Rainbow birthday shoes!

Hello Everyone! It was my future Step-son's birthday on Tuesday and I made him a very colourful card inspired by Converse trainers (which are my favourite trainers!) 

I used the My Favourite Things Dienamics die to make the shoe and My Favourite things papers from an old pad from my stash.

I used textured white card for the white parts of the card and added silver eyelets and grey baker's twine to lace the shoe up. I then added a Hobbycraft wooden star as a finishing touch. The sentiment I used is from Altenew.

Here is a close up of the finished shoe. I just love playing with the die and making it up in lots of different colours. It always looks fab! I hope you have a lovely Thursday. I have been spending a lot of time in my Craft Room so have lots of cards to show you in the next few days. I have truly found my mojo again and am so happy to be back and sharing cards with you all.

Jane

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MMCSDT - You're an All Star!!

Hello Everyone! I hope you had a lovely Christmas and I wish you all a belated Happy New Year, I hope 2015 will be a good year for you. I had (another) break from crafting over Christmas, December was very busy and I did manage to make some Christmas cards for my family and some CAS ones to send to Friends but didn't manage to blog them. The lovely Kitty from My Mum's Craft Shop very kindly offered me to take my place back on the DT and today is my first post since I rejoined on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog.  I am also designing again for Quick Cards Magazine. It's really good to be back! The card I am sharing with you today was made with one of my favourite new dies, the Dienamics All Star High Tops. I used this one for my Son's Christmas card as he is a big Converse fan.

I used papers from the Carta  Bella Baby Mine pad which is available on special offer here. I used the latest Sketch Saturday sketch for my layout and added a little paper flower and some stick on pearls from The Ribbon Girl.

The sentiment and the star on the shoe were stamped using stamps from the coordinating stamp set which is available here from My Mum's Craft Shop. I love using this die as it can be made to look so different each time. I used some linen thread for laces and kraft card for the stripe on the sole. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a lovely Friday!
Jane
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A CAS Ribbon Christmas Tree

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a good week so far. I have a Clean and Simple Christmas card to share with you today which I made using a new Dienamics die I purchased from My Mum's Craft shop. I am hoping to make a few more of these before Christmas as they are great for using up Ribbon scraps.

I used the die to cut the apertures in a square of white card and added double sided tape running down each side of the tree. I then added various green ribbons from the Ribbon Girl.I used scraps of white spot grosgrain,, moss green satin  and some saddle-stitch ribbon in different shades of green and different widths.

I added a tiny scrap of bright red satin for the pot and added a tiny bow tied from twine and a sparkly star button from my stash to top the tree. I then added a square of kraft card behind the tree cut out before adding it to the card.

I am entering my card in to the latest 'Less is More' Challenge and the Moxie Fab World Treemendous Challenge. I hope you have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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My Mums's Craft Shop DT - More Mama Elephant cards!

Hello Everyone! Apologies for my absence, I have been suffering with yet another bout of stubborn bronchitis. I have had another 2 courses of antibiotics and my chest is feeling a lot clearer but I am very tired! I have 2 more Mama Elephant cards to share with you today. I told you I was addicted to these new stamps!

Both cards were made using the Mama Elephant 'Nursery Deco' set and scraps of paper. The layouts are very simple and have very few embellishments. I used the Dienamics stitched circles on my first card for the little bear to sit in and added a wooden button from The Ribbon Girl.

The little giraffe on this card was paper pieced with gingham and white paper and I simply added a paper flower and stick on pearl as a finishing touch. I hope you have a lovely Sunday!
Jane
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Some CAS Pandamonium cards

Hello Everyone! It's my day for posting on the My Mum's Craft shop blog today and I am showing something a little bit different for me. I have fallen in love with Mama Elephant stamps recently and have been experimenting with making some clean and simple cards for a bit of a change. They are so quick to make and I love the fact that they use up a lot of my scraps and leftover papers.

I used some good quality Papermania card bases that are a bit textured as I wanted to leave quite a bit of white space on the first one. I used a Dienamics snowdrift die to cut the blue card for the hills and stamped a sentiment from the Pandamonium set straight on to the card. I stamped the kissing pandas onto white card and cut them out before adding them to the card with foam pads. I then stamped a heart onto aqua card and cut it out. I added it to the card and then embellished it with glitter glue.

