Mojo Monday 159

I have made this card today for Mojo Monday # 159 Challenge.  I coloured this image a few weeks ago and never got round to making a card, so it was quite a quick card to make in the end.


Cardblank - Craftwork Cards
Cardstock - Paper Mill
Patterned Paper - Crate Paper - Snowy Day, I think they are called
Image - Lily of the Valley
Coloured with Distress Inks
Stickles
Woodware Punch
Martha Stewart Punch
Sentiment  - Free with magazine
Ribbon - Making Memories

My mum really liked the calendar card that I posted yesterday.  I have decided I might make a few more of them with different sketches and they would be nice to give with Christmas presents to family or teachers.


Thanks for popping by.  Your comments are very much appreciated.  Hope you have a nice weekend with lots of crafting.


I am going shoe shopping with my eldest daughter Shannon.  She does not like shopping at all.  I took her this week after school to look for a formal dress for her school formal. She got her  dress yesterday and now needs a pair of silver sandals, I think, to go with it.  Her school formal is on the 26th October and I made appointments this week for her to get her hair, makeup, nails and tan done.  One night out and so expensive. Don't think you would want to know how much the dress was.   Glad it is only once this year and once next year.

Mojo Monday 156 and Papertake Weekly

Had quite a busy week, so not much time for crafting.  Hubby back at work after time off with the shingles and not a great patient. Had to catch up on housework,  lots of homework for my daughters (my eldest is not enjoying AS English Literature) and Sunday School and Girls Brigade all started back this week. I help out with the Tinies section at Girls Brigade and taught P6 at Sunday School for the last three years, although this year I am now doing P2/P3.  Had some free time last night as my eldest daughter Shannon had her first shift at work from 6 - 9.30pm, my second daughter Sophie was at a friends house and having a sleepover and my youngest daughter Hollie was playing with her friend in her room.  I thought I would have some me time and a bit of crafting, as hubby was watching television and then trying to organise a weekend to Oulton Park for the motorbike races.  Had an idea in my head how this would work out, didn't quite happen that way, but I am pleased with the end result, I think. It is a long time since I have made an easel card and  I really do like this style of card.
I am entering my card into Mojo Monday 156 - Follow Sketch and Papertake Weekly - Picture Inspiration (I went for the colours turquoise, pink and purple, although I added black, so I hope that is ok).
Cardstock - Bazzill
Patterned Paper - Bo Bunny Sophie
Stamp - Elzybells (I purchased this at half price, but it is now further reduced)
Calendar - Paper Mill Shop
Ribbon - Doodlebug
Ric Rac - Doodlebug
Inpads - Versa Cubes
Flowers - Acccessorize
I was going to place the calendar on the top part of the card and a post- it  pad with a pen on the bottom part but the calendar was to big, so I made it just a calendar card. Will try this idea with a smaller stamped image and maybe it will work. When I was reading through the sentiment stamp, I realised I had missed the last line, so I stamped it on its own  and layered it.

Thanks for popping by, hope you have a nice weekend.  Weather here wet as usual and quite cold. We missed summer, now looks like we are going to miss Autumn too.

Mojo Monday 155, Pollycraft Monday 60 and Lily of the Valley 64

Here is a card I made last night for Mojo Monday 155 - Sketch, Pollycraft Monday 60 - Theme Christmas - No Red or Green and Lily of the Valley 64 - Theme - One for the Boys.
I received these Lily of the Valley stamps the other day and as they are my first set of these stamps, I hope that this image of James Bear with presents is suitable for the challenge.  I made the card in colours for a male card and quite like these together.  These are really old papers I have from DCWV.  I wasn't sure about the sketch, as I don't really like bows on my cards, however, I am pleased with the finished card.
Image - Lily of the Valley
Cardstock - Paper Mill and Bazzill
Coloured with Distress Inks
Stickles
Ribbon - American Crafts
Patterned Paper - Die Cuts with a View
Nestabilities
Woodware Punch
Sentiment  - Free with magazine

Sorry for not making any cards and posting lately.  What with getting the girls all back to school and getting used to routines again, along with Girls Brigade and Sunday School registrations, it has been quite hectic.  My eldest daughter Shannon also got a part time job and had her induction training on Thursday evening and starts work this Friday in Dunnes Stores (a department store) in the childrenswear department, which she is delighted about as she didn't want to work in the cafe. My husband has also been off work this week, not very well with the shingles and he is not a very good patient.  Hopefully, he will be back at work this week and things will settle down and more crafting can be done.
Hope you are having a nice weekend, whatever you are doing.
P.S. I have tried to link my card to Mojo Monday, however it keeps telling me to start over, don't know why.

Mojo Monday 150 - Contest and Papertake Weekly - White and Bright

Before I mention my card for today.  Guess what - I won the challenge at Winter Wonderland this week.  It was to make a card with no designer papers.  I won four digi images from Sassy Design Studios. Haven't really tried digi's, so this will give me plenty of practice.
Anyway, my card for today is for Mojo Monday 150 - Contest and Papertake Weekly - White and Bright.  Found this sketch a little difficult. Also, the Martha Stewart punch doesn't really show up on the patterned paper.
Cardstock - Bazzill
Patterned Paper - Junkitz
Ribbon - Mirielle
Gems - K & Co
Martha Stewart Punch
Image - Pink Gem
Sentiment - Pink Gem
Coloured with Distress Inks

Thanks for popping by.  Have a nice weekend.

Mojo Monday 149 and Pollycraft Monday Challenge 54

This is a card I have made following the sketch at Mojo Monday 149 and the theme of Love and Marriage at Pollycraft Monday Challenge. I hope this card is ok for both challenges.
I wasn't to sure about this sketch, I found it really hard, so decided on the Square option rather than the Round option, both sketches were the same.  As I was making the card, I tried ribbon, paper, etc for the three strips and nothing seemed to work. The card actually looked better without these, so wasn't going to enter it for Mojo Monday.  Left the card overnight, which seems to be getting a bit of a habit, looked at it again this morning and still couldn't think what to do.  Then I tried these little paper frills from Doodlebug and they kind of worked and helped bring out the colouring of the bears.  By the way, this is a free download image called Cuthbert and Kiki, from Pollycraft Monday Challenge for this challenge.  This was the first time I tried to print out a digi and I don't know if I will try it again.  On my first attempt, I had it all coloured and decided to add stickles to the bottom frills of the dress.  As the stickles was drying, you could see that the ink below was started to bleed, so in the bin it went.  Printed out another copy, slightly to large and tried again, with no stickles this time just in case. It was nice not to have get out acrylic blocks, ink and image, stamp and then clean and put away.  Although I think there is maybe more satisfaction when you stamp an image yourself, maybe not.
Cardstock - Bazzill and Die Cuts with a View
Patterned Paper - Die Cuts with a View adhesive stack
Pearlised Card - Paper Mill
Image - Free Download from Pollycraft Monday Challenge (Cuthbert and Kiki)
Coloured with Distress Inks
Computer printed sentiment
Paper Frills - Doodlebug

Mojo Monday 148 and Papertake Weekly

Before I let you know about my card for today, I won the challenge over at Totally Gorjuss this week.  The card for that challenge was my previous post. I checked their challenge blog this morning for their latest challenge and they had listed the winner of last week's challenge as me.  I was totally shocked.  I know it is random number, but to win was brilliant as I am only entering for the practice not the prizes, they are just a bonus.  I had to keep checking back a couple of times to make sure I was reading it right.


Anyway, my card for today is for Mojo Monday 148 and Papertake Weekly - Cutie Patootie.  I am sort of getting the hang of making a card to tie in with other challenges and it does sort of challenge you.

Cardstock and papers - Doodlebug
Flowers, ribbon and Buttons - Doodlebug
Sentiment stamp - free with a magazine
Ice Stickles
Coloured with Distress Inks
Image - Splashing Maggie - Sugar Nellie

Thanks for popping by and hope you have a nice weekend.  Weather as usual is wet, don't think we are going to get any summer weather.  Pity as The Milk Cup (football tournament) starts with us tomorrow night with a parade through the town of all the football teams and their coaches and managers and my second daughter is carrying a banner for one of the teams this year. The tournament lasts for one week and ranges from ages 14 - 19, I think and they come from all over the world.  I usually am a taxi service for the week for my daughters, going between the matches, although I also enjoy watching the matches as well.

1 Card - 2 Challenges - Mojo Monday/Cute Card Thursday

This is a card I made for Mojo Monday 147, following their sketch and Cute Card Thursday Challenge 121, which was to Get A Head Start (Christmas card).  I really liked the sketch, but found it hard to put a card together.  I had stamped larger snowflakes and backed them onto card and they turned out to be  too big.  So I the made rest of card and then made the small snowflake squares.  I  stamped my sentiment twice, just to balance up the card.  Again, I thought something was missing.  Must be my mojo that is missing.  Never really understood that til now.
Anyway my card for the two challenges, which I am entering into both for the first time, is as follows:-
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper Ribbon - Doodlebug
Glittered Cardstock - Die Cuts with a View
Snowman, Snowflakes and Sentiment - Darcies (purchased these a really long time ago, never used them and can't remember where I purchased them)
Coloured with Distress Inks
Stickles and Kars Glitter Glue
I haven't been really pleased with this card or my last card, so hopefully I will get a better one made over the weekend. Hope you all have something nice planned and the weather is not to bad. 

Hollie has asked me to put two more cards onto my blog.  Think she likes the comments.  The first card is for her daddy.  She used a freebie image that I downloaded from Pollycraft.  She coloured it with Papermania watercolour pencils, but forgot to  go over it with water.  Worked ok anyway as I hadn't heat dried the image.  Still haven't mastered the digi's yet.   Her second card was made using an image from a Kars selection that was purchased from our local craft shop, Crafters and Co.  It was very reasonably priced, I think £2.99, which for Hollie to use, is good value.
Cardstock for both cards - Papermill
Assorted embelishments that Hollie has had in a box for ages
Papermania Watercolour Pencils
Distress Inks for second card