Neutrals

Week 57 at Less is More and Mandi and Chrissie are asking us to make a card with Neutral colours, not my favourites, it means no white! and I always start with a white card, well I guess its good to do things sometimes you dont like, so I have given it a try.

Sorry but not that good a photograph, no sun today! but the card it cream, and the colour of the branch is brown and the text is the same colour, the flowers are dark brown and for the centres of the flowers I used cream pearlised card, it doesnt show in the photo.
Sometimes my cards wont enlarge when they are posted, if anyone can tell me why this is I would be very grateful, lets hope this one will.

Royal Wedding thank you

I enjoyed a lovely afternoon yesterday following after the Royal Wedding, it was a party organised by the Church I worship at, it was held in the church hall, there were a varity of ages there from under one year to over 90. There were crafts for the children at the start, and then we sat down to a lovely tea, we all took a contribution, savouries and cakes, and our Rector is a member of the magic circle and entertained us. So I felt it would be nice to make a card as a 'thank you' for the people that organised it. I kept to the 'red, white and blue' colour theme. All three of the butterflies I covered with Rangers glossy accents, its the first time I have used them and am pleased with the result. The sentiment is computer generated using the Pristina font.

I am entering this for the challenge at Less is More - Thank you card

and for the challenge at Crafty creations challenge - White space

Thank you with daisies

This week for the Less is More challenge we were given a sketch to follow, I was inspired with Chrissie's card this week, she made 2 cards and both cards she made patterened paper using background rubber stamps, I dont have any of these so decided to make my own using many different fonts, and then printed it onto green paper. I made my daisies with a punch and painted the tips pink and the centre orange to match my centre band of colour. The top 'Thank You' was computer generated. Also for the 2 Sisters challenge - make own embellishments

Embossed grasses

This rubber stamp is from Hero Arts and called Silhouette Grass, it's been embossed with gold, the backing paper is from Papermania, and as usual with me the sentiment is computer generated, all backed onto cream card stock, and finished off with a punched out butterfly and a decorative corner, made for the following challenges-
Annebelles stamp challenge - cream
Flutterby Wednesday - Fairy, butterfly or angel
Crafty Anns challenge - Lazy, Hazy days of summer
Our creative corner - Embossing
Cute card Thursday - Any card

Thank you with flowers

I just love embossed flowers, I was blog hopping last week and came across a blog which gave me this idea, sorry I cant link you to the blog, but this is what I came up with and it fits the following 2 challenges. Just us girls challenge which was asking for dry embossing, and also Flutterbywednesday which wanted a creation with a butterfly, angel or fairy on it.
My flowers were punched out and the centres were a die snowflake cut down with a spot of stickes in the centre, the leaves were made with a leaf punch kindly lent me by Anne, the corners are one of the Prova vintage die cuts. The sentiment was computer generated and done in green to match the leaves.

Thinking about you

2 challenges caught my eye this week, so I have made a card to cover both of them

The first one was Dare U2 digistamp they were asking for flowers

The second one was Daring cardmakers they wanted us to use die cuts, all my flowers are made from dyecuts, the centres have a black gem, the sentiment was computer generated, and I also used Martha Stewarts punch for the border, the stems were drawn freehand, so not the best :)

Scrap-tastic

Saw a challenge to clear up lots of scraps on capture the moment and I thought what a good idea, so came up with this card, the flowers were cut out using a ProvaCraft die cut which is in the photograph, the stem I drew freehand using a whispers pen, and the leaf was cut out using a Woodware punch, and another bit of scrap green card I used for the scalloped edging at the bottom this was cut using scissors. The sentiment was computer generated.

This card also fits the challenge at Our Creative Corner where its a clean and simple challenge.

Gold Fantasy Tree

Penny Black challenge this week is asking for a Red and Gold card... so out came my Fantasy Tree again, I embossed it with gold, mounted it on gold card, put 4 red brads in the corners then attached it to my red base card. My sentitment was computer generated and again backed with gold card, the side of my card I embossed with my swiss dot embossing folder and to finish it I cut out gold stars from the gold card and attached them on top of the swiss dots.

Stamp Something challenge is asking for something that reminds you of winter, well the bare tree surely does that.

Blue and white Silent Night

Struggling making cards at the moment, too busy doing other things... but I saw a challenge on Stamp Something which was asking us to use bling, so it spured me on to make a Christmas card, the stamp I used is Silent Night from Stampin Up, stamped with Blue, the bling doesnt show up very clearly but the snowflake is in 2 layers one blue and the top one white and this is where the bling is!

