Pencil Practice

I'm in awe of Sally's colouring, she's always ready to give hints, tips and encouragement with using Polychromos but what I really wish is that I lived next door so that I could have some lessons ;)

I've made up my mind that 2014 is going to be the year of the pencil so let's hope we see some improvement by the end of the year!

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

PCDB83, Stitching,

CCC50, Birthday,

ATSAM77, Make your mark,

CBD, Birthdays,

SRC209, Birthdays,

MIM173, Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Sweet Sixteen

 

There's not a lot to be said about this card, I'm afraid it was a bit of a rush job and I'm a bit cross with the fact there is a tiny slither of the white card base peeping out from behind the purple. I never realised until the glue was completely dry, isn't that annoying!

 

I thought I'd ink up my forever friends bunting from an Easter stamp set, looks ok but I think I'll stick with my usual style of bunting, it's much more dimensional and easier on the eye me thinks!

 



 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

Crafts and me 105, Anything goes,

DBD56, Anything goes,

DOCB36, Anything goes,

LEJ24, Anything goes,

TTCD39, Anything goes.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Feeling Sketchy?

What an amazing amount of entries there were for last week's Scrapbook Sister's challenge, hopefully this week "A  Sketch" will tempt just as many. Now I don't usually follow sketches and when I realised that it was the theme for this week I panicked a bit, I needn't have worried though as it is a lovely one to follow and to be honest, apart from the card stock,all of the papers were scraps left over from last year's cards.  The stamp is also a last year's forever friends set.

Here's the sketch if you fancy giving it a go we'd all love to see what you come up with.

I'm entering my card for the following challenges:-
ABC Christmas,Yipee,anything goes,
Belli 132,Christmas,
Crafty Creations 147,Card with sentiment,
Divas By Design 16, Anything goes,
FBC 76,Christmas,
MMCS35,Traditional Christmas,
Penny's 68, Merry Christmas,
CMP5,Christmas colours,
Tuesday Throwdown 77, Tis the season.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Card Challenge 34

I know I say this every Wednesday but boy,the weeks fly past,I can't believe that it's already time for Scrapbook Sisters' card challenge. This week it's a recipe challenge,the no cook kind :D the recipe is to include:- Two ribbons,one flower and a brad.
My DT card was made using the Forever Friends Christmas stamp.I paper pieced the parcel,adding one of the required ribbons,decoupaging a second layer to the hands,I stamped the tag onto white card and hand wrote the recipients name on this. I doodled a frame around the white layer and used the Cricut and Plantins Schoolbook to cut the blue scallops. I punched a white flower,inking the edges then layering this with a cream Prima flower,using a felt brad in the centre. I then punched another white flower and stapled the second of the required ribbons in loops around it before gluing it to the first punched flower. The card was requested by my daughter to give to her friend who's favourite colour is blue,I really must try using blue more often,I found this a real struggle as it's my least favourite colour to craft with,maybe it was using it for a girls card.....Anyway,my daughter was pleased with it!

Hope you join us in the challenge this week,
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Southern Girls Challenge

Here I am,back again with my second post of the day,this time with my Design Team card for Southern Girls. There's a great sketch to follow this time,take a look and see what you think.......... As usual there's great sponsors for this challenge,there's Stamp Fairy for NZ and Australian entries and there's Sassy Cheryl and Joanna Sheene for everyone else,got to be good ;) I don't tend to follow sketches very often and I've got to be honest,I panicked when I knew this challenge was coming up,I needn't have worried though, it was easy,I just substituted one of the sections with ribbon and ric-rack. The image is an old faithful "Forever Friends" stamp that came free with a magazine yonks ago,I just coloured him using Copics and used my circle Nestabilities to cut him out. I thought he'd be perfect for a card for a toddler.The DP is from the paper pack "Forever Friends Good life Retro collection. I even decorated the inside using off cuts from the pack.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

Catch The Bug April,Anything goes,

High Hopes 106,For the boys,

Make it Monday 31,Anything goes,

Crafty Emma 30,Children,

Crafty Anns 36,Inspired by an Elvis song,(Teddy Bear).

Scroll down for my earlier post from today.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Challenge 30 at Scrapbook Sisters.

Happy Wednesday! You know what that means,it's time for a new challenge at Scrapbook Sisters and this weeks theme is "Yellow" Now you know what us crafters are like,we always find fault with what we make but for once,I'm going to say "I love this card!" I'm so happy with how it turned out. I used my Forever Friends Easter stamps and a selection of yellow Copics. The little chick I cut out and mounted using a pop dot and I then used my Copic fineliner,to create the doodling,simple as that! Why not take a look at what the rest of the design team have created,hopefully you'll be inspired to join us in this week's challenge. I'll be back with another post this evening,till then, Thanks for stopping by, Julie.x

Happy Birthday Karen!

