Hugs

Good morning all, it's Leap Day today, an extra day to work or play lol. Unfortunately I have to work but I'll try and play when I get home ;o))

Today's card is another that I coloured for the Kathy Racoosin 30 Day Colouring Challenge. We enter on Instagram, have you had a look yet?

I used a poppy stamp that came free with a magazine last year and coloured it with Copic markers. 

Then I coloured a piece of plain white card with the same markers that I had used for the flowers, and die cut the word Hugs from it. 

I really like the gradient effect that you get by colouring the card yourself. The die is by Lawn Fawn.

Then I finished the card off with a few puffy stickers in coordinating colours.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Challenges

I thought I'd share a couple of challenge entries I've made this week.

The first card is being entered into Scribble and scrap crafts challenge 27 - anything goes.

This is my second entry and I may just do a third lol!

The image is Give Big from Saturated Canary.

The second is another Mojo Monday - this time number 362.  This is the sketch.

I chose a very simple stamp for this which I coloured with Distress Markers.

I also entered "In these shoes" into the Clear and Bright challenge at http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

That's all from me today.  I'm off to London again today and tomorrow, so not much time for crafting - boo!

TTFN Jude xx

Pirate Lovejoy

I'm taking part in more challenges.

I'm entering this one for a couple including over at crafts4eternity.blogspot.co.uk (R#193 ~ Favourite colour combo)

Guess what mine is??

I love red and black.  It is such a strong combination but still fits with lots of my images.

This one is another Saturated Canary image called Pirate Lovejoy.

The papers are all from my stash and everything is layered on an 8 x 8 fluted blank.

I've even decorated the inside :0

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

P.S. I'm also entering this into:

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Harriet

Well the weekend has started early for me.  No work as I have a stinking cold and I'm barking like a dog hehe.

I sat and coloured a few pictures while feeling sorry for myself yesterday and made one up into a card.  What do you think? 

This is Harriet Hearts by Krista Smith at Saturated Canary.  I think she's such a cutie!

I coloured her with Promarkers and she turned out really well.

The card is going to be entered into the Facebook challenge....Sketch...

This is the sketch............

Quite straight forward, isn't it?

I used pink and purple papers to match my colouring then cut a few embellishments from lilac card.  

The hearts are three layers decoupaged to give extra dimension.  

The backing paper is a purple paisley from K & Company and I've added dark purple ribbon across the centre.  

Harriet is matted on some more K & Company paper that brings all the colours together.

I like how she turned out and you never know I may just win a couple more digis to add to my collection ;)

TTFN Jude xx

Mojo Monday 329

Morning again lovely people.  Hope you are having a fabulously crafty week.

I've recently started looking at some of the challenge blogs and particularly the ones with a sketch to follow.  I'm finding it quite difficult to come up with ideas at present!

Anyway a few weeks ago I stumbled across Mojo Monday.  They have some fabulous sketches and the ideas from the DT are so inspiring.  This weeks sketch featured a circle and I just happened to have a circular decoupage topper I made up (just because....) so it seemed fate was telling me to make a card for this week's challenge lol.

Here's the sketch....

...and here is my card.  What do you think?

It's not brilliant and I should have used a different green card stock.  I chose this one because I am also trying to use up my scrap box!!  It has a ridiculous amount of 'scrap' in there.  

I've actually sorted this out and got rid of the rubbish!! I might have a long way to go lol ;)

So that's today's card.  Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Turquoise and orange - why not!

Good morning, hope you are all having a good start to the week. Let's hope this nice weather keeps going its been lovely to have a bit of sunshine over the weekend. 

For today's card I have tried a new colour combo (for me that is lol) turquoise and orange! Yes I am the one that is daft enough to give it a go and do you know what? I kinda like it lol.

 

 

I was looking for a colour to co-ordinate with the turquoise and I came across this orange paper in my stash and just though why not? I knew I had some other orange bits and pieces so I went for it and this is how it ended up.

 

 

The image is Jules from Saturated Canary coloured with Spectrum Noirs. I cut her out using Spellbinders Labels 29 and inked through the die with some Broken China Distress Stain. I embossed a couple of pieces of Coredinations card one in a dark turquoise and the other in a deep orange with a butterfly embossing folder, then I cut them out with the smaller version of the same die and used these to mat behind the image. The orange flowery paper I cut using my brand new dies :o)) I love them lol. They are the Spellbinders Grand Decorative Labels One! this is the next to biggest size. I also used it to draw around and cut out the turquoise backing card by hand.

 

 

I added the little bird cut with the Sizzix Tim Holtz Caged Bird die and some fretwork from my stash. The flowers I cut out of some orange organza with the Sizzix Tattered Florals die. I held the layers together with tiny brads and then gave them a blast with the heat gun to shape the petals a bit.

 

 

 

 

I finished the card with a little metal tag and some orange striped ribbon from my stash and inked around the edge with Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink.

 

 

What do you think? Hope you like it too, thanks for stopping by today. 