I used a scrap of My Mind's Eye paper for my second card. I stamped the Panda and the lantern onto white card and then die cut it using a stitched circle before I coloured the lantern with alcohol markers and added glitter glue. I then simply stamped the sentiment onto a strip of card and put it all together.
I hope you have a lovely Sunday!
Jane
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Best Friends Forever!

Hello Everyone! I hope you are having a good week so far. I am happy we are getting closer to the Weekend! I have a quick post to share with you today to show a little card I made using Mama Elephant Honey Bunny stamps.

I stamped the bunnies and then masked them and stamped around using different inks and a My Favourite Things ink splat stamp from this set.. I dotted matching stick on gems around the image and added glitter glue to the little tails and placed the image behind a dienamics polaroid die cut which I stamped with a sentiment. I embossed some kraft and stitched around the edges before adding it to my card and placed the topper at an angle on the card finishing with a paper flower and a stick on gem. I hope you have a lovely Wednesday!
Jane
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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - Spring colours

Hello Everyone! It's my day for posting on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today. Our theme this week is Spring Colours so I used papers from the Echo Park Splendid Sunshine pad as the colours are so bright and zingy and they match the theme of the Pure Innocence image I have used so perfectly!

The stamp set  I have used is 'I'm all ears' and it available here from My Mum's Craft Shop. I coloured the image with my Markers and then paper pieced her dress and ears with some papers from the pad.

I die cut the central panel using a Spellbinders die and sewed a strip of blue paper through the middle. I stamped my sentiment on to a Sentiment strip and added it to the right of my image with foam pads. I also added an eyelet and tied it with some neutral twine.

Here is a close up of my image. I am really enjoying paper piecing at the moment, it's such a fun way to add patterns to the characters dresses.

I made a little carrot embellishment as a finishing touch for my card. I made it by rolling a strip of orange card with a quilling tool and shaping it with a wooden skewer before gluing it. I then added some strips of green card inside that had been fringed with my scissors. I glittered the finished carrot with stickles glitter glue before I added it to the card.

I am entering my card into the My Favourite Things Color Pallette Challenge as I have used the colours below on my card

Have a lovely Sunday!

Jane

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My Mum's Craft Shop DT for the April Challenge - Anything goes.

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all well. It's the first of the month already so it's time for a brand new Challenge on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog. Our theme this month is 'Anything goes' so come and show us your latest project! I have used the Dienamics 'Sew Nifty' set for my card and papers from the Carta Bella Sew Lovely pad.




I stamped the sentiment onto vellum and then sewed it to a strip of pink spotty paper. I die cut the mannequin and inked around the edges before adding it to the card. I added some Ribbon Girl goodies, including a Cottage flower bloom, spotty button and twine. I hope you will be able to join us for the chance to win a voucher from My Mum's Craft Shop. Have a lovely Tuesday!
Jane
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Engagement Congratulations!

Hello Everyone! I hope you are well and had a good weekend. I am still suffering with my Bronchitis so am feeling a little down in the dumps today. Hopefully the antibiotics will keep working and get rid of it soon! I have a very CAS card to share with you today which I made to send to my lovely Friend Kitty who recently got engaged to the lovely Ross.

I used white textured cardstock and die cut an oval in it using a Dienamics die. I then added a Clearly Besotted die cut behind gluing the tails to either side of the aperture. I die cut a sparkly heart using a Dienamics die and positioned it on the card base so it would be centred behind the sentiment. I sewed around the edges of the white panel and then added it to the card base with foam pads. I was tempted to add flowers and gems but resisted and I am quite pleased with the finished card.
I hope you have a lovely Monday!
Jane
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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - Thanks

Hello Everyone!It's my day for posting on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today and I have a Thank You card to share. Now the huge task of making Christmas cards is over I always find myself making a lot of Thank you cards for the lovely presents I received over Christmas.

