Sewing Patchwork.

Another of those last minute requests came yesterday, luckily I had the perfect image for a tailor!

The gorgeous Nitwits paper remnants were perfect for a bit of patchwork!

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

MD168, Tag,

BC173, Stars,

SC24, Ribbon,

UIT59, Birthday, (paper remnants)

DDC225, TTT,Top left to bottom right.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Challenge Time At Scrapbook Sisters.

Happy Wednesday all!

 Scrapbook Sisters new challenge theme starts today and this time it's

"Thank you".

For my DT card I used a Meljen digi  coloured with Copics and made my card and frame using Grande Nestabilty scalloped circles. The beautiful pearls set it off a treat.

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

Make It Monday, Anything goes,

CIP, Monochrome,

Ribbon Girls August, Top line, "Bingo",

Allsorts 167, Circles,

Challenge Up Your Life 75, Anything goes.

Have a great day!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Sew Simple.

Evening all, I made this card a few weeks back for the lovely Lou of "Southern Girls" fame, she'd been in hospital for a little op and I thought that as she is also a dab hand at sewing that this lovely Meljen image would be perfect along with a computer generated sentiment. I used my Nesties to cut out all of the patchwork squares which I distressed and inky stitched, apart from matting and layering the image and sentiment, the card is complete.

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

Catch The Bug, Anything goes,

Secret Crafter 193, Pastel shades,

Cards With Attitude, Anything goes,

Inspire me Fridays, Anything goes,

OCL124, Diecuts,

Papertake Weekly, Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Enjoy the weekend,

Julie.x

Happy Birthday!

It's my lovely Mother-in-law's birthday today, Thought I'd share the card I made for her using Meljen's "Daisy Pitcher" image. I added a Crystal to the flower on the jug, and stickles to the flower centres and the swirls, shame the photo doesn't seem to have picked it up as it's glittertastic!

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days, Girly,
Patties Creations 46, Monochrome,

Digi Makeover 42, Anything goes,

MIM95, Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Going Dotty!

I'm sorry, another scalloped card from me today, I just can't help myself.

This time I'm using a gorgeous Meljen image

"Daisy Pitcher" 

that I won a while back but have only just got around to using.

A generous amount of stickles, some blobs of glossy accents and a tag with a charm complete the card, oh except for the stamped Birthday sentiment on the inside and the Tag that was adapted from 2 LCI stamps.

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

Crafty Creations 174, Charming,

Inky Impressions, Celebration,

Ruby's Rainbow 30, Tags,

Stamp N Doodle, Tag,

Digi Makeover 40, Seeing spots,

Hooked On Craft 21, Glitter,

Lollipop 83, Flowers in bloom,

MIM93, Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Me Again

Back with a card for Southern Girls Challenge. It's Trace's team's challenge but I just couldn't resist joining them this time as I won some rather gorgeous Meljen images last week. Meljen are one of this fortnight's sponsors, please call by the challenge post for full details of the challenge and also the rather impressive list of sponsors this time. The theme for this time is a colour challenge, to use Red Blue and Yellow on you project.

Guess who forgot a birthday this week? The Meljen snail ride was just perfect for the job,a strip of snipped card  looks just right, setting him off  a treat along with a computer generated sentiment . The only other thing I did was to add some glossy accents to the shell's of the snail and Ladybird and a thin trail of stickles for the "snail trail"  and the card is ready to post.

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

Belli Challenge 139, CAS,

Digi Makeover 27, Critters,

Lollipop Crafts 71, White with a splash,

MIM80, Anything goes,

OLLCB100, On the move.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Don't forget to check out my earlier post!.x

Can't Stand Losing Ewe!

It's time for a new challenge at Southern Girls and also time to say a big welcome to the new members of the design team,it's going to be great getting to know you all!
So without further ado,the new challenge theme for this fortnight is "Song Theme". As usual we have some brilliant sponsors,be sure to check out the challenge blog for the full details. For my DT card I'm using the rather gorgeous Bo Peep digi by one of the Sponsors,Meljen, of which I am a big fan,I just adore their swirly,stitched designs.
I  thought I'd make a card as a virtual message to my lovely former teamies at Southern Girls, Alicia, Sue and Karen. It's been lovely getting to know you over the last year and I'm going to miss you so the Song Title,a favourite from my youth by the Police is "Can't stand losing you!" just like Bo Peep and her sheep lol! I must say that it's only the song title that fits,the rest of the words certainly don't fit.

So I thought I'd make an easel card,I decoupaged the sheep's heads which I think makes them look extra cute! As I cut the image out,I also made the butterfly 3d but hand drew some stitching trying to echo those on the digi.

