Craft Your Days Away - Shades of Grey + One Other

Morning!

I can't believe I haven't posted for two weeks - how rubbish am I?  I just seem to have been so busy.

Anyway its time for a new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away.

The challenge for this fortnight is Shades of Grey + 1 Other, so why not pop over and join in - there are some amazing creations from my teamies.

We have a fabulous sponsor for this challenge - it's The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop and their fabulous prize is a ribbon and embellishment bundle.

Here's my card for this challenge:

I've realised it's nearly Christmas so I've made a Christmas Card (ok - I know it's not but I do need to get a wiggle on with my Christmas cards). I've used a cute Pollycraft image and the snowflakes are chipboard shapes covered in blue glass embossing powder. The snowflake paper is simply some snowflakes stamped in black ink onto the grey card.

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

Willow Sketchie - Christmas in July
Paper Play Challenges - Christmas in July
Card Crafters Circle - For Children
Cardmadfairy  - Christmas in July
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Christmas in July

Anyway thanks for looking - I need to go and tidy my house now as my sister is coming to stay with us this weekend and my house looks like a bomb has hit it.

Hope you all have a good weekend!

Julie xx

Edited to add challenge entries - as I finally got my house tidy!

Craft Your Days Away - Doilies and Lace

Morning!!

Hope you are all ready for the weekend with your wellies and raincoats... where on earth has our summer gone??

So it's time for a new challenge at Craft Your Days Away. This fortnight the theme is Doilies and Lace, and has been set by the lovely Berit.  There is a super prize for this challenge - which is a selection of doilies, lace and pearls!


Here's my card:

I made this card a while back as my friend was due to have her baby and I wanted to personalise it - but the baby is now 13 days late so I've not been able to yet!!  It seems like the baby is well and truly settled in.   I think she's off to the hospital tomorrow so hopefully she won't be kept waiting to meet her baby much longer!  But if you could all send the baby some pain-free eviction vibes that would be great!  I suppose it's only a good thing that the weather has been so rubbish - being hot and very pregnant in the summer is no fun!

The papers are from a First Edition stack called Sweet Owl and the digi is from Pollycraft.

So why not pop along and join us, there are some fab creations from my teamies for you to see.

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

Happy Bird-day!!

Evening!

It's my very lovely Mother-in-Laws birthday tomorrow and here's the card I made for her. Tonight I've heard some wonderful news that some friends have had a baby boy so once I've posted this I'm off to my craft centre (read dining room table) to make a lovely new baby card tonight.  

How cute is that bird paper - I'm pretty sure it's a single sheet from Echo Park. The cute charm is from the Ribbon Girl website!

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

Craft Your Passion - Things with Wings
Cupcake Craft - Birds of a Feather
Sassy Cheryl's - Summer
Woopsi Daisy - Things with Wings
My Grafico - Bright Summer Colours
Creative Craft Challenge - Tweet Tweets

Thanks for looking!!

Julie

Birthdays ...

Hi,

It was my friends birthday last week and I'm going to see her tomorrow so I started to make her a cake and I managed to burn the motor out on my electric mixer, there was smoke coming out of it!  Never mind it's done a good job - I've had it about 10 years and it was only a basic on that cost about £5!!

 So I've had to mix by hand which has made my arm sore and swap from chocolate frosting to chocolate ganache - big shame!!

Anyway here's the card I made for her birthday:

I'm quite pleased with the way this came out.  The digi is from Digi Stamp Boutique, and the papers are from one of the new stacks I've bought. These are First Edition - Sweet Owl, so so cute.

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

Lollipop Crafts - Flowers in Bloom
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Lexis Creations - Happy Birthday
Reasonable Ribbon - Flowers and Ribbon
Freshly Brewed - Pop It
Digi Stamp Boutique - Customer Images
Bunny Zoe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Everybody Art Challenge - Sketch


Thanks for looking!

Julie xx

Birthday Girl

Hi,

I've had a busy weekend, yesterday we had our first WI cake stall, we did great and could have easily sold twice as much!

Today we've been to a birthday party for my friend's two year old, which was in a children's gym.  My two had a great time and have had a nice early night tonight!!!

Here's the card I made for Dot - the birthday girl.

I got a new pad of paper on my outing to The Range this week and I've used it here for Dot's card.  It's by Grace Taylor, and is called Playtime (and it was only £9.99 for 100 sheets!).  It's perfect for children's cards!

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

Craft Your Passion - Use Die Cuts and Punches
Our Creative Corner - Butterflies
Paper Sundaes - Let's Get Cute
My Grafico - Fun and Games
Ladybug Crafts Challenge - Shapes
Di's Digital Designs - Let's meet your animal friends
Sassy Cheryl's - Butterflies

Thanks for looking! Hope you have a great week!

