Happy 8th Birthday for a Girl.

Hi Guys',

Hope you're all well and had a lovely Easter. Thought I'd post a quick card in between washing and drying, yuk. Much rather be crafting.

This card is the other half to the twins' cards I did for a friend at work. The first male one was posted a few months ago, so I thought it was time to post this female one.

 

 

 

It's a pretty pastel coloured MCS picture window card, using an image from the 'Countryside Garden' cd. I really enjoy making these 3D cards and they're so effective. I've adapted the style for many occasions now.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

I printed extra butterflies and decoupaged them inside the card, to add extra dimension and also resized them, to use as embellishments on the front of the card. I love the way you the windows open to reveal the image, by pulling on the side flaps.





 

  

 



 

 

The no8 was cut on my cricut, using pink coredinations card.

 

 



 

 

A verse and a place to write a greeting was added to the back of the card.

 

 







And of course, no card is complete without a pretty box to match. I was told the little girl loved it.


I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

Polkaddoodles Challenge Blog - Springtime.

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes.

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge - Spring.

Card Makin Mamas - Earth friendly.

Crafty Girls' Challenges - Anything goes.

Thank you for visiting my blog, do come again.


Love,

xx

Happy Birthday with Fizzy Moon.

Hello fellow bloggers,

Hope you are all well and thank you for stopping by.  Taking a break from crafting today because I've had a couple of heavy days using a craft knife and have a dead arm today. Think it's when I hold the ruler on the card. It'll soon go off, just have to rest it. What better excuse to bring my blog up to date.

I've made lots of cards this month but can't post them just yet. The people they're for would see them before the day. I can show today's card because it was my friends birthday Sunday, so no danger of letting the cat out of the bag now.

I bought a couple of Fizzy Moon digikits recently and I'm really loving them. This first one was for Sue, a very good friend and fellow crafter, so it had to be good. We all know how much we scrutinize the hand made cards we receive, we're so bad.

The image is from the Fizzy Moon Weekends kit. Who doesn't love a bit of chocolate, even if it's not real. These kits cater for all occasions, this one has hiking, fishing, photography, allsorts really.

I especially like this kit though because it has this lovely bunting. It only has six flags, but all you have to do is combine two and erase the ones you don't want, then just add the message. In this case it was 'Happy Birthday Sue'.  Lovely, isn't it? 

The kit also includes extra embellishments to decoupage with. Can't resist a bit of decoupaging, makes the image pop that bit more. Of course, a bit of glitter helps.  My Martha Stewart daisy punch provided a nice contrasting border, edged with Tim Holtz distressing ink. A bit of card candy and a big white bow and voila, a beautiful card fit for a queen. Hope you had a great birthday Sue.



I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

Fashionista Challenge - Pretty in pink.

Love to Create Challenge Blog - Bingo. Sparkle, yellow, flowers.

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Mothers' Day/ For the ladies.

Crafts4Eternity - Anything goes.

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenges - Glitter and lace.

Moving Along With the Times - Photo inspiration.

4Kraftygirlzchallenges - Anything goes.

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge Blog - For a special lady.

A Gem of a Challenge - Mothers' day/female birthday/special lady.

Milk Coffee Challenge - At least two flowers. 

 

See you soon,

much love,

Jools.   xxx

Happy Birthday Special Friend with Fabulous Fashion by Katysuedesigns.

Hi bloggers,

Well what a wet Sunday and it's freezing. I think we've all been so spoilt with the beautiful warm weather, we may have become soft. Well I think I have. I had a weak moment and put the heating on, it's lovely and cosy now.

Not been blogging much, the weather has been too nice to sit indoors, so I'll have to make up for my tardiness. Got lots of cards to show you, so I thought I'd start with my latest one. This one is a birthday card for a special friend. I hadn't used my new 'Fabulous Fashion' cd, so I though I'd give it an outing.

There are so many beautiful designs to choose from, I could hardly decide. The artwork is so unusual and pretty. The card is for a very feminine lady, so I thought this one was ideal. The decoupage designs are click and print on the cd and this one has a matching hat, which I think is great. There are handbags to match as well, a very girly cd.

I used a large 8x8 scalloped card to make an easel, I seem to have been making lots of rocker cards lately, so thought an easel would be a change. Also, the topper definitely suited an easel card. The spotty backing paper was from the forever friends 'Black & Gold' cd.

