LOTV Mothers Day Card challenge

Here's my card for LOTV challenge which is to make a Mother's Day card.
I have used love heart prints from Printable Heaven, cut the large hearts with my fiskars template, used a heart punch for the corners, printed my own greeting on the PC, and used a Penny Black stamp and coloured it with my Whispers pens, and added a little kindy glitz glitter glue onto the flowers. I used a gemstone brad and some organza ribbon at the top of the heart.
I need to pop it in the post today and hope it gets to the UK on time for Mother's Day!
Jane x

Cute Card Thursday challenge - Food & Drink

Here's my card for the CCT challenge, the theme is food & drink and to create a card with an item of food or drink on it somewhere.
It's a 3d decoupage picture, the frame was made with my sizzix die, I've used some lovely paper flowers with a pink jewel brad in the middle. The background paper is from Printable Heaven.
You can't really see it but I have used kindy glitz glitter glue on the the bubbles, flowers and glasses.

LOTV challenge - Bright & Beautiful

Just visited the LOTV blog and thought I would enter my LOTV Jasmine card to the comp!
It's a lovely sunny morning here in Oz so I have taken a photo of the card outside hoping it will be better than the one already on.
The card is made with my Dovecraft wonderboard, and as you can see it's a three fold card, the first time I have made a card this shape. I have also made a tri-fold card with my LOTV Jasmine die cuts, that's on my blog too.

All papers are LOTV, I have used some beautiful paper flowers and added Kaiser rhinestones in the centre and on the front of the card. I cut out the words 'chat' using my heart punch and they are mounted with foam pads. I hope you like it?
Jane x

More LOTV cards

Here are two more cards I made a while ago using LOTV die cuts.
The backgrounds on the guitar one are made with cuttlebug embossing folders, one is layered onto silver mirri card, I painted a chipboard star blue, and the You Rock stamp is from Inkadinkado.

The other one is just cutting different shapes and mounting the paper onto silver mirri card, greeting printed off the PC.

LOTV cards

I haven't posted for a while but I have been making cards recently, here's two I made tonight using LOTV die cuts and papers. I used three Jasmine die cuts on the one card, the front says Birthday Girl Shop! the next one says Relax! Then the last one says Party! When I made the tri-fold card I knew I had to use all three on this card!
The greetings on the tri fold card were printed on the pc then mounted onto silver mirri card. I used my Dovecraft Wonderboard to make the shaped cards. Both cards are made from A4 size white card.
Hope you like my efforts at something new (to me anyway!)

Cute Card Thursday challenge 37

This weeks challenge is Snow + Snowflakes, i just bought my Miki & Kimi die cut set so i thought i would use it for this challenge.
So the die cut and papers are from Lili Of The Valley, the papers are layered onto silver mirri card, the snowflakes are quickutz die cuts and i have used silver rhinestones.
Hope you like it.
Jane x
Cute Card Thursday challenge

Lili Of The Valley in Australia

Woohoo! My local craft shop now stock LOTV products, which means I don't have to pay $23 for shipping from LOTV to Australia anymore!
Now I can use the money I would have spent on shipping on more goodies lol.

For anyone else this side, you can get LOTV stuff at www.frendz.com.au which is in Clarkson WA6030

Christmas cards

I made a couple of Christmas cards tonight, a blue theme one and a traditional red & green one.
The stamps are by Penny Black coloured with my Whispers markers, the blue paper is by Stemma, and the trees and swirls by American Crafts, I used quickutz snowflakes on the blue one, and Christmas lights rub ons and a 3D snowflake on the other from a local 2 buck stall.
I'm off to bed 12.30am now, night night. I'll be making more cards over the weekend.
Jane x

Spoon Full of Sugar challenge Challenge 25

The challenge this week is to make a card for a child, so I decided to use my new dragon stamps by Stamp It, the dragon verse is stamped onto paper from the DCWV Once Upon a Time stack, the rub on is from Paper Inklings, the wizard background vellum is by Studiolight, and i have used a gold ink pad on my chipboard stars.
My daughter wants me to make one with a purple dragon for a girls card next!
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Cute Card Thursday challenge 36

This is my card for this weeks challenge which is RED & GREEN, I have made a Christmas card as that's what I'm making just now as I only have a few made up for sending so I need to get on with things!!
Stamp: Penny Black, used Whisper pens for colouring.
Paper: American Crafts tree paper, green & gold glitter star swirl paper from Alison Ellis Design, the 3D sentiment is from Long King packet of stickers.
Rhinestones are from Kaiser. Flowers from local craft shop.
Hope you like it.
Jane x
Challenge 36

Design Team member

Last week I sent off photos of most of my cards and off the page items that are on this blog to an Australian Company that make a beautiful range of off the page products as they are looking for design team members.
Today I got an email back saying "Congratulations, you have been selected for one of our Dreamit Design Team Members for 2009.
Thanks for sending your creative samples. We particularly like your off the page projects. Great work!"
Woohoo! I'm so happy! I'm sure it's going to be lots of fun doing this and they have said if I get my work published in a magazine they will pay me, even better!
Jane x

Cute Card Thursday challenge 35

This is my card for this weeks challenge, the theme is Fairies + Angels.
I have made this card using a decoupage sheet by Caron Vinson, layered it onto starry green paper, bling from Kaiser and the sentiment is printed off the PC.
I don't think you can see it too well, but her wings and the moon are all glittery!
Jane x
I really need to go to bed now! It's 12.17am here! Night night x
Challenge 35

