Jennie's Crafty Things

Twice in One Week

2012-05-18T21:57:00.001+01:00

Evening all! I know two posts in one week! Ha!

Hope you've all had a good week, I am good, sleepy, but I guess that's normal with a 6 week old! :)
I had to make a card to give to my grandma from Luke! I used a sketch from the awesome Chupa at Random Acts of Creativity!

With this in mind I create this card using a cute image from Cuddly Buddly! It was a freebie from Lilyboo I believe, but I got it AGES ago!

The colours look a bit rough in this picture, honestly it looks 'smoother' in real life! It is coloured using distress inks and highlighted with my new favourite tool Glossy Accents :D :D

She seemed to like it and that's all that matters!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Lots of Love

Jennie
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Guess Who?

2012-05-14T21:04:00.002+01:00

Evening everyone! Hope you are all keeping well?
My little man is 6 weeks old now and time is flying!
I have been doing the odd card but have not had time to upload them and make them pretty, unfortunately the sketches and other such challenges I have used for inspiration have long passed!

Anyway! One which is still going is the latest sketch at Retro Sketches!

I always love the sketches on this blog but have not had chance to enter the challenges to date!! But this week I have mwahaha and I will, well as long as Luke stays asleep long enough :D

My take on this sketch is a slight modification I replaced the ribbon at the bottom with the oh so trendy flags that I keep seeing everywhere! I saw the most amazing card by Jennifer Roach and fell in love with it!

My attempt this time needs a big modification but I only realised it AFTER I stuck all the fish tails down! They needed some dimension to work so its a little bit flat!

Anyway! Here is my creation!

The paper is a freebie stack from a magazine using Pink Petticoat papers. The image is from Designed 2 Delight called XXX isn't it just adorable!

The sentiment is created in word using Janda Scrapgirl dot font.

The image is coloured using distress ink and the luscious cake icing and the mouse nose and flower are finished off with glossy accents, my new favourite accessory!

I do like how this card turned out, I just think it would have looked so much better had I added dimension to those damn fish tails!!

Anyway I hope the card is close enough to the sketch to qualify and in the meantime I'll leave you with a little picture of my man :)

My Luke :)

until next time!

Jennie
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An Update

2012-04-10T21:00:00.001+01:00

Hello everyone!

Sorry I haven't been on in a while!
I have some news :)

My little man is here!
Luke Peter Laurence Whittaker arrived on April Fools Day at 11.20am weighing a dinky 6lb14oz
He is lovely and we are slowly settling in to life together!
Here is a little pic of him for you!

Hopefully I'll be back around visiting you all over the next few weeks! :D

xxx

More Mothers Day

2012-03-27T16:15:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone!

... Still no baby! Haha! Its D-Day tomorrow!
I'm still soldiering on with my giant swollen feet and my carpal tunnel hahaha! Pregnancy is so glam :D
I've got another of my mothers day cards I created to show you.

I do apologise for the shockingly poor photography, I was in a bit of a hurry so left it too late and the sun was in the worst position.. excuses, excuses I know :D

I loved this image which was a generous freebie from the wonderful SJ at SJ's Musing. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to make it into a card for my mum :D

The sentiment is created in Word, I can't remember the font sorry!
Its matted onto distress ink-ed paper and then onto some gorgeous Pink Petticoat gingham papers and then onto some more yellow stash and finally a papermania kraft card blank! Phew thats a lot of layers!

Hopefully next time I post it will be with details of my little munchkin who doesn't seem to be in a hurry to leave :D

Take care!
Lots of Love

Jennie
xxxxxx

You're Wonderful

2012-03-19T20:24:00.004Z

Evening everyone!
Hope you are all keeping well, and sorry for my absence!
I have developed Carpal Tunnel in my wrist so crafting is even harder now boo hoo!
Still no baby! A week til D-Day!

However I do have some cards to share with you!
As it was mother's day in the UK yesterday I managed to create some cards for my mum, my mother-in-law and my grandma-in-law.

This is one for my grandma-in-law.
It uses the beautiful Study of Poppies from Wax Fruit Company.
The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

I coloured it using promarkers. Always up for trying new techniques, I was really tired when I was doing it so its a little bit wishy washy, but hey we need to start somewhere!

