Alvin Stardust!!!

We went to see Alvin Stardust tonight at the Rotherham Civic Theatre and had a fantastic time!!!!

I took a few photos so I am going to do a layout which will go on the wall in my living room.

He signed a couple of photos for me and he is really nice and down to earth to chat to!










I don't think I will sleep tonight as I still feel over excited!!!

Julie

Thank you ladies for all your kind comments and for those of you that like my hair.

Snowflake card

Today I have made a snowflake card using a lovely sketch form Annabananas blog.
I really enjoyed making this card and I will certainly use this sketch again!
You should pop along to her blog and have ago!

Enjoy!

Julie

Wiff of Joy Guest Design Team Call

I Have made this card using sketch 27 as my entry for the guest design team call.

To enter the Guest Designer Call, please make a brand new card, project or scrapbooking page following any of my sketches. You can use any stamp brand you want. Just post your creation on your blog with a link to the Whiff of Joy Guest Designer Call and comment on this post providing a hyperlink to your entry.

If you click on the image you might be able to see the detail a little better. I have added some glitter to her boots and bikini.

Diamond glaze to the baubles and I used fluffy stuff & glitter on her boa.

Thanks for looking! Julie

Two More Patchwork Cards!

I really love these patchwork cards, they are so easy to make.
I just love this blue!
What do you think?



















Have a great day everyone!
Julie

Patchwork Cards!

Hi everyone, I thought today I would show two very simple cards that I have made!
All I have used are pre-printed paper, white peel off, ribbon, prima flowers, zooms and small round metal embellishments that I bought from Tesco




cheap, in January.



Hope you enjoy looking at these cards!
Julie

I've Been Tagged!

I've been tagged, looks like I'm it!
Thank you to Leona for tagging me!

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

OK so here goes a little about me:

1 I love peanut butter & banana sandwiches
2 I hate bad manners
3 I am really behind on my scrapbooking
4 I am afraid of spiders & mice
5 I am going to see Alvin Stardust next week
6 I love to have burgundy hi-lights in my hair
7 I love music from the 60s & 70s

I think that enough about me!!!!!
Now to tag seven others and to let them know!

1 Debby
2 Gwen
3 Marge
4 Caz
5 Janette
6 Jenny
7 Lauren



Bye for now!
Julie

Santa Hats!

Today's cards have used one of my favourite stamps! a santa hat. Some hats have been glittered and others have got fluffy stuff on.
I have made several of these cards as they are easy to make.
To date I have managed to make 60 cards!
Only another 40 to make.

Thanks for stopping by!
Julie

Label Card & Envelope

Today's card is one I made for a class that I had last week.

Labels
Stazon black
Acetate
Wire
White black & lilac card stock
Watercolour crayons
Black bottle top
PSX Hydrangea stamp
Wisteria chalk in pad
Versamark ink pad.

Hope you enjoy looking at today's card!

Julie

Edited Note
Thank you girls for all your lovely comments on this card!

It did not take to long to make, I just have fun creating until it looks how I want it to.
Transferring the labels to the card is quite easy, all I used was some Magic-Film. It's a low tack adhesive film used for masking, fixing brass stencils, transferring the negative section of peel offs and of course labels. The sheet is the size of a peel off sheet and you can re-use time and time again! Hope this helps everyone!

Penny Black Girl & Magenta Stockings!

Here are two cards that I have made for my class this Thursday morning.

The first card,
Penny Black Kiss Me stamp
Black Stazon
Red, Yellow & Green felt pens
Glitter for the sleeves & dress bottom
Red & green threads
Coloured cs
Organza ribbon
Red chalk pad
Merry Christmas stamp DeNami
Green holly backing paper (unknown).




The second card,
Cream, gold & red cs
Gold & red Organza ribbon
A selection of patterned paper
Fluffy Stuff
Glitter


Hope you enjoy looking at the cards today!

Happy crafting!

Juie

My Last Flower Card!

This is my last special flower card I have to show you. I have been looking for this photo for ages and managed to find it today. I made the card in 2003 for a Christening.
I love all the different shades of pink and I think it is my favourite card.

I will be sharing some Christmas cards with you all from tomorrow.

Have a great evening!

Julie

Wentworth!

We went to the Farmers Market yesterday and I bought some lovely apple & pork sausages, preserves and vegetables. Then we went for a walk to look for conkers, I did say to Jake that I though it was a bit early but he did find some in the wood.

Julie

Second Black & White Wedding Card

As promised here is my second black & white wedding card.
I used black silk flowers, feathers and ribbon.
Wired stems with pearls attached and clear stars.
White ribbon, white feathers, silver leaves, white cs, black & white rose paper, white cs embossed with dots.
To have and to hold.... wedding verse stamped and embossed in white on black cs.

I have to say that this was a fun card to make.

Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Silver Wedding Card

I have another one of my "special" cards to show you today. This was a commissioned card for a Silver Wedding Anniversary. I really love making these card!

Oh what a miserable day, it's raining again! What has happened to the sun?

I must say it is nice having the house all to myself again and having some "me time". Adele is enjoying collage and Jake is also enjoying his new school. I am still busy making Christmas cards and today I am going to put the finishing touches to my second black/white commissioned wedding card. I will share that later on in the week.