It's my mate Karen over at Scrapbook Sisters' birthday today so I thought you'd like to see the card I made for her. I'm hoping that Julie has passed the card on to her before she reads my post today but if she hasn't DON'T LOOK KAREN!!!! Karen is a great lover of "Molly Blooms" so I thought I'd use the stamp that I got free with a magazine along with the "Forever Friends Good life" clear stamps to make the postmark. These are available at Scrapbook Sisters, I can't see them on their website at the mo but I'm sure that if you gave them a ring they'd be able to help you. It's a great set with a couple of different post marks and various other sentiments. I'm using this card for the following challenges:- Make It Monday 30,Inspirational,

OLLC76,Special friends,

Pollycraft 86,Friends,

IDICCB48,Pink and purple,

Allsorts 96,Special lady,

Simon Says Stamp,Girlie.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

No Hangover!

What a miserable day we're having today,it's been drizzling on and off all day. After last Sunday's drunk "Friend" I thought that this week I'd do it my way! Big improvement don't you think? I'm not going to rattle on about this card though, it's a bit of a brain dead card really but I didn't have much time to play today.
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I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Little Claires 2,Flowers,

Alphabet Challenge,S is for stripes,

Pixie Cottage 60,Easter,

Stampavie 132,Birds,

By The Cute And Girly,Springtime,

DYSU 10,Layers,

Crafty Pad 112,Buttons.

It will be a bit of a quiet week from me again I'm afraid so I apologise that I'm not doing as much commenting at the mo but I do still call by to see your beautiful creations from my phone in my lunch breaks.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Scrapbook Sisters Week 26

Happy Wednesday,nice to see you :) The challenge for this week is Easter Animals so for the second time this week I'm using my Forever Friends Easter stamps along with some green and yellow BoBunny paper. I'm sure it didn't look this dark when I made it lol! Don't you think this little bear looks so cute wearing his bunny ears and check out that cute little chick!The bunting is also in the set,I stamped it onto the yellow cut it out and shaped it slightly,the sentiment is in the kit too. I'm not sure if they still have the set in the shop at the mo,I cant see it online but I'm sure that if you rang the shop one of the lovely ladies could help you.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the team have made.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

I'm Not Drunk...........Honest!

Just a quick post and apology for not being around, my Mum needs my support at the mo so I'm not sure how much I'll be around over the next few weeks either but I have got some DT cards ready for Wednesday.
I love the Forever friends Easter stamp set but I have to admit that although this ted is suppose to be looking under his foot,I think he'd look better seated so that's what I'll do in the future.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
ASG,Anything goes,

Doodle Dragon,Spring is in the air,

Catch the Bug,Anything goes,

Card Makin Mamas 16,something green,

Stampin for the weekend 5,Springtime,

CCT154,Signs of spring.

Thanks for Stopping by,see you when I can

Julie.x

Forever Christmas?????

I loved using the Forever Friends Christmas stamps on my Christmas cards but no-one said a "Friend" is just for Christmas! thought I'd ink him up again and use him on a birthday card instead. I found a small best wishes stamp to stamp the tag with. I paper pieced the present, the My Minds Eye papers were free on a magazine months ago, now I see the photo on here,I think they look far too busy to have put together,still,I'm sure my friend will be pleased to receive it on her birthday. The flourishes were cut using a revolution die adding some self adhesive pearls to the dotted ends.
I'm using this card for the following Challenges:-
Meljens 41,Round or square card,
Stamp Something,Anything goes,
AIF64,Anything goes,
Stampin Bees 93,Use a die cut,
Oldie but Goodie 10,Bright and cheerful.
Now I need to share something with you,I've had around 170 blog visitors in the last 24 hours,that's bloomin good for me,I can tell you but there's a good reason for this,I had one of my cards on the Friday Followers Gallery at ikki's cuttlebug cupboard. If you have a Cuttlebug its an excellent blog to visit,you can find no end of useful hint's,tips and ideas for using your bug,well worth a visit.
I also need to thank Samara for the Stylish Blog award,I haven't forgotten about picking it up but I really need to think up some interesting facts about boring little old me:)
Thanks all for stopping by,enjoy your weekend,
Julie.x

Snow Joke!