I love the Pure Innocence 'It's a sign' set which is available here from My Mum's Craft shop as she comes with lots of messages for all occasions. I used papers from the Echo Park Bundle of Joy Girl pad for my card and cut a stiched circle and Fishtail banner using Dienamics to build up my card layout. All that was needed to finish the card was to pop my image coloured with Graph'its on top. I added a little bow tied from twine to the coloured frame and some little flowers as a finishing touch. I hope you have a lovely Sunday.

Jane

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A Dienamics Happy Birthday

Hello Everyone! It's my day for posting on the My Mum's Craft shop blog today and I am showing a card I made using some of the latest Dienamics dies which arrived recently at My Mum's Craft shop. I made a card for my Husband's birthday which was at the end of last month. I used My Mind's Eye papers and created a simple layout adding a centre panel cut with the Pierced oval die.

I cut the sentiment using the new Dienamics 'Happy Birthday' die and added it to the card using glue.
I added a Craftwork cards label to the top left.

I added a few brads from my stash and a wooden heart and stick on pearls. I also added a lovely little heart button which is available here. I hope you have a lovely Sunday, I will be back soon with my Ali-Craft post, I am still not feeling great after my flu so am running behind with everything!
Jane
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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - Non traditional Christmas colours

Hello Everyone! I hope you are well and had a good week. It's my day for sharing a card on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today and I am kicking off a 'Non traditional Christmas colours' week. I used pink and aqua papers from the Echo Park Bundle of Joy girl pad for my card and a gorgeous Pure Innocence Snowman stamp.

I coloured the image using Promarkers and then die cut it into a circle and added it to another cut from kraft card before adding it to my card. I sewed around the edges of all my papers and added some die cut snowflakes and a lovely big button.

Here is a close up of my image, he is so adorable and is very quick to colour in so is perfect for those quick last minute cards! I hope you have a lovely Sunday!
Jane
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MMCS DT - Anything but a card

Hello Everyone! It's my day for posting on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog. It is 'Anything but a card' week this week so I have made a little gift card holder to share with you today.

I cut the gift card holder from kraft card using an old Sizzix die and then decorated it using Kaisercraft Enchanted papers. I added some pretty ribbon and a die cut butterfly and a little flower and stick on gems.

I added a little tag to the back cut from the papers using a Dienamics Fishtail die and stamped it with a sentiment from the Big Birthday Numbers set. I hope you have a lovely Sunday.

Jane

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MMCSDT for the MMCS Challenge - Summer Sun

Hello Everyone! It's the 1st of the month and time for a new Challenge on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today. Our theme is Summer Sun! I have made a small CAS card using the very Summery  Here and Now papers from Echo Park.

I used the gorgeous clouds paper from the pad and added a pennant to the centre which I had stamped with a sentiment from the My Favourite Things LJD Greetings set. I then die cut some Joy Crafts clouds from the patterned papers and added them overlapping the pennant and finished with a little flower.
I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge for the chance to win a voucher to spend at My Mum's Craft Shop. I hope you have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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Love Birds

Hello Everyone! It's my day for posting on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today and I am showing   a little card I made using one of the lovely brand new mini JoFy stamps which arrived this week at My Mum's Craft Shop. I have used the Lovebirds image to make a topper for my card by stamping it onto some Gorjuss papers from the 6x6 pack and then stamping the birds again onto white card. I then coloured them in and cut out their bodies before paper piecing them on to my stamped image. I also paper pieced the little heart.

I used a Dienamics die to cut the postage stamp rectangle which I layered my birds onto. I layered up more papers to cover my card base and added some jute mesh and cotton ribbon before the layers were added to the card. I also added a gorgeous crocheted flower topped with a wooden button,

Here is a close up of my coloured image. I coloured the little birds in with Promarkers. I added a little purple paper flower to the top right of the image and finished with some stick on gems. I hope you have a lovely Sunday!
Jane
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Sugar Nellie DT - Bookmark This!

Hello Everyone! I hope you are well and having a good week. I am not. I have a nasty cough and cold and had been plodding along but, after another night with very little sleep due to my blocked nose and coughing, I have given in and am resting up today in bed to fight off these germs! I have made something a little bit different for my Sugar Nellie post this week. I dug out my unused Dienamics bookmark die and matching stamps and die cut a bookmark using some scraps of paper. 

