Life is better with friends (and sunshine)

Happy Sunday Everyone , I am feeling very reflective at the moment ~ still having those wobbly days. Although Lockdown has been tough for many people here in the UK we have been really lucky weather wise , being able to sit in the garden a lot , having windows open . I know the garden has helped me. Also our garden backs onto a field and we often see dog walkers which is good because out the front we would not see a soul we are in a little cul-de-sac with us on the end , even the postie isn't daily anymore.

Anyways on with my project this time a nice, bright and cheerful make

A card with a little tag 

Products used

JMC Digi Stamp Lady Bea

JMC Bee

JMC Tea Time Terrace Collection

JMC Stamplimentals Stamps

Crafty Ribbons Sheer Puff Dot - Lemon

Crafty Ribbon 3mm Satin Ribbon - Baby Maize

The papers were a freebie from a magazine , and the honeycomb was a scrap left over from an older project

I coloured up using Distress Ink Refils

Thank you so much for stopping by

Jmc Designs ~ New Release

Happy Friday Everyone

I hope you are staying safe and well, This week I have felt much better although Daughter had a scare with her work and they all had to be tested luckily all were negative. I've only had 2 down days which has been pretty good. I can not wait till Monday when my Daughter is allowed to come and sit in the garden , I know we have to keep our distances still but it will be lovely, so much better than shouting over the garden fence. 

Am here to share with you my second project using the lovely new release from the lovely Julia from JMC Designs

This Collection is

Ocean Fashionista's
There is a 15% of code available on full collection for 7 days
Ocean15 

I have used

Digi Image ~ Tiffany Turtle

I have given her a fun hat to wear which is part of the Jelly Fish from

Ocean Dreams

I have used other elememts from that stamp collection and also used

Ollie Octopus Stamp Set

I coloured up using Distress Ink Refils

I had tons of fun making up my card

Thanks for stopping by

Its all about the tags

Happy Monday Everyone, I hope you all have a good week

For my project this time I have revisited 

JMC Designs ~ Love Me Do Collection

One of my Favourite things to make are tags, so I printed some out and set aside to colour.

I wanted to make something very pretty and girly, so pulled out some papers to reflect this

I made my tag holder and layered up some papers so I could have pockets.

 I added a little piece of distressed doily, some roses that I cut from another sheet, a few stickers, a couple of chipboard butterflies , a feather and some little beads. A fun way of using up those little odds and ends that are lurking. I used Distress Oxide walnut stain for edging and on the doily.

I coloured up the images using Distress re - inkers

then attached some Pale Pink Satin Ribbon  to each tag and a slice of Chantilly Cotton Lace Penny to the front of the tag holder

Camille Amore

The images are available on the own, but with the complet kit you recieve a quirky house , all 4 girls and a page of sentiments (I have used some on my tags)

Doting Dora

Lottie Love & Betty Belle

I really enjoyed making this fun project, Hope you liked it

Take Care

I Would like to enter this into
Angie's Digital Stamps ~ Anything Goes
CD Sunday Plus ~ Digi
Dragonfly Dreams ~ Ribbon and Lace
Crafty Friends ~ Add Embelishments
Di's Digi Designs ~ Add a Sentiment
Crafty Cardmakers ~ Butterflies
Jan's Digi Stamps ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons ~ Favourite Colour

The Crafty Ribbons DT  are showcasing Favourite Colour  Ribbons this week

and  you could win a bundle of Ribbons colour choice will be yours to choose

Very scrummy indeed!!
Pop over to the facebook group and take a peek
My favourite colours change weekly, without me even realising sometimes.
I take a look at what I have created and think I have used lots of orange this week or lots of purple etc
This week its Blue, not because I am feeling blue but at the time of making this we are still in lockdown but the sky is a beautiful blue, I think the nice weather and being able to have windows open has really helped in this difficult situation.

I have decoupaged the cutest image , I adore it . It is a dufex A4 sheet that I got from Foil play
Farm Animals

The ribbon I chose is of course from Crafty Ribbons
and is from the Blueberry Jam Pot Ribbon collection
These are really, really great value
Thank you for stopping by today

In My Heart ~ JMC Designs

Happy Thursday I hope you are all well

Life is still very much a big bundle of mix ups

Thank goodness for Crafting

I am here to share with you a card I made using the lovely JMC Designs products

I started with a 6 x 6" card blank

Using a Paper from Curious Wonders Paper Pack this was cut to 5.75 x 5.75"

Then using one of the MDF Mushrooms from Hattie's Tea Party MDF kit

I used texture paste mixed with inks and slapped on with a palette knife and set aside to dry

I used the Stamp Set In My Heart and also the snails from Digi Collection  Toadstool Tots

These were coloured with Distress Ink Refils

Thank you for stopping by

It's time for tea with a canvas from me

Hello all you lovely people out there another bright day for me hopefully am getting over the days where I feel just blugh, think I just needed to give myself a good talking too lol

Anyways I am here today to share with you a canvas I made using oodles of lushness from 
JMC Crafts

The goodies I used to decorate my Canvas 

JMC Curious Wonders Paper Pack

JMC Wonderville Stamp Set

JMC Hattie Harris Stamp Set

JMC Completly Bonkers Stamp Set

JMC Late O'Clock Stamp Set

JMC Harriet Heart and Chester Stamp Set

JMC Hatties Tea Party MDF kit

 MDF Flowers and Butterflies  Samantha K

JMC Toadstool Tots Digi Collection

Cosmic Shimmer Wild Plum Glitter

Although I have used heaps of stamp sets this could easily be made similar with just one or two sets, I am just having a mix it all up kind of week.

