More than ice-cream?

Afternoon!

Hope you're all having a nice day.  My darling children have been not so darling this morning so while they nap I've had a nice peaceful play with my crafty bits!

I've made my husbands valentines card today, which is extremely organised for me.  Let's hope he doesn't have have a sneak peek at my blog!  I can now put my efforts into winning our valentines present competition - which is to find each other the most rubbish gift to do with the city we live in for under a fiver.   Should be fun!

Anyway here's the card.  I jumped for joy when I saw this digi set (from Pollycraft) as it's so perfect for me; given my most favourite thing ever is ice-cream (hence the tub of half-baked on my blog where most people have a picture of their face!)

I wanted to do something a little bit different to the traditional valentines card, as my anniversary card last week was red, so when I found this piece of spotty paper left over from a card last year I though it was prefect!

I've also gone for a clean and simple look - more down to the fact that I had nothing to go on it and I've banned myself from buying anything from a craft store for February as I spent ridiculous amounts in January! Luckily I found this digi on the last day of January, and promptly clicked buy along with a few others!!   Let's see how far into February I get before I convince myself I NEED something!!

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

Pollycraft - Favourite Things - Ice-cream
The Pixie Cottage - Clean and Simple + Sketch
Do You Stack Up - Anything Goes
Catch the Bug - Colour Inspiration
Paper Sundaes - Valentines
Ladybug Challenge - He Love's Me, He Loves me Not
The Stamping Boutique - Valentines
Little Miss Muffet - Valentines and Love
Freshly Brewed - Love

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

New Baby Girl

Evening!!

Is anyone else cold??  I'm frozen!

I just wanted to share with you all my first commission ... actually, calling it a commission sounds far to exciting. I was showing off the gift box I made the other week to people at work and one of my colleagues asked if I could make a card for her friend who is having a baby girl. So here it is:

The image is a new digi I bought especially for this card from the DigiStamp Boutique.  I also made a quick and simple tag to match it using the same image and pink scalloped circle as on the card with a quick eyelet and a spare piece of ribbon.

I've gone for some simple paper piecing - my new favourite technique!

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

Pollycraft Monday - Favourite Things (Paper Piecing - my new favourite!)
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers - New Beginnings
Do You Stack Up - Ribbons
Saturday Challenge - Ribbons
Sketch N Stash - Free Choice Sketch  (Number 75! + New Digi) -


edited to add:  oops I forgot to add the picture of the sketch I used!! My Bad - sorry!

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

Love You!

Afternoon!

Hope your having a good weekend.  Today is the anniversary of my husband and I getting together.  We been together for 12 years now! So I've made him a card,  it was also a chance to use my new circle nesties!

I made the word love out some red wire I had hanging around.

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

Sew Many Cards -  Circles
Pollycraft Monday - Warm it up
Lollipop Crafts - Wing It
Cupcake Craft - All you need is Love
The Pixie Cottage - Love and Kisses
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Allsorts - One or more hearts
Aud Sentiments - Use the Word Love
Di's Digital Designs - Valentines
Digi Stamp Boutique - Customer Competition

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

Gift Box

Afternoon!

Hope you're all having a nice Sunday!  We'll just ignore the fact it's Monday tomorrow and that means work!  BOO!

I've managed to reach the dizzy heights of 30 followers!!  How amazing - so hello to Tracy my most recent follower.  (Tracey - I can't see your blog address on your profile so if you leave it in the comments box below and I'll pop over for a good old nose!!)

Here's my latest make, I was browsing for a box tutorial and came across this tutorial for magic boxes and look what I made:

How cute is that, even if I do say so myself.  It was so easy to make.  Although I didn't have the exact same dimensions as the tutorial my measurements so my box lid is a little bit big.  But it only took about an hour to make, mainly through me using my own measurements and having to do maths! The little inside boxes were especially easy to make, once I'd got the hang of it.  Try it out!!

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

Craft Your Passion - Make a Bag or a Box
Papertake Weekly - I've used Blooms and Bows
Do You Stack Up - Patterned Paper
Ladybug Crafts - Bows
Little Claire's - Anything but a Card
Bunny Zoe - Picture Inspiration

Thanks for looking - and don't forget to give it a go!!

Julie x

Time to buy a hat ...

Hi,

Hope you all having a nice weekend!

Some of our friends are getting married in April and although we've known for ages, our invitation came this week - so I made an acceptance card for them.  I sat down just to make a small note card - but I ended up making this!

I picked up some Bazzill jewel templates for half prince in the sales so the bird is made using them.

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

Tuesday Throwdown - Neutral Colours
The Pixie Cottage - Sketch
Do You Stack Up - Patterned Paper
Paper Sundaes - Favourite Challenge - A card with no people (April 2010)
Simply Create Too - Love is in the Air
Southern Girls - White on White

Thanks for looking!

Julie xx