Card for 3rd UK Karen's Doodles Challenge.

Evening all,

Here is a last minute card for Karen's Doodles UK challenge. I was lucky enough to win 3rd place last week and have been able to choose one of her gorgeous images as a prize. Wow, I'm just so pleased with that. I have chosen a Christmas image, but for this card (this challenge is a sketch challenge) I have used her newest freebie 'Girl With Flowers'. Hope you like it. I have again used freebie digital papers from a collection of free blogs. The image has been coloured with paints.











Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. (You wouldn't believe the problems I have had getting the pictures to appear in this post. I don't know what's up with blogger tonight, even on some other blogs the pictures seem to be missing tonight)

Love,

Jo.

I'm Guest Designer for One Stitch At A Time this week!

Hello everyone.

I have some lovely news to share with you this week. I was lovely enough to be drawn as the overall winner for One Stitch At A Time a few weeks ago and this came with 3 great prizes:

1. GDT for 1 week for One Stitch At A Time.

2. Choice of a digistamp from the Stitchy Bear Shop to use on the project for the GDT project. I have chosen Easter Lillie with Tulips from Lexi's Doodles.

3. 5 digistamps of choice from Sew Many Cards, who were that week's sponsor.

So, time to get down to this week's challenge at One Stitch At A Time. This week the brief is to make a project for Easter, a lot of challenges have this brief at the moment it seems. I just did one for CRAFT Challenge this week as well.

Here is my card. As said, the digistamp is from Lexi's Doodles. The papers are freebies from Alexe's Creationz, BlueVelvet DeZigns and With A Russian Dutch Heart. Hope you like it.

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

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 43, Easter

Thursday morning and another challenge at CRAFT Challenge again. Hope you will join us again this week.

This is something I don't do much of, making Easter cards, but that is the challenge this week. To make something with the theme 'Easter', very topical obviously at this time of year. Easter is only a few days away.

This week our sponsor is Craft Obsessions and they are donating 6 promarkers of your choice for the randomly chosen winner. So, get those entries in, who doesn't want to be in with a chance of winning that? I certainly would be (especially as I have none so far).

So, over to my card for this week. For this card I have used a freebie digistamp from Karen's Doodles, from her PCP group. It is called Easter Puppy and I think it is really cute. The papers are also digital freebies from BlueVelvet DeZigns, With A Russian Dutch Heart and Alexe's Creationz. Hope you like it. The sketch is from a sketch challenge over on Trimcraft set by our fellow trimmie Rozzy, thanks Rozzy.

The great news is that Karen's Doodles NL challenge blog is also running an Easter card challenge this week. This card will therefore also be entered into their challenge this week again as well. Leuk, dat jullie weer langs komen meiden! Alle reakties zijn zeer gewaardeerd.

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Looking forward to seeing your interpretations of this challenge.

Love,

Jo.

Card for Karen's Doodles UK Challenge

Evening all,

Here is a card I have made for Karen's Doodles UK Challenge using Easter Puppy from Karen's Doodles. Hope you like it. Although I don't really tend to do Easter cards as a rule, I really enjoyed making it. The sketch is from a fellow trimmie Rozzy for her sketch challenge over at Trimcraft. The papers I used are from Alexe's Creationz, With a Russian Dutch Heart and BlueVelvet DeZigns.

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

Love,

Jo.

Card for second challenge at Dutch Karen's Doodles Challenge blog

Morning everyone,

A little last minute, but here is my card for the second challenge at the Dutch version of the Karen's Doodles Challenge blog. This week their challenge was 'Bling en Glamour' with of course one of the Karen's Doodles images used. I didn't have a lot of time over the last week, but here is my card for this challenge in the hope that I might be one of the winners of some of Karen's gorgeous Doodles.

For this card I have used 'Flower Bear'. And papers from Sparky's Scratches. Hope you like it. The sketch I used has been loosely adapted from one provided by my fellow trimmie Rozzy for her sketch challenge at Trimcraft.

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

En voor mijn Nederlandse blog bezoekers: Leuk dat jullie weer langs komen, alle reacties zijn zeer gewaardeerd! Ik kijk al uit naar jullie volgende uitdaging!

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 42, Nursery Rhymes

Morning all,

This week at CRAFT Challenge we have a very special challenge for you. This week's sponsor is Your Special Delivery and Gina has given us her latest digistamp to work with. It is depicting several nursery rhymes and we felt it would be ideal to therefore make this challenge 'Nursery Rhymes'.

