Happy Birthday....

Second post for today.... and it's another challenge over at Divas By Design and this week's challenge is a nice and easy one to join in

Happy Birthday

So here is my card for today a summer one I think

I have used Izzy's Little Bird from Di's Digis

I have coloured with my Promarkers

  

Papers are Butterfly Garden by Wild Rose Studio free with Quick cards

Some of my paper flowers and gems

Big hugs Jo xxx

Red....White....Blue

Morning I have 3 posts for today, still making cards like a mad woman for this week....

click here for my Whimsy Blog Hop

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click here for my Crafty Sentiments New Stamp Preview Day 1

click here for my Crafty Sentiments New Stamp Preview Day 2

click here for my Crafty sentiments New Stamp Preview Day 3

click here for my Crafty sentiments New Stamp Preview Day 4

click here for my Crafty sentiments New Stamp Preview Day 5

Today's challenge over at Divas By Design is.....

Red....White....Blue

We are sponsored this week by the fabby Kenny K so here is my card

I have coloured with Spectrum Noirs

Papers are digis from I can't remember..... Shabby Princess not sure

A few shape cuts and sentiment is a stamp from Crafty Sentiments

Hope you can join in with us today

I would love to enter the following challenges...

Unique Crafters Challenge -  Patriotic

Celebrate the Occasion - 4th Of July

Big hugs 

Jo xxxx

Summer....... please now would be nice!

Good Morning, went to hospital yesterday for my treatment and it really hurt this time by the time I got home I went straight to bed as face was so sore, I am taking it easy today and not doing much....

But today I am hosting our DT challenge over at Divas By Design our lovely head DT Rebekah is away on hols and I have jumped in to host today's challenge which is....

  Summer Theme

So here is my bright card for today...

I have used this sweet LOTV stamp today 

and have coloured with Spectrum Noirs

Here is a pic of my handmade flowers... and some Cameo cut leaves

and some other butterflies and tag also cut on my Cameo

The papers were out of my scrap box 

and I have no idea where they are from

Here is a pic inside as I have made a point of finishing my cards off and packing them as they are getting in a mess in my basket, I am trying my best to get organised once again.

Big hugs Jo xxx

Monochromatic LOTV......

Good morning today see's another challenge over at Divas By Design and our challenge for this week is

Monochromatic

This is something that I tend to struggle with as I end up putting a bit of other colour in and you can see today I have a hint of green on the grass and a lot of pink and white instead of just pink oh well something to work on.....

I have used another one of my new LOTV stamps

Coloured with my Spectrum Noirs

A few cuts from my cameo, frame, hearts and tags, a few pearls and a bit of ribbon

Love Jo xxx

Charmed I'm sure......

Morning it's a new challenge over at Divas By Design today and we have the most superb sponsor this week Krista Smith from Saturated Canary, who has given us all wonderful digis to play with....

The theme this week is......

"charmed I'm sure" 

we would like to see you use a charm on your creation

I have coloured with Spectrum Noirs and ProMarkers

One of my handmade flowers from die cuts on my cameo added some distress ink

Spray an Sparkle Iridescent and a button from stash

Papers are My Minds Eye Lost and Found Set

Love Jo xxx

Divas By Design Birthday Blog Hop

Today is a busy day, Firstly I would like to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers yesterday for my Grandad's funeral all went as well as can be expected, it was much appreciated! I am getting some pampering today too having my hair cut and coloured think I deserve it!

A few posts but the first post of the day is our Divas By Design first Birthday Blog Hop. Our first anniversary blog hop is a challenge theme of ......

Anything Goes

So here is my card for the Birthday Blog Hop

I have been lucky to play with a Kenny K sexy image

I have colours with Speccies

Papers are scraps from stash and a little ribbon and a stamped sentiment

You can participate in the hop the challenge or both..... 

There will be a prize for the winner of the challenge picked by Mr Random

As always and there will be 7 prizes for hop winners.......

  In order to be eligible for a hop prize the "hoppers" 

must leave a comment on all the blog hops and the challenge blog. 

We have prizes are from the following sponsors -

Tickled pink

Kenny K downloads

Crafty Emmas store

Delicious doodles

Pink Gem Designs

The digi garden

The hop is as follows -
Divas challenge blogRebekahJoLisa JaneJayne SarahLaurieAnitaLaneyWendy Helen
The challenge prize has been donated from Mulberry crafts and is this....

Cool hey, I do hope you join in the fun!!!!

Big hugs Jo xxxx

Spots and or stripes.....

Morning all, Happy 29th February!!!!   I'm off on my travels today to meet up with my friend Alyson over at Caroles Crafts in Cardiff.....for a natter and see what's new in :)

Today see's another challenge over at Divas By Design and this week's challenge is

Spots and or Stripes 

We are lucky to be sponsored by Meljens Designs 

I have coloured with Promarkers

Sentiments are from Crafty Sentiments

Dotty paper is from Pink Petticoat

A few gems, some home made twine and some die cut nesties and XCut

Have a good day, will enter some challenges when

 I get back this afternoon and then tackle the ironing!!!!

