Foam Block Stamping with Lavinia Products

I absolutely love this foam block printing technique shown by Lavinia Stamps recently.  You heat the foam block with your embossing gun, then press a stencil or die into the foam which retains the impression.  You can then ink it up to make a stamping block.  So much fun and I intend to do it with my granddaughter later today as I know she will  love it!

The stencil and stamps are from Lavinia, and they also sell the foam blocks, but the sentiments are mostly PaperTrey Ink - hence the American spelling on neighbourhood! Such a great way to make some batch cards.

I've also made some with Marianne products which I'll share soon!  

Juliexx

New Baby cards

I was delighted to hear that a great friend has recently become a Grandma for the first time so I made these cards, one for the proud new parents and one for my friend. The elephant image is from Inkadinkadoo, the babygro is a Memory Box die and the sentiment on this card from PaperTreyInk.  The papers and these cute little footprints are from Marianne Designs which I've listed below.

Marianne Designs Products

Papers - Hooray A Boy - PB7064

Footprint Stamp and Die set - CS1085

For the next card I've kept the sentiment as the main focus - it is one of my favourites for baby cards, from Lili of The Valley.  The little perched rabbit is from Charlie and Paulchen, the papers are the same Marianne set and I've framed them with a stitched square die from Marianne Designs - in the scalloped Squares Die Set - LR0767

Off to my craft room now, as it's such a miserable day here!

Hugs, Juliexx

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone-let's hope for a better 2021.  This little guy from Mo's Digital Pencil needed a second outing from me - I last coloured him 5 years ago!!  He's called Cupcake Mouse and you can find him here in Mo's store.

The papers are from Authentique  and the sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink

Hugs, Julie

Mo Merge of Carrying the Wood and Snowy House

I hadn't intended to make this card today but started colouring and that was it!!  I've merged two Mo's Digital Pencil images - Snowy House here and Carrying the Wood here.   And really that was all I did - no papers, no embellishments, just a simple sentiment from Paper Trey Ink.

I did use a technique  I'd seen the ladies from Lavinia Stamps using for the snow -  a White Posca Pen and a ruler to splat it!!  

Hope you like!

Hugs, Juliexx

Lili of The Valley Baby with Bunny

I made this for a lockdown baby who was born a couple of weeks ago to my dear friend, Granny Sally!!   And I hear mum and baby are doing well- it must be so difficult during these strange times.  

The image is Lili of theValley and the Crib is a Marianne Die.  Love these Bella and Boo papers too.

Crib - Marianne Designs - LR0346

Babygro Washing and Babygro - Memory Box

Baby word and stamp - Papertrey Ink

Papers - Bella and Boo

Happy Wednesday or hump day as it's often called here in the UK!

Hugs, Juliexx

Mo Texas

Another Mo cowboy from me today - this is Texas and he looks pretty twitchy so don't move to fast! You can find him here in Mo's store.

He's got  a full load of Marianne dies too - listed below, along with some of the other products I used.

Marianne Products Used

Wonky Squares Die set - CR1375

Coiled Rope Die - CR1405

Sign Post Die - LR0535

Fence Die - CR1441

Chicken Wire Die - CR1401

Star Circle and loose stars set - CR1447

Other products

Papers My Minds Eye

Rocking Horse - Cottage Cuts

Sentiment stamps - mix of PTI and Marianne

Have a great weekend everyone.

Juliexx

Our Fabulous Holly!

Our Holly was 30 last month - eek- and she has recently started a pop-up market stall with her friend, selling pantry staples and cleaning products that aren't wrapped in plastic.  So you take all your jars, containers and bottles and they refill them for you so you're not adding to the plastic pollution!  

So, I made this card using a load of dies and things I've had in my stash for ages but have barely used!!  Hubby made a few comments!!

The large sentiment is from Lili of The Valley, the Scales are Sizzix, and the small jars stamp, dies and sentiment combos are from PaperTrey Ink - Holly's business is called Goodness and Grain so I altered the sentiment on the small jar below!!  

The little plastic jar above ( not that it reflects their ethos!!) is from Jolee and the paper is from October Afternoon.

