Christmas in July....again!

Today, I have another Christmas card to share with you for 'Christmas in July'

....that makes four now ready in my box!

The products I have used are:-

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles and Scalloped Circles

Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Charmed, I'm Sure

Creative Expressions Wood Mounted Stamp - HH137F

Promarkers

Challenges entered:-
Creative Moments - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - Christmas in July

ABC Christmas Challenge - O is for Old (Old stamp)

Aud Sentiments - Christmas in July + A Sentiment

Die Cut Divas - Christmas in July

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - Die Cuts

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Shaped Cards

Dragonfly Journeys - Christmas in July

My Time to Craft - Christmas in July

The Holly and the Ivy Challenge - Anything Goes

Christmas Cards all Year Round - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas in July

Retarte - Anything Goes or Christmas in July

Deep Ocean Challenges - Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

Christmas in July

Today, I am sharing another Christmas card made for this year's collection.
Since there are quite a few 'Christmas in July' challenges running this month,
I'm hoping this will get me making a start on mine.

After cutting the mittens in red card, I then glued each one to white card and cut

around the edge. I used 3D foam pads to adhere them to the base card, and used the

snowflakes from the mittens to decorate the corners....no waste on this one!

Products used:-

Winter Mittens die - Purchased from eBay

Crafts-Too Embossing Folder - Snowdrops

Hero Arts Stamp C2856 - Christmas Greetings Message

Challenges entered:-

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Anything Goes

Die Cut Divas - Christmas in July

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - Die Cuts

Christmas Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Journeys - Christmas in July

My Time to Craft - Christmas in July

The Holly and the Ivy Challenge - Anything Goes

Christmas Cards all Year Round - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas in July

Deep Ocean Challenges - Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

A Male Birthday Card

Today I have a masculine birthday card to share with you. I thought

I would have another try at making a stencilled background using distress inks.
I have to say I am quite enjoying this technique. I now need to buy some more stencils!

I die cut two of the Happy Birthday's and glued them together.
I used a large 3D foam pad, (positioned under the star) to adhere to the base card.

A fairly quick and easy card to make.

The products I have used:-
Happy Birthday die - Purchased from eBay

Sizzix - Photo Corners #2
Inky Doodles Stencil - No name

Distress Inks

Challenges entered:-

Crafty Friends Challenge - Man/Boy

CCEE Stampers - Use a Mask

Retarte - Anything Goes

Crafty Calender - Anything Goes

Hiding in my Craft Room - Super Scraps Saturday

Just us Girls - Blending

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

Making Memories Crafting Challenge #7 - Anything Goes/Anything but Square

Today, sees the start of another challenge over at

Making Memories Challenge

The challenges are held on the 1st Friday of every month,

all the challenge details on the blog HERE
Today, you can see Design Team A's fabulous projects for the challenge,
then come back again on the 15th of the month to see Design Team B's.

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

This month's challenge is Anything Goes/Anything but Square

Our sponsors this month are:-

The Cutting Cafe - Prize is 3 Cutting Files

Cute As A Button  - Prize is 3 Digi Images.

Here is my card:-
Poor Fred....I gave him a pink bow without thinking!
I have a friend in the U.S. who just loves giraffes, so when I chose this digi image
I had her in mind to make a card for.
I'm hoping she will have received this card by the time she's reading this post!

The products I have used are:-

Cute as a Button Digi Stamp - Fred the Giraffe
Docrafts - Xcut Embossing Folder - Wicker
Spellbinders Decorative Elements - Lacy Squares
Die'Sire - Thank You
Scor-Buddy
Promarkers
Glimmer Dust

Challenges entered:-
The Paper Shelter - Going Digital
Scrapy Land - Anything Goes
Sunny Day Crafting - A is for Animals
Watercooler Wednesday - Feminine Anything Goes
Digi Chooseday Challenge - Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - Animals
Addicted to Stamps and More - CAS

Thanks for stopping by.
Janice x

Red, White and Blue!

There are quite a few challenges around this month relating to a red, white

and blue theme in celebration of Independence Day in the United States.
Not wanting to feel left out (living here in the UK), I thought I'd make a card and

enter some of them too!

I cut three of the stitched circles, glued them together to give

more depth to the frame, but still keeping it flat for posting.

The products I have used:-

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Circle Frames

Digi Stamp Boutique - Love Cake Set
Crafter's Companion 'Textures' Embossing Folder - Distress
Sizzix - Framelits 'Hello' set of dies
Promarkers
Glimmer Dust

Challenges entered:-
Simon Says Stamp - Red, White and/or Blue

Always Fun Challenges - Patriotic

Cards in Envy - Patriotic Please {Red, White and Blue} Card Challenge
Shopping Our Stash - Flag Day (UK)

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything Goes with optional red, white & blue

Come and Get It Challenge - Colours of your Nation (UK)

Dragonfly Journeys - Red, White and Blue-tiful!

Cut it Up Challenge - Patriotic/Red, White and Blue
Paper Sweeties Challenge - Photo Inspiration

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

A 'Clean and Simple' Male Birthday Card

Today, I have another of last month's birthday cards I made for my God-daughter's

husband, who celebrated his 40th birthday.

I started by embossing a frame directly onto the base card, then die cut two of the smaller

stitched label dies, and adhered them onto the embossed frame with 3D foam squares.

Next, I cut two number 40's, one in gold mirri card, the other in the brown card,

and glued them onto the label, slightly off-setting them.

The products I have used are:-

Spellbinders - Labels 1

Stitched Label dies - from The Works

Trim Craft First Edition - Number and Date Dies

Die'Sire - Happy Birthday

Challenges entered:-

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes with a twist of Embossing

Crafting with Dragonflies - Punches and/or Dies

Crafty Friends - Man or Boy

Little Red Wagon - Three of a Kind (3 dies)

Scrapyland - Embossing/Heat or Dry

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes with an option - Use Die Cuts

That's Crafty - Keep it Simple

Thanks for stopping by.

Janice x

Christmas...

As there seem to be a few Christmas cards appearing on various blogs that I follow,

I thought I'd make my second one of the year, as it is now July and I plan every
year to make an early start!

I cut the reindeer and trees die, three times and glued them together to give a bit of depth.

I also only glue the lower half to the base card, to leave the trees free.

I added Glimmer Dust to the sky, which you can't see very well from the photos.

The products I have used are:-

Reindeer and trees - Unbranded die from eBay

Memory Box - Stitched Borders

Crafts-Too Embossing Folder - Snowdrops

Scor-Buddy

Challenges entered:-
Crafting by Designs - Christmas
Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas
Watercooler Wednesday Challenge - Christmas
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Sparkle or Shine
Rudolph Days - Anything Goes

The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
My Time to Craft - Christmas in July
Christmas Cards all Year Round - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.
Janice x