Pink Christmas

Happy Weekend!

I read somewhere the other day there is only 78 days till Christmas which sounded a bit close for comfort - but I've just checked and by reckoning there is only 73 - how has that happened?

So here is my latest Christmas card:

What my crappy photography doesn't show up is the fact I may have caused a world shortage of glitter!

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

Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Bling
Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas
Bah Humbug - Glitter and Glitz
Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes as long as it Sparkles
Crafty Cardmarkers - Anything Goes
Card Mad Fairy - To Early for Christmas
Bunny Zoe - Sketch

Thanks for Looking

Julie x

Dinosaur

Hi,

Hope you all had a fab weekend!

Here is my latest card, I've used a My Grafico digi that I won a while back.  Isn't this Dino cute?!  I've used some glossy accents on his belly and teeth to make them nice and smooth and shiny.

I don't seem to make many cards for the guys - I think I've made 6 this year, which is pretty rubbish!  I was going to make a sentiment for this on my computer but the printer has run out of ink and printed the last batch of digi stamps I printed out in blue instead of black -which is annoying.

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

Papertake Weekly - Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Cuddly Buddly - For Children

One Stop Craft Challenge - Just For Men

Little Miss Muffet - Animals and Monsters

St Luke's Challenge - Let's Hear it for the Boys

Thanks for Looking

Julie xx

A Birthday Card

Hi,

It feels like ages since I last posted or made a card.  A month seems to have flown by somehow!  I've also been really rubbish at commenting on everyone's beautiful blogs - but I'll be getting back on track over the next day or two!

Here is my latest card - my attempt at a shabby / vintage type - well the papers are called Vintage ... something .. so it must be right.  They are Pink Petticoat and were a magazine freebie. The dress was also a freebie from Michelle Perkett Studio - it's so cute!

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

Simon Say Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes
Auds Sentiments - Happy Birthday
Southern Girls - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!

Julie xxx

Happy Birthday

Morning!

My beautiful little girl turned 3 this weekend and I've no idea how that happened.  Somehow my tiny little dot has grown up.

So here's a little picture of her blowing out her candles on her cake!  You'll have to excuse all the mess in the background!  She couldn't decide what animals she wanted on her cake but most seemed to be a farm theme, so I got a good friend to make some sugar paste animals and all was well until the night before that she told me she wanted a monster, a lion and a big bad wolf on her cake!  Never mind - she was pleased with her farm animals and once she got a slice of chocolate cake the big bad wolf had been forgotten!

Here's the card I made for her birthday:

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

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes (Flowers)
Stamp Something - Digi Day
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
Crafty Card Makers - Summer Holiday Memories
Auds Sentiments - For a girl
Card Mad Fairy - Add Flowers
Stamping for the Weekend - Holidays
St Luke's Hospital Challenge - Buffet (Patterned Paper, Embossing, Ribbon, Flowers)
Papertake Weekly - Sketch

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

Christmas Fairy

Evening!

Hope you're all enjoying the bank holiday weekend!  And the lovely weather that we always get here in the UK for bank holidays.  Although I'll take our rain showers any day rather than that big old hurricane causing chaos down the east coast of America! 

Here's my latest card - I made it using some lovely My Minds Eye papers that came free with a craft magazine this weekend.  Although I'm not entirely sure if the fairy really goes or she looks a little lost -  but she's stuck there now, I've tried to remove her but it's going to rip the paper underneath, and it took me ages to work out how to cut that square/diamond with my trimmer so the trees ended up the right way round.

Plus I also managed to stamp this image myself - not to shabby, even if I do say so myself - given I usually can't stamp for toffee! (Although there are a few bits I had to fill in with my fine-liner but we'll keep that secret!)

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

Bah! Humbug! - Here come the girls
Card Patterns - Sketch 130


Also check my new badge out on the top right!! I only went and won a challenge at Sew Many Challenges, for this card here.  I'm chuffed to pieces! Thanks for choosing me as a winner!

Thanks for looking and for all your helpful comments!

Julie x