I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Anything goes53,Stitches,
MIM 61,Anything goes,
Come And Get It,Anything goes,
Dream Valley 19, Anything goes,
Lollipop Crafts 55,Anything goes,
Card Makin Mamas 32,Die Cuts.
I hope you call by and leave some love to all the new  design team members,
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Thank You Bettina!

Hi everyone,I've been missing in action for a few days but hopefully I'll be back on form this week. We've been away for a few days and just before I went I happened to mention in passing to one of my fellow Southern Girls Teamies that I didn't own any Hanglar & Stangler stamps, my oh my,within a few minutes she had put one in the post to me and the first thing I saw on my return was an envelope on the mat,all the way from Sweden!  So Thank you Bettina,you're a real sweetie!
So a new stamp,what else could I do but make a card,the first creation in my Crafty Cabin or "Paper Palace" as suggested by Dorcas,still can't decide what to call it,"Shed" does seem to trip off the tongue a little too easily lol!
The hearts were freebies ages ago from Meljen.

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

Make it Monday 52,Anything goes,

MCS23,Sew much fun,

OLLCC87,No design papers,

PIO35,Girls wanna have fun,

Gem of a Challenge 28,Sketch,

Hangler & Stangler 32,Cream and Lilac.



 Bettina has to be the sweetest girlie ever,and so very talented too,give her a visit and tell her I sent you!

Thanks for Stopping by,

Julie.x

On A Cold And Frosty Morning!

Before I start with my second post of the day I have an apology to make, I'm busy trying to get some of my course work done over the summer break which means I'm not blog hopping as much as I'd like to,I think it's taking it's toll and I'm feeling more than a little sad to see that this afternoon I have lost a follower!!!!  I hope that this isn't the first of many,the sooner I get my work done,the sooner I can get back to what I like to do best,visiting my lovely crafty blogging buddies so please,hang around till I'm done :)
 
On to my card:-
Thankfully we shouldn't be seeing any thing resembling this beautiful picture in my neck of the woods for at least a couple of months but hopefully it might inspire you and get those creative juices flowing as the challenge for this fortnight at Southern Girls is to use this Photo as  Inspiration .

The Australian and New Zealand sponsor is Scrapboxx and the international sponsor for this challenge who are one of my favourites is"Meljen" the Design team were given a choice of images,something I found a little tricky so I ended up using two! I coloured them using Copics,cut the images out and added stickles.

I used Nestability scalloped circles to cut the card and the layers using the Let It Snow paperpack by Dovecraft. 

I drip of glossy accents was added to the berries.

Foam pads were used between the layers and to place the images onto the card.

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

DDCC38,Anything goes,digi,

Lexis 45,Shaped card,

MIM47,Anything goes,

Pollycraft 103,Christmas in July,

Creative Inspirations 64,Christmas in July,

2 Sisters 49,Anything goes,

Fun With Shapes And More 88,Christmas,

PTT26,Anything goes,

Crafty Creations 129,Christmas,

Allsorts 113,Free and easy .

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Please scroll down for my previous post.

Scrapbook Sisters Week 29

Wow, it was another amazing week with an awesome number of entries for challenge 28 at Scrapbook Sisters! This weeks challenge is bound to be just as popular,with Mothers day being this Sunday,the theme for Week 29 is Mum or Special Lady. I used a lovely Meljens image and teamed it up with papers from the Forever Friends Goodlife Retro Collection paper pack. I added buttons to the centre of each flower and used Sizzix Moxi Alphabet to cut M U M. Using a Copic fine liner I added additional stitching to the image and around the papers I also used stickles to the centres of the coloured flowers.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Flutter By

Happy Monday everyone! It's half term break here where I live so a week off work has to be good :)
I've had this card in mind since I chose the lovely Meljen Designs Fancy Butterfly as part of my winner choice of Digis.(Does that make sense?)

I just loved playing around with the image to achieve the background paper,I just added a touch of colour with the Copics,layering up with a selection of papers from a Dovecraft 6x6 paperpack.

I decoupaged the butterfly for the focal image and added stickles to the edges of the wings.

The black rose was made using off cuts from when I had an evening dress shortened,this is so easy to do,I've fancied giving it a try ever since a fellow Southern Girls DT member Patricia made one in the "Use heat" Challenge a few weeks back,there's a link to a tutorial on her blog.

I added a few gems and pearls to the front of the card and on the inside I added a layered panel of the printed image so that the bottom printed image shows through the top layer like a water mark,I hope you can get the idea of what I mean from the photo.