I covered my Canvas board using one of the only sheets left from my Curious Wonders Paper Pack.

I stamped up my images and printed out the little mushrooms , these were all coloured up using Distress ink refils 

I painted all the MDF elements in Acrylic paints - Cold Grey (which is definatly Blue!) and Lavender. Once dried I stamped over with the little card symbols.

The four larger MDF pieces (card symbols) I glittered up.

Once everything was dry I glued onto my canvas

And stamped a few random sentiment's to finish.

Thank you so much for looking

Have a great day

I Would like to enter this  into
International Art & Soul ~ Flowers/Butterflies
Corrosive Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Country View Crafts ~ Tea Party
Love to Craft Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Creative Artiste Mixed Media ~ Anything Goes
Lavinia World Challenges ~ Anything goes 

WUW ~ Stampotique

 It's  word up weekend time over at Stampotique .

The stamps are super amazing and the Artists are so fabulous
You can find the Facebook group here 

The Challenge Blog here

Would love to see you join in and come visit your blog you could win an amazing prize!

Check out Pinterest here

Instagram here

You can find the store over here
For my project this week I have made a hanging tag for my craft room, I love to see some bits and pieces when I walk in , some of them are a little old and tired so I am going to gradually freshen them up and change a few bits
I started this project with an mdf tag and heart 

Using some modelling paste and distress inks mixed in I made my backgrounds on both just splattering it on with a palette knife.
I was very good and left to dry over night (only a couple of prods of the finger even though i knew it was far from dry ~ yes we all do that)
I decided to use Queen of Everything , I adore her
Coloured her up in Distress Ink refils
Rummaging around I found some old wooden flowers they were actually destined for the charity shop but I painted them up using colours to match my tag. added a few satin flowers. By this time I knew exactly which sentiment it had to be 
What? Never seen a diva before?
Adding a few sploshes of Nuvo Drops
Then I needed a hanger out came my Crafty Ribbons box
I used the lovely Wine Satin ribbon
Thank you so much for looking
Stay Safe

I Would like to enter this into
Aud Sentiments Challenge ~ Anything Goes with a Sentiment
Lavinia World Challenges ~ Anything Goes (must stamp)
Moving Along With The Times ~ Flowers
Fan 'n' Funky - Hand coloured image

It's all about the Glitter and JMC Designs

Happy Wednesday and welcome back to my blog 

I do hope you are staying safe and well

I feel a bit brighter today so how about a little give-away

You can win a free digi of your choice from the lovely JMC Designs

by simply

Joining (if not already joined) JMC's Crazy Craft Hive on Facebook

Finding my post and simply answer my question

I will use random to pick a winner

So here is my project for this week

I have so many favourites from JMC it is hard to choose just one 

So yesterday lots came out to play I hope I do not miss any off my list

Supplies

Curious Wonders Paper Pack

Hattie Harris Stamp Set

Completly Bonkers Stamp Set

Toadstool Tots Digi Collection

Sweet and Savoury  Digi Collection

So Tweet Digi Collection

I have coloured up using ink refils and a white pen for detail

and then used oozes of glitter

Thank you so much for stopping by 

Have a lovely day

Stampotique Challenge

Happy Wednesday to you all

I am here today to share with you my Challenge project for the wonderful Stampotique

but before I do

Some Important places of Interest for you

There Challenge Blog here

(Would love to see you join in and come visit your blog

You can use any stamps and you may win a great prize)

Check out Pinterest here

Instagram here

You can find the store over here

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This time the challenge is Artist Trading Cards/Coins
I decided on a trio of cards

and the stamps I have used are from the May new stamp release
Agatha Free Kisses
Butterfly Lily
Karaoke Love
For the cards I have used Distress Oxides with some random stencils, black/white posca pens for detail
The images have been coloured using Distress Inks
Have a lovely day

Freebie Alert ~ JMC Designs

Woohoooo everyone loves a freebie right, just look at this beautie!!

How stunning is she, she is a freebie from from JMC Designs and you can find her over at Kit n Clowder on there Facebook page!

I have paired her up with a lovely new set from MJM Design Studios,  Claudes Garden.

I have a few of the sets from there now they really are lovely and the bits and pieces are used time and time again. 

