Papertake Weekly - An 80th Birthday Wish

I'm back again for this weeks sketch challenge over at

Papertake Weekly and to help us we are sponsored by
Simon Says Stamp.  

Recently I bought myself a set of the grand nestabilities labels 4 and have used them today to make an upright easel card. I've made this for a commission and the brief was floral, tartan, thistles, Mum and 80. I chose the image because the person that will receive the card has always had Border Collies.

Materials Used:

Base card - linen card distressed with Antique Linen

Paper - Lost & Found by Jen Wilson

Image - Border Collie digital stamp by Just InkLined. Coloured using Prisma Pencils.

Dies - Spellbinder Grand Labels 4, Martha Stewart Flower punch

Embellishments - Tartan ribbon, Thistles, Roses and Cherry Blossom and pearls.

Sentiment - Printed from the computer onto kraft card

At the moment I have left the inside blank but may find a suitable verse.

Thanks for stopping by today and keep crafting.

Jenny

EAC - Lets Decorate with Fairy Lights

Happy Tuesday folks.

Today over at Everybody Art Challenge we have a sketch for you to follow and to help you we are sponsored by The Paper Shelter

I have used the cute digi called Decorating Our Mushrooms.

I have used Basic Grey Capella paper and My Minds Eye Christmas paper stack.

The sketch is very simple so I haven't had to use too many embellishments, only two types of ribbon, a few coloured gems and a couple of brads.

The image is coloured with Copics - Blues B000,B00,B02 - Greens YG03, YG11 Y11, G82 - Grays - W1,W2.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Jenny

EAC - Take Aim & Fire

Happy Tuesday people.

After a weekend of snow its time to heat things up with

our challenge over at Everybody Art Challenge. This week we would like to see projects with a "Love/Heart" theme.

For my card I have used cute cherubs from Make It Crafty called Runaway Cupid and Aim-Em-Up Cupid.

I've used skin coloured Copics E000,E00,E02,E21,R11,R20, pink RV000, RV02 & blue B000.

Paper - Basic Grey & Bo Bunny

Dies - Spellbinders Hearts 2 sizes

Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots

Embellishments - Ribbon, Heart gems and heart brad

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Come and Get it Challenge - Love

Gingerloft Challenge - Love is in the air

One Stitch at a Time - No. 99 With Love

That's about it for now. I hope you can join us this week.

Jenny

Papertake Weekly - Hannah Lynn Digi - Deevonne

It's Tuesday afternoon and this time it's the

Papertake Weekly Challenge.This week we have an excellent sketch for you to follow and to entice you to partake we are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp

This is a one of my new digi stamps purchased recently.

This beautiful image is called Deevonne drawn by Hannah Lynn and sold by Crafts and Me.

This image is excellent to colour if you want to practise putting highlights in hair.

The paper is by Kaisercraft called Oasis and it's part of the Utopia collection. I stitched around the edge to add interest and texture.

To finish off I added a few gems, string and stickles glue and my freebie sentiment that I got in a magazine last year.

Thanks for stopping by.

Jenny

EAC - Zorana Gipsy - Envelope Card

Happy Tuesday people

Today is our Everybody Art Challenge and this week we would like to see an "Envelope Card".

This is the first time I've made this type of card and I really enjoyed it. It's also really easy to do and you only need 1 sheet of 12x12 paper for the main envelope shape. I would like to say that I created the fold but I didn't, instead I came across on the Wild Orchid Challenge blog and it was demonstrated by Anne Kristie.

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I have been seeing a lot of the digi images by Saturated Canary recently and just had to purchase some. This one is called Zorana Gipsy. Isn't the folds on her dress beautifully drawn.It definitely made it easier to colour.

The paper is Ella Blue - Tina Higgins by GCD Studios and blue Bazzill card.

Embellishments - Lace,ribbon, pearls coloured with Copics, Prima flowers highlighted with stickles glue and a few blue/white roses from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The sentiment was a freebie stamp from a craft magazine early last year.

Thanks for stopping by this week and keep crafting.

Jenny

Papertake Weekly - Make a Wish

I am back again, this time with a card for this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge. The team would like to see something highlighted on your card.

We are sponsored by Bugaboo Digi Stamps. Check out some of the DT entries as they have used Bugaboo images in their designs, myself included.

I've gone a bit overboard with my highlights. not only have I highlighted the edge of the image, the lollipop and hearts, I've also highlighted the flowers with Stickles glue.

