Feeling Rather Guilty!

Last month I decided that I fancied keeping an "Art Journal"

I'm not entirely sure where the idea came from and I had no idea how to go about starting one so I googled. Anyway,you know what it's like, you get taken on a journey,finding ideas you like, and some you don't and before you know it you've lost a few hours but have a head full of inspiration.

One of the blogs I stumbled upon was

Julie Kirk's

"Notes On Paper"

I lost hours, picking up ideas and read of that she was starting a series "A Month Of Sunrays" spreading cheeriness and Virtual Sunshine!

To cut a long story short I won some rather scrummy candy! sponsored by "The Ribbon Girl"

Oh my goodness,this little packet was packed full of scrumminess! How lucky was I !

Check out Julie's blog,it's cram packed with inspiration!

I promised Julie I would blog a "Virtual Thank you" 

I'm sorry it's taken so long!

The Sunshine is what was left from here and I used some of the ribbon,lace,a button, string and the dewdrops that were in my candy, Thank you so much Julie, I promise to show you a page of my journal when I gain some confidence!

With a table full of Sunshine treats I was in the mood to colour some sunny blooms and settled on

"Sunflower Delights Digi" I used a strip of yellow polka dot papers and stamped the top of my card blank randomly using a Lavinia Stamp before cutting around the vase and placing the image as if on a table cloth.

 I'm entering the following challenges:-
Crafty Catz 126, Use a digi,
Inspire Me Fridays 52, Anything goes,
Jellypark, What's the weather,
Lily Pad, Flowers,
Poodles Parlour, Going Dotty,
WnW 76, Flowers.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Got Something To Say?

Morning! not like me to be late with my Southern Girls DT card but I was out gallivanting last night so didn't get time to write my post.

If you read this Mrs P.. thanks for a lovely evening!

 Anyway on to the challenge.

"Got Something To Say ?"

For my card I used digi papers "Paisley Fleur" by "Eiglassing" (this is the first time I've ever used digi papers and I was surprised at how easy it was)
 The fab image and Sentiment are
"JJ housework,cook" from "Bugaboo" both of these companies are amongst the sponsors of the challenge, check out the challenge blog for full details of all of the sponsors!

I coloured JJ using Copics and cut her out,placing her over the aperture cut using Nestabilities.I added glossy accents to her specs and the wine glass.

Isn't the image fun! not sure JJ would be much of a cook though lol!

Used a Sizzix florish under the sentiment and then decorated the back adding somewhere to write my greeting. The papers were printed on to pearlised white paper.

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

DTC153, Use your favourite colour,(pink)

PTT61, Anything goes,

MIM82, Anything goes,

CCH12, Add a sentiment,

CMCC, Anything goes,

DSC85, I'll drink to that!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Happy Wednesday!

Spring is here, yay!!!!!  It's been great to see some bright weather for a change!
What an amazing amount of entries there were for the last challenge at Scrapbook Sisters! We are hoping that the same will happen this week, it's another theme that is sure to be popular, Easter! I got my spots out again and inspired by the flower pots around my door step I decided to use a selection of die cuts to form a simple daffodil and potted it a hand cut flower pot. The Ladybug was made using a long neglected QuicKutz set.

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

Crafty Boots, Easter,

GHWI17, Wings,

Lexi 61, Easter,

Lollipop Crafts73, Anything goes,

My Grafico 124, Easter,

PCI21, Wings,

2 Sisters 84, Spring is in the air.

 Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things!!!

It's Totally Ladybug Tuesday!  and before we go any further, what did you think of the new Teenager Digi's? pretty cool don't you think! and what talent we saw and an amazing amount of entries there were last challenge too! Kept the ladybugs pretty busy commenting I can tell you! 


The new challenge starts today "Spots and Stripes" and I found it really hard, not because I didn't enjoy the theme but more because I have a bit of a thing for spotty papers! I have piles of them, if you come to the fortnightly scrapbooking classes that I attend you will already know this lol! You'll see the look of panic if I'm supposed to cut into any for layouts, polka dots are kept exclusively for my cards(well almost) In fact, as I've previously been seen rooting in the bins and retrieving the  cast off edge strips from other ladies papers, my lovely class mates have now taken the hint and some even cut off their edge strips and pass them straight to me! The yellow spotty strip here was one of those donations lol! 