Cuttlebug Lace Tree

I bought this embossing folder at Westpoint on Thursday, and love it. I made this card for the Pollycraft Challenge where you had to make a card using black and white and one other colour. First I embossed my lace tree onto white card, then printed my sentiment which was computer generated using red font. This was layered onto black card and then stuck to the base card. I used red whisper red dots on the tree and punched out a white snowflake using my X Cut punch, then a red snowflake and stuck the 2 together, and finished it off with a red whisper dot. Finally tied red ribbon knot and fixed to the bottom of the tree.

Handmade flower

For this card I used my favourite embossing folder the Manhattan Rose by Stampin Up, first I printed my message which was computer generated onto cream card, the font colour was chosen to match the backing paper I was using, it was then run through my sizzix using the Manhattan Rose folder, and the lower portion trimmed around the rose outline, so that the backing paper was revealed, the handmade flower was punched out using the same backing paper and moulded using my embossing tool, the leaves were punched out using a punch kindly lent to me by Anne. To finsh I stuck flat backed pearls in the centre of each rose.

This card was made for the Polkadoodle challenge where we were asked to make a handmade flower.

Embossing

Made this card for my friends 70th, the flowers were stamped, cut out and coloured, although the pink on the flowers doesnt show up very well, the leaves we made using my friend Anne's leaf punch, the corner swirls were from my new ProvoCraft die cut, the text was computer generated before embossing with swiss dots, this fits the bill for C.R.A.F.T.Challenge where this week they wanted us do use some form of embossing.

Vintage motorbike

Yes Im still here, dont know where the time goes! here I have made a card for a friend and Anne was kind enough to lend me a motorbike stamp which after stamping I embossed with gold, as I did with the sentiment which was computer generated. The design paper was one I won in a design competition months ago, the grid design was cut out using a cuttlebug border die trimmed slightly. I am entering this in the Allsorts challenge which this weeks calls for Vintage. Thank you for coming to look.
Jose

Happy St George's Day

I would like to wish you all a very happy St George's Day, and to mark the occassion I have made a red and white card the colours of the English flag, and for the centre piece I have put the Red rose of England, I hope you all have a happy day. I would like to thank Anne for lending me her leaf punch for the leaves I made. I used the Stampin Up Manhattan Rose embossing folder for the centrepiece, the font was computer generated using Park Avenue font.


Thank you for visiting my blog ... Jose

Pink Manhattan Rose

I expect some of you have thought I have left the planet, well Im still here, just been busy and no time for cards. But today I received my Manhattan flower embossing folder so I just had to have a play, I needed a card for a friend so this is what I came up with, and it also fitted the bill for the Cupcake Card Challenge.

Used my embossing folder with pink card stock, distressed it to bring up the white highlights, and used a flat backed pearl for the centre of each flower, the text was computer generated using Park Avenue font, and finished it off by using my hole punch on the same card for the tiny circles.

Thank you for looking .... Jose

Charlotte's teddy

Made this for a neighbours little girl for her 4th birthday. Its for a Pot Luck challenge on StampTV we were asked to use punches, Coluzzle etc..... but no Nestie on this challenge.

Thank you for looking ... Jose

Circle card

I have been really lazy this year, just cant get into cardmaking, and when I saw the Penny Black challenge I though OH NO! I have never made a circle card, but thought I ought to make an effort so here it is... I used an image kindly given to me by Jo she makes some gorgeous cards, Im struggling a bit using H2O's but they say practise makes perfect, well I can tell you I have a long way to go. Used my swiss dot cuttlebug folder for the backing card, and finished it off with a bow.

Thank you for looking

Jose

Fantasy

This weeks Penny Black challenge was Monochromatic you can choose Black & White, or you can go with different shades of one colour so I opted for browns. I used the PB stamp Fantasy and embossed it with copper.





















Thank you for looking

Jose

Sentiment only

This weeks challenge at Penny Blacks is to use a Penny Black sentiment stamp and no other images. So As I only have one Penny Black sentiment stamp it had to be 'Happy Birthday', I embossed it with gold, used yellow and cream striped backing paper and made my own flowers, the centres are stickles and finished it off with brown ribbon and some gold stars.

Thank you for looking

Jose

Red butterflies

Just bought a butterfly punch and had to have a play. I used K&Co backing papers and red and green card stock.

Jose