Believe it or not, the white background has been embossed, annoyingly the sun was very bright and it seems to have washed away a lot of the detail whilst I was trying to photo it in a hurry!

Anyway, I hope to update you all soon with details of the little one!
I do have a few more cards to share in the meantime!

Lots of Love

Jennie
xxx

Sweet Love

2012-02-22T19:49:00.001Z

Hello everyone!

I've been meaning to post for a couple of weeks, in fact I created this card for a couple of challenges which have now passed! Drat!

So I will just get on with it and then drag myself to bed! 5 weeks to go now and I am MEGA exhausted! Not sleeping at all! Argh!

This pretty little card is for two of our friends who have just got engaged! N'awwww!
It used the beautiful Double scoop ice cream from MelJens designs. I love this stamp soooo much! It is so versatile!

Its teamed with a sentiment from Doodle Pantry (Can't remember the set it is from) and the background paper is from a new Hero Arts digi kit called Day at the Circus
Its finished off with some gems and some glamour dust! Voila!

This card is hopefully not too late to be entered in to the Meljens Anything goes challenge!

Speak to you soon!
Love

Jennie
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Rockin' All Over The World

2012-02-12T21:19:00.000Z

Evening everyone! How are you doing?
Hope you've had a lovely weekend! I've had a lovely lazy weekend!
We had an anti-natal class on Saturday which was fun, and i've managed to do some crafting during the rest of the weekend! Ahhh bliss! I am now on maternity leave! So I am hoping to get some more crafting done in the upcoming weeks!

Onto today's card!
This is for a male friend, who is a bit of a geek and a wannabe guitarist! So I had a look through my 9,000 odd digital stamps.... and found a great Bugaboo stamp ..... then had a little looksie around for some sketch inspiration and came across this weeks Skipping Stones sketch:

I liked the simplicity of it. So with that in mind, I created the following!

Very Rock 'N' Roll eh!?

So what did I do!?

Well!

I used Skelekinz Boys - You Rock my World by Bugaboo . Its coloured, very lazily, with promarkers & some glossy accents on the guitar, which has ended up making it look orange, whoops!

The stars are punched using a Hobbycraft Star punch. The giant background star is cut using my Big Shot and star Nesties!

The sentiment is generated in word using font TF2. Et Voila!

Nice and simple! As you can see I turned the sketch on its side, but you can make out the design still ya?

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

Skipping Stones Design - Sketch

Sassy Studios - Birthday Card

OSAAT - Anything Goes

CES Challenges - Lots of Layers (Black on Black on Red on Black)

Fun With Shapes - Birthday!

Hotshot Crafts - One for the Boys

Hopefully, you'll be hearing from me a bit more in the next few weeks, well, unless baby boy makes an early appearance :)

xxxxx

Despicable Me!

2012-02-08T15:12:00.000Z

Hello everyone!

How are you doing?
I'm not too bad ta!
I have a funny card to show you today! A little while ago I watched the film Despicable me for the first time. One of the characters Agnes is adorable and the spitting image of my friend Kim (although she isn't a little girl hehe)

This particular clip below is hilarious, and makes me laugh every time!

It was said friends birthday at the weekend and I was desperate to make her a card based on this! Frustratingly they don't make many stamps of little girls squeezing fluffy unicorns to death haha!
So I had to settle on the image below... just incase you are wondering why on earth the cat is white and pink haha!

Its the closest I could get to portraying little Agnes hehhe!
This card is incredibly CAS! The image was a freebie from mygrafico but i can no longer find it to link to it! The sentiment was created by me. Some pink card and a few card candy bits and that is it! Shock horror!

I saw an awesome challenge over at CAS-ual fridays which is to base your card on a film!

So this card is most definitely being entered into that challenge for the film Despicable me :)

If you haven't seen it, I do recommend it, it is so funny!

I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes with No Patterned Paper

Digital Tuesday: Pink or Red

Celebrate the Occasion: Anything Goes Birthday

Take care everyone!
33 weeks today! Woo hoo :)

xxx

Sweet Love

2012-02-01T18:09:00.002Z

Evening everyone!