LOTV card challenge 7

This is my card for the Lili Of The Valley challenge, this weeks theme is a card for a Teenager.
I was going to use one of my Jasmine or Oliver die cuts but decided to do a card for an older teen.
I have used a guitar stamp by Inkadinkado from the Rock Star set, the stripy paper is from DCWV glitter stack, the music note paper is by Love Elsie, i have used silver star mirri card for layering, and the background paper is from Craft Creations. The sentiment is printed off the PC. Bling by Kaiser.
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Off the page

I decorated some cardboard bags last night for my kids and decorated a wooden Kaiser handbag album during the week too. I'm new to all this off the page stuff, but I enjoyed making them.
The other album I made a few weeks ago for a 40th, i bought a glitter spray for the 40 but ended up using glue and lots of gold glitter! I then sprayed it with workable fixative to stop the glitter from falling off.
Off to make some cards now.
Jane x

Forever Friends challenge

Forever Friends Challenge - theme 'With Love'.
This is my card for the FF challenge, I don't have any stamps yet so I made this card with one of the stickers that were free with a magazine. The sticker is layered onto white card then onto silver mirri card, the background paper is by Kaiser, the green paper is the reverse of the same sheet layered onto gold mirri card, which always looks black when you scan the cards.
I used a corner punch on the bottom of the card and used silver foiled sentiments.
Hope you like it.
Jane x

Crafty stuff!

I thought I would put some pictures on of where I do my cards and my recent purchases!
I have my own craft room now, in our last house I used to take over the dining table and we could never sit at it!
Now I just make a mess in here, the only bad thing is there is no door on this room, so I can't hide my mess! lol
I have also taken a pic of some of my Pocket Dragons that I collect and my ology books that I mentioned in my profile.

A spoon full of sugar challenge 24

This is my entry for this weeks challenge, it's a sketch to follow. I have used one of my Penny Black stamps and coloured the mouse with my Whispers pens and added glitter on the snow and puddle.
The background paper is a snowflake shimmer paper from Stamp It, and the other is from Kaiser, I have used silver mirri card, and some Merry Christmas ribbon. The little baubles are from a packet of Jolee's and the snowflake is a Quickutz die cut.
I'm off to bed now as it's nearly midnight here!
Jane x
Challenge 24

A Spoon full Of Sugar Challenge

This is my entry for the Spoon full of sugar challenge
The theme is Sparkle & Bling.
I have made a 3d decoupage fairy which is from a Caron Vinson decoupage paper, I have glittered her dress, wings and the moon and added my rhinestone bling from Kaiser, and I used a lovely sparkly purple glitter card.
Very sparkly!

Cute card Thursday challenge 35 & LOTV challenge 6

This is my card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge, this week is 'drink' themed cards.
I'm also using this card for the Lili Of The Valley challenge this week as the theme is a Christmas card.

I used a stamp by Stamp It with Santa on an Aussie beach with prawns on the BBQ and a nice cool drink of lemonade! The Merry Christmas from Down under stamp is from Stamp It too.
I used Christmas tree paper from Craft Creations, silver holographic card and red glitter card, with rhinestones from Kaiser. Oh yeah and some lovely glitter on his beard!

Secret Crafter challenge 5

This is my card for the Secret Crafter challenge number 5, it's a sketch but also you have to use the colours white, pink and brown.
The brown paper is by DCWV, I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on my pink card, the flower circle paper is from a mag pull out. I printed off a circle template from the net then cut the circles out by hand, then a strip of white card with pink heart peel off stickers down the side and I used a silver foiled sentiment, and I used the very cute LOTV die cut Fairy! Hope you like it, Jane x
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Secret Crafter challenge 4

My first go at this challenge, it's a sketch layout. I have used one of my Forever Friends stickers that I got free on a mag, the papers are from a mag pull out, Merry Christmas ribbon from my local supermarket, and a Christmas crystal sticker in the middle of the paper flower. I have also used red and silver rhinestones from Kaiser.

Motorbike card

I made this card the other day, it's similar to the one I made for a 40th birthday, I liked it so much I made another one.
The stamp is from Stamp It, the rub on's are from Paper Inklings, the picture is layered up on silver and red mirror card. The image is coloured with Whispers markers.

Just wanna say Hi card

I made another card today, I saw one of my Lili Of The Valley die cuts sitting on my table and remembered one of my new stamps says 'Just wanna say Hi' and thought the two went together well.
The stamp is from a set by Wendy Irving Paper Craft.

Today's card

Well today I made a sympathy card as I got a phone call this morning to say my uncle in England had passed away in his sleep, he was only 56.
I feel terrible being so far away.

The rubber stamps and flower are by Wendy Irving Paper Craft, I used bazzil for the card and layered up onto white & lilac card and purple mirror card, I stamped the butterfly image and then cut it out and shaped it's wings to make it 3D. The ribbon is purple flower ric rac.

Cute card Thursday challenge 33

This is my first go at this challenge, the theme is stars or something spooky, so I went for the stars since I recently bought loads of stuff from LOTV and the backing papers have stars.
I used the lilac star backing paper from Lily Of The Valley and their dragon die cut, and chipboard stars inked up in purple.
I hope you like it!

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Kombi card

This is a card I made last night using a stamp by Little Claire and it's coloured with Whispers markers, the background paper is by DCWV, I have also used silver mirror card and purple glitter card, the flower is chipboard and I made it purple with my ink pad and popped a Kaiser rhinestone in the middle.

LOTV card challenge

This is my second card I have made for the Lili Of The Valley card challenge, the theme is red, gold and green so I ended up doing a Christmas card!
The stamp is by Penny Black which is coloured in with my Whispers markers and a blender pen, everything is layered onto mirror card, I used cream & gold ribbon and I used a Merry Christmas envelope seal which I stuck onto white card and then mounted with a foam pad. The rhinestones are from Kaiser.