Fiskarettes Blog Hop - A Birdie Brown cutie!

Hello Everyone! Welcome to my blog! If you are taking part in the Fiskarettes blog hop, you should have come here from the very talented Marilia Lopes. If you would like to start the hop at the beginning, pop on over to the Fiskarettes blog to read all about it. We are all sharing projects made using Fiskars products and I have used two of my favourites on this card. I have used some of my favourite Echo Park papers from the 'Sweet Day' pad to create my layout by layering them on rich brown card. I punched a border using the Scalloped Lace border punch and layered a strip of flowery paper on top.

I added the finished layers to the card and then die cut a scalloped circle from brown card and added a circle on top. I added these to the card and then coloured in the adorable Birdie Brown 'Girl with a rose' mage to match the papers, cut it out leaving a small border and then added it to the card with foam pads. I added a sentiment and then finished with some punched Butterflies and some stick on pearls. Thanks so much for visiting and before you go make sure you make a note of my part of the question which you will need at the end of the hop:

' the Fiskars'

 Your next stop on the hop is the amazing Kim Dellow! I hope you enjoy visiting all the Fabulous Fiskarettes blogs!
Jane
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Sugar Nellie DT - Spots and Dots

Good Morning Everyone! It's Wednesday and my day to share a card on the Sugar Nellie Blog. I couldn't wait to make a card and join in with the Sugar Bowl challenge when I saw Cathy's fabulous sketch. The optional theme for this Challenge is Spots and Dots. If you are a regular visitor to my blog you will know how much I love polka dots so it was a real treat to be able to use lots of these on my card.

I used papers from the Teresa Collins Spring Fling pad. The colours of the papers are so rich and the red reminded me of strawberries so I just had to use the Sugar Nellie Manga 'Strawberry Patch' image which is available here from Funky Kits. I coloured the image with my Promarkers before cutting it into a rectangle and mounting it on kraft card. 

I used a Fiskars border punch for the centre strip and the sentiment is by Whimsy stamps. I also added some flowers and a lovely spotty ribbon from my stash topped with a spotty button from The Ribbon Girl.

Here is the lovely sketch by Cathy, I will definitely be using this one again! Make sure you check out all the fabulous cards by the Sugar Bowl Design Team on the blog, if you are inspired to take part, you may win some gorgeous Sugar Nellie stamps.
I am also entering this card into this week's Passion for Promarkers Challenge as the theme is Ribbons and Buttons and I was thrilled to see that my card last week made the top five so I am officially a top 5 Passionista :-)

Have a great Wednesday!
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge/ Fiskarettes DT - Chill out!

Hello Everyone! Sorry I am quite late with my Pollycraft Monday Challenge post today. I am still feeling awful but I went the Doctor's today and I have some antibiotics now so hopefully I will start to feel better soon. I have a nasty cough now which is keeping everyone awake so I am not very popular!  The lovely Anita has chosen our theme this week which is:

Chill Out!

I have made a card using the lovely Ronnie who is relaxing in his chair and some new October Afternoon Papers I recently acquired. 

I added some of my usual stitching in red this time and using some of my favourite Fiskars punches, the scalloped lace border punch and the star squeeze punch. 

I coloured Ronnie with my Promarkers, the sentiment is from an old Elzybells set. 

The fabulous ribbon and the star stick pin are from The Ribbon Girl. I have run out of the gorgeous black gingham now so I need to get some more! It has become a new favourite of mine and it looks fab with my old favourites...the spotty buttons!
I hope you will be able to join in with our Challenge this week our fabulous sponsor is 

My Mum's Craft Shop

who is offering a 10.00 voucher for their fabulous shop! I will be staying in Dorset near the shop twice this year and I can't wait to pop in see the new shop in Poundbury.

If you want to see the step by step instructions on how to make this card, you can see them on the Fiskarettes blog. I hope you have a lovely Monday!
Jane
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A punched star Christmas tree

This is my last DT project for Fiskarettes, I decided to make a card with no stamping for a change. This card is a lovely way to make use of your punches and is easy and quick to put together if you want to need to make lots.
You will need to punch out 15 green stars using your Fiskars Squeeze Star Punch and one pink one.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Punch out all the stars and cut a rectangle of card with your Fiskars Paper Trimmer to mount the stars onto. Punch a scalloped border on the bottom edge, using the Fiskars Scalloped Lace Border Punch.

2. Add the first line of stars to form the bottom of the tree. You will need five stars and will need to overlap them so they are joined together.
Continue building up the layers by adding one less star on each level until you get to the top of the tree.
3. Matt the tree topper onto a layer of pink card cut with the Paper trimmer.
4. Sew around the edge of the two layers. If you don’t have a sewing machine you could doodle fake stitching.
5. Cut another piece of patterned paper to fit the front of your chosen card blank. Using the Fiskars paper trimmer is invaluable when you are doing lots of matting and layering as it save so much time, the measuring and cutting is so quick and precise.
6. Add your stitched layers to the front of the card.
7. Sew a pink button onto your pink punched star and stick to the top of the tree with a foam pad.

8. Cut a pot shape from pink card and mount under the tree with foam pads.
9. Embellish the tree with pink gem baubles.
This tree can be made to look very different by changing the colour scheme to a more traditional one. You could try using different punches too, a circle punch would make a very modern tree!

Fiskarettes are looking for new DT members at the moment so please go and check out the DT call now. I had lots of fun working on the blog as part of the team for the past three months and can thoroughly recommend it.

Jane
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Autumn Woodland card - Get Funky Challenge

Autumn is definitely in the air and the theme over at Get Funky set by Enfys is Autumn Woodland.

I used papers from the Funky Wordbooks CD and the spotty green paper is the free download.

I cut a card base and then cut a scalloped edge my Fiskars border punch. I matted and layered papers and then sewed around them with my sewing machine before mounting them onto the card front.

I cut a strip of brown cardstock to make the trunk, inked the edges and stuck to the card base. I cut three leaves with my Fiskars ShapeCutter and Leaf Template. I inked the edges of the leaves and sewed a line through the centre with my sewing machine and then shaped the leaves by folding on the sewed line. I then stuck them to the trunk to make a tree shape.

I cut two different size circles with the circle cutter matted them together, cut them into quarters so that one will fit in the top right hand corner of the card. Sew around the edges. Add a greeting to the top right hand corner.

I stamped a bird onto two different papers and cut out and paper pieced them together. Stuck them to the bottom right of the card and made another for the inside of the card.

I decorated the inside with backing paper and white card adding sewing to the layers and stuck the second bird inside the card.

I am really pleased with how this card turned out as I just printed the papers I liked without a set idea of what I wanted to do, just winging it this time seems to have worked!

Jane
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Buzzin by to say hi!

For my latest Fiskarettes Design Team Project, I decided to make a card with a bit of a summery feel as an antidote to these dark and cold mornings we are having lately.

1. Score and fold a piece of A4 card in half and cut down to make a square card using the Fiskars paper trimmer.
2. Cover the inside of the card with spotty paper.
3. Cut a diagonal with the finger tip knife and a ruler from the centre crease to 4cm from the bottom front of the card. Cover with stripey paper.
4. Punch a scalloped green strip of paper with the Fiskars Border Punch - Scalloped Lace and stick to bottom front of the card. Stick a strip of lace over this.

5. Stamp the Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit bees using the Easy Stamp Press onto white linen card. Colour in and cut into a circle. Mount onto a scalloped circle.
6. Cut a leaf using the Leaves Template and ShapeCutter. Handstitch to represent the veins on the leaf. Cut a second shape and stick to back of stitched shape to hide the stitches.
7. Assemble topper on the card finishing with a button and paper flower.
8. Add an Elzybells stamped sentiment in a die cut circle.

I love the mixture of colours and textures in this finished card. This would work just as well with more leaves and ladybirds or autumnal colour leaves and a spider for Halloween.

I hope you are having a nice weekend.

Jane x

A mini house for a huge celebration!