How are we all doing?
I am struggling big time with sickness again! Only 8 weeks left now thank goodness!!!
I'm trying to get a stash of cards done ahead of time so I don't panic later on in the year... Well valentines day isn't exactly far away so i've hardly saved time on this!

I was inspired by an amazing card I saw by Melissa over at Melissa Made
So based on that I was keen to enter the challenge of Hearts over at MelJens this week and I used the beautiful Little Heart Gingerbread.

Here is the finished article!

I love the simplicity of this card and the cute bunting!
The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat and is their Tiny Sweetheart Sentiments.
The bunting paper is from 2Peas and is called Beep Bop Boop by Rebecca Bonneville.
Oh and those hearts are hand cut! Eeeek! No punches :)
Lastly!! The graph paper is a kit by Jen Martakis Notebook Basics

Hope everyone is keeping well! I do have one question if you read this far!
Where do you get your kraft card from? I have card blanks but would like to get some sheets, preferably A4.... Can't seem to find anything anywhere!

Off to anti-natal classes tonight so will be round to check out your blogs on the morrow.

Love

Jennie
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Another Week gone!

2012-01-27T21:17:00.000Z

Gosh! Another week gone by already!
Honestly... where is time going!
Hope everyone is keeping well?

This card is another Christmassy one! I got all excited by the Hero Arts Digital collections and the amazing inspiration by Lucy Abrams that I made most of my cards using their digi collections!

I love these cute little snowmen! They are printed from the HA Christmas Cookies set

I printed 3 of them coloured their noses and scarves, added some glamour dust to the scarves and then attached them to the sentiment which is from Pink Petticoat. The paper is also a Pink Petticoat one too!

Again, another CAS card, I do like it though, this was one of my favourites :)

Have a great weekend everyone

Jennie

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More Tea Vicar?

2012-01-19T14:44:00.001Z

Afternoon all!
How are we doing?
Operation Nursery is going rather well! I will do a seperate post for that later, wouldn't want to keep cluttering this one with photos of my sons room hahaha!

So my new craft room is slowly coming together, relocating was fun to begin with but trying to find new homes for things is diiiiiiifficult, and I downsized too!!

This card I have for you was inspired by a card from the amazing Lucy Abrams
She is such a talented card maker! I love her creations!

One of my work colleagues was going for tea at the ritz for her birthday and so I was asked to create a card on that theme and I came up with this:

This is an image from Pink Petticoat called Cake Stand which is teamed up with one of the sentiments from the set Sweet Treats.

The image is printed on to some pearlescent ivory card and coloured with brushmarkers. They've been finished off with lashings of glamourdust glitter and a cute little pearl and some silk ribbon.

I do love this stamp and can see many used for it!
Pink Petticoat is always awesome :)

As you know I use an awful lot of Liz's beautiful papers on my cards, so much so that my stacks of paper quite often get left neglected, but they are so pretty!

If you haven't visited Pink Petticoat before please do, there are some free gifts on the blog here plenty to whet the appetite..

I love the simplistic look of this card, definitely finding that Less Is More suits me and looks very elegant!

I hope you are all well and not too cold with the miserable winter weather! Roll on spring!

I've still got a few more cards lined up to show you, but i'll spread these out over the week.

Lots of Love

Jennie
xxx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations Paint: Birthdays
Dream Valley: Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays: Ribbon & Sentiment
Heart Song Inspirations: Glitter and/or white on white
Truly Madly Craftly: Anything Goes
Stamp 'n' Doodle: Birthday
Party Time Tuesday: Happy Birthday
Anything Goes: Anything Goes!
Deep Ocean Challenge: Sparkling and/or glitter
Paper Pretties: Glitter

Elephantasic!

2012-01-08T18:50:00.001Z

Evening all!
Hope you are all well!
Yesterday I packed up my craft room ,temporarily, it was still sad, but discovered lots of things I had forgotten about and donated a crate of goodies to my mum!

Operation build nursery is commencing!! Eeeek!
We had one of those fancy 4D scans done yesterday, it was amazing! Here's a sneak peak of our little boy!

Its crazy we are so nearly there! 29 weeks gone on Wednesday!
Anyway!! I am here for reasons other than my baby boy! Haha
This creation was done way back in July but I never got round to posting it as I fell pregnant and well, as you know, was not very well!

