Lili of the valley DT news and a new release.

Hello Everyone!
I'm sorry I have been away for so long. I am so busy with Wedding preparations I have very little spare time to craft. I hope you are all well. I have some very exciting news to share! I found out last week that my application to join the the Lili of the Valley Design Team was successful! I am so thrilled as I have always loved Lili of the Valley stamps and papers.

I have a card to share with you today which I made with one of the new images from the Spring release which will be launched at the Farnborough Make it craft show and available in the Lili of the Valley shop at the end of February.

  

I had lots of fun colouring this cute little bunny with bright colours to match the Some Odd Girls papers I used and used a sentiment from the new release and a little fabric flower. I can't wait to colour the rest of the images in, they are all so adorable! I am entering my card in to the Passion for Promarkers 'Flora and Fauna' challenge this week.

Have a lovely Monday!

Jane

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Some very exciting news and the cutest Thank you cards ever!

I had some very exciting news last night, I have been selected to be part of the Design Team for the new Challenge Blog: Cook up a Card. Each month Susie sets a recipe to follow to make a card and there is a little prize for the winner. I will be working with Jennifer, Svit and Susie each month to showcase cards made following the recipe. I can't wait for the next Challenge! I hope you will be able to join in. There is still time to take part in October's Challenge so why not pop over to the blog to check out this month's Recipe.

I had a busy evening yesterday while Hubby was at the Pub with his Friends. I had an order for 20 Thank you cards. I can take no credit for the design as I was asked to make them this way and any card making skills are totally outshone by my Friend's cute Baby whose photo is on the front of the card. Isn't he just the cutest! It didn't take me long to put the cards together once I got into a rhythm things came together quite quickly and I made a nice box tied with organza bow to deliver them in, unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of it!
I hope you are all having a nice weekend. Hubby and I took Charlie to Virginia Water today for the first time. He had a lovely time meeting lots of Doggies and running around in the leaves.
This is us having a little rest. Charlie was exhausted when we came home! I spent some time this afternoon unblocking our drain (oh the joys of home ownership!) and having a little play with my Stampin Up Trendy trees stamps. I finally found a way of getting the trunks stamped in the right place so hopefully I will make a card with them later. My youngest Son is off to PGL for a week tomorrow so we have to finish off his packing tonight.
Hope you had a good weekend!
Jane
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A Special Couple Card - First Fiskarettes DT project

This is my First Design Team project for the Fiskarettes blog. I bought this paper recently and thought it would be ideal for a Wedding Card.

1. First cut a large card blank using my Fiskars paper trimmer. I made a large card which was 20cm square so cut one piece of card 20cm X 20cm and a larger piece, 23cm X 20cm. I scored and folded the larger piece 3cm in from the edge on the shorter edge of the card and stuck both pieces together covering the join with a piece of ribbon.

2. I layered pink, cream pearlescent card and the backing paper onto the front of the card. I cut the first piece the same size as the card front and trimmed the 2 other pieces so they were slightly smaller with my paper trimmer.

3. To make the topper, I stuck my Elzybells Wedding couple stamp onto my Easy stamp press and stamped the image onto white card. I use unmounted stamps for most of my crafting so the stamp press is ideal for me to get a perfect stamped image every time. When I have finished I just whip the stamp off and am ready to go again. I coloured the image with Promarkers and matted it onto some pink card to frame it nicely.

4. I took inspiration from the lace pattern on the Backing paper to make a punched border panel to set the stamped panel into. I used the 2-in-1 Corner & Border Punch - Vines to decorate the edge of a panel I had trimmed to size with my paper trimmer. The paper trimmer is great as it measured in inches and cm.

5. The vines border punch looked very complicated but after reading the instructions I realised it would be very easy to create a beautiful border. You simply set the tool in the corner of the paper and punch, there are then notches on the punch to make sure you get the paper in the right place for the rest of the border so you can’t go wrong.
The design of the border has perfect little photo corner slits so I popped my stamped panel into them.

6. Before sticking down my backing paper, I added a length of ribbon to the front of the card, tucking the raw edges under one of the layers. I secured it with a tiny piece of double sided tape on the front of the card to stop it from moving around. I then stuck the stamped and punched panel onto the front of the card with foam pads and tied a bow with more ribbon to the side of the topper.

7. I stamped my Sentiments using the Easy Stamp press on to some white card, cut them out and matted on to cream card before sticking them to the front of the card with foam pads.

8. I finished off the card with a paper flower and a pearl heart.

I love the border punch so much and can’t wait to use it again on another project!

Why not pop on over to Fiskarettes and sign up to join in the fun, there are Challenges, Competitions and loads of inspiration. You can create your own profile and upload your projects to share with the rest of the Fiskarettes!

Jane
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Exciting news! New Design Team position

I am very happy to announce that I have been chosen to be a part of the Fiskarettes design team for the next 3 months. The new Design Team was announced on the Fiskarettes website today and it was very exciting to see my article posted on the site today. I can't wait to get started creating Projects to share with the other Fiskarettes. Please check out the website for loads of inspiration, weekly challenges plus the opportunity to win lots of lovely Fiskars goodies in the regular Competitions!
Hope to see you there soon!
Jane
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