Berry Fairy Aliz

Happy weekend people!!  I forgot it was Saturday today - the days just seem to roll into each other at the minute.  It's hard to believe it's only April too - the weather has been like high summer so we've been spending lots of time in the garden, although no strawberries yet of course!

This little sweetie is Berry Fairy Aliz from Mo's Digital Pencil - good enough to eat!! (And you can get the pre-coloured image here!).

The papers are from Nitwit and the gorgeous strawberry dies are from Marianne Designs, as is the lovely corner die - deets below.

Marianne Products Used

Strawberry Dies - LR0510 

Grass Die - LR0623

Floral Corner Die- LR0428

The little Sentiment is from a PTI set.

Right, I need to get dressed and get cracking in the garden while the sun is still shining!!

Enjoy your day everyone.

Hugs, Juliexx

Robot card for Something New Challenge starting at Passion for Promarkers

It's time for our new challenge starting at PFP today with a fab theme of Something New as chosen by our lovely Ali.  So it could be a new home card, a new baby card or, as I have done, used something new in my stash which was this fab Robot image from Mo's Digital Pencil - Bip Bip Birthday.  The Robot die from Marianne Designs is also new to me and comes with a great set of stamps including the little lightning bolts and the beep beeps words.

I've hinged the die cut robot and stuck him inside my card as a little surprise.  I also added the googly eyes, which makes him look a bit manic!!

The frame around the image is also from Marianne while you may recognise the papers from Marianne which have been in my stash for years and are just perfect for this image! Details for the Marianne stuff are below:

Robot Die/Stamp Set - COL1403

Wood Frame = CR1348

 Our sponsor this week is the fabulous DigiStamp Boutique and the winner will receive a rather nice £10 voucher to spend in their store!



Before you go, don't forget to check out the gorgeous makes of my PFP teamies here,
Hugs Juliexx

Last Challenge of the year over on Digital Pencil Too - Anything Goes as always

Today's card is for our new challenge that has just started over at Digital Pencil Too- it's our last one for 2016 so come and join us, we have our usual nice and easy theme of Anything Goes!!

I've used Fairy Snowman for my card and I wanted to create a frosty, wintery vibe but not sure it turned out quite how I imagined.  My papers are from a Joy winter pad, and then I've used Aged Silver Frantage and silver mica pieces.  The Winter Wonderland  sentiment is a trusty favourite die from Marianne - CR1347.

You can check out the fabulous makes of my teamies here.

Elephant

I forgot I hadn't posted this and an elephant never forgets!!  My daughter loves  Elephants so this was her birthday card back in May.  The image was a freebie with a magazine and I tried to conjure up and indian vibe to match the elephant's costune.

The papers are My  Mind's Eye and  I've used the following Marianne items:

Frame/Flourish- LR0236 - Large Ovals by Anja

Rolled Flowers - LR0256

Get well card with magazine freebie!

Did you manage to get this die and stamp combo free with Simply Cards and Papercraft (issue 149)?  I love the overlaying of ink with this set and made a shabby chic style get well card ( for my SIL, who has now gotten well!).

I used a favourite Marianne Design lacy border for the circle - (Basic Round - CR1331)

The sentiment is from Stamping Up, and I didn't have the right colour seam binding so coloured it with Tattered Rose Distress Ink.

I've not been making any cards this last week as we've been decorating my new craft room and moving all my stash in!!  I am so delighted it with it but am waiting for some storage boxes to arrive so will post some pics when they're all in place!!

Happy Bank Holiday weekend UK crafters!

Hugs, Juliexx

How to be a Wizard from Mo

Just hopping on quickly to share my card using, Mo's How To Be A Wizard, such a great little guy card.

I've coloured him with Promarkers, used a LOTV sentiment, and some Marianne Dies.  It's not often this happens, but I wanted a star shape for the sentiment and then used the waste centre of a really ornate large star die from Marianne (LR0369).  I also used a Marianne die for the star banner (CR1294), and their book die (LR0253) which I stamped with a Kaisercraft script stamp.

I had thought this image would be perfect for my 4 year old, great-nephew, Sam and his recent birthday, but I've been informed that he doesn't like wizards and mum had to put one in the freezers at Sainsburys!  LOL, love him!

That's all from me for now.

Hugs, Juliexx

Mo's Bake Me a Cake and new Marianne Die

Morning from a cold and miserable day in the Lakes!  DD no 3 has just arrived with three friends to camp out for the week, but they're currently taking refuge in the conservatory as the weather is so pants!  British Summertime eh!

On to today's card and this is the yummy Bake Me a Cake from Mo's Digital Pencil. And I just had to use this new pop-up card die from Marianne Designs.  I love the design of the oval frames that come with it too!  And of course, my utensil dies and little pan holder are just perfect accessories for my theme.  Details of my Marianne Dies below:

Oval and Pop Up Die set - LR0371

Utensil Set - CR1247

A little close up below of the whisk, spatula and oven pad along with the pretty doily papers from Dovecraft.

And a side view showing the popped-up image and the Lili of the Valley sentiment matted onto a Cheery Lynn doily die cut.

Think I might need to go and put socks and a jumper on, it's so chilly here!  

Keep warm folks!

Hugs, Juliexx

It's Christmas in May at Mo's Dream Team - come join in our hop!

It may seem early to be making Christmas cards but never too early, right? And anyway, we had hail stones up here in Cumbria yesterday, so I think we can get away with it!! 

So, this month's blog hop theme has been chosen by our gorgeous Heidy - and hopefully this is where you started hopping from! Otherwise, you should have hopped to me from our lovely Gretha's blog where I just know she shared something wonderful with you!  The full order of the hop is below should you get lost along the way.

