Ribbon Madness at Southern Girls.

It's  Lou's team challenge this fortnight at Southern Girls and the theme for "Challenge 33 is Ribbon Madness!"
Now,I generally use ribbon on my cards but for some reason I couldn't think of how I was going to incorporate ribbon on this one, I was just so taken with the gorgeous Lil Little Lolita Ivy by Tickled Pink that I didn't want to over do it on the ribbon  front so I decided to punch holes and tie various ribbons between them. Tickled Pink are one of the 3 sponsors for this challenge,be sure and check out the "Southern Girls"  blog for full details of the challenge and sponsors!

I slightly shaped my cut out image and raised it slightly with Pinflair glue. I then wrote "Hoppy Birthday using a white gel pen and added a few hand drawn "stitches".

 I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Creative Craft Challenge, Free for all,
PTT44, Anything goes,
Crafty Boots, Anything goes,
MIM65, Anything goes,
SWF 139, Stitching,
VOC22, Ribbon,
Birthday Sundaes 37, Birthday sentiment,
KCG71,Stitching,
TP47,Hand written sentiments.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Anything Goes Wednesday

The theme for this week's challenge at Scrapbook Sisters is "Anything goes", how brilliant is that as it means that for my DT card I was able to make another Christmas card for the pile using another of Gayle Bond's images,I used a stamp from last year but they are available as Digi's and are available exclusively at Scrapbook Sisters.
 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Creative Card Crew,Monochromatic,
Going Grey WSC,Christmas,
CYPC 86, Tis the season,
Kaboodle Doodles, Bundle Up for winter,
CCC147,Sentiment/Christmas,
Divas by Design 16,Anything goes.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

WOW!

It's Pami's challenge this week at Ladybug Crafts Ink and her theme is "White On White"  let's face it when you are using  a brilliant image like "Dear Santa" you really don't need anything else to look at,  and that Jack is such a cutie I so love to colour him! I kept my DT card really simple, just some photo corners made using my square nesties and some photo paper off cuts, some layering of die cuts  and some Ikea ribbon with the wire removed.

I added some glossy accents to the baubles on the tree and drizzled some stickles around the image.

I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Craft Your Passion 86, Tis the season,
PCI, Christmas,
Addicted To Stamps 18,Christmas Card,
GL30, Christmas,
Stamptacular Sunday 140, Anything Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Blinging Saturday And News Of A Guest Designer Call!

I was so excited when I saw the theme for this week's LIM challenge as I knew exactly what I wanted to do,the only trouble was I didn't yet have the image, but that really isn't a problem when it's a digi, I just put in a quick order and within a few minutes The card was started! I even attempted a few things I've never done before as the tree,star and baubles are all separate digi's combined to make a one off image, you can find them here at LCI along with the other amazing images in the set. Oh and a quick heads up, you still have a couple of days if you fancy becoming a Guest Designer with the Ladybugs!

The other first for me was printing my Sentiment directly with my image, I couldn't believe how easy it all was! If anyone can help me with how I save a complete image and sentiment so that I can reproduce it, I'd be very grateful if you could share :) I came totally unstuck when I attempted to do this  lol!

Anyway, the LIM challenge theme is "A Bit Of Bling", I just added  three gems a few drizzles of Stickles and a bit of glossy accents. 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
LIM 43,Bit of bling,
My Sheri Crafts,Decorate for Christmas,
OCC,O Christmas Tree,
TPFC94, Christmas,
Aud Sentiments 42, Holiday Sentiments.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Seeing Stars!

I thought I'd share another number card, the numbers are cut on the Cricut using Plantins Schoolbook,

I think the rest of the card are pretty self explanatory.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
DDCC140, Recipe,
JFF, Favourite shapes,(stars),
Sarah Hurley 54,Buttons,
Cooking it up 85, Piece of pie,(inked edges,stamped sentiment),
Penny's 67, Tie one on,
Cupcake 169,Teenage boys,
GHW1 10, Embossing.
 Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Christmas Time!

It's time for another card challenge at Scrapbook Sisters and the theme for this week is "Christmas Time" and for my DT card I used one of Gayle Bond's stamps from last year which is now a  Digi images and available exclusively at Scrapbook Sisters,I just added the Heart greetings stamp which I hung from the snowman's arm. Love It!

I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Little Red Wagon 108,Christmas,
CES62,Snowflakes,
Oldie But Goodie, Let it snow,
PTT43,Snow us what you've got,
SOS27, Christmas,
MIM64, Anything goes.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Winter Blues At TLT

The theme for this week's challenge at TLT is "Winter Blues" pretty apt really as poor Laurie is ill in bed and it's her challenge,enough to make her feel blue lol! It doesn't show too well in the photo but I matted my rather gorgeous image on to blue mirror card and added a blue layer along with the silver of the snowflakes. If you like this image you are going to LOVE the Stamp of the Month image where Nikki and Buttercup are building a snowman and it's available at half price,can't be bad! Now,onto some exciting information to go with this week's challenge:-

  As an added prize this week the Lovely Ladybugs are looking for 3 Guest Designers to join them for the Month of December (that's 3 challenges so 3 projects to make) If you would like to be considered,  just enter the challenge and add GD after your name .

I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Forever Friends,Christmas,
Hooked On Crafts 12,Die Cuts and Punches,
HOG21,Flourishes,
MIM64,Anything goes,
PCI13,Christmas,
Pollycraft 120,Christmas Fun,
Whoopsie Daisy,Christmas,
FFC9,White Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x