Happy Birthday

 Hi there everyone, here is a card I made this morning the dies and embossing folder both came from the Magazine Simply Cards from Practical Papercraft International Ltd., I used an old piece of paper from an 8* x 8' paper pad from Cre8tiv which I bought some years ago from K Mart, for the background wallpaper.     The doily was cut with Tim Holtz "Distressed Doily" die, which I have also had for a long time and I shaded it with Distress Ink Pad "Faded Jeans"  and the oddments of paper were from my scrap basket, and I stamped the sentiment with "Faded Jeans" and also shaded the inside embossing folder (my 39th in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders) and I thought it looked good for the inside of the card, thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Cool Birthday

Hi there, here am I again today, having made this Cool Birthday card, the embossing folder is the 38th folder and is in the ice cream set which was in the sale box at the newsagent, I used a dark bronze paper for the background to resemble a waffle and used some pink and brown and grey papers for the ice creams and bowl, and some red for the cherry the biscuits were cut from a Lipton's teabag box, just because I liked the colours on it, and I stamped the sentiment with Archival black ink pad, hope you like this one, I hadn't made one like this before, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Christmas Bells

Hi there everyone, sorry I was away so long but 3 weeks ago I had  a total right hip replacement, and have only just got back to my craft table, making this card with a dark blue card stock and embossing it with the Darice folder "Music", and I used gold cardstock to cut out the christmas bells, which came from China, and the wreath which was a die from the sale box at the local newsagent, which also came with the Sentiment, I am happy with this and hope you might like it also, and thanks so much for visiting me today, PS this is my 37th embossing folder used in my personal challenge to  use all my embossing folders, Jasann

Two new cards

 Hi there everyone, I am sorry I have been missing from the blog for a couple of weeks, am still having medical issues, and going into hospital in 1-1/2 weeks for a right full hip replacement.   Not looking forward to it, but I will be happy to be able to get about, reasonable well when it is over, only trouble is that I will have a left full hip replacement in the New Year some time as I have severe Osteoporosis in my bones!!! Oh well, just have to keep smiling and working at my hobbies.   I made two cards with a wooden plank background the first one I put a wreath cut from a plain green cardstock and another from designer paper. just a scrap left over from another project, and the green is a bit darker and there are pieces of red and yellow, to look like the flowers and fives it a bit of depth, I used some silver card, also left overs, with a new Poppy's craft albhabet die for the "Noel" they were all lower case, but that was ok, I used a Mariannes Creations Pointsettia die for the flower and used a small rhinestone flower for the centre, and a Mariannes Creatables die and a Memory Box die for the greenery.   and for the second card I also used the wooden background paper with white deer on top of a white strip of cardstock, the deer are from IO dies, (www.loststamps.com) I bought this die on E Bay, but cannot remember which seller, I cut the holly leaves with Tim Holtz repositional magnetic die, (movers and shapers) Pine tree and Holly Leaf, I used plain green card and shaded the leaves with distress Evergreen Bough, and just cut the red berries with a hole punch.  and the Merry Christmas is an un-named stamp that I have had in my stash forever.  Hope you like these cards and as always your comments are very welcome, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Joy

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the Merry Monday Challenge #218 (plaid).http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com. I used red cardstock from Quill for the base of the card and a white piece from my scrap box which I embossed with Tim Holtz "Holiday Words, this is my 36th Embossing Folder I am using in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders, as I am sure I have a few which I haven't used yet!!!, I used the red plaid from the Graphic 45 "St.Nicholas collection and also the santa image came from that pad, and the green plaid came from the Graphic 45 "Good Ol Sports" it was the last piece I had left, and I cut the flags by hand and put clear rhinestones on the top and cut the sentiment with a very old alphabet die. I rounded the corners of the white card with an old corner punch.  Hope you like this card, and as always your comments are gratefully appreciated, thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Happy