I added a tag with a little witty verse and attached it with a butterfly brad, then to finish a few flowers and some card candy.

On the back I added another verse, with somewhere to write and then made a box, using the same spotty design.  

Hope you like it. If you've not seen these designs before, check out the cd on youtube. Noreen does some great demo's on there.


I'  entering this card into the following challenges :-

A Gem Of a Challenge - 2 Images.

Paper Crafting Journey - Flowers.

Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes.

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog - Anything goes.

See you soon,

Jools.   xxxx

Typography Happy Birthday rocker card for Daughter-in-law.

Hi Guys',

Well, where do I start, it's been so long I don't know if I can remember how to post on my blog. I won't go into the boring details, but so much has happened lately, hence, no posts.

I'm working part time again. Started in December. Was getting too bored living the life of riley, and my gadding in my camper isn't cheap, so killing two birds with one stone. I've also got a puppy. A beautiful little black and white cockerpoo called Bella. She'll be lovely company in the van, once she's past the stupid stage :) Pop over to my other blog and have a read at our goings on in the camper. And finally, I'm building a website for handmade bespoke wedding stationery. Now there's a job and a half. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Now down to the business of the day. I made a couple of cards this week in the style of 'Typography'. It seems to be everywhere, so I thought I'd have a go.

This first card was for one of the girls at work, for a special Daughter in Law.

It's a rocker card designed using Craftartist2, in my favourite colour. Yes, you guessed. Lilac. I do love it when a customer tells you just to make it pretty and gives you artistic license.

The backing papers and topper design are from the Clipart Fairy 'Flowers and Butterflies' range. I used the Spellbinders grand big scallop for the card body, glittered all the edges and decoupaged the butterflies.

 

 

 

 

The typography was easier than I thought it would be. I just imported several different letter sets from my digi kits, and typed in the words. Craftartist chooses a mixture of letters automatically. If you don't like the choice, just change it. Each letter is editable. Then I tilted a few, sent some to the back and added a shadow.

 

 

To finish I added a Hunkydory sentiment, some lilac card candy and a lilac bow from my stash.

 

I think it looks great, hope you do too. My customer loved it.

 

 

I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

 

 

Joanna Sheen - Girls, Girls, Girls.

Craft 4 Eternity - Get into shape.

Fab 'N' Funky - Ribbon and/or lace.

 

 

 



Great to be back,

 

see you soon.....

 

 

Jools.

 

 

 

Auntie's 90th birthday easel book card.

Good afternoon everyone,

What another beautiful day, hope it lasts, I'm going away next Monday. Anyway, back to today's card.

I am very recently back in touch with a lady I used to work with, eons ago. The wonders and joy of facebook, love it. Well Rose started following my blog and asked if I could make a card for her Auntie's 90th birthday. Well I think 90years warrants a very special card, so I decided to make her an easel book card. Hope she likes it.

I was told her Auntie likes flowers and wee birdies. This image is an MCS one, from the 'Tattered Lace' collection. The template for the book pages and the backing paper are all clipartfairy.  I imported the book pages into MCS, varied the sizes, then added the image, a verse and the number 90 to the front page.

The sentiment/stopper, is again the front page, with the wording in the same font as the verse. I added gross grain ribbon in yellow, before assembling it.

The flower is made using the the same backing paper and the spellbinder spiral blossom one, with a floral flourish in white, distressed with Tim Holtz shabby shutters. All the layers and the flower were enhanced with glamour dust and some pearl embellishments were added to finish.


I love this design of card, I think it can be adapted for any occasion, I do hope Rose likes it.


I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

Digital Tuesday - Shaped cards.

Fab n Funky - Colours of autumn.

Polka Doodles - Whats the word bird?

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Vintage toy colour inspiration.

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Layers.

ABC Challenges - W for wishes.

Forever Friends Monthly Challenge - Ribbon.

Crafters Companion - Gold.

Thanks for coming by, hope to you you again soon.

Jools.  xxx

Saying 'Happy Birthday Mum', with flowers.

Hi Guys',

I don't know about anyone else, but September is definately the birthday season for me. I have seven family birthdays.

So here's the first one. It's for my lovely Mum. She's 84 this year. Wow.

Her favourite colour is blue, but I sent her a blue one last year, so seeing as I am still going through my purple and lilac phase, I thought I'd go with that. She loves flowers, so I chose an MCS digi stamp from 'Fanciful Florals', and used promarkers to colour it. The backing papers are Papermania, from their rich purple collection. The spellbinder grand large scallop mat and the grommet 'MUM' tag, are both cut in white 240gsm linen card.