This is another catch up post, blogging something I made early last week. This is a gift I made for my Friends Petra and Peter who had a massive party at the weekend to celebrate their House's 105th Birthday.
I wasn't able to go as I got flu :-( but loads of people did. About 200!

I decided to make a gift box in the shape of a house and fill it with some mini scrapbook albums. I made the base shape of the house in 2 pieces tracing around a square Nestie to make the roof shape then scored, folded it and then stuck it all together. I cut some grass freehand and stuck it around the base of the house.
A door was cut from Burgundy card and layered up with foam pads and a brad for a handle. I then added Basic Grey stickers to the door. The flowers were stuck onto some climbing leaves cut with a Fiskars border punch and embellished with pearls.

I cut a Fiskars border to add to the roof on the side of the house, added a window cut from Nesties and another Fiskars border for a window box was filled with more leaves and flowers. Flowers were dotted around the grass.

I cut a piece of card for the roof which was scored and folded and edged with the border punch. I stuck it down at the back to make a hinged roof and added velcro to the front top to close the box. I added Petra and Peter's initials to the back of the box in a Nesties panel.

I then made 3 mini albums with my Bind it all to add to the box to record the 105th Birthday of the house.
All papers used were K+Co and the letters are Basic Grey and K+Co.
I love how this Project turned out and wish I could have given it to Petra and Peter on Saturday but they will receive it today.
Hope you all had a lovely weekend.
Jane
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Rosy red Wedding card

I have not Blogged anything for ages as I got the nasty fluey bug that is going around. I made a few things before I got ill so now it's catch up time. although I can't post a few things until they have safely reached their intended recipients!

This is another wedding card I made for an order I received from a Friend. The Wedding theme is red so I used some Debbie Moore designs backing paper matted and layered on red and silver card. I made a frame using a Fiskars border punch and added the stamped Elzybells wedding couple image which I coloured with Promarkers.
I added some ribbon and a Flower to finish the card off and I will personalise the inside of the card with the Bride and Groom's name and the date of the wedding.
Jane
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Fiakarettes Design Team project: An autumn Magnolia card

This is my 3rd Project as a Design Team member on the Fiskarettes website. As autumn is definitely in the air, I decided to make an autumnal card using my Leaves template for the shape cutting system.

To make the card:
1. Fold a piece of A4 card in half to make the card blank then cover with 2 coordinating My Mind's eye backing papers trimming to size with the Fiskars paper trimmer.
2. Cut a strip of orange backing paper and punch using the Fiskars scalloped paper punch and stick to bottom of card front. Weave a piece of narrow green ribbon through some lace and stick over scallop edged strip onto card.
3. Stamp image twice onto white card using the Fiskars stamp press and colour with Promarkers. Ink the edges of the image on the rectangle shape. Lay the Leaves shape template over the second coloured image and when happy with the positioning cut the image out. Ink the edges of the leaf shape with distress inks. Layer up both images using foam pads making sure the edges match up.

4. Stick the completed topper to the card with more foam pads.
5. Stamp the greeting onto a small rectangle, ink the edges and embellish with stick on gems.
6. Add a small green ribbon to the leaf stem and layer up a button tied with string onto a paper flower and add to top right hand of card.

This is the first time I used my Leaves shapecutting template and I loved how easy it was to cut such intricate shapes. I have lots more ideas on how to use the shapes for future projects. I can't believe I am already half way through my time on the Design Team already, I am really enjoying using the products, especially the Stamp press and paper trimmer, they make life so easy and allow you to be so precise when positioning stamps and trimming papers!
Jane
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Get Funky Challenge - Halloween!

Boo! Happy World Cardmaking day to one and all of you! Finally got around to doing some crafting today after a long morning watching Jack playing Football. It was the first round of their cup games and they got through after extra time and penalties! I think my Hubby found it more stressful than watching his favourite team play.
I decided I would make something to take part in Anice's Get Funky blog challenge. This month's theme is Halloween and I have made a little trick or treat bucket.

I chose the Daisy design papers from the Funky Wordbooks cd. I printed the lilac and green daisies backing papers and the lower case letters.
I used an empty Slimfast container and covered it with the green backing paper. I then cut some scalloped borders with a Fiskars punch and added them to the top and bottom of the paper. I punched holes in the side of the bucket to thread through an Asda sparkly purple headband for a handle and embellished that with an organza bow.
I then cut some labels from the purple card to match the scallop borders and another from the lilac daisies paper. I doodled fake stitching on the label and stuck on letters from Funky Hand and American crafts.
I stamped an Elzybells witch from the Trick or treat trio and coloured her in with Promarkers, cut her out and stuck her to the panel with foam pads.
I made up a flower from felt flower shapes, a purple fabric flowetr and some die cut shapes and stuck to the top right hand corner of the label. I embellished with a few gems.
I decided the bucket was looking a bit empty so I made some treat bags from cellophane bags and staples a Nesties label on with fake stitching an a stamped Boo! Coloured with Promarkers.
I am really proud of the project, hence the photo overload!
A couple more things to finish off today so I may be back later!
Jane
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A recipe for Cupcakes...

I made this card this evening to take part in 2 blog Challenges. The Monday Challenge on the Fiskarettes website is Spots and Stripes (2 of my favourite patterns!) and I am also taking part in the first Challenge for the Cook up A Card - Recipe blog.
The September Recipe is to use:

• 1 Flower
• 2 Ribbons
• 3 pieces of Chipboard

I used some of the stash I bought yesterday at Alexandra Palace for the card.
I cut a piece of orange card with my Fiskars paper trimmer and rounded one edge with corner shaper scissors. I then cut a rectangle of striped card which I matted on to blue to give a slim border.
I cut some circles with the Circle cutter and layered them up. The Cupcake stamp I got from Sugar and Spice crafts was stamped onto striped Paper Crate paper and spotty My Mind's eye paper and was paper pieced.
I added some blue ribbon to the striped rectangle and matted onto the orange card.
The topper was assembled with foam pads and I added a flower to the top of the cupcake.
I used Making memories chipboard letters to spell out 'cup' to the left of the card, I added some folded ribbon tab details to the 'U', set an eyelet with the Eyelet setter and tied ribbon through it.
I finally stamped the greeting and finished off with some stick on gems.
I like the summery feel of this card and it fits in well with the weather we have been having lately, let's hope it lasts!
Jane
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Stampin' Chic Challenge card

This is a card I made to take part in Clare Curd's Stampin' Chic challenge. The photo does not really do this card justice as the colours seem to have gone a bit funny...in real life the green of the 'Mum' letters does match the other green card used!



The challenge this week was to follow a sketch. I love the Clare Curd 'Big One' paper pad as you do not need to put much else with it to make stunning card. I cut out and layered up some flowers and added them to a Nestabilities circle, the flower stalks are cut from a Cuttlebug shape. The letters are Basic Grey and the scallop strip was punched with a Fiskars border punch.
I love all the polkadot papers in this paper pad as spots and stripes are my favourites :-)
Hope you are having a good week.
Jane
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Black and White Card

I made this card today for the Monday Challenge on the Fiskarettes blog which is black and white.
This is the first card I have made and posted since becoming part of the Design team. I love monochrome cards so I was really excited when I saw the latest Challenge.
To make the card, I covered the base in 2 different spotty papers which I cut to size with my Fiskars paper trimmer. I covered the join with a scalloped paper strip cut with the Fiskars threading water border punch, I then layered a strip of stripy ribbon over the paper strip.

To make the flower panel. I used my stamp press to stamp flowers and leaves onto patterned paper and then cut them out. I sewed stems with black thread onto a panel of white card and stuck on the flowers and leaves. The stamp press is so easy to use and makes sure the stamped image is perfect every time.
The panel was then set into a black panel. I used my pearls squeeze punch to cut into the corners of the black panel and embellished with stick on gems. The panel was mounted on to the card and I added a stamped sentiment.
Jane
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