Hello there everyone, it is a very hot day here today. it is after 6 pm and is still 30o C, hope it will be a bit cooler tomorrow.   Here is a card I made for Happy Little Stampers October Challenge "Anything goes with dies"   I used white cardstock from Quill and cut the background with 2  new Thinlits Dies from Tim Holtz, they are from set 660220, I can't remember what the number of the series it is, and as a background paper I used a scrap that had been  on my friends craft table, she usually uses papers as a backing when she is spraying and when the paper is covered then she uses it for card making and it suits this card very well I thought, as there are some gold highlights on it.   I used another die from Cheery Lynn designs "Fanciful Flourish Left" for the greenery, which was cut from a scrap of green card, I then cut out the flowers from a nice piece of yellow cardstock from a pad, it is from Die Namics "prima donna petals"   and I used stickles "icicles" for the centres of the flowers and the extra leaes were also cut from that set in the green card, I also cut out the dragon fly from a Fancy That die out of the backing paper.   Hope you all like this card, and as always your comments are gratefully received, and thanks for visiting today, Jasann

trees

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the 52 (Christmas) card throwdown, October Colour challenge http://52cct.blogspot.com, I used white and pale grey cardstock from Quill and used the tree stamp from Merry & Bright Christmas stamp collection by Practical Publishing and used the scalloped rectangle from Spellbinders, and used Distress Ink Evergreen Bough, which is a lovely pale green colour and the bird is cut with Movers & Shapers magnetic die out of pale blue coloured paper, and I used Baby Blue Liquid Perfect Pearls to make the birds eye and the corner dots on the card.   The inspiration for this card is from Debbie Henderson's newsletter 17/12/15,  Hope you like this card, and as always your comments are always welcome and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann 

Pink Christmas

Hi everyone, here is the card I made to enter into the Jingle Bells challenge "Pink Christmas" http://jinglebells.blogspot.com and I used White Quill cardstock for the base and Pink Quill cardstock for the topper and I embossed it with Couture Creations "Endless" which is my 35th embossing folder to be used in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders, because I am sure I am forgetting some, The baubles and sentiment were cut from silver cardstock with two dies from Marianne's Creatables and I used Pink rhinestones for the top of them with pine needles from Memory Box. I also used White Liquid Perfect Pearls for the ornament hangers and the for corners of the card.   I hope you all like this card, and as always I am very grateful for all your comments, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

embossing

Hi there everyone, here is todays card that I made for the Happy Little Stampers October Christmas Challenge "Embossing", http://www.happylittlestampers.com.  I used White cardstock from Quill and for the base I used Distress ink pad "Barn Door" applied with a blending tool, and used a Sizzex embossing folder "Snow Flurries", and this is the 34th embossing folder that I am using for my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders, the little landscape is from Memory Box "Country Landscape" and the sentiment is from Marianne's Creatables in red cardstock scrap out of my scrapbox and I also used red and white bakers twine to tie around with a bow.   Hope you all like this card, and as always your comments are gratefully appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Elves

Hello there everyone, Here is a card I made today to enter into the Merry Monday Challenge #216, add an Elf to your project.     http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au,   I used a Green and White Cardstock from Quill, and put two little elves on my card, stamped with a very old stamp that has been in my stash forever, and coloured them with a mixture of Gel Pens and Faber-Castelle Water Colour Pencils, and I masked them and used two Tim Holtz Stencils "Latticework" and "Holly Bough" with Peeled Paint distress ink pad, and I used a red gel pen for the holly berries, and I used Barn Door distress ink for the sentiment "Joy" which was on the same stamp set as the elf.    Hope you all like it, and as always your comments are gratefully received, and thanks so much for visiting, Jasann

Merry Christmas

Hello everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the 52 Christmas (Card) throwdown, - October Sketch Challenge - http://52cct.blogspot.com.au , I used Red, White and Green cardstock from Quill, and also used an embossing folder - Sizzex Snow and Trees, which I have had for a long time, this is the 33rd.embossing folder         in my personal challenge to use all my emb.folders, I also used a die from Creative Dies that I bought out of the sale box at our newsagents, and I only had two stars left, so used them one gold and one silver.   I hope you like this, and as always your comments are always  gratefully received, and thanks for visiting today, Jasann

Happy Christmas

Hi everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #215, (Pink/Grey,or silver) http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au I used a grey cardstock from Quill with a sheet of Pink for the topper, which I embossed with an old Darice embossing folder (Sheet Music) which I have had for ages, and this is my 32nd embossing folder I used in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders.   I used silver card from Poppy's crafts for the Pointsettia which was cut from a Marianne's Creatives Cutting die, and I used a small pink rhinestone flower for the centre.  I also used the same silver card to cut the sentiment which was cut with a Creatives Die which came with an Australian Simply Cards Magazine, and I added three small pink rhinestones in the top right hand corner,   Hope you all like this card, and as always your comments are always gratefully appreciated, thanks for visiting today, Jasann