See you soon

 

xxx

I am entering this card in to the following challenges:

http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/stamp-n-doodle-challenge-29th-may-so.html

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/simon-saysanything-goes_29.html

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/sketchie-free-for-all.html

 

You know when you start something then you wish you hadn't bothered.....

well that's how I feel about today's project! But more about that in a min, good morning all, hope you are having a good weekend. I am going to get as much crafting time as I possibly can this weekend. I am having serious withdrawal symptoms since going back to work and old Mr mojo seems to be taking a break too :-( so I'm going to spend some time in the craft room and just hope I can tempt him back lol. 

Anyway, this is the culprit of the title. A bracelet I started making for the May challenge over at Beading Friends Forever.

I have undone it and started again more times than I care to remember. I didn't remember to take photos to show you though. But believe me, at one time it very nearly got thrown across the room lol.

 

I do like the design though it's an embellished ladder stitch. As you can tell my very first attempt at one! And probably my last :-) I got suckered in by all the beautiful examples by the design team and thought I'd got to have a go!!!! When will I learn that these great big sausage fingers of mine are not meant for tiny detailed work lol??? Me and seed beads do not get along lol.

But, it is now finished and although not perfect by any ones standards, I do like it. And I got it submitted to the challenge just before the deadline!

 

 

What do you think? Hope you like it too. Thanks for stopping by today. 

See you soon

xxx

Fairy card or (Things with wings)....

It's the name of a challenge lol. But I really liked it so I thought I would steal it for my post! Hope you are all well today, really hoping the rain stays away for the weekend and we get some good weather again. 

 

Anyway on with today's card. This image is from a stamp set by Docrafts. It's the Midnight Fairytale collection, and the first time I've used them! I started with the image and coloured it in with promarkers and flexmarkers. Then I cut it out with scissors. The olive coloured card is an off cut I had from a 12x12 piece and it just happened to work for this card. 

 

 

I cut an aperture in it and put the fairy image behind it on to a 6x6 plain white card blank. Then I used feathered ribbon down the left side and lots of flowers from my stash for the right. The top flower is a crocheted base (thanks Mum xx) with a metal flower on top. I only had one of these so I really neeeeeed some more (hint hint) ROFL.

 

All it needed to finish off was a couple of butterflies and a simple sentiment.

 

I had to put this image in too as it shows one of my very nosey cat's trying to get in the pic lol. She wouldn't move out of the way, she was fascinated by the feathers!

Anyway hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by today, see you soon. 

 

xxx

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

 

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/simon-says-things-with-wings.html

 

Anything Goes Challenge #92 - Shaped but not Square

Morning folks.  Jude here to share another challenge from Anything Goes.

This time we would like to see shaped cards but........ not square!  So hearts, circles, diamonds, rhomboids, dodecahedrons - you name it you can enter it, but just remember for the purposes of this challenge square is NOT a shape lol x

I love shaped cards but don't often make them, so this has been fun for me to do.  I searched Pinterest and on't tinterweb for ideas and finally came across a baby card I loved. 

Now this is also well timed as my friend Claire was due to give birth last week.  You'll be pleased to know that baby Ines was born safe and healthy just after 8pm on Sunday 5th May.  Only a week late but we'll forgive her :) Can't wait to go see her and have lovely new baby cuddles, just need to get over to Marple some time soon.

 

Now we didn't know what flavour little Ines was until she showed her pretty face but I felt I should make a little girl card for the challenge.  Happily I can now send this to Claire and Nico.  Had Ines been of the male variety I would have made another version in the appropriate hues ;)  I think her big brother Noah wanted a boy but I'm sure he'll get over it.

 

I started by tracing my bottle shape on to an 8x8 card and cutting it out.  I then chose some sweet papers I found in my stash to create the different parts of the bottle.  A sentiment, some bits of ribbon and a couple of charms and voila - a cute little card for a new born.

I really enjoyed this one.  Hope you like it too.

TTFN Jude x

Little Mermaid....

Good morning, and happy bank holiday Monday. Jen back again today, not bad is it? only 2nd week back at work and we have a holiday already! I could do with more like this lol. Nice long weekends should be made compulsory I think ha ha - if only....

 

Anyway on to today's card, and this one is definitely a cutie. I know it's another of the Bestie images, but I did warn you! once I like something there's no stopping lol.

 

 

I started with the image and coloured her with my Spectrum Noir's and Promarkers. Then I cut the image out with the largest of the Spellbinders Labels 29.

 

I found this beautiful aqua blue flowered paper in a little Webster's Pages 6x6 pad and I thought the colour was lovely with this image. I teamed this with some Core-dinations Card in a darker turquoise blue and layered them on to an 8x8 fancy card base.

 

I used an adhesive lace to go around the edge of the card and then placed the topper to the left side. Then I went around the edge of the topper with some blue sequins. They look really lovely when they catch the light and remind me a bit of water. So I thought they would fit right in on this card.

 

I used a couple of chipboard shapes for the top right and bottom left corners, and then embellished the rest of the card with some sea themed bits and pieces from my stash.

 

Then all it needed was a flat back pearl to sit in the shell with miss mermaid, a few turquoise gems here and there and a ready made sentiment to finish it off.

 

Hope you like it.

 

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you can come back soon.

 

Take care

 

xxx

 

I am entering this in to the following challenges:

 

http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/stamp-n-doodle-challenge-1st-may.html

 

http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-88-anything-goes.html