Masculine Birthday Card

I made this card for a friend to give her partner last month.

He owns a cherry red guitar, so I chose the closest colour card to use.

I came across the idea on Pinterest last year, when I made cards 

for two of my nephew’s, which you can see HERE and HERE

The products I used are:-

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles

Stitched banner die - Brand unknown

Sentiment - Computer generated

 Challenges entered:-

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

A Hand Sanitiser Holder

Over the weekend, I came across a sewing pattern on YouTube to make a 

very useful hand sanitiser holder to attach to the inside or outside 

of a handbag, rucksack or belt.

I had some material leftover from the bag I made HERE, 

so thought I'd have a go at making the holder.

The pattern is Diane's design from Spencer Ogg

and can be found - HERE

Her YouTube instructions are easy to follow and the pattern can be 

adjusted to a larger or smaller size to hold glasses or lip balm.

I then realised I had enough material to make a matching face mask.

I'm sure I'll be making a few more of these which would make great gifts for
friends and family. They are also a great way of using up any leftover pieces
or scraps of material.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Anniversary Card

Today's card is one a friend asked me to make 

for her recently. I went for a 'clean and simple' style of card.

Using snippets of blue pearlised card and plain white card, I die-cut 

the flowered heart onto a stitched square and glued it directly onto the 

ornate frame. I used 3D foam squares to raise the frame on the textured base card.

I placed diamante gems to the centre of the flowers, and then added

the sentiment.

Challenges entered:-

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippets Playground #383 - Anything Goes
Love to Craft - Anything Goes
The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My Time to Craft Challenge #437 - 'Summer Wedding'

A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft

where the theme this fortnight is 'Summer Wedding’

Here is my design team card...

All the details of the challenge can be found HERE

Since I don't have any weddings coming up to make a card for, I was lucky
enough to find this Hunkdory, Adorable Scorable set in my stash, called
The First Dance. It's from the Celebrations Collection and it allowed me 

to make a very quick and easy card. 

To finish, I added some home made card candi made from the sheet that 

the toppers were attached too and some gems.

Challenges entered:-
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Try it on a Tuesday - Summertime
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Love to Craft - Anything Goes
The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

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Janice x

New Baby Card

Last month, a friend asked me if I could make her a card to welcome 

her new grandson and this is what I came up with, something

clean and simple.

The products I have used are:-

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Rectangles and Scalloped Rectangles

Crafts-Too A4 Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Set - It's a Boy

Cuttlebug 3"x3" die - Baby #2

Docrafts Xcut Punch - Baby Feet

Sentiment - Computer generated

Challenges entered:-
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

A Vivien Project Bag

Today, I am sharing a Vivien Project Bag, which is one of the projects
 available to make on the online sewing course with Claire
at Beautiful Things Craft and Sewing Classes

This is a lovely drawstring, quilted bag designed for keeping knitting or 

crocheting projects in. When you pull on the drawstring, you can use

 the handles to carry the bag around.

It also has a very useful large zipped compartment inside,
which can be used as a divider to separate different projects.

It could easily be used as a wash bag too.

This is the second project I have made in the Silver Course, the first one,
a Travel Mug Bag can be found HERE

The outer fabric is a Rose and Hubble design - Tropical Lily on Black
which I purchased online from Fabric Love along with the green
cotton lining fabric.
The red cord is from The CheapShop in Tiptree, Essex

Claire's step by step video tutorials are really easy to follow, along

 with her written instructions.

In each group, there are six projects to make, as and when you want to.

I still have one more to make from the Bronze group, which is an envelope
backed and zipper tabbed cushion, but as we didn't receive the instructions until
recently, I thought I would make this bag.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #120 - 'Anything Goes'

A new challenge starts today at 'A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog'
where the theme is always 'Anything Goes'

Here is my design team card made using two of the set of
Pink Love digi papers.

Details of the challenge can be found HERE

where 3/5 randomly drawn winners will each get to choose

3 sets of Lozzy's papers.

After cutting both of the papers, I edged each one with a black

Promarker, which gives the effect of matting onto black card.

I stamped the sentiment directly onto the smallest square, and then used 

3D foam to this and the patterned square to give some dimension.
I added the black gems to finish.

The products I have used are:-

Lozzy's digi papers Pink Love
Impression Obsession wood mounted stamp - Happy Birthday (B5204)
Black Promarker

 

Challenges entered:-

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - The Sentiment As The Focal
Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes
A Place to Start - Flowers

Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes

Get Creative - Birthday

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Janice x

Golden Wedding Anniversary Card

Today, I am sharing the ‘clean and simple‘ anniversary card I made
 recently for my cousin and his wife.

Using snippets of white card and gold mirror card, I raised the champagne
embossing folder panel using 3D foam strips onto some mat and layered white
and gold mirror card. I then added the sentiment and gold gems to finish.

