Time for tea

Hello peeps.  Hope you have a fabulously crafty weekend planned.

As Jen and Alan are away I have been home alone the last two evenings.  You would think that means undisturbed time to make a mess in the craft room, but NO!!  My mojo is definitely still on holiday and I've had to drag myself in there to make today's card.

As I couldn't think of what to do I fell back on a favourite layout style and a digi stamp I coloured a few weeks ago.

This is Mad March Hatter from Time for Tea Designs.  I used papers from American Crafts called My Girl and layered them with blue cardstock.

I added a ribbon and some pink bling then was stuck for what to do in the top left corner.

In the end I went with a bunting die from La La Land Crafts and gave it a bit more sparkle.

I'm pleased with this but I hope Mr Mojo returns before it's my turn to share again lol.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Lily May

This is the last of the cards for Lily's birthday last weekend.

The image is a Time for Tea design and I'm really pleased with the shading on this one.  I can see improvement in my colouring, but still a ways to go yet.

This is a die we received as a freebie a while ago.  It is quite versatile and it certainly gets put to use a lot. 

So there she is.  A pretty card for a pretty girl.

TTFN Jude xx

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

Colour me beautiful - complete

Hello bloggers :)  

On Monday I promised to share the full card I made with Country Mama, and here she is.

I think this card turned out really well.  I love the soft pinks and brown - it just works lol!

The papers are a mix of Santoro "If Only" and Grace Taylor "Vintage Elegance".  They tone beautifully.

I chose a soft polka dot paper to mount Mama on and she stands out pretty well.  

I mounted all the papers on brown coredinations card, wrapped one with brown ribbon, and added a Tattered Floral cut from burlap.

So there she is - all finished and looking lovely.

TTFN Jude xx

Ice cream Friday

Good morning all hope you are having a good week. 

Today's post is a card that I made last weekend. I started colouring the Time for Tea Designs image with Distress Markers but the skin went far too dark! So I switched over to Promarkers to try and rescue it. 

It didn't end up too badly, she just has a really good tan lol. But it's the best I could do.

I cut her out by hand and then used some of the Jennifer Ellory paper pad that Jude had used to make the layers. All matted with Centura Pearl blue card. I included a couple of pieces of patterned ribbon and a bow.

I added some card letters to the right side to spell lovely. Then stamped the birthday greeting at the bottom with pink ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Hope you like it. See you soon, take care. 

xxx

Get well

It's FRIDAAAAYYYYYY!!  Only today to work then I can relax in the craft room for the weekend lol.  I won't get all weekend in there as there are things to do and places to go, but I intend to do something :)

The card I'm sharing today is for my nephew Daniel's girlfriend, Staci.  She had to have a minor operation yesterday so I've made her a get well card.  What do you think?

The image is another Lili of the Valley Art Pad, and this one shows two of Staci's favourite things - shoes and bags :)  She is definitely a girly girl lol 

The paper is a piece I've had in my scrap box for ages and I thought it very appropriate.

The sentiment is stamped with pink pigment ink covered with glitter.

A simple but effective little card.  I'm pleased with this one.

Here's hoping Staci likes it.  TTFN Jude xx

Betty

Hello again. Thanks for visiting.

I have another card using the differing shades of pink I used on my card on Tuesday.  This time I took a stamp from Acid Drops and What Nots to produce my image.  I like how amusing their stamps are.

I coloured Betty in shades of pink and used grey for her hat.  (I don't know why but it said grey felt to me lol)  This was then mounted on more of the Tina Higgins papers.

I started with an 8 x 8 card blank and added a piece of floral paper, then some pink Centura Pearl and used a Tonic punch on the bottom edge.  The waste was used to edge the bottom of the card.

 I wrapped the cardstock with dusky pink ribbon and set it slightly off centre on the card blank.  

 The sentiment is part of the same stamp set.  I stamped it on plain card stock coloured the edge and cut it out free hand.  It was then raised on some foam pads.

I made up the corsage using various paper die cut flowers and some different styles of ready made flowers.  The whole piece is wired together underneath then attached with silicone adhesive.

So what do you think?  Does Betty pass muster?  I really like this and hope you do too. 

 TTFN Jude xx

Tuesday 14th January

Hello again.  Thank you for stopping by today.

I was quite productive over the weekend and sketched out several cards I want to make.  This is the first one.  I took an A4 sheet of pink centura pearl card to create an A5 card blank.  This was topped with a piece of hammered cream card.

I used the Papermania Red Hot Paper Pack by Tina Higgins for all the papers as I really like the dark pink shades.  The banner layer has a script through the floral.

I stamped a dress image on to three different papers.   Once they were cut out I layered them over each other on to some pink centura pearl and cut a skinny matt around them.

 I had some cardstock flowers in similar tones and thought these would work as embellishments along with some pink silky crush ribbon and two hat pins.

 The sentiment is a wooden stamp we've had for ages but I love how it fits with several types of card.  I matted it onto more of the centura pearl.

 So what do you think?  Will it pass??

TTFN Jude xx

Sunday 12th January

Morning again.  Isn't it cold??  I don't think I've been warm since last August lol.

To warm me up I decided to use some warm colours on my card for today.

What do you think?  The topper was the inspiration for the colour scheme.  Unfortunately Mr Blogger is playing about with the photos and keeps turning them around for me.  I couldn't get this one to play so you'll have to turn your head instead rofl!

I layered teal card with two different pink papers to bring out both colours in the image.  They are quite busy but I like them.

I love paper flowers and these seemed just right along with the ribbon and bow.  Jen took an idea from a magazine and made twirly bits with the wire flower stems.  I really liked the look of them on yesterday's card, so copied her.

The sentiment is from the same Hunkydory set as the topper image.

I added pink pearls to the corners and called it finished.  I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by.  TTFN Jude xx

The last one.....

 

 

Jen is recovering from her sickness but now I'm feeling distinctly icky.  Hope I'm not coming down with it next!!

I promise this is the last of Jen's birthday cards!  I'm going to have to make something else this week lol.

This card actually started life quite differently.  In the summer I made a batch of cards for my granddaughter.  This one didn't get used so I recycled it.

I started by removing the sentiment which was on foam pads.  This left a mark which had to be covered and so dictated where the flowers were placed.  These are big blooms from Docrafts Vintage Notes collection layered with smaller paper and ribbon flowers.

We have quite a bit of lace in our stash so I found some that matched quite nicely and used it to frame the card.

I finished it off with a tag sentiment hung from one of the pearls. 

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

 

Substitute

Morning all.  Yes you've got me again.  Jen is really unwell at moment with a horrible bug which had her in bed for quite a while.  She's up and about again but very tired because the illness has taken a lot out of her.  Please send her your prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery. 

It does mean though that I get to bore you with yet another of her birthday cards lol ;)

You can probably guess this one was for our parents to give Jen!

I took another hÄnglar image and coloured it with Promarkers.  I then cut it out close to the image and mounted it on some pre-printed cardstock from my Hunkydory stash (it's going down very slowly)!

I printed some Pink Petticoat and home made sentiments then cut them out with spellbinder tag dies.  This one has inked edges to pick up the teal blue colours.

The usual paper flowers finish it off.  What do you think?

Take care dear readers, until next time.  TTFN Jude xx