I used my lovely Magnum, don't think I'll ever tire of using him, he's such a cheeky chap, I've even left Lily on this time for him to watch instead of feeding him cake like I did here! I coloured him using Copics,used my Nestability and Nellie Snellen dies and layered up some flowers and buttons and tied them with Hemp. Thought I'd leave it there but a birthday isn't complete without a bit of Bunting the spots and stripes kind of course lol! I added spots to the inside of  my card too. 

 

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

Kaboodle Doodles 112, Circles and squares,

MIM82, Anything goes,

SFC1212, Anything goes,

CCH112, Add a sentiment,

CMCCC, Anything goes,

Totally Gorjuss 124, Spots and stripes,

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

The Birthday Girl

It's my Mum's birthday today, me and the girls have just returned from having a lovely birthday lunch with her, it seems like ages since my eldest has been able to come out on a Saturday, it was a nice surprise for mum to spend some time with her too. When the children were little mum got to see them most days but work and homework get in the way a bit these days.

Thought I'd share the card I made for Mum with you.

The image is Tea cup delights, one of the Garden Delights digi images by Ladybug Crafts Ink. Love the papers, thought they were a bit fussy but when I layered them up with the gold they look gorgeous! They are Red Floral and Flower Box from the "This & That collection from Echo Park" 

A simple, layered card set off with a large bow and sizzix diecut letters.

 Mum's a bit like me and dislikes having photos taken but I said she had to as it's her birthday! When the girls get together they're full of mischief, poor mum was oblivious as to what was going on behind her back, good job too lol! 

                            I hope I look this good at 84!

                                Happy Birthday Mum!

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

Digi Days 29, Add a sentiment,( look hard it's stamped on the patterned paper)
DD15, Wonder of life,
Hotshot 5, Ribbon,
Patties 40, Anything goes,
Polka Doodles 12, Mothers Day,(hope mum's Bday counts!)
SNSDC 46, Celebrate spring.

Thanks for stopping by,
 enjoy the rest of your weekend,
Julie.x 

The Day Has Finally Arrived!!!!!

It's been a New release fortnight  at Ladybug Crafts with two new names joining the LCI image family.

                                   "Josh and Jess" 

 If you're wanting to make a card for a teenager you are sure to find a suitable image amongst them!
The rest of the team have made some amazing cards so far and with only two more days left to go I'm thrilled that you've called by to see my cards. I have been so excited about today, it's been agony for me waiting patiently for my day to come!

 If you would like the chance to Win one of today's images, all you need to do is leave a comment on today's post on the challenge blog and wait patiently like I did but only till tomorrow lol! that's when the winner will be revealed!

There is still time to join the TLT Anything Goes Challenge. 
and more amazing prizes up for grabs!

I coloured Xbox Josh Using Copics, fussy cut him out,

Layered  up my papers and cut an aperture before placing Josh over it.

I used various dies to make my star badges,echoing those on the image. I also used Sizzix dies to cut the numbers.

 On to my second card using "Coat of Paint Jess". I paper pieced the wallpaper in the image, coloured Jess using Copics and did an out of the box cut using Nestabilities and xcut dienamiques.

I also made little bottles of nail varnish using nestability circles to match the colours used in the image.

I embossed my card blank before adding all the elements.

The acetate is recycled packaging and the sentiment is an LCI stamp.

 Hope my card was worth the wait!

I'm using these cards for the following challenges:-

CPF37, Anything goes,

DTBST117, Paper piecing,

MMCS49, Digital,(2 entries),

Paper Shelter, Paper piecing,

Scrapalicious USA, Fussy Cut,

Sisterhood Of Crafters, Birthday.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Anything Goes

It's  time for a new challenge at Scrapbook Sisters it's Anything goes so I made my dt card for my lovely crafting friend whose Golden Wedding Anniversary it was last Saturday, hope you had a lovely day Carol and Bob, congratulations to you both ! I've a confession though, she won't be receiving it till this evening at class so I'm hoping she doesn't visit my blog today.

 Carol loves to use glitter in her crafting so I couldn't make her a card without using some sparkle, not the loose glitter that Carol so likes to share around but glitterfilm which I stuck onto my gold card before cutting it out using Plantin's Schoolbook on the Cricut.

I coloured my gems using Copics to match the card.

Happy Anniversary Carol and Bob!
I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Karen's Doodles 100, Something Special,
Nettie G4,What's the Occasion,
Lia Stamz 3, Anything goes plus sentiment,
Mema's Crafts March, Two of us,
Crafty Pad 162, Perfect Pair,
Allsorts 146, 3 In a row,
CCC14, Pot of gold.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x