Penny Black Water Colour with my new Misti!!

Something a  bit different from me today, using my new Misti with one of the Penny Black Bliss stamps and my Tim Holtz distress markers.

I love the way the Misti alllows you to colour the stamp directly and then layer up the colours on your paper.  I also used my water brush a little to blend the colour directly on the paper.  It's then so easy to add your sentiment without fear of messing up your main image!

This was my card for my lovely friend, Lesley of Grenouille Greetings who I stayed with in London a few weeks ago, always a fab stay!!

Hugs, Juliexx

A 1st birthday card using Baby Fairy Kiki

It was our granddaughter Violet's first birthday recently so I had to make an extra special card for our extra special little one!  I used the gorgeous Baby Fairy Kiki from Mo's Digital Pencil.  I'd already coloured her in with my Promarkers and then decided to put her at  the edge of water using some brilliant new stamps and dies from Marianne Designs.  It was only after I'd masked off Kiki and  stamped up the pond edge that I realised that she was floating in the pond, so had to change the grass into a Lily Pad!  I then added the clouds behind her, again masking her off.  I normally get clouds completely wrong so was really pleased how they turned out.

The dragonfly stamps are part of a stamp set from Marianne which includes the Lily pads and the frogs and dragonfly die cuts from another Marianne set - full deets below the next image.

Marianne Products Used:

Lily Stamp Set - TC0851

Pond Edge stamp Set - TC0835

Dragonfly/Frogs Die set - LR0461

Lily Pad Die set - LR0459

Lacy Doily Die - LR0457

Ribbon Border Die - CR1370

My papers are Lili of the Valley Nitwit papers and the tags and sentiments are from Stampin Up. 

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - Anything with Wings
Fussy and Fancy - Spring Time
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks - Punches or Dies
Cute Card Thursday - Spring Fever
I Love Promarkers - Angels/Fairies
Simon Says Stamp - More Than One Die or Punch

 Happy Weekend!

Juliexxx

Passion for Promarkers new challenge

Hey Blogland, it's time for a new challenge at Passion For Promarkers with a my favourite theme of Girl Power as our theme chosen by our lovely Hazel!  There's nothing I like better than than make a girlie card and with our sponsors being A Day for Daisies, what better than using one of their gorgeous girlie images, Vintage Lip Colour.  It was another dear friend's special birthday recently and the image was just perfect for her.

The frame is cut with a Fiskars 2 in 1 punch that cuts the corners and border- I love them, they make it so easy!  The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley and of course there just had to be some Marianne in there - the flourishes, of which  there are several!

LR0151- Flower Stem and Leaf

LR0414- Swirls and Leaves

The flowers and pearls etc are of course all from stash!

Before you leave don't forget to check out the gorgeous makes of my fabulous teamies here and then come and join in our challenge to be in with a chance of winning a yummy $12 voucher from A Day for Daisies!



Have a great day
Juliexx

Happy Birthdays and Happy St Patrick's Day!

So much celebrating going on here -  it's Violet's first birthday today, and her Daddy's birthday yesterday but I'll share their cards with you another time.  This card is for my lovely friend Sue who is also of Irish descent and born on St Patrick's Day (a few years ago now), so this image was just perfect for her!  She's called Little Irish Dancer  and even has gorgeous titian hair like my friend.

I love how this border die from Marianne fitted the pointed border on the card - just perfect

Lacy Border Die  - LR0385

Heart Die  from XL Labels and XZ Labels - CR1353

Hope you have a fantastic St Patrick's Day if you're celebrating!
Hugs, Juliexx

Hoppy Easter!!

Yes, not long until Easter and here on Mo's Dream Team we're kicking off the celebrations early with our a theme of Easter for our monthly blog hop. There's a riot of golden daffodils here in the Lakes at the minute and we have a beautiful border of them along the front of our cottage-I must get a good picture of them before they finish.  Anyway, that's why I chose my colours and daffodil theme for my card.   

Hopefully you should have arrived here from our fabulous Hellen's blog where I'm sure she had something wonderful to show you,  For my card I used the gorgeous Bunny Hugs - isn't she a happy little thing!

 I just love these daffodil dies from Marianne designs - as always my full list of Marianne goodies are below:

Stitched Rectangle Frame Die - CR1390

Tag Die - CR1377

Daffodils - LR0339

Chicks - LR0410

Right, now it's time to send you along to Kaly to see her no-doubt, gorgeous creation but the full list of blogs is below should you need it.

 Gaynor,Hellen, Julie,Kaly, Lou,
Olesya,Alice,Anneke,Daria,Debby,

Don't forget there are two $5 gift vouchers to spend in Mo's shop to be drawn from the participating Dream Team Designers comments so... make sure you pop in and comment on everyone's post for the blog hop to be in with the chance to win!!!

Happy Hopping!!

Juliexxx

Welcome Baby Benjamin!

Our lovely niece, Charlotte gave birth on Saturday to a beautiful bouncing boy- Benjamin and this is my card to Wilson family and to newly crowned big sister, Jemima!  

I've used the lovely Dede and Pod again, from Mo's Digital Pencil and matched them up with bunny papers in honour of our new Benjamin Bunny!!

The papers are a mix of Graphic 45, Bella and Boo, and First Edition, and of course there's some yummy Marianne dies and stuff, as below:

Woodgrain Effect School Slate  Die- COL1373

Large Bow Die - LR0447

Miniature Bunny Die from Baby Animals set - COL 1422 (all such cute dies!)

Ribbon

Sparkly heart and star embellies

I borrowed my friend Lesley's dies for the little bunnies hopping across the bottome of the card!

Well, that's all for today - getting ready for our little Violet's First Birthday this Friday - just where has that year gone!!
Hugs, Juliexxx

Lavender Card

Morning!  Today's card was made for my MIL for her 83rd birthday a couple of weeks ago - amazing she is too!!  The image is from a 12 x 12 page but I cannot remember the make, sorry but she is so lovely!  I've teamed her up with some Lili of the Valley papers and then loads of lush Marianne Dies which I've listed below.

Ivy Corners - CR1253

Lavender - LR0157

Foxgloves - LR0457

Large Bow - LR0447

I've also used a Tim Holtz die for the layer under the image, a wooden flourish and some lovely wooden miniature fretwork which I can only bear to use for special makes! I've also added some Vintage Lilac Frantage to the little wooden butterfly, along with Shabby White Frantage around the image and frame but it's not showing up to well in my pics but it does give a nice bit of shimmer!

I'm going to enter a few challenges today;

Fussy and Fancy - Anything Goes
That's Crafty - Bling It Up
Cardz4 Galz - Name your Powder - Shabby White and Lavendar Frantage
Crafting With an Attitude - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - For Mothers/Ladies Only

I'm hoping to spend the day in my craft room, lots to make!!
Have a great day whatever you are up to!

Hugs, Juliexx

Passion for Promarkers It's a Boy!

It's new challenge day today over at PFP HQ and we have a great theme of It's a Boy.  I had a flick through my Lili of the Valley stamps for my card and used this rubber image for a change.  Now I know this little guy's cheeks seem rather red and I was going to try and tone them down but our little Violet's cheeks were the exact same colour last week when she woke up, so I felt I could leave them!!

 I used a technique on the baby die cut shown to me by best matey Lesley while I was in Guildford.  That was to  cut the word out and then layer it onto some foam stickers and cut it out again and hey presto you get a neatly raised sentiment.  I've just noticed a bit of white backing paper that I've not quite removed but will do this before I use the card! Full list of Marianne goodies used below:

Bunny Die - COL 1422

Stitched Circle Die - CR1350

Baby Text Die - LR0217

Duck Rattle - LR0307

Papers - Belle Fleur - PK0105

Sasayaki Glitter are our sponsors this week and they giving the lucky winner a digi image  from their range,

Don't forget to take a peek at the makes of my lovely teamies here before you go!

Bunny Hugs!  

Juliexx

Mo's Pinup

I had the most lovely visit to Guildford last week and caught up with so many friends that I miss so much now I live up north.  In particular, my friend Lesley and her lovely hubby put me up for nearly a week and I got to play in Lesley's Craft Attic.  This is one of the cards I made and, funnily enough, I went Clean and Simple for this make with one of Mo's new images Pinup.

The sentiment was just perfect (from a new Stampin Up set, which Lesley gave me for a belated Christmas pressie, one of many gifts I might add - spoilt!) so kept it all very simple.

It's a lovely sunny day so far here in The Lakes, so I think I'm going to get out in the garden to get it ready for Spring.

Happy Sunday all!

Hugs, Juliexx

Anything Goes at Digital Pencil Too Challenge

Morning everyone.  My card today is for our new challenge starting over on Mo's DP2 Challenge, where as always, our theme is Anything Goes!

I've used the adorable Mags, doing a happy dance!  Such a joyful image!

I've coloured her with my Promarkers and then layered her up using a couple of Marianne Dies for the edged circle borders and the fern:

Lacy Border Circle - LR0180

Fern - LR0403

I love the stitched flowers which come from a Sue Wilson Creative Expressions set, and then all that was needed was a couple of Card Candi accents.

Do come and join in with the challenge - it's easy peasy with our Anything Goes theme, just remember the following:

Anything Goes with a Mo Image

                             Winners prize: a $5.00 voucher for Mo's online store.

Remember to follow Mo's Challenge Rules ...
use at least one Mo Manning image...
NEW creations only! (No back linking)...
And, please, only ONE entry per person!

And check out the Dream Team's inspirational makes here.

Hugs, Juliexx