Update

Hi all,

Thank you for all your lovely comments. The most caring virtual friends you are.

My dear grandad passed away tonight, feeling a little numb about the whole thing but hope to be back to crafting soon.

Love and hugs to you all.

Jennie
Xxxxxx

News and an apology

So i left you all hanging last week!
I really do apologise.

My grandads been rushed to hospital with kidney and heart failure and he has not being doing good. Because of that i've not been home much, and when I have been home have REALLY not been in the mood for crafting!

I can only apologise my lovely crafty people! I do hope that normal order will be restored soon.
Love and hugs to you all xxxxx

Random Creation Challenge

I've decided that I am going to have a new challenge for myself every week!
i have gained literally thousands of digital stamps and clipart sets since my discovery last year and so many of them sit there unused for various reasons!

But no longer!
Using the great Random.org I will take the random number and use the corresponding file in a craft project over that week... I think I'll do this on a Monday!

I dub this the great Random Creation Challenge

So this week Random.org has chosen number: 576

I will therefore be creating with the following:

This gorgeous creation is Kittens Big Heart by Designed2Delight You can see the set HERE
Be sure to check back for my creation in the week :)

EDIT: If anyone wants to join me in this feel free to grab the banner and use my random number or your own! Just let people know you heard about it here :) xxx

A mothers love

Afternoon crafters!
Hope you are all well!
A fortnight has passed... geeez how fast is time flying!
We had so many wonderful entrants in our New Beginnings challenge at Dream Valley so thank you very much! Congratulations to the winners! Such beautiful designs.

We have a new challenge coming up! And a very timely one tooo.

Mothers Day

How beautiful! A time to celebrate mum! This week we are sponsored by Digis With Attitude! You could win a $10 Canadian gift certificate to their store! Woo Hooo!

So now on to my creation!! Well well well... once again my imagation went into overdrive and I went non-conventional.. what me... bend the rules.. never!

If you knew my mother you would know how apt this card and bag is for her! but as you dont! (I don't think) you'll just have to take my word for it hehehe! Mummy Irvine this one's for you!!

This gorgeous set is based on the fab set created by Maria Bell HERE
Heres a looksie at the baggie on its own! I'm going to fill it with bags of mini jelly tots!

It used the fantastic One In A Melon kit by Pink Petticoat! Its retiring so if you want to take a look act fast! You can see it HERE its such great value at only £1.99 and Pink Petticoat goodies are always of the highest quality!

The gorgeous paper rosettes gave me an absolute headache! I could not get my design to stick .... until I found this fabulous tutorial by Angie Tieman HERE

So I have a lot of people to thank for this!
So you are all well and truly......

I had so much fun creating this project! I do hope you enjoy it tooo!
Don't forget to check out our challenge!It is running for two weeks from today!

Also check out my fabulous Design Team mates creations. They have done an amazing job!!

Stamps: None

Inks and things: Used the pre-coloured version with some added glamour and coloured pencils for the sentiment
 
Papers: All pink petticoat from the One in a Melon kit along with some pink paper from Paper Mill Shop

Odds and Sods:None

I would like to enter this set into the following challenges:


Crafty Catz: Mothers Day
Delicious Doodles: Dimensional Project
Fairytale Challenge: Green and Pink
Paper Cutz: Your Choice
The Stamp Man: Mothers Day
Stampin For The Weekend: Mothers Day
Crafty Purple Frog: Going Green!
Crafty Creations: Mothers Day
Craft Your Days Away: For mum or a special lady
Easy Craft Projects: For Mum
Little Claires: Pink and Green

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!
Lots of Love xxxx

Spring Has Sprung!!

Wakey Wakey crafters! Its a beaaaaaaaaaautiful day out there!
Spring is finally here and I am finally out of my winter hibernation hehehe :)

Its another week and another fun challenge at I Did It Creations

This week we have a GREAT challenge for you!! Woo Hooo

Welcome Spring!

We want to see all your spring creations! And who can resist all those yummy spring colours and flowers when the weather is like this (I am of course limited to the weather in Canterbury, Kent so if your weather is not so nice I do apologize hehehehe)

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous Lexi Creations and I got to use this little beauty!

