A Christmas Card you say?

Is it nearly Christmas? I've not posted many christmas cards yet.... to be fair I haven't made all that many! Draaat!

But this is an exception! Oh yes!
Doodle Pantry has the most amazing snow angels ever! This may be because the creatures making a snow angel just happen to be those cute little ants :)

Check these cuties out!

    Images: Doodle Pantry Snow Angel Ants 
     Inks and Things: Printer Ink
     Papers: Red card from Paper Mill Direct
     Odds and Sods: Glamour dust along that there strip of double sided tape

Cute eh?
The great thing about these sets is that you get the coloured version, for when you're in a hurry (Exhibit A)
and also the outline versions for when you've got a bit of time and can colour in! Plus they always come with the best most pun-y sentiments!

This card was done in about 10 minutes start-to-finish! Just great for those stock of christmas cards we all need to make! You get 3 ants too so the combinations are going to be endless!

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I'm off for my first, in a long line of christmas meals! Bliss!

Lots of Love

Jennie
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August Doodle Pantry Release

Pinch Punch first day of month!! And its also the day of the new doodle pantry release, and boy is it a good'un!

Firstly go check out the new release HERE 
It includes so many different images, christmas, ready to make PDF kits and back to school.... Talking of back to school this month's digi grab bag features back to school routines! There are some cuties in here!

And also!!! The Doodle Pantry blog challenge for this month will give you the beautiful new Crescent ants FOR FREE!! Yes that's right, download it and create something beautiful for the challenge! *phew*

I got to play with one of the new Christmas images in this release called Snowflake Sheep!
This set is beautiful. It comes with both outlines and precoloured Sheep and includes papers too! All this for $2.25.

So here is my creation:

Isn't the beautiful sheep adorable! I used the uncoloured version and then coloured it using promarkers. I cut out each of the little snowflakes and used them too. The sentiment is included in the set and is printed directly onto the paper. Added some pretty ribbon and hey presto! Instant Christmas card!! ONly 5 months til Christmas ARGH!

My baby boy is 4 months old today! EEek! Time is flying!
Speak to you all soon

Jennie
xxxx

Snow much fun!

Yippeee!! I have fab news!
The wonderful Laurie Wilson of Doodle Pantry asked me to be a guest designer again and I was so excited I couldn't refuse!!! :D

This new release is full of some amazing products you must check them out over at the blog!
I am showcasing the amazing snowball ants! They come both outlined and coloured with some cute matching papers!

I got to work with the coloured version in this creation! The coloured versions are such fun as you can create a great looking card really quickly, and now I have Luke time is sure short :D

Isn't it just so cute!! I took the 3 individual ant poses and created a scene! I then printed it and created a hexagon quilt using the hexagon overlay from MelStampz and the papers from Cosmo Cricket 

I've used red ribbon as a divider and some cute bakers twine!
The card is matted onto red card stock and then its all matted onto a white card blank!

I'll be around with lots more doodle pantry goodies over the next couple of months and I cannot wait!

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

Come and Get It Challenge: Bugs
The Paper Players: Christmas in July
52 Christmas Card Throwdown: Anything Goes

Take care,

Jennie
xxx

Another Week gone!

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

xxxxxx

I am sorry!

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
xxxx

Sweets for My Sweets

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

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

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

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....

Surprise! Surprise!

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

Cooking It Up

Its a beaaaaaaaaaautiful day out there! Happy Easter to you all!
I am just off out in a mo to have an Easter BBQ with my family! Just waiting for the simnel muffins to cool down :)

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

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

A Recipe: 1 Image, 2 Printed Papers, 3 Embellishments

We want to see any and all of your creations using this recipe combination!
This week we are sponsored by the fabulous Sylvies Creations and I got to use this little beauty!

Click on the piccie to go to the store

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

 

I'm joking of course!!! I couldn't resist this little cutie, and I know Christmas sounds like a million miles away right now but I always get caught up around that time and invariably run out of time to make cards!! :)

I watercoloured the image, the skin is AWFUL I know, I need to do some research, she looks deathly pale, like a china doll! Anyway, the rest didnt come out too bad! Its matted onto Kraft paper and then the 2 DP papers are from a set called Changing Seasons from PXL Cafe.

