Birthday Hugs!

Hurrah Its the weekend!

How is everyone doing? As you can see its been pretty busy this week on my blog, I think i've posted more the last 7 days than the last 7 months :D

So this week Doodle Pantry are sponsoring the Fab 'n' Funky challenge!
This weeks challenge:

'Lets see those bears' 

Laurie has some great images available in the Doodle Pantry store! I chose to use Cuddly Bear.

Such a versatile set! I decided to use it for a birthday card :) 

                    Image used: Cuddly Bear by Doodle Pantry

                    Inks and Things: All printed 

                    Papers: Kraft card from ebay, Green card from PapermillDirect, Patterned Paper from Doodle Pantry

                    Odds and Sods: Card Candy, Sentiment generated in word using font from Miss Tiina. 

I love this cute little image! 

I cut the grass out from the same print on some green card as I feel it needed a little more than just the waving bear! I think it works pretty well.

Do come and enter the challenge at Fab N Funky you could win some Doodle Pantry goodies! 

Take care and have a great weekend.

Love

Jennie

xxx

Love and Kisses

Good morning everyone!

Hope you are all keeping well.
So its nearly the weekend again, hurrah!

A few of my friends got married this year, its been a busy year with weddings and babies :)

I was searching high and low for ideas, I wanted to do something vintage!
So I came across THIS kit and used a great overlay from MelStampz to create the background from papers included in the set.

Here is the card.

I love how it turned out. I used glossy accents on the girl and the boy and used crackle accents on the two heart balloons. The love and kiss sentiment were printed and then silicon glued onto the card.

Here is a close up of the glossy details!

I used distress ink to vintage-things up a bit more!

I love how it turned out, I think the couple liked it too :)
I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Card Crafters Circle: Textures (The linen card, glossy accents and crackle accents)
Craft Punked: Anything Goes
Polka doodles: Square card with a circle element


Lots of Love

Jennie
xxxxx

Bubbles and Giraffes

Good morning everyone!

So, back before we found out we were expecting, my husband and I decided to book a party to celebrate our 5th Wedding Anniversary.... about a month after booking it we found out we were expecting... and so yea... things changed..

Once Luke arrived we confirmed that it was going to be a naming ceremony for him. Of course any event needs some swanky invites, and these ones came courtesy of my Pink Petticoat stash!
Using the beautiful Baby Giraffe and the equally amazing Bubbles paper collection!

I coloured the giraffe digitally before printing, a lot of them, and then assembling! Here is the finished stash!

And here is a close up of them!

Printing on linen paper is my favourite at the moment, it is so forgiving, my printer isn't the greatest and sometimes colour prints look a bit lacklustre! So the linen paper gives it some texture and is very forgiving!

So the giraffes were fussy cut and then silicone glued on some more linen card, then matted onto blue card, matted onto the bubbles card and then matted onto more blue card before finally being adorned to the white... err... linen card :)

Of course glitter was a must, the cute little bow tie has been sprinkled with some glitter :)
It fits in beautifully with the color scheme at Just Add Ink

The party was a great success, we had a wonderful, yet tiring day, and Luke was magnificent! :)
I'd like to enter this/these cards into the following challenges:

Dream Valley: Anything Goes
House of Gilli: Celebration
Can You Digi It: Favourite Animal
Bugaboo: Things with tails

Hope you're all doing okay

Lots of love

Jennie
xxxx

All aboard Capt'n

Good morning everyone!

Guess who is here, and not just with words, I have cards and EVERYTHING!
Its been a long time, and I'm just about getting my life into some sort of order... loosely!

My little man is now 7mo's old! He is growing so quickly, he is so wonderful and such a bundle of fun!

So anyway, back to the crafting, I am behind, like epicly behind!! And  I have some updates....

So back when I was blogging, you'll know Laurie Wilson asked me to Guest Design for Doodle Pantry.... well... she asked me to stay on so I am now a fully pledged Design Team member and I couldn't be happier! I adore Laurie and her creations she is a wonderful designer and its an honour to work for her...

So leading on from this... my first card is from Doodle Pantry. It was for the release of an awesome set called 'Piratey Ship'

This set is so versatile, it can be used on its own, or teamed with other Doodle Pantry sets, for example, pirate birdie and ant accents to name a few!

Here is what I created with it....

Isn't it adorable! I picked out the blue and red to use as a background, making use of the awesome template from MelStampz. The sentiment is from the set, and there are a few others included as well. I teamed this with a little bit of distress inks around the edges, and voila ready to go! 

I hope to be back soon with more updates. 

In the meantime i'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

I Did It Creations: Anything Goes

Dilly Beans: One for the Boys

My Grafico: Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes

Until then, Happy Sunday.

Lots of Love

Jennie

xxxxxxxx

Creeping by!

Eeeeek!!
I can't believe its a month since I've posted... I have so much to say and post!
Lets start things off with a list!

1. I am back at work, its hard and tiring but we're surviving

2. Luke is thriving at nursery, as are the bugs, he has already infected us all once

3. He isn't sleeping.... so we're not sleeping! Its operation Zombie in this house!

4. I am so sorry to my design teams Lia Stampz and Doodle Pantry.. I am an awful team member right now!

5. Please tell me it gets easier? I would pull those teeth out myself if I could! :)

Hope everyone is keeping well in blogland! I really hope we can get settled into a routine soon xx