10th Christmas card of 2010, last one for today.

Well here is my 10th one this year, a total of 33 so far. The last one for today. Hope you like this card as well.

This card is for the following challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any five Christmas cards

Double Dutch : 'Baby it's cold outside'

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

Susie and Vicki's Christmas Club : Non Traditional Christmas

Thank you for looking at all my creations. All comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

9th Christmas card of 2010

Here is the 4th one I made today. Hope you like this one as well.

I would like to enter this card in these challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any 5 Christmas Cards

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Susie and Vicki's Christmas Club : Non traditional Christmas

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

8th Christmas card for 2010

Here's in my third card for today. Hope you like it. I love the little puppy on this one. I used a sketch from Just Christmas and Birthday Cards for this card and would like to enter it in their challenge.

So, here are the challenges I would like to enter this card into:

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any five Christmas cards

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Just Christmas and Birthday Cards : Sketch

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

7th Christmas card of 2010

My second offering for today, another Christmas card I made today. Hope you like it.

This card uses an image from The Lilac Garden, hope you like it.

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

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any 5 Christmas cards

Double Dutch : 'Baby it's cold outside!'

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

6th Christmas card for 2010

Good evening all. I have spent today doing a total of 5 Christmas cards for later this year. Slowly getting towards my target of around 200 as I am now at a total of 33 (including the ones left over from last year).

Here is the first one I did today, hope you like it.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Cards : C is for Candy and Pink

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any five Christmas Cards.

Susie and Vicki's Christmas Club : Non Traditional Christmas

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Crafty Pad Challenge card with parchment.

Good evening everyone.

I did it. But only just. I wanted to make some time this week to make a card for the Crafty Pad challenge. So, after the ironing was finally out of the way this afternoon, I started on a card. For this I used my newly found hobby of parchment crafting. It wasn't easy to find a circular design to fit in with the sketch Debbie asked to follow, but I did. Just put one of her stamps in the middle of it and then started to emboss and colour it.

Hope you like it and Debbie likes what I have done with her stamp. Belinda, the flowers, even the butterfly and the grass have been embossed, it does however not show very well in the pictures.

Thanks for looking. All comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Chance to win lovely images at Tales from Pollycraft

Just noticed they have some lovely images coming out on the 4th of February, every day one lucky person will be chosen to win one of the gorgeous images. I know what I will be checking every day.

Challenge 35 at CRAFT Challenge, Paperpiecing.

Morning all on this Thursday morning!

It is time for another challenge at CRAFT Challenge. This week we want you to make a project using Paperpiecing. If you don't know how to do that or if you would like some further instructions on this, please have a look on our blog for a tutorial by our very own DT member, Julie. It is very easy to follow.

Now on to my project for this week. I have actually done 2 cards, the first is a card using my own image of a pirate with treasurechest and is some digital paperpiecing. The second is proper paperpiecing of a lovely stamp by one of our fellow DT members Claire, a cat playing with a ball, mounted onto parchment. I enjoyed the first parchment card I did so much, I decided to use it for this card as well. Hope you like it.

Our sponsor this week, is our very own and very talented Claire from Shophandmade.

So, now for a closer look at the cards, first the card on parchment.

And now the digital paperpiecing. Hope you like the image, it can be found on my sister blog, 'Trimgym's digistamps and images', here. It is free for download, but leave my signature on, do not claim as your own and for personal use only.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Looking forward to seeing you at CRAFT Challenge again this week.

Love,

Jo.

More awards for sharing.

I've now come to updating my blog as far as awards are concerned until the middle of June 2009. There are 2 awards I have received around this time, one from Rozzy and one from Maxine. Here is the one that I was given by Rozzy . Thank you sooo much!



The five people I would like to pass this one on to are:



1. Crafter's Corner, wonderful digital scrapbooking kits for free.

2. Eidle Tales, wonderful verses and stories.

3. GTC's Crafty Corner, lovely digital images and kits.

4. Summertime Designs, wonderful digital scrapbooking kits.

5. Tales from Pollycraft, lovely Friday Freebies.


Thank you all for the kits and inspiration and verses you provide, it is much appreciated, and I'm sure I'm not the only one happy you are all creating this great work.


Love,



Jo.

5th and last Christmas card for today.

Well, here is the 5th card I made today for Christmas 2010. Hope you like this one. The 3D decoupage image was found here. Hope you like it. It's again a really quick card. Wanted to have a bit of a catch up today as I had promised myself to do about 5 Christmas cards every week. I still have 23 left from last year, which means I already have 28 cards done for this year. Still quite a few left to do before December as I need around 200.

Here is the card:

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

Simon Says Stamp 'Punch It' and DT call

Christmas Cards All Year Round 'Any 5 Christmas cards' 5th card.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

4th Christmas card for 2010

Hello again, here is the 4th card I made for this year today. Hope you like it. This one has shapes cut with nestibilities and a stamp that came free with a magazine. 

Papers again are from Funky Fairies and other freebies.

This card I would like to enter in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp 'Punch It' and DT

Christmas cards All Year Round 'Any 5 Christmas cards' 4th card.

Thank you for looking, all comments are very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

3rd Christmas card for 2010.

And here is my third Christmas card for 2010. Another quickie. This one has a 3D decoupage image I found here.

The punched shapes were done using nestibilities and some background papers from Funky Fairies.

Hope you like it. I think the puppy is really cute.

This card I would like to enter into these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp 'Punch It' and DT call

Christmas Cards All Year Round 'Any 5 Christmas Cards', 3rd card done today 25th of January 2010

ABC Christmas Challenge 'B is for Bells'

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Second Christmas card for 2010

Here is the second quick Christmas card I made today, hope you like it. This one uses a Snowman decoupage image I found here. Hope you like it.

I would like to enter this card also in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp 'Punch It'

Christmas Cards All Year Round 'Any Christmas card' 2nd card also made today 25th of January 2010.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

First Christmas card of 2010. Promised myself to start earlier this year.

Good afternoon everyone,

I have just been playing a bit again and made a total of 5 Christmas cards, quickies really, the first ones of 2010.

Here is my first one. A blue basecard with 2 punched shapes (scalloped rectangle and circle nestibilities) and a 3D decoupage image mounted onto one of them. A cute cat sleeping under a lamp. I found this cute image at Monica's 3D sheets. Here are a few views of the card, with a close up of the 3D image at the end.

Hope you like the card, it is very simple, but the image is really cute.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge 'Punch It'

Christmas Cards All Year Round 'Any 5 Christmas cards', this is the first one of the five, done today (Monday 25th January 2010)

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

My second parchment card.

Evening everyone,

I have just finished my second parchment card today. This was set as a challenge/task on trimcraft by one of our fellow members, who is trying to teach us how to do parchment craft. I must say, I'm in danger of getting hooked. For this card I used a free pattern from here. It is meant for a gatefold card, but I felt it was a bit of a waste of good parchment and therefore used it as the front cover of A4 card. For the centre I used a digistamp from my fellow DT member Magda on CRAFT Challenge. Hope you like it.

I think that will be enough views of the card. Hope you like it. Thank you for looking, any comments are very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.