I added some card candy to the accents at the top, some ribbon accross the middle and a couple of Gems to the sentiment, which is a fabulous Pink Petticoat print off and thats my Recipe complete!

I followed this fabulous sketch from Sketch and Stash:

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 Wendy at

wpettifer@gmail.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: Festive Friends from Sylvies Stamps

Inks and things: Water Colours

Papers: Changing Seasons from PXL Cafe

Odds and Sods: Ribbon from stash, CArd Candy, Gems and Sakura White jelly roll pen.

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

Sketch and stash:  Sketch, and my new stash is that yummy BG Paper

Lots of Love

Christmas Bling

Evening all!
Its Monday again tomorrow!I wished that week away too quickly :)
I have another christmas themed creation for you tonight, and its using another stunning design from Fred She Said called Doodle-Dallion Snowflake.. Its gorgeous :)

Here is what I created!

A little unusual I know! I don't normally like cards with elements off the page! But I like how this turned out! Its like the snowflake is bursting out of the card :)

I added a LOT of bling to this card too! Check out the picture below!

Myself and the craftroom are now totally covered in the stuff! hehehe!
I took the idea for this card from the Challenge over at Tuesday Morning Sketches this week which is using the Folded Frame technique from SplitCoastStampers! Although I made it a lot lot bigger than the tutorial :)

This card has also been inspired by the following challenges :)

Craft Us Crazy - Brrrr Its Cold
Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Sparkle Glitter Bling
Shelly's Images - anything Goes
ABC Christmas - Double Trouble - 1 Digi, 2 papers, 2 embellies (Digi snowflake, blue and black papers, and gem and craft candy embellies)
Creative Card World - Use A Square (Square Frame)
PaperTake Weeekly - Putting on Glitz
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Foldback Frame
Delicious Doodle - Glitz, Glam, Shimmer and Bling
Guylous - anything Goes
Winter Wonderland- Anything Christmas!

Lastly!

The card Ingredients

Stamp: Doodle-Dallion Snowflake from Fred She Said

Inks and things: Printer Ink

Papers: Pink Petticoat Little Swirls in Air Force Blue and Black card

Odds and Sods: Glamour dust for sparkle, a blue gem from stash and Card Candy :D



Merry Early Christmas :D

Lots of Love
xxxxxxx

Joy To The World

Good morning Crafters!
It's Monday again! But Its Valentines Day! Awwwww
So today I have for you.................................. CHRISTMAS!!

I have a christmas themed card to show you today hehe :)
But Its not traditional christmas.. Its a modern beautiful, light christmas :)

Take a looksie!

I like the lovely colours of this design! Its from a set called Candle Glow Christmas Flower Set from Fred She Said. I couldn't wait to use it :)

Here is the close up of the additional blingyness! :)
I hope you like it!
Before I go on to the ingredients in this sugar sweet card I'd like to list the challenges that have inspired this card!

ABC Christmas Challenge  C - Clean and Simple and A Sketch

Creative Inspirations - K.I.S.S - Keep it Sweet and Simple
Secret Crafter - A stamped Flower
Totally Papercrafts - Clean and Simple
DYSU - Ribbon

Thank you all for your inspiration :)

The card ingredients

Stamp: Candle Glow Christmas Flower Set by Fred She Said

Inks and things: None

Papers: Candle Glow Christmas Flower Set by Fred She Said

Odds and Sods: Ribbon from Stash and some glamour dust :)


Until later xxxx

I'm dreaming in black and white

Good Evening fellow crafters!

I trust you are all well?
Well its good news here as it is nearly payday! The most gratefully received pay day's of all the months is January and I can't wait :)

Now this evening's card is following a great sketch at this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday



Gorgeous isn't it!

