D is for Daffodils

Happy Friday to you all,

I am just a little excited after finishing work yesterday for two weeks - so plenty of time for crafting!

As it's Friday - it's time for our next letter over at the Alphabet Challenge and yes, you guessed - it's the letter 'D'. Caz chose our theme this week and we would love to see your projects featuring 'Daffodils' - it's about time we saw a little colour out there, instead of the white stuff! Here's what I made for my DT inspiration ...

I must admit, I was struggling to find anything with daffodils on to use for this one - but found a wooden stamp which has a set of three flowers on (one being the daffodil). So, I masked the other two flowers and just stamped the daffodil three times to make a CAS card this week. The images are coloured with Promarkers and I chose a DL landscape size for a change, which I think suits the layout well. What do you think?

Don't forget to pop over to the blog to check out some more inspiration from my teamies and I shall look forward to visiting your blogs to check out all the cheery spring daffodils.

Hugz, Jan xx

Spring Colours

Wow! Here's my second post today - it's amazing what you get done when you don't have to go to work!

I have made a little card this morning for the challenge over at 'Lili's Little Fairies', which is one of my favourite stamp companies. The challenge this week is to use 'Spring Colours' and although we don't seem to be having much 'Spring' here, I thought a bit of yellow and green seemed in order. Here's what I made ...

I have used the gorgeous LOTV 'Blossom' image which is coloured with Promarkers - I thought this one was perfect for what should be Spring! Lol. The sentiment is also LOTV and all the papers are from my stash. I have also used my new TH 'On the Edge' butterfly die - which I am becoming addicted to. Hope this one brings a little cheer into the cold, dull days we are getting at the moment.

Hugz, Jan xx

Inspired by a Book Cover

Good morning to you all,

Something a little different for me today - first of all, I'm at home (changed my day off this week) because of the school residential last week. We all had a fabulous time out in the Peak District, even with the four inches of snow that came down overnight last Thursday!! Oh my, to say it was cold was an understatement!!

Well, moving on - it's time for another challenge over at Make my Monday and this week we have made crafty projects using a book cover as inspiration. Another first for me and I am loving the challenges this DT brings - here's a photo of the book we used ...

As soon as I saw this, I knew exactly which stamp I wanted to use - it's been sitting in my stash forever and I think it fits the challenge perfectly. Here's what I made ...

I used a Versamark inkpad to stamp onto the black card, then added touches of Cosmic Shimmer mica powders which produced an amazing shimmer (which doesn't show very well on my photo!)  I stamped the sentiment in the middle (again with Versamark) and embossed with white embossing powder. Extra embellishments include a piece of black organza ribbon and bow, together with a couple of little die-cut butterflies to echo the theme.

Don't forget to pop over to the blog and check out the work of my talented teamies for some further inspiration. I shall look forward to visiting your blogs this week to see your interpretation of the book too.

Right, off to do some crafting,

Hugz, Jan xx

Enjoy the Adventure

Happy Friday everyone,

Well, my blog post title is quite appropriate today - I've scheduled my post for this morning because I am currently in Castleton with 32 nine-year olds on our school residential at an outdoor pursuits centre - so definitely an adventure! The weather forecast was for rain, rain and more rain, so spare a thought for me please (and no laughing)!! Lol.

As it's Friday, it's time for another challenge over at the Polkadoodles challenge blog - this week we would love to see your projects which include some embossing (this can be heat or dry embossing). Here's what I made  for my DT inspiration ...

I've used the gorgeous 'Cherryblossom Lane CD' which was designed by the amazingly talented Nikky Hall. I love all the little characters on the CD - each one seems to have their own personality. I have made a 6x6" card using backing papers, an image and a sentiment from the CD.  The image is coloured with my Promarkers and matted onto a darker blue.  I have included some dry embossing on a piece of blue pearlised paper and finished with a piece of twine and a couple of blue buttons. 

Please pop over to the blog, if you can spare the time, and take a look at the other DT projects made by my talented teamies. I shall look forward to seeing your entries and visiting your blogs over the next week.

Hugz, Jan xx

Fairy Dust

Good morning to you all,

It's my turn to post over at the Scrapbook Stamp Society today and I have a fantasy card to show you using the gorgeous 'Fairy Dust' image by Morgan Fitzsimons, which can be found in their on-line shop HERE.

I made a 6x6" card using background papers from Raspberry Road.  I have coloured the image with Promarkers, picking out two colours from the background papers. I decided to give her purple hair to create more of a fantasy theme for the card and have added one of my new die-cut pieces behind the image, together with a piece of polkadot organza ribbon and a couple of die-cut butterflies. Hope you like it!

I would love to enter this into the challenge over at Scrapbook Stamp Society.

Hugz, Jan xx

Clean and Simple

Good morning to all my crafty friends and followers,

If all has gone according to plan I should be back at school this morning, after a couple of sick days last week.

And what better way to celebrate Monday morning than with a new challenge over at the 'Make My Monday' challenge blog. This week we would love to see your 'Clean and Simple' projects using a monotone theme. Well, I was half way there - I love working in monotone, but clean and simple - now there's a challenge for someone who doesn't know when to stop with the embellishments!! Lol. Here's what I made ...

Well, there you go - see what you can do when you try! (It was hard though, I must admit I wanted to stick a few more embellishment on it!) All I used was my favourite distress ink - Victorian Velvet (yes, again I hear you say!), one of my favourite wording stamps, a piece of pink organza ribbon and a little metal heart embellishment. Definitely clean and simple!

I hope you can join us for the challenge and I shall look forward to checking out your projects during the week. Don't forget to pop over and take a peek at my talented teamies too.

Hugz, Jan xx

Inky Fingers at Studio 12

Morning everyone,

It's my turn to post a little inspiration over on the Studio 12 blog today - here's what I made ...

This gorgeous heart image is one of the cutting files in the 'Welcome Home' section of the Picknix 1 CD. But as I don't have a cutting machine, I like to use them as .png images to print. I love the solid black outlines, which are great for printing onto an inky background, which I made using one of my favourite distress ink colours - Victorian Velvet, with a little added spritz of pearl shimmer mist.

Once finished, I popped the inked piece through my printer and added the heart image and the sentiment, which is also from the CD. I printed a second copy of the hearts and cut out some of the centres to make a mask, before stamping inside a couple with a small flower stamp. I coloured a couple of the other hearts with an extra layer of distress ink and then outlined the whole thing with a Promarker to give some shadow.

Hope you like it - have a great day.

Hugz, Jan xx