Forever Friends Girly Card

I trust everyone had a good week, mine was pretty busy at work and definitely happy its not the week end!

I am entering the card in several challenges and would be interested to have your feedback. Girly is not really my strong point, think i have a tendency to be too much of a tomboy some ha ha. But i really enjoyed making this one and it is certainly a lot busier than my normal cards but it has all come together pretty well i think?

Well i worked around the topper this time, whereas i normally work the other way around. The image and papers are all from the same paper pack. I used a pearlescent white card blank to start. I then cut my striped paper to the size i wanted it and mounted on to slightly darker brown paper. I then cut a smaller square of flowered paper and mounted this on the same brown paper, but i made the border on this one a lot narrower. I took some more pearlescent card stock and trimmed it down to a strip to go over the from. I then punched the design along the bottom. I Cut a strip of dotty paper and adhered this to the card strip. I am shocking at trying to stick paper down straight so much confess i had to trim along the top a little to make sure it aligned. I then wrapped a white ribbon and stuck this to the back. I then adhered the strip to the card after much playing around with positioning. I cut out the image, mounted on to white card stock and them mounted again on the same brown paper. I adhered this to the card using double sided foam tape so give it a bit more lift and so it didn't look flat against the embellishments i wanted to ad. I then cut out a flourish using a die and my big shot, this was cut from the same white card stock. I really wanted to use my Marianne rose dies because i love them and decided i would make three roses out of the offcuts of the different papers and i actually really like the contrast it gives. I punched a butterfly using my trusty Martha Stewart butterfly punch and adhered to the card and then added my beloved gems. I added some stickles to the inside of the roses to give them a little more pizazz. Hope you like my efforts

I used...

Forever Friends image and papers by Do Crafts

White pearlescent card stock from Kmart

Flourishes Die

Martha Stewart Butterfly punch

Martha Stewart border punch

Gems from Kaiser craft

Marianne Rose Die

Glossy Accents

Stickles

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges

Divas By Design

Allsorts Challenge

Creative Inspirations

Have a great weekend and as always thanks for joining me

Jox

Happy Birthday with Old and New

Hi everyone,

Well i am back with another card, this one i am entering in several challenges. Simon Says Stamp and Show tasked a theme of something "Old" which i am using old backing papers that have been in my stash since i originally started card making a few years ago. The Sweet Stop have a sketch as their challenge and i really liked the sketch, sometimes i find this hard to work by as i just cannot visualise it but this one i seemed to have no issue with. My final challenge is Charisma cardz and their theme is Happy Birthday and if you put the number 4 on your card you get entered 4 times in the challenge. Without much further ado here is what i created...

I started off with a 15cm x 15cm pearlescent white card base. I took two of my patterned papers and cut them down to 7cm x 14cm and adhered them both on black card stock. I then trimmed the black card stock down leaving a small back border. I then cut a piece of black card stock 3cm x 14cm and used a border punch on the bottom. I then fixed this panel to the card base using double sided tape. I then cut another piece of patterned paper to 5cm x 11cm and the adhered to more black card stock which i then trimmed down to leave a small black border. I adhered this to my card with double sided tape. For the sentiment i actually typed it out using Word and then adjust the size and spacing that i wanted and printed onto white paper. I then used a die cutting machine and dies to cut out the white sentiment and a slightly larger one in black which i then adhered together. The sentiment was then adhered to the card using square double sided foam pads to make it stand out a little more. The card still needed a little more so i added a black ribbon bow and punched out a butterfly from the offcuts of the patterned paper and adhered both using Glossy Accents and finally i added a few gems to give the card a little bit of bling.

I used...

Card Blank 15cm x 15cm from Kmart

Black card stock and patterned papers from my stash

Spellbinders Dies

Gems by Kaisercraft

Black ribbon from stash

Butterfly and Border punch both Martha Stewart

The Sweet Spot Challenge

Charisma Cardz Challenge

Simon Says Stamp and Show

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Jox

More butterflies for Creative Inspirations

Well i ended up creating two cards and could not decide which one to enter so i thought i would enter this one also. I kept with the butterflies on this one as well and again tried to keep it fairly simple.

