Joanna Sheen Challenge - mid way reminder

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

I have 2 posts today so I will get straight onto my first one which is a reminder of the 

Joanna Sheen Challenge which is running to the end of the the month.

The theme is

Make it Sparkle

The Prize for the lucky winner is a wonderful £30 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE CHALLENGE BLOG. This is the last Joanna Sheen challenge as the decision has been made to close it down. As you can imagine the DT are very sad about this. Not only did we love being part of such a fabulous team we know how much you enjoyed taking part.

Anyway, onto my card.

I have used a cute House Mouse stamp. There is lots of sparkle on the branches and flowers, I am not sure if you can see it too well on my rubbish photo.

The flowers are made from felt cut with Cheery Lynn Rose dies.  I stitched them together rather than using glue, they do look quite pretty in real life.

Items Used;

Stamp - House Mouse Winter Candle coloured with Promarkers.

Papers - Dovecraft Vintage Christmas and magazine freebies.

Dies - Cheery Lynn Holly Flourish

Cheery Lynn Holly Corner

Cheery Lynn Medium and Large Rose

Imagination Crafts Detail Sparkle - White Shimmer

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Cheery Lynn Designs - Sparkle and Shine ( unfortunately it doesn't show up too well on my card!)

I hope lots of you will be able to take part in what will be our last challenge!

Thank you for stopping by, I will be back later.

Bye for now

hugs

Make it Sparkle at the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I can hardly believe that it's the first of December already, this seems to have been the quickest year ever.

Anyway, I have two posts today, my first is for the Joanna Sheen Challenge

This time our the challenge will run for the whole month. Our theme is

Make it Sparkle

The Prize for the lucky winner is a wonderful £30 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

I have used an adorable decoupage from the Jayne Netley Mