Birthday Boy

What a week!!! Lots of short days at work because Tango has been poorly. In case you don't know, Tango is a big ginger cat, the softest, cuddliest cat you could ever meet!!! We think he had been poisoned. I was so worried, that I was getting up in the middle of the night to see if he was OK, bless him. I hate seeing poorly animals especially when it is your own. So off to the vets we went, our vet is about 2 minutes drive from us and Tango cried pitifully all the way there and back as he hates the car!!!! Thankfully he is on the mend and been a very spoilt boy!!

Anyway today I have made this card, just noticed that the buttons look wonky but it is how it has been photographed, really not one of my better skills!!! I love colouring this image but am still not sure what colour monkeys are!! The card papers are a lovely aqua colour but have turned out grey again must get a better camera!! I am entering it into a few challenges,

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Cute Card Thursday - Boyz to Men

Stampin for the weekend - Card for a male

Saturday challenge - 3 Embellishments, 2 papers and 1 image

Sophisticat challenge - Card for a child

Simon Says Challenge - Birthday, celebrations

Image is High Hopes Open Ark

Daisy and Dandelion Sentiment

Coloured with Copic Ciao and Sketch Markers

DP is Nannas Nursery Baby Boy

Oval and Ribbon Labels Nestibilities

Nellies Multi frame

Ribbon, card and Buttons from stash

Hope you like it

Hugs Jo x

Yay, I'm back!!!

Don't hold your breath, but I think Mr Mojo may be returning!! An invite by Wendy of Stamps and Memories to visit for the evening and her cheeky comment below and lots of really encouraging emails from Marianne plus all the lovely comments that you have all left has finally done it!! I had a lovely evening with Wendy yesterday and decided to colour this gorgeous new image that I bought a couple of months ago, lots of chat and tea and she was coloured before I knew it!! I then raided Wendys stash and this is what I came up with!!

As it is my first card in a while, I thought it had better go in a lot of challenges, so here we go:

Sophistcat-Open challenge green, lilac + one,flowers

Crafty Cardmakers - Spring into spring

Crafty Catz - Spring

Allsorts - Spring is in the Air

Sketch Saturday

One stop craft - Let it shine

Secret Crafter - Spring has sprung

Sweet sketch Wednesday

Simon Says Challenge - Spring Easter

Papertake weekly

Stamp is Mimosa with flower basket by Bildmilarna, I just love these stamps

Dovecraft Sentiment

Coloured with Copic Markers

Nestibilities labels

Martha Stewart around the edge punch

Nellie Sneddon Small and large flower and embossing punch

Martha Stewart Branch punch

Papers are from the Alison Ellis Baby Girl Range available from Stamps and Memories

Pearls, Card and Ribbon from Stash

I hope you like her!!

I hope to catch up with you all soon, I am off from Friday until after Easter so am hoping to get some serious card making and blogging done.

Take care everyone, be back soon

Hugs Jo x

Two Cards and lots of challenges!!

I'm not going to apologise for not blogging etc as Marianne will tell me off!! I have managed a couple of cards over the past couple of weeks but nothing worth blogging really. I have gone through a real low but am hoping that I am back on the way up and can get back to creating something half decent!!

The first card covers the following challenges and probably a few more but here goes:

Spoonfull of Sugar -1 Paper, 1 embossing, 1 button and 1 Ribbon
Copic Colour Challenge - R29, RV23 and B12
Cute Card Thursday - In the name of Love
Friday Crafty Cats - Buttons and Bows
Crafty Cardmakers - Digital Delights
Simon Says - Whats love got to do with it
Pink Elephant - Mushy Gushy Valentine
By the Cute and Girly - Love

Phewwww!!

Digital Image by Mo Manning, Belle and Bronte Freebie
Sentiment is from a Hero Arts Set
Coloured with Copic Pens:
E15, E17, E18, E30 and E50
YR0000 and YR00
W00, W0, W1, W3, W5 and C1
R0000, R00 and R29
B0000, B00 and B12
RV0000, RV00 and RV23

Paper is from Papermania Raspberry Champagne Collection
Nestibilities Square, Square Scalloped and Ribbon Labels
Cuttle bug Dotty Embossing folder
Glossy Accents
Card, Button and Ribbon from Stash

The second card I originally coloured for the previous weeks Copic Colour Challenge but didn't get my act together in time but it does fit in with the following:

Papertake Weekly - Sketch
Sophisticats - Tartan

Image and Sentiment are from Kraftin Kimmi - Tree Fairy
Image coloured with Copic Pens
Paper is DCWV My Mind Eye Bloom and Grow
MS Doily Punch
Nestibilities Rectangle, Scalloped Rectangle and Ribbon Labels
Glamour Dust
Card, Pearls and Raffia from Stash

Well folks, I hope you like them and I'm off now to visit some blogs to see what wonderful creations you have all made.

Hugs Jo x

Very quick post!!

This is a quick simple card that I have made as a Sympathy card. I hate making these cards and always use this lovely stamp, it is so versatile serves for Golden Wedding cards, birthdays, anniversaries in fact most occasions as well.

It fits four challenges, well I think it does!!

