Love is in the Air!!

Woo hoo, today we have a new challenge over at Cards Galore Encore which is Bling it up!! We are lucky to be sponsored this month by Scrappers Delights who are providing 3 digi images of your choice for a prize so come on ladies, oops and gentlemen, time to enter.  Their digis are fabulous, check them out here.

Anyone that knows me, will know that to bling it up is quite difficult for me to do as I am more of a CAS person.  I decided to make this a challenge to conquer my fears, lol and as it is February and the month of romance, red it had to be!! Here is my attempt at a glittery romantic card x

 Scrappers Delight Princess Digi 4

Coloured with Copic Sketch, Ciao and Spica Markers

Card, Ribbon and Gems from stash

I am entering this into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Show us some love

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T - Love/Valentines

Creative Moments - Anything Goes/Add some sparkle

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

Scrappers Delight - Your favourite colours

Happy New Year to all of those who celebrate the Chinese New Year and  have a fab February everyone. Hope to be back before March, lol.

Hugs Jo x

A Happy New Year to all in Blog land!!

After a long break from Blog land, I'm back and looking forward to a new venture with a great team of ladies on the Cards Galore DT.
Our first challenge of the year is sponsored by Scribble and Scrap and it's Anything goes, with a great prize of a £15 voucher.

 

Image used is a digi image called Vintage Beauty by Scribble and Scrap
Coloured with Copic Ciao, Sketch and Spica pens
Nestibilities Grand Labels 23
Nestibilities Labels 23
Martha Stewart Branch punch
Nellie Snellen Floral punch and embossing punch
Gems and card from Stash

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Anything Goes
Stamp and Create - Anything Goes
Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Hope you like it.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.

Jo x

On a roll!!

And another!! I seem to have the bug at the moment and have pushed the housework to oneside!! And what's more I am really enjoying it too. Onto todays card, this is for Charlotte for Easter. She adores elephants and her favourite colour is purple. Charlotte is not at all fussy and fancy, hence the plain and simple card! When I saw this image I just had to buy it. Can't you just imagine the amount of chocolate in this Easter Egg, oh yes please, perhaps I should send this to Cadburys, lol.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges

Cute card Thursday - Anything goes
The Teddy Bo challenge - Easter/or buttons and bows
Mad for Markers - Monochromatic March
Dream Valley Challenges - Easter


I have used a Teddy Bo Digi Image
Colured with Copic Ciao and Sketch Markers
V0000, V000, V01, V04, V05, V06,
V12, V15, V17
V20, V22, V25, V28
V95, V99
BV11, BV13, BV17, BV23
R00, R01
N0, N1, N3, N5
DP is from Nitwits Noah Too range
Nestibilities labels one and ribbon labels.
Ribbon and card from stash.

Hope you like it!

Hugs Jo x

Yummmmy!!

Not quite 3 posts in a week but getting very close. I've been trying to get more use out of my pens recently and now have a few images coloured up that need making into cards. So this is the first of hopefully many to come.
I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Saturday Challenge - Doilies aren't just for cakes
Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Sketch
Allsorts - 3 in a row, I have 3 pearls.



I have used a Digi Doodles Image
Coloured with Copic Sketch and Ciao Markers
Papers used are a Nitwits Download and Kaiser Waterberry
Sentiment is by Impression Obsession
Doily, Pearls and card are from my stash.

Hope you like it

Hugs Jo x

And another!!!

After being nagged at the retreat and told to blog my cards, I thought I had better do as I'm told so Jill here it is!! This card is the second one of the family cards that I have made recently. Daniel loves his sport and I was really stuck for his card especially as it was an 18th birthday but when I saw this stamp I just knew it was the one.

I am going to enter this into

Everybody Art Challenge - Easel Card
Anything goes Challenge - Boyz to Men
Cards for Men - Cheeky Chappies
Craft your Passion - Easel Cards



I have used one of the new Penny Black Stamps called Miniful
Coloured with Copic Sketch and Ciao Markers
Union Jack Paper was a free download from Away with the Pixels
Sentiment from Personal Impressions

A close up


A very simple easy card which Daniel loved, especially the contents!! Hope you like it too.

Hugs Jo x

Eeek, where has the year gone!!

I have just realised that this is the first blog of the year for me!! Not a good start for someone who was going to blog at least weekly! I have just had another fantastic weekend at the Milton Hill House Hotel at Steventon on a Copic Retreat, such a lovely feeling to escape with your pens and meet up with people that share your addiction!! Thanks go to Wendy at Stamps and Memories for organising it, can't wait for the next one. Anyway on to my card. We have just had 2 family birthdays, an 18th and a 21st, brother and sister. This is the card that I made for Emma for her 21st birthday.

I have used a Make it Crafty digi image called Annabelle.
Coloured with Copic Sketch, Ciao and Spica markers.
Black Gingham papers are downloaded from Nitwits.
Card is made from Grand Nestibilities Die
Fanciful Flourish by Cheery Lynn Designs
Flowers are made with Memory Box Scalloped Posie and Pinwheel Dies.


The challenges that I am entering this in are
Papertake Weekly - For the girls or Mum
Cheery Lynn Designs - Add a flourish
Love to create - About the ladies
Dies to Die for - Anything goes

Hope you like it

Hugs Jo x

Belated Christmas wishes and a Happy New Year to you all x

Well another year over and what a year it has been!! If someone had said to me this time last year that I would be out of work now, I would have thought they were on another planet!! I know that I volunteered for redundancy but when there was 32,000 of us that had to go, it was best to volunteer than be pushed. So now to look forward to 2012!!
This little card is the one that I made for my daughter, my first attempt at a side step card. I thoroughly enjoyed making this one, lots of glue and glitter, cutting and sticking and generally making a mess, lol!! There are still a few challenges left running that I can enter it into, so here we go
Sundays with Crissy - anything goes
ABC Challenge- F is for FROSTY
My Time To Craft - Winter Pals
Crafty Catz - Santa's hat
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes
The order of the Opus Gluei - I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Stamps and Fun = Creativity - Snow
Incy Wincy - Winter Wonderland
Bunny Zoe's Craft Challenge - Fancy folds/Shaped Cards


The three snowmen/lady are all High Hopes Stamps which I love
All coloured with Copic Ciao and Sketch pens
Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder
Marianne Design - tree die
Memory Box Frosty Die and Frosty Border Die
Lots of Sparkly Crystal Glamour Dust

I hope you like it

Best wishes for a Happy New Year and lots of crafting!!!

Hugs Jo x