Creative Inspiration - Challenge 1 - Sketch

What a naughty person I am, slap my hands lol. The new Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog launched on Wednesday, of which I am on the design team, and I have only just had time to put my card on here. I don't know where the time is going recently. Anyhoo Nat has set a sketch this week which is really fabulous, please hop on over and join in if you have time. This week there are two, yes two design team spots up for grabs so come on girls get going, there's only three of us at the moment and we are in need of support.

The elements I have used for my card are:-

White hammered card
Blue and Purple Bazzil Bling card
Lilac pearlescent card
Image - Hanglar Stanglar
Image coloured with Promarkers
Papers - Three Bugs in a Rug "Rhapsody-Stripe" and "Rhapsody-Rapture"
Flowers Prima and punched
Papermania Brads

Why not visit Creative Inspirations and have a look at the other design team members blogs. The challenge is a Wednesday challenge so you still have a few days left and I will be visiting everyone's blog who enters to leave a little comment. Hope to see your entry soon.

Thanks for looking.

Joy xx

My GD card for Charisma Cardz Challenge - Challenge 12 - My Favourite Things

Hello all, time for another challenge over at the wonderful Charisma Cardz Challenge Blog. This week the challenge has been set by Sharon and it is called "My Favourite Things". So, we want to see your favourite things on your card or whatever else you wish to make, remember it doesn't have to be a card. I thought this challenge was rather easy cos I love flowers, beautiful papers and anything blingy...so I included all three on my card.

This week the challenge is sponsored by :-

Sally-Ann from Grab-a-doodle-do has very kindly donated the Libby downloads! Grab-a-doodle-do offers Trendy doodles/digital downloads for you to print, colour and create all your lovely crafty things! Prices start from only £1.99!

AND! The winner of this week's challenge will also join us for a two week Guest DT slot!

What a great prize, you'd be mad not to want to get your hands on this lol. Come on, I want to see your lovely creations and can't wait to get blog hopping over to your blog to have a nosey and leave a comment.

As I said my card includes my favourite things which are :-

Image - Sugar Nellie
Image coloured with Promarkers
Papers - Fancy Pants Designs - double sided "True Blue"
Prima Flowers
Making Memories Brads
Ribbon from stash

The little gold faux brads in the corners of the card are just little stick on dots which came free with a magazine a long time ago so sorry I have no idea who they are by.

Hope you like my card and thanks very much for looking. Hope to see your creations very soon.

Joy xx

Magnolia vs Stampavie Challenge - Week 19 - Get in shape

Hello all, how you doing this week? I've not been too bad, had a bit of a tummy bug but I think that is gradually going now thankfully.

Anyhow I decided to enter a new challenge for me this week, I have never entered this challenge before but fancied a change from the norm. The brief over at Magnolia vs Stampavie was to create a card which wasn't square or rectangular. Hmmm...after a bit of thought and playing around I came up with this card. I am actually quite pleased with it and might have to play around with the shape more often.

The elements I used for my card are:-

White hammered card
Image - Magnolia
Image coloured with Promarkers
Papers - Three Bugs in a Rug
Prima Flowers
Papermania Brads
Sentiment computer generated

Hope you like the card and thanks for looking.

Joy xx

My GD card for Charisma Cardz Challenge - Challenge 11 Sketch

Hello peeps, it's nearly the weekend again...yay...crafting time at last, that seems to be the only time I get recently to make a couple of cards. Roll on July when I have a week off....crafting heaven lol.

I am here to show you my card for this week's challenge over at Charisma Cardz. This week Joanne came up with a lovely sketch for us all to follow.

You can twist it, flip it, add to it, but please make sure we can still see that you have used the sketch. You don't have to use an image where it says image you can use a topper/decoupage/photo anything you like, the sketch is perfect for a scrapbook page!!! You can see the guidelines on the Charisma Cardz sidebar. Don't forget you can make anything!!

This week the challenge is sponsored by:-

Jessica Lynn Original Is a company run by Jessica herself! providing original hand drawn stamps! at very low low prices! She has very kindly donated a $30 Gift certificate to this weeks winner!

So come on you lovely crafters, rush on over to Charisma Cardz and enter the challenge, I can't wait to see how you all interpret the sketch. Remember i'll be checking out all of your blogs and leaving you a lovely comment as will the other design team members.

The elements I used for my card are:-

Papers: Basic Grey "Bittersweet"
Image - Gorjuss Girl
Image coloured with Copics and Promarkers
Flowers are punched out of Basic Grey"Bittersweet" papers
Brads - Papermania
Sentiment computer generated

Hope you like the card.

Happy crafting.

Joy xx

40th Birthday - Commissioned Card

Hello all, I hope you are having a lovely lazy Sunday. Just one card made today and that has been commissioned by a lady I work with for her friend's 40th birthday. She specified a cutesy card so this stamp had to have an outing, I absolutely love this stamp, so girly. The papers were calling out to be used, I love the lilac, blue and brown together, such lovely colours.

The elements I used for my card are:-

Papers - Three Bugs in a Rug "Rhapsody - Jubilation"
Lilac pearlescent card
Image - Penny Black "Uplifting Occasion"
Image coloured with Copics and Promarkers
Flowers - Punched and cut from patterned paper
Brads - Making Memories
Sentiment computer generated
Glossy Accents and Sakura Stardust accents added

Thanks for looking.

