A cute littleHalloween Pumpkin

 Hello Everyone! I have another card to share with you today which I made this Weekend to enter into the Graph'it Challenge. The theme is Halloween so this cute Lil Dumpling Jack from Pollycraft was just perfect and was so much fun to colour in. I coloured him in shades of Orange and Black and Grey to match the My Mind's Eye 'Happy Hauntings' papers I used.

I die cut the centre panel using Spellbinders dies and added a little sewing around the edges. The sentiment I used is by Melissa Frances and I added a little spotty button from The Ribbon Girl and a wooden star from my stash alongside a brad I have had for years (I am trying to use some up as I have pots full of them!)

Here is a close up of cute little Jack. He actually reminds me a bit of my Jack who is really not so little anymore! I hope you have a lovely Wednesday!
Jane
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MMCS DT for the October Challenge - Halloween!

Hello Everyone! It's time for a brand new Challenge on the MMCS blog today and our theme this month is Halloween! I have made a card using the adorable Pure Innocence 'Kitty Costume' which is available here from My Mum's Craft Shop.

I coloured her in with my Promarkers to match the lovely My Mind's Eye papers and added a Melissa Frances sentiment. I added a little flower, ribbon and a button from The Ribbon Girl and finished with some stick on pearls. I hope you will be able to join us for our Challenge for the chance to win a voucher to spend at My Mum's Craft shop. Have a lovely Tuesday!
Jane
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Passion for Promarkers DT - Mega Christmas Challenge

Hello Everyone! I apologise for the lack of posts on my blog lately. I have been so busy in the run up to Christmas, there are not enough hours in the day to keep up with everything. We launched our Mega Christmas Challenge on the Passion for Promarkers blog a couple of weeks ago and we are giving you another burst of inspiration today. Our Mega Christmas challenge runs for a whole month and ends on January 1st 2013.  

Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is a nice easy one “include the word HAPPY in your sentiment”, so basically we want to see your creations for any type of occasion that include the word “happy”, i.e. happy Christmas, happy birthday, happy anniversary etc.

I have used the lovely Little Miss Muffet digi called 'Snowballs' on my card and coloured him in with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

I used Echo Park papers layered onto kraft card and added stitching around the edges. The sentiment is a rub on and I used a little wooden snowflake and some ribbon finishing with a button and some little gems.

Here is a close up of my image. I added some glitter glue to the snow for a bit of sparkle! I hope you will be able to join us for our Mega Christmas Challenge. We have some fabulous prizes for you!

Letraset are generously offering 3 x Season’s Gift Sets – so that means 3 winners!

Joanna Sheen is generously offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering a prize of 7 digis (which we are going to split into 2 prizes)

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $15.00 worth of digi papers, which are available at Whimsy Designs.

and a brand new sponsor for us – Clearly Besotted Stamps are generously offering a prize of 1 stamp set of the winner’s choice.

There is still lots of time to join in! Have a lovely Tuesday!
Jane
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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - CC Designs Dress Up Snowman

Hello Everyone! It's my day for sharing a card on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today and  I am kicking off another themed week. This week, the My Mum's Craft shop Design Team will be sharing projects made with CC Designs stamps and dies! Make sure you leave comments on the posts and a winner will be drawn to win some fabulous candy. I have used the fabulous 'Dress up Snowman' on my card with the coordinating die.

I used Carta Bella 'Merry and Bright' papers for my card and to paper piece the lovely Snowman's hat and jumper and a rub on sentiment from my stash. The snowy hills were cut with the dienamics 'snow drift' die and I added glitter glue to them before adding my snowman on top. I finished with a velvet ribbon and a striped button. Make sure you join us on the blog next week for some more CC Designs Inspiration! Have a lovely Sunday!
Jane
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Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Fireworks

Hello Everyone! It's time for a brand new Little Miss Muffet Challenge and our theme this fortnight is....

'Firework Inspiration'

There are 2 great photos on the Challenge blog to kick start your inspiration. I have used the very cute Lil Spook on my card and coloured him in to match the very old My Mind's Eye papers I used. 

The stars reminded me of a sky full of fireworks and I added more die cut stars which I cut using a Dienamics die. The sentiment is by Melissa Frances and I added some green stick on pearls as a finishing touch. The little star charm is from Whiff of Joy.

Here is a close up of my Lil Spook, I think he is much too cute to scare anyone! I hope you will be able to join in with our Challenge. The winner will receive 2 Digital Images of their choice from the Little Miss Muffet Stamps Store. Additionally, if the winner chooses to join us for the next Challenge as our Guest, then they get to choose a third image! I hope you have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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Passion for Promarkers DT - Fright night

Hello Everyone! I hope you had a good start to the week. It's time for a new Challenge at Passion for Promarkers. The theme chosen by the lovely Julie is 'Fright Night' so this is the perfect opportunity to share your last minute Halloween creations. I have made a card using the fabulous 'Agent Cupcake at Halloween' from Little Miss Muffet. I coloured her in to match the very old My Mind's Eye papers I found in my stash.