Some purple ribbon from my stash, a couple of pearl hatpins and some pearl embellishments and it's done. Hope you like it.


I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

Pan Pastels UK Challenge - All about stripes.

Polka Doodles Challenge - Floweres.

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything goes.

My Mums Craft Shop Challenge - Anything goes.

Inky Impressions Challenge - Anything goes.

ABC Challenges - W for wishes.

Heck of a Challenge - Anything goes.

 

Thank you so much for taking the time to come by and look at my blog.

Jools.  xxx

With Love From Saturated Canary's Ava.

Good afternoon bloggers,

Well, isn't the weather glorious. I will not mention, at all, that it's incredibly hot, because that would sound like I was moaning, and I wouldn't dare.

I've been trying all weekend to post this card, for some reason blogger wouldn't upload my pictures. Anyway, went onto blogger help and it suggested I change my browser provider. Changed to Google Chrome and VOILA, I was not only able to upload pickies, I can now upload multiple ones. Go figure. Just have to find all my favourites now!!!!

So, today's card features a Saturated Canary digi stamp called 'Ava'. 

I used promarkers to colour her, in pastel pinks and beiges. I do love Saturated Canary digi's, the characters are all wide eyed and modern. I used my spellbinders grand labels eleven to make this card. It's a sort of a rocker with a flat bottom. The card is 240gsm linen in cream and the backing paper is from my Docraft 'Woodland Folk' cd.

I added plenty of pretty flowers and flourishes to emphasise the pretty topper. The flowers are MCS in various colours with glamour dust to the centres and the flourishes are made with my spellbinders floral flourishes die, distressed with Tim Holtz spun sugar.

To embellish I added some white gross grain ribbon from my stash and a metal flower from GSC imports. Finally, I added a with love tag from cardart, secured with a butterfly brad.

 I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Childs play.

Passion for Promarkers - Shaped cards.

Papertake weekly challenge - Spots and stripes.

Inky Impressions Challenge - Pearls &/or bling.

Moving Along With The Times - Anything but square.

Craft Punked - Flower power.

Bunny Zoe's Challenge Blog - Summer.

Ladybug Crafts INK TLT Challenge - Summer fun.

Polka Doodles - Tags.

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Heavy metal.

Thank you for coming by and visiting my blog. Later's.......


Jools.   xxxx

Denny the Dinosaur says Happy Birthday.

Hi Guys,

Been over a week since I posted on here, had a few wedding cards to make, so they've been keeping me plenty busy. Trouble is, I can't post them until after the 18th, so I thought I'd have a break today and do something a bit different.

So here's today's card, it's a birthday card featuring Denny the Dinosaur. Isn't he cute. It's a freeby digi stamp by Pink Gem Designs ( I've had to edit this post because I put the wrong company, sorry Janet ) and I'd not used it yet, so thought I'd have a go.

I used promarkers to colour the image, in my favourite colour I might add, then it was matted onto lilac co-ordinations card, using my spellbinders grand big scalloped circles die. The backing papers are docrafts, from their especially for you cd. Flowers are MCS, printed in various colours, with a glittered centre.  Spellbinders floral flourishes have been added in lilac and purple and two parchment butterflies, made using the pergamano butterfly grid. The gems and ribbon were taken from my stash. Finally, the celebrate tag is from cardart.

Hope you like it, I certainly enjoyed making it, a nice refreshing change.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Going round in circles.

Digital Tuesday - Recipe. (1image,2papers,3flowers,4gems)

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything goes.

Fab N Funky Challenge - Pearls or rhinestones.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Bingo. (diecut/free/glitter)

Inky Impressions - Ribbon.

Polka Doodles Challenge Blog - Celebration.

Forever Friends - Something new.

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Something new.

Moving Along With The Times - Summer.

Thanks for visiting my blog and do come by again.

Jools.  xxxx

Happy Birthday Son with Tatty Ted.

Hi Guys,

What a lovely day, got loads of gardening to do and we must make hay while the sun shines, or so they say, so today's card is a nice quick one that I made for my son's birthday.

The entire card is made using components from my Docrafts 'Especially For You' cd. I absolutely love this double cd, it's so versatile, there's something for every occasion. My son is quite a dapper dresser and  has a vast collection of smart suits and lovely ties for his job, so I thought this image was ideal. The decoupaged character is quite large, so I used an 8x8 card blank, with a simple blue polka dot backing paper to keep it simple and a contrasting 'Me to You' border to break it up.