Julie xx

Craft Your Days Away - Use Metal

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I've been a terrible blogger recently - but I seem to have had no time at all to just sit and have a good nose round everyone's beautiful blogs!  So if I follow you and have been neglecting you recently I apologise!  Hopefully after this weekend - things should calm down a bit!

Anyway it's time for another design team card for the fabulous Craft Your Days Away!  This time our challenge is to Use Metal and we are sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs.

Here's my card for the challenge:

So it's time to dig out those charms and metal embellishments - it would be really fab if you could join us this fortnight - I can't wait to see what you create!

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

Sassy Cheryl's - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking

Julie x

Good Luck Card

Hi,

I've had no internet for almost two weeks as my router(?) was broken, but I'm back!  I did try to post via blogger mobile - but it wouldn't upload my post.

I made this card about two weeks ago for friend at work who was leaving us to go and live and work in London.

I used some glossy accents on the four leaf clover and had a go doing a swirly pattern with my Bazzill jewel templates.  The lovely papers were free in a magazine, and the image is Pollycraft.

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

Do You Stack Up - Layers
If The Shoe Fits - Anything Goes
Saturday Challenge - 3 in a row (swirls, gems and ribbon)
Allsorts - Anything Goes
Bee Crafty - Miss You

Thanks for looking - enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Julie x

Shake it ...

Hi,

I've been practicing my new found ninja skills today on my husband, that we were taught in our self defense class last night, and I think he's impressed but also a bit sore as I was a bit over enthusiastic demonstrating what we learned and forgot to mention that he may possibly get hit.  Oops!

Here's a christmas card I never got round to posting - it was for my lovely friend Gemma who helped us out last night.

It's a shaker card, I think I've made one before - so when I made it I decided I didn't need to look for any instructions - maybe next time I will as it took a while to figure out.  Gemma liked it though so that's good!

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

Tuesday Throwdown - Baby It's Cold Outside

Do You Stack Up - Pink

Lexis Creations - Anything Goes

Southern Girls - Show us your Sparkle

Thanks for looking!

Julie xx

Happy Christmas!

Hello!

Today we are off to spend Christmas with family, so this will be my last post for a couple of days.  My little girl now screams (with excitement!) when Santa is mentioned, my little boy is only 18 months so all he knows is that the Christmas tree is a great toy!

Here's the card I made for my brother-in-law and his girlfriend!

This card is so sparkly as the dp is glittered, plus the Ho Ho is covered in crystal stickles, and then just in case I hadn't started a world shortage I put just a little bit more the Santa hats!

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

Card Crafter's Circle - Christmas
Simon Says - Let's Play Bingo (Ribbon, Gems, Glitter)
Aud's Sentiments - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet -Anything Goes
Stamping for the Weekend - Anything Goes

I'd also like to say hello to my three new followers:  Pat, Katerina and Shaz - thanks for stopping by - it's much appreciated!

Anyway - Hope you all have a fab Christmas!  See you all on the other side of the turkey!!

Julie  x

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I'm finished!!

Hello!!

I've just finished my last card, I made two last night and two this morning so I thought I'd have a well earned sit down with a hot chocolate before I brave going out of the house to finish off my Christmas shopping!

This is for my very lovely husband - it's really grey here today so I've struggled to get a decent photo.  I've covered the bell in glossy accents - it looks great!  The DP is  Dovecraft Let it Snow - it's so sparkly but you can't really tell.  As these papers are so nice they have been reserved for special cards only, I've only cut into 3 sheets out of 48!!  Plenty left for next year!

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

Cupcake Craft - Sketch
EAC - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Christmas Card
The Pixie Cottage - Someone Special
Simply Create Too - Embossing
Little Claires - Family Christmas

Thanks for looking!!

Julie

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Birds

Hi,

Here is my latest card.  The card has a cute little bee charm on it.  It is a bee - honest! - Sandra helped me decide here - so thanks for your help with that love!

I love this DP with birds on it - it's from Papermania - Birdsong.

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

Sew Many Cards - Summertime
Catch the Bug - The Birds and the Bees


Thanks for looking.

Julie x

What is this??

Hi,

No card from me this evening - but I was wondering if you had a spare minute you could help settle a (small) argument.

I've added this charm to a card I've started but not quite finished:

Now I think it's a bee but my husband says it's a butterfly.  (Obviously I'm right!!)
If it helps to sway your decision at all - it came in a pack with some other charms one of which is a butterfly:

So what is it?

A: A bee - obviously!
B: Now I've seen the butterfly, I can see it's a bee
C: Nope, it's a butterfly
D: It's something else!

Thanks for your help!

Have a great evening!

Julie x