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

Flowers Anyone

This card was made for one of the lovely ladies over on MSE,  I loved the colour combinations on this card, it's nice and summery.

It has been created using,
Lily of the valley Image coloured in with Prismacolour pencils,
DCWV nursery girl paper stack,
Pink card from stash,
Martha Stuart Butterfly and flower punches,
X cut leaf punch
Stampin up label punches,
Ribbon and Bling from stash.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges,

Bling it on - Anything Goes
Card and Scrap - punches and dies
The Emerald Faerie Garden - Anything Girly
Sir Stampalot - Anything goes
Funshapes and more - Die cut / punch
Divas by Design - Die cuts/ punches
Flutterby Wednesdays - butterfly, fairy or angel


Thanks for popping by Jo x

My Fathers Day Cards

These are the two card I made for our Dad's for Fathers Day this year,

This one is a lovely Lily of the Valley stamp coloured in with prismacolour pencils, I have cut him out using the largest classic oval nestie and then just cut a larger one to mat it on, a couple of buttons and the sentiment and it was done.

For this one I used a wild rose stamp coloured in with prismacolour pencils, I love the effect of the pencils at the moment. mat and layered him on to blue paper added some matching background paper, brads, and a sentiment

Thanks for popping by Jo x