CRAFT Challenge 96, Inspiration Picture.

At CRAFT Challenge we have an Inspiration Picture for you. This gorgeous picture was provided to us by our lovely team mate Kevin, thank you Kevin!

Our sponsor this week is Sew Many Digital Stamps and they are offering 5 digital stamps of choice from their shop for the winner this week. I was lucky enough to play with one of their lovely and cute images 'Bear Feeling Sick'. The papers are from Toucan Scraps, her Pink 'n Green papers.

I really like how this card turned out. I just got my crochet needle out and did the border and flower to fit in with the Inspiration Picture. Hope you like it.

And here is the Inspiration Picture I mentioned.

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

Love,

Jo.

A card for Toucan Scraps and Delightful Inspiration.

Here is a quick card I made this evening using the free image from Designed2Delight for the challenge at Delightful Inspiration. I thought this would make a great Get Well card. The papers are from the Kicking Leaves range by Toucan Scraps, new for October. Hope you like it. Unfortunately the picture isn't very good, too dark here at the moment and didn't have an earlier chance to make this card.

and here is a better picture of it:

Love,

Jo. (will make a better picture when the light is back)

Get Well card for Challenge

Good afternoon everyone!

I have just finished a Get Well card I'm going to use in the latest Funky Fairies Challenge.

Here is a quick view of the card. To make it a little different from usual I put it in a octagonal shape. Hope you like it.

For this card I used a 'Just Teddy with flower' from The Crafty Pad (http://thecraftypad.blogspot.com/) stamp, coloured with some pastels and cut out. Then layered it onto yellow oval shaped card (using oval nestibility in Big Shot), layered onto scalloped pink, then purple card (nestibilities again).

This was then mounted onto an octagon of paper 28 of free paper pack 4 of Funky Fairies (http://funkyfairyinspirations.blogspot.com/), layered onto paper 25 of free pack dmaddon1 of Funky Fairies.

There are two further views of this card below.

Thank you for looking, I hope you like it.

Love,

Jo.

Get well card for my mother

Good afternoon all,

I've finally managed to get back online again. I've had some trouble earlier in the day and had wanted to update you on my latest card earlier. Well, here it is finally.

My mother is just recovering from a flu-like illness and I understand she is having a minor operation today. I thought it would therefore be a good idea to send her a Get Well Soon card.

For this card I have used some decoupage and background papers from the Lilac Garden (a link is on my blog). I have had to slightly edit and resize the background papers a little to fit the purpose. I have also made an insert/background for the inside of the card and both are also displayed below.

The base card measures 17x12 cm (17x24 if folded out) and is made to be a swinging window card. Two were cut out to this side to enable this.

I really liked how this worked out for the birthday card for my mother in law.

Due to the decoupage image used for this card, it was a bit more tricky to cut out the window for this one. I hope you like the card, there are several views of the card below.

This is a view from the front, the cat is carrying a basket with some fruit and some Vitamin C as well as a bowl of chicken soup.

This is the resized background as edited for the card.

And the insert for the card with a oval frame for the message. Feel free to use these if you like.

A view from the side, showing the cat swinging in its window.

A view partially from above to show how the card works.

And a view to really show off the swinging cat.

Close up.

Another close up.

And another view of the card. I'm quite pleased with how the card has turned out. Thank you for looking. Hope you like it.

As an afterthought I have just added the matching envelope I made, I printed off some more backing paper and lined the handmade envelope with it to match the card.