A 'charming' card for the I love Promarkers Challenge

I have a quick share for you today. This image from Pollycraft was release a little while ago and I coloured it in when it was released but only made it into a card recently. I have been making lots of Christmassy cards lately so I thought I would have a bit of a change and enter the challenge at 'I love Promarkers'.

To make the card, I used a black patterned paper I bought in a job lot at the Farnborough Make it show, layered it on to some turquoise card and sewed around the edges with pink thread. I wrapped some pink gingham ribbon around the layered card and then added it to the card front. I cut a small label shape, stamped my sentiment, set it with an eyelet then pierced a hole with my pokey tool to hang my star charm from. I tied my ribbon into the eyelet, distressed the edges of the tag and added it to the card with a foam pad. As a finishing touch, I added a button tied with black string.
Have a great Sunday!
Jane
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New Willow Sketchie Challenge DT card

It's Willow Sketchie time and this week we have a lovely new download to work with which is available from Willow Designs. We are working with a lovely sketch by Poppy and a recipe:

Something Pink
One Butterfly
A Sprinkling of Fairy Dust Glitter

I used Bobunny double dots paper and some gingham paper I bought from my local Craft Shop. The border punch is Martha Stewart and I punched along both sides of the reverse of the double dots cardstock. I cut out image with a Nellie Snellen die and threaded Bazzill tulle through the holes adding a bow to the bottom topped with Pearls. The sentiment is by Hero arts and the Butterfly is made up with a Martha Stewart punched butterfly on top of a Nesties Butterfly.
Here is the lovely sketch that Poppy put together for us, it was lovely to work with and I think you will have lots of fun creating with it. I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge for the chance of winning some of Sharon's lovely downloads. Make sure you check out the blog for the rest of the DT's cards and to give a warm welcome to our new team members

Hazel
Lisa

Have a lovely Thursday.
Jane
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New Home card with lots of butterflies!

My Friend and colleague moved House at the end of last week so I needed a New Home card. I picked up a pack of Unity stamps at the Make it show in Farnborough and hadn't tried them out yet. The post box is so sweet and I love the little butterflies flying out of it.


I found this Kraft paper with cute little houses on it in my stash. I think I bought it from a shop that was closing down. I made a card base with a recycled Kraft folder and covered it with house paper which I had inked around the edges and wrapped with brown gingham ribbon.


I coloured the image with Promarkers and then added lots of little Martha Stewart butterflies. I dotted around lots of little gems and added a bow to which I had tied a button.

I decided to decorate the inside of the card with a layer of white textured card. The sentiment is stamped from a combination of Elzybells stamps and the envelope is part of the Unity set. I couldn't resist adding a couple more punched butterflies!
I hope you have a lovely Monday, we bought new bike yesterday and I have a day off today so Jack and I will be cycling to town this morning then home for a bit of crafting :-)
Jane
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Pollycraft Monday Challenge DT card - a colour combo

It's Monday Challenge time on the Pollycraft Challenge blog and this week we have a colour combo for you.

You must use Pink and Brown plus yellow or green.

I used the super cute 'Cogcake' image to make my card. He is available from Pollycraft for only 99p! What a bargain. I teamed him with papers from the Creative Cottage which are also available from Pollycraft and fit the colour theme for this week perfectly. I used lots of stitching, some lovely organza ribbon and a sentiment from a cupcake stamp set from Sugar and Spice crafts. The adorable little Robot charm is from Quixotic Paperie.
I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge, there will be a £10.00 Pollycraft voucher for the winner.
Have a lovely Monday!
Jane
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You're tea-riffic!

I have had The Greeting Farm Alice in Wonderland images for days now and only got around to colouring them in yesterday. I just love the selection of images and had so much fun colouring them in with my Promarkers.


I decided to colour the Mad-Hatter in really bright colours. Red and turquoise is one of my favourites and it seemed to really suit this image. There is a sketch theme (see below) on the I love Promarkers blog and they are also asking for embossing on the card.

The sketch was really lovely to work with. I used red and aqua plain card and embossed my DCWV aqua strips with a star embossing folder. The spotty paper is by Making Memories and the buttons are from my stash.
Here is a close up of the little Mad-Hatter, I think he looks really cheeky! I love his little stripy trousers too.
The sentiment I used is from Elzybells.
It is Mother's day in the UK today so we will soon be going to my Mum's house for lunch with my Grandma and Nanny.
I hope you have a lovely Mother's day!
Jane
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Back to Nature but no Flowers!

It was a bit of a funny day today....I went to PC world to buy a replacement for the chewed laptop power supply at lunchtime. When we got it home, we managed to fit it to the Laptop but it would not charge. Frustrated, we drove back to Reading this evening to return it and try and buy an alternative. We got to PC World only to discover we needed to turn a little dial on the bottom of the Power Supply to make sure it kicked out the correct voltage!! How silly did we feel!! Anyway...the laptop is charged now, we stopped for tea on the way home and Darren and the boys bought me two tops and some jeans while we were out and about for Mother's Day :-) I have been spoilt!
When I got home I faffed about for a bit looking through my paper scraps and digis and made this card.
It's a bit unusual for me as it's all pale and pastelly, I usually go much brighter but I liked this polka dot paper with the lemon DCWV card so I went with it.

The image is a Heather Ellis Pure Innocence Digi. I have three of these now. They are so cute! The Spotty paper is from Inspire me, the ribbon is Papermania as are the gems and the Die cut shapes are all Spellbinders. As the little cutie on my card is going 'Back to Nature' with her little watering can surrounded by Butterflies I am entering this card in to the Passion for Promarkers Challenge which is 'Back to Nature', I am also entering it into the Die Cut Dreams Challenge which forbids you from using Flowers and last but not least I am entering it into the I love Promarkers Challenge which asks for a Shaped card.
I think this is the first time I have combined so many Challenges on one card.
I hope you had a good Monday.
Jane
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