Joy xx

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Week 40

Two posts in one day...wow, must be a first for me lol.

I popped on over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog today and saw there was a wonderful sketch to follow this week and I absolutely love sketches so I just had to make a card. I haven't had the time to enter many challenges recently and I have missed that so I must make more of an effort to find time to craft. I also had the opportunity to use one of my new Penny Black stamps which I bought a few weeks back at the Stamperama Craft Fair in Stevenage. I have been looking at getting this stamp for ages because it is so cute.

Thanks for looking and I hope you like the card.

The elements I have used are:-

Image - Penny Black "Baby Hammock"
Image coloured with Copics and Promarkers with accents of Sakura stardust pen and Glossy Accents
Brown Bazzil Bling Card
Papers - Three Bugs in a Rug "Spring Stripes" and "Spring Dots"
Prima Flowers
Papermania Brads
KARS Pearl Adhesive Stones

Joy xx

My GD card for Charisma Cardz Challenge - Challenge 10 - Something for the Guys

How late am I in posting my card this week!! OMW where is the time going, I don't seem to have time to do much at all recently....this must change, I have crafting to do lol.

Anyways here is my card for this weeks Charisma Cardz challenge. This week you are challenged to make a card for a guy. Don't all scream at once please! I know if you are anything like me you really dislike making boy cards...why is that? It's because we can't use flowers isn't it, it just doesnt' seem right to put flowers on a boy's card. The good thing about this challenge is you could make a baby boy card and we all like making baby cards right? So there's your get out clause, make a baby boy card.

This week the challenge is sponsored by

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Here is what you can win this week

So come on you lot, get your crafting gear on and get crafting, I can't wait to see what you all come up with, I will be visiting all of your blogs to leave a comment for you.

The elements I used for my card are:-

Image - Whiff of Joy
Image coloured using Copics and Promarkers
Papers - All my Dream Street Papers LLC "Daydreamer-Musings, "Daydreamer-Fantasies" and "Daydreamer-Reveries"
Buttons from Stash
Sentiment generated on my laptop

Thanks for looking and I hope you like my card.

Joy xx

Just Because

No challenge card today from me but I decided to make a card just because I wanted to. It is another one of my Gorjuss stamps, only the second one I have used so far so there should be a few more in the pipeline very soon lol.

Not feeling 100% today, my glands under my chin are up and feel sore, my throat feels a little sore but nothing too bad, my back is aching...I feel like Dot Cotton at the moment I can tell you, I think they should just put me down. Anyhoo, I hope you like the card, I really enjoyed making it.

The elements I used for my card are:-

Image - Gorjuss Girls
Image coloured with Copics and Promarkers
Papers - Three Bugs in a Rug "Coco - Wireblooms" and "Coco - Mini-stripes"
Flowers - Prima and punched
Brads - Dovecraft and Papermania
KARS Pearl Adhesive Stones

Thanks for looking.

Joy xx

My GD card for Charisma Cardz Challenge - Challenge 9 - Pretty cards/Pretty cards for mum

Hello again, it's that time again, it's challenge time at Charisma Cardz...yay!!

This week the brief is to make a pretty card/pretty card for mum whether it be for Mother's Day, Birthday or for no reason at all lol. Come on girls, get yourselves over to Charisma Cardz and enter a card for your chance to win something fabulous.

This week Charisma Cardz is sponsored by:-

This weeks lucky winner will have the chance to pick ANY download from the shop they like!

The recipe for my card is:-

Papers - Dream Street Papers LLC - "Forget me not - Swiss Dot" and "Forget me not - Paisley Petals"
Brown Bazzil card
Image - Whiff of Joy
Image coloured with Copics and Promarkers
Flowers - Prima and punched flowers layered on top of one another
Brads - Papermania and Making Memories
KARS Pearl Adhesive Stones

I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what wonderful creations you all come up with.

Take care.

Joy xx

Colour Create Week 5 Challenge Card

Woohoo I got a card made lol. I cannot believe I have only managed one card this weekend. I had intended on getting some serious crafting done yesterday evening but I felt really ill, I think I was just tired but convinced myself I was getting a sore throat etc etc. Anyhow I had a lovely lie in this morning followed by a lovely roast chicken meal for dinner and now here I am.

This card is for the brilliant Colour Create Challenge which this week is to use a colour combination of brown and blue. I really like these colours, I think they go so well together so this wasn't going to be hard at all. It also gave me the ideal opportunity to use one of my new Gorjuss stamps and aren't they just that....totally gorgeous. Just need to ink up the rest of them now and get started on some serious Gorjuss crafting. At the rate I am going I should have used them all by the end of the year lol.

Anyway here are the elements I used on my card:-

Papers - Both by Dream Street Papers LLC - "Near & Dear - Andrea" and "Near and Dear - Ericka"

Brown Bazill Bling Card Image - Gorjuss
Image coloured with Copics
Flowers - Prima and Maya Road
Brads - Dovecraft and Papermania
KARS Pearl Adhesive Stones
Liquid Pearls
Glossy Accents

I hope you like the card, all comments are very welcome.

Joy xx