Naturally Gorgeous

Hi everyone

Hope you are all fine and dandy.  Not much posting going on again from me, been really busy at home and at work.

Looking forward to the Great Northern Papercraft Exhibition in Harrogate this weekend.  If you are reasonably local why don't you pop over to the Craftwork Cards website and get a ticket, there's still time.

As most of you now know I'm a very proud member of the Craftwork Cards Design Team, recently they sent me their Naturally Gorgeous Project of the Month which I loved.  I have already posted these cards on their blog but for those of you that didn't see them here they are...

I hope you like them.  Everything I used was from the project kit, there is so much stuff in it and a fab price too.  This months kit is called Memory Lane, and very soon there will be more cards to show you from there.

Bye for now

Jo xx

ALFIE BEAR

Hi again,

Wow I can't believe it - no posts for over 6 weeks and now two posts in the same day!!!

I saw this over at Freshly Made Sketches

and just had to enter.  You could choose any of their past sketches so I chose this one

So here is my card...

The image is an Alfie Bear stamp from Craftwork Cards which has been coloured with Copics.  The papers are MME - on the Sunny Side (the weather here this afternoon is rubbish, dark and rainy so I wanted to so something nice and bright).  The Candi and Sentiment are also CWC.

You can't see really clearly but I've gone over the sunflower with Glossy Accents.

Hope you like it.

Bye for now

Jo xx

Less is More - 85 Ovals

Hello everyone, I'm back.  Have you missed me?

I kind of took a bit of a blogging break over the summer hols.  We were away for three out of the six weeks, then having the kids at home, there just never seemed to be enough hours in the day.  

I'm also back at work doing 5 days a week (I was previously part time on 3 days), so life has just got a little busier, but hopefully things seem to be settling down I can get back to blogging.

And what a perfect way to start than by doing a card for the Less is More challenge.  I've really missed making cards for this challenge.  I've looked most weekends at the theme, just never got myself into gear.  The challenge this week is to use ovals.  I love making paper flowers at the moment so I decided upon this...

All the products used are from Craftwork Cards.  The papers are from the Naturally Gorgeous range.  The petals are made from the Perfect Petals 2 template using 3 different size ovals.

I raised the pink oval off the card and scored down the middle of the petals so they stood proud.

Hope you like it.  Bye for now.

Jo xx

Olympic Torch

Hi everyone,

No card today, busy making teachers pressies for my kids to take to school.  Just wanted to show you this...

Had a visit at the school where I work from one of the Olympic torch bearers who ran in Leeds. He spent the morning with us and the kids got to have their photo taken with it, and this is me, holding the Olympic Torch (it was quite exciting!)  A good day!

Bye for now

Jo xx

Less is More 75 - Colour

Hi everyone and Good Afternoon

Hope the sun is still shining wherever you are.

Well I haven't managed to get a Less Is More card made for a few weeks, and I have missed it.  So I've tried my hardest to get one done for this week which is a colour theme and Chrissie and Mandi want us to use Gold.  I do like gold but don't use it very often.

However I saw this idea in Pinterest Here and just had to have a go at making a smaller version. Their pictures are amazing and look very time consuming.  When I saw it it was one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments...

It's basically different sizes of hearts cut out, folded and stuck down on one side (a bit fiddly, but I'm pleased with it).  I used Gold pearl paper and the sentiment is from Uniko Studio Fontiments stamp set that I've stamped and embossed in gold (not very clear).

Hope you like it.

Jo xx

Alfie and Pretty Little Prints

Hi Everyone

Hope you have had a good day now the sun is eventually shining!

Just wanted to show you a card I've made for my God-daughter Stephanie who will be one tomorrow.

It features Alfie Bear from Craftwork Cards, along with papers and Candi from their Pretty Little Prints range, there is also an embossed butterfly card background but unfortunately it hasn't shown up very well ...

I stamped and coloured Alfie with my Copics and added Glossy Accents to the flower...

Close up of Alfie (he's so cute)!

I decided to give Stephanie money for her birthday so inside I made a little pocket with the same embossed butterfly card and put some Frosted Lace Stickles glitter glue on the larger ones..

Hope you like it, I'm quite please with how it's turned out, especially as my mojo has been MIA for a week or so now.

I'm also entering this card into a couple of challenges:-

Oldie but a Goodie - Flower Power
Bizzy Becs - Flower Power

Bye for Now

Jo xx

Pretty Little Prints

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all ok, sorry for the lack of posts recently, time just seems to be flying by.

Over on the Craftwork Cards website they've got some fab new products, papers and Candi called Pretty Little Prints, also some brilliant new embossed cards and nestie frames, they are genius, you can do so much with them.

As I'm now a very proud member of the Design Team I was sent these lovely products to play with.  I've come up with three cards for now, but there are a few more in the pipeline so watch this space...

For this card I cut an aperture into a card blank and added the frame over the top with foam pads.  I then stamped, coloured and cut out Warren (I love that bunny!) and stuck him down by his tiny little feet.

For this one I used the largest frame.  I stuck a plain piece of card to the back to make a complete card and then added flowers from the Flower Fusion range.

Finally for this card I took a piece of the embossed card and on my computer I made a text box which I filled with colour and then ran the piece through my printer (as they call come white).  It prints onto really well.  I then used one of CC's templates for the diamond shaped petals which are from the new Pretty Little Prints range and added the sentiment, the Candi is also a new one.

I hope you like them.  Please go and pop over to the Craftwork Cards blog and see what the other DT members have been up to, they really are a very clever bunch!

See you soon.

Jo xx