Here is the card I created 

I coloured her up using alcohol markers (yesssss I have dug them out have dusted them off!!)

and then using a few (yes you get lots) of the elements from the kit built up my card

I totally adore that sentiment 

I have foam padded her up loads so she really stands out

and finished off with a doodle and a few splashes of black paint

Thank you for looking and enjoy the freebie

I would like to enter this into
Use Your Stuff ~ Flowers and Butterflies
A Place to Start ~ No Designer Papers

Believe ~ Think Positive ~ Crafty Ribbons meets LOTV

Hi there, Happy Monday and welcome to my blog

I hope you are all staying safe and well

Life is very odd for me right now , one minute I am super fine the next I am crying my eyes out. Life is so very unsettled for everybody and we still have our Granddaughter staying with us goodness knows when she will be safe to go home to her Mummy. We have been told her school will not be open before September, so until then we will continue to home school, bake cakes, craft , eat far too many sweets and make lots of memories together..

So if your feeling a bit like I am then I have made you a card

How cute is that teddy he is called James and you can find him in the LOTV Etsy store right here, he was the perfect image of what I wanted for my card which was the message of Hope, 

This one is pre coloured and I decoupaged him up

I also popped a smaller James inside

The sentiments are also from LOTV Etsy store and come on a big sheet 

There really are some lovely images , including lots to colour I may have to fill a basket!!

I finished off my card using the lovely Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

Organza Swiss Dot Ribbon - Copen /White
Very yummy!! This ribbon comes in lots of different colours and perfect to finish of your projects
Thank you so much for stopping by
Take Care, Stay Safe

I would like to enter this card into
Allsorts ~ Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday ~ Anything Goes

WUW ~ Stampotique

 It's  word up weekend time over at Stampotique .

The stamps are super amazing and the Artists are so fabulous
You can find the Facebook group here 

The Challenge Blog here

Would love to see you join in and come visit your blog you could win an amazing prize!

Check out Pinterest here

Instagram here

You can find the store over here

This week I have made an ATC Card
These measure at 2.5 " x 3.5"
I do love making these

The wonderful stamps I have used are
Oncewholenomore
Barcode Text
Happy Tree (stars)
The background was made using distress ink and a black doodle pen
The yummy cake was colored using Distress Ink refils
Thank you for stopping by , have a great weekend and stay safe

Crafty Ribbons

Hi Everyone here today to share with you my Crafty Ribbons DT project for this time

I havent really been sending many cards of late , the poor posties have been so busy but this was one I had to make, I have a dear friend called June, her birthday is May 1st I dont get why she was not called May but there you go it always makes me smile

My friend has had a lot to deal with health wise so its a birthday that could not be missed

I decoupaged up a kit , I do love some decoupage

I finished off using some lovely ribbon of course from Crafty Ribbons

I have used the wine satin Ribbon to finish

Thanks for looking

Have a lovely day

Welcome to my Tea Party ~ JMC Designs

I was stuck for ideas yesterday I so wanted to craft but could not get my head around what to do , my mojo felt a little flat and I am feeling really tired ~ then a little leaflet popped through the door from one of my neighbours asking us to join them for a tea party for VE Day on Friday obviously safe distancing so we will each be on our own drives eating our own goodies etc

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So here is my invite to you , to my own virtual tea party grab a cuppa , treat your self to a cake and find out how I made my canvas below ~ I hope this gives you a smile today

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So that invite put me in the mood to pull out my lovely Curious Wonders Collections and have a play.

I decided on a canvas board and covered it with a lovely designed paper from

Curious Wonders Collection Pad

I am literally down to my last few pages so errors could not happen

I stamped out a few characters from the various Curious Wonders stamp sets

I coloured these with  Distress Ink refils and added some detail using a fine white pen.

I used a few elements from Hatties Tea Party MDF Kit

and then used some fabulous sparkly glitter on them , I love them they really do have the WOW factor for me

I stuck them onto the canvas Giving Hattie (the middle one) some backing so she really pops of the canvas. 

I filled some spaces with some of the little stamps I really do like the wee little club and spades stamp.

I used some of the sentiments and then used the little border stamp , stamped a few flowers gave them glittered centers and adhered them

I so hope you liked my virtual tea party 

Thank you for looking 

Stay Safe

I Would like to enter this into
Country View Crafts Challenge ~ Tea Party
Get Creative ~ Make It Sparkly
Crafters Castle ~ Anything Goes
Patties Creations ~ Anything Goes
QKR Stampede ~ Anything Goes
Arty Divas ~ Anything Goes

Stampotique ~ New Release

 It's May Release time 

over at

Stampotique

The new stamps are super amazing and the Artists are so fabulous
You can find the Facebook group here 

The Challenge Blog here

Would love to see you join in and come visit your blog you could win an amazing prize!

Check out Pinterest here

Instagram here

You can find the store over here
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For my project this time I have used the wonderful Stamp
Sparky Robot

You just can't beat a pink robot!!
The background was made using acrylic paints and a circle stencil
Sparky was coloured using Distress Inks
Using a black pen I framed him
Thank you for stopping by