Fathers Day

Morning!

It's nearly the weekend - Yipee!  We've got a weekend of visiting various relatives planned - which will be nice.

I spent yesterday helping my little girl to stick blue tissue on a empty pringles tube as we are making a desk tidy for fathers day.  Wish me luck that she's feeling cooperative to finish it off today!!  Here's the card I've made for him on fathers day:

The image is from Pink Petticoat - I've had it quite a while (years in fact!) and never used it - but it was perfect for this.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Critters
Fresh Brewed - Anything Goes
Do You Stack Up - Boys / Men
One Stop Craft Challenge - Father Day
Card Mad Fairy - Masculine / Fathers Day
Di's Digital Designs - Father Day
Little Claire's - Male Theme

Thanks for looking!

Julie

For Fun Guest Design - Western Theme

Morning!

Hope you're all having a good week so far!

The lovely people over at For Fun Challenges have let me guest design for them this week and next week!  Thanks!!!

This weeks challenge is Western and here's my card:

This cute little guy is from Bugaboo, the sentiment was done on my computer and I've distressed some Core-dinations card.  I was um-ing and ah-ing about what to embellish it with - I never seem to have anything good for guy type cards as the usual pearls and gems don't really work!  However I was thrilled when found these star shaped brads that I bought ages ago in a sale and had forgotten about.

I can't wait to see what other people have made - I love having a good old nose round other peoples blogs, and it would be great if you joined us this week too!

Thanks for looking!

Julie xx

Paper Piecing

Evening!

This afternoon I put together a thank-you card for one of my friends who cam to our rescue and looked after our children at short notice this evening as myself and my husband who never have a social life both had things to do this evening! I've been at our WI meeting and had a great time with a self defense lesson.

I had a go a paper piecing - I've been meaning to try it for a while and I wish I'd done it earlier - how fab is it?  I'm definitely going to do it again - it looks amazing.  As I mainly use digital images I wasn't to sure how to do it as all the tutorials I'd seen were for rubber stamping.  However the other day I saw this tutorial on the Card Crafter's Circle blog which explained how to do it with a digital image really simply.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Something New (New Technique!)
For Fun - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Spots and/or Stripes
Card Mad Fairy - Thank-you
Stamping For The Weekend - Out with the Old (It's all been lurking in my stash for a while!)

Thanks for Looking

Julie xx

Pink Explosion

Hi,

This time in a week we'll just be finishing our Christmas dinner!  Lovely!

Here's my latest card - it's for our sort-of-niece Molly.  Molly loves pink as you can see from this card:

The owls scarf is covered in pink glitter but my rubbish photography doesn't show it up or how lovely and sparkly the ribbon is!

like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Sketch
One Stop Craft Challenge - Christmas Sparkle
Cupcake Craft - Don't Look at the Light
The Pixie Cottage - Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Anything Goes (with Ribbon!)
Southern Girls - Let's Celebrate
Paper Sundaes - Celebrate
The Stamping Boutique - Monthly Challenge: Christmas
Bizzy Bec's - Christmas

I'm finishing making Christmas cards with my 3 year old this afternoon - lovely.  It means I'll be clearing sequins up all evening! x

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

Reindeer

Morning!!

I'm feeling very Christmassy today!

Here's my latest card - I made it for my best friend at work! I mentioned a while back I'd bought a lovely Reindeer die and I've finally used it.  The material for my reindeer is actually my little boy's coat that he had grown out of and the zip gone!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Lollipop Crafts - Happy Holidays
Tuesday Throwdown - For Someone Special
For Fun - Christmas - Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed - Christmas
Do You Stack Up - Winter
Saturday Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small
Paper Sundaes - Anything Christmas
Woopsie Daisy - Christmas Sparkle and Shine
Lexis Creations - No Red or Green
The Stamping Boutique - No Traditional Christmas Colours

Thanks for looking!

Julie

and another snowman...

Evening all!

We've been watching Santa Claus the Movie this afternoon and my little girl was so excited screaming "Santa, Santa" at the top of her voice - it was so cute - but I think I may need to ask Santa for some new ear drums for Christmas!

I feel like I've used this snowman on practically every card I've made - but he's so quick to colour.

I'd like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Freshly Brewed - Christmas
One Stop Craft Challenge - Traditional Christmas Colours
Winter Wonderland - Let it Snow
For Fun - Christmas Sparkle
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (with a Dangle!)
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes plus Glitter
Ladybug Challenge - Snowflakes and Sparkle
Craft Your Days Away - Snowmen
Stampin' for the Weekend - Christmas

Thanks for Looking

Julie x

Autumn

Hi,

Hope you're all good!

Here's my latest card - I've tried my hand at an Autumn themed card tonight.  The image is one I won in a challenge at Sew Many Challenges a while back.  How cute is that little guy!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Craft Your Passion - A card for all occasions
Ladybug Challenge - Tag It
Sew Many Cards - Burnt Orange, Yellow and Brown
Card Patterns - Sketch
Our Creative Corner - Fall Colours
Easy Craft Projects - An Autumn Project
Freshly Brewed - Pumpkins
Craft Your Days Away - Tag It
Stamping for the Weekend - Colours of Autumn
For Fun - Pumpkins

Thanks for looking!! I'm off to wake the children up from their nap and then we're off to the park to find some leaves and twigs so we can make a big picture of a tree next time we're stuck indoors.

Julie xx