This little cutie is called Desiree nad once again I have coloured her using Copic colours that I don't normally opt for (peach and yellow).

The papers are from First Edition - Hideaway

Embellishments - Prima Flowers and Cherry Blossoms, Hat Pins and beads and Ribbon.

Sentiment - Freebie from a magazine giveaway some time ago.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Jenny

EAC - Geeky Love - I Adore You

Happy Tuesday people.

It's time for another weekly challenge over at Everybody Art Challenge. This week we want to see swirls on your project.

For most crafters swirls are easy to add to a card but not for me. I spent an age going through all my papers trying to find swirls and finally settled on Basic Grey. The image is a digi from Make It Crafty called Geeky Love. I really like this image but unfortunately printed it just a little too big and that made it harder to come up with a card layout.......so I kept it simple.

The image was a dream to colour and gave me the opportunity to practice colouring folds. I've recently signed up to take Class 5 by Suzanne Dean at Color Me Creative and one of the lessons is to colour folds using Copics. Um....a little more work on my part I feel.

I am trying to get out of my comfort zone as I tend to always go for the Copic colours that I find easiest to use, pink isn't one of them. For some reason they always seem flourescent and difficult to blend. For this card I have used the RV range.

The boy's jumper was coloured using Ws and the trousers were Es and Ws.

I used a Spellbinders heart nestability for the background. To get this effect I lightly traced around the edge with a pencil and then coloured the heart using RV000, taking light strokes from the outside to the middle.

Embellishments were kept to a minimum because too many didn't look right. In the end I settled for Prima flowers, brads, gem swirls and a Tim Holtz sentiment.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Corrosive Challenge - I Heart You

Wags n Whiskers - Valentine/Love

Thanks for stopping by today.

Jenny

EAC No 164 - Slow Down and Take It Easy

Happy Tuesday to All.

I can't believe we are nearly at the end of October. Time flies when you are having fun.

This week over at Everybody Art Challenge the theme is Mushrooms. As you can see from my card I haven't used a mushroom as the image only as the background paper.

I have had this cute image from Emerald Faeries for some time now and have been itching to colour it in. How cute is the little elf.

As you can see I have kept the card simple so that the image and mushrooms are the main focus.

I have used Copics to colour the image and distress inks around the edge of the Magnolia paper. I've added organza ribbon and a little tag to finish.

Thanks for looking today and hopefully you will have time to enter the challenge.

Jenny

EAC - It's a Halloween Party

It's Tuesday again and with yet another month flying by our theme over at Everybody Art Challenge is Halloween. For my card I have made a Halloween party invite.

I really liked this image when I seen it on the Make It Crafty website.

I've coloured the image with Copics and distressed with Prisma Pencils and Distress Ink - Weathered Wood.

The paper is Basic Grey and Echo Park. I found some green wool whiched lended itself to a gnarled tree. Finally a spider embellishment and plastic sentiment was all that was needed to finish the card.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft - Halloween

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Halloween

Cupcake Inspiration - Halloween or Party

Thanks for stopping by today.

Jenny

EAC No.162 - No Rest For The Wicked

Another Tuesday and another challenge from Everybody Art Challenge.

This week we have an excellent sketch for you to follow.

This week I have kept my card simple. It probably has something to do with it being a masculine card. I don't know about you but I find it very difficult to embellish a masculine card. It is always brads or stars but this week I have used cogs and gears - peel offs. Usually I don't use peel offs but these were particulary nice and suited the card. They are from a company called Craft Creations.

I have used Copics for the image together with Basic Grey papers.
The cogs and gears have been mounted onto actetate, cut out and positioned in various layers.
This card is for my Brother-in-Law who will be celebrating his 50th birthday next month.

Thanks for stopping by today.
Jenny

EAC No. 160 - Autumn Colours

It's Tuesday and one again we have an excellent challenge for you over at Everybody Art Challenge. This week we would like to see your "Autumnal" creations.

I have made an easel card using the cute Cocker Spaniel Pup digi stamp from JustInklined.

I've used Prisma Pencils to colour the image and distress inks around the edge before fraying the edges with scissors.

I've used paper that I have had for some time, its by Pine Cone Press. The leaves are from a SpellBinders die cut from pearlescent and Basic Grey papers. The pumpkin is a button.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Craft Challenge - Easel Card

Lexi's Creations - Autumn

Secret Crafter - The Colours of Autumn

Polka Doodles - Autumn Leaves

Thanks for stopping by today.

