Exciting news!

Good morning everyone and welcome to my second post of the day!

As you will probably have guessed from the title of this post, i have some news to share with you.  I have been invited to join the fabulous girls at Charisma Cardz Challenges.  Yay!  How cool is that?

From today, i will be joining Team Gemma and look forward to working with some amazingly talented ladies.  Anyway, enough about me, let us get onto the challenge!

This is Week 24 and the theme that was chosen by Kelly is SUMMER.

There are two fantastic sponsors:

All That Scraps.



One lucky winner will receive 4 stamps or 1 stamp set

Also, Joanna Sheen

Another lucky winner will receive a £10 Joanna Sheen voucher.

Here is my DT inspiration:

Challenges i would like to enter:

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #222 - Here comes Summer http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-222-here-comes-summer.html

There is lots of fabulous inspiration over on the Charisma Cardz  blog by the other Team Gemma girls so please pop on over and give them some love.

I look forward to seeing your creation soon. 

    Hugs

It's good to stamp!

Good morning all,

I hope you all had a good weekend.  I have been playing with my distress inks and my Hero Arts butterfly and background stamp.  I would normally colour this butterfly with copics but i thought i use my distress inks today. This is the result! The background is stamped with walnut stain and the butterfly is worn lipstick and walnut stain.I also added a few pink pearls to the stamped flowers and a button to the butterfly.

Thanks you for dropping by.  All your comments are much appreciated.

Best wishes,

Thinking of You

Good evening all, hope you are all having a good day.  I went for a little walk today outside down by the marina. Making the most of the outdoors just now before it gets too hot. Anyway, enough of me, what about my cards? Well, today i have two cards to show you.  Both cards have been made using stamps and sentiments from the fab candy i won recently from the lovely Naomi.  The first one is a practice card, a CAS sympathy card using Prima Marketing Clear Stamps for the image and a Paper and Such sentiment.  The second card is a Paper and Such 'Better Poppies' clear stamp.  I stamped the image straight onto the card, then stamped another image onto cardstock, coloured it with Tim Holtz distress inks ( i cant live without these inks) and then paper pieced them.  The sentiment is also from the same Better Poppies set.  The border was made using an EK Success border punch and the edges were also distressed.  The ribbon was from my stash. What do you think?

Challenges entered:

Creative Belli Blog  - Belli Challenge #139 (Clean and Simple CAS)http://bellichallenge.blogspot.com/

DYSU Challenge #63 Favourite Colour (Red)  http://doyoustackup.blogspot.com/2012/03/dysu-63-favorite-color.html

 The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes Challenge http://thepoodlesparlour.blogspot.com/2012/03/anything-goes-challenge.html

Thank you for dropping by.  I hope to see you all again very soon.  All your comments are very much appreciated and they give me a chance to come and visit you too.  Thanks again and a big warm ''hello and welcome'' to my new followers.  Take care, hugs, Jill x

  

Happy Holidays!

Good Evening crafters, it's time for another challenge.  Today i have created a 'bauble' using a punched circle from Making Memories Mistletoe cardstock (to create the 'happy holidays' sentiment in the middle) then i added various buttons and bling to make the bauble and shiny glittery silver ribbon for the string and bow.

Challenges entered:

Papertake Weekly Challenge ( anything goes with the option of adding something dangly!)  http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

Materials used:

White cardstock
Making Memories Mistletoe cardstock for the background and the bauble
Various buttons and silver glittery ribbon from stash
EK Success corner rounder
Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Thanks for stopping by. Best wishes, Jill :)