My Lovely Followers! Updated - Phew, you're back!!!

I can no longer see my list of lovely followers so am unable to make a return visist to anyone who has been kind enough to follow me!  I also can't see any one else's 'follow' link on their blogs so am unable to add to my ever growing list of blogs I love to drop in on!  It seems to be a widespread  but random problem for other bloggers so I hope Blogger will rectify soon!!!!

Friendship Swap card

I made this card for a friendship swap on the Do Crafts forum.  Surprised it got there at all with the postal strikes that are affecting us here at the moment -- Grrrhhh!! The image is such a cutie from Lili of the Valley, coloured with promarkers again!  Sentiment is from Whiff of Joy.

Ist Christmas Card!

No challenge or anything , but thought I should get cracking on the old Crimbo cards - I have about  150 to make in all for me and the hubster, so they have to be fairly simple unless they are extra specials for family or for crafty friend who appreciate them.  Miss Anya is coloured with Promarkers and I've layered her up with Basic Grey Marrakesh papers and also Papermania.  The tag is from K & Co holiday tags set.

For this week's Promarker and Sugar Bowl challenges

My absolutely gorgeous new Promarkers arrived this morning  - thanks to the super Gina and team over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge.  So thought I'd make a card for this week's challenge which was to use any colour but to use polka dots on the card.  So I've got the spotty background paper and the spots on the blouse.  Think I've used just about every pink possible to shade and blend!!  Image is Peek a Bunny from Sugar Nellie,   and I've used the colour scheme, Pink and Brown, the  sketch below, which I've rotated, for this week's Sugar Bowl challenge. Papers are Basic Grey Eva and Two Scoops.

I WON, I WON, I WON!!!!

I've won all the new promarker colours on the Passion for Promarkers Blog Hop Challenge - somebody pinch me!!    Woohhooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Passion For Promarkers/Sketch and Stash Challenge

I was so inspired by the Promarker Challenge Blog Hop this morning that I went right away to my little craft room and made this card for the current challenge. Colours for the challenge had to be Sandstone and Blue Pearl apart from skin and hair of course. Thought I'd also combine it with the sketch over on Sketch and Stash which really made me think about using some bits that have been lanquishing away in the corners of my little room. Now the image of Megan from Miss Anya is of course new, but I've had these Basic Grey Marrakesh papers for a while and I haven't used buttons or brads much for ages. The papers really seem to suit the safari feel of these colours with this image, don't you think. Sprayed a little glimmer mist on the

flowers, which you can see hasn't dried on the brad!!!

I've had a make over!!

Hi Everyone Decided to change the look of my blog - couldn't resist this template from Deb's Crafts - and it's the gorgeous Gorgeous Girls!!! Blondes definitely have more fun too!! LOL!!XXXX

Card for Son's Girlfriend

Made this for my son's girlfriend Georgia. She's a great dancer,who has just graduated from the Brit school with a triple distinction and has just started a three year dance course in London. Happy Birthday Gorgeous Georgia!! I used this great image from the Kerry Steptoe set I bought a few years ago, with sentiments from a K & Co set which just seems to keep on giving. Think the papers are Dovecraft but I'm being too lazy to go and check!! Flowers were from the pound shop at least a year ago! Coloured with Promarkers.

Niece's Wedding this Saturday coming

Am rather pleased with this one - again used the stamping with distress ink technique and then water colouring it. Used Weathered Wood for this image, layering on Seven Gypsies Paper - Notting Hill - with lots of embellies and pearls, A happy accident that I'd used blue and navy then found the little sentiment with 'something blue' on it! Not that clever to think of it in advance!!

Love to know what you think so do leave a comment if you have the time, and I'll hop over to your blog to see what you're up to!

Take care

Juliexx

Another Man Card - On a Roll!

For Uncle-in-Law - lots of distressing on this image(from my matey, Lesley). Made a bit of boo boo with the hinges - after I'd stuck them on, I decided that they needed a bit of distressing or something to break the solidness of the black up. So I masked all the card up then sprayed a bit of a coppery Glimmer Mist on them. Well, I was mortified to discover that it had leeched through! However, on looking at it for a while, I decided that it looked like rust which is sort of what I wanted anyway!! What do you think?


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Son's Birthday Card

I do struggle to make men's cards but did feel quite pleased with this, although Harry didn't say too much! Still, thought this Mikey digital download from Charmed Cards and Crafts was great for a boy card. Thought it looked like Hazza as he goes off to Uni in a few weeks! He's studying Character Development and Special Effects at Hertfordshire Uni - he is a great artist! My first side step card too and liked this shape, I must say!




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Happy Christmas to me!!!

Woohoo - how lucky am I!! Hubby bought me my Christmas present today and I'm using it to type this - yep I got me a lap top!! So happy - can blog and surf to my heart's content without being thrown off the family PC. I can also have this in my craft room so that I can craft and keep up on DC and here at the same time! Emily thinks it's a bit unfair that I'm allowed to have an early pressie and they're not! Whatever!!!!

Hope to load up some new cards soon!! 'Tis the season........

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Juliexxx

Water colouring with distress ink

Hiya - just got a few minutes before X-Factor!

Alex demo'd this method of colouring last Saturday when she was here - where you stamp the image and then drag the colour in from the stamped edges (gently, so as not to blur them) to give this beautiful effect. I thought I'd really got the hang of this and here is the card I made. However, I've tried it a few more times and cannot get it right again. Anyhow,I was rather pleased with this first attempt!


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Papers and flower: Basic Grey - Boxer
Ink - Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Lace and embellies from stash.

Belated card for last week's Passion for Promarkers challenge!

Nearly forgot to upload this! As it says on the label, meant to enter this for last week's Promarker Challenge - had to use Rose and Cocoa. Too late for that, but enjoyed making it - and how exciting that there's going to be another 56 colours released in September!!




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Juliexxx

...and more gifts!

Alex gave us these delightful choccie boxes - she'd even decorated each individual chocolate!!!






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Gifts......

Kathleen had made these fabby post it note holders - I love it, thank you KMac!








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World War Three has broken out in my Living Room!

....Teenagers eh! So thought I would make a tactical retreat and post the cards that we made on Saturday, when Alex, Kathleen and Lesley came to play!! (Oops see above!)


Alex bought the components to make the Sympathy card all packaged in this delightful box - she's a dab hand with a craft knife!!







Lesley bought the template for the pram and and after much huffing and puffing on my part, 'cos I don't like cutting, I came up with this - and felt rather pleased with it!





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Juliexxx

For those with a sweet tooth!

I've just added some super blog candy offerings - check them out because the bloggers have also got some great, inspirational cards to show you.

Juliexxx

Card for Bro-in-Law

Not gonna bore you with all my recent makes but did rather like this for my Lake District relation - he's just built a pond, sorry Alex, Lake, in the grounds of his new barn conversion and thought this was just him messing about on the water!!!

Stampin Up image
Promarkers
Papers were scraps from my scrap box!!

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Well, Well., Well! I'm back

WEll what can I say - I just don't know where the time goes - well sadly, a lot of it goes at work! Still, I'm going to try and be a better blogger ( where have I heard that one!) and to start me off on the right foot, here is my first ever entry for this week's Sugar Bowl challenge which consisted of a sketch to use.

Promarkers for the colouring and Basic Grey Wisteria papers


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