Monday Moments

Such a pretty colour scheme over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week and delightful cards from the DT.  Just couldn't resist it!  So here's my take:

 

Supplies:

Stampss: Clearly Besotted, Good Times

Inks: Memento, rich cocoa, angel pink

Paper: Sweet Memories

Punches: Martha Stewart, button & butterflies

Embellishments: Washi tape; twine; doodlebug mini pearls, Spring assortment

Absolutely loving this bicycle stamp from Clearly Besotted, can't stop using it!  Also managed to get an order in, before everything sold out, for some of their new release. So I'm waiting excitedly for the postman to come.

Thanks for dropping by today.

Jane
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Friday Focus

Good Morning! Can't believe I'm posting again already, but I had a lovely morning crafting yesterday and decided to strike while the iron's hot.

Today's card uses the pretty colours from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches.  Initially I made the card to match the sizes on the sketch, but my CAS brain wanted me to shrink it down and I couldn't help myself preferring the smaller look.

The flower stamp is my favourite from Uniko Studio - it just ticks all the boxes for me.  I stamped it onto patterned paper - and yes it was from my doodlebug pad again - then cut it out and mounted it onto pads for dimension.

I also put the background card through a cuttlebug embossing folder to give even more dimension and some texture. The pool coloured card has texture too and is left over from a holiday scrapbook album.

Finally I added an olive coloured pearl and my card was done.

 

    

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Studio, Flower Power #3

Ink: Memento, tuxedo black

Paper: doodlebug, kraft in color; AC cardstock, pool

Embossing: Cuttlebug

Embellishments: doodlebug, mini pearls Spring assortment

So here we are in April already and I decided to make my 1st of the month journal a little more exciting by going out for the day.  Turns out it was a great decision as the weather was amazing and Kedleston Hall and its grounds really beautiful. 

Still ended the day with comfort television, but I'm always so impressed by the versatility and imagination of the sewers on the Sewing Bee. 

Here's my pages:

And yes James did eat maltesers for breakfast!

Thanks for dropping by today.  Have a great weekend.

Jane

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Thursday Thoughts

Today Lincolnshire is supposed to be getting the worst of the air pollution that's been plagueing the UK this week.  Well it certainly looks gloomy, but so far thankfully no evidence of the smog clouds that I've seen on the television.

A card for The Male Room seemed appropriate as their theme is Science Fiction.  Well to me that means space travel out into the blackness searching for stars and was just the excuse I needed to break open my new Clearly Besotted Superstar stamp set.  The sentiment is just so positive and aspirational - love it!

I started by die cutting some stars into textured black card and placing my current go to favourite paper by doodlebug behind the apertures.  Next I picked one of the colours from the paper for my stamped star.  I cut it out and mounted it onto pads before placing it onto the outer space darkness. And then my own little space odyssey was complete - hope you like it.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Superstar
Inks: Adirondack, pool; Versa Magic, cloud white
Die: Xcut
Paper: doodlebug, take note 

Also have just realised I've not expressed my thanks for picking my card as one of the winners for a previous challenge at The Male Room. So here's the badge I'm proud to display!

 

I now just need to tidy up by sharing my March calendar and then I can settle down to embrace some new challenges for April - something very exciting happening to share later this month :)

  

Thanks for dropping by today.

Jane

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Wednesday Words

A couple of cards to share today.

First up is a card with lots of circles which uses the layout from Unscripted Sketches and the theme from Less is More.

I made this card with my oldest grandson in mind and picked his favourite colours for the sentiment and cascading sequins.  He's recently achieved two swimming awards which involved tasks like picking up a brick from the bottom, swimming set distances and treading water for a set time. And then he told me the second award had to be completed wearing clothes - quite an achievement for a nine year old!

I sprinkled stickles glitter quite liberally across this card to really make it sparkle and match the sentiment - it doesn't really show up that well in the photo.

 

Less is More

The theme for your cards this week is 

ROUND and ROUND 

Supplies:

Stamp: Joanna Sheen, Words One; Uniko Studio, A Gift For You

Inks: Memento, lady bug, tangelo, dandelion

Embellishments: Stickles, Star Dust

Words 2

My second card today uses a sketch from Sketch Saturday.  As there were five Saturdays in March the challenge allowed you to choose a favourite layout from past sketches.  I chose this one:

 

And here's my card:

 

I chose this image from the new LOTV release because it reminded me so much of one of my daughters in law and I tried to colour the dog to look like their dog Murray.  He's a greyhound, so unlikely to ever be climbing trees, whereas she is more than happy to be hanging upside down!

Got to love her!!

Thanks for dropping by today, your visit is greatly appreciated.

Jane

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Monday Moments

The last day of March!  Where does the time go?

Well a big chunk of my time is spent playing in my craft room.  So today I've a couple of cards to share.

I'm totally in love with the inspiration for my first card - lots of white and butterflies with a little aqua and tangerine thrown in.  So thank you Timeout challenge!

 

  

In fact I loved it so much I made two cards.  This one was inspired by Beverley's use of vellum. Love how it subdues the colours.

 

Supplies:

Card 1:

Punch: Martha Stewart

Paper: basic grey hopscotch

Stamp: Uniko Studio, Bright Butterflies

Ink: Memento, teal zeal

Embellishments: doodlebug mini pearls Spring assortment

Card 2: 

Stamps: Uniko Studio, Bright Butterflies

Ink: Memento, teal zeal, tangelo, cantaloupe

Punch: tonic

Embellishments: doodlebug mini pearls Spring assortment

So now I'm butterflied out and off to try something different.

Thanks for dropping by today.

Jane
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Friday Focus

Last night I had a bit of a play with my new bicycle stamp from Clearly Besotted.  Such a clear simple image and I tried to keep my cards that way.

So for my first card I stamped straight onto the card to create a one layer card.  This is something I find quite scary, but have been doing a lot more often recently especially if the card has to go in the post.

I based the layout on the challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.  When I was looking for their new challenge I spotted I'd made the top three with this card so I'm able to display their badge again. Thank you so much!!

 

So here's my card for their new challenge:

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Good Times

Inks: Memento, grape jelly, rose bud, tuxedo black