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

KB Cute Monday 4,Glitter,

StampsRus 15,For the girls,

Guylous 1,Anything goes,

TTT,Show us what you got,
Crafts And Me,Spread your wings,

Four Crafty Chicks 25,Butterfly,

DDCC100 Glitter and bling,

Allsorts 91,Inspired by nature,

Wee Memories 44,Oh my crafts (My inspiration was simply the Meljen image)

Delicious Doodles 13,Glitz, Shimmer,Bling,

Pollycraft 81,Diamonds and pearls.

Now I made this card this morning,I particularly wanted to enter this week's challenge over at Meljens,I love to be able to use the challenge blogs images whenever I can. I took photo's of the card,wrote it and popped in the post for a birthday on Wednesday,then this evening when I wrote my post and started to link to the challenge blogs I realised that although the card was for a birthday I'd omitted to put a greeting on the card and that was the challenge stipulation. AAAAghhhhh!!!!!!! don't you just hate it when that happens!!!! Oh well,I suppose I could always make another card for next weeks challenge,I've still two more new images to christen.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Southern Girls Challenge 12

It's a colour challenge this time with the Southern Girls "Blue and Chocolate". One of this challenge sponsors is a favourite of mine,"Meljen" so how could I resist using one of her lovely images,Kitty Cat Love. The other sponsors are Scrapbox and Joanna Sheen,how great is that.

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

Spoonful Of Sugar 138,See some love,

Scrap Creations,Animal antics

Bunny Zoes 8,Love is in the air,

Stamp With Fun 97,Love,

Crafty Hos 2/6, Love,

Crafty Pad107,Love,

Creative Cowgirls 6,Love is in the air,

I Did It Creations 41,Love.

Hope you join in with the challenge,please scroll down for my earlier post today,

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Just Purrfect!

This card makes me sooooo happy,I'm more than a little pleased with it. The image by Meljens I chose from my win there a few weeks ago. Thought I'd try my hand at "tabby" it's not quite right,it's more like ginger but I'd be happy to have a ginger tabby cat to cuddle! I also fancied giving a spotty background a go,I've tried it in the past,but googled "Spotty Copic Background" and found a You Tube demo where the lady starts using 0000 numbers,now I only have Ciao so thought I'd try the same technique but using my blender to pick up the various colours and then dot it onto my paper.
Obviously the dots aren't so perfect done this way but I rather like it anyway! Not sure of the name but the scrummie,colourful paper is by Bo Bunny. I cut a few of the flowers out to add interest and coated them with 3d glaze.

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

TCSP9,Relax,26.1.11

CC42,What's new,New Digi,New technique,31.1.11

Secret Crafter 118,It's a couple thing,29.1.11
FFF44,Birthday,28.1.11
TFWC5,Animal anything goes, 4.2.11

Stamp Something,Cute something,28.1.11

Totally Papercraft 50,Add a heart,28.1.11

Digi Doodles 43,Anything goes,27.1.11

Fab n Funky 56,Animal Magic,26.1.11

I hope you've had a lovely,restful weekend,

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Sweet Treat

I thought I'd share the little envelope bag that I made,just the right size to put a couple of chocolate lollies in to give to my boss' granddaughter.

I can't remember where I saw the idea of making an envelope into a gift bag but it is so very easy to do,just involves sealing an envelope,cutting off an edge and scoring around three sides an equal amount to give the depth of the bag. I also scored 2cm down from the trimmed edge to fold into the top and to reinforce the edge so that there is enough strength to thread the ribbon through. I decorated the front and back using Dovecraft papers,die cuts and Meljen's freebie image coloured using Copics.

I threaded bells onto the velvet ribbon before threading it through the punched holes.

I'm using this for the following challenges:-

Stampavie 121,Make a gift,

DDCC93,Winter,

Creative Card Crew,Anything goes,

Fussy and Fancy Friday,Show us some snow,

Hanna And Friends 75,Just a little Christmas,

CES17,Anything goes,

Paperplay 50,Anything but a card,

Meljens 38,Sweet as candy,
Allsorts 83,Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Quick Card,Quick Post!

I've been wondering what I could make in the way of quick,bulk make cards to fill up my box quickly and to stop me panicking that I haven't made nearly enough cards yet!
This image is by Meljens Designs,it's called Starry Holly and was a freebie from some time back.
Dead simple to colour with the copics,just added a little fake stitching around the edge to compliment the fab ones in the design,matted it onto red mirror card,stamped the greeting,added the image at a jaunty angle and Bob's your Uncle! The greeting is from the Christmas Sentiments set by Woodware and is available along with the mirror card from "Scrapbook Sisters".

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:-
Scrappy Frogs, Merry Christmas,
Ellephantastic 20,Red and green,
Crafty Catz 60,Christmas,
Fairytale Challenge,White,
Sew Many Challenges 34,Digi red and green,
Digi Doodles 35,Red and green,
Crafty Creations 95,Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x