The card challenge at Scrapbook Sisters this week is "Patchwork" when I made my DT card I found myself with lots of squares that still needed using so to use them up I made this card. I just added some cheats stitching ,a few punched snowflakes and a stamped sentiment from the "Forever Friends set" I thought this was perfect seeing as the card looks just like a patchwork quilt.

I'm using this for the following challenges:-

Crafty Catz 60,Christmas,

Crafty Calendar 14,Winter snowflakes,
ABC Christmas Challenge,Y is for Yultide,
Think ink 34,Punches.

Thought I'd share a couple of photos that I took today from my back door. It's been snowing continuously all day,the finest snow I've ever seen,the camera doesn't even show that it was snowing at the time except that the images aren't sharp.


The snow on top of the wall now measures 12" deep,unfortunately the weather means that my Scrapbooking class on Wednesday was cancelled and the Crop on Saturday has also had to be postponed, this is such a shame as Karen and Julie put in so much time and effort organising the event,this is the first time in five years that it hasn't been able to go ahead. I'm going to have to spend the day making Christmas cards at home instead.
Keep warm and stay safe if you too have snow,
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Here We Go Again

Sorry,I haven't had any spare time to make any cards for a few days so tonight's card is another of the Forever Friends cards that I made last weekend,very similar and using other papers from the same range of papers.

This time I used some of those gorgeous,juicy looking Dew Drops coloured with Copics for the holly berries.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:-

Christmas Stampin 72,Anything goes,

Crafty Sentiments 45,Christmas,

ABC Christmas,X is for Xmas,

Crafty Creations 95,Christmas is coming,

FBC24,Christmas,

Simon Says,Let it snow,

If you fancy another Let It Snow challenge,check out Scrapbook Sisters for this week's challenge!

That's me for tonight,I promise not to show you another Forever Friends card for a while.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Let It Snow! Week 12

I do hope that this week's Card Challenge at Scrapbook Sister's doesn't sound like an invitation for the real McCoy as this week's theme is "Let It Snow"

Now,this wasn't my original card,the first was a shaker card using one of Gayle's Digi's but unfortunately I completely bodged it at the last minute, 3d glaze on my last piece of acetate resulting in a Snow storm in the dining room as I lost the plot and and emptied snowy white glitter everywhere in a strop! Not a good move,I'm sure I'll be finding traces of snow for the rest of the year!

I resorted to using Karen's set of Forever Friends stamps again,not that I minded as I love using the Copics to colour that fur, think this is my best so far! I've used the "Santa's On His Way" paper pack yet again,teaming it up with some layers of holographic Mirri card.

I did a bit of paper piecing using some remnants from the drawer,added some red Stickles to the berries and used a Fiskars snowflake punch and a Cuttlebug Die to cut and emboss the large snowflake.

The greeting was stamped using a silver ink pad and a stamp from my stash.

Another Christmas card knocked of the list. Why not make one for your box and enter this week's challenge at the same time!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Forever Friends Part 4

I've not been feeling too well for a couple of days so haven't done much in the way of crafting,Feeling much better today though thank goodness.
Just a quick post for today though as I've lots of ironing to catch up on. Thought I'd share another of the cards made using the Forever friends set of stamps,and Santa's on his way paper pack. There were still more of both of these items when I was in Scrapbook Sisters at the end of last week.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

Dotties World,Anything goes Red,
Crafty Pad 98,Red and Green,
Scrappy Frogs,Merry Christmas,
C4C64,Circles,
SCFC30,Circles,
PRC25,Favourite things,(one of mine is definitely cup cakes)
I also made another similar card to this but as I haven't posted much for a few days,I'm going to save it for tomorrow. If you're interested, there's more cards using this lovely set of stamps on posts made last week.
Thanks for calling by,
Julie.x
P.S. If you fancy making a card,this week's theme at Scrapbook Sisters is "Christmas Tree"

Forever FriendsPart 2.

If you called by earlier,you may have seen the first Forever Friends post,if not you can find it here. This card makes me happy,I stamped my image and cut it out using the Nestie trick but this time,I also left the snow at the bottom of the card. I love how it looks like there's a big moon behind the image.

This time I paper pieced the scarf using Santa's on his Way Paper pack for this and the background. The stamped image is coloured using Copics and I used a little stickles on the snow.

I'm using this for the following challenges:-

Wee Memories 31,Patterned paper,

2 Sisters 13,Christmas,

C4C63,Christmas,
Speedy The Cat 29,Snowflake,
Sweet Stampin,Snowflakes,

MSC31,Teddy bears.

Thank you for stopping by to see my second creation using this set of stamps,

Hope you've enjoyed your weekend,

Julie.x