Birthday Card for my Nephew

 Today's card is one I made for my nephew for his birthday which was 
just before Christmas. 

He is a West Ham United football supporter, so I made the 

card in the team colours of claret and blue.

I partially embossed the blue card using the football embossing folder
and added the scored lines using my Hougie board.
I mat and layered it to the claret card and glued it to the card base.
I die-cut the sentiment three times in the claret card, glued them
together to give some dimension.
To finish, I added some hand made card candi.

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion Embossing folder - Football Crazy
Happy Birthday die - Brand unknown
Hand made card candi
Hougi Board

I was due to post my Design Team card today for the My Time to Craft Challenge,

but sadly Shell has made the difficult decision to close the challenges for the 

next 6 months. You can read her post HERE

Hopefully it’ll be back up and running again in August. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

70th Birthday card

Today I am sharing a 70th birthday card a friend asked me to make
for her friend who loves cupcakes.

I went straight to the Dovecraft decoupage and matching paper set
which I have had in my stash for ages, and put the card together.
I added the dotted line and some diamante gems to finish.

The products I have used are:

Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique - 6" x 6" paper pack

Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique - 8" x 8" Decoupage Pad

EK Success - Photo Corner punch

Stitched banner dies - Brand unknown
Sentiment - computer generated

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge January/February - 'Anything Goes'

A new challenge starts today over at A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog

where the theme is always 'Anything Goes'

Sharing my design team card, using one of the set of

 Thistle 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.

I printed the digi paper directly onto the card base.

I stamped the sentiment using purple ink pad and die cut it using the

scalloped circle die. Next I matt and layered the sentiment onto a lacey circle
die-cut in purple card and used 3D foam to place it on the card base.

To finish I added some diamante gems and Glamour dust to the flowers.

The products I have used are:
Lozzy's Thistle digi papers

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Lacey and Scalloped Circles

Impression Obsession wood mounted stamp - Birthday

Challenges entered:

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

My Time to Craft #473 - Floral

   A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft where the theme

this fortnight is 'Floral'

Sharing my design team card...

The details of the challenge can be found HERE

I started my card by using the cut and emboss folder directly on to

the front of the card base. Next, I glued a piece of pink card to the 
inside. I then chalked the embossed floral areas with the pearlescent chalks
and added the die-cut sentiment.

The products I have used are:

Lux Craft (Hobbycraft) Cut and Emboss folder - Floral Border

Paper Rose - Happy Birthday

Pebbles Inc - Pearlescent chalks 

Challenges entered:

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

A Crocheted Throw/Blanket

Today, I am sharing a crocheted throw blanket I made for one of my great 

nieces for Christmas.

I decided to make it for her after she saw the one I made her Mum which
you can see HERE and liked 'borrowing'!

I used the Primrose stitch which I found HERE on
'Sarah's Rich Textures Crochet' YouTube channel.

I started by deciding how wide I wanted the throw to be, then crocheted
rows of the same stitch until I reached the desired length.

I finished by crocheting a border of two rows of half trebles.

I bought the yarn online from The Wool Box

using seven 100g balls of Stylecraft Special DK in the colour ‘Pale Rose’

I will share the one I made her sister next week.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

Football Themed Birthday Card

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for one of my great nephews who 

was eight last month. 

He loves everything to do with dinosaurs but as he also loves playing football, 

I thought I would make him a football themed card for a change, using some 

snippets of black and white card from my stash.

I started by matting the square piece of embossed football card 

onto black card and glued it directly onto the card base.

I die-cut the football border, twice in white card which I glued together,

and once with black card. After glueing it onto the football panel, I 

 paper pieced the black parts into the footballs.

Lastly I added the sentiment, number, alphabet tiles and punched circles.

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion Embossing folder - Football Crazy

Card Deco - Happy Birthday 

EK success punch- Small circle

Football border, number and alphabet tiles - Brands unknown

I am entering this card into Snippets Playground ‘Anything Goes’ challenge #419

Di has set up a new challenge blog for using snippets which can be found HERE

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My Time to Craft Christmas #025 - Something beginning with the letter 'S'

 I am back today after taking a 'blogging' break over the Christmas and New Year
period. I am looking forward to getting back to my cardmaking.

A new challenge that starts today over at My Time to Craft Christmas
where the theme this month is 'Something beginning with the letter 'S'

Sharing my design team card where I have chosen 'Skating'


The details of the challenge can be found HERE

The products I have used are:
Penny Black wood mounted stamp - Christmas Hedgie
Crafts-Too Embossing Folder - Snowdrops
Spellbinders Labels 18
Promarkers

Thank you for visiting my blog today, wishing you all a 
Happy and Healthy New Year.
Janice x