For this card I used the said digistamp, which I coloured with waterpaint. I had to doublecheck what the colours and their order in the rainbow are with my eldest to make it as true to life as possible. I then searched for the text of some of the rhymes I could recognise on the web and added those to a nursery rhyme background I found. The other backing papers are actually misprints from a paperpack from Sparky's Scratches, a Christmas freebie tartan in red and green, but due to ink running low on the cartridge came out in these gorgeous colours instead. I have scanned this one for future use, you can't look a given horse in the mouth now, can you?

I then added some extra details from the recipe challenge at One Stitch At A Time: 1 ribbon, 2 backing papers, 2 brads or eyelets. 1 of the brads used has gone through the ribbon to hold it into a bow shape.

On the inside of the card I repeated the backing paper from the front. I edited this in Corel Photopaint to add the lyrics of the nursery rhymes again as well as a birthday message for my youngest nephew. This is a very early birthday card for him as he does not have his birthday till November!

As I used the recipe from One Stitch At A Time, I will also be entering into their challenge this week. Who knows, I might just like this week, win again and be in with a GDT spot. I'm really feeling very honoured with that.


Also entered into Charisma Cardz Challenge: kids

Stamping for the Weekend, monochromatic

Well, hope you like my card, looking forward to seeing all your entries. (Sorry to all who tried to look at it earlier and thank you for Ei for letting me know. The pictures somehow fell off the post)

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Have a great weekend all!

Love,

Jo.

Card for Challenge at UK Karen's Doodles Challenge Blog and Trimcraft Sketch Challenge.

Morning all,

A very quick action here before I leave for work. Just quickly put this card together for the Anything Goes Challenge at the UK Karen's Doodles Blog. I have used a sketch provided by Rozzy on Trimcraft. I have used Bigsby Juggling for this card as well (as well as for the card I made for the Dutch Karen's Doodles blog).

Hope you like my take on it.

I am also entering this card in the Stamping for the Weekend, monochromatic challenge.

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

Love,

Jo.

Last minute challenge card for Karen's Doodles Dutch Challenge Blog.

Evening everyone,

Hope you are all well. I really wanted to try and take part in the first challenge at Karen's Doodles Dutch Challenge Blog. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time these days, so it was a bit of a struggle to find time. But, I did manage. The first challenge is asking us to follow a sketch, and a lovely one at that. I have had to rotate it a little to accomodate this image from Karen's Doodles, a freebie I got from her SNR or PCP group. A lovely one I'm sure you'll agree. It's called Digsby Juggling and I have coloured it with paints. Hope you like it.

So here are a few views of the card.

I'm also entering this card into the challenge at Inky Impressions, Think Green.

and Stamping For The Weekend, monochromatic.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Have a good week everyone, and to my Dutch fellow crafters at Karen's Doodles: Leuk dat jullie langs komen, ik kijk al uit naar jullie volgende challenge.

Love,

Jo.

Second Card for CRAFT Challenge 41, Citrus

Morning everyone, time for the next CRAFT Challenge again. This week our challenge is to create something using Citrus colours. Our sponsor this week is Sunshine's Stamps. Go and have a look at their great stamps. For this card I have used a freebie from

The papers are from Summertime Designs.

Hope you will be joining us again at CRAFT Challenge this week. We are really pleased to see so many fabulous crafters joining us each week. 150+ again last week, wow!

This card will also be entered into the following challenges:

Caardvarks: Photo inspiration

Funky Fridays Challenge: Spring

Allsorts Challenge: Just for men

Creatalicious Challenge: Create a Little Something

Creative Inspirations Challenge: Male card

Creative Card Crew: Celebrations

Cupcake Craft Challenge: Flower Power (the backing paper has butterflies and flowers)

Delightful Sketches: Kids

Double Dutch: Boys Only

Inky Impressions: Think Green

Kaboodle Blog: Happy Birthday

Color Chef Challenge: Yellow, Green, Brown, Cream

My Time To Craft Challenge: Kidz Cards

Ooh-la-la Challenge: Anything Goes

Pile It On Challenge: One Colour and a Neutral

Polka Doodles: Wings

Scrappy Frogs Challenge: Challenge Yourself, I don't usually use yellow, not one of my favourites.

Stamp Something: Something Girly

Stamp With Fun: Spring

Stamping For The Weekend: Monochromatic

The Creative Cottage Challenge: New (papers and stamp)

Charisma Cardz: Butterflies

All comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 41, Colour challenge: Citrus

Morning everyone, time for the next CRAFT Challenge again. This week our challenge is to create something using Citrus colours. Our sponsor this week is Sunshine's Stamps. Go and have a look at their great stamps. They have given us a choice of 4 of their lovely stamps to work with for this challenge. Hope you like the one I have chosen.

The papers are from Summertime Designs. The image from our sponsor this week Sunshine's Stamps.

Hope you will be joining us again at CRAFT Challenge this week. We are really pleased to see so many fabulous crafters joining us each week. 150+ again last week, wow!

This card will also be entered into the following challenges:

Caardvarks: Photo inspiration

Funky Fridays Challenge: Spring

Allsorts Challenge: Just for men

Creatalicious Challenge: Create a Little Something

Creative Inspirations Challenge: Male card

Creative Card Crew: Celebrations

Cupcake Craft Challenge: Flower Power (the backing paper has butterflies and flowers)

Delightful Sketches: Kids

Double Dutch: Boys Only

Kaboodle Blog: Happy Birthday

Color Chef Challenge: Yellow, Green, Brown, Cream

My Time To Craft: Kidz cards

Ooh-la-la Challenge: Anything Goes

Pile It On: One colour and neutral

Polka Doodles: Wings

Scrappy Frogs Challenge: Challenge Yourself (don't usually use yellow)

Stamp With Fun: Spring

Stamping For The Weekend: Monochromatic

The Creative Cottage Challenge: New (stamp and papers)

Charisma Cardz: Butterflies

All comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Second entry for There's Magic In The Air

Hello again,

Here is my second card for There's Magic In The Air, this is one that is using the free stamp provided for this challenge. Hope you like it. The digistamp has been coloured with watercolour paint.

These are the challenges for this card:

There's Magic In The Air, sketch

Allsorts Challenge: Just for Men

Creatalicious Challenge: Create a Little Something

Crafty Creations: One Colour

Creative Inspirations Challenge: Male card

Creative Card Crew: Celebration

Cupcake Challenge: Round and Round

Double Dutch: Alleen voor jongens/Boys only

Lexi's Creations: Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time: Purple and Pink

Sew Many Challenges: Let's Hear It For The Boys!!

The Creative Cottage Challenge: New (papers and stamp)

All comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

There's Magic In The Air Magical Monday Sketch

Good afternoon everyone,

I have just made some cards for the There's Magic In The Air challenge today. I have used a free image they have provided for this first (and also for the second) card. Hope you like the cards, they are following their sketch as well.

Other challenges for this card:

Creatalicious Challenge: Create a Little Something

Charizma Challenge: Fairies

Creative Card Crew: Celebration

Cupcake Challenge: Round and Round

Inky Impressions: Think Green

Lexi's Creations: Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time: Purple and Pink

Ooh-la-la Challenge: Anything Goes

Stamp Something: Something Girly

The Creative Cottage Challenge: New (stamp and papers)


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

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 40 - Mother's Day/Flowers

Good morning again everyone on this Thursday morning. It's time again for a new challenge at CRAFT Challenge this week and it is number 40 already. This week we are looking forward to Mother's Day later this month. Our brief therefore is to create a Mother's Day project or one using flowers for those of us that don't do Mother's Day cards.

Our sponsor this week is our very own Claire from Shop Handmade and she is donating a lovely collection of crafting goodies, you will be able to see those later on in this post.

And here is my card for this week. One that was made a bit last minute as I had a rather busy week and weekend.

Hope you like it.

For this card I used papers from Summertime Designs and the gorgeous little bear is from Karen's Doodles, I absolutely love her work, she is very gifted.

And here is what is up for grabs this week:

I'm sure you'll agree, a lovely prize.

Other challenges for this card:

Creatalicious Challenge: Create a Little Something

Colour Create Challenge: Red, Black and Off White.

Creative Card Crew: Celebration

Cupcake Challenge: Round and Round

Cute Daisy May: Mother's Day/GDT spot

Inky Impressions: Think Green

Lexi's Creations: Anything Goes

My Time To Craft: Just For Mum

One Stitch At A Time: Purple and Pink

Ooh-la-la Challenge: Anything Goes

Stamp Something: Something Girly

The Creative Cottage Challenge: New (papers and stamps)

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Have a good weekend everyone!

Love,

Jo.