The Sky Is The Limit...

I had a great night out with a couple of my fave girl friends last night and it helped me make a few decisions that I had been pondering over and I've decided to do a little life laundry and clear out all of the bad stuff/people that make me that little bit miserable day on day....
That inspired me to use this fabulous new set from Clearly Besotted's August release.... Think this is my favourite set!

Card Recipe:
Stamps & Dies: The Sky Is the Limit - Clearly Besotted
Card stock and DP: Stampin Up
Twine: Stampin Up

Right.. that's all from me for today...

Jen xxx

James Wrapped In Tinsel

On Monday evening I showed you some coloured images here where I had been showing Vicky different colouring mediums.  Last night I made a little card using the one coloured with Distress Markers...
James wrapped with tinsel was the first ever LOTV Christmas stamp I bought a few years ago now and I'm loving getting out my "Vintage" stamps and bringing them to life again.  We always seem to concentrate on the new stash and forget about all those hidden gems... sometimes I find the amount of stamps I have a little overwhelming and don;t know what to use... Think I'll be going on full stash ban soon just so I can settle with all the goodies I have... I'm definitely doing that for card stock I have so much lol!!

Anyhow, enough waffling here is my little card (I'll probably add a sentiment at a later date) ....

Card Recipe:
Image: James Wrapped In Tinsel from LOTV
DP: My Minds Eye
Ribbon: Stampin Up
Distress Inks: Barn Door, Shabby Shutters, Brushed Corduroy (I think lol)

That's all from me for today.... See you soon

Jen xxx

Rev Up The Fun..... Seize The Sketch #1

Afternoon... See I told you I would be back today with exciting news.... It's the first challenge at Seize The Sketch!!

If you haven't seen already it's a new challenge set up by the fabulous Lesley Croghan. This little baby is the sister to the already popular Seize The Birthday. Here is the first sketch designed by the fabulous Amy.

We also have a new sponsor for this fortnight...Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Here is my creation....

Card Recipe:
Washi Tape: mt
Star Die: Die-namics
Sentiment: Stampin Up

Make sure you pop over and see the rest of the team...

Amy Tsuruta
Cathy Sante

Rose Miller
Stacey Schafer

Lesley Croghan

That's all from me for today... See you soon

Jen xxx

Christmas Pup Trio.. Passion For ProMarkers #210... Clean & Simple

Morning... So it's my turn to host the challenge at this weeks Passion For Promarkers and I'm a little sad as it's my second to last challenge as I make the difficult decision to step down from the team :-(

Bet you can't all guess what I chose for the theme this week???  You got it....

Clean & Simple

So I know it 's scary to a lot of you but give it a go.... Here are my cards... yes I got a little carried away with this super cute pup and decided to do a matching set!!

Card Recipe:
FlexMarkers
Images: Party Pup - Christmas Pressie, Cracking Christmas and Christmas Card from Lili Of The Valley
Sentiment: Handwritten Phrases Christmas - LOTV
DP: Pink Petticoat from Fairy Lights Collection
Wink Of Stella clear pen... If you don't have one of these you need one !!!

Hope you all have a fabulous day... I'll be back at 1pm for the brand new Seize The Sketch.. Make sure you pop back

Jen xxx

Something a Little Different.. UPDATED (added Flexmarker version)

Evening... So I have no card for you today but I have a little experiment I was trying yesterday when my friend Vicky from Vicky's Crafting Corner popped over to pick up some bits.  Vicky is really new to crafting (pop over and say hello) and was trying to decide which colouring medium to select...

So we were looking at the easiest and fairly cheap method for her.... firstly we looked at the Distress Markers from Tim Holtz... more pocket friendly that my huge promarker collection and fairly easy to use.  We both coloured in the same image.... the fabulous "James The Bear ...Wrapped In Tinsel" from Lili of the valley.... I love this bear!!  Here is mine.... Simply 3 distress markers....

After a little conversation re Distress markers and buying them I realised you may be able to do the same thing with Stampin Up write markers.... So tonight I coloured the same image with the markers... It was so easy I love the simple colouring... and since Vix has some of the markers already... a lot cheaper!

Here is take 2 with the markers ... Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede and Real Red...

UPDATE:
I thought I would add the one I coloured with Flexmarkers and Prismas.... This was the one I was colouring in when Vicky arrived...

Hope you join me tomorrow for a new challenge at Passion For Promarkers.... It's my turn to host this week.  It's also the first ever sketch over at Seize the Sketch!!!

I'm hopefully going to turn these two cuties into some cards now.....

Jen xxx

Design Seeds

Morning LIMettes... Where did this week go? I have a million and one things I just didn't do this week and that included some crafting but not it's Saturday and that means we have a new challenge at Less Is More.  It's the first week in the month so this week it's a new colour challenge... Here is what we want you to use as inspiration:

Here are my two cards for this week....

For my first card I use scrap of card from Stampin Up (the yellow is More Mustard) and I have simply stitched them with my little sewing machine.  The punches and sentiment are also Stampin up. It's a fairly simple design and great for using up bits of card stock.

My second card uses the same coloured card stock as the first but in very different proportions.  I have kept this card a lot light by using whisper white as the base.  The sentiment is from a retired set from sale-a-bration this year and the button from The Ribbon Girl.

More decorating for me today and then hopefully a day of crafting ahead tomorrow...

Have a great Saturday...

Jen x

Just Because

Hi everyone.... What a week and boy am I glad it's over... Jack is doing a lot better and is finally eating the prescription cat food... although he keeps sneaking a snack at Levi's normal food!! Work has been chaotic to say the least and my mojo has definitely been hiding somewhere...
I decided I needed to do a little crafting to relax tonight so thought I'd make a few simple cards.. here is a very quick one using my new fave colour combo deep pink and dark grey!! love it!!

Inspiration:
CAS(e) This Sketch: #39

Card Recipe:
Supplies all from Stampin Up
Sentiment: A Dozen Thoughts
Image: Love & Sympathy

I'll be back tomorrow for the new Less Is More challenge... Although I'll be catching up on visiting you all tonight (sorry I've been so naughty this week).

Have a great Friday night...

Jen xxx