100th post!

Hi,

This is my 100th post!! You poor poor people having to put up with my ramblings for the last 100 posts! Thanks for sticking around and for all your help and comments - it means a lot.

Here's a birthday card I made earlier today:

How cute is this little girl on the swing. I had a go at paper piecing again for her top and hair band, it's such a great technique.

Sassy Cheryl - No Embossing
Everybody Art Challenge - Sketch
Allsorts - It's Your Choice
Our Creative Corner - Over the Edge (the flower and the shoes peeking over the the edge of the circle die)
My Grafico - Flowers
Ladybug Challenge - Spring is in the Air
Craft Your Days Away - Paper Piecing
Stamping for The Weekend - Bingo (Flowers, Die Cuts, Polka Dots - on her dress!)

Thanks for looking!

Julie

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

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

New Home

Yawn! It's late!!

Before I go to bed I just wanted to share with you all the card I've made for my friend who has just moved into her own house. The image is a digi from Whimsy Stamps - Meljen's Designs.  This is a lovely image and the little birds are so cute - but I really struggled to find new home images - I must have been looking in the wrong places!

The paper is My Minds Eye - Lime Twist.

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

Allsorts - Free and Easy
Do It With Digis - Summer Fun
Little Miss Muffet - Summer
Easy Craft Projects - The Summer
Craft Your Days Away - Summertime

Little Claire's - Things with Wings
Bunny Zoe - Fun in the Sun
Pollycraft - Summer Fun
Craft Your Passion - Text It
Papertake Weekly - Getting Cute
Passion For Promarkers - Sketch
Do You Stack Up - Wings
MyGrafico - Anything Goes

Wow - loads of challenges!!

Thanks for looking.

Julie x

Nice Day for a White Wedding

Morning!

Just a quick one for me before I take the children to the park and make the most of the nice weather before the rain the forecasters are promising rolls in!

I had a go the other night at making an all white card. Plus I got to play with my beautiful embossing folders!  Not to sure whether I like it though - it seems a bit .... hmmm ..... unfinished?  Perhaps it's because all the paper/card I've used is very very white instead of different shades of white (if you know what I mean!)

I don't think it shows up too well on this photo but I put glossy accents on the cake stand and stickles on the hearts at the top.


Anyway let me know what you think I think I need a bit of help with this one - what would you do differently?

I'm going to enter this into the following challenges:

Freshly Brewed - Triple Play
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Our Creative Corner - Use Only White
My Grafico - Anything Goes

And just before I go HELLO to my new follower Mary J!

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

and another Birthday Card...

Evening all,

I'm back with another birthday card.  This time it's for my sister who is 22 this week! My little girl has also made her card - I'll have to remember to take and post a picture of it tomorrow - it's quite cute.

The image is another one of the lovely images I chose as my prize from Tuesday Throwdown from The Stamping Boutique. The DP is My Minds Eye - Lime Zest.  The DP and flower are from blog candy winnings from Audrey a couple of weeks back.

I'm going to enter this into the following challenges:

The Stamping Boutique - Monthly Challenge
Do It With Digis - Spots or Stripes
Allsorts Challenge - Free and Easy
Ladybug Challenges - Summer Birthdays
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Everybody Art Challenge - Use Shapes
Cupcake Craft - 148 Cooking Up a Storm
Craft Your Passion - Just for You

Thanks for looking - have a great evening!

Julie x

Going Green!

Here's my latest challenge card:

The DP is My Minds Eye - Quite Contary and the flower is one I made a while back.
I'm going to enter this into the following challenges:

Clean and Simple - Sketch
Do You Stack Up - Green
Reasonable Ribbon - Green and Ribbon
Easy Craft Projects - Green
Simply Create - The Power of Flowers

Thanks for looking!

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Torn Paper Flowers

Cue more fan-girl screaming from me as I've now reached the dizzy heights of five followers - thanks people. So I just want to say a big hello to:

Irene, Kerri, Hippieaud (Aka Audrey) and a mystery anonymous person!!



I think I've figured out how to find your blogs so I'll be popping over for a visit later on!

After my efforts last week with the ribbon flowers I went in search of some new things to make - I didn't have to look very far as the Little Birdie Secrets blog used last week for the ribbon flowers had a tutorial for torn paper flowers.

Here's the experts picture:

and here's my attempt:

I'm really quite pleased with how they've turned out - especially the green and red ones - as the handmade paper (possibly Mulberry - but I'm not sure) has given a feathery effect.  I struggled to rip the yellow card - so used a water spray to wet the card first which made it heaps easier to tear.  I really can't remember where I saw that tip - I thought it was on the Little Birdie website - but when I read it back it wasn't there!

The yellow flower centre is a plain gold brad, while the red and green flower's centre is card candy - the layers are secured with a small blob of silicone glue.

The red flower is my favourite, I really want to make some more just because they are so pretty - so hopefully there will be a challenge somewhere this week called "use a red flower".

Thanks for reading!
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Ribbon Flowers Tutorial - AKA Don't give up the day job!

I found a great tutorial on how to make Ribbon Flowers here:



Here's my efforts (note to self - find a nicer background to take photo's on rather than using green cutting mat!!)

I think they are probably just passable for a stolen 30 minutes peace and quiet whilst my baby decided to take an impromptu nap.
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