CJ3 on 3C's

It's CJ time again on Charmed Cards and Crafts forum. Here is the front cover on my CJ. Papers are K & Co Wild Saffron. Die cut alphabet is Tootsie in complimentary colours and I've added los of bling to the butterflies and flowers.

I'd love to show you what my Lo was inside .... but..... I can't find any pics anywhere. I'm so sure I took them though. Oh well when it comes home I'll post it. Can't show you any of the LO's in the other CJ's wither (or they'll be getting a glimpse way before time and I can't have that now. lol)

Card challenge entry

Karen has set a challenge on the Craft Diner forum this month and here is my entry for it. The challenge was simply to use fibres on your card. Well having never used fibres on a card I racked my brains. In the end I came up with the idea of using eyelets in the corner of the card holding this beautiful glittery Mira paper (wish you could see the glitter) and adding the fibres to show the butterflies flying. I really like this cad even though it is very simple. The colours of teh Mira papers are gorgeous. I really must get on and use some more of them. Lol.

Sketch challenge 3

This is my card for the latest card sketch challenge (4) on 3C's forum. Strange thing about my card is that it looks like it's a lemon card but it's cream actually. It only looks like this on the photo but not in real life. Weird!!!

Tilda (at last)

Took me ages to find where I had stored this image on the pc. Then I remembered it was my entry for the sketch challenge 3 on Charmed Cards and Crafts. So here is my first attempt at a Tilda card.

I stamped both the bench and Tilda (seperately) and cut them out before mounting them on my base card. Went a bit mad after this card and stamped loads of images to colour in. Coloured them in in a variety of ways but haven't had the time to do anything with them so far. Oh well they are ready whenever I need a card at least.

Oh dear

I am still here, honest. I have things to show, but (or is that BUT), not on my laptop and my DH is on the pc so I can't do anything tonight. I can tell you that I have a new love, Magnolia stamps. I have 5 now, 4 Tilda's and a bench . Don't laugh, the benches are gold dust a friend informed me.

My fave stashshop is about to get some in very soon. Not telling you who that is for now so you can't get the stamps I want. Lol. Once I have mine I'll shout it to the world and you can go and buy some from that store. Then you can have fun too. If you have no idea what I am talking about stay tuned and I will put my first attempt at a card with the delightfully cute Tilda on here.

BG half pint album

These are the pages I have created so far in the album that I won last month. I am enjoying scrapping in this funny size 12" X 6". All papers are BG Phoebe (bought from Charmed Cards and Crafts) and most of the embellishments are K & Co, DCWV, 7 Gypsies and Prima flowers. The others I can't remember atm lol .

Feb Challenges on the C D Forum

This month there are four new sketches on the CD forum to have a go at. I've managed 3 so far and time is running out.


These are my efforts

OMG

I have been a bad blogger. I have things to add, honest but just have not managed to get here to do it.

Here is a token for now (it's late) My girls have a competition at school to decorate a hat or cycle helmet. Their helmets are too small and damaged now so we have used them for our entries.

DD1 turned her's into Dotty the spotty dog and DD2 has created a safety bug out of hers. Neither photo is brilliant so I will take them again and replace them. It gives you an idea for now though.

I won a challenge

Today was a lovely day here and what made it even nicer was the goody box that arrived with my prize from a challenge I won on the Craft Diner forum.

The challenge was ....... to make a scrapbook page about a craft related resolution.What that resolution is... is up to you!

I chose to scrapbook my grand tidy up and resolution to be tidy. Most of last year the table in the kitchen (where meals have taken place) was hidden under my piles of stash, photos and goodness knows what else. I spent ages clearing up and finding new homes for everything and intend to keep things this way ALL year. !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is my lovely prize kindly sent by Jill & Mel at A Trip Down Memory Lane.

It consists of a Basic Grey half pint album with book rings, 4 sheets of coloured C/S with co-ordinating double sided papers from Chatter Box and 1 sheet of black C/S with 3 sheets of double sided black & white papers from Luxe witha sheet of die cut memos - Luxe- for journalling and 3 pieces of ribbon.

I intend to plunge in and begin creating this weekend when I have lots of time spare.

Well.....

I've spent ages here adding things this morning, but I still have some more. At least Juliet has something to look at now and she won't need to tell me off for not being here. Lol. I'm off now to do the rounds of my friends blogs (haven't been there much recently either, sorry guys.)

