Tree Trimming Penguin Style!

Hello,I don't seem to have had much time to craft of late,but managed to make this in between preparing tea! Now usually I can't get any decent photos in an evening but Santa has been kind enough to let me have a trial play with a present!!

I made this card for Penny Black Saturday Challenge - White Out. You can add colour to your image (which is the tree - has to be  Penny Black ).

This also fits my good friend Cindy's challenge over at Scraptastic Monday which is to use a snowman or snowflake with a Winter Wonderland scene.

I am also entering this over at Whimsical Designs #34,Winter theme,use sparkle.

Recipe

Penny Black - tree stamp - silver heat embossed

Sizzix embossing folder for background

Glitter highlights to embossing

Snowtex and glamour dust edges

Glittered white lace trim

Gems

This sparkles so beautifully next to the Christmas tree lights!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Jayne x

                                                             

Just Because

Hi,managed to make a 'just because' card. You know,for no reason, just to say hi or so. I often send cards for no particular occasion,it's always nice to receive happy mail! Lol.

I made a monochromatic card....

The image is a Penny Black stamp,stamped with Walnut Ink distress ink and then watercoloured the lines in. Added ribbon,machine stitching,a button and a touch of glossy accents to finish.

I envisaged sepia tones and although I didn't quite achieve that, it is much prettier in real  life than my photo!

Iam entering this over at....

Whimsical Wednesdays - Just Because



Penny Black Saturday Challenge - monochromatic

Thanks for stopping by,have a great Tuesday.  Jayne x

Birthday Wall Hanger

Hello my friends,how is your day going? Good, I hope. Managed to get round and check out some of your fabulous creations today and it was great catching up with you all.

I have made a wall hanging to enter over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Shabby Chic. But this is also to say Happy Birthday to a couple of bloggy friends, Esther and Karen.

I love how this turned out.

Recipe

Chipboard

DP - Modern Homemaker by October Afternoon

Betsy Bluebell clear stamps

Flower from Wild Orchid Crafts

Lace and cream vintage seam binding

Glossy accents and pearls

I used silicone glue to pop things up as I didn't want foam pads to show from a side view.

Acrlic paint mixed with dimension medium

Vintage photo for edges

Promarkers for colouring

Hope you like it as much as I do. Happy Birthday Ladies and to any of my other bloggy friends who are celebrating this week. Thanks for looking.

                                                                 Jayne x

Duckie

Hi,hope you all had a great weekend. We had a fun few days away. Today is my 100th post and 5 months since I started blogging! I was very nervous about it,who would want to see what little ole me created? I am so glad that I did enter this wonderful blog world as I have made some lovely friends and found lots of inspiration from many amazing people. Thanks for joining my journey.

School hols mean I have limited craft time and whilst my son was at cricket academy this morning I decided to make another stamped card. Although I use my cricut plenty,rubber stamping is what brought me to papercrafting.

I've called her Duckie.(My Mum's idea!). She is another Penny Black stamp from Fun in the Sun and probably has her own official name but I was on the phone to my Mum and told her I was just posting my duck girl card. She thought duck girl was a terrible title and that she should be Duckie but not spelt correctly! So Mum,Duckie just for you.

A side view to try to show the dimension.

Card Recipe

Kraft cardstock

DCWV - Cafe Mediterranean Papers

PB stamp

Promarkers

Stitching,inking and 3d foam

My Creative Time scallop and stitched circle die

Glossy Accents - on goggles & starfish bumps

Lace

I am entering Duckie into the following challenges...

My Craft Spot - #20 - Use hot colours

Stampalot Challenge - August challenge - Whatever you Fancy

Penny Black - #163 -Anything Goes (must use Penny Black stamp)

Birthday Sundaes - #21 - use birthday greeting

Paper Playtime - #52 - Water project

Frosted Designs - Colouring

The Paper Variety - citrus colour challenge

Thanks for looking and will be back tomorrow,bright and early. Enjoy your Monday whatever you're doing.

Hugs Jayne x

Hinge Card

Hi,how are you doing? Hope you're having a great weekend. I have been missing my fellow blogging friends! I'm going to try and get some time in my craft room tomorrow as I have another hectic week scheduled!!

We went for a lovely day out yesterday and I planned to spend the evening crafting to enter a few challenges(getting withdrawal symptoms! Lol!). But instead I spent the evening at Accident and Emergency with my husband who stood on a 5" nail! It went through his shoe  and into his foot but fortunately he didn't put weight on it or it would have gone through the other side! The nail was attached to a plank of wood and rusty...needless to say, cleaned up,antibiotics and a tetanus shot. He's fine,sore,limping and playing in a cricket tournament today that he organised months ago!!!

My son and I are off to a friend's house for a barbeque soon,so I got up really early to make a card to post. Enough of all my ramblings,let me show you my card....

I know,shock! a cricutless card!!! Lol.

I took a stamp and a handful of promarkers with me to the hospital and this is what I came up with.

In actual fact we were there for over 3 hours so I should have stamped and coloured more images!

This is the first hinge card I have ever made and I like how it turned out,I can see lots of possibilities for it. The lower layers of the flower have a brad through them and all layers of the card to make it hinge.

Recipe

All stamps from Fun in the Sun by Penny Black(how pretty is she?)

Promarkers

Flowers

Gem brad,brad and button

MS border punch

Bubbles embossing folder(maybe no cricut but still couldn't not emboss and ink all edges!!!)

Glossy Accents(glasses)

3D foam

Challenges I'm entering this into are..

Whimsical Wednesdays -#16 Any style card other than A2 or shape

Paper Playtime -#51 Summer -stamping

Paper Variety Tic Tac Toe - I went horizontally...card,water theme,buttons

Penny black Saturday Challenge -#162 -create a background using a  penny black stamp

Enjoy your Sunday and thanks for calling by.

Hugs,Jayne x