looks a lot better in the flesh.

I used black card stock for the shadow box.
The cherry blossom was stamped with a Versamark ink pad and then I used pink/golg Pearl Ex.
All of the images were embossed with gold and coloured with the Pearl Ex watercolour pallet.
The moon was punched out of yellow card stock and then glittered.
Then we made paper beads for the side of the card.

Enjoy!

Julie

My Swap Domino

Here is my domino for the swap, it did not scan very well but it looks better in real life.
I attached a bead to the top so it can be worn as a necklace.

Have a great day!

Julie

Domino Swap

Yesterday I received this lovely domino from Carol.
We took part in a domino swap on CCSwaps.
The domino has been coloured on both sides.

Have a great day!

Julie

Magnolia Challenge This Week is Serendipity

This is my card for this weeks Serendipity challenge on the Magnolia Challenge blogEnjoy

Julie

Father's Day Cards

I started teaching some card making classes in school to parents a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I would share what we made last week.
They came in for Father's Day for Adele & Jake to give to Kevin.
I kept it simple and only used printed paper, die cuts and peel offs!


Julie

Magnolia Challenge This Week is Swirls

This weeks challenge on the Magnolia blog is swirls and here is my card.

I had fun with this challenge!

Enjoy
Julie

Caught in Crystal card

Today I am sharing with you a card using my favorite technique, caught in crystal. With matching insert and envelope.





Thanks for looking!

Julie

Magnolia Challenge This Week is Non Card!

Challenge 22 NONE CARD WEEK!

Now you may be looking at the title and thinking what? No cards? But i only make cards?
Now is the time to experience New things!,
For this challenge you are NOT allowed to make a Card,
Now there is so many things you can do with Magnolia Stamps, You only have to look @ Myself & the Design Teams work this week!
You could do a Gift Tag, Bookmark, Atc, Scrapbook(layout)Page, Gift Bag, Book The possibilities are endless!
So The rules are, Anything as long as it isn't a card, Has to have at least 1 Magnolia Stamp on ( remember it doesn't have to be Tilda or Edwin) , And last of all most important one is HAVE FUN!!!

This was a tuff challenge but I have enjoyed it! I have made a basket and I got the pattern of someones blog but I can not remember who it was. When I find it I will leave a link to her blog.

I am going to fill the basket with some greeting cards and give them as a gift or donate them to the schools summer fair!



Enjoy!

Julie

Carl's Birthday Cards!

It was Carl's 23rd birthday a few weeks ago and here are two off the cards that I made for him.
He loves computer games and paint balling.
All of the background papers and 3d decoupage images were printed of a CD by Robert Addams called Boys & Children.


Sorry I have not posted anything this week as I have been poorly with some viral infection and not had the inclination to craft.

Julie

This weeks Magnolia Challenge!

Here is my card for this weeks challenge on Magnolia Challenge Blog

Challenge 21...

TORN/TARE

Would love to see your Torn/Tare work,
This could be a simple little tare on a part of your work or the main focus,
Have fun and just go crazy! Tare your wonderful Papers get them used!

Once again your work must have at least 1 Magnolia Stamp on there somewhere, And your work can be anything you want, Altered Art, Card, Atc, Bookmark, Canvas's board.

Enjoy!

Julie

Jake's Birthday Layout

I made this layout of Jake's birthday using mesh from Magenta, blue Bazzill card, large white brads, patterned paper and acrylic paints.
I wanted to get as many photos as I could on this layout so there are no embellishments a part from the white brads.

If you click on the picture you can enlarge it a bit!

Thank you for looking!

Julie

Magnolia Challenge This Week is Beads

This weeks challenge on the Magnolia challenge blog
is beads. You just have to show some beads on your Magnolia card!

If you click on my card to make it bigger you will see that the image is covered in tiny beads!

I really had fun with this challenge!

Enjoy!

Julie

Challenge # 9 CD's

Why don't you pop over to CMUtd for this weeks great challenge!

Challenge #9 CD's

Hi Everyone and welcome to this weeks challenge, which is CD's
We all get these free cd's, so I thought lets see what we can do with them!

Hope you enjoy this challenge as much as I did!

I want to see your cards, layouts, ATC, altered objects, what ever you fancy so long as they contain CD's or even part of a cd.

There will be a small prize for the winner.

Remember you have a week to take part in this challenge!
I will announce the winner next Sunday after 8pm!

Please leave me a message with a link to your card on your blog. If you don't have a blog then just email your creation to me at stamperjb@hotmail.com

I look forward to seeing your creations!

Hope everyone has had a great day!

Julie

Another Magnolia Card!

I really enjoyed making my card for the Magnolia challenge, that I descided to make another. Only this time I added some colour!

If you click on the picture to enlarge it you will see the detail better!

Happy Crafting!

Julie

My Card for the Magnolia Challenge!

This is my first time to create a card for the Magnolia challenge found here
I had great fun creating this card, as I love black & white but don't use it very often!

*Challenge 19*

It's time for a bit of black and white theme, ideally no other colours to be used on you work.

(but if you are struggling with this then your magnolia image ( or 1 of if using more than 1 )
may have 1 more colour of your choice.

Once again work must include a magnolia stamp, and could be anything aslong as it is arty crafts.


If you click on my card you will see the detail better. I have added glitter to the petticoat and diamond glaze to the jacket and boots.
Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Clumber Park Layout

I have just put this layout together from our day out last Sunday to Clumber Park.


Patterned vellum QVC
Pale green cs Bazzill Basic
Letter cut out on the Cricut Basic George Cartridge.
Green flowers.
Zooms.
Main paper is from Basic Grey Aged & Confused sublime collection Pitachio.

Have a great day!

Julie

Challenge # 8 Flowers

Why do you pop over to cmutd challenge and have ago at this weeks challenge!

Hi Everyone and welcome to this weeks challenge, which is flowers
I want to see your cards, layouts, ATC, altered objects, what ever you fancy so long as they contain flowers!

There will be a small prize for the winner.

Remember you have a week to take part in this challenge!
I will announce the winner next Sunday after 8pm!

Please leave me a message with a link to your card on your blog. If you don't have a blog then just email your creation to me at stamperjb@hotmail.com

I look forward to seeing your creations!

Our Visiter!

This cat has been a visiter to our house for the past few days and it was all skin and bones.So Adele fed it and now it keeps coming back. It's been here all day today and I am a big softy and fed it. It seems to have settled down here and fallen a sleep in the conservatory. Adele wants to keep it and I say No! we don't know the first thing about cats!





It's a lovely warm day here and I have been out in the front garden trying to tidy it up a bit!

Wedding Gift & Card

Today's post is to show you a card (which is already on my blog) and a gift for my son's best friend who got married yesterday! There is a bottle of champagne and some champagne flute glasses. Carl did not have a box for the glasses, so I had to make one for them, easy I thought but then I did not have any card bigger than 12 x 12. Oh no I thought what am I going to do! Then I remembered when I was blog hopping I found a tutorial for a box, just the bottom ( sorry I can't remember who's blog it was but I will try and find out so I can post a link here), so I set to work scaling down the pattern and when I was happy I made two boxes and stuck them together. Popped a glass in each box and used gold tissue paper around them, then I glass them up and finished the gift of with some cream and burgundy organza ribbon. If you click on the photo it will enlarge for you.


Enjoy!
Have a great Saturday!

Julie

RAK From Marge SBS-8

Yesterday I received this lovely RAK from Marge. There is a lovely spring card which has really fab ribbon with spring printed on it and the most cute felt flowers I have ever seen. Included in the package was a roll of spring word ribbon, a roll of flower ribbon, chunky green letters, green floss, felt flowers, flower unmounted stamps and border unmounted stamps.

All I can say is thank you very much Marge for a wonderful RAK, I just love everything and can not wait to use them!


Have a great evening!

Julie

Paint Chips & Photo! card & layout

Hi Everyone and welcome to today's card which is paint chips & a photo!

Ribbon & Buttons Card

Rose Decoupage Wedding Card

Challenge over on CMUT Blog!

This weeks challenge over at CMUtd challenge blog is circles & dots.

Please support us and pop over and have ago at this great challenge group!

There is a small prize for the winner!



Have a great evening everyone, I am now going to watch Midsomer Murders, my favourite TV program!

Julie

No Pictures Tonight!

I don't know what is wrong tonight but blogger will not let me upload my photos!

I have been busy making wedding cards using a pyramid decoupage CD off ebay and a Roses CD by Robert Adams. I am quite pleased how they have turned out. So I will upload photos when I can.
I have got some more orders for wedding cards so that will keep me busy this week.

Have a great evening!

Julie


Managed to upload some cards today.

Manvers Lake Layout!

The idea for today's layout came from this month's Scrapbook Inspirations Shimelle Laine. She used a cut down page protector on her layout so she could add more photos. Now I like to do double page spreads with lots of photos but my albums are bulging. So I thought I would give this idea a try. I made my book up and kept my embellishments flat so I could laminate each page. I then stitched around the front cover so this would match the layout, I stitched the pages together and stuck the mini book to my layout. I have cut a hole in my page protector so the mini book can be viewed. I am really pleased how this layout has turned out and I am glad I took the plunge to try stitching on my layout.

Products Used;

Bazzill cs pale green
12x12 paper from Craft Creations SRO57P Green Meadow Stripes and SRO55P Green Meadow Butterflies.
A Selection of sticker and printed ribbon was also used.

The colours look better in real life!






Have a great day!

Julie

Scott's 19th Birthday Layout

Wow I can't believe it has been 6 days since I last posted anything! Time does fly when you are having fun. I have been busy creating some layouts and I had an order for some wedding cards, which I will share with you over the next few days.

The 12 x 12 paper is from Trace and is double sided and is called Grandmas Attic.
One side is stitched and the other side has snaps on it. If you click on the photo it will enlarge it and hopefully you will see the detail.
Circle was cut on my Cricut and then coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in;
walnut stain
old paper
tattered rose
and peeled paint.
Organza ribbon in ivory and olive.
Coloured brads from Making Memories.
I used a Japanese screw punch to make my holes.
The words were cut out on my Cricut using the Jasmine cartridge.

Hope you enjoy looking today's creation!

Julie

Two Rose Cards!

For today's cards I have been using my leftover bits from other cards I have been making this week. The roses have been printed from a cd by Robert Adams and then 3d. I also used my Happy Birthday embossing Cuttlebug die.


Have a great day!

Julie

My Birthday Layout

Today's layout is from my birthday.

Paper used is by K&Co. Brianna Floral Collage embossed
Quickutz cake die cut
Dymo labeling.



Enjoy!
Julie

Jake & class layout

I got Jake's school photos just before Easter so I thought I had better get on with my pages.
I have left the tittle off for the school and the childrens names.
I have to say this was a very cheap layout, a bargain really!

The paper came in a pack from Poundland and so did the embelishments. The paper is good quality, a nice weight! It is amazing what you can pick up in these cheap shops!
I also used a couple of grommets.

Adele & Jake are back to school today and I am back to work, so have a great Monday everyone!

Julie

Easter 2008 Layout

Today's layout is from Easter 2008 of Adele and Jake.

Card stock is Bazzill.
Bunny die cut from Hobby Craft.
Easter words and eggs are from Poundland.
Grommets silver, memories & together.
Grommets white, that have been coloured with a brown peel off pen and you get a nice mottled effect.
Scalloped mat cut out on the Cricut machine.
Faux stitching.


Enjoy!

Julie

Wentworth Woodhouse Layout

My Layout for Carrie's 21st!

Well I am a bit late today posting but I have been busy finishing off some of my layouts!
I have just finished my LO for Carrie's 21st birthday party that we went too.


Hope you like it!

Julie