Some more blogcandies to be looked at.

Morning all,

I've just been doing some blog hopping this morning and came across some lovely blog candy.

Have a look at this:



This great candy is available on Inky Impressions Challenges
and runs till the 7th of October. Definitely worth checking out I think. I would just feel sooo very lucky if I would win, but chances of this are slim as there are lots of other people entering (as is to be expected, LOL). Good luck to all that enter!

And there is some further candy to look at. The following candy can be won at Papercrafts by Rach and consists of some Whiff of Joy goodies with nestibilities and a further stamp. Would also love to win this one if I could. Good luck to all! (open till later today)



You can find even more candy at Crafting Life's Pieces. This one is open till the 29th. Good luck!



For a look at the stamps available look here. I'm sure you'll agree they are lovely.

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 18, no backing paper

Hello everyone,

For challenge 18 at CRAFT Challenge our brief is: no backing paper. So, let's see your projects. We can't wait. Have a look at the creations of the other members of the DT, they are absolutely fabulous and mine can be seen below.





For this week our sponsor is the lovely Debbie from The Crafty Pad, and she is donating this lovely stamp for the winner (drawn by random organiser).







And here is my offering for this week.



It is a card I made for one of my son's friends who is a Robin Hood fan.

For this card I used an orange base card.








The target embellishment I made with some string, wrapping it around itself quite some time and sewing it the layers together as I went.












It then ended up looking like this.


The next step was to colour the centre red with some whispers.


After this it was time to create the arrow. I got a cocktail pricker for this and cut it in half, then glued a little piece of string to the blunt end of it with superglue.



This was then stuck into the target and stuck onto the card with some silicone glue.

For the 3D image I used a Robin Hood image from the BBC and printed a few times to create this step-by-step image.



Feel free to use it if you like for personal use only, but remember that the image is not mine, but has just been edited to 3D step-by-step by me.

The image was then assembled using silicone glue.



Next it was put on the card and a sentiment added. For this card I felt the sentiment. 'Hope your 11th birthday will be right on target!' would fit well. Hope you agree.

The young man this card was intended for was very pleased with it and his mum also thought it was a great card (not used to much I'm sure).


Looking forward to your creations and interpretation of this challenge, I hope there will be loads of people taking part again this week as well. It is a fab prize up for grabs!

Here are some more close ups of the card.







Thanks for looking, all comments are very welcome and much appreciated as always. Have a good weekend and happy crafting!

Love,

Jo.

More Blog candy!

Hello everyone,

First of course I will tell you about some blog candy my dear friend Claire (fellow DT member for CRAFT Challenge) has on her blog at the moment. She is a very talented lady, who does some lovely digistamps that she sells in her own shop Shophandmade. Definitely worth a look. The candy she has up for grabs is shown below.

Next, Fliss is having some fabulous blogcandy on her blog at Stamperschef as well.

, some of her very own unmounted stamps especially designed for Hobby Art Stamps

Do go and check it out! I'm certainly hoping to be in a chance with winning.

Love,

Jo.

Sheffield Wednesday birthday card.

Hello everyone,


Hope you are all enjoying the weekend.


Over here the birthday season has started again! Party invitations are arriving once more and parties to go to. My youngest has his birthday today (7 already) and had a party to go to today as well for one of his friends.



This is a Sheffield Wednesday birthday card for one of my youngest's class mates. He's a big fan.


I quickly put this card together this morning, just in time before the party.


It is a card with a moving ball, revealing 'Goal' as a message. (using a penny slider system)

And here is how I made the card.

First I found an image on the net to use for 3D adaptation. You can find the step-by-step 3D image here (this time only 4 layers). The image is not my own, but I have edited it to form a 3D image.

The next step was to put the image together using sillicone glue as you can see here:

The next step was to get a square piece of green handmade paper, cut a piece of sturdy card slightly smaller than this and attach it to the back of the handmade paper.

The next step was to cut out a football shape, cut out some sturdy card slightly smaller than the football to strengthen this shape and stick them together as well as cutting out 2 one pence sized circles stuck together again to be the counter part of the penny slider system.




Following this I made the goal, 3 strips of white handmade paper stuck together (7mm wide and 3 (3.5 for horizontal one)cm long.



Then stuck this to the green handmade paper top left corner.

I next put the footballer and the ball on top of the card to measure where I wanted the football to start and end and marked the slit for the penny slider on the handmade paper.

After this this was cut out.

The football was turned upside down and a very thin strip of doublesided foamtape was attached to the back, thin enough to fit comfortably in the slit in the card. The card with handmade paper was put on top of this upside down, with the foamtape sticking through. The penny sized circle was then attached to this and I doublechecked the slit was wide enough over the full length.


Next I got a piece of stiff card and held it in place to the back,
ball in lowest position, to fit comfortably onto the penny. I marked this point and then marked another line about 1cm higher. Then cut the card to size and fitted the words 'pull here' at the very top.

Time to then stick this card on the bottom of the pennyslider with doublesided sticky tape. I next moved the ball to the top position and in this position added the word 'GOAL' to it just above the edge of the handmade paper.


Now attach some doublesided foampads to the back of the handmade paper and attach to the base card (making sure the pennyslider can move freely)and add the footballer.


Add the Happy Birthday sentiment and done!


Hope you like it.



Thank you for looking.



All comments are very much appreciated and very welcome.



Love,



Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 17,Colour combo pink and brown.

Good morning all,

It's time for Challenge 17 at CRAFT Challenge this week. You can see my DT entry next to this. One of my first Christmas cards this year. You can see how I made it below.

This challenge is sponsored by , who will be putting the prize up for this challenge. She is offering these lovely prizes for the winner of this week's challenge (drawn by random organiser):






To make the card you will need a square pink card (13.5x13.5 cm).

Next print of some lovely free backing paper from the 'Merry Christmas Everyone' range from Funky Fairies, cut them to size (10x10cm pink and 10x3.5cm brown) and attach the brown on top of the pink.





Stick this piece of backing paper to the square card:

Stamp the lovely Teddy on ball stamp from The Crafty Pad on some pink holographic paper and carefully cut it out.

Then also stamp it onto some brown handmade paper and cut it out.

Following that also cut off the ball of the picture.

Stick the brown bear on top of the holographic picture and you get the image above.

Then stick it onto some of the pink backingpaper cut out to a circle with nestibilities.

Add a brown rectangle and add the circle to get the next picture.

Add some sparkly stars and the card is nearly finished. Now all that is needed is the sentiment (this time I made it: Teddy found it hard work to decorate the Christmas Tree) printed onto pink rectangle of card, layer onto a rectangle of holographic silver paper with stars and add to the card.

Done!

Hope you like the card. I love it. I'm also going to enter it in 2 other challenges as well as it being my DT entry for CRAFT Challenge.

1. The Crafty Pad where the challenge this week is to Let's see some Christmas sparkle and ribbon.

2. Allsorts Challenge from which I used the sketch.

Thank you for looking, all comments are very welcome and much appreciated. Hope you are all well and will be joining us in this pink and brown challenge.

Love,

Jo.