Happy crafting everyone!
Julie

Golden Wedding Anniversary Card

I made this card for a Golden Wedding Anniversary last week. I really enjoy working with satin flowers and netting, it makes a nice change.

The weather here is awfull today, it's not stopped raining all morning.Oh well looks like I will just have to spend the whole day crafting!!!!!!

Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Back to school!

Well the day has finally arrived and Jake has gone back to school. I think he has been looking forward to this day. Doesn't he look smart in his new uniform? We had to have the traditional first day of school photo despite all the moans and groans! He has gone from a school which had about 400 children to a school with just over 2000, it's a large school!
Adele started college on Monday and she is doing a two year Art & Design course and I went back to work yesterday.

I am busy making my Christmas cards at the moment and I would like them all finished and ready to post on the 1st Dec Uk and Nov over seas.

Oh no it looks like it is going to rain yet again!

Have a good day!
Julie

Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers #24

I have just joined Sisterhood of the blogging stamper group 24, check it out there are still places left to join.

So a little about myself for the other members to see, my name is Julie and I live in South Yorkshire UK. I am married to Kevin and we have four children, carl 23, Scott 20, Adele 17 and Jake 11. I have been into crafts of some sort for most of my life. I came across rubber stamping about sixteen years ago and I am totally hook. I also love scrapbooking which I have been doing for about three years. The crafting had to take a back seat for the last two years as I have had a craftroom built and finally moved in in October 2007. I am looking forward to spending lots of time in my new room.
I have taught cardmaking classes at shops and at home for over 5 years which I enjoyed. Now I am teaching card classes at school for parents and I do classes in peoples homes once a week.

Looking forward to getting to know my new sisters!

Julie

Our Robot!

As promised here is a photo of Jake with the robot we made last week while doing the family learning course at his new school.
We have two motors to make it move and a light in his red gun.
It was a fun week!

See you soon
Julie

Dog & Poinsettia Christmas Cards!

I just love making these pyramid decoupage
cards. The one with the little dog on is for Kevin's brother and his wife and the poinsettia is for my mum.

See you again soon!

Julie

Snowman Card!

I started making my Christmas cards a few weeks ago, so I thought I had better start showing you them before I forget about them.

I have a lovely cd which I purchased off ebay, so I can create the lovely pyramid decoupage cards which I love making!

Thanks for looking!

Julie

Rose Card For 40th Birthday

Good evening everyone!

Well today's card is a decoupage rose for a 40th birthday.
I must say that these cards have been very popular with people. I normally never make the same card more than once so everytime I make this card I try to make each one a little different.

This week I am doing a Family Learning course with Jake at his new school. The aim is to get them to make some new friends before they start school in September. I think Jake is quite looking forward to going to a new school. Anyway to get back to the course, we are making robots and I must say it is fun!
I am just colouring some tin foil with some alcohol inks to cover part of the robot with. I will try and get some photos and put them on here Friday evening.
Bye for now Julie.

*Magnolia Challenge 32* Cold as ice...

This weeks challenge over on the Magnolia blog
is Cold as ice..... and here is my take on the challenge!

Main card is blue pearlescent.
Let it snow background paper from Paper mania.
White cs has been embossed with the snow flake die. Then edged with a blue chalk ink pad and glitter glue added to the raised bits.
I did a bit of masking to get the two images together.
Glittered the tree stump.
Coloured in front of the tree stump with blue chalk ink pads to create a water effect.
I then covered this with Diamond glaze to create an icy look!
Added some button snowflakes, Prima flowers with zooms for the centres and some ribbon.

Hope you enjoy looking at the card.

Julie

Black & White Wedding Card

Today's card is a commissioned black & white wedding card.
I have never made a black & white wedding card before, so this was a bit of a challenge for me.

At first I was not sure if I liked it but it has grown on me.

The background paper has been printed from a wedding CD.
The stamped images have been embossed.
I have used black & white organza ribbon together.
Added some black glitter to the cake.
Used my black glaze pen on the hearts & ribbon.
Coloured peel off dots black with peel off pens.
Coloured corner brads black with peel off pens.

Now I have to design another black & white card for the parents of the bride.

Hope you enjoy looking at the card!
See you tomorrow!

Julie

I am back!

Goodness me, it feels sooo long since I blogged!
It has really been hectic around here, what with the summer fair at school,
our Anniversary and holiday and then our family holiday!
But now I am back and I can get some crafting done.
I have really missed spending time in my carftroom and also keeping my blog up to date.

Tonight the card I am going to show you is one I made for Kevin for our Anniversary.

As Kevin likes steam trains, I decided to make a photo card using one of my photos from our holiday at Wells-next-the-sea.
This is the steam train we went on from Holt to Sherringham.
I have to say he was delighted with the card!

Happy crafting Julie!

Dungeness

Dungeness is an unique landscape with wooden houses, power stations,
a miniature railway line, two lighthouses and expansive gravel pits.

This is the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch miniture railway.

This is the old lighthouse which we climbed to the top.

This is the new lighthouse which is operational.

This is the walk way across the gravel pits to get to the beach.

See you tomorrow!

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