Vagabond

Hi,how's your week going? At the weekend I was a very lucky girl as Hubby bought me a Vagabond! When I was lucky enough to take a class with Tim Holtz back in February I saw this demonstrated. It really does make cutting grungeboard and chipboard a doddle. Here is a tag I made.

If you want to see what I made with Sir Tim,look under configuration box!

Thanks for calling by. Jayne x

Flower Tag

Hi and Happy Sunday! Hope you are all having a great weekend. We've been busy getting ready for our holiday.Can't wait....the weather in the UK has taken a bit of a dive after the glorious couple of months we've had!
I managed to get in my craft room and make this tag. Don't ask me why but I just love making tags!! Think I might do a week of tags when I get back from hols! Anyhoo,I managed to make it fit 3 challenges.
Whimsical Wednesday - Tag It
Throwback Thursday - Use green and yellow
My Sheri Crafts - May Flowers,use 1 button,2 designer papers,3 flowers

Winter Wonderland for the Tag and all the layers. I cut the kraft base layer .25" bigger as a shadow layer. Pop dotted the layers.

The papers are by WRMK 72 & Sunny

Birthday is the top half of birthday blessings from George.

The flowers are all George,inked,shaped and assembled with silicone glue for the 3d shape.

Green flower button threaded with brown raffia.

Martha Stewart punch for leaves.

Everything inked. Dew drop flower centres.

Glossy accents on wishes.

Green raffia to finish.

I really like how this turned out. Thanks for looking in.Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Hugs, Jayne x

Happy Retirement

Hi,well where did that week go? I still can't leave comments for anyone. Still admiring everyone's projects but so sorry as blogger just keeps going in a continuous loop everytime I try. Hope it's sorted soon.   I have a retirement card for a colleague of mine. In the UK people traditionally received carriage clocks as a retirement gift and although this is now outdated I ran with a similar theme.

The clock and all layers are cut at 5" from Wrap It Up cricut cartridge. Everything inked,doodled and clock popped on 3d foam.

I am entering this over at Celebrate The Occasion - #15 - Retirement. Do check out the great DT projects.

Have a great weekend. Another long one!! Yay! Hugs, Jayne x

Birthday Present

Hello Everyone,hope you are all having a great week. I'm a bit behind but catching up!
Today I have a shaped birthday card. Don't know about you but I like things that are slightly different and quirky.

  I am entering it into the following challenges:-
My Craft Spot - #9 - shape cards
Die Cuttin Diva's - #16 - It's a Celebration
Birthday Sundaes - #10 - Pearls and Lace Birthday Card
Wacky Wednesday - #39 - Use the colours pink,brown,teal and cream

 Recipe

Life's a Party cricut cartridge present card and all layers cut at 4"

All layers embossed and inked

Top layer sanded

Tags,Bags,Boxes and More for tag and shadow cut at 1.75"

Bow - glamour dusted

Pearls,lace and brown ribbon

Paula Pascual birthday stamp

Thanks for stopping by. Have a good day. Jayne x

For some reason I am unable to leave comments today, is blogger playing tricks again?

Set Sail

Hi,bit of a dramatic time here! My husband spent the night at hospital last night......but he's okay now. We are all very tired though!
So,after school run decided to do my housework and then get into my craft room. If I went back to bed I just wouldn't sleep tonight,so I am ' doing' the 'keep going' mode!!
I love sailing - not the dinghy kind,but yachts. With this in mind I came up with this card.....

I used Just Because Cards for the card,sea and boat. I cut acetate 'sea' ,embossed with divine swirls and overlayed the card sea and added dew drops. The sails are stamped and clear embossed. The boat was also embossed. The clouds were cut from Create a Critter. I used white lace behind the boat for the sea foam and added an anchor charm to the stern,(the charm is another 99p shop find).

Close up to show all the dimension.                                          Close up of the acetate.

 I am entering this over at Fantabulous Cricut challenge #61 - Blue Skies. There are some really lovely DT projects so do check them out. It's taken all evening to try and post this and now I am off to bed.....

Robot

Hi,Happy Sunday! Hope you have had a good weekend. Don't they fly by?
I have a cute and easy masculine card I made to enter into a challenge over at  Cricut Cardz. The challenge this week - #75 - is to make a masculine,birthday card with wheels. Also,over at  Die Cuttin' Diva's - #15 - masculine cuts.

So,obviously a robot with wheels sprang to mind!!!

A close up to show the dimension.

The robot was cut at 3" from Robotz cricut cartridge.

The mirri card was embossed and distressed.

All cuts inked,top layer of robot embossed.

The sentiment is from Stampendous - Botz Quotz

Spanner charm swings on the brad.

I like the quirkiness of this card!

Thanks for calling by. Hugs,Jayne x

Embossing

How's your weekend going? Busy family day today,which has been great. Not long 'til we go on holiday!! I have been busy buying books ready. I love to read,but after work and everything else I spend my time crafting,so holidays are a great way for me to catch up on my fave authors.

I can't believe that I now have 59 followers! Thank you so much and welcome to my blog.

Today I have a card that I made for my Aunty who is going into hospital tomorrow. Before cricut I used to stamp and heat emboss all my projects,so this is what I have done today.

Recipe

Hero arts stamps

Background stamped in 2 shades of green

Piece of card inked in green and covered in crystal embossing powders

Heat set,repeated 2 more times and then stamped into whilst still hot

(I am pretty sure everyone knows this technique but just in case...The stamp was inked up with black which helps show it up against the now crystal tile and to release the stamp as it cools)

Heart gems added and to the sentiment

3d foam

Click on the image to enlarge,hopefully you can see the deboss of the stamp on the tile.

I am entering this intoWhimsical Wednesdays - challenge#7 - Back to Basics. The challenge suggests using stickers etc,things we may have used before the cricut. I never did use stickers,just stamping techniques!

Thanks for looking,have a great weekend. Jayne x

Tweet Heart

Hi, hope your week is going well. Bit of a late/very early post, but only just managed to get in to my craft room to play!
I received some My Pink Stamper stamps from Robyn at Fantabulous Cricut  (my prize from a previous challenge), and I really wanted to have a play with them. The stamps are Tweetie Hoo puns and I thought this particular sentiment was perfect for an anniversary card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion - #14 Anniversary 
Wacky Wednesday  - #38 Anything Goes
Do check out the great DT projects they have on these blogs.

Recipe

Life's a Party - Heart card cut at 5", Kraft cardstock and WRMK cloud paper

Create a Critter - Birds cut and flipped at 2.5"

Boy bird embossed and sanded

Girl Bird is debossed and inked (wing embossed)

Cream lace

MPS sentiment, Stamping Up punches

Flower glimmer misted and glamour dusted

Everything inked and popped

I really like the shape of this card and how it turned out, hope you do too.

Thanks for dropping by, hugs Jayne x