I used a pearlescent white card black. I cut a smaller square from blue card stock and i dry embossed 0.5cm all the way around to give the card a bit more interest, i adhered this to the card using foam tape. I cut four 3cm x 3cm squares from light green card stock and light yellow paper. I then dies cut three butterflies, one each of light yellow, light green and blue. I then stamped a sentiment on one of the yellow squares. I arranged the squares and then adhered them to the card using double sided tape. I adhered a butterfly to each of the remaining squares and alternated the colours. I used Glossy Accents for this. Once the Glossy Accents was dry i then folded the wings out a little to make them more dimensional. I then adhered a light green heart just below the sentiment.

I used...

White pearlescent card stock from Kmart

Blue and Green card stock from my stash

Light yellow and light yellow dotted papers from Pink Petticoat

Glossy Accents

double sided tape

Butterfly Die

Sentiment

Foam tape

Creative Inspirations

Have a lovely week end.

Jox

CAS LIM Butterfly Card

Well i found the Creative Inspirations blog a little challenging as the colours are not something i would normally use or combine but i think that was the really great thing about this challenge. I love taking part in these challenges as they get you to think outside of your comfort zone and that is something i need to do. With this card i wanted to keep it relatively simple and i hope you like what i came up with?

I used a pearlescent white card stock blank, i cut out a scalloped square from light yellow dotted paper (sorry it is really hard to see from the photo) i cut out several butterflies using spellbinders dies and a Martha Stewart butterfly punch. I adhered them to the card using Glossy Accents, i love it because it doesn't dry instantly so gives you a little flexibility when it comes to positioning the item and also dries clear. I will add the sentiment later as i figure this card could be used for several different occasions.

I used...

Card stock blank is from Kmart

Spellbinders dies

Martha Stewart Butterfly punch

Light yellow papers by Pink Petticoat

The green and blue card stock are from my stash

Clear and light green gems (got this free with a magazine a while back)

Creative Inspirations

Thanks for following my creations

Jox

LOTV Card in blue

Hope everyone is having a great week end so far?

This is my card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week which is Beat The Blues. I really enjoyed this as i truly love blue and i already had some fabulous papers in my stash.

I made this card on a black card base from my stash which measures 14cm x 14cm, i cut a square of patterned paper 13cm x 13cm and then mounted this on silver pearlescent paper which i trimmed a narrow border, i did not measure this i just went by my eye on that. I cut three strips from different patterned paper in 3cm x 10cm and mounted them on silver pearlescent paper, again i did not measure these dimensions i just went by eye. I coloured my image using Copics and cut this down to size, i mounted it on silver pearlescent paper and then mounted again on black card stock. I punched two butterflies, on silver and one in black and used Glossy Accents to adhere them. I stamped my sentiment on a white card blank and again cut down to size. Both the image and the sentiment are adhered to the card using dimensionals. I then lastly added the gems and pearls.

I used...

Black card stock from stash

silver pearlescent paper which i pick up from my local newsagent

LOTV image

All patterned papers are by Doodlebug Designs and i already had these in my stash

Copics in R81, B23, E40, C2

Sakura Gelly rolls in Marine Star, Clear Star and Yellow Glaze

Black Gems and Blue Pearls which i am pretty sure are both kaiser Craft

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Thank you for visiting

Jox

Less is more (LIM) challenge entry

Good evening all,


This is the card i am submitting to the Less Is More challenge. For those of you that know me from Do Crafts will know the i already adore LIM cards. I must confess i did find this one a little tricky as i tend to make my cards as i go along rather than having a plan first, which has both its good and bad points, like a whole collection of failed cards oops. But i gave it my best shot. The challenge was based on their logo which i have copied in below first.

Here is my finished card

My apologies for the less than fantastic photographs

For this card is used the following;

White card stock

Black and White Musical Digital paper

Pink and Brown paper 

Sentiment is from Pixie Gypsy (Create special memories every day)

White Ribbon Roses

Spellbinders scalloped oval die

Martha Stewart Butterfly punch

LESS IS MORE CHALLENGE WEEK 74

Thanks for taking the time to read and view my blog :)

Trying to get out of my comfort zone

Well this afternoon was all about trying to get out of my comfort zone, i have been sticking to the same style of card and colours over the last few months and thought i would try and shake it up, be a little adventurous for a change :)

Well i must admit that i am a shocker for buying all sorts of craft things when they are reduced, this is especially bad with papers. I brought a pack of yellow/orange/red papers a while ago because they were on specially, despite the fact that i virtually never use these colours...oops

So here was my attempt to use up some of my stash and try colours i am not overly comfortable using, let me know what you think.

As always thanks for taking the time to view and read my blog :)