Anything Goes Challenge - Shaped Cards (No Squares)

Good morning everyone. 

Hope you had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend (UK). Well the sun was shining for most of the weekend and it certainly feels like summer is on the way.

I'm back today with a DT card for the Anything Goes Challenge and this fortnight our challenge is

Shaped Cards (no squares ).

I'm really enjoying making these shaped cards at the moment. I'd quite like to get some of the bigger Go Kreate dies that make cards bigger than 6x6. I think I may need to get an A4 die cutting machine though. If you've got any advice on which ones are good I'd love to hear your comments.

Today's card uses the gorgeous Hannah Lynn 'Melissa' image.

I've made this for my niece who's mad about Huskies. This was the closest I could get.

The card shape has been cut using Go Kreate Frilly #7 large and the papers are Prima 'Rondelle'. All the papers have been edged with Walnut stain.

As usual the image has been coloured with Copics.

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E21, E11, R21

Hair: E21, E23, E25, E29

Cape: R20, R21, R22, R35, W3

Wolf: W0, W1, W3, W5

Sky: BG0000, BG000, Blender

I've also used the following dies to embellish my card.

Marianne - Garden Branch

Memory Box - Small Pinwheel Posie

DooHickey - So lovely wrapped heart

If your after some more goodies for your craft stash, remember to pop on over to Craft Den and have a look at the lovely things Lynne has in stock.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Card Mania Challenges - Flowers

Cutie Pie Challenge - Lots of Layers

Fashionista Challenge - Shabby or Vintage

House of Gilli - Anything Goes + Pearls and Lace

Avenue 613 - Anything Goes (optional gift packaging)

Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes

Di's Digi Designs - Anything but Square

Crafts 4 Eternity - Colour Combo

Crafting Musketeers - Anything Goes

Marianne's Design Divas - Going Girly

Thank you so much for dropping by and your lovely comments. Hope to see you again soon

Happy Crafting,

Hugs, Janine xx

Anything Goes DT - Mail It!

Good morning blogger friends....

Hope that you've had a lovely weekend and this weekend's a bank holiday so more time for crafting!

My Mum and Dad went home on Sunday after a 10 day stay. It was lovely to see them both looking so well and I'm missing my Ironing Fairy already (thanks Mum x). Sadly with some much snow and bad weather they didn't get to visit many places. Hopefully next time will be better.

I'm back with you this morning because we have a new challenge over at Anything Goes. This fortnight the challenge is 'Mail It!'. So we want to see letters, postcards, stamps or anything to do with mail.

My card uses a lovely image by Krista of Saturated Canary and she's called Pack Light.

I've made another shaped card using a Go Kreate die. The papers are by Prima. I bought 3 Prima pads at Harrogate from The Hobby House, and they're gorgeous. These are from the Nature Garden collection. The edges have been distressed with Walnut stain and stitched.

Pack Light has been coloured with Copics:

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, R21

Hair: E50, E51, E97, E99, E59

Top: YR000, YR00, YR02

Skirt: G20, G21, G94, YG99

'Uggs': E41, E42, E43, E44

Top case: E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, E37

Bottom case: YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97

Camera: C1, C3, C5, C7

The Postcard stamp is Grunge Postcard by Lili of the Valley and the Pisa stamp is an old Hero Arts stamp from the International Tour De Luxe stamp box. I stamped the image and then sewed round it with no thread in the machine to get the perforations for the stamp. The flowers are rolled roses and the leaves are cut from Joy Craft Dies.

I'm loving my new Joy Craft dies, they just cut so well and first time!

 

Dies used:

Go Kreate Frilly #7 large

Joy Crafts : Floral Flourishes Branch with Leaves & Leaves

Marianne Creatables: English Rose & Leaves

Why not pop on over to the Anything Goes Challenge blog and have a look at some more inspiration from my lovely teamies.

Remember that you can get your Copic Ciao markers and lots of lovely goodies from Lynne at The Craft Den.

