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

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

Birthday Cake..

Hi!

Just a quick post from me to share my latest card.  I've used some of my fancy new Marianne dies that I've bought in the last week or two.  I don't have an embossing mat for my Bigshot so I've just been using an embossing tool with the paper still in the die to help create the texture.

I love this paper and the little cake - it's so cute!

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

Cupcake Craft - Something New
Papertake Weekly - Die Cute Challenge
Saturday Challenge - Let Them Eat Cake
Crafty Cardmakers - No Floral Embellishments
Ladybug Challenge - Show Us Your New Stash
Simply Create Too - Layers, Layers and More Layers
Bee Crafty - Celebrations + Balloons

I'd also like to say hello to my new followers: Katrina and Victoria!  I can't seem to see a link to either of your blogs (probably because I'm doing something wrong) - so if you can leave me a comment with your blog address and I'll be over a good old nosy on your blog!

Thanks for Looking!

Julie x

World's Smallest Blog Candy Winner

Evening.

Hope you're all having a good evening!

My blog is one year old today and to celebrate I've just eaten a rather delicious banana muffin on behalf of the blog!

I got my lovely little mini-me Emily to pick the blog candy winner out of a bowl, although she looks a bit startled in this picture!  You just see Ben at the side checking out the bowl to see if any of the other names are edible!

So the winner was Sandra!!  If you can email me your address I'll get your package sent off - my email address is imadeacard@gmail.com. You'll be pleased to know that the original chocolate is still in tact and has not been needed for any emergencies this week!

Thank-you to all my lovely followers - I wish I had a present for you all!

Julie  xx

Grrr ... Computers!!

Evening!

Our laptop is offically dead.  It's gone to be repaired, luckily we knew it was on it's way out, so everything has been backed up.  So now I am using our antique old laptop, which is only just coping with me typing this post.  So you'll have to bear with me for random spaces and spelling.

It's not going to be back with us until at least the 20th January - which feels like a very long time away. But at least once it's fixed we won't have to keep the screen at a certain angle to keep the picture on, listen to the noise of the fan trying to take off and have  a full set of keys on the keyboard.  It should have gone into be repaired ages ago - but it was almost useable so we've not bothered.

So remember to back up your computers, it's one of those things we know we should do but never get round to!

Anyway here's my latest card:

The image is a bugaboo freebie from a while back.

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

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + New Theme
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Little Miss Muffett - Something New
Di's Digi Designs - Show Us Something New
Craft Your Days Away - New Beginnings
Craft Calender Challenge - New News + Buttons and Bows
Sassy Cheryl's - New Beginnings

Thanks for looking!

Julie xx