My Time to Craft Christmas #023 - Christmas Treats

 A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft Christmas
where the theme this fortnight is 'Christmas Treats'

Sharing my design team card...


The details of the challenge can be found HERE

The products I have used are:

Personal Impressions wood mounted stamp - no name/code

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Ovals and Deckled ovals

DCWV - The Christmas Printed Paper Pack
Banner die - Magazine free gift
Promarkers

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My Time to Craft Christmas #016 - ‘Off the Page’

 A new challenge starts today over at  My Time to Craft Christmas where the 
theme this fortnight is 'Off the Page’

Sharing my design team card…

The details of the challenge can be found HERE

After cutting part of the front of the card base off, I then measured and
cut a piece of the paper to match, first edging it with a red
Promarker, and glued directly onto the card.

I mat and layered the snowman image and glued it directly onto the
card base, then added three punched circles to the inside of the card to finish.

The products I have used are:
Personal Impressions wood mounted stamp (Designed by Lindsay Mason) - P1251
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Rectangles and Scalloped Rectangles
EK Success Punch - Small circle
DCWV - The Christmas Printed Paper Pack

Challenges entered:
Krafty Chicks - Christmas
Passion for Promarkers - Christmas in August
The Holly and Ivy Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Something starting with O and/or P
O - Off the Page

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My Time To Craft Christmas Challenge #007 - 'Snow People'

 A new challenge starts today over at  My Time to Craft Christmas where the
theme this fortnight is 'Snow People'

Sharing my design team card...

The details of the challenge can be found HERE

I die-cut the image with one of the smaller label dies, and die-e cut the card base with
one of the larger dies from the set. I then embossed the card base with the
Snowdrops embossing folder.

Next I placed a blue panel covered by a piece of acetate behind the aperture.
Lastly, I attached the image with 3D foam pads.

The products I have used are:-
Personal Impressions wood mounted stamp - P1251F
(designed by Lindsay Mason)
Crafts-Too Embossing Folder - Snowdrops
Spellbinders Labels 3
Promarkers

Challenges entered:-
Christmas 24 Challenge - Snowpeople
Die Cut Diva’s - Window or Aperture Card
Dies R Us - Anything Goes
Merry Little Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks - Christmas 

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

Alphabet Challenge - 'V is for Vehicle'

Today, a new challenge starts at Alphabet Challenge 

where the theme for this fortnight is 'V is for Vehicle’

The details of the challenge can be found HERE

Here is my design team card...

The products I have used are:-
Spellbinders Labels 1
Personal Impressions Wood Mounted Stamp - P1236 Q
Craft Sensations - Hello New Day Paper pad
Promarkers
Distress Ink
Hand made card candi

Challenges entered:-

Double D Challenges - Looking Back in Time

Craftyhazelnut's Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Watercooler Challenge - Gail's 'Masculine' Anything Goes
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
The Male Room - Anything Goes
Scrapy Land - Anything Goes
The Happy Craft Challenge - Always Anything Goes
HLS - Anything Goes with Dies


Thank you for stopping today.
Janice x

Gift Box

After making the Easter treat bags, I thought I would try making a gift box.

As the Easter weekend weather was mainly wet here in the UK, I spent yesterday
sorting my wood mounted stamps, which I have had for quite a few years, I also watched

Sam from Pootles YouTube video's on "box making"

This is my take on Sam's one HERE
She makes some fabulous boxes, bags and containers as well as

cards of course. It's certainly worth popping over to her blog to take a look.

I stamped on my measured piece of card using Versamark, before
following the scoring instructions. 

I'm fairly pleased with my first attempt, but there's definitely

a need for more practice!

The products I have used are:-
Stampendous wood mounted stamp - Q130 Fresh Bloom
Art Impressions Leaf stamp - AA-1382
Personal Impressions stamp - Just For You

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles and Scalloped Circles

Challenges entered:-
Alphabet Challenge - A for Anything but a Card
Crafty Catz - Use Old Stash

Hiding in my Craft Room - Freestyle

Star in my Pocket Challenge - Throw on the Flowers

Brown Sugar Challenge - Spring or Easter
Pammie's Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes
Heartful Stamping - Anything Goes + A Stamp

Thank you for visiting today.

Janice x

'Less is More' Sketch Challenge and Design Team News

Today I can share my news that I have been selected to join the

Stinkin' Inkers design team.

I look forward to working alongside some very talented ladies,

designing a project every month for the blog's themed challenge.

So, now on to my card for today.
Over at 'Less is More', their challenge for this week is

a sketch challenge, using the sketch below.

Here is my card....

The items I have used are:-

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Daisies

(NBUS) Personal Impressions Flower Stamp (Wood mounted) - 604D

Stitched Banner die - purchased from eBay

Promarkers

Sentiment stamp - free gift with craft magazine

Misti

Challenges entered:-

Less is More Challenge - Sketch 21

Dream Valley Challenges - One for the Girls

Stamps and Fun - Homemade Flowers

Darnell NBUS Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

A Male Birthday Card

I wanted to take part in the latest 'Less is More' challenge, where the theme this week

is 'One Layer Card - Vehicles'.
I used a Personal Impressions wood mounted stamp of an old style bus, which I have
had for years. I coloured the image using Promarkers.

This type of CAS card was quite a challenge for me really, as
I love making 'Clean and Simple' cards but usually with them having a few layers! 

The products I have used are:-

Personal Impressions stamp - P1236Q

Promarkers

Sentiment stamp - Unknown

Challenges I have entered are:-
Less is More - One Layer Card/Vehicle

I Love Promarkers - One for the Boys

Cards and More - One Layer Cards

Stinkin' Inkers - Guy Talk

Watercooler Wednesday - Masculine Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

A Cute Christmas Couple!

Today I am sharing a Christmas card with you, which I hope will be the first of many 

I make in the lead up to Christmas this year.

A new weekly challenge starts today over at The Merry Christmas Challenge, where 

there is a new theme every Monday to make a card or a tag for Christmas.

Although I have the best intentions every year to start my Christmas card making early, 

it never seems to happen, so I thought this might be a good way to 

get myself motivated and to start early!

The items I have used are:-

Stamps: Penny Black - Snow Trot and Personal Impressions - Happy Christmas

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Squares and Lacy Squares

Sizzix Framelits - Phrases

Couture Creations A4 Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots

Promarkers

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

The Merry Christmas Challenge - Use your favourite stamp
Christmas Card Challenge - Photo challenge
Crimbo Crackers - Snowmen
Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Show Me a Snowman

CASology - Cute

Promarker Challenge - Spots or Stripes

My Sheri Crafts - Christmas

CCEE Stampers - Christmas

Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas

Penny's Paper-Crafting - Winter/Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge - T is for 'Two'

Crafting When We Can - Christmas

Thanks for looking in.

Janice x

Female Birthday Card

Today I have a card to share which I made for a friend's birthday a while back. I stamped the
 image and coloured it with Promarkers. I punched both sides of the strip of card going
across the middle with the border punch.

The items I have used are:-
Personal Impressions Stamp - Quilted Flower Hat
Spellbinders Labels Eighteen
Stampin' Up - Word Window punch
Woodware Scalloped Oval punch
Martha Stewart Border punch - Quilted
Promarkers

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

Cardz 4 Galz - Get Ahead - Get a Hat
Addicted to Stamps - Diecuts
Lacy Sunshine - Anything Goes
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with a Stamp and a Die

Thanks for looking in.
Janice x