Christmas Bells

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made this morning to enter into the Jingle Bells Challenge, Christmas Bells. http://jinglebellsrock.blogspot.com.au I used white Cardstock from Quill, and also used the Julie Nutting doll stamp "Merry Nice" and used some scrap Christmas Paper for the dress, a butterfly from Kaisercraft "Tigerlily" stamp set. stamped in Color Box "Wild Hare" and I highlighted it with a silver glitter pen, for the wings, and  I used the Bells on the stamp and coloured them with  Gold and Red Glitter Pens, the Sentiment is from the doll stamp set and is stamped in distress Barn Door.  and the edges were done with a Dylusions Stencil "Number Jumble" hope you all like it, and as always your comments are welcome, thanks for visiting today, Jasann

Mask

Hello there, Here is a new card I made today to enter into the 52 Christmas (card) throwdown, September Technique - Masking - http://52cct.blogspot.com.au and I used Red Quill cardstock for the base and White Quill Cardstock for the topper, and used a stamp set from Spellbinders Heirloom Ornaments, and used Distress Inks, Pickled Raspberry, and Peeled Paint, Memento Inks Danube Blue and Grape Jelly also a Colour Box Wild Hare, Which is a Silver Colour.   All the stamps came from the same Stamp Set.   Hope you like this card, and as usual all your comments are gratefully appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Keep Warm

Hi there everyone, here is another card I made today to enter into the challenge at Merry Monday (Keep Warm) Challenge #214, http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au
I used red cardstock from Quill, and used white cardstock also from Quill, and stamped the fireplace and sentiment with stamps from Card Making In Easy Steps, Creative Stamping. and coloured it with Distress Markers and my water colouring pen, I used Carved Pumpkin, Hickory Smoke, Cracked Pistachio. Ground Espresso, and Candied Apple, for the background I used a Tim Holtz stencil "Doily" with Picked Raspberry applied with a blending tool, I used Black Archival Ink Pad to apply the stamps.   Thanks for visiting today, and as always your comments are gratefully received, Jasann

O Little Town of Bethelem

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the Jinglebells challenge - O little Town of Bethelem, http://jinglebellsrock.blogspot.com/2016/09/o-little-town-of-bethelem.html I used plain white cardstock from Quill, and sprayed a Dylusions Ink Spray - London Blue - onto an acrylic block with plain water and pressed my card onto it and it made a nice blue sky,   I die cut "Townscape" with Tim Holtz "On the Edge" die in black card, and thought it was a bit too dark, so I used White gel pen to outline the little house, and used Distress Marker "Fossilized Amber" for the windows and then decided the houses needed a bit of colour so I used Distress Marker "Picket Fence" for the background colour and the used the following distress colours for each of the houses: Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet, Carved Pumpkin, Candied Apple, Cracked Pistachio, Twisted Citron,  and Abandon Coral, which I was happy with the dimension of the houses.I then cut out a yellow star from a scrap of yellow cardstock with a die from Mpres star set of dies, there are 6 sizes in this pack. and I then stamped Santa in his sleigh and with reindeer with Ranger Archival ink pad with a stamp I have had for ages from Kaiserraft  'Tis the Season" Hope you all like this card and thanks so much for your visit today, and as always your comments are always gratefully received, Jasann

Happy Birthday Bird

Hi there everyone, getting back into the knack of blogging, and making cards, I am entering this card into the Happy Little Stampers : Case the Designer Challenge - Asa Johansson, at http://happylittlestampers.com I used the same Tim Holtz Bird for the focal point, I used the largest Oval Die from Poppy Stamps Oval Die Set, and for the background I stamped onto an acrylic block ink from a mini Distress Ink "Peeled Paint", sprayed it with water and dipped my card into it, and then dried it with a kitchen towel.   When it was dry I stamped the bird with Ranger Archival Ink, Black, and used Distress Markers, Hickory Smoke, Ground Espresso, Carved Pumpkin and Abandoned Coral, on an acrylic block and used my water pen to colour the bird, I was going to make him a sparrow but a bit of the Abandoned Coral snuck in, and I decided to leave it, as it made me happy to have the colour.   I used a Happy Birthday stamp out of my stash for the sentiment, Hope you like this card, and as always your comments are all gratefully appreciated, thanks for your visit today, Jasann

Red Christmas

Hi there everyone, nice to  be back in blogland, I made this card this morning to enter into the 52 (Christmas) card Challenge - the 2nd September challenge - Colour - ( white with a touch of red. )  http://52.cct.blogspot.com ,  and I am also entering this card into the Merry Monday  #213 (inspiration challenge) http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au
I used White Quill card for the base and Red Quill card for the die cut, which I made with Memory Box Newbury Ornament Newbury Vignette, I am pleased with how this card looks and hope you do to!!   Your comments are always gratefully received, and thanks so much for visiting, Jasann

St. Nicholas

Hi there, this is the 32nd embossing folder I have used in my personal challenge to use all my emb.folders, as I have got quite a few of them and want to use them all.   This card was embossed with the Darice emb.folder "sweet music" this is one I bought a long time ago, I think maybe when I first bought my Big Shot!!    I used white cardstock for the base and shaded it with Distress Vintage Photo with a blending tool.    I also used some paper from an old Kaisercraft Christmas paper pad for the next layer and an old Tim Holtz die "Doily", which I attached down the underside of the paper which I distressed with Tim's Distress tool, then I used a scrap of red cardstock to go under the St.Nicholas paper which I got in the new Graphic 45 12 x 12" paper pad, and then I cut out two stars with a punch and some numbers (25) from my stash, and stamped a red Merry Christmas with distress "Barn Door" and  ink pad and  shaded all around the edges with the vintage photo.  Hope you will like this card, and thanks for all your comments, appreciate them, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

3 D Christmas Card

Hi there, here is a Christmas Card I made last night using Tim Holtz Blueprint Christmas Tree Stamp, which I have had for a few years, it is one of my favourites, , I used a yellow card stock for the topper and used distress ink markers and pads to colour the items on the card on the tree I used Peeled Paint, and Fossilized Amber for the tree, Fossilized Amber for the star, and used Cracked Pistachio, Candied Apple and Mermaid Lagoon for the baubles with a silver Gel pen, to highlight the tops and centres of the baubles. and used ground Espresso for the tree trunk,  an old stamp for the sentiment stamped and cut out by hand.  I shaded all around the tree and the flag with Black Soot, I personally am happy with this and hope you are too, as usual all your comments are gratefully appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Roses

Hi there everyone, I am back again, and feeling much better today after the Doc gave me some pain patches, and made this card with white cardstock and used a stamp that I bought out of the sale box at the local newsagent for $2. It is  a Clearly Besotted Stamp Set, I bought this ages ago and have only just used it, I used Stazon Jet Black ink pad to do the stamping and used Distress Inks, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Barn Door, Memento Bahama Blue for the colouring with a water pen, which I find always works out well, and on the inside I used a Tim Holtz stencil - Doily - and I added 3 clear rhinestones to cover up an ink smudge, hope you like it, and as always your comments are always appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann.

We Dream of Sunny Days

Hi there, I found a lovely fun card using the crazy cats on Nikki Acton' blog, http://frankieeatsworms.blogspot.com  and cased it, thanks for the inspiration Nikki.   I stamped the cats with Stayzon ink pad and coloured the cats with fossilized Amber Distress Marker, and hand made the swimming cossies and used Kindyglitz in Pink to decorate the cossies and make the necklaces and drew the sunnies. Since the picture was taken I added white dots on the glasses and also drew  the piece that goes over the nose in black, . I hand wrote the sentiment.  With the background I used a wide brush to paint the Pink Distress Ink on and then put water on the ink and soaked the ink up onto the card.   I really like this card, and it was such fun to make, thanks for visiting today, and thanks again Nikki for your inspiration, Jasann

Santa's Helper

Hi there everyone, I haven't blogged for a few days, but today I made this card to enter into the 52 (Christmas) card throwdown, http://52cct.blogspot.com.au, the challenge is to feature Gifts, and I  used one of Tim Holtz, Quirky Birds, and some gifts, which is an in-named and old stamp, I used all distress ink markers for the colouring of these two stamps, they are: Mermaid Lagoon, Twisted Citron, Candied Apple, Fossilised Amber, Peeled Paint and Vintage photo.  I used both my water pen and a flat paintbrush,  I hand cut the birds  hat and used Chromacryl Texture Paste for the fur around the had and the bobble on the hat.   I hand wrote the sentiment on the flag and used a stabile black pen to write it.  Hope you will like it, and as always your comments are always welcome, and thanks for visiting today, Jasann