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

Bunny Zoe's - Girly

Digi Darla's Challenge #55 - Flowers

Whoopsidaisy Challenge - Use a Digi

Avenue 613 Create #12 - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges #53 - Pearls and Lace

One stitch at a time - Use a Digi

A Gem of a Challenge - On the Move

Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Shaped Card

Happy Crafting. See you soon.

Big Hugs,

Janine xx

Divas by Design - Babies and Toddlers

Good morning everyone...

Sorry I've not posted for a while, but life is just a little hectic at the moment, what with work and kids activities.

Had a lovely day at the Harrogate show with my Mum on Saturday. We both spent far too much (he he). Bought lots of new dies, some lovely papers and pearls from Hobby Craft, some ribbon and only one sentiment stamp from LOTV. I forgot to take a photo before trying to be organised and putting it away. Leonie still thinks I put it away quickly to hide the evidence!

Anyway onto my post for today. I'm back with a card for the new Divas by Design Challenge which is 'Babies and Toddlers'. We're sponsored by the lovely Bunny Zoe's. I chose to use a really cute Mo Manning image. It's called Bye Bye. I bought her a while ago just because she's so cute, but haven't had the occasion to use her.

The papers are a very old freebie from Cardmaking & Papercraft. They're My Mind's Eye 'Quite Contrary' and have all been distressed with Walnut Stain. I've decorated the card using Flower and Leaf dies. Still loving that rolled daisy.

I have coloured Mo Manning Bye Bye in my usual Copics

Jeans: BG70, BG72, BG75

Hair: E21, E33, E35, E37, E59

Coat: G20, G21, G24

Bike: R81, R83, R85,  RV91, RV93, RV95,  C00, C0, C1, C3, C5, C7

Shoes: C00, C0, C1, R83

The highlights on the spots of the ladybird bag and the flowers in the grass have been done with a gellyroll pen.

Here's a close up of the image and the rolled flowers.

Why not pop on over to the Divas challenge site and have a look at some more inspiration from my lovely teamies.

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

Crafty sentiments - Flowers Galore

LEJ Designs Challenge - Add a flower/s

ABC Challenges - Bring on the Flowers

Creative Creations Challenges #6 - The Letter B (Bicycle)

613 Avenue Create #11 - Anything Goes

Ginger Loft Challenges - The colour green

Thanks for dropping by and I very much appreciate any lovely comments which you may leave.

Hugs,

Janine xx

Felicity and Blair - Living Life!

Good morning everyone.

Hope you've had a lovely weekend and all you Mums out there had a great day on Sunday.

Just want to say a big Hello to my new followers. I really hope that you enjoy popping in and that you like what you see. Hopefully I may be able to  inspire a few people in the way that other bloggers do me.

Today I'm back with this fortnight's challenge over at Anything Goes. This time its 'Seeing Double'. So we want to see two of something, whether it be your images or embellishments.

Why not pop over and see some of the lovely creations from my fellow teamies.

I've used one of the lovely Uptown Girls stamps from Stamping Bella. I really enjoyed colouring them in. This is my one and only Uptown Girl stamp and I'm definitely itching to buy more. Saving my pennies though for the craft show at Harrogate this coming weekend. Mum and Dad are visiting from Thursday for 10 days so Mum and I will have a lovely girly day out at the show followed by a take-away and a glass of wine. What more could a girl want?

The papers are First Edition 'New Leaf' and they've been stitched and edged with Walnut stain.

This gorgeous image has been coloured in my usual Copics. I think this is the first time I've used the peach colours on a large area and am pleased with the result.

Copics used :-

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, R11

Left dress: YR000, YR00, YR02, E70, E71, E74, E77

Cardigan: E40, E41, E42, E43

Right dress: BG70, BG71, BG75

Hair right: E21, E33, E35, E37, E59

Hair left: Y21, TR23, E33, E37

The flowers have all been hand rolled using various dies. I have to confess I treated myself to the Die-namics rolled daisy. I've seen Fleur use it a lot and just fell in love with it. It's even prettier in real life and gives a great 3D effect. The sentiment is LOTV 'Greetings Postmarks'

Dies used:

Cheery Lynn Lace Corner Deco F

Die-namics Mix and Match Banner, and Rolled Daisy

Marianne Creatables English Rose

Joy Crafts Vintage Flourishes Branch with Leaves

Why not pop on over to the Craft Den to have a look at what you may need for your next project. Lynne has lots of lovely goodies.

