Happy Birthday to my Husband

Happy Saturday everyone,

I am sat here feeling very sorry for myself at the moment with a stinking cold and sore throat - again!! I think my immune system is shot! Lol.

Anyway, can't be sad - it's my hubby's birthday today so I thought I would show you the card I made for him ...

It's an 8x8" card blank covered with papers from my stash matted onto green textured cardstock.  The image is 'Cutie Patooties - Sweep' by Little Claire's Designs and is embossed in black and coloured with my Promarkers.  The lampost is a Marianne die and seem to fit the theme perfectly.  The sentiments are both LOTV and the corner die is from Memory Box.  A few buttons and ribbon from my stash to finish off.  Hope you like it.

Right off to take some more tablets - have to get better, off out for tea tomorrow to celebrate.

Hugz, Jan xx

Any Die will Do

Hi there folks,

I can't believe it's Friday again so soon! This week has been manic! But, Friday means it's Polkadoodles challenge day and this week we would like to see your creations using a Marianne Die - as the title says 'Any Die will Do!' 

I decided to be a little different this week and wrap a present and make a gift tag, using papers from the 'Paper Boutique Vol II CD' and a little sentiment from the 'Here Comes Christmas CD'.  Here's the finished project ...

The first layer of the tag is a scalloped circle cut from red textured card.  I then used the little swirl die from the Marianne LRO108 Flowers set and cut it eight times from dark green card.  These are positioned around the red layer and stuck down in the middle.  The next layer is a scalloped circle cut from gold mirri card, topped with a TH paper rosette cut from the same paper that the gift is wrapped in.  Finally I added a little sentiment, layered onto another circle of red card. Voila! 

Don't forget to check out the blog for some more fab inspiration from my very talented teamies.

Hugz, Jan xx

Summer!

Hi there folks,

Well, it's Friday - that means only one thing - it's Polkadoodles challenge day.  This week the theme is 'Summer' and the design team have created lots of lovely themed projects over on the challenge blog for you to look at.  I have used my favourite 8x8" scalloped card and here's what I made ...

I used some gorgeous pastel papers from the 'Sundae of Seasons' CD, together with a fab little flower image from the same CD.  The main image is an 'Emma Canning' design and she is very aptly called 'Summer' and has been coloured with my Promarkers.  A collection of flowers accent the corner of the image and are enhanced with my favourite Marianne leaf die (LR0226).  I also used a Marianne die (LR0191) to display the sentiment (which is from the latest Pen & Paper Circle stamp set).  Extra embellishments include some pale pink satin ribbon, tiny punched daisies, a pink dragonfly brad and some taupe adhesive gems to finish the bottom corner.

I'm off on my holidays for a week early tomorrow morning, so I won't be around until next weekend to catch up with comments on all my favourite blogs out there.

See you all soon,

Hugz, Jan xx