Challenge 36, Love/Valentine.

Hello again everyone, today it's time for challenge 36 at CRAFT Challenge and this week we want you to create something with the theme 'Love/Valentine'. As I had already made my hubby a special Valentine's card and he does not like his cards being published before he has received him, I have made him another card 'Just because I Love Him'.

Hope you like it. The image at the front is from Karen's Doodles, it's the image I chose as a freebie, when she had freebies for her followers at the end of last month. Don't you think it's gorgeous? I do, she has some gorgeous images on her blog for sale and a few freebies as well.

The image on the inside of the card are from Momsemor. The papers are from Funky Fairies and some other blogs with free scrapbook kits. Hope you like the card, I'm quite pleased with it. The sketch I used is from The Crafty Pad current challenge and I will be entering this card into that challenge as well.

And this is was Karen has to say about people sharing her doodles (this image is just too cute as well, don't you think?)

Our sponsor this week is Diecut Dreams.

Hope you will be joining us again this week, we love visiting your blogs and having a look at your creations.

Challenge this card will be entered into:

ABC Challenge: N is for new (the digistamp and some of the papers are newly downloaded)

Creative Card Crew: Valentines

365 cards: day 340 Shape it up

Cute Daisy May challenge: Valentines

Diecut Dreams Challenge Blog: Valentines

Double Dutch: Be My Valentine

Charisma Cardz Challenge: I Love You!

Cute Card Thursday: Spots and Dots

Funky Friday Craft Challenges: colour challenge

Lexi's Creations: Valentines

One Stop Craft Challenge: 'Make It Personal'

Papertake Weekly: 'Love Actually'

Pile It on Challenge: To the one I love

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge: Hearts

Simon Says Challenge: Photo Inspiration

SPCC: colour combo summer sun (hearts of flowers), real red (papers and hearts), pink passion (papers and flowers), tempting turquoise (image on inside card)

Stamping for the Weekend: Love is in the Air

The Corrosive Challenge: All about Love

The Crafty Pad: Sketch

The Pink Elephant: All about Pink

Ooh-La-La Challenge: Love

This means a total of 21 challenges for one card only (22 if you count our own challenge blog CRAFT Challenge)

If you liked the image on the front of my card, please pop over to Karen's Doodles, she has some gorgeous digistamps for sale, this is only one of them.

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.

A Birthday card and a Christmas card for my mum with presents.

Morning all,

Happy Birthday to my mum first of all.

I don't know if she knows where to find my blog, so I left uploading these cards and candles till today, her birthday, just in case.

For both cards I have used an image I created myself. She has a great dog, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, called Ridgie. I only have a photo of her first one and created 2 digistamps. One is SantaRidgie and the other is BirthdayRidgie. Hope you like them. For the candles I used a picture of the kids and for the second one some stamps from the Crafty Pad.

Feel free to use my images for your personal use only, the same goes for the 3D decoupage sheets and the background papers I created with him. Please make sure you do keep my signature on the stamp though when using and do not claim as your own.

So here are some pictures of her birthday card for today. For this card I used this week's sketch from the Crafty Pad and changed it slightly to fit the A4 card and orientation I needed. I did not use one of her lovely stamps, but my own digistamp, 3D decoupage sheet and background paper on the inside(see below the views of the card). The other background papers are freebies from Funky Fairies amongst others. As I have used the sketch I am also going to enter it in this week's challenge at the Crafty Pad. Hope Debbie and her team like what I have done with it as well as my mum will hopefully like it.

One of the candles below, does use Debbie's lovely stamps.
























And the digistamp, 3D decoupage sheet and background paper used can be found here on my sisterblog 'Trimgym's digistamps and images'. All digistamps and images on my sister blog are available for free download, please do not claim them as your own, leave my signature on, use for personal use only and if you would like to share them, please direct them to my blog.





(The assembled 3D imaged looks like this )






And here are some images of the Christmas card I made for her. Hope you like them.

For this card I used 2 A4 cards, cut out the shapes with nestibilities for the swinging window. Not an easy task and much experimenting needed, but with a lot of aluminium foil and masking tape used to cover half of the die to ensure it wouldn't cut through the card where it shouldn't I finally managed. As it did leave slight indentation in the card, I covered that side with half of a cut out piece of holographic card cut out with the same die. On the inside I used my own backing paper, the one at the front is a freebie from Funky Fairies.

I must admit I like this card better than the birthday card.




























The images and papers used can be found here on my sister blog 'Trimgym's digistamps and images', of course again only for personal use and do not claim as your own.






(The assembled 3D decoupage image looks like this:)




I also created some candles for her, one with a picture of the kids on, the other with some lovely stamps from the Crafty Pad, unfortunately it doesn't come out very well on the red candle (nice and smelly as well), but I hope she likes them anyway.

Crafty Pad Challenge 46

Here is another last minute entry to the Crafty Pad challenge for this week. This is one that I made with one of Debbie's great stamps, no actually it's 2 of her great stamps. I also am putting this one in for challenge one at Lexi's creations.

Hope you like it. It is one of the 35 cards I managed to make for Christmas this week.



I really love this card. A great way to use some of the gift ribbon I bought at Aldi 2 years ago.

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

Love,

Jo.

Last minute challenge card.

Evening all.

I'm a bit late, I wanted to make a card for this week's Crafty Pad Challenge, but so far did not have much time to do so. Unfortunately had to leave it till after tea, but here it is.

I quite like it. It is using one of Debbie's gorgeous stamps and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out for a 'quickie'. Hope you like it too.





It has also been entered in Cupcake Challenge, Fabs Big Christmas Cards Challenge and Whimsy Stamps Challenge.

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

Love,

Jo.

Competition at the Crafty Pad

Hello everyone,

Have you noticed the competition that is going at the Crafty Pad? Debbie has put a free Ellie and Mo friends digitals stamp on her blog for free, which you can use to take part in this competition which runs till the 26th of October. Do have a look, it's another gorgeous stamp.


Here is my card made with the stamp. When I saw the stamp I just couldn't resist to cut the stamp in half to make it a moveable card. Hope you like it.



First I coloured the stamp with watercolour pencils. Then I cut off the top part of the see-saw.

The next step was to cut some green card with nestibilities and stick the bottom part of the see-saw on this.



Then put the top part on top of this with a brad so it could move.



Next I cut out and assembled a hinge and lever system on the back of the card which attached to the back with the same brad.



Next I attached the sentiment to the top part of the hinge part and backed it with some green card.



I then stuck double thickness doublesided foam tape to the back to attach it to the basecard, making sure that the lever could move freely.



Next the little edge of the see-saw was stuck onto the lever (only the far end) so it would move with the lever revealing the message.



I felt this would work best on that side that would lift the elephant up rather than the mouse.

It was then stuck onto some orange basecard and some little ribbon bows were added.







And hope you like the card, and now for some better pictures of it.





Thank you for looking, all comments much appreciated and very welcome. Hope Debbie and her team like my card as well.

Love,

Jo.

Crafty Pad challenge 40, a sketch

Hello everyone,

Just received some of the lovely Crafty Pad stamps earlier this week. They are gorgeous and I just couldn't wait to get around to playing with them. They have a lovely sketch for this week's challenge on and I thought I would use it for one of the many Christmas cards I need to make this year.



Here is the sketch, which was made by Maxine. I will probably be using this one again as I loved working with it.



Hope you like my card, I certainly love these new Christmas stamps. As my card was rather small I first had to stamp the image, then scan and print it. I then coloured it with watercolour pencils.

Hope you don't mind I digitalised your stamp, Debbie.

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

Enjoy your weekend (better get some food on the table now, oops!)

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.