My sister in law asked for Money towards their wedding present and so I wanted something nice to present it in, so I created a cute little drawer box!

This was so much fun to make! There is a little dip in the lid so you can easily pull the drawer out, and as you can see I just added their names and the date of the wedding. We also gave them a Wedding card as I didn't want my hubby defacing this with any text hahaha!

This beautiful Image is one I have had for a while in my posession but never got round to using!
It is called Never Forget I Love You by the wonderful Phindy's Place

I coloured it using my coloursoft pencil and the background was my first attempt at trying the sky using Dorcas Designs Tutorial Here.

It needs a bit of work but I am pleased with how it came out and more importantly the bride and groom liked it :)

This is the design i Used for the Box, It is from SplitCoast Stampers, I Just created an easel style card and mounted it on the top.

So thanks all for visiting, hope you are all keeping well!
My craft room should be back in its new location next week, but I have a few creations I have held back, ya ha even a couple of Christmas ones! Hahaha

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

Forever Friends: Shaped Card
Inky Impressions: Anything Goes
City Crafter: Save The Date
Crafty Sentiments: Love and Romance
Top Tip Tuesday: Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge: Xtra Special Occasion
CES Challenge: Anything Goes
Gingerloft Challenge: Anything Goes
Dream Valley: Anything Goes

I am sorry!

2012-01-05T14:35:00.001Z

Happy New Year Everyone!
I am sorry, I didn't quite get done posting my christmas creations before the festive season was thrust upon me.... Soooo ... you guessed it, I am going to give you more cards to look at :)

This one I created for my husband, incase you didn't know my hubby and I have pet rats.

Here is a picture of my 3 boys L-R Cookie, Haribo and Caramel!
So I normally try and incorporate rats in as many cards for him as I can....
As you can imagine the demand for Rat themed craft goodies isn't exactly high, but cute mice do feature a lot and so they tend to be used the most!

The following card was created using a design by Laurie Wilson for Clear Dollar Stamps called Gouda Day. I have had this set for a long time and hadn't got round to using it! I took one of the mice and then flipped it and created a second and then cosey'd them up so they looked like they were smooching!

Don't they look cute! The sentiment is also by Laurie Wilson but is from one of the Doodle Pantry sets Merry Mistletoe

The mice are coloured using my coloursoft pencils and using paperstumps and baby oil, a technique I am getting more and more used to!

The image is cut using my nesties and also embossed... unintentionally... i sandwiched my stack wrong so it got gently embossed whoops!

The red and green card are from the papermill direct shop and the Holly paper is from Pink Petticoat!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas time, it did go to fast!!
This weekend I am packing up my craft room temporarily as the study/craft room is becoming a nursery!! Only 12 weeks til my little man arrives! eeek!

I still have a few cards I haven't posted since before christmas.. plus I am hoping it won't be long before i'll be creating new things... new craft goodies for christmas has me itching to play!!

Speak to you all soon.

Love

Jennie
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Sweets for My Sweets

2011-12-21T23:12:00.001Z

So I am sure you are probably completely fed up of looking at lots of christmas cards.... but here is another one :)

This card is based on one of the Sketches on the Hero Arts blog for their December Challenge
I've actually created a card for all three of the sketches as I admired them that much! But the other two will come later ;)

The card was created using the Hero Arts Holiday Jumble digikit
It has so many fun elements, it's been my go to set to use this Christmas... especially the yummy background!!

The sentiment was generated in word using Scrapgirls font!

Nice and simple, but that's just how I like it :)

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Paper Pretties : Red, White and one other colour ... (Black)
The Crazy Challenge: Christmas!
Dream Valley: Christmas (Hello lovely Dream Valley ladies)
Crafty Cardmakers: Use It 3 times.

Merry Christmas to everyone! Have a Happy and Healthy time

Lots of Love

Jennie
xx

More Christmas

2011-12-17T19:33:00.004Z

Evening everyone!

Hope you are having a good weekend!
I have another card based on the ColourQ palette.

As hard as I found it, I enjoyed the challenge!
Here is my creation..