Holiday Knit

Hi there everyone, I made this card this morning to enter into Merry Monday Christmas Challenge "Christmas in July" http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au , I used plain white cardstock for the base and used papers from an old Kaisercraft Paper Pad, which I bought several Christmas' ago, I used a Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, to distress the edges of the spotted paper and used my new Tim Holtz stencil "Holiday Knits" and used Tim's distress ink pad "Vintage Photo" to make the holiday knit pattern, and I used some more spotted paper to back the little sentiment that was also in the paper pad,   I hope you all like this card, I haven't done much at my craft table as I am needing two new hips and don't have a date yet for the op, so that is slowing me up, but light is at the end of the tunnel, I should be admitted sometime in the next 90 days, thanks so much for visiting today, and as always your comments are always appreciated, Jasann

Snowflakes

Hi there everyone, here is my 29th card in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders, I used Tim Holtz Sizzex "Snowflakes" and used a bending tool with Versa Color in Cyan to colour the snowflakes, and I used Julie Nutting Doll Stamp "Merry Nice" and coloured it with Distress Markers, "Candied Apple" and "Ground Espresso", I also used a Faber-Castelle Water Colour Pencil "Flesh" I used a red Gel Pen for the shoes and laces, I used a water brush to shade the skirt.   a Gold Gel pen for the bauble on the hat and used Chrystalina Kindy Glitz for the white section on the hat, and also used Versa Colour "Scarlet" for the sentiment, which also came with the stamp, hope you all like this card,  and as always your comments are always greatly appreciated.   I am entering this card into two challenges:
Happy Little Stampers - Christmas Challenge - August 2016, http://www.happylittlestampers.com
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge "Christmas in July", http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au


Thanks again for visiting today,     Jasann

Merry Christmas

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the 52 (Christmas) card Throwdown, Technique Challenge, a card with 2 or more fold, not just a normal square or rectangle. http://52ct.blogspot.com.au  I used the Sizzex, Karen Burniston Accordian Flip 3 D Bigz die, I have had this a long time, but haven't used it for ages, I cut out four pieces together with scrapbook paper from a Pink Paislee 12" x 12" paper pad, which had quite a few extras with it, and used various die cuts, ie: sizzex snowflakes, Marianne's Creatables pointsettias, Memory Box pine needles, a deer from a magazine, Sizzex Retro Ornaments and a few tags I cut out with another free die from a magazine, I used Red and White Bakers Twine for the little bows, and liquid perfect pearls for the accents, I aso used Chromacryl texture paste for the snow on the ornaments,   Photo 1 is the front of this card and photo 2 is the back,  I cut a piece of lined paper and shaded the edges with distress "Barn Door" ink pad, I also used this in to shade all around the edges on the card.   It took quite some time to make this, but I an happy with it, I am also entering this card into the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge, "Christmas in Summer Link Up" http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au,

 Thanks so much for visiting today, and as usual all your comments are greatly appreciated, Thanks again, Jasann

Thanks

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made this morning to give to a friend together with a gift pack of 6 cards, as a thank you to her for driving me to the Specialist Rooms at Nelson Bay where there is no parking, so she will have to drop me off and then pick me up after.   I used plain white cardstock for the base and on the topper I used the pink and white striped scrapbook paper that I made the gift bag out of and also used a $3.00 stamp set that I picked up out of the sale bin at our local newsagent.   I used distress inks together with my water brush, "Barn Door" for the flowers and "Evergreen Bough" for the leaves, I stamped the images with Stazon Black ink. I shaded the edges with "Barn Door"  Thanks for visiting today, and as usual your comments are greatly appreciated, Jasann

Thinking of you

Hi there everyone, sorry for the delay in my posts, but life has got in the way.  Hopefully soon I will have more crafting time.   This is a card I made for a friend, and I used white card stock for the card base and a piece of burnt orange for the topper, and I used my new Tim Holtz die #1 to do the cut outs, cobblestones and hectagons, and I used a Julie Nutting stamp for the doll, she is a nice little lady and I stamped the dress out of some scrap paper, in greens and creams and it seems to be suitable, I used a green gel pen for the headband and the shoes, and blue for the flowers, and a piece of grass from by scrap basket, and the sentiment stamp comes with the doll stamp, which is "For You" and I have had it for a couple of years and have only used it once, but I do think it makes a nice card, and I am also very happy with Tim's new dies, just hope my friend likes her card, as always your comments are greatly appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Seasons greetings

