Challenge 191 - 24th of January – Valentines Day/Love

Morning and welcome to another challenge at CRAFT Challenge this week. It is nearly time for butterflies and love hearts again, so we thought it would be a good time to arrange a challenge with the theme

Valentines Day or Love

Wedding, anniversary and similar themes would obviously also fall under this category, so it's time for you to get crafting!

And here are my cards for this challenge, using my own papers as usual.

(using 'Heart Dragon' by Doodle Dragon Studios)

(using 'Date Night' by Karen's Doodles and

'Love Overflowing' by HopeJacare)

(using 'Japanese Girl with small bag' by Flonz)

Don't forget the challenge and the freebies on my digistamp blog, a tab to go there can be found on the top of this blog.

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

Love,

Jo 

CRAFT Challenge 89, Valentines.

Morning all,

Another challenge at CRAFT Challenge this week. This week our brief is (could it be anything different, lol?) Valentines. This week our sponsor is The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs. Debbie is putting up 2 of her digistamps of the winner's choice for the winner.

The image is by The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs, the papers are my new Valentines Day1 papers, which will be available to win by a second winner this week.

We look forward to seeing all your lovely creations. Do join us again at CRAFT Challenge to be in with winning! You could even be winning some of my new Valentines Day1 papers. Have a good weekend.

Happy Crafting!

Jo.

Designed2Delight week 1 of February.

This week at Designed2Delight there is another lovely image for the challenge.  This is an extra Valentines card. Hope you like the card.

I have used my new Valentines Day1 papers for this card.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Looking forward to seeing the image for next week.

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Love,

Jo.

Happy Valentines Day!

Hello everyone,

Valentines Day today. Hope you are having a good one. Here is the actual Valentines Day Card I made my other half. The others were just for fun. Hope you like it.

For this card, I have used my own digistamp, created especially for the occasion. You can find it here on my sister blog 'Trimgym's digistamps and images'. Feel free to use it for your personal use, all the digistamps, backgrounds and 3D decoupage sheets I have put on there are available free to download for your personal use only. Please leave a comment when you download any, I would love to hear from you and would also love to see any projects you make using my images.

Now here is the card I made my hubby and best friend. I believe he liked it.

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

Love,

Jo.

Week 37 at CRAFT Challenge, Digi Colouring

Thursday again and another challenge at CRAFT Challenge again. This week our challenge is Digi colouring. In other words we want you to create a project in which you use a digistamp that your colour yourself. With loads of digistamps available these days, that should be relatively easy. Digistamps are brilliant as you can resize them and add them to other existing images as well. I have a few of my own digistamps free to download on my sister blog 'Trimgym's Digistamps and Images', feel free to have a look.

Well, here is my card for this challenge, a quickie using 2 digistamps by our sponsor of this week 'Digital Delights', who are donating a $10 gift voucher for the winner. Hope you like it.

I used the sketch from the current challenge at Create4Fun and will be entering the card in their challenge as well.

It has also been entered into:

Cute Card Thursday

Incy Wincy Designs

The Pink Elephant

Ooh-La-La Challenge

Cupcake Challenge

Crafty Creations

Funky Fridays Challenges

Lexi's Creations

Diecut Dreams

Creative Card Crew

Pile it on

Hope you like my card, thank you for looking and all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Have a good weekend!

Love,

Jo.

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.

My latest card

Hello everyone,


I have finally managed to finish my Valentines card for my husband for this year. It is quite a cute one I think and I am very happy with the result. I hope you will all like it as well.

For this card I used some background papers from funky Fairies and I used a Tatty Teddy image for decoupage. There is also a little gift box in which there are some vouchers suitable for the occasion. I really love the result and hope my husband will also like it.








This is the card as it finally turned out, below are some of the close ups.
















The little giftbox. (also from Funky Fairies)







The vouchers, with a photo editing programme I have added my husband's and my names, however these are blocked of for the picture.

On the inside of the card I have used the same background paper again, adding a ellipse with the appropriate text for the occasion. I hope you all like my card and it helps to give you some ideas.



I have entered this card into a competition on trimcraft and am also entering it to the creative inspirations challenges blog. (you can find the last one at http://creativeinspirationschallenge.blogspot.com/)



Good luck to anyone else who plans to enter either of these competitions.



For anyone who would like to take the easy route to decoupage these images, I have put them on some step by step sheets. Hope this is helpful.

Just in case you have looked at this post before, I have now managed to get the proper coloured images on for the 3D sheets. The others were somehow slightly discoloured, possibly due to the programme used to edit them. Hope these are more helpful to those who would like to use them as decoupage sheets for their own use.