Well I will be back, can't say when as I have a new job starting on Friday working as a Learning Support Assistant in the Junior School I already work in as a dinner lady, less crafting time but more stash money. Yay!!! Or maybe that should be holiday money seeing as that is fast approaching. Hmmmm !

Altering things

This is one of the favoutrites of the things I have made this month. I bought a clipboard from Charmed Cards and Crafts and altered it in to a very girly looking clipboard. Papers are K & Co with flowers and butterflies cut out of some pf their sparkly sweet papers too. Bling added to the flowers for that extra sparkle. The paint in Adirondack paint dabbers in a lushush pink. It all looks fab on my orange kitchen wall lol. Although as DH said it's covered up by my birthday list (so it's not too much of a clash) Oh well I know it's pretty underneath the paper.

Christmas maze book

As part of a challenge cet by Carmen on 3C's forum I made a maze book about the Christmas decorations on our tree, with some of the girls thrown in for added interest. (Just a couple of the photos here.)

Wedding cards

These 2 wedding cards were made for 2 teachers at school who are getting married during half term. The card on the left is for DD2's class teacher and the one on the right is for DD1's Maths and Head of Year teacher.

Papers are DCWV from their wedding stack on both cards. Mirror card on both and the right card has a chipboard sticker in the center of the matting and layering. (I'm getting good at this matting and layering now lol.) Both cards had peel offs to add that finishing touch. Inside I've added 2 sheets of A4 paper so that in the first case DD2's class could all sign the card and in DD1's card the whole year have signed it. I also added a William Wordsworth quote about the marriage ceremony in both. The whole thing is finished of with Organza ribbon tied right round the front of the card and tied in a bow.

Challenge time

This card I made for a card sketch challenge on the Craft Diner Forum. Paper from K & Co and the monogram is from K & Co too. I had glitter everywhere with just these 2 items out of the box.

A new baby in the family

My Nephew and his wife had a little baby boy just 4 days into the new year and I made this card for the. Papers are DCWV, Die cut teddy using my tag a long and a thin cut Ellisons die, Stamped letters from a See D's stamp set and 4 little baby faces stickers to complete it. Also managed to enter this in the challenge on Craft Diner too.

Birthday time for Shell.

This was a card I made for a friend from 3C's forum's 30th birthday. Papers are Basic Grey Gypsy with peeloffs in the orientla style put on to other BG papers and cut out. Peel off words to finish off.

Latest offerings

I'm a bad blogger I just haven't found the time to get here since the last time. I have been making things though.

This is another of the sketch 2 challenge cards from 3C's forum. I have made one more but can't find the photo atm. Hmmm!

Papers and alphabet are all SEI Penelope's Potpouri range.

Sketch challenge 2

On Charmed cards forum there is another challenge running in the card making line.

As an unadventurous card maker I thought I'd have a go. I can follow designs and having someone tell me where to put stuff is fine by me. Lol. This is my creation using the sketch.

It's nothing like the cards I normally make and well out of my comfort zone but I like it. I used my quite old K & Co Neopolitan Citrus scrap pad to go as the papers all blend well together. Even the flower was a pop out from the pad and the sentiment too. All I added were 3 Papermania brads and voila.

An old project

I was going through my photos on the pc the other day, so DH could back everything up, and I came across a mini album I made for DD1's teacher who left in July last year. She was such a lovely and funy teacher and DD1, and 2, both said she was their fave in the school. She was crafty, but it had gone by the wayside a bit with not enough time. A friend and I showed her the light and now she is a fellow crafting friend, and part of our CJ group. I also made the box to keep the gift in.

The theme was inspiration and in particular quotes about teaching. When we gave her the book she was delighted with it.

A new family member

Well my nephew and his wife are the proud parents to a bouncing baby boy. He was born last Friday and is called Cillian (although he might become Killian ?) either way it is an Irish name. I could have gone out and bought a card but no longer do I do that (if I can help it) There is a card challenge running on the Craft Diner to make a new baby card and incorporate some stamping on it. Hmm okay make the baby card fitted in nicely but I don't have a vast amount of stamps still really and nothing suitable for a baby. So I kind of cheated and used a See D's alphabet to stamp some words on the card. BTW the card has disappeared during the scan. There is a white card under the blue paper and a border is visible on the card irl but where it went to I have no idea. ??? Lol.