Hi there everyone, here is a Christmas Card that I saw on the net, but cannot remember who posted it, if you know who you are, thanks very much for the inspiration!!   I used plain white cardstock for the base and used a Tim Holtz stencil "Stars" with Memento ink pad "Canteloupe" and then cut out the die cuts from an old package which had a nice pattern on it.  The snowflake I cut out two Sizzix snowflakes No 17 and three of the Tim Holtz "Retro Christmas Ornaments" and put the stars on the ornaments and then put texture paste on the snowflakes and on the top of the ornaments, and after they dried I attached them to the card, and cut out the sentiment out of gold card from Poppy's Crafts.  I am entering this card in Merry Monday "Christmas in Summer Link Up" http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au thanks so much for visiting me today, and as always your comments are greatly appreciated, Jasann

Circles

Hi there, here is a card I made today to enter into Country View Challenges - July challenge - Have Fun with Circles.   http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.com.au
I used white cardstock for the base and used a blender tool with distress "Vintage Photo" ink pad, and used stencils from Kaiser Craft and Dylusions to make the cogs and circles and I used an image that was a gift of a Steam punk lady, she is very suave, and I also found a circle happy birthday sentiment which I stamped with the Vintage Photo and it had a little balloon image and cut it out with a Couture Creations circle die.   Hope you all like this one, as I had fun making it, as always your comments are greatly appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Christmas Tree

Good Morning everyone, here is a card I made this morning to enter into the 52 (Christmas) card throwdown July Sketch Challenge, http://52cct.blogspot.com.au I used white cardstock for the base and the Christmas Tree was a gift from one of my friends, it was in white and I used my air brush with a distress marker, "Cracked Pistachio" and shaded the edges with distress ink pad "Peeled Paint" and I cut out a circle of red striped paper from a Kaisercraft 6-1/2" paper Pad "Yuletide" and the sentiment was cut from a Creative Die that I received free with Australian Simply Cards, I did have to use a shim with this die but when I did it cut perfectly, I also used three little silver stars that have been hanging around in my stash for ages, and I shaded the edges of the circle and the card with Distress ink pad "Barn Door", hope you like this card, and as always your comments are greatly appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Grandparents

 Here are a couple of scrapbook pages I made today of my fraternal grandparents, I don't have any other photo's of them, so thought that a page was appropriate, I have tried to make them a little big "Heritage" I don't know whether I succeeded or not, but am happy with the pages!!!!!  His manly and hers feminine!!!!!

Ornaments

Hi there everyone, Here is a card I made today for the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #211, Blue, Gold, Silver/white.  http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au .  I used white cardstock for the background and used a Tim Holtz Stencil Holly Bough, and used my Universal Crafts Marker Airbrush with a distress marker "Mermaid Lagoon" to make the background of the card.  I used Tim Holtz Bigz Die "Retro Ornaments" cut out of Gold and Silver Card from Poppy's Crafts, I like these sheets of coloured card and have used these sheets  quite a lot.  I used the Mermaid Lagoon Marker for the ornament chains, and shaded the edges of the card with a blending tool and distress "Chipped Sapphire" hope you all like this card, and as usual your comments are greatly appreciated, thanks for visiting today, Jasann

Love, Peace and Joy

Hi there everyone, this is the card I  made today to enter into the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge # 210 "Peace, Love, and Joy"   http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au , I used white cardstock for the base card and also for the flags, on the base I used Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder "snowflakes" and on the flags I used another snowflake die that came free with the "Quick Cards" magazine,  these embossing folders are No.30 and 31 in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders.   I used a variety of quite old stamps from my stash for the sentiments, which I stamped in distress ink pad "Barn Door" and edged the flags with the same ink.   Hope you all like this card, and as always your comments are always gratefully appreciated, thanks for the visit today, Jasann