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

CLP Challenge #56 - Sketch

Paper Playtime #5 - Anything Goes

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop #20 - Happy Birthday

Avenue 613 - Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - To Die For

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Thank you so much for dropping by

Hugs, 

Janine xx

Happy Mother's Day...

Good afternoon and Happy Mother's Day to all you Mums out there.

Today I have my Mother's day card for my Mum to show you.

I chose a Lili of the Valley stamp for her. It's one of her favourite stamp companies. Their stand always   manages to lure us with its lovely stamps at the Harrogate Show lol.

This is Emma's Swing...

This is the first non square card I have ever made. I like this shape but it doesn't leave much space to put lots of embellishments.  

The papers are yummy Pion Designs and have been machine stitched. They're a mix of Small Leaves and Pink Ornament. Definitely going to invest in some more of these, they're gorgeous.

Emma has been coloured with Copics in a soft pinky/purple.

Copics used:

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, R21

Hair: E21, E33, E35, E37, E59

Cardigan and Shoes: RV91, RV93, RV95

Hat and Dress: RV0000, RV000, RV11

Swing: E70, E71, E74, E77, E41, E43, E44

Grass: G20, YG61, YG63

The rest of the card has been decorated with die cuts, which have been distressed with either sandpaper or Walnut stain

Die cuts used:

Go Kreate frilly #5

Memory Box small pinwheel

Marianne Designs English Rose, Fence and Flowers and Leaves

Doo Hickey Dragonfly, Hellebores and Cloud

I've really struggled taking photos, non of them show a true likeness. I must have take over 30 shots at various settings! If you have any hints and tips to get good photos I would be most greatful.

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

Lili's Little Fairies - A Card for Mum

Crafty Catz #173 - All Stitched Up

4 Crafty Chicks #132 - Die for Dies

Sincerely Yours Creations #2 - Mother's Day

Creative Craft Challenges2 #5 - Mother's Day

Songbird Challenges # 15 - Mama I Love You

Dream Valley Challenges #52 - Mother's Day

Thanks so much for popping by. Enjoy the rest of Mother's Day.

Hugs, Janine xx

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Good morning everyone...

I'm back today with another challenge for you over at Divas by Design.

This week we have a nice and easy challenge for you, it's

Anything Goes.

We're sponsored this week by Whimsy Shape EZ Templates. The design team were given a couple of templates to play with so pop on over and see the other fabulous creations by my teamies.

I chose the Gift Pouch, which I've decorated with rolled roses, flowers, stamped leaves and ribbon. The centre has a big die cut 18 and I'm going to pop something in for Leonie which I've made for her Birthday. You'll have to wait until the end of March to see it. I can hardly believe that she's almost 18. Where does the time go!

For the main body of the box I printed a paper from Nitwits Crabappletoo collection onto thick card and cut out the template by hand. If you're lucky enough to have an electronic cutter then the template comes with files that can be used to do it for you automatically.

Dies Used:

Die-Namics By the numbers

Spellbinders Classic Scallops

Memory Box Small Pinwheel

Marianne Design English Rose LR0162 and Leaves LR0156

The box is fastened together with a velcro circle.

Thanks for dropping by and I'm looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations. Hope you can join us.

Happy Crafting,

Hugs, Janine xx

Anything Goes Challenge #85 - 'Monochrome'...

Good morning everyone...

Wooooow....I'm so excited. This is my first post for Anything Goes Challenge. This fortnight our theme is 'Monochrome'.

I was planning on going for black & white, but decided on browns instead.

She's been coloured with Copics using all the E Nos.

Copics Used :-

Skin: E11, E00, E000, E0000, E93, E40

Tights & Leotard: E43, E42, E41, E40

'Tutu': E57, E55, E53, E51, E50

Shoes: E59, E57, E23

Hair: E59,E37, E35, E33, E21

I've embellished the card with ribbons and pearls from my stash, along with punched butterflies.

