Female Birthday Card

Today, I am sharing a card my friend asked me to make for her niece,
who enjoys gardening. I thought this Little Claire topper (which sadly they have
stopped producing) was perfect for her.

The products I have used are:-

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles and Eyelet Circles

Little Claire Topper

Docrafts Xcut Embossing Folder - Oak Frame

Sentiment - Free with Craft magazine

Misti

Challenges entered:-
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes with option of CAS

Tuesday ThrowDown - Embossing
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Always Fun Challenges - CAS
Cards in Envy - Pretty Pastels Card
Make My Monday - Embossing/Heat or Dry
Use your Stuff - Circles
Scrapy Land - Spring Blooms

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

'A Bit More Time to Craft' Challenge #42 - Anything Goes

Today, I am sharing my Design Team card made for the
'A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog' where the theme is always 'Anything Goes'.
A thank you card I made for my husband's sister in Germany.

The challenges are held on the 1st and 15th of the month where the lucky winners can 

win their choice of 3 digi paper sets from the very talented Lozzy.
There are lots of fabulous sets to choose from which can be found HERE
and they print beautifully.

You can find all the challenge details HERE on the blog, where you can also
see the rest of the design team's lovely makes.

Why not enter the challenge yourself to be in with a chance of winning.

The products I have used are:-

Lozzy's 'Grid' Digi Papers

Spellbinders - Labels 1
Pierced Label 1 style dies from The Works
Creative Expressions (by Sue Wilson) - Frames and Tags - Pierced Flags
Little Claire stamp - A Card Full of Thanks

Promarkers

Challenges entered:-
Addicted to Stamps - Make your Mark
Southern Girls Challenge - Favourite Colour Combo
Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Seize the Birthday - Two patterned papers

DL.ART - April Showers or Thank You
CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

'Sunny Day Crafting Challenge' for April - Theme is 'Spring'

Today, over at Sunny Day Crafting, the theme for our challenge this

month is 'Spring'

The challenges are held monthly on the 1st of each month, and we
would love to see your entry of any type of paper project.

Why not pop over to the blog and take a look at the fabulous
inspiration from the talented Design Team.

All the details can be found HERE

My card is one I made recently for a friend.

The products I have used are:-

Crafter's Companion Embossing Folder - Florabunda

Little Claire Topper

Woodware - Scalloped Circle Punch

Stampin' Up - Word Window Punch

Challenges entered:-

Creates and Makes - Anything Goes/optional Springtime

Crafty Cardmakers - Spring into Spring

Use Your Stuff - 'Spring is in the Air'

Through the Purple Haze - Springtime

Thanks for stopping by.
Janice x

A Male Birthday Card

Today, I would like to share a birthday card recently
made for a friend to give to her son. 

I like to try and personalise cards if I can, either with a theme, favourite sport or hobby.
She mentioned that he was soon to transfer his office from the house into the 

summer house in the garden, so this is what I came up with!

The items I have used are:-

Presscut Centre Stepper die

Darice embossing folder - Clouds

Memory Box - Stitched Borders

Little Claire Shed Digital Image 

Stamped sentiment - Lawn Fawn Scripty Sayings

Promarkers

Home made card candi

I am entering this card into th following challenges:-

Allsorts - One for the Boys
LIttle Claire - Anything Goes
Dies R Us - Outdoor Fun
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Anything Goes
Digistamps4Joy - Anything Goes - Use dies and/or punches
Crafting with Dragonflies - Summer Fun
Crafty Calender - Punches/and or Dies
Creative Playground - Fancy Folds

Thanks for looking in.

Janice x 

Another Card Sketch

Hello, today I have been busy making cards for one of my customers. 

Here is a birthday card made from the following sketch. A very quick card using a 

Little Claire topper which I matt and layered onto blue and silver mirri card, and then 

added some candi made from the design paper.

Here's the sketch.....

.......and here's the card.

The items used are:- Little Claire card topper

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:-

Ruby's Rainbow Challenges - Sketch It

Thanks for looking in.

Janice x