The decoupage was quite fiddly to cut out, but I enjoy doing it while watching telly. So I print loads off and then cut them out at my leisure. Perhaps I should start taking some to do in the camper.
The sentiment tag is also on the cd and I just added 'Son' to it, using the text tool. I attached it with a blue brad, added a bit of blue card candy and voila, done. I love it and so did my boy. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

Digital Tuesday - Monochromatic.

Forever Friends (fortnightly) Challenge - Anything goes.( Use an animal)

Gems - Ready Teddy Go - Anything goes & blog hop.

Fashionista Challenge - Birthday.
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Brilliant birthdays

 Hope you enjoyed my blog and thanks for coming. Hope to see you again soon.

Jools.  xx

Humorous Male 70th Birthday Card with Craft Artist Professional.

Hello everone,

My Mum asked me to do a card for her friend's 70th birthday. I asked if he liked golf, football, gardening, fishing, the answer to all was no. So what do you make a male ( you know my phobia by now ) who seems to like NOTHING? 

There is one thing I do know about him, he has a wicked sense of humour, so there was the answer. So here is the card I decided to do.

It's a one layer card, designed in Craft Artist Professional and printed on photo paper. I love the finished article, it's hard to believe it's flat isn't it. That's the clever program, it allows you to add shadows to everything. All the embellishments are from various digi kits. I think the pegs are great, it really looks like the topper is hung up. I couldn't resist putting some ink blots and coffee cup stains on. It makes it look really blokey.

A happy birthday and a 70 in red  and it's done. I hope he likes it and isn't offended.   


Thanks for stopping by my blog and do come again.


Jools.  xxx

Happy Birthday Easel Card with Tilda.

Good afternoon bloggers,

This weather has one positive side to it, I'm making plenty of stock for my stall at the craft fairs. Today's card was inspired by the Fab n Funky challenge, 'Go Green'. I would never have thought to do a green card, but I love it now. Anyway, back to todays card.

I used another one of my new Tilda images, with a bit of a twist.  I coloured her with promarkers first, then decided to dress her in a pretty frock, with matching bow and shoes. The paper I used was basically green with a tinge of orange(s), it's a CraftArtist backing paper from their 'Summer fun' digikit. I just stamped the image onto the paper and cut out the bits I needed, then stuck them in place with zig glue.  I think she looks so sweet. It's by no means a new technique, but it's new to me.

I used a basic scalloped 6x6 card for the easel and spellbinder grand large scalloped die for the main mats and layers. Tilda is mounted with foam onto a doilie, which I cut with my cricut and an SVG file. This was then matted onto a dotty backing paper circle.

All the flowers are my hand made stash ones, but I scrunched them up and layered them today. That was a bit hard to do, my style isn't really grungy, but I must admit, I do like them. The swirls are made using my spellbinder floral flourishes dies and the sentiments are Hunkidory.  A bow, using ribbon from my stash, and it's finished.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

Fab N Funky Challenge - Go green.

I Love Promarkers - For a little girl.

The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge - Anything goes.

Midweek Magnolias - Anything goes.

Just Magnolia - Anything goes

Hope you like it, have a nice crafty afternoon and thanks for stopping by.

Jools.  xxx

Birthday Card with Tilda Sitting on a Pocket.

Hi guys',

What a beautie of a day, I do hope it lasts. I'm starting my motor home search next week and would love for the weather to hold. It's my retirement present to myself :)

Today's card has been done in between reading a really good book in the garden and crafting.  I've finished the book now, so no more distractions

I've used one of my new Tilda images. I treated myself to a couple or three the other day and I've been colouring for the past couple of evenings, got loads now, ready for cards.  This one is Tilda sitting. Hasn't she grown up quickly, doesn't seem two minutes since she was a baby. I made this card with a couple of challenges in mind, both asked for a pocket, so here it is, with Tilda sitting on it. Isn't she cute, with her cherry wellies? The challenges are listed at the end of the post.

The pocket is made from a piece of purple Papermania card and then embellished with some lace, faux glitter stitching and a button with twine. Tilda is coloured with promarkers and mounted on foam. The button background paper is from Clipartfairy and the spotty background is again, Papermania, from their rich purple collection. The border pattern is the wild flowers around the page punch from Martha Stewart.  