That's all for today, folks!

Hugs, Juliexx

Blooming Days at Passion for Promarkers

There's nothing I like more than cards with a few flowers and so our Blooming Days challenge starting today at Passion for Promarkers is just perfect!  And as we are being sponsored by All Dressed Up we got to work with some of their gorgeous images - this is Pretty in Plaits - such a beauty!

I also had some new Marianne goodies arrive and I've used their gorgeous new Weathered Wood Papers, the Hollyhocks die and the fab slotted ribbon die - all new!!  Don't you just love the teeny charym tags that come with the ribbon die - I do!!  The teeny sentiments are from Paper Trey Ink.  Full details of Marianne stash used below:

Rectangle Ribbon Slot Die with charms -CR1436 NEW!

Hollyhocks die - LR0521 NEW!

Ornate Oval  Frame  - LR0371

Weathered Wood Papers - PK9155 NEW!

Sweet Roses Papers - PK9123

As I mentioned our sponsor is the fab All Dressed Up Stamps and they're offering 2 digital stamps to the lucky winner of the challenge.

Check out the fab cards here of my lovely PFP teamies and then join in the challenge!

Hugs, Juliexx

A Gorjuss Girl image for a change

I absolutely love all the new craft themed stamps and dies from Marianne Designs February 18 release.  And lucky me, they arrived just in time to complete this card for best matey, Lesley ( but not in time to post it in time for her birthday so I'm hand delivering it!!)

I also decided to use a Gorjuss Girl image which had yet to see the light of day!

A full list of the Marianne goodies used are below- I love the little broken pin stamp and the teeny scissors die!!

Marianne  products Used

Craft Dates Stamps -EC0167  - NEW - February 18 release

Craft Dates Dies - COL1445 - NEW - February 18 release

Basic Shapes - Stitched Rectangles - CR1390

Zip Die - CR1260

Oh, and I believe that this zip die was made as a result of Lesley suggesting it as die to Marianne a few years ago!!

We plan on doing just what the sentiment says, along with a little retail therapy at Sandown on Friday - yippee!!

Well that's all from me for now folks, Happy Crafting!!

Hugs, Juliexx

Pretty Purse Mo Manning and Marianne - my favourite Ms!!!! (Apart from my Em!)

This is such a gorgeous image from Mo and now that Christmas is over I've found some time to make a proper girly card with her - she's called Pretty Purse and can be found here in Mo's store. I've also just received my yummy January goodies from Marianne Designs so have used lots of those too.

Now, as part of my DT pack from Marianne, I received a sheet of this fabulous Roses paper from their Sweet Romance pack - so I only had one sheet!  I normally tend to stick things down as I go along and sometimes regret it as  it prevents me from doing something else!  So, this time, I thought, don't stick it down yet, don't stick it down yet and I didn't and placed my centre panel using this single sheet of rose  to one side.  Carrying on I felt the insides of the side panels needed matting, so hunted amongst the mess on my workspace to find a piece of the pink card I was using for matting.  Duly found it and cut one piece with the wavy edge ........and then turned it over to find it was the piece of card with my ONE piece of roses paper!!  Now if I'd stuck it down as I usually do........!

So I had to use ribbon and the wavy die from the set I was using to cover up!

Anyway, here is a full list of the Marianne goodies I used, including this fabulous and new rose bouquet die which I just love!

Marianne Products used:

Sweet Romance Papers - PK9153 (new)

Anja's Ornamental Border Design Folder/Die combo - DF3443 (new)

Frame Die - LR0371

Mirror Die - LR0321

Rose Boquet Die  LR0505 (new)

The sentiment is PTI and cut with a Stampin Up punch.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

As You Like It Challenge - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Something new (Dies, Papers, Image)
Seize The Birthday  - Anything Goes (with Birthdays!)
Simon Says Wednesdays - Patterned Paper (Yes, my one piece!!)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Hugs, Juliexx

Snowballs anyone?

Hey folks - today's card is using one of my most favourite Mo images from the set Valerie in Winter - such a great value set - three images currently for $6.75, and one of my favourite sets for Christmas cards.