  Heidy, Alice, Anneke, Kaly,Gretha, Julie, Debby

I love Mo's Valerie series of images, and I especially love her winter/Christmas versions so the one I've used is Valerie with Snowman from the brilliant set  of three images,  Valerie in Winter.

I've coloured her with my Pro and Flex markers and then used some fab Scrapberry Winter Joy papers.

And then came the dies - lots of scrummy Marianne Dies of course, as follows:

Image cut with largest die from Large Ovals by Anja set - LR0236

Snowman - LR0246

Holly Branches - LR0244

Poinsettia Flower - LR0121 and LR0122

Large Snowflake - LR0185

Small Snowflakes -  from set CR1252 

Your next stop on the Hop is over to our lovely Debby, with another wonderful Christmas make.

I hope you're enjoying our hop and thank you for stopping by -oooh and don't forget to leave a comment on each blog on the hop as there are two $5 dollar vouchers hidden somewhere along the way and one could be yours!!

Hugs, Juliexxx

Passion for Promarkers Blues and Purples

Our daughters visited us at the weekend to celebrate Holly's birthday later this week.  I made this card because she loves purples and then discovered that the colour theme fitted perfectly with this week's Passion for Promarkers colour challenge - lucky that as I'd run out of time to make my DT card!  (I think I must have know subconsciously.)  This is the colour palette below as chosen by our wonderful Lou!

My image is an oldie from my  Sugar Nellie stash, and a delight to colour.

Behind the image, I've use a heart die combo from Marianne Designs - CR1225.

I added some Spellbinders curved edged borders and sentiments cut with dies from Paper Trey Ink. The large flowers were  from best matey, Lesley, and the rest from stash.

Our fab sponsors for this week's challenge are Bugaboo Stamps who are offering our lucky winner a $21 voucher to spend with them!


Don't forget to check out the gorgeous makes of my PFP teamies here - thanks for popping by!!
Juliexxx

And I'm back although my mojo doesn't seem to be!

Yes, here I am, having moved from London to the Lake District at the beginning of January.  I was so happy to get my craft room all set up last week and was raring to go and really enjoyed making this new baby card for my niece who gave birth to little Joshua a couple of weeks ago but since then - nothing!!  Maybe because I have so much else to do and think about at the minute.  

Anyhoo, today's card is for our new challenge at Passion For Promarkers which starts today which is One for the Boys as chosen by our lovely Marie.  Lucky my niece had a boy then - congratulations Harrisons!!

My image is a new one from Mo's Digital Pencil called Laundry Day which you can find here as well as lots of other gorgeous new digital images to tempt you!  I feel my colouring has got a bit rusty too so really must try and get some more practise in.  I've used lots of lovely Marianne Dies including the letters from a new Alphabet  Banner set (LR0340), the Baby word and Safety Pins (LR0217) and the fabulous Anja Squares (LR0242) of which I've used the two outer dies.

The star dies were from a magazine freebie and the sentiment is from Inkadinkado, oh and my papers are First Edition It's a Boy!

I must remember to post up some pictures of our new home and our little business attached to it - we have a holiday cottage to let but for now a couple of pictures of the view from our garden with the recent snow, and a lovely winter walk the other day.

We have two sponsors for this week's challenge - Letraset and Polkadoodles:

The prize from Letraset is a 12 pen Manga set

and Polkadoodles are giving two digi images to a lucky entrant!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the team's fab makes here and then don't forget to come and join in our challenge this week.  I'm looking forward to getting back to blogging even if not making stuff!

Hugs, Juliexx

Sketch and Stash and my final Christmas card!

This should be my last Christmas card of the year and it's for our final challenge of the year at Sketch N Stash.  Our sketch for this fortnight's challenge is below and I've flipped and rotated it to suit my image better!

The fab digi  image is from our sponsor this month, Delicious Doodles and it's called  On A Winter's Day.  I printed it out on watercolour paper and coloured it with my distress markers.

 We're going to be living in a very small hamlet in the new year and this rather reminded me of the feel of it!! I've added some Marianne dies including the poinsettia die. the top flourish and the Love die- I quite like how the little robin is sited in the middle of the'O' - a happy accident!  I've then highlighted with lots of stickles to capture that cold, crisp, snowy feeling!

As mentioned we're being sponsored by Delicious Doodles and also Ooh La La creations!

sponsor - Ooh La La

Prize - Any CD of winners choice

&

Sponsor - Delicious Doodles

Prize -  4 images

Hope you'll join us for our final challenge of the year - oh and don't forget to leave some love for my fab teamies - check out their cards here!

Happy Christmas Week Everyone!!

Juliexxx

Stampin Up Robins

Several years ago now I was a member of a Stampin Up Stampers 10 group which met regularly but as I lived too far away, I couldn't go to the classes but got the card pieces each week to make up the card in question!!  I've never done anything with the card kits so decided to hunt them out to use some of the papers etc to make some Christmas cards.  Joanne the SU demonstrator made these gorgeous robins out of round punches and petal punches - I've added the link here for you to see how easy they are to make.   It doesn't look like Joanne's blog is active anymore but you can still get lots of amazing ideas for cards, especially flowers on her blog. You'll see that I've added my own twist, with this Marianne branch die instead of a flourish stamp for my robins to perch on.  I've also done a few variations below just to ring the changes.

All the stash used is from Stampin Up including the card stock and design papers. The only non SU stash is the Marianne branch from the Tiny's Pine Cone set (catalogue no: LR0286) which you can find here at MaddyLisa Crafts at the minute, the Papertrey Ink sentiment and the tag which is cut with a Magnolia die. 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Hugs, Juliexx