Every Clouds Got A Silver Lining!

What a horrible wet day it's been today but then every clouds got a silver lining,what's point of spending the day washing when you can spend the day CRAFTING!!!! well,some of it anyway.


Here's one of this afternoon's,creations,yes another Christmas card off the list! The stamp was from last year and is Marianne Eline's toddlers Christmas,I stamped her using Momento Tuxedo black and coloured the image using Copics. I used a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder and used a Nestability scalloped circle which I removed the centre of and raised using foam pads. The snowflakes were made using an old Xcut punch. I used Diamond Stickles around the scallops and added self adhesive flat backed gems to the snowflakes.I hand cut the tag after stamping my sentiment.
I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
SSD's challenge,Anything goes,
Sweet Stampin Challenge 46,Punch it out,
Charisma Cardz Challenge 39,Christmas Crafting,
Colour Create Challenge 54,All white plus coloured image,
Creative Cottage Challenge 24,Bling it on,
Creative Inspirations Challenge 80,Christmas in September,
Penny's paper crafty Challenge 39,Circles,
Tuesday Throwdown 19,Punches,
Thanks for stopping by today,as much as I'd like to spend the day crafting again tomorrow,I'm hoping for some sunshine to get some washing dry so keep your finger's crossed.
Enjoy your weekend,
Julie.x
P.S. There's still time to enter this weeks challenge at Scrapbook Sisters.

Challenge 4,Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend.

This is my DT card for this weeks Scrapbook Sisters 4th Card Challenge,the theme is Diamonds are a girls best friend and as I needed to make a card for a friends 30th birthday I thought diamonds would be perfect! I cut an aperture in the card using a white Revolution Nesting circle and used Whitewash Coordinations through my cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder for the scalloped Nestie frame and the centre circle.
I punched my white flowers and shaped them placing some lovely "diamonds" from Paperchase into the centres. The flourishes were cut using a Revolution Flourish die,I added a touch of diamond stickles to these and around the inside centre circle. I hadn't any tiny gems suitable for the tiny punched flowers so used some holographic peel-off dots in the centres and added a spot of 3d glaze over them. This gave a great result and I actually prefer this look over the acrylic gems.

I really hope you come and join us again this week as every winner will be added into the Christmas draw for the soon to be released Gayle Bond Digi stamps!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Sitting On The Fence.

Thought I'd share the card that I made to give my DH for our Anniversary tomorrow,Oh my word,I can't believe it's been 26 years! The image is a freebie digi by Polycraft,downloaded ages ago,and here's a little secret,this is the first time ever that I managed to size a digi and print onto card,not paper,entirely by myself. Normally my very patient son helps me with this sort of thing but I need to try and do this myself,especially when the extremely talented Gayle Bond is about to release a whole range of Digi's,I'm so excited about this,she is such a clever lady! I can't wait to get creative with some of her images!


Not entirely pleased with my fence,could kick myself now as I've just remembered a demo I've watched somewhere where Corduroy was used to create a wood effect. too late now,will make a mental note for next time.I coloured the image using Copics and added glaze and stickles to the stamped hearts. The great big juicy heart buttons were a buy from Paperchase and the greeting is Jane's script by Woodware.


I'm entering a few challenges with this card and have just double checked that the image is a Friday Freebie by Pollycraft and discovered that my card fits in with this weeks challenge too,a first time for me entering one of their challenges!
Pollycraft Challenge 63,No designer papers,
Mad For Markers,Colour A Digi image,
SSSC,What's your favourite Sketch? Mines 76,
Incy Wincy 61,Anything goes,
DDChallenge 18,Crazy Critter,
Paper Sundaes 37,Things with wings,
Allsorts Week 71,Plain and simple,
CES5 Animal Antics,
Flutterby Wednesdays 123,Things with wings,
That's it for today,please call by tomorrow to find out what Scrapbook Sister's next challenge is,I'm sure it's going to be a really popular one.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

YUK!

That's all I have to say about today,it's wet,dark and miserable here in Kent today and summer is definitely over.There's a log on the fire and although we thought about going out for a while a heavy downpour soon put pay to that! I've not got a card to share today as the one I've made is for next weeks card challenge at Scrapbook Sisters,there's still time for you to enter this weeks though if you fancy making an "Over the edge" card.


