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.

10th Christmas card of 2010, last one for today.

Well here is my 10th one this year, a total of 33 so far. The last one for today. Hope you like this card as well.

This card is for the following challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any five Christmas cards

Double Dutch : 'Baby it's cold outside'

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

Susie and Vicki's Christmas Club : Non Traditional Christmas

Thank you for looking at all my creations. All comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

9th Christmas card of 2010

Here is the 4th one I made today. Hope you like this one as well.

I would like to enter this card in these challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any 5 Christmas Cards

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Susie and Vicki's Christmas Club : Non traditional Christmas

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

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

Love,

Jo.

8th Christmas card for 2010

Here's in my third card for today. Hope you like it. I love the little puppy on this one. I used a sketch from Just Christmas and Birthday Cards for this card and would like to enter it in their challenge.

So, here are the challenges I would like to enter this card into:

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any five Christmas cards

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Just Christmas and Birthday Cards : Sketch

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

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

Love,

Jo.

7th Christmas card of 2010

My second offering for today, another Christmas card I made today. Hope you like it.

This card uses an image from The Lilac Garden, hope you like it.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any 5 Christmas cards

Double Dutch : 'Baby it's cold outside!'

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

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

Love,

Jo.

6th Christmas card for 2010

Good evening all. I have spent today doing a total of 5 Christmas cards for later this year. Slowly getting towards my target of around 200 as I am now at a total of 33 (including the ones left over from last year).

Here is the first one I did today, hope you like it.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Cards : C is for Candy and Pink

Christmas Cards All Year Round : Any five Christmas Cards.

Susie and Vicki's Christmas Club : Non Traditional Christmas

Fab's Big Christmas Challenge : Punches and Snowflakes

Cupcake Challenge: Fourlegged and Furry

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.

Chance to win lovely images at Tales from Pollycraft

Just noticed they have some lovely images coming out on the 4th of February, every day one lucky person will be chosen to win one of the gorgeous images. I know what I will be checking every day.

Challenge 35 at CRAFT Challenge, Paperpiecing.

Morning all on this Thursday morning!

It is time for another challenge at CRAFT Challenge. This week we want you to make a project using Paperpiecing. If you don't know how to do that or if you would like some further instructions on this, please have a look on our blog for a tutorial by our very own DT member, Julie. It is very easy to follow.

Now on to my project for this week. I have actually done 2 cards, the first is a card using my own image of a pirate with treasurechest and is some digital paperpiecing. The second is proper paperpiecing of a lovely stamp by one of our fellow DT members Claire, a cat playing with a ball, mounted onto parchment. I enjoyed the first parchment card I did so much, I decided to use it for this card as well. Hope you like it.

Our sponsor this week, is our very own and very talented Claire from Shophandmade.

So, now for a closer look at the cards, first the card on parchment.

And now the digital paperpiecing. Hope you like the image, it can be found on my sister blog, 'Trimgym's digistamps and images', here. It is free for download, but leave my signature on, do not claim as your own and for personal use only.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Looking forward to seeing you at CRAFT Challenge again this week.

Love,

Jo.

More awards for sharing.

I've now come to updating my blog as far as awards are concerned until the middle of June 2009. There are 2 awards I have received around this time, one from Rozzy and one from Maxine. Here is the one that I was given by Rozzy . Thank you sooo much!



The five people I would like to pass this one on to are:



1. Crafter's Corner, wonderful digital scrapbooking kits for free.

2. Eidle Tales, wonderful verses and stories.

3. GTC's Crafty Corner, lovely digital images and kits.

4. Summertime Designs, wonderful digital scrapbooking kits.

5. Tales from Pollycraft, lovely Friday Freebies.


Thank you all for the kits and inspiration and verses you provide, it is much appreciated, and I'm sure I'm not the only one happy you are all creating this great work.


Love,



Jo.