Saturated Canary girl with Staffie

I nipped over to France recently (as you do!) to visit my sister who is out there doing up a gite and enjoying some late sunshine which helps with her RA.  I left this card for her birthday - she has a houseful of animals, in particular three staffies so I  had to use this image from Saturated Canary!

I used one of the largest dies from Marianne set Anja's Oval die set LR0376 and also an embossing folder for the mat underneath the image -  Flowers DF3401. Finally the sunflowers were cut with a Marianne die - Tiny's Sunflower Die - LR0361.  Oh and the fabric roses are also from Marianne Designs - love the denim feel of these.

Hope you like!
Hugs, Juliexx

Passion for Promarkers - Christmas is coming (in case you hadn't realised!)

We have a lovely theme of Christmas is Coming over at Passion for Promarkers this week, chosen by our fabulous Lisa, so come on, get those Christmas finished!!

I've used the darling Gathering Kindling from Mo's Digital Pencil and coloured her in traditional Christmas colours. adding some distress ink and frantage for that aged look.

The Marianne goodies have been out again too with the  trees and the Happy Christmas Postcard stamp - deets below:

Pine Tree Set - LR0370

Xmas Tree - LR0174

Postcard Stamp - CS0936

The tartan paper is from the Craftwork Cards Chalkboard Christmas pad and the rest of my embellies are from stash.

Our sponsors for this challenge are Letraset with a great pen set as a prize!

All I need to do now is send you over to PFP HQ to check out the fab cards of my teamies here.

Hugs, Juliexx

Mo's Penquin with Gift and a Knittted Penquin!

This was my card for Mo's Dream Team last week but my internet was down for the best part of the week and I hadn't scheduled it to post on my own blog, so here it is!.  This little fella is Penquin with Gift off through the snow to deliver his present!!

My papers are from the Chalkboard set from Craftwork Cards and then I've used the following Marianne Dies including a stunning new tassel die from them which I love:

Christmas Tree - CR1230

Icicle Border - LR0135

Tassel Fringe  Die Set  - LR0391

Winter Wonderland - CR1347

I also knitted the Penquin below recently for DD Holly - my first knitting in years and I rather like him!

Thank goodness my internet is back - obviously - so nice to be back in touch!
Juliexxx

November Blog Hop with Mo's Dream Team White plus One!

Hello - it's my turn to choose the theme for this month's blog hop with Mo's Dream Team and I've gone with White plus one other colour - blue is my choice.

I've used one of the fabulous Valerie  images from the Valerie in Winter set which is such great value at $6.75 for three digi images!

As you can see I added some chunky white frantage to enhance the snow effect and some Marianne dies mixed in with a couple from Joy Crafts (Winter and Half doiley) and Memory Box (gloves).  My Marianne Dies are as follows:

Frame - Petra's Birds - Catalogue No LR0351

Star - CR1226

As I am the start of this month's hop, all it leaves me to do is send you on to the blog of my lovely friend, Debby who will be sharing something delightful with you I'm sure.  And don't forget to leave a comment on each of the hop posts as there are a couple of $5 vouchers hidden to spend in Mo's Digital Pencil.
The full order of our hop is below - happy hopping!

 Julie, Debby,  Vili, Anneke, Gretha,

Hugs, Juliexx

Marianne Song Stamps

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These are just a few simple Christmas cards using a couple of wonderful Marianne Song Lyric Stamps.  I've simply heat embossed the backing panels with some snowflakes stamps and then done the same with the lyric stamps from Marianne Designs.  I've also used a little Marianne snowflake from a Hearts set  - details below:

Winter Wonderland Stamp

White Christmas Stamp

Snowflake die - from Hearts die set - CR1225

I'm so behind with Christmas card makes that I've got to make an awful lot more simple ones! And I've got to post a lot more this year so they need to be simple and flat to keep postage to a minimum!
Hugs, Juliexxx

Mo's Witchy 2 for our new Autumnal challenge starting at Passion for Promarkers today

Yaayy it's my turn to host this week's challenge over on Passion for Promarkers and I've chosen and Autumn/Fall theme - either image, colours or elements!  I've gone mainly with gorgeous russet and red colours using, this fab image, Witchy 2 from Mo's Digital Pencil.  I don't think she just has to be for Halloween!!

I took my colour combo from the Basic Grey Lucille pad that I've used and my list of Marianne Dies used are below:

Rose Border - LR0212

Large Ovals by Anja - LR0236

Anja Vintage Swirls - LR0231

Everything else is from stash!  

My PFP teamies have got some awesome cards to share with you so check them out here.

We have a great sponsor prize this week from Sassy Studio designs - four of their digi images!!

Thanks for popping by, big hugs.

Juliexxx

Crazy Bird Crazy!

My latest Crazy Bird design using the stamps and all the dies. Also teamed with Memory box dies for the sentiment and musical notes.

Not sure if you can see but his sunnies had to be glossy accented!!

Au revoir!!