Forever Friends Challenge!

This week's challenge on the Forever Friends is
St Patrick's Day and I have chosen to go for the colour green.
I have used a lovely Forever Friends decoupage bear holding daisy's,
green Prima flowers,
green card,
background paper is from Craft Creations SR055P green meadow butterflies.

Thank you for looking!

Julie

Daisy and Dandelion Challenge!

This weeks challenge on the Daisy & Dandelion blog is
New Beginnings.
So mine is for a New Friend!

Stamp & papers from Daisy & Dandelion collection.
Prima flowers, brads, glitter glue & pink organza ribbon.
The image is coloured with the above Copic Ciao pens.

Thanks for looking!
Have a great evening.

Julie

Tuesday's Class Card!

Stamps; PSX rose K-023, Rubber Stampede small
rose A2184C & Hero Arts Flower S1234.
Inks; Colorbox fluid chalk ink pads blush rose, pink pastel, black stazon & versamark.
Card; three shades of pink card stock & watercolour card.
Paper; rose paper from a CD Cherished Moments The Garden by Chris Warner.
Other; pink organza ribbon, watercolour crayons & glitter glue.

Hope you enjoy looking at the card.

Julie

NEC!!

My day at the NEC yesterday was fantastic!
We all had a great day, saw lots of demonstations so I picked up a few ideas.
As usual spent to much but hey you can't take it with you!
I don't drink or smoke so this is my pleasure and I am pleased to say
that I never used my plastic little friend. I was tempted at one bit, it was a new machine
like the craft robo which connects to the computer and can cut chip board but it was over £400,
I thought no way, I have a Cricut Expression and I will stick with that.

This is what I bought!
8 pots shimmering iridescent watercolour paints
pallete of pearlescent watercolours
3D crystal lacquers
labels one nestabilities
6 sheets of unmounted stamps
4 woodmounted stamps

and the following I did not photograph!
5 sheets of Penny Black stickers
7 rolls of the red backed doublesided tape
5 tubes of photo glue
box of card
3 magazines
templates
and a craft mat for heat embossing which protects your work surface.

see you tomorrow!

Julie

Forever Friends Challenge!

This weeks challenge on Forever Friends is this sketch.

Background paper, greeting, decoupage Forever Friends range.
Ribbon & lace from the market.
Prima flowers.
Peel off dots.

Thanks for looking

I might not get chance to post tomorrow as I am going to the
NEC and I can't wait!!!!!!!!!

See you soon

Julie

Thank you!

I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who wished me Happy Birthday
the other day.
This is a photo of Kevin & myself before we went out for our meal
and we had a lovely time!
I thought I would show you a photo of some flowers I had.
Did not get any craft bits for my birthday but I got shoes, clothes, money,
lots of chocolates and a padded laptop tray.

Julie

Happy Birthday To me!!!

Evening everyone!

Sorry no cards today as it is my birthday I thought I would have a little break.
Been very busy the last couple of day with work, book fair at school and starting to make
plans for my very first workshop in a few weeks time.

Keep popping back to my blog as I am going to have some blog candy!

I have had a lovely day, lots of nice presents & cards.
Kevin took me out for a lovely meal and we have just got back.
Battery going so I will have to go!

Julie

CupCake Challenge 29 Inspiration

This weeks challenge on the cupcake challenge blog
is an insperational picture.
You can make anything but your inspiration must come from the picture.
Colours. theme ect.

I have gone for colour white, yellow and a hint of green.
I have added stamped curves to the card and embellished them with
peel off sparkling dots.
Also I am trying out for the design team, I have never been on a DT before
and I would love to be.
So I am going to keep my fingers crossed!

Happy crafting!

Julie

This weeks Class Card!

This is my card for this weeks class, shaving foam technique.

Stamps; Elegant stems C8412 Stampington, script 2429J Judikins, mesh
AC/6/05/C Stamps to your arts content & Moments Remembered D3047 Hero Arts.
Card; Main card white, white glossy, black, silver, pink & D/lilac.
Other; Shaving foam, dye inks in plum, orchid,
olive & violet.
Corner pocket punch, peel off dots, peel off pen in purple.
Lilac & purple organza ribbon.
Stippling brushes, rose coral & lavender chalk ink pads.

This is a fun and messy technique to do, I hope you all have ago!

Have a great day, see you all tomorrow!

Julie

Forever Friends Challenge!

This weeks challenge on Forever Friends blog is
St. Davids Day for our theme, we can use the colour or the wording.

I have gone for the colour yellow & green as I have daffodils in my bucket.