The flowers are rolled roses cut using a Marianne Creatables English Rose die. I've still not mastered making these and it took a number of goes and a little huffing and puffing too!

All the papers and embellishments have been distressed using Walnut Stain ink and the inside has been decorated to compliment the front.

Why not pop over to the Anything Goes Challenge Blog where you can see some lovely cards from my teamies for inspiration. Also don't forget to have a look in The Craft Den to see what lovely goodies Lynne has to offer.

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

My Time to Craft #206 - Things with Wings

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Ribbon

Digitally Sweet Challenges - Butterflies

Polka Doodles - Monochromatic

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

Copic Marker Europe #13 - Anything Goes

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Winged Things

Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Anything Goes

Hope you can join us. Happy Crafting.

Hugs,

Janine x

LOTV Festive Fairy...

Good morning everyone. Hope you're having a great weekend.

Took Frazer to Sheffield Institute of Sport yesterday for a day of Volleyball training and whilst I was there I popped in to Meadowhall shopping Centre for a spot of Christmas shopping. Just a few more bits and bobs to get and then I'm there!

Another Christmas card to show you today. This one's a cute LOTV image - Festive Fairy. I've been wanting to buy here for ages and I'm so glad I did. This is her first inking and it will definitely not be her last!

The image was one of my first attempts at colouring with distress inks and I'm quitte pleased with the results. I must admit I've gone back to my copics for the moment, but I shall give DIs another go. Practice makes perfect, so they say.

Here's a close up of her. She's just such a cute image!

Distress inks I've used:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo,& Aged Mahogany

Clothes: Peeled Paint, Aged Mahogany & Old Paper

Wings: Tattered Rose

Leaves: Peeled Paint & Forest Moss

Berries: Barn Door

Ribbon: Fired Brick

Snow: Weathered Wood

Outline: Tumbled Glass

I've used the lovely seem binding I got from Live & Love Crafts to finish off the tag and decorated the tree with some rhinestones and snowtex. I've never used that before, it's weired stuff, but very effective. I think I'm going to need to buy some more of those lovely Chrysanthemums from Live and Love Crafts because I can't stop adding them to my cards.

Tools Used:

Go Kreste Concentric Tags #1

Memory Box Holly Vine

Marianne Creatables Tree LR0136

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Lilis Little Fairies - Something New (Ribbon, Snowtex & LR0136 die)

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Label/Tag big or small

Anything Goes Challenge #82 - Traditional Christmas Colours

Deep Ocean Challenge - So this is Christmas

Fashionista Challenge #10 - Winter

Pretty Little Ribbon Shop #17 - It's Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges #40 - Christmas

Allsorts Challenge week 185 - Oh Christmas Tree

Thanks so much for dropping by and the lovely comments you leave.

Off to 'Santa Sunday Lunch' soon. Hope to pop round and visit you when I get back.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Big Hugs,

Janine x

P.S. If anyone can tell me how to get those lovely signatures with the flowers and butterflies that I keep seeing I'd love to make one - Mine's just plain boring!  Thanks x

Good evening, it's Friday and I can't believe another week has flown by. I'm still no where near ready for Christmas, but I'm sure it'll all come together in the end.

I'm here to show you another Christmas card I've made. This is my first Wild Rose Studio stamp and it's called Feeding Robins.

I've chosen traditional reds and greens and the papers are Wild Rose too. They're from Anabelle's Christmas pad. The layout is inspired by Sketch n Stash #102 sketch by Sue.

The image has been coloured by copics and her are the colours :-

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R30

Reds: R32, R35, R37, R39, R59 and tuscan red Prismacolour

Greens: YG00, YG61, YG63, YG67

Browns: E40, E42, E43, E44, E50, E51, E53 and Dark umber pencil

The inside has been coordinated to match. All the papers have been distressed and inked with walnut stain. The tips of the flowers were also coloured up with a bit of victorian velvet so they weren't so stark.

