The NeverEnding card

I have been wanting to try and make a never ending card for ages, and today I finally took the plunge following this tutorial, which was very easy to follow, the hardest part was embellishing the finished product.

The main view I used  a stampin up owl punch and stamp.

The Second View I used a lovely yellow flower and Martha Stuart flower punch flower  for the corners.

 

The Third View I used the stampin up two step bird punch

The forth view, I used a butterfly die and Martha Stuart butterfly punch

And the fifth view.

papers used are dovecrafts spice paper pack, I just hope my great Aunt likes it,

Thanks for popping by Jo xx

The Fairy Card

Over on facebook crafty sellers set the challenge make a fairy card and this is the card I made for it, 

I have used a gorgeous lili of the valley stamp coloured in with spectrum noir pens,
Nellie Dies circle,,
Paper roses and leaves cut on my craft robo
and the sentiment was a free download, papers ribbon and bling are from stash.

Thanks for popping by Jo x

The Fishing Card

It was my brothers birthday last month and one of his favourite things to do is go fishing, so I made this card for him.

I used a lovely stamp from Lili of the Valley  which has been coloured in with prismacolor pencils and spectrum noir pens,
The birthday sentiment is from sentiments  4 you,
the design paper is from a  dovecrafts pack and the buttons and ribbon are from stash.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges,

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Birthdays/ Celebrations
Tuesday Throwdown - Birthdays

Thanks for popping by Jo x

Bird Cage Cards.

I made these two cards at a crop ages ago and forgot about blogging them,I think they were made in January when I had just got the Tim Holtz bird cage die and was not sure what to do with it, it took a while for inspiration to hit and  I came up with these.

 

I used the same sort of layout on each of the cards, just changing the border on the decorative strip, and a flower instead of a brad,  and I finally used the cropadile I really needed to set the eyelets.  

Thanks for popping by Jo x

The Teachers Gifts.

This year I made 7 thank you gifts for my children's teachers and teaching assistants. I kept them all the same just changing the colours on the cards to coordinate with the box.

I made the 2,5,7,10 box tutorial from here and it was lovely and easy to do and very quick to assemble.
The  owl's were created using  a stampin up two step owl punch and owl stamp, the branches are from the two step bird punch and it was finished off with a silvery moon. The boxes were filled with bath bombs and soaps from The Soapy Cauldren

Thanks for popping by Jo x

My New Craft "Space"

My lovely husband has created a craft "space" for me in the loft, it has taken 9 months for him to compete it and I have to say I love it, it is just an oasis of calm up there,  we kept it white to keep it nice and bright, and I just added black accessories

This is the main view as you come up into the loft lots of space and we have used Ikea furniture to kit it out,

The desk which has so much room on it I used to use a laptop table in the bedroom we also got the rail thing, which holds most used tools, glues, stickles and my prisma colour pencils,

And finally some white expedit units to hold everything else, such as papers, stamps, punches and there is a box just for my daughter so she can craft with me as well.

Thanks for popping by Jo x

Pearls and Swirls 's

Flourgirl over on MSE posted a challenge and the theme was Pearls and Swirls,

I have used a gorgeous shopping Anya coloured in with Prisma colour pencils,
Scalloped oval and oval nestabilities
forever friends paper pack
X cut loopy lace punch
flourish die and pearls from stash.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges,

Prairie Fairy Friday - Anything Goes,
Pennys  paper crafty - Happy Birthday
Ruby's Rainbow - Happy Birthday

Thanks for popping by Jo x