Week 39 at CRAFT Challenge, glitter and ribbon.

Thursday again and another challenge for you again at CRAFT Challenge. This week our brief is Glitter and Ribbon and our sponsor this week is the lovely Angela aka Toucan Scraps.

I have been quite busy for this challenge and made 3 cards that followed the brief, all using some of the lovely papers that Angela has donated for the winner and has allowed us to use as well.

Here is the card we have chosen to show you as part of the challenge, the others are still to follow. This was a 'quickie' card. My husband told me on Thursday night after I had returned from work and while we were having our tea, that he needed a sympathy card for one of the girls at work, who had just lost a mum-in-law, for the next day. I had already arrived home late from work, so he told me just before 10pm, oops!

The paper strip carrying the sentiment is from the paper pack Angela allowed us to use, the image and backing paper are from The Lilac Garden.

Now down to the prize for this week's winner. Our sponsor is and Angela is donating a product of choice from her shop for the winner. On this card I have only used it for the strip of paper on the front, which has a stamp with the sentiment on it. You can see the picture of the papers down below, they are gorgeous.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome as usual and much appreciated. Hope to see you again at CRAFT Challenge this week. Have a great weekend all!

Love,

Jo.

Card for Mo's Dream Team challenge and Guest DT spot

Morning all,

A bit last minute this card, but I finally managed to get the card sorted for this challenge I wanted to enter. At Mo's Dream Team the current challenge is a sketch to follow and attached to this challenge is a chance to win a Guest DT spot for one month. All entries need to be in by the 25th and the winner is announced on the 28th of February. The winner will receive 4 free Mo Manning images and is expected to use these for at least 4 DT cards in the month. Sounds like a fab deal to me as I adore Mo's images.

Well, here is my card. I used the sketch for the front of the card, using Mo's image 'Little Girl in Kimono', the papers are from Scrapalicious Cereal. I repeated the sketch on the inside, using the same papers and Mo's image 'Sinatra'. Hope you like my card. I'm going to use this one for one of my cousins, who is having her birthday in April. I think she will like it.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed again for this one, I would love to win this prize. Currently my only DT spot is with CRAFT Challenge, which I absolutely love and I'm sure I would be able to squeeze a few more cards in each week. If anyone feels like sponsoring our blog, why not click the link and have a look at the sidebar of our blog. We are always looking for more sponsors to sponsor our friendly blog.

Hope you all have a great week and do keep a look out for our next challenge at CRAFT Challenge on Thursday, you still have till 8pm UK time tonight to enter the current challenge.

Love,

Jo.

Challenge 38 at CRAFT Challenge, a sketch to follow.

Another Thursday, another challenge at CRAFT Challenge. This week we have a sketch for you to follow provided by our very own Eileen, aka Eiglas. It is a great sketch to work with, which we all enjoyed playing with.

Our sponsor this week is The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs and I have used one of Debbie's lovely images on this card, Teddy Hug. The other image is one I drew myself and it is available free to download for your personal use here on my sister blog Trimgym's Digistamps and Images. Please do leave a comment if you download any of my images as I would love to hear from you.

Hope you like my card, I made it for my cousin, who had a baby a little while ago.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. We are all looking forward to seeing you at CRAFT Challenge again this week. The prize this week is this gorgeous new stamp by Debbie:

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.

Have you seen my sisterblog 'Trimgym's digistamps and images' yet?

Hello everyone,

I have a sisterblog now as well, where I am slowly downloading all my own digistamps, 3D decoupage sheets and backgrounds to. As I don't have a lot of them, this is a slow progress, about one every week or so. Most of them have already been seen on this blog, but, they are now being transferred to my sisterblog Trimgym's digistamps and images. They are there free (for the foreseeable future) to download (please leave a comment, so I know you have done and like them), use for personal use only, leave my signature on, do not claim as your own and if you would like to share them, then please direct people to my blog.

Feel free to have a look at my new blog and become a follower. I would love to see you there. If you do decide to make anything using my stamps and images, I would love to see your creations, please link them to my blog, so I can pop by yours and see them.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Love,

Jo.

Allsorts Challenge and DT call card.

Hello everyone,

Here is a card that I made today for the Allsorts Challenge and DT call. Hope they liked it. For this challenge the brief was to follow a sketch, unfortunately I did not quite have the right size of square card for this image. I therefore had to adapt it slightly to fit an A4 card. Hope they don't mind. It's also one of the cards I have already made for Christmas this year. The image is from David Tunis, the papers from Funky Fairies and A Scrap Away. Hope you like them and the card I made with them.

The first image is of the card, before I noticed it was missing some embellishments, however, it does show the sketch a little better.

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Hope they like my card, there are quite a few more cards to look at on my blog if you like. 

I guess it's now time to tidy up again and get things sorted for school run and swimming lessons.

Have a good weekend everyone!

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.