Agent Cupcake was coloured with my Promarkers and then cut out leaving a small border.  I layered the papers I used onto pink paper from the pad and then added some stitching around the edges. The sentiment is by Melissa Frances and the pink bats were cut using a Memory box die.

Here is a little close up, I messed up my colouring on the mask and had to reprint it and colour it in again and cut it out and stuck it over the image. I added glitter onto the wings and finished my card off with a couple of pearls. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge. We are sponsored by Michele R Designs and the winner will receive 3 digi paper packs.

I hope you have a lovely Tuesday!

Jane

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Little Miss Muffet Challenge - Halloween Colours

Hello Everyone, it is time for a brand new Challenge on the Little Miss Muffet blog and this fortnight we have the perfect theme to allow you to play with all the new releases from last week! Our theme this fortnight is: 'Halloween Colours' and I have made a card using  Bandit Boy Tom at Halloween! I coloured him to match these fabulous Imaginesce Halloween papers and popped him on to the front of my card into which I had die cut a window.

I added some Ribbon Girl ribbon and tied my Melissa Frances sentiment with twine and the finishing touch ws a couple of little die cut bats. My Image was coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and I cut it out leaving a small border before adding it to my card. I hope you will be able to join us for this fortnight's Challenge. The DT have made some fabulous cards to inspire you, make sure you check them out on the blog! Have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - These are a few of my favourite things

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend, I was very busy and can't believe it's Monday already. We have a great theme for you this week on the Pollycraft Challenge blog which is... 

These are a few of my favourite things

I have made a card using my favourite Pollycraft Critter, spots and stripes which are also my favourite, my favourite spotty buttons and my favourite gingham ribbon. It's quite a small card but it is packed full of my favourite things! I even coloured Fluffy using my favourite Promarker colours!

The papers I used are mostly from Echo Park and the transfer sentiment is by Melissa Frances.
I stitched around the edges of the layers using some lovely thick red cotton and added them to a scalloped card base.

I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge and show us some of your Favourite things, we have a fab sponsor this week! If you take part in the Challenge you will have the chance of winning a £10.00 voucher to spend in Crafty Emma's Store.

 

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and for some great inspiration from the fabulous Pollycraft DT. Have a lovely Monday!

Jane

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Whiff of Joy DT - Thanks a Million!

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a good week and are having a good Weekend. I am planning to do some crafting today. I have made a lovely soup for my lunch to keep me warm as it is really cold here today! I received a gorgeous package of goodies from Katharina at Whiff of Joy this week and had so much fun playing with the postcard stamp and the gorgeous ribbons!

I used some lovely Tilda papers I found in my scraps box and had a play around distressing the papers with inks before layering them onto kraft card. I stamped the postcard onto kraft and distressed it further with more inks. I love this postcard stamp! It is fabulous! I added a Melissa Frances Transfer sentiment to it before adding it to the card. 

I love this Henry angel image, he is so cute! I stamped him onto white card and colourd him with Promarkers before cutting him out and adding him on top of the post card with foam pads. I added glitter glue to his halo and wings to make them sparkle! The ribbon I used for the bow is available here from Whiff of Joy, I love this blue and there are lots of other gorgeous colours in stock now!

I added some flowers from my stash and some gems and a little sparkly heart sticker from Paperchase as a finishing touch. I am off to do some crafting now! I have commissions to finish and then I am gong to have a play! I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Jane

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Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Bingo

Good Morning Everyone! It's Monday (booooo!) but luckily we are back to our regular Monday Challenges on the Pollycraft Challenge blog (yaaaaay!!!) so at least there is something good to look forward to now on Mondays.

Cazza has come up with a fabulous theme for you this week....Bingo! She has put together a grid and you will need to pick three items in a line and feature them on your card.

I have gone for a diagonal line and have chosen Pearls and Ribbon to go with my Pollcraft image. I chose to use the fab and funky Sonny Honeycloud image 'My Way' and coloured her in with my Promarkers to match a mix of papers from my scraps basket.


The fabulous ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl and I used a pearl swirl I have had in my stash for ages and a new flower from Wild Orchid Crafts. The sentiment I used is a rub-on by Melissa Frances. I added a red heart button and a heart pin from my stash as a finishing touch.
I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge for the chance to win 10 Pollycraft Digis.

Have a great Monday!
Jane
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Whiff of Joy DT - It's release day!!

Good Morning Everyone! It's release day at Whiff of Joy and this month's release is all about Love and Valentine's day. I have made an Anniversary card using the adorable robots and Echo Park Yours Truly Papers.

I matted and layered the papers onto black card for my layout and sewed around the edges of each layer with red thread. I used a Melissa Frances rub on for my sentiment and the Make it Crafty gears were heat embossed with silver glittery powder. I added a lovely gingham bow and some red gems and pearls as a finishing touch. Make sure you pop over to Whiff of Joy to see all the gorgeous new stamps!
Have a great Thursday!
Jane
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