My time to craft - Elegant Rose

Sophisticat Challenge - Mum, Miss You, Tribute

Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Lovely sketch Ladies

Copic Colour Challenge

Stamp is another of my gorgeous Leigh Hannan Stamps by Impression Obsession called Victorian Rose

Sentiment is by Papermania

DP is Papermania Exquisite E0000, E00, E02, E30, E31, E33, R00 and R02

Coloured with Copic Pens

Clear Spica Glitter Pen

Martha Stewart Daisy Border Punch

Cuttlebug Stylized Flower Folder

Nestibilities round and scalloped round

Bazill Linen Card

Pearls from stash

Hope you like it

Hugs Jo x

Merry Christmas

Firstly, I would like to wish all my followers and everyone in blog land a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, as I think this may be my last post before Christmas or else it is not going to happen in this house!! I would like to thank everyone for their kind comments and encouragement that you all give me and for helping me with my confidence. Thank you all so much!!

Secondly, conservatory update, it's not going to be this Christmas, that's all I am going to say as I am so disappointed!! But to be fair the weather has been against us since we started.

Now down to this card, it's Hubby's Christmas card!! As he is a fanatical fisherman, how could I resist this stamp!!

I can enter this one into the Sophisticat Challenge Xmas theme - Anything goes

and Simon Says Challenge - Merry Christmas

Image is High Hopes Fishing Santa

Sentiment is Cuddley Buddley

Coloured with Copic Markers

Spica Glitter Pens, Crystal, green and red

Papers are DCWV

Nestabilities Circles and Round Scallops

Crystal Glamour Dust

Card and charm from stash

I hope you like it!!

Hugs Jo x

Another forgotten birthday!!!

Another card I can hear you say, another forgotten birthday more like!! I hate this time of year, the birthdays start at the end of October and go right through to January!! Being a right misery now aren't I!!! Sorry, stressful week hence the number of cards!! Conservatory update - we are up to damp course level, slow but sure but the weather has been atrocious and I have been told that you can't build in the rain so there is just no hope!!! I'm really convinced now that completion date is next Christmas, am so glad that I didn't agree to the storage in the living room!! Well on to todays card, this one is for the Copic Colour Challenge and I have used the sketch from the Sophisticat Challenge

This is one of my new stamps, I have always loved her and have now treated myself.
Sugar Nellie Elizabeth Bells Daisy, she is an absolute joy to colour.
I have used Copic pens as follows:
E00, E11, E21, E31 and E50
YR0000, YR00, YR02 and YR04
YG00, YG03, YG06 and YG11
Y21 and Y28
RV21 and RV23
C-1 and R20
Spica Clear Glitter Pen
Swirl Cuttlebug folder
Martha Stewart Border Punch and leaf punch
Nesties Labels Two (I think)
Not sure of the sentiments that I have used, sorry
Don't know what the paper is, sorry again
The flowers are made out of punches that are sets that emboss too ,but I have thrown the packaging away, sorry again but I got them from Wendy at Stamps and Memories!!
Gems, cards and brads from stash.

Hope you like her, she is my favourite stamp ever!!!

Hugs Jo x

I have now taken another photo in the daylight not perfect as I had to nearly stand on my head to do it, trying to get the light from the kitchen window!!! Excuse the stuff behind it on the worktop. Still when I get my new conservatory ...................................

One Card, three challenges

This is the most glittery card I have ever made!!! If ony you could all see the real thing!! I just love glamour dust!!! I have been missing out so much having only just discovered it.

Love, love, love it!!

This little cutie is going into three challenges:

High Hopes challenge this week is Snowflakes

I have used the sketch from Sketch Saturday

Sophisticats is buttons and ribbon

I hope you like her!!

I have used one of the fab High Hopes Snowladies stamps, they are all so gorgeous and coloured her with my Copic markers with lots of glamour dust to add just a tadge of sparkle!!

Paper is from the Christmas Blue Collection from Dovecraft

Labels Four Nesties

Hobbycraft Snowflake punch

Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch

Ribbon, Buttons and card from stash

Back later

Jo x

A whole week's gone by!!!

Oh dear, where has the week gone, am so sorry I just haven't made contact with the craft room for nearly a whole week and then it has taken me two evenings to make this card!! Not good!! Well our week, old conservatory has finally come down, wall has been knocked down, bricks and building materials have arrived. And all been carried through the house as we have no back access to the garden anymore, all one thousand bricks by wheelbarrow. Good job I'm a patient wife!!! And guess what, Hubby has got himself another job!!! Good news, be it only temporary until Christmas, but what about my nice new conservatory (summer craft room)?? I suppose the bricks will be there for a long while now, oh well, I can always put some plant pots on them in the summer!! So folks, watch this space ...................

Anyway this card that I have made and am actually going to use, fits in with a few challenges. I've totally lost track so hope I'm in time for these!!

Sketch Saturday challenge 74

Crafty Catz challenge 5 Buttons and Brads

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 83 Candy Corns

SophistiCats week 8 Pink, Brown and Flowers

Magnolia Tins and Tilda with Lolly Stamps

Sentiment from Woodware set

Black Tuxedo Momento Ink pad

Coloured with Copic Ciao, Sketch and Spica Pens

Deckled edge rectangle Nestibilities

Martha Stewart Doily and Leaf Punch

Flowers are Hobbycraft and Prima

Papers are Papermania

Glitter, Card, brads, buttons and pearls from stash.

Now off to visit all your lovely blogs

Jo x