The Girl With The Tiny Blue Butterfly in Her Hair

Charisma Cardz are having a DT call so I just had to do this weeks challenge as they were one of the first challenges I entered when I started blogging... I now just need to email them with my cards. 
Tonight's card started off as an Ice Cream recipe for Raspberry Ripple but I could not resist colouring the little butterfly blue lol. Here she is....

Inspiration:

Sketch Saturday: #161

Charisma Cardz: #26 Ice Cream Colours ( Raspberry Ripple)

I Love Promarkers: #72 Include Flowers ( On Stamp)

Lili of the Valley: #103 Celebrate

The Ribbon Girl: Pink & Cream

Divas By Design: Die Cuts & Punches ( Butterflies, Nestie)

Flutterby Wednesday: #160 Open

Hmm that's a lot more than normal lol

Card Recipe:

Image: LOTV Millie Just For You

Promarkers: Pink Carnation, Fuchsia, buttercup, mustard,

almond, marsh, pear, ivory, cobalt, pastel blue,

putty, sun kissed pink, cool grey 5

DPs: First Edition Dessert Blooms

Punch: Martha Stewart

Ribbon: Ribbon Girl (spotty turned upside down)

Dew Drops: Ribbon Girl

Sentiment: LOTV

Hope you like her.... I'll Be back Saturday

Jen xx



Mum.... Look What I Caught!!!

I've completely fallen in love with Polly Craft images so thought I would use another one today.  Here he is...

Inspiration:
Polly Craft Challenge: #99 Make a Splash ( been fishing...sorry frogging lol......)
Craft your Passion: #64 Seeing Red
Mojo Monday: # 127 Sketch
Crafting for all Seasons: #4 Red, White & Blue

Card Recipe:

Image: Slides & Swings from Polly Craft

Promarkers: cinnamon, cocoa, tan, putty, almond, bright green,

lime, poppy, berry red, midnight, china blue, cobalt, umber,

sun kissed pink, warm grey 3

DPs: Shabby Princess Celebrate

Seam Binding & Bakers Twine: Ribbon Girl

Sentiment: PC Font - Big Log

Hope you all have a great day

Jen xx

Fancy a Cupcake?

Thought I'd do a little card tonight with main inspiration coming from Cupcake craft challenges " Cooking Up a Storm". I wanted to do a "Pretty & Distressed" look... Hope I mastered it...

 

To distress the paper  I used a Acrylic Nail sanding block ( love these as they are so easy to hold and really cheap) once I had torn the edges.  it works wonders especially on printed paper.

Inspiration:

Cupcake Craft Challenges: #148 Cooking Up a Storm

Little Claire's: #10 Pink & Brown

Sketch n Stash: #64

Card Recipe:

Image: Little Claire

Promarkers: Tan, Marsh Green, Fuchsia, Pink Carnation

DPs: Pink Petticoat Little Big Dots Mocha

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat Sweet Treats Sentiments

Seam Binding: The Ribbon Girl - Pink Tulip

Buttons & Twine: The Ribbon Girl

Hope you like it

Jen xx

Organic Flower Trio

Well after a long day at work and BBQ at Lizy's I thought I should make at least one card to keep me on track with my 100 card challenge.  The circles I cut out for apertures from this weeks Less Is More Sketch challenge were still on my desk so I thought I would utilise them in another entry. 

I've tried to go for something a little bit different but I have kept the colours very muted. I used scraps of the first edition paper to line the inside and then used the circles to bridge the front of the card together where I cut it into pieces to give the impression of the border across the trio.  The wooden flowers are from Kars and the pearls from Hobby House.  Fairly simple but I like it...Hope you do too...

I'm off to read a few chapters on my kindle.... hope you all have a good Tuesday

Jen xxx

Every Man's Home is His Castle

On my way yesterday to help my BF move flat ( he's going from 17th floor to the 1st in the same building) I popped in to a little craft shop in Farnworth, Bolton - Crafty by Nature and found a little gem of a stamp set that I knew would be perfect to make him a little house warming card. Here it is:

Inspiration:
The Sweet Stop: Sketch 114
Here Come the Boys: #5 Spots and Stripes

Card Recipe:

Image: Hoist The Flags ( Lindsay Mason for Personal Impressions).

Memento Ink: Rich Cocoa

DP: MME Asparagus ( from scrap box)

Green Card: Co-ordinations

Hope you like it... I'm off to Lizy's now to drop some stuff off and a good old chin wag I'm sure...

Jen xx

Summer Fields

Morning LIMettes, well it's Saturday yet again and I'm not up as early as I normally am this week.  Anyhow Lady & Diva LIM have given us a sketch this week at Less Is More and I had about a million ideas so you may see me a couple of times this week lol... here is the card I made...

Using a coloured card blank in pale yellow (I do like not white card blanks if you hadn't all already noticed lol),  I have put 3 circles into the co-ordination card with a nestie and then raised this off using foam pads ( I know... but they don't squash lol) and put DP behind it... It's finished off with the little butterflies. I have left it without a sentiment as I am going to use it as a little notelet. Simple

Inspiration:

Less Is More: Week 21 Sketch

Card Recipe:

DPs: First Edition Daydream (Birthday Pressie from my Mum)

Green Card: Co-ordinations.

Butterfly: Martha Stewart Punches

Pearls: Hobby House

Hope you all have a fab day... I may or may not be back a little later depending on how I get on with Rosie & Ians table plan lol....

Jen xxx

Black Cats For Sale

This week's One Stop Craft Challenge is "Get Well Soon" and the DT have been using designs from the sponsor "A Day For Daisies".  I absolutely love these designs and had already purchased a couple more.... Here is my card for this week

I thought I would have another go at that fab cloud technique... this time I applied a little more ink and I think the effect is much better....

Card Recipe:

Image: Black Cats for Sale - A Day For Daisies

Promarkers: Cool, Warm, Ice Greys 4+ 5, Marsh Green, Honeycomb, Spice

Faber Castell Polychromos + sansodor

Paper: From Scrap Draw ( Yellow is Bazzil I believe)

Dew Drops: Ribbon Girl

Sentiment is PC printed

Hope you have time to visit the Design Team this week and see there fab cards....

Have a great weekend xx

Jen xx