Click on the piccie to go to the store

You should check out Lexis beautiful Creations they are stunning! Click HERE to go have a look!
So with spring in mind I created this little card:

Is she not so  cute!!! I used papers from the Pink Petticoat - Spring Wishes collection! Perfect for spring :)
I printed the Spring Wishes sentiment onto both sides of the card! Finished it off with a mini bow!!

Don't forget to check out the fabulous creations from my teamies! You can check out their blogs from the links on the right hand side! :) 


Remember folks! We have a random draw with every challenge and you might just be the next winner.

Everyone is eligible to win one free digi stamp of their choice from the sponsor of that challenge. Or, if you use one of the sponsor's digi stamps, you could win a $5.00 coupon.

We give a freebie with every challenge also.

Just pick one of the images used by the DT, email Jeanette at

jeanette_wtrs@yahoo.com

IDIC Freebie Request in the subject line with the name of DT member

and she'll send you the digi stamp they used in this challenge.

Lastly of course are those card ingredients:

The card ingredients

Stamp: Easter Lillie with Tulips by Lexis Creations

Inks and things: Crayons

Papers: All from the Spring Wishes collection by Pink Petticoat

Odds and Sods: Ribbon from stash. Brad from Papermania

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative Cottage: Spring has Sprung
Southern Girls: Use Flowers
DYSU: Add a Bow
Wags 'n'  whiskers: Spring
Stampin With the Dragon: Bring on Spring
Stampavie:  Spring or Easter
Scrapbook Sisters: Spring Flowers

Lots of Love

Hoot Hoot a Toot

Morning everyone!

Hope you are all well!
Its another AI Challenge this week! Thank you all so much for your entries in our luck of the Irish challenge, be sure to check back to see if you won :)

So onto this weeks challenge! And It is a great one! And my fellow design team have done the most AMAZING creations I urge you to check them out! This week is:

Things With Wings

We want to see anything with wings! Fairies, butterflies, bees... If its got wings let us have it!
You will have until 11:59EST on Wednesday March 23rd to upload your creation! You don't have to use one of our images, but we would love it if you did and you can also get an extra entry.  We have some great freebies that you can check out in the store here.   If you are uploading from an online gallery, please tag it with AIF#072 so the team can leave you some love.

So we got to work with the CUTEST set of little owls EVER! Check them out:

Click on the owls to check them out in the store!

How cute are these little owlies! And so many possibilities !!!! I've created something very different for me, and it took a good few attempts to get it right hehehe! Even though it has very little on it hehehe!

Oh yes baby I've gone all CAS on you! Like UBER CAS! hehehe
Believe it or not this was really hard to do! hahahaha! Like i say the remains of 3 earlier attempts lie shredded in the waste bin!

So what did I do? I just used 3 of the little owlies and printed them directly onto card. I printed the sentiment directly onto the card as well and then drew a border using my Crafters companion!

I printd another set of the owls off. Cut the owls out and then decoupaged on top of the first. Hears a look at the decoupage:

And thats it! I actually really love this.... I think CAS is going to be a new thing I experiment with!
So fly my pretties and create lots of  lovely things with wings! I can't wait to see what you get creating :)

I'd Like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Scrap Creations: Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly: Triple Tastic!
Simon Says Stamp: Happy Birthday!
Paper Pretties: Masculine Card
Crafty Sentiments: Animals
Paper Crafting Journey: Up In the Air
Digi Doodle Shop: Anything Goes!

Lots of Love

The Cats Meow!

Goood Morning Everyone! Its another Monday!
Boooooooooooooooooooooooo hehehe

But at least I have my lovely crafting friends to help me get through it :)
A quickie card to show you today!

This one was made for another friend leaving us *sniff sniff*

I love the fresh spring colours of this card and that ADORABLE kitty kat with the sweet little flower :)
Again I can't remember at all where this cute little cat came from! It was one of my early aquisitions before I got more organised :)

I used a wonderful colour palette provided by the Off the Wall Craftiness here:

Love these fresh colours! Scrummy!

Onto those all important ingredients:

Stamp: I can't remember! Please let me know If you recognise this stamp!!