I added a little bit of stitching to the tartan paper and then stamped and coloured the lovely Simply Sassy High School Student stamp which is available here from Funky Kits. I stuck her on to the bookmark with glue after I had cut her out leaving a small border.

I die cut some flowers using another dienamics die and inked the edges before layering it up and topped it with a wooden button I bought in Farnborough. I sandwiched a length of velvet ribbon between the flower and the bookmark as a finishing touch. I hope you have a lovely Wednesday!
Jane
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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - Valentne's/Love themes week

Hello Everyone! We are starting another themed week today on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog. Our theme this week is 'Valentine's/Love'. There are lots of gorgeous love themed goodies in the shop at the moment so it was hard for me to pick which ones to use! I eventually settled on an adorable Pure Innocence stamp called 'Bear Hugs' and some Carta Bella papers from the 'Devoted' pad.

I stamped the sentiment from the set on a banner I cut using a Dienamics die and then added a heart cut from spotty paper using one of the dies from the Rustic Hearts set and topped it with a spotty button tied with twine.

Here is a close up of my coloured in image. I coloured her in with Promarkers and then paper pieced her dress using some of the hearts paper. I then cut her out leaving a small border before adding her to the card with foam pads. I finished with a little paper flower and a stick on pearl. Have a lovely Sunday!

Jane

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My Mums's Craft Shop DT - Happy Birthday Ryan!

Hello Everyone! My eldest Son turned 16 today and I wanted to make him a funky birthday card he would actually like! I struggled to find a stamp which was suitable for a Teenage boy and then stumbled upon this fab digi image from Saturated Canary which looks like a lot like my Ryan. I used Echo Park papers from the Echo Park Scoot pad and a sentiment from the Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler set.

I used the Dienamics Mini Double dot border to cut a fancy border to hide the join between the two papers and then sewed around the edges. The banner was cut using the Dienamics fishtail dies and I stamped some Whiff of Joy numbers on it and added die cut letters. I tied some twine around the banner before adding it to the card and popped a little spotty button on top.

Here is a close up of my coloured in image. I coloured him in with Promarkers and then cut him out leaving a small border before adding him to the card with foam pads. I finished off with a couple of little stick on pearls. I hope you have a lovely Sunday! We are going to a Christening today and then will be taking Ryan out for dinner this evening to celebrate.

I will leave you with a picture of the Birthday boy 16 years ago!
Jane

Little Miss Muffet Release day - I 'heart' Chester

Hello Everyone! It's release day at Little Miss Muffet  and you are going to 'LOVE' the new stamps! All the new rubber stamps are love themed so are perfect for your Valentine's day or 'Just because I love you' cards. I have made a card using a digi version of 'I heart' Chester which is quite fitting because I do love him!

I used My Mind's Eye papers from the 'Lucky in Love' pad. I love these colours! I made a shaped card with some a Spellbinders die and then added some stiching around the edges of my layers. I cut a fishtail banner using a Dienamics die and stamped it with a Paper Smooches sentiment and then added a wooden heart button and some flowers and finished with a tiny little stick on gem. I coloured Chester in with my Promarkers and cut him out leaving a small border. I think he looks so cute. Make sure you check out all the new releases in store here and check our the blog for some inspiration from the fabulous Little Miss Muffet DT!
Have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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Sugar Nellie DT - Alice

 Hello Everyone!It's my day for sharing a card on the Sugar Nellie blog today! I hope you are all well and are having a good week. I dug out my Ribonita stamps for the card I am sharing today. This little beauty is called 'Alice' and is available here from Funky Kits. I do love all the the Ribonitas but Alice is definitely my favourite.

I coloured Alice in with my Promarkers and cut her out leaving a small border. I added her to my card onto a die cut panel which was cut with a stamp edged Dienamics die. The papers I have used are by My Mind's Eye and I love the muted colours. The sentiment is by Paper Smooches.

Here is a close up of little Alice, I love her funky tights! I added some lovely lace from my stash and some flowers to match the papers and finished with some tiny little pearls. I hope you have a lovely Wednesday!
Jane
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