This festive creation is created entirely from Pink Petticoat goodies!
The gorgeous background paper is the vintage stars which can be found here

These gorgeous trees are a new collection from Pink Petticoat for the christmas called Tree-os

You get 3 tree's. 3 presents. 3 stockings. 3 baubles! Awww cute!

These were coloured with my promarkers and adorned with pink gems! Oh so many pink gems!
you can see them glittering away in this picture below!

So that's it from me, i think i've exhausted this colour palette hahaha!

Until next time, take care.

Love

Jennie
xxx

Turtley Christmas

2011-12-16T22:27:00.000Z

Hello everyone,

Yes, I am here for my second post! Shock horror :)
I am using the colour palette from the great ColourQ Challenge for this card....

Gorgeous yes! I thought I would find this easy.... but actually found it quite hard!!
But here is my creation..

Turtley Christmas! This is for my Sister-in-law and her new hubby! They have 2 tortoises, Esio and Trot! So I always try to incorporate tortoises into their cards!

These cuties are an amalgamation of 2 different Doodle Pantry sets!

The first is these cute turtles
The second is the awesome Santa accessories! It fits most Doodle Pantry characters, different hats and presents!

Which is teamed nicely with one of the beautiful sentiments from Pink Petticoat

As you can see I added plenty of glamour dust bling to those presents!

Annoyingly when colouring the presents I accidentally picked up the purple pen instead of the pink and no matter how many times I went over it it was still purple! Sorry ColourQ, hope you can forgive me <3 <3

On the inside is a picture of one of the presents and the sentiment 'And a Happy New Year' also from Pink Petticoat.

Well that's it for tonight.
Hope you are all okay!

Lots of Love

Jennie
xxx

My Goodness... It's a Card

2011-12-12T21:32:00.000Z

Hello Hello Hello!

I have a card! I know! Shock Horror!
Someone from work asked me to make a couple of birthday cards (They will be showcased later) but whilst doing those cards I got a bit of inspiration and made a couple of Christmas Cards!!

This is one of them :)

I was blog hopping looking for inspiration and then started looking at some of my favourite stores and came accross some digital goodies from Hero Arts!

This card has bits and pieces from lots of different places!
I started by using this kit from 2Peas and took the background, which you can't see in the picture above... maybe this one will help!

It's quite a subtle colour, I changed the red and the transparency so it didn't come through too strong!

I then found these cute Gingerbread men as part of another Hero Arts digital set!

I printed 4 and then varnished them! I have some glossy accents on order too mwahahahha!

Once the ginger's had dried I then Used some bakers twine hanging randomly across the card and then stuck the little ginger's down with glue dots!

I tied some red ribbon from my stash around the top!
The lovely sentiment is taken from a fantastic set from Pink Petticoat which comes free when you purchase the beautiful papers!

I also did a little inside print too!

The Santa Claus is from the earlier set I posted and the Fa La La La La is from PinkPetticoat :)

I hope you enjoy!
It's nice to be back....

Sssh I'm still here

2011-11-26T11:33:00.002Z

Hi Everyone!

I am still here! Just!
I have been so sick throughout this pregnancy! Everything is going well though and baby is cooking nicely!

Hope everyone here is okay?
I do hope to be back to crafting soon.

Lots of love and hugs to you all
xxxxx

Feline Playful Blog Hop!

2011-09-21T12:48:00.002+01:00

Hi Everyone! I am honoured to be a part of the Feline Playful bloghop!! Woo Hooo!
Unfortunately I don't have a pretty, pretty card to show to you, I still can't muster up the courage to craft! Le Sigh! Hopefully I'll gain some inspiration soon!

But do check out the other awesome entries by my love Feline friends :)

Welcome to our FELINE THANKFUL BLOG PARTY and HOP!! We
are SO THRILLED you have chosen to party with us. We have organized
this blog party to thank all of those who have joined us as followers - over
1800 of you and counting!! We want to say "THANK YOU" to all of you who have
been so supportive of this wonderful blog that tracks over 500 challenges!

A very SPECIAL THANK YOU to KAREN HOWARD, who started this blog just over a
year ago and actually ran it solo for quite a while. Now a team of 14 ladies
make up the DT for Feline Playful, led by SHELLEY and we continue to add NEW
CHALLENGES almost daily including winners for those challenges, DT calls,
blog candy and more.

