Playing With My Brayer

I was in a little craft shop last week when I spotted a speedball brayer and it was half price!!!! It would have been rude to leave it behind so it came home with me. All I needed then was some Big and Juicy ink pads and I would be able to brayer to my hearts content, lucky for me create and craft had them on buy one get one free over the bank holiday weekend.

So today with a couple of hours spare and no children around I had a play with the brayer and ink pads, my Dining room table looks like an explosion in a paper factory, and by searching the internet for tutorials I have created my first sunset,

I used glossy photo paper for the brayering and managed to get a couple of ink spots where they should not be but overall I'm pleased with how it came out I love the viva decor grass stamps they look great when they are stamped.

Thanks for popping by Jo x

My Red, White and Blue Challenge Card.

Over on MSE cardpaperscissors set the challenge of making a card using red white and blue with circles, this is my interpretation.

I have used,
Maggie with Jumper from sugar nellie coloured in with prismacolor pencils,
Nellie's doily die,
Hero Arts stamp for the circular background,
sentiment from sentiments 4 you
and ribbon and bling from stash.

Thanks for popping by Jo x

A Vintage Aeroplane Card

My Father in Law has just celebrated a milestone birthday and this is the card I made for him, He has always loved aeroplanes and this sort of came about.

I used a vintage aeroplane image from the internet and for some reason the printer printed it out in sepia.
I mounted it on to beige card and inked and distressed around the edges,
Stamps are Viva Decor, and some magnetic stamps I picked up in a bargain bin which I  stamped in brown ink, I used a Tim Holtz ticket die for the sentiment and the ribbon and brad came from stash.

I would like to enter in into the following challenges,

Creative Card Challenges - Vintage/Distressed
Try it on Tuesdays - One for the boys
Cards for Men - Someone Special
Crafty Cardmakers - Steampunk or Machines
Polly Craft - Boyz to Men
Stamps R Us - Masculine

Thanks for popping by Jo x

The Childrens Royal Wedding Party.

I still remember the huge street party I went to when Charles and Diana got married and knew that our street would not be having a big street party, So my friend Sarah and I organised a little party for our children and the ones they play with in the street.

We ended up hosting it in my garage as it was windy and overcast, but that didn't matter the children loved it, and hopefully they will remember it like I remembered Charles and Dianas

 This is the Union Jack cake stand I made complete with red, white and blue cakes.

 The front of the party favour bags, each child had a commemorative magnet or spoon, the bag was made using my craft robo and decorated with a banner flag , and print out if the happy couple.

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 The back of the party favour bags

My sunshine enjoying himself

Our own little princess having a great time

The table ready to go.

Thanks for popping by Jo x

ThrowBack Fred

I seem to be having a run of male cards at the moment, This one was made for another family friend, who was a true child of the seventies (I'm not giving his age away really)

He is called Throwback Fred and was a free digital stamp ( but I cannot remember where from) I coloured him in with aquamarkers and edged the paper with green ink, The DP is from dovecrafts Funky Vintage, the sentiment is from sentiments 4 you and the ribbon and brads are from stash,

I would like to enter him into the following challenges

CT's sketch challenge on MSE
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - One for the boys
The Crazy Challenge - Cards for men
Stamps R Us - Masculine

Thanks for popping by Jo x

New Baby Card

A friend of mine has recently  had a little baby girl and she is just gorgeous, so I made her this card, It was a good excuse to use sugar nellie baby stamp I brought at the Exeter craft show.

 

To make it I have used the sugar nellie stamp coloured in with Prismacolour pencils, the background paper is from DCWV nursery stack, I've added a huge bow a sentiment and some card candy.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges,

Wee Memories - Anything girly.

Delicious Doodles Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Challenges - pink and sweet

Ladybug Crafts ink - anything goes

Thanks for popping by Jo x

It's Been A While

I have just realised its been nearly a month since my last post!!!!, sometimes life just takes over, first of all I had a cold sore in my right eye, which caused my vision to be bleary for a week or so, I can honestly say I would not like to get one again it was not a nice experience.

I have been doing a little bit of crafting but have keep getting sidetracked by my Kindle, I have always loved reading and the kindle is just fantastic nice and light and so easy to use, anyhow here are a  couple of cards I made for a friends of ours whos birthdays were in January,

For this one I used a fantastic image from Bugaboo and he has been coloured in with papermania brush pens, The papers are from from dovecrafts funky vintage range and the sentiment and orange cord are from stash,

This card has been created with a wild rose studio stamp coloured in with papermania brush pens,  he has been layered with labels 8, the papers are from papermania it's a man's world paper pack and I just added a sentiment.

Thanks for popping by Jo x