Jenny

Cupcake Craft - Teddy Bo & Bea - Love is to Share

It's Monday and I'm feeling a little sad for two reasons, it's my last week as a guest designer for Cupcake Craft Challenge and it's the first day back to work after two weeks of relaxation (groan).

On to a more cheery note, here is my card for the Cupcake Craft Challenge - Cooking Up a Storm.

It was a friends engagement party at the weekend so I made this card for them.

Whilst purchasing digi stamps from the Teddy Bo website, I came across this freebie image and just had to use it.

Materials used:

Card/Paper - Grey Bazzill, silver pearlescent paper, Ella Blue by GCD Studios

Image - Teddy Bo Freebie, coloured with Prisma Pencils

Sentiment/Wording - Love - chipboard letters distress inked and finished with 3D clear gloss, names - computer generated

Embellishments/Flowers - ~Wild Orchid and local craft shop

Thanks for stopping by today and thank you to those of you who have left comments over the past month, hopefully I will be able to catch up now everything is back to normality.

Jenny

EAC No. 143 - A Special Day for a Mum to be

Happy Tuesday crafting buddies,

I hope you are all ready to join in with the excellent sketch we have for you today over at

Everybody Art Challenge.

Over the past week I have been working on a special gift book card for a member of my team at work who will be going on maternity leave at the end of this week.
Here is the front of the card using the sketch.

Here is a side view of the layers and what is supposed to be pages of a book

Partially open

Finally, the gift inside where two sleep suits can be found. The mother to be doesn't know whether its a boy or girl hence the rainbow of colours.

There is so much going on, on the front of the card I've kept the inside embellishment free to give plenty of space for a personal sentiment.

Materials used:

Base - Lemon Bazzill card

Papers - Freebie from Papercraft Essentials Magazine - Sweet Wishes paper

I have distressed inked and sewn around the edge of the papers and used faux stitching around the circle

Punch and Dies- Martha Stewart daisy punch and leaf punch, Nellie Snellen multi frame

Image - Teddy Bea no.84 (new digital stamp)

Medium - Copics and Prisma Pencils

(my desk is so messy I can't find the paper where I recorded the pen colours)

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley & computer generated for Mum to be

Embellishments - Lace, ribbon, Prima flowers, roses, hat pins, beads, swirl gems

Finishing touches - Platinum Stickles glue, Tim Holtz antique linen and walnut distress ink.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fuzzy Wuzzy - Babies + animal

Emerald Faeries - Anything goes

(new monthly challenge blog with cute digital images to be had)

Thanks for stopping by and have a good week.

Jenny

Stitched Up - Get Well Soon

It's Saturday and what a day its been, with food shopping, laundry, housework, duck feeding and mucking out at last I have an evening to myself. I am supposed to be searching the web to find the perfect destination for a holiday in June (left to me every year because my other half tells me I am so good at this time consuming task!) instead I thought I would share a card I made earlier in the week and some exciting news for me.

First here is the card

This digital stamp by Just Inklined -La Pasche made me laugh and I just had to purchase it. My Mum liked it as well and has already nabbed this card for her friend.

Materials Used:

Paper - K&Co Amy Butler Speciality Paper - AB Lotus Teabox & First Edition Sweet Owl pad

I've distressed around the edge and finished with stitching.

Image - Flossie Bumblethorpe by Just Inklined coloured with Copics (sorry have cleared them away before recording them)

Embellishments - Flowers (various), string, paper buttons and gems.

The inside has been decorated the same as the outside.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Colour Create - White, Cream, Brown and optional 1 other colour (I've used pink in case you didn't notice!)

Craft us Crazy - Something New/ and favourite embellishment (digi stamp & flowers)

Crazy4Challenges - C4C88 Humour

Truly Scrumptious - Anything goes

A Spoonful of Sugar No. 152 - Anything goes

Finally my news.............for the first time ever I have been asked to be a Guest Designer for a month of which I am skipping about with joy over. It made my day earlier in the week when I received an email from Faye over at Cupcake Craft Challenges with the invite and obviously I jumped at it as this opportunity doesn't come up very often, not when there is such amazing talent out there in blogland.

Faye and her team set a new challenge every Monday so be sure to drop by and participate if you can.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

Jenny