All the flowers are hand made using MCS, they're just not going down!( see here,)and the floral flourishes are spellbinder dies. I used holographic silver and purple for these.

To finish I added cream ribbon from my stash, a Hunkidory sentiment and some card candy.

Hope you like it and thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.  

I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

Passion for Promarkers - Birthday.

Fab 'N' Funky Challenge - New Beginning ( new stamp)

I Love Promarkers - Use Diecuts.

Magnolia official Inspiration Challenge - Fruity pocket.

ABC Challenge - P for Pocket.

Midweek Magnolia Challenge - Romantic and chic.

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Happy Birthday to someone special.
Oo La La Creations - Make it girly.

Bye......

Jools.  xxx

A Cute Fairy Birthdaygirl Card.

Good afternoon everyone,

What a beautiful day, I really shouldn't be sat in my craft room, I should be taking advantage of the dry spell and doing some gardening. But hey, this is far more fun.

Today's card is using the sketch over on the 'A Gem of a Design' weekly challenge blog and the 'Faye with Dandelion' digistamp from 'Pink Gem Designs' . I only just found this web site whilst visiting various blogs and think the digi's are lovely. There is something for every occasion. They're also doing a DT call, so if anyone is interested, pop on over. I'll be putting my name down, gonna have loads of time on my hands after Thursday,  (Ahhhh, the big one) so I'll need something to keep me out of trouble. :)

I've not followed a sketch before, I didn't know if it would be a bit limiting. I needn't have worried, I really enjoyed doing this one and it does still leave some space for artistic licence. I think it was more difficult trying to keep within the sketch.

I coloured the digi with promarkers and added a bit of glitter to the wings.  The patterned circles are  'Me to You'  and the plain background paper from my stash. The flowers, well we all know about them by now, if not see here. I used the spellbinders floral flourishes in the same colours and added a bit of detail with some faux stitching. The sentiment was a freebie in a magazine and I just tied some silver ribbon through the hole.  Cute, isn't she?


I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

A Gem of a Challenge - Sketch.

My Mum's Craft Shop (2nd entry) - Fairy tales.

LEJ Designs - Things with wings.
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Cute, cute, cute.
Glitter Geeks Blog Challenge -  Wings and things

Thankyou for stopping by my blog, hope you enjoyed it. I love comments, because they let me know you've been and then I can visit your blog.

Have a nice afternoon, I might have a go at doing some gardening, then again........

Jools.  xxx

Boy's and their Motorbikes 50th Birthday easel.

Hello everyone,

What a lovely sunny day, can we hope?  Today's card is number three of the four BOY cards I have to make this month. I don't mind this one though. It's plain, simple and to the point. It's for my bike mad Brother's 50th birthday. Eeek, I can't believe my kid brother is half a century old.

I used the  3rd anniversary CD  from MCS  to make this card. There are a couple of sections in this set that are ideal for men, this one's called 'The Finishing Line'. I'ts a standard easel card made from an A5 card blank. The backing paper is on the cd, but to make it more personal I tiled '50' all over it. The topper was mat and layered first onto deep blue mirri board, then onto black pearl card, to give added strength. The lettering was cut using my cricut, in the same blue mirri board and the sentiment was again mounted on blue mirri.

I wonder if he'll notice that even the bike number is '50'. That's quite straight forward to do in the MCS graphics program. A bit of black card candy and that's the front finished.

The verse is on the back of the card. I couldn't decide whether to put a slushy verse or a humerous verse. I went for humerous in the end. Hope he see's the funny side.

I am entering this card into the following challenge :-

Cards For Men - Kicking back
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Card for a man or boy.

Hope you like it, thanks for coming and see you soon.

Jools. xxx

A Fairy Happy Birthday Easel Card.

Afternoon everyone,

Really enjoyed doing today's card because, yes you guessed, it's GIRLY. As the song says, 'Thank heaven for little girls'. My mojo really does seem to get up and leave when I have to do BOY cards. Anyway, here it is. I've done an easel card today, with a bit of movement. I love kinetic cards.

The designs are from the colour fairy range from clipartfairy. She has some fab digi kits. The backing paper is also from the same kit. The mats were cut with spellbinders labels 1. The top mat is in white supersmooth with a Tim Holtz spun sugar distressed edge. It's matted onto Hunkydory holographic card. The toppers were edged with glamourdust, of course. They are fairies. The mushroom already has coloured circles on, but I thought they lended themselves to having card candy added. Some of the shapes were a bit fiddly, but I think it's very effective. Adds a bit of dimension too. Talking of dimension, I decided to have one of the fairies flying.