We are hosting this BLOG PARTY to say "THANKS!!" to all our followers for
their continuing support. We have joined forces with a very long list of
FANTASTIC SPONSORS who have donated images, store credit/$ vouchers and
Guest DT Spots to PARTY WINNERS.

There are 3 WAYS TO WIN:

1. JOIN THE BLOG HOP - Our blog hop starts September 21 at 9:00 am (GMT) -
which just happens to be the International Day of Gratitude -
and ends September 27 at 9:00 pm (GMT). Each DT member (we have both past
and present DT members playing along) will be awarding prizes at the end of
the week to random commentors on their blog. And commentors will also be
entered into a GRAND PRIZE draw at the end of the week. The hop order will
be as follows:

Please remember to follow the order of the hop so that you don't miss any of
the DT members’ posts. If you get lost along the way, please return to
FELINE PLAYFUL to find the hop order. Most of all, have fun and remember to
keep coming back to FELINE PLAYFUL for all challenge listings, etc. each
day.

2. FIND THE SECRET MESSAGE - Each DT member on the blog hop will share a
letter on their blog. Once you have all the letters, unscramble them to
discover a secret message. E-mail your answer to felineplayful@gmail.com All
correct answers will be entered into a draw for a GRAND PRIZE.

3. VISIT FELINE PLAYFUL - Enter your name using Mr Linky and you will be
entered to win one of our DAILY PRIZES. You only need to enter once to be
eligible to win all week long (but you do need to be a follower of FELINE
PLAYFUL please). At the end of the week we will also be selecting at least 1
GRAND PRIZE winner.

Add your name to Mr Linky and check back daily to see if you're one of our
lucky winners:

So what are you waiting for? Let's get this party started!!!

If you leave a comment on my blog you could win one of the following two prizes!!!!

A guest design spot on For Fun Challenges

And!!!!

3 Digi images from The Crafty Pad!

Wooo Hooo!

So the last thing you want from me is a letter!!! And that letter is .................. V

Next on your stop is the wonderful Karen Howard :)

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A little update!!

2011-09-12T10:26:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone,

I am so sorry that I haven't been around for ages. I've been feeling really under the weather!
But I do have news!

I am Pregnant!

Saw the little bubba on the big screen on Friday sleeping happily on its head. It was wonderful and I am very excited.

I've been suffering badly with sickness so I haven't been crafting at all and unfortunately had to quit all of my design duties.

But I am slowly beginning to feel better, and hope to be doing some crafting again soon.

Thanks for sticking with me.

xxxxxx

Its Blog Hop Time!

2011-08-15T11:43:00.003+01:00

Good Morning Everyone!
Its here! Its here! Its Finally Here!

Its challenge time at Lia Stampz and for our first challenge/showcase we are having a super mega awesome blog hop!

There are so many prizes on this blog hop it is UNBELIEVEABLE! You will be flabbergasted!
I am offering you a chance to WIN! this AWESOME digi

How cute is Ele!
In order to be in with a chance to win this you need to leave a comment on this post answering this question

Q. Why Do you like working with digital stamps?

Good luck! Winners of all the prizes will be announced on Lias blog on the 18th! So don't forget to check back there!

Soooo If you have come here from Ashley's blog you are in the right place! If not, you need to head to Laura's Blog.

Here is the blog hop order!
You are nearly there folks!!

1. Laura

2. Mo

3. Heather

4. Cely

5. Tina

6. Georgia

7. Sally

8. Ashley

9. Jennie -> you are here!

10. Lia

So as well as my prize there are sooo many others you will already have seen along the way!
You will by now almost have completed the mystery word! Don't forget you need to collect a letter from each blog between Mo and Me! So I am your very last letterrrrrrrrrrrr :)
(My letter is R incase you haven't got it yet)

Don't forget to comment on Lia' blog with the mystery word to be in with your chance for a prize :D

ON TOP OF ALL THAT!!!!
There is the big prize! And you can get up to 3 entries to that prize!

To get 3 chances for the draw of the big prize:

1. make sure you commented on all blogs - leave a comment on Lia's blog too with the secret word :)

2. let us see the LiaStampz blinkie on your blog sidebar - leave a second comment with a link back to your blog

3.Follow us on Facebook - leave a 3rd comment for that

So lastly.............

