Fancy A Bargain?

Now I know I like a bargain and I'm sure you do too!
Ladybug Crafts Ink Have got an amazing sale starting on Monday! If you buy one stamp,you get to choose another at half price,and it's free postage WORLDWIDE!!!! Oh my goodness,that's got to be worth a look! Why not call by and make up a wish list ready for when the sale begins!
On to today's card using Magnum,I just love colouring him,trouble is I could go on for hours adding extra dimension using shading,blending the Copics. I decided to use a Quickutz butterfly instead of one of Magnum's add ons,the sentiment is also from Ladybug. I hope you're not fed up with my ribbon layering,I just can't stop myself!  The papers are leftovers from my drawer, I used a diecut strip then just added a button to the centre of my Prima Flower.

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

Fuzzy Wuzzy,Use an animal,

Phindy's Place 66,Use diecuts,

Simply Create 49,Favourite animal,

Stampin For The Weekend 13,Paws for thought,

Charisma Cardz 30,4 legged friends,

Crafty Sentiments,Polka Dots,

DDCC123,Birthday,

Forever Friends,Pastel colours,

Creative Card Crew,Animals.

That's it for me for today,hope you're enjoying the weekend,thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

 P.S Scrapbook Sister's have a new fortnightly stash giveaway if you've not looked yet,it's worth adding your name. J.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

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Happy Birthday

Poor Karen at Scrapbook Sisters was rather poorly last week so the "Birthday Greetings" challenge didn't get posted, thankfully she is now feeling much better so it will now be the challenge for this week.

For my DT card I used Sizzix dies for the flower and flourish adding a large self adhesive pearl to the centre.

A strip of ribbon topped with ric-rack was added down the side.

The sentiment was free on a magazine cut out using nestabilities,then a die cut edge strip added to the bottom edge of the card. All of the edges were brushed with a brown chalk eye.

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

MIM47,anything goes,

Stamps R Us,Happy birthday,

Come And Get It Challenge, Make your own flowers,

OSAAT 72,Pearls and swirls,

PTT26,Anything goes,

Allsorts 113,Free and easy.

I'm hoping that the recipient of this card has a wonderful birthday today,"Happy Birthday Penny!"

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Sunday Owl.

Morning,hope you're enjoying the weekend. Today's post is quick and to the point sharing the card I made last night to congratulate our daughter on passing her college course

She's mad on owls so I googled Owl colouring pages and used it as a template to decoupage one from My Mind's Eye and Crate Paper scraps.

A bit of snipping and stamping,inking and doodling and the banner was created to hang from the hand cut tree branch.

A few foam pads,a frame cut to fit and the card's complete.

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

2 Sisters 49,Anything goes,

Little Claires 11,Wings,

Word Play Weekend 10,Wild Animals,

Aud Sentiments33,Make you smile,

Craft Us Crazy 13,Anything goes,

FBC56,Go wild.

Thanks for stopping by,

Catch you later,

Julie.x

Hello Flower

It's Wednesday and you know what that means,time for a new challenge at Scrapbook Sisters and who can resist entering this one? it's Birthday Greetings!  Here's my DT card using my gorgeous new  Woodware poppy stamp

Ok,I know that poppy's look best red but my R27 Copic ran out mid way and left me with only a partially blended bloom,try as I might I just couldn't rescue it so that's why there's only part of the red poppy showing.

I used glossy accents on the stamens which looks fab in real life (in my opinion) The leaves from the poppy I stamped onto design paper using Momento Bamboo and added around the bloom on top of the double layer of ribbon. I don't know what's happening lately but I can't stop myself layering up the ribbons.

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

Deep Ocean Challenge 4,Ribbons,

Stamps R Us,through the garden gate,

Birthday Sundaes,Anything goes Birthday,

OSAAT,Flowers.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

A Walk In The Park.

Check out Jack,looks like he's taking the cheats way of walking the dog .I wonder how many of you bought the Cards and Papercraft Magazine just for the set of stamps that included Jack and his Wagon? I did,haven't actually looked at any of the pages just snatched the stamps from the front (You may still be able to find one on the shelves,Sainsbury's still had this edition on sale at the end of last week) The set also included Dressing Up Robyn and some sentiments too,if you did miss out on the freebies you can find them here  to purchase.

Today's card is really just a quick reminder that the Summer Birthdays Challenge at Ladybug crafts is running over 4 weeks this time and there is still 2 weeks left to enter if you fancy making a card.

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

Die Cut Dreams 94, 4 legged animals,

MIM46,Anything goes,

Pollycraft 102,Summer fun,

Squigglefly 107,Hang ten,

I Did It 64,Animals,

Stamptacular 120,Animal antics.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Money In My Pocket!

I'm really hoping that wherever you are that you have had a better day weather wise than we have in Kent today,it's rained on and off all day,there was even a thunder storm.
Just a quick post today sharing a money pocket made for giving dollars  as a gift to a work colleague. 

I love these huge self adhesive pearls,I cut out some flowers from the papers and added them to the centres.

I stitched through the double layers of papers adding a button onto both sides of the paper to stop the stitches from pulling through. I then added some elastic to the lower edge using a button on the inside again to add strength. 

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

CYDA 24,Fancy folds,

Inspire Me Fridays,Anything goes,

DYSU 28,Sew,faux or real,

Rainbow Lady's 161,Stitching,

FBC55,3 of something.

Thanks for stopping by, have a good week,

Julie.x