I mounted her onto a piece of acetate and secured it between the two mats. It adds a nice bit of movement too. I love the way the other two are peeking out from behind the mushroom. I think they must be in awe ( or terrified )  what say you?

To finish I made flourishes in both white and holographic silver, with spellbinders floral flourishes. The white one was distressed through the die, again with spun sugar. The sentiment/stopper bar is a spellbinder grommet tag, printed onto supersmooth. Some flowers, buttons and a bow and It's done. Hope you like it.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

Fab 'N' Funky Challenge Blog - Buttons and bows.

Digital Tuesday Challenge Blog - All about ribbons and buttons.

My Mums Craft Shop Challenge - Fairytales.

Panpastels Uk Challenge - Anything goes.
Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Flower power.
LEJ Designs Challenge Blog - Things with wings.

Thanks for visiting, do leave a comment, then I'll know you've been and I can pop over to see your blog.

See you soon.

Jools. xxxx

Football birthday cards for big boy's.

Hi everyone,

Well, that's two down and two to go. Don't you just love BOY cards. It's either football, golf, motorbikes or cars . Such variety. In this instance it happens to be football, or to be more precise, Manchester Utd. It's my great nephew's 21st birthday, my sister's Grandson, so they were the two cards I had to make. I'm quite happy with the results ( but can't wait to get back to my glitter and glitz)

Here's the card I made for me to send. I decided to use the Manchester United colours for this one. The backing paper is from MCS and I just tiled 'Happy Birthday' all over it. I printed the same backing paper on 220gsm supersmooth card and made the rosette. The centre is a clipart football mounted onto silver mirricard and the numbers were cut out on my cricut, again in mirricard. A bit of black card candy (had to get some in somewhere) some satin ribbon and a sentiment from cardart to finish.

My sister wanted me to use an actual picture in this next one, with Ricky as part of the team. I did this last year for my Grandson and it was quite effective.

I downloaded a picture of  ManU and imported it into Craftartist to work some magic. I was a bit limited with pictures of Ricky, so I settled for this one. He's sticking his tongue out showing off his tongue stud. Him to a tee. There he is, next to Scholes. That's worrying, I know the names?!? I mat and layered onto some holographic card and placed it at a jaunty angle. The background is from the Docraft Woodlands folk and friends. I thought it was quite apt to have grass. Bit of black card candy again, it finishes it off. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. Hope he notices himself.

My sis just turned up, she loves it and says Ricky will too. Phew, that's a relief.

Thanks for coming by, see you soon.

Jools.  xxx

Tilda Hula-hoop Birthday Rocker.

Good crafternoon crafters,

Who does that sound like? Anyway, hello to you all and a special hello to my new followers. Welcome to my blog, hope you enjoy visiting and thankyou.

Today's card is a tilda rocker. I felt like doing a bit of colouring, (one day I may grow up) so I stamped Tilda out several times and used different colourways to colour her in. I never know what colour card I'm going to make until the urge takes me, so to speak. The one I chose in the end is pink and lilac.

The rocker and all the layers are made with spellbinders grand large scallop, I offset each layer this time to make it a bit different. I stamped with memento ink and used promarkers to colour the image in. I just love these pens, even more since I bought some fine tips. They make it so easy to get light and shade. Some stitching detail was added around the smallest layer and Tilda was mounted with foam to give dimension.  The backing paper is from the tulip and friends range and the sentiment from cardart. The edges of all the other layers were distressed with Tim Holtz milled lavender and I added a bit of glitter, flowers and ribbon from my stash.

I had to do a variation on the design of the this rocker, my daughter said that the one I sent her wouldn't stand up. I told her not to stand it on a shiny surface, but she said it still kept laying down.

So I cut a piece of the same white card I'd used for the main rocker base and attached it inside the card to the front and back. It worked a treat. No more Bambi on ice.

Put a crease in the middle and fold it in on itself and the card lies flat for posting. Now the only thing I have to do is decide what to do with all the other Tilda's. I suppose I could make four more different coloured rocker's. :)

Aren't they cute.


I'm entering this card into the following challenges :-

Glitter Geeks Blog Challenge - Stitches.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything goes.

Passion For Promarkers - Cut it out.

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Birthday.

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