I came across the snowball sentiment recently whilst looking for something else and thought it would be great to use with this image - it's from a PTI set.  My papers are from some old Basic Grey sets and of course a full set of Marianne goodies used as below. The snowballs and heart are from stash.

Lace Frame Die set- CR1414

Circle Die Set  - CR1331

Star Die set (New!) - CR1421

Scarf Die - LR0439

Hat and Mittens Die Set  - LR0440 

Winter Wonderland sentiment Die - CR1347

Knitting Embossing Folder/Die combo - DF3418

We've got Violet this afternoon for our usual Friday afternoon slot, so off to play and carry out Nanny duties.

Hugs, Julie

Berry Sweet!

All the berries at the side of my house reminded me that it was the perfect time of the year to colour up this little lovely from Mo's Digital Pencil - Berry Fairy Amai. What wasn't quite the thing to do though was take some arty photos with the berries at the front of the card- as said card could quite easily topple over on to artfully arranged berries and leave a large purple berry stain on the card!!  Luckily, I was able to salvage the card with a berry made of pearls - what do you think?!!

I've actually used some scraps of old paper for my card just using a couple of Marianne dies to frame the  image, as below:

Anja's Squares Frame Dies - LR0242

Lace Eyelet Border Die - LR0395

The berry sweet sentiment is from Paper Trey Ink and the glass dew drops and beads from stash.

The sun actually showed it's face here today and tomorrow looks good too, so hope to get in the garden for a bit.  And it's Friday, yayyyhh!!

Hugs, Juliexx

Autumn Blog Hop with Mo's Dream Team

Yay, it's my turn to choose this month's blog hop theme with Mo's Dream Team - can you guess I chose Autumn!

As you can see, I've used another of the gorgeous little fairy babies from the fab set 6 Baby Fairies (girls).  She seems just perfect for falling into the autumn leaves!

As always, I've used a ton of Marianne Design Dies. including the Ornate Basket die that the little cutie is falling into!

Rectangle Die- LR0318

Rake - LR0374

Broom - LR0433

Squirrel/Rabbit Die Set - CR1340

Ornate Basket Die-LR0436

Fir Cones/Needles - LR0438

Leaves - CR1336

Round Web Die/Leaves - LR0430

Canadian Fall - Papers 

Oh and the sentiment is Papertrey Ink.

Right, your next stop on the hop is over to our fabulous Gaynor, where she will have something gloriously autumnal to share with you!  And, don't forget to leave a comment on each of the blogs as you could win a $5 voucher to spend in Mo's Digital Pencil!  And there's new images arriving in the store almost daily at the minute!

The full order of the hop is below in case you need it.

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

Happy Hopping peeps!

Juliexx

August Blog hop time folks!

I love it when the third Thursday of the month comes around as it means it's Blog Hop time with Mo's Dream Team and we have a great theme of Winter in August chosen by our lovely Gretha, and this is where you should also have started to hop.

When I saw this gorgeous image from Mo, Tilli-Gnome, I couldn't wait to get my DT package from Marianne Designs as I knew she would team up with this fabulous Mushroom Home die that is new this month.  My full list of Marianne products are below:

Mushroom  House- COL1412

Tiny's Oak Trees- CR2338

Papers - Driftwood, Wintertime and Silver Stars

The sentiment is from Paper Trey Ink.

Right now it's time to send you on to the blog of my fab teamie, Gaynor, who will have a treat for you I'm sure.  And, don't forget to leave a comment on each of the blogs that you visit as you could win one of two $5 dollar vouchers to spend in Mo's online store!

Crazy Bird dies without the Crazy Birds

This was a really quick card, with an idea that I've been wanting to try out for ages, and the new Bird Crazy Accessory dies meant I could do just that!!  The hat, glasses and bow tie are from the set, while the moustache is a Memory Box Die and the the googly eyes were a gift from best matey, Lesley.

The papers are from the Docrafts Chronicles set and the sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink.

A very simple but effective card for those dreaded male makes don't you think!

Hugs, Juliexx