Forever Friends decoupage image.
12"x12" paper is from Craft Creations Ltd. SRO53P green meadow buttercups.
Yellow ribbon from the Range.
Prima flowers.
Flower brad from Woodware.

Julie

Daisy & Dandelion Free Download!

Morning everyone, hope you all had a good wekend!

Today's card is made using the free download from Daisy & Dandelion challenge blog.
I also used;
brown card, cream card, zooms, Prima flowers, a brad, brown organza and
a cream panel which I embossed with my Cuttlebug writing embossing folder.

Happy crafting!

Julie

CupCake Challenge

This weeks challenge on cupcake is a sketch challenge.
Here is my card!

Paper; birthday stripes from PSX, stars from Hot of the Press.
Card; light & dark blue Bazzill Basic, silver & white main card.
Stamp; pocket stamp FRQ005 Woodware.
Other; peel off siler dots & blue buttons, eyelets and die cut teddy.

Thanks for looking!

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

Silver Wedding Anniversary Card!

Good morning everyone!
I see the weather has changed again. It has gone quite cold here and
very windy. I nearly got blown away going out to my craft room.

Today's card was made for Kevin's brother & his wife as it was there
Silver Wedding Anniversary yesterday.

The template came from Arty Farty Design.
I really had great fun making this card up and it did not take
to long to create.
I had to make the box deeper to take my card as it sticks out a long way.
Then to stop it from tipping over I stuck a metal washer out of sight on the inside of the back of the card.

Hope you enjoy looking at the card!
Have a good day.

Julie

Forever Friends Challenge Black & White

Today's card is for the Forever Friends challenge which
this week is Black & White!

Card; white & black.
Paper; spots from Diecuts with a view.
Stamp; FFS 9061008 G.
Ink Pads; Black Stazon & white colorbox.
Other; White Prima flower, brad, peel off stickers,nestabilities rectangles,
grey & pink Copic pens.

I love making these style of cards at the moment.

Have a good day everyone!

Julie

Penny Black Challenge Card Get Well!

I am pleased to say I have my Penny Black challenge card made
early this week.
It has also inspired me for my class card for next week. I can't believe it,
I am in front for once!

Card; main card ice gold, burgundy, pale pink & watercolour card.
Stamp; Penny Black 2003 2657K Framed Flowers.
Paper; foliage & butterflies from Magenta.
Peel offs; boarder & Get Well Soon.
Other; Prima flowers, pink liquid pearls watercolour crayons, glitter,
nestabilities rectangle plain & scallop & corner rounder.

Enjoy the rest of your day, whatever you are doing.

Julie

New Look!

Oh my I have just taken the plunge to change my blog
what do you think?
The background & header came from Deb's blog.
Not sure how to or if I can change the side bit from pink to blue.
But if anyone can help please let me know!

I will be putting a card on soon!

Julie

Kitty & Tabby!

Evening everyone!
Hope you all have had a good day.
The weather has been wonderful today, can't believe the change.
I have been busy making some cards which I will share with you all
over the next few days.

I took these two photos of Kitty & Tabby while the where sunning themselves
on the landing this afternoon.
They do not normally get this close to each other, so of
course I had to take some photos!

See you all tomorrow!

Julie

Penny Black Challenge Card Sketch!

I am a bit late with this weeks Penny Black challenge.
Not totally thrilled with my card but when you have spent time colouring in the image you have to used it!
Forgot to say it was a sketch challenge.

Julie

UTEE Tile Card

Today's card was inspired by a sketch challenge I took part in a while ago from Christmas & Birthday cards.
I decided to make my card larger and to make my image in to a tile using UTEE.

Rubber Stamp; leaf from Rubber Stampede, verse from Stampendous.
birthday greeting from Hot Off The Press.
Card & Paper; Cream, chocolate brown & gold cs. Basic Grey paper aged & confused circus stripe.
Punches; 1"and 1 1/8" circle punch, 1 1/2" scallop punch.
Flower punch & sun punch.
Other; UTEE, black Stazon, red organza ribbon, watercolour crayons, cuttlebug embossed
writing folder & creamy brown chalk ink pad.

Thanks for looking & have a great day everyone!
We are off to the pictures now.

Julie

Cards and Creativity: Challenge Forever Friends...Happy happy birthday.....

Cards and Creativity: Challenge Forever Friends...Happy happy birthday.....

Beautiful card!

Julie

Forever Friends Challenge General Birthday!

Here is my card for this weeks challenge on the Forever Friends challenge blog.
Using my favorite colours lilac & pink.
I love this image it is so cute.

Have a great evening everyone!

Julie

No Cards Today!

Wow where has the day gone!
I am sorry to say that I have no cards to share today.
We have been babysitting Amelia who is 4 for the first time.
We have had a nice day but I sure am tired!
It is amazing how quick you forget what it is like having young children in the house.

Now I need to get my bag packed for tomorrows class.

Bye for now

Julie

Forever Friends Challenge!

I though I would take part in this weeks Valentine challenge on the
Forever Friends challenge blog.
I used some more of my heart paper from Shabby Princess.
Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder.
Red ribbon.
Red peel off dots.
Red chalk ink pad.
Red & white card stock.
Red zooms.
Felt pens.
Diamond glaze of the heart.

Hope you enjoy looking at my card.

Julie

Penny Black Challenge Card Romance

I really enjoyed making this card for the Penny Black challenge for this week!

Stamp Tulips in bloom.
Ribbon red organza.
Card stock white, red & black.
Cuttlebug script embossing folder.
Ink black Stazon & red chalk.
Peel off stickers with love & red dots.
Background paper red with hearts & swirls is a free download from Shabbyprincess.
Red heart brad.

The image is watercoloured, then I added a bit of glitter to the flowers & the corner
of the pail.
After I coloured the heart on the bucket I added some diamond glaze.

Hope you enjoy looking at my card!

Julie

Another Amaryllis Card!

Morning everyone!
Today's card is using up some leftover bits from my Amaryllis card class
that I shared with you last week.
I kept it nice and simple, no layering of the image.
I used my Versamark ink pad and a feather stamp on the main card, not sure if you will be able to see this but it looks nice in real life.

Have a great day everyone and happy crafting!

Julie

Penny Black Challenge Card!

I have just found the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog so I thought I would have ago at there circle card challenge for this week.

I cut my circle scallop card with my Nestabilities die.
Then stippled with pink chalk ink.
Added some sparkle circle dots and a bow.
I used my Nestabilities circle & scallop dies to cut out a white, black & pink circle.
Stamped my image on to the white card
and then coloured with my Prismacolor crayons.
Layered the circles up and mounted on to my card using sticky pads.
Then I added a bit of glitter to finish of the card.

Thanks for looking!

Jakes just come home from school (lunch time)
as the school is now shut. We are going to have some lunch then his friend is coming round to play in the snow!

Julie

Snow Layout!

This is my first scrapbook layout for a while.I must admit I love to scrapbook but I seem to have lost my mojo.
The other day I bought a copy of Scrapbook Inspirations and found a layout by Mary Anne Walters which gave me the push I needed to create this layout.

I used white cs for the background.
A piece of snowflake paper.
A panel of white cs which I coloured using direct to paper technique with pigment inks which I then embossed with clear powder. If you click on the picture to make it large you should see the detail better.
Snowflake & snowman stickers.
Winter ribbon.
Snowflake brads.
The word snow has been cut on my Cricut, I then inked the lower half of the letters with white ink and then embossed with clear powder.
The journaling block is a rubber stamp from Stampendous.
The photograph was taken on Monday afternoon of Jake & Joseph in our back garden after the school shut for the day.

Well it has been snowing for hours today and Jake has had to go to school.
So he was not a happy boy this morning.
I now need to find out whether I have to go to work or not.

Have a great day everyone whatever you are doing!

Julie

Oh no I have just realised my N is the wrong way round in snow.

Teddy Bear 5th Birthday Card!

Good morning everyone!

Well the snow is finally melting and everything is back to normal
so I can get on with some crafting.
Today's card I from a download witch I bought from
Polly Crafts it's the girly teddy bear & numbers and is so cute!
The idea for the card came from a sketch off the internet but I can not remember
from which blog I got it from.
When I do I will post a link here.
I love the image and the layout of the card but I am not sure about the colours.
I hope they will grow on me.
I coloured the image with my Promarkers.

Have a lovely day whatever you are doing.


































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Amaryllis Class Card!

This is last weeks class card.

Amaryllis stamp from Rubber Stampede.
Verse stamp from Stampendous.
corner punch.
Black Stazon.
Versamark.
Watercolour crayons

I really love this flower stamp and I think this
card shows you can make a nice card using
only two stamps.

The image is watercoloured and I have four layers
altogether.

I have stamped around the front pink panel
and the insert using my Versamark ink pad.

I added some glitter to my flower to finish it off!

Hope you enjoy looking at my card.

Julie