Sentiment was created by me

Inks and things: Crayons

Papers: Main BG Paper is Shabby Princess Promise Collection a FREEBIE from here

The others are all from Pink Petticoat, Daffodil and Tangerine colours

Odds and Sods: Twine from the Ribbon Girls

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Off the Wall Craftiness: Colour Challenge

Creative Inspirations Paint: Animals

Alys Sunday Challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Creative Belli: Animals

Some Odd Girl: Think Spring

Masking It

Morning all!

Its another week and another challenge at IDIC and this week we are asking you to try a technique out!

Masking

We have a couple of tutorials available to help you out If you haven't tried it before! I must admit it was quite fun building a little scene hehe :)
To help you with masking a digi DT member Cindy has a masking technique for you here .
DT member Gurkiss has a masking tutorial for you here using a rubber stamp.

So give it a whirl!

This week we are sponsored by the great and wonderful Robyn of Robyns Fetish and I got to play with a stamp I've had my eye on for a while :)

Click on the picture to go buy little ducky!

 I merged this with another image which I had! And I can't figure out at all where this image is from! SO if you recognise it please let me know so I can give the well earned credit :)

Here is my card!

This was such a fun card to make!!

I used a new technique to colour in! Its called the Crayon method and you can find details here
This is a close up of the colouring! But it allows you so much flexibility with blending! I really liked it! :)

Don't forget to check out the fabulous creations from my teamies! You can check out their blogs from the links on the right hand side! :) 


Remember folks! We have a random draw with every challenge and you might just be the next winner.

Everyone is eligible to win one free digi stamp of their choice from the sponsor of that challenge. Or, if you use one of the sponsor's digi stamps, you could win a $5.0o coupon.

We give a freebie with every challenge also.

Just pick one of the images used by the DT, email Jeanette at

jeanette_wtrs@yahoo.com

IDIC Freebie Request in the subject line with the name of DT member

and she'll send you the digi stamp they used in this challenge.

Lastly of course are those card ingredients:

The card ingredients


Stamp: Be kind to your web footed friends by Robyns Fetish.

Sentiment by Wax Fruit Company


Inks and things: Crayons

Papers: Autumn blossoms by Pink Petticoat

Odds and Sods: None!


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:


Creative Belli Blog: Animals
Paper Sundaes: Keep It Simple
Alys Sunday Challenge: Anything Goes




xxxxxx

Quickie Post

Its way past my bed time! So this is just going to be a quicky post from me tonight which I will fill in tomorrow!

I wanted to post a card I created for someone who is leaving us at work!
It also fits in nicely with a challenge going on at Meljens this week

Hope you like it!

Be back tomorrow to fill in guys!
xxxxxxxxx

An Apology

I just wanted to say a little apology to all my lovely crafty friends.
I have been sooooo busy creating more wedding stationery for my sister in law I just haven't had time to visit you all as often as I normally do!

I will make up for it and I think you are all awesome.
Love and Hugs

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

A Sketch and A Plea

Good Morning Everyone!
Its another Sunday Challenge at IDIC and once again we had a terrific number of entries into last weeks cut it out challenge so thank you so much :)

This weeks challenge is something a little different! And Its all on my behalf HA! So I am really nervous and am asking you lot for your help this week!

This weeks challenge is a sketch, designed by yours truly and I have been having nightmares that no-one will enter! So If you could use it or publicize it I would be mega greatful! Even 1 entry would ease my nightmares hehehe :)

Low and behold here is my sketch!

Its a nice, simple one and you can interpret it in many ways!
We have a shiny new sponsor today! Its The Stamping Boutique!! Whoo Hooo and we were given some fab images to play with!

Here is my creation...

Nice and simple again! I knew it had to be black and white themed, and the chequered background just had to be used hehhe!

Well I do hope you like it and if you can use the sketch you would make me one happy little lady :)

So onto those all important card ingredients!

Stamps: Courtesy of The Stamping Boutique

Inks and things: Watercoloured

Papers: Chequered paper I created from scratch, and some black card background card.

Odds and Sods: Some card candy and the sentiment was generated by me on the PC.

