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

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