Snail Mail

Hi,how are you all doing? School finished yesterday,so the first day of the hols today.
Managed to grab an hour in my craft room and was showing my parents my Imagine.... and I actually made my first card with it!!

I had cut the card base and snail from Birthday Bash on my expression and decided to cut the snail on my Imagine mainly to play with the background papers. But I really liked how it turned out, so added some embossing,inking and 3d foam.

I am entering this over at My Craft Spot - challenge #18,emboss it. Thanks for looking.

Hugs,Jayne

Thank You Notelets

Hi Everyone, how's your week going? Today there is a new challenge over at Celebrate The Occasion.The challenge is to make a project for any occasion using blue and white. I decided to try out my new cartridge Sweet Tooth Boxes.

I made 3 little Thank You cards to go inside, each is 3" x 3", and machine stitched.

Recipe

Box and Lid cut at 5.5" (acetate added to the window)

Paper is Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby Stash

Butterfly - MS punch

SU Punch for oval tags and greeting

White crinkle ribbon

Tim Holtz tattered floral die - two smallest layers glimmer misted and pearl for centre

Everything inked and stitched and popped.

I hope you like my first DT project! Do come over and check out the other DT creations and I can't wait to see what you make.

Have a great day.

Hugs Jayne x

Game On!

Hi,yay,it's the weekend! Hope yours is going well.
I needed a quick birthday card for my son to take to his friend's birthday party this afternoon. Really speedy (10 mins). He loves X box,so this was great..

Wrap it Up is the cartridge,cut at 4.5". Added ink, some embossing and clear dome stickers.

I am entering this card over at:

Birthday Sundaes #18 Anything Goes Birthday Card

Die Cuttin Divas #24 Shaped Die Cut Cards

Monogram

Hi Everyone,how's your week going? Doesn't time fly when you're having fun!

I  want to start by saying thank -you for all the lovely comments I have received and I appreciate each and everyone of them.

Today I have a card I have made for my friend Alison. Her birthday isn't for a couple of weeks but I wanted to join in the challenge over at Cricut Cardz. You have to use a monogram. This is what I came up with...

I used Storybook for the initial and mats and used Just Because Cards for the card and tag layer.

Everything embossed and inked. Added twine and a MS punch butterfly with pearls.

To show the dimension.

My friend is a pink kind of girl and I think she will like it. Thanks for looking.

Jayne x

Celebrate The Occasion Design Team

Hi,hope your day is going well. I have some exciting news to share with you today. Over at Celebrate the Occasion the new Design Teams are announced  and I am extremely pleased to say that I am  a new DT member!

The birthday card we were asked to make was inspired by the latest Harry Potter film. This is my magical bird complete with wand and mystical lighting!!

Recipe

3 Birds on Parade - wizard cut at 3.5"

Wild Card - card base cut at 4.5"

Inside reads ...it's your bird-day!

Lots of inking,embossing and 3d foam.

I can't wait for you to meet my fellow DT members,so do come and check out all of their amazing creations over at Celebrate the Occasion. Hope to see you there.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Jayne x

I Scream for Ice Cream - No Really!

Hi,Happy Monday. Hope your week got off to a great start. Caught up on various jobs and decided to have a play with my new cart - Sweet Tooth Boxes.
I have some exciting news to share with you tomorrow and have cakes to take into work to celebrate. A colleague is on a diet,so thought I would make her ice cream instead.....just with less calories...card!!!Lol.
Here is my nightmare creation...

As regular friends to my blog,you will know that I love making 3d items. Well,this ice cream is the exception!
In the booklet it suggests cutting at 9.5" with fit to length on. If you cut the top row of the item everything else should fit accordingly. Couldn't cut at 9.5" on 12 x 12 mat,so selected 6".
Cut out,scored,folded and glued...fiddly,but ok so far. EXCEPT they don't fit together!!!! Aaagh!!
If anyone has any tips about this please let me know. No cut sizes were changed,but the ice cream is way too big.
Binned top layer of cone and added strips of card to ice cream to attach to lower cone.

Ice cream was painted with rock candy stickles to add 'ice'. Covered in gems and glass beads for pretty sprinkles.

The cone was embossed and sanded for texture.

Although it didn't turn out as intended,I really like it.

I am entering this over at Fantabulous Cricut - #69 , I scream for ice cream

Thanks for stopping by and hope you can join me tomorrow.

Jayne x

Milk cartons!

Happy Sunday. We're off to see Transformers 3  'Dark of the Moon' in 3d this afternoon. The weather this weekend is lousy!

One of my passions is making boxes/containers out of card. I am the proud owner(not yet much used!) of an Imagine. I was really pleased as it means I can indulge my 'milk carton' addiction! Well, I could if I could get the cartridge here in the UK!!!
My best friend Kate surprised me this week with a plastic template to make a milk carton........thanks Honey.
I made a couple of cartons,the first one I'm sharing is part of a gift for my son's teacher. School breaks up very soon and thought I would fill this with chocolate.

I am linking this over at The Paper Variety which is a Photo Inspiration Week.

I thought the photo of the child studying and the bright colours fitted well with my colourful teacher gift. 

The next one is one I made the day before Kate gave me the template. Lots of measuring and work(boy am I so used to die cutting machines!!!) but still (I think) quite effective.

The flower is Tim Holtz's flower die,stamped,inked and glimmer misted. If anyone wants to know the measurements and / or how to make this - just let me know.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs Jayne x



Mittens

Hello,how's your week been? Another busy one here! Hurray,it's the weekend!
I love making Christmas cards and thought I would make a project to enter over at BBTB2 . The challenge this week was to use the mittens cut on Joys of the Season. I was going to make a mitten shaped card but my gypsy was out of charge.
This (slightly demented looking) snowman with mitts is what I came up with...

I liked the 'Warm Wishes' sentiment:

 a) for the sentiment

                                  b)so inappropriate for a snowman! Lol!!

Lots of rock candy stickles,ink,glitter and glossy accents.

(Snowman - doodlecharms 4")

Thanks for looking,have a great Saturday. Back tomorrow with my milk carton obsession!

Jayne x