I thought I'd share with you one of the layouts that I made in class recently,to be honest I took one look at the papers and wanted to run,They were not my cup of tea at all,but when you see the stunningly beautiful layouts that Julie made with these papers by Seven Gypsys if you're like me,you'll be amazed.I think this is why I make cards and only dabble at scrapbooking,I can't see past the 12x12, I just can't picture what to do with them unless I'm given the inspiration by Karen and Julie.Maybe I should try a few Scrapbook Challenges to make me think for myself and go freestyle,what do you think? I don't know where to look for scrapbook challenges though,anyone got any suggestions?
Anyway,that's me for today,not sure if I'm going to get much done in the way of crafting this week as we've got a man coming in to decorate but be sure to call by on Wednesday for the next card challenge!
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Short And Funky!

This stamp was one of those giveaway ones from the front of a magazine,Born To Shop by Docrafts. I have never coloured this kind of image before but am fairly happy with how it turned out. The hair though,was a bit of a mishap,I've managed to make her look like she's sporting an Afro instead of the short and funky hair do that's on the packet. First I coloured it as the image was shown but the yellow hair look rather horrible so I started adding a few highlights,still didn't like it and it kind of progressed from there,like a hair cut in reverse lol!


Looks a bit cheeky doesn't she! How anyone can walk in such heels,let alone shop is a mystery to me,maybe it's an age thing but my cupboard houses only flatties!


I 'm using this for a couple of challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp,Jay Jay's Sketch,
Colour Throwdown 111,I'm hoping the hair can count for "river rock" with all those highlights!
TPE 84,Aqua,
C4C56,bling,
Don't forget to check out Scrapbook Sister's blog for this week's card challenge,
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Friday Focus

Or should I say Friday Out Of Focus! cos that's what I've just noticed now that I've uploaded my photos,it is late in the day though,so go and have a sip of something naughty and you might not even notice lol!
I thought I'd check out some colouring demos today and this is the result,that Suzanne Dean sure is a talented lady! If I was half as good as her I'd be happy! My Gorjuss girl is Poppy fields by Sugar Nellie which I coloured using Copics. I wanted to follow a sketch for this card but hadn't an oval nestie so instead used my corner punch to round off the corners of my trimmed image.I'm still keeping to my quest to use only remnants and not to cut into any new sheets of papers or bazzil so the flowery blue paper is from the remains of pack Pink Parfait by Forever Friends.

I found some long forgotten velum that visited my Martha Stewart edge punch,I also cut some flowers from it and layered them onto the same flower cut in white. I added some self adhesive pearls to the centres of the flowers and shaped them.I treated myself to one of those Inkssentials thingys that you use with Distress inks the other day and thought today would be a good time to christen it,don't know how I've managed without one up till now,I think it's going to get lots of use.

I told you it was late in the day,I've talked about these flowers before I got here!so just in case you'd like a closer look,here they are!

I'm using this card for a few challenges:-

Crafty Catz Challenge 51,Stitching,

Sugar Bowl,Challenge 44,Lilian's sketch,

Paper Romance 17,handmade flower,

ABC Challenge,D is for distressing,

Scrappy Frogs,Flower power,

Tuesday Morning Sketches 60,Handmade flowers,
DCD66, Use velum,

Allsorts 70,Use 3 punches
I hope you have a lovely weekend and if you find yourself wanting a new challenge,check out Scrapbook Sister's Over the edge card challenge this week,

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Bits And Pieces.

Don't you find that as a crafter you collect bits and pieces of this and save off cuts and remnants of that! This card is made up using some of this in my quest to get organised. I even left a margin of white card base around the design so as not to cut into yet another piece of yellow card stock!Even my Sugar Nellie girl is one that I'd stamped a while ago having coloured only her skin and hair so I set about with the Copics to finish her off to match the Basic Grey June Bug remnants.

I made the flourishes by threading beads onto craft wire and placed my flower over the fixing spot. The beads are a casualty getting dressed in a hurry and catching a bracelet on a button lol! I have rather a big collection of these cheap buys from Primark,I can't resist them and have them in loads of colours,so after scrambling around the floor to collect what seems like hundreds of beads I put them in with my stash.I then added a line of Stickles around the edges just for some extra sparkle!

I'm going to use this card for the following challenges:-

Paper Sundaes 36,Fabulous fall,

Charisma Cardz Challenge 38,Anything goes,

The Corrosive Challenge 82,Clean up the dust,

Ai Factory Challenge 49,Anything goes,
Delightful Challenge,Make it sparkle,
Southern Girls challenge 2,Recycle Jewelery,
Bellichallenge 100,Embellishments beginning with B,(beads and button),
Sisterhood Of Crafters,Birthdays,
Thanks for stopping by,remember to check out this week's Over The Edge challenge at Scrapbook Sisters,
Julie.x