An Update

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

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

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

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

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