Oh and another post, so watch this space......

Big hugs Jo x

Love is in the air......

Morning, another scheduled post this morning and it's another challenge over at Divas By Design, this week's challenge is....

 Love is In The Air

I could not resist using this cute digi from Saturated Canary which I had with my newsletter!

Coloured this time with ProMarkers and some Spectrum Noir's Turquoise pens

My ticket sentiments are from Crafty Sentiments

Punch hearts with some glossy accents and twine from Wild Orchid Crafts

Love to all

Jo xxx

Carpenter Joe......

Good morning.... half way through the week and I am finally getting my hair cut and coloured today..... it has been a long time!  I am really looking forward to our Venetian Masked Gala Ball on Saturday and believe it or not it was cheaper for me to book a night in the hotel in breakfast, use of the swimming pool and gym and free parking than a return taxi..... So we are having a little weekend away, so I suppose I have to call into Cardiff for a little shop.... I'm so excited it's like a date weekend!  I do hope my condition doesn't play up , so staying focused and having a relaxing few days and not overdoing it!

Today sees another new sketch challenge over at Divas By Design!

This week's challenge is for  one week only as we are going to a weekly challenge blog..... 

Some more exiting news we will have 3 teams 

starting from next week showcasing work on a weekly basis 

To kick it all off a new look blog and fab prizes 

so make sure you come back next wk to see the launch of that! 

We also have 4 new DT members to introduce to you!!!! 

 Please pop over to the challenge blog to welcome 

HELEN, LAURIE, MARGREET AND JAYNE to the team!

So here is my card for today we have a sketch to follow which I have posted below.....

I have a cute male image from Tiddly Inks called Carpenter Joe

Coloured with promarkers

My homemade twine not too bad for first go, got the colours to match!

My MS zigzag border punch, 

papers printed from stash 

and a few buttons and tag sentiment...

Here's the sketch

I would love to enter some challenge today.....

Celebrate the Occasion - #47 Masculine Birthday

Cards For Men - 2W, must be masculine -  "Boys and Their Toys"

The Crafty Pad -  "Let's See Something for The Boys!"

My Craft Spot - "Let's hear it for the boys"

Marks Finest Papers -#91 Birthday Card

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Truly Madly Crafty Challenges -  Anything Goes

Big Hugs 

Jo xxx

Divas By Design Something Spooky....

Good afternoon, 

A late post from me, not feeling too great back and shoulder killing and think I have a bit of the lurgy coming.... but I have managed to drag myself out of bed and make a DT card for Divas by Design, they have welcomed me back on board since I have been away for a few months...  I should have had it made in advance but printer has been out of ink too....so a big sorry for the late post!

So for my first challenge back the Divas challenge this time which is "something spooky" in line with Halloween being just around the corner!


Here is my quick card which I have literally just thrown together in the last 30 minutes I had to use his cute digi from Di's Digis...

Quickly coloured with Promarkers....

Papers are what I have had printed for ages from Summer Driggs, don't think they match well but hey!

and a little sparkle!

We have  2 fabulous sponsors this wk which means 2 wonderful prizes!!!

We have a prize from Dis digis

And also delicious doodles!!

Hope you pop on over to Divas by Design and join us for this weeks challenge....


I would like to enter the following challenges...
http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/...halloween

http://cardmakinmamas.blogspot.com/..halloween

http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com......spooky fun

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/...spooky hues

http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/...Halloween

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/..cute with a dark twist

http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.com/..something spooky

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/..halloween

Love Jo xxx

Divas by Design.....

Morning what a horrid wet morning..... not nice at all but I do have some exciting news to share this morning......Rebekah and I are starting a new challenge blog!!!! We will be having Bi-weekly challenges set every other Wednesday at 9am GMTstarting from Weds 4th May. 


The reasons for this is that we need to use all the lovely stash we have in our rooms and we want everyone to have fun and freedom in their creations so we don't mind if you use digi stamps, rubber stamps or no stamps! 


We would just like you to follow our theme for the challenge and have fun doing it! Please feel free to grab our badge for your sidebar and follow us for future fun! 

We do have some fabby launch candy up for grabs and all we ask is that you... 

1. become a follower. 

2. Post this candy pic in your sidebar with link back to the challenge blog and 

3. Comment on the blog post so we can find you! 

There are a stack of yummy papers, feathers, flowers and lots of other embellies 

and stamps just waiting to be won! 

Candy winner will be announced on our opening challenge at 9am Weds 4th May. 

 We are also looking for 5 new DT members! 

We will be split into 2 teams so you will need to be able to 

produce a piece of work once every 4 weeks 

with the possibility of working with sponsor images on occasion. 

You will also need to comment on challenge entries according to a set rota. 

To apply for a DT place, please post about our DT call with our badge and a link back to us along with 3 of your favourite pieces of work. Then add your name in Mr linky with a link back to your post (not just your blog) so we can come and check you out!! The DT call will run until April 20th. To clarify leave a comment for the candy and a link for the DT call 

We look forward to making lots of new friends 

and having lots of fun with our challenges we hope you are too! 

Love Jo & Rebekah xxx