The snowflake is  Marianne Creatable die No LR0185 and I've added a few rhinestones for a bit of sparkle.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes (Christmas)

Copic Marker Europe - A Christmas Card

Anything Goes Challenge #82 - Traditional Christmas Colours

Deep Ocean Challenge #40 - So this is Christmas

Fashionista Challenge #10 - Winter

Pretty Little Ribbon Shop #17 - It's Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges #47 - Christmas

Thanks so much for dropping by, hope you have a lovely weekend.

Big Hugs, 

Janine xx

Tilda with 3 Flowers

Good evening bloggers....

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. The weather was kinder to us here in Yorkshire. Well a least it wasn't raining all weekend.

Bought some lovely digi papers from Raspberry Road last week and spent ages trying to get them resized and printed to the correct scale. Have been using GIMP (it's free) for cropping and watermarks but this just wouldn't print out the same size as I had resized it.  After some long conversations over the phone with my Dad we finally got it to work in Scribus (that's free too) - thanks Dad.

I've used some of those lovely papers on today's card and another Tilda stamp.

The flowers are made from Magnolia dies rather than my usual WOC ones and I've also used the lovely heart tag too. I can see this becoming a firm favourite :)

The image is coloured as usual with copics and I've edged the flowers with vintage photo.

Here's a close up of the image.

I'm really pleased how the image has turned out. I saw this Tilda sat on the fence on a card that Kim had made ages ago and loved it. I've been wanting to colour this since then.

Here's a close up. I've followed the sketch over at Sketch n Stash. I really enjoyed following this although it did take me a while to choose the papers. I'm a bit slow, but hopefully I'll get faster.

Sorry the photos aren't as clear as I'd like them. I'll keep trying. There's just so much to learn. At least it keeps me out of mischief and from doing the housework too :)

Card Ingredients.

Images : Magnolia Tilda with 3 flowers & Spring Fence

Papers : Raspberry Road Nantucket

Medium : Copics

Face : E0000, E000, E00, R20

Dress and head scarf : R85, R83, R81 + E40, E41, E42

Daffs : Y11, YR21, YR23

Grass : G20, YG67, YG63, YG61

Leaves : YG67, YG63, YG61

Hair : E50, E23, E25, E29

Shoes : E40, E41, E42, E43

Fence : E44, E43, E42, E41

Socks : W0

Dies:

Doo-Hickey - Hellebores, Dragonfly, Vintage Daisies, SO Wrapped Lovely Heart

Marianne Creatables - LR0156, LR0205

Ribbon and 'Hand Made' Heart from stash.

I am entering my card into the following challenges :

Sketch n Stash - Sketch #87

Magnolia-licious - Pink, Green & Light Yellow

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - #24 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for dropping by and any comments you may leave.

Hugs, Janine xx

Happy Valentine's Day...and my first challenges.

Good Morning...

Hope you're all having a lovely Valentine's Day.

Today's card is a Valentine card I've made for my hubby. I'm also going to enter it into my first challenges, if I can suss that out.

I've used one of the lovely Lili of the Valley stamps...they're so cute!

The fence and bird have been cut with a Marianne Design die that I bought recently and the snowflake is also a recent buy (don't tell hubby :))

I made an easel card for a change. It's not photographed that well though.

And here's a close up of this really cute image.

Card Ingredients.

Image : Lili of the Valley 'Together Forever'

Coloured with Copics...

Skin : E000, E00, E11, R20

Dress, Hat & Shoes :- R81, R83, R85

Greens : G20, YG11, YG61, YG63, YG67

Greys : C0, C1, C3, C5

Apron & Hat : E40, E42, E43

Plant Pot : E30, E31, E34, E35

Hair : E25, E29

Fence & Bird : E40, E42, E43

Papers : First Edition 'Love Letter'

Tools : Marianne Design Snowflake LR0185 & Fence LR0205, Nestie Labels 2

Embellishments : WOC roses, WOC Heart 'buckle'

Sentiment : Lili of the Valley.

I am entering my card into the following challenges :

• Simon Says Stamp 'Love is in the Air'
• Creative Inspirations #149  'Lots of Love'
• My Mum's Craft Shop 'It  Must be Love'

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day. I'm off to assemble some things I bought at Ikea yesterday that will help me to organise my craft room :)

Janine xx