Two Birthday Cards

 Hi there everyone, here are two birthday cards for the same lady, one from me and the other from another of her friends.   I made the white flowery one for her friend to give her, and U used an embossing folder ( my 28th personal challenge ) This was  a free one that came with the magazine Simply Cards by Practical Publishing International, Queensland WWW.practicalpublishing.com.au they put out lovely card making and other craft magazines, for the flower  I used an old die that unfortunately I don't use very often, it is a Sizzex die "Flower Blossems by Sizzlits, and I used clear stick on rhinestones for the centre of the flowers and the whole lot was cut from plain white cardstock.  Hope you like this one!  The next card is the one I am giving her, as I feel she has a great sense of humour and I am sure she will enjoy it, On white card stock I  used a Tim Holtz texture fade "Retro Circles" my 29th embossing folder in my personal challenge}  and I used Distress ink pad "Peeled Paint" and a Memento Ink Pad "Bahama Blue" and shaded them on the embossing with blending tools, I cut the opening with a Couture "Victorian Rectangle"  I used a piece of acetate cut to size and I put dimensional tape around the opening and put some tiny beads in there before adding the image, which I cut out from "The Cardmaker's Collection Sea Breeze" this is an English magazine, I bought it on line and am very happy with it, I then added the topper to the card, and added the sentiment on the centre "Notice, Ladies on Beach must wear Bloomers. city ord, 72" I am sure my friend will see the funny side of this,  I cut out an anchor from silver card, and the shell from some browny cardstock, these two dies are by Couture Creations and came with the pack,   the pieces of seaweed were cut with a Memory Box Die, "pine needles" but it is one of those dies that can be used to many other things,   I hope you will like these two cards, and as always your comments are always greatfully appreciated, and thanks for visiting, Jasann

Ben's 16th Birthday

Hi there, I finally received my Crazy Cat stamps, just love these and decided to make a birthday card for my eldest grandson's 16th Birthday, hope he gets a laugh with it!!!  I used white cardstock for the base and stamped the cats with Stazon Black ink, then I coloured them with Distress Markers, I cut out the hats from some old scraps of cardstock, and used a black stabile pen for the embellishment on the top of the hats, I cut out some gift boxes also out of some old card stock, and then I made masks to cover the cats and used a Twiddley Winks stencil, Bricks, and attached them to my craft mat with adhesive tape, and the I got out my Marker Airbrush and the Ground Espresso Marker and brushed the background and I made a small flag with the sentiment on it and then I used scrap black cardstock for the sentiment on the inside with some black fish bones and milk bottles, I am very happy with this card, and hope you will too, as always your comments are gratefully appreciated, and thanks for visiting today, Jasann

Black and White

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the Scrapbook Boutique June 2016 challenge and blog hop, the mood board was black and white.  I used a white cardstock as a base and I have a couple of paper pad in black and white, 8 x 8" cre8tive which I bought at Kmart in Maitland many years ago and still have a few sheets left, also a 6-1/2 x 6-1/2 paper pad by Kaisercraft, which I have also had for some time it is called "Black and White Timeless"  and used a couple of sheets of paper from both pads the background paper with the stripes also had the ribbon and bow at the lower section and I highlighted the ribbon with white gel pen, and cut out the square of inspirations, and cut the hearts with a Kaisercraft cutting die "heart borders" in white cardstock, I like this die and have used it a lot!  http://scrapbookboutiquenews.blogspot.com.au
I hope you all like this card, I haven't made any black and white cards for a while, and as usual all your comments are greatly appreciated, and thanks for visiting today, Jasann

Sea Breeze

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today with the new kit from Cardmakers Collection "Sea Breeze" this is the first shaker card I made with the elements from the kit, there are two Couture Creations dies "Shell" and "Anchor" which cut beautifully and the embossing folder, which I shaded with Memento Ink Pad "Bahama Breeze" I cut the circle with a die, also a Couture Creations "Set of Circles"  and cut out a fish and put it behind the window, I used dimension tape around the centre of the circle on the reverse side and then placed the coloured sequins in it and then attached the main card base, I then cut out the sentiment and shaded the edges with distress "Vintage Photo" and attached all the elements together, hope you all like this card, I am happy with it, I am entering it into the Happy Little Stampers June Challenge "Anything goes with Dies" http://www.happylittlestampers.com ,I am also entering this card in the Stamplorations June cas-challenge, http://stamplorations.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/cas-challenge-june-reminder.html

 as always your comments are always appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann