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

Carol's sketch fun challenge card

I made this card earlier this evening to take part in Carol's sketch challenge but I think I missed the deadline :-( I had trouble with my camera running out of battery and then uploading piccies so I think I was a bit late!
It doesn't really matter though as I had lots of fun making the card.



Carol had provided a lovely sketch for us to follow again and she has a lovely prize up for grabs. I will have to make sure I am a bit more organised next time!
Oooh! Nearly forgot, image is Messy Rabbit coloured with Promarkers and glossy accents and the paper is DCWV Christmas stack, ribbon is from my stash and the snowflakes are confetti embellished with a gem. Sentiment is Elzybells.
Jane
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Blue and Silver Messy Rabbit ATC

I made these ATCs quite a few days ago for Becky's Monthly ATC Swap. I have been practising my colouring with Promarkers and tried to get a shaded effect on Messy Rabbit.

I really love this little rabbit and I think he will be making an appearance on quite a few of my Christmas cards. I used glitter glue for the snow.
We have had quite a hectic week with both my Mum and Darren's Mum being ill and giving us a bit of a fright. They are on the mend now and I am off to spend the weekend with my Mum and Dad tomorrow so no crafting for me but lots of unpacking as they will be settling for good in their house in Swindon.
I hope you all have a lovely Weekend!

Jane
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Moving along with the times sketch Challenge

Here is my card for the Moving Along with the times sketch Challenge. The image is Messy Rabbit and I coloured it with promarkers.


There was lovely sketch by Heidi to follow this week and the theme was Christmas. I dug out my Nestabilities to cut the squares and embossed some white card with a Cuttlebug Snowflake folder. I got this in the post today so I was dying to use it! I coloured one of my Prima flowers with my silver pen and layered it up with a blue flower and a piece of Snowflake Confetti finished off with a sticky gem. The ribbon has been lurking in my stash for ages. It is a really nice shade of blue. The prize for this week is a Guest Design team spot so why not pop on over and play along for a chance to work with the talented Design Team!
Jane x

Time to play!

The last flat pack unit has been built and I finally had some time and energy to play with some of the goodies I bought at the weekend. I decided to try out my Messy Rabbit stamp. I have never tried any of Joanna Sheen's stamps before and I was really pleased with this one. I coloured it with Promarkers and highlighted the background with chalks. I picked up the spotty paper at the Ashridge Farm craft shop.


I used the bee that came in the Joanna Sheen set to make a mini card. I used my new Glossy accents on the wings and the flowers were stamped onto patterned paper and covered in glossy accents. I finished the card with gems in the centres of the flowers. The flower stamps are from Elzybells.

I hope you enjoyed your long weekend :-)

Jane
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