I'd like to thank the following challenges for their inspiration:

Scrap Creations: Card for a Kid
Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments: Birthday
Stamp Something: Use a digi
Crafty Anns: Birthday Card

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend everyone!

Lots of Love xx

A Time For New Beginnings

Wowee!!! Thanks so much for all of your entries in our first challenge at Dream Valley! Don't forget to check back and see if you were one of the lucky winners!

So this week we begin as we mean to go on! Thats right, our first fortnightly challenge! Todays challenge is:

New Beginnings

That's right people New home, new job, new life, new baby, wedding, engagement! Interpret it as you feel free! We would love to see what you come up with!

So here is what I got busy creating...

Now I know you must be thinking... thats a little unusual for a new home card! But I wanted to create something a little different! My friend loves sheep so when i saw this little cutey over at Doodle Pantry I knew it would be perfect for the occasion!

I added some sparkle with my awesome glitter paints which you can see a little clearer in these picture...

 

Glittery bling is always good! Hehehe

Now you have two weeks to enter this challenge and you could win goodies from One Stop Card Crafts and Crafty Ribbons! You lucky people you :) 

Now onto the card ingredients

Stamps: Lucky Sheep by Doodle Pantry

Inks and things: Used the pre-coloured version with some added glitter paint

Papers: The lovely backing paper came with the set! Fabulous eh!

Odds and Sods: Card Candy hehe and the sentiment which I generated on the PC.

I'd like to thank the following challenges for their inspiration for this creation: 

Doodle Pantry: Use a Doodle Pantry Image

Aly's Sunday Challenge: Anything Goes

Card cupids: Anything Goes

Scrappy Frogs: good Luck

CES Challenges: Good Luck

Stamp Something: Digi Day

Charisma Cards: 4 legged friends :)

MelJens: Use an Animal

Creative Belli: Animals

Have a wonderful Sunday all.

Lots of Love

Its A Drop In The Bucket

Good Morning Crafters! I apologise for my silence since Sunday! It has been a hugeeeeely busy week!
So today is my shining debut at AI Factory! And do we have a great challenge in store for you today :D
Our theme is

Drop In The Bucket

We want to see your water related projects! So oceans, swimming pools, pond, rain, vases of water! Anything Watery!
Of course, we'd prefer that you use AIFactory Digis,you even get an extra entry! But any stamps are acceptable! Don't forget AIF has plenty of freebies available at their site HERE too! You'll have until 11:59EST on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 to link up your creations.

The Design Team got this fab cute little image to work with!

My creative juices got very carried away with this theme! What Me!? Carried Away!? Ahahahaha! Take a look at my creation!

Haha! Told you I got carried away! Anyway this is a 5” square card which I created from scratch, I drew on a rough rockface design and cut the front of the card to to shape. I then popped Mrs Mermaid (I don’t know why I am calling her Mrs) and Mr Crab (from Fred She Said) on the front and used this fab freebie sea background image from MelJens in the background along with the cutsie little seahorse, also from Fred She Said.
Here are a couple more angles for you to check out whats going on here!

Birds Eye View! 

Front Row View!

The images and most of the sea background and rock are coloured with watercolour paints. The sea itself is coloured with my shimmer paints, I know any excuse! This is quickly becoming my favourite colouring method at the moment! Definitely one I am beginning to master a bit more!


Anyway onto those tasty ingredients

Stamps: Ella Under The Sea from AIFactory
Sea Horse and Crab – Fred She Said
Sea Background – Freebie from MelJens

Inks and things: Watercoloured and glimmered

Papers: Apart from the blue backing paper… None! GASP!

Odds and Sods: Nothing else! Gosh this really was a simple one! HA!

The following challenges have inspired this card :)

Crafts and Me: Under The Sea
Desert Island Challenges: Recipe: Square, Inspired by nature, hand coloured images, no sentiment
Papertake: Anything Goes
KB: Anything Goes with a digi!
Paper Playtine: Anything Goes with a digi!
Sugar Creek Hollow: Inside and Outside of card! (Hope this counts, the sea is the inside of the card)

Jac Inks: Fabulous Inspiration:

Hope you enjoy her as much as I have! Check out the store HERE and my awesome Design Team Creations, you can find their links on the right!