Onto our challenge! And our debut challenge is to Charm Us!!!

We want you to use Charms somewhere on your creation! Check out the blog for more details .

I used one of Lia's images called Asha with present. Isn't it just adorable!

I've kept it simple so that I can showcase the awesomeness that is Lia!My charm is a sweet little star that matches the black embossed background! Asha is ever so slightly coloured with my marvy pens to add a hint of colour!

I hope you enjoy the blog hop! And come and join our challenges! Lia has a lot of new creations in the works which are going to wow you! Our challenges will run fortnightly and you don't need to use a Lia Stamp to enter, although your entry will count twice if you do! We can't wait to see what you come up with :)

Don't forget you now need to head on over to lia to finish the hop!

Can't wait to see what you create and good luck with the Hop!

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

Divas By Designs: Birthdays

Craft Us Crazy: Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up: Emboss it (Black stars embossed)

MelJens: Use Black

Paper Pals: Recipe: 1 Designer Paper (Stripes), 1 punch (corner punch), 1 sentiment (sentiment ribbon)

Paper Play: Make your own designer paper (Black background paper made using embossing folder)

Southern Girls: Black and White with a pop of one colour (Purple)

OSAAT: Anything Goes

Craft your Days Away: Birthday

Card Making Mamas: Birthday Cards

Lots of Love

Jennie

xxxx

A new challenge and Blog Hop

2011-08-11T19:48:00.000+01:00

Hey everyone!

Just a heads up that a new challenge and blog hop will be kicking off at Lia Stampz on Monday!

Please come and join us! There will be freebies and candy and lots of prizes!!
We can't wait to see you :)

More Mousey Love

2011-08-04T14:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone!

Sorry for the absense! But I am back now :)
And I have a card to share, I made this before the wedding but haven't done a post in a while so here we go!

I made this for my cousin-in-laws little girl who was just turning 5! She loves pink and purple! The image is from the awesome Mo Manning :D Its called Birthday Mouse Flossie

The letters were painstakingly hand cut and mounted hehe! But its all turned out okay :)

I love this design of card, it always looks awesome to me and is such a doddle to make!

In hindsight the DP doesn't quit work, think I should have left it plain purple but that jus gives me an opportunity to have another go ;)

Its all finished off with some card candy down the sides and some ribbon along the bottom!

Oh and of course the image is coloured using my Coloursoft pencils :)

Hope you are all keepin well!
I'lll be back a some point with more creations.

Lots of love

Jennie
xxx

Blog-o-versary Winners

2011-07-25T13:12:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone!

Thank you so so much for all of you who entered my blog candy giveaway! I have now used the wonderful Random number generator tool thingy-ma-bob and have the 3 winners!

That's you Padster

That's you Anj

That's you Mel S

Thank you all so much! If you could email me (jenki2@gmail.com) with your email addresses then I will get those vouchers on their way to you :)

Lots of Love and Hugs

Jennie

xxx

Surprise! Surprise!

2011-07-24T09:00:00.000+01:00

Good Morning crafters!

How are you all today!?
Its another beautiful Sunday and you know what that means!?

We have another fantastic challenge lined up for you this week! You are going to be so so so SURPRISED!

We want to see a surprise somewhere on your card!

Whether thats a pop up or a flap! Just surprise us :D

For this weeks challenge we are sponsored by the Awesome Digis With Attitude!

I chose to make a Wiper Card using a fab tutorial from Split Coast Stampers!!

Here it is before the surprise! Using an awesome stamp from Lia Stampz called Snowman Building

So are you ready for the surprise!

Tis the season to be jolly!!! Fa la la la la la!

Isnt this image just the cutest! And the hidden surprise is a bit of added fun :D

So do pop over and join us you can find the challenge blog HERE. I can't wait to see your creations.

Recipe

Stamps: Snowman Building by Lia Stampz

Inks and things: Coloured using Marvy le plume pens

Papers: All card from stash. All designer Paper by Pink Petticoat

Odds and Sods:Gems from stash, Card Candy from Craftwork Cards! Sentiment by Pink Petticoat

Have a wonderful weekend!

Lots of Love

Jennie
xxx