I also combined it with the challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge which is brought to you by the letter B - Black and White! The challenge is sponsored by the great Dustin Pike so there is added incentive to use one of his awesome images ( of which I have many)

So here is my card:


And here is a side view! :)



I added extra pop in the form of my wonderful Sakura Glaze pens! I couldn't live without those wonderful pens :)



Well I hope you like it people! As always I love your comments just makes my merry little day :)


the card ingredients

Stamp: Heartlines Snowman by Dustin Pike

Inks and things: Promarkers and sakura glaze pens

Papers: Little Big Dots by Pink Petticoat.... In Black :)

Odds and Sods: Card Candy used on the edges of the image. The snowflake is using an X-Cut punch and the ribbon is from The Ribbon Girls.

Thanks for looking peeps!
Back again soon

Lots of Love xxx

IDIC #37 Use Vellum

Morning Crafters!

How are you all this fine Sunday Morning.

This week over at IDIC we are challenging you to use vellum! Yup In any way, shape or form incorporate some vellum onto your creations and let us see them!

This week we are sponsored by the Wonderful Stitchy Stamps. Stitchy has an amazing array of Stamps to choose from so we were spoilt rotten this week.

I choose a sweet collection Called Cuppa Warm Pack

How cute is that set!?

So what did I come up with... well take a look!

I managed to use 3 of the stamps in the pack! The beauitful sentiment which I printed onto Vellum and then coloured the hearts.

The stockings which I printed two copies of and coloured in alternating colours. And the 3 baubles which I again printed two copies of and decoupaged the star and the stripes.

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.

Check out the awesome creations by the DT! You can find a link to their blogs on the right!

Happy Crafting :)

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Cuppa Warm Pack from Stitchy Stamps
Inks and things: All coloured with promarkers
Papers: The red gingham print is from Pink Petticoat The black card and vellum are from Paper Mill Shop.
Odds and Sods: The brad like adornments are actually my new shiny Card Candy which are from QVC.

Lots of Love Crafters xx

Dutch Card Lovers

Good Morning Crafters!

Hope you are all well today.

Over at Dutch Card Lovers this week the team are being sponsored by our own Robyns Fetish and I am guest designing for this awesome sketch challenge! I do love a good sketch challenge!

The sketch that we were asked to use this week is:

What a fantastic sketch!
Now i chose to use the gorgeous hot cocoa by Robyn which can be found HERE

And here is the card I created

Sorry It is a little bit dark, my craft room was very gloomy! :)

I printed two copies of the Hot Cocoa image and decoupaged the heart and the whipped cream topping! Yum Yum!

The size of the card is a 5" square.

And now onto the all important....

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Hot Cocoa from Robyns Fetish. The sentiment was generated in word.
Inks and things: Printed the heart using Pink Petticoat Gingham collection in Crimson.
Papers: The red gingham print is from Pink Petticoat as above. The brown card is from Paper Mill Shop.
Odds and Sods: The brad like adornments are actually my new shiny Card Candy which are from QVC. I love them to bits already :D

Thats all from me today.

Hope you are all doing well.

Much love

xxxx

Favourite Techniques

Good afternoon crafters!
I hope you are all well.

This week at IDIC our challenge set by our wonderful DT member Tammy is

Favourite Technique

That's right we want to know what your favourite technique is and we want you to use it!

We are sponsored this week by the awesome Glitterbabe Art and we got to choose from a few images.

I chose to use this festive birdhouse image and here is my creation:

That's right folks, my favourite technique, tried and tested and used without fail is the Easel Card. You may have seen my tutorial over on WDIAW at IDIC a couple of weeks ago. I always find easel cards to be effortlessly beautiful!

Remember with IDIC we give a freebie with every challenge also.

Just pick one of the images used by the DT (you can find the list of them on the right), 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.

Onto the all important:

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Glitterbabes Art
Inks and things: the image was pre-colored so it is printed straight onto the paper in colour!
Papers: The blue card is from my stash and the blue frame on the image is a piece of scrap from Pink Petticoat snowflake collection.
Odds and Sods: The ribbon is from stash! The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

Until next time.

Much love

xxxx