Annoyingly, I noticed after I had posted it to them, that the dot was
missing over the letter ‘i’!

The products I have used are:-

Lux Craft Cut and Emboss 6" x 6" Folder - Champagne Celebration

Lawn Fawn Script - Happy

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Challenges entered:-

Dream Valley - All Occasions
Dragonfly Dreams - No Patterned Paper
Incy Wincy Designs - Curvy/Curves

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - The Sentiment As The Focal
Pixies's Snippets Playground - Anything Goes

Cardz 4 Galz - Wedding

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My Time to Craft Challenge #436 - 'Christmas in July'

A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft

where the theme this fortnight is 'Christmas in July'

Here is my design team card...

All the details of the challenge can be found HERE

The products I have used are:-

Impressions Picture wood mounted stamp - BG01M

Creative Expressions wood mounted stamp - HH137F

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Ovals and Scalloped Ovals

EK Success punch - Three small circles

Promarkers

Since the text stamp is very large and my stamping isn’t that good, I decided
to ink the stamp and lay the piece of card on top, then gently used a brayer
over the whole area to ensure it all stamped ok.

Challenges entered:-

ABC Christmas Challenge - N - No Fuss/O - Over the Top

Christmas Craft Creations - Christmas Characters

I Love Promarkers - Christmas in July
Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions
Ike's World - Show Us Christmas
Shopping Our Stash - Christmas in July
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
Die Cut Divas - Christmas in July

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

More Quilted Boxes

To keep myself busy during lockdown, I made another two quilted boxes
for two of my great nieces.

The outer fabric is black-out blind material which was kindly given to me by some 

neighbours when they moved house recently, along with a bag full of other fabrics for 

making blinds, which I am looking forward to using.

I have used Aldi fat quarters for the linings of them both.

Two of my great nephews have asked if I could make them one 

for their bedrooms, so I am now on the look out for digger/truck 

fabric and Captain America fabric!

They are really very easy to make, and would make nice presents 

filled with a selection of bathroom essentials, make-up or maybe 

even some stationery.

I really enjoy making these quilted boxes, which I learnt to make by
Claire at Beautiful Things, on her Beginners Sewing class.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Z-Fold Card

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made recently for my nephew.

This is my first try at making a Z-fold card, after seeing a few on different blogs.

I followed a tutorial found on Pinterest.

Using snippets of the Papermania papers, I cut and glued two panels to the front
and back of the card base.

 I then die cut the letters from snippets of navy blue card and also gold mirror
card in my stash.  I glued them together by slightly offsetting them, which makes
them stand out more against the tan card and checked paper.

 The products I have used are:-
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Rectangles
Alphabet dies - Brand unknown
Docrafts Papermania Papers - Heritage Press
EK Success punch - Small Circle
Sentiment stamp - Craft magazine free gift

Challenges entered:-
Pixies's Snippets Playground #381 - Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes
The Paper Players - Fun and Fancy Folds
Crafters Castle - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Craft Rocket Challenge - For the Men/Boys
The Male Room - Use Die Cuts
Creative Sketchy Girls - Male Cards
Crafty Gals Corner - You're the Man
Scor Pal Challenge - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

Winter Wonderland Christmas Challenge - 'Hip to be Square'

A new challenge starts today at Winter Wonderland Christmas Challenge Blog
where the theme this month is 'Hip to be Square'

Here is my design team card...

The challenges are held on the first Friday of each month.
All the details can be found HERE

Our sponsor for this month's challenge is: Fred She Said

After printing the image onto white card , I also printed it onto a piece of copier paper.

I then fussy cut the paper image, used some removable adhesive and masked 

the image on the card so I could colour the background with distress inks.

I then coloured the image with Promarkers.

The products I have used are:-

Fred She Said - Dancing Penguin

Crafts-Too Embossing Folder - Snowdrops
Snowglobe die - Brand unknown
Promarkers
Distress Inks 

Challenges entered:-

Die Cut Divas - Christmas in July
Digi Doodle Studios - Christmas in JulySheepski Designs - Christmas in July
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
Merry Little Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
CHNC #496 - Anything Christmas Goes
2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes with a Critter
Crafty Animals - Anything Goes
Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Anything Festive Goes
Christmas Crafts all Year Round - Cool It!

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Female Birthday Card

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my eldest great niece

who celebrated her birthday last week.

Without realising, it turned into a bit of a ‘Docrafts’ card!

I do miss this company, as they always had a great selection of items on offer.

The products I have used are:-

Docrafts - Xcut Embossing Folder - Hearts

Docrafts Papermania - Typography Stamp

Docrafts Xcut Punch - Daisy 

Sentiment - PC generated

Challenges entered:-

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
Cuttlebug Mania - Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - Anything Goes with a Feminine Twist

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes
Crafting Happiness Challenge - Anything Goes
Cutie Pie Challenge - Layer it Up

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x