Spring Blog Hop with Mo's Dream Team

We have had a couple of glorious days up here, more and more lambs are appearing in the field next to our house, so it's really starting to look a lot like spring!! I was therefore really in the mood to make this card, despite wondering if baby's arrival would prevent me! 

The start for this month's hop is over on the lovely Hellen's blog, if you want to start at the very beginning!  Otherwise you should have hopped over to me from Gretha's blog.

I love this image from Mo, Easter Chickie, a proper spring image methinks.

I've coloured chickie with my promarkers, and teamed him up with some gorgeous papers from Craft and You design, Easter Greetings which I got from Love to Craft and Create here. And my Marianne Dies are below, all new!!  I'm so loving these new March release dies, especially the bulrushes and ducks!

LR0407 - Decorative border

LR0409 - Bulrushes

LR0410 - Ducks

Right, it's time now for me to send you on to the blog of  the lovely Gaynor.  Before you go though, remember to leave a comment on the post of every blog that you visit as there are two hidden $5 dollar vouchers to spend in Mo's store, and yours could be the lucky comment!

Happy Spring and Happy Hopping!

Juliexx

Child's Birthday at Passion for Promarkers

We had the most glorious day yesterday here in the Lakes and the farmer has started putting the new lambs into the field next to our house!  Spring has well and truly sprung, thank goodness!  My card for today is for our new challenge starting over at Passion for Promarkers where our theme this week is  a Child's Birthday.  Great choice of theme, Eileen!

I've used our sponsor's image Spider Wort Sprite from Aurora Wings, perfect for a child's card, well a girl's anyway!

I matched her up with some Prima Pixie Glen Papers and then added a few Marianne Dies, as below:

Basket: LR0404

Circle: CR1331

Lamb: LR0358

Oh and the flowers in the basket are also from Marianne Designs.

As mentioned, our fabulous sponsors this week are Aurora Wings and they are offering the lucky winner a yummy $15 voucher to spend in their Etsy store.

Please do check out the beautiful makes of my teamies at PFP here.

Looks like the sun is shining again today, so I'm off to do a food shop and then it's back in the garden this afternoon!
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

Felted flowers

A few felted flowers to share and this one I made into a brooch and sewed on a few seed beads in the centre.

I've included a few pieces wool rovings above so you can see what I started with.

The purple one above was for my MIL for her birthday and the one below, is for me! I've yet to add some beads to prettify it!

I also made a little heart and a little  pink flower which I shall probably use on cards.

Thanks for popping in!

Hugs, Juliexx

Toadstool Felted scene

More felting to share, this time mostly wet felting, although I did use needle felting to make the flowers.  I mostly worked on this at my weekly Crafternoon session in town, space to spread out!

Wet felting involves water, soap and bubble wrap!  I bought the kit at Wool Fest last year - a fantastic show here in the north of Cumbria relating to all things wool -  spinning, dying, live sheep (other animals were available!), clothing, fabric, vintage goodies, I loved it.  Can't wait for this year's in June.  

I loved making the flowers out of the wool rovings and am definitely going to incorporate more in my card making.

I could only part with this if I could see it regularly and so I'm going to give it to Holly for baby's nursery - still no signs of baby arriving, four days over now!!

Fingers crossed that tomorrow is the day!

Hugs, Juliexx

Mummy to Be Card

 
My gorgeous number 1 daughter is due to have her baby any day now, in fact she's now a couple of days overdue.  Anyway, I made this card for her as she awaits her very special delivery.  The image is called Mother to Be 1 and is here at Mo's Digital Pencil

These cute little vests and hangers are cut with a Memory Box die and isn't the little high chair charm cute!  The sentiments are from PTI and the papers are Hello Baby from Lemoncraft again, they are yummy!  and of course, you may have spotted a few Marianne Dies in there as follows:

Large Die Cut Safety Pin - 

Stork Stamp and Die Set - COL1381

Frame from Petra's Birds die set - LR0351

Small clockface die - CR1234

Metal mini safety pins

I've gone with the mix of pink and blue as we don't know the sex. although I understand that one of our great nieces has said that it's coming today and it's a girl!!

Not long now I'm sure!
Happy Weekend and a Happy Mother's day (UK) on Sunday
Juliexxx

I've been doing some felting!

I've fallen in love with felting!  I bought a couple of kits last year and then started looking at Pinterest as to what else I could make.  These fairies were my first attempt (I've made a few) and it really is therapeutic - stabbing away at the felt with a barbed needle, what a brilliant way to vent all your stress, amongst other things!  

I've also done some flowers and some wet felting of a toadstool scene that I'm really happy with - will show this another day.

It's D day today - due date for baby to arrive but no signs yet, probably be snuggled up in mummy's tummy for a few days yet, so can't wait to meet him or her!!

Hugs, Juliexx

Passion for Promarkers Girls Only

Today's card is for our new challenge starting at Passion for Promarkers today and the theme is Girls Only.  I've used this wonderful image, Snow Queen from our sponsors Sassy Studio Designs, isn't she a beauty!

Just wanted to show a close up here of the little strip of vellum which I think add a nice texture and depth.  I actually bought them, very cheap, but of course they're bound to be very easy to cut yourself with a trimmer!

The papers are from Love to Craft and Create,  Forget Me Not by Lemoncraft and they have the most yummy ranges of shabby chic/vintage papers. The flowers are from stash and the usual goodies from Marianne Designs are listed below:

Frame Die - LR0371

Decorative Border Die - LR0396

Pearl Swirls - CA3101

Diamond Gems  

Our generous sponsor this week is Sassy Studio Designs who are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  There are so many gorgeous digis in their store you will be spoilt for choice.

1st March today - woohoo - spring is on it's way and hopefully our first grandchild any day now!!  Happy times!!

Juliexx

Stamping Bella for a change.

I love Stamping Bella images and have a few in my hoard but don't use them nearly enough!  So I was pleased to show this one the light of day and team her up with this lovely sentiment from Lili of the Valley.  I also raided my flower stores which I haven't done for a while.

Oh and I managed to sneak in a Marianne die for the sentiment frame - CR1331 - Basic Round Circle set. 

We had the most beautiful day here, despite the cold and this evening the sunset was glorious!  Still no signs of baby putting in an appearance, only a week to go too!

Hugs, Juliexx

New Home Card with Marianne Designs

I made this card for my son who has recently moved into his own flat, all will Marianne Dies (apart from the path which was a Tim Holtz Alteration Strip die.  I used the following from Marianne:

New Home Die - CR1324

Picket Fence - CR1288

House Die - LR0382

Cat Die - COL1383

Skyline Tree Die - LR0283

Grass Die - CR1355 - NEW!!

That's it from me from a wet and miserable day here in the Lakes!!
Hugs, Juliexx

Mo's Dream Team Monthly hop- It's all about the Boys!

Well Howdy Blogland - it's the third Thursday of the month and you know what that means!  Yes, it's time for us gals on Mo's Dream Team to come together and share some Mo makes with you, this month's theme of Boys as chosen by our lovely Lou and that is also where you should have started.  Otherwise, hopefully you have hopped over to me from Gretha's Blog.  (Anyhoo the full order is below should you need it.)

As you can see I have gone with one of Mo's newest images, Sheriff, which is fabulous for boys - love it I do!  I've coloured him with my Promarkers and matched him up with some lovely My Mind's Eye papers.

I also had to use this little cowboy button which I've had for ages but he seemed just perfect for this little guy.

As always, I've used some yummy Marianne design goodies as follows:

Large Star Die - LR0369

Letters - LR0340

Large Horseshoe - LR1296

The small horseshoe is cut with an ancient Provocraft die and I've used some copper Tulip drops for the 'pins' in between the letters.

Well now it's time to send you over to Gaynor's blog who will no doubt have something gorgeous to share with you.  Oh and don't forget to leave a comment on each of the blogs as you visit, as there will be two $5 vouchers to spend in Mo's store hidden along the way!

Lou Daubney Hellen Pearce  Vili Mitkovska Anneke Kiewiet Kaly Gretha 

Bakker Julie Baker Gaynor Greaves

Happy Hopping Y'all!

Juliexx

Embrace- Luscious Locks at PFP

Morning!  Today's card is for our new challenge starting today over at a Passion for Promarkers.  We have a great theme too, chosen by our lovely Shelly and that is Luscious Locks.  

I've chosen this great new image from Mo's Digital Pencil, Embrace and was my Valentine's card that I didn't give to hubby!  (We tend not to do Valentine's Day)! Still, I wanted to used the image as she does have a lovely head of hair so thought it would be perfect for our theme!

My papers are from Glitz and the following are the Marianne Design items that I used, a fair few of them being in stock here at Crafts U Love (UK based):

Love die - LR0301

Flowers Die and Stamp set - COL1394

Frame - LR0376

Heart Die and Stamp set - COL1307

Birds Die - LR0298

Our generous sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique who are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  There are so many gorgeous digis in their store you will be spoilt for choice.

That's all from me today, but before I go don't forget to check out the fabulous makes of my PFP teamies here, and then come and join us in the challenge.
Big Embrace!!
Juliexx

Mo's Digital Pencil Wall Girl

Complete change of style here for me today!  I love this new Mo image called Wall Girl and she's on special at the minute of just $1 here including a digital wall if you so desire!!  Bargain for sure!!  I've coloured her with my Promarkers and then leant her up against a wall using a Marianne Design embossing wall and die combo, together with a new Marianne Grass border, deets below:

Grass die CR1355 - In stock here in a set of two dies at Crafts U Love

Wall Embossing Folder and die - DF3403 



The splats were cut with a Tim Holtz Alteration die and the sentiment and speech bubble are a Heidi Swap design.

 It's been a lovely day here for a change, full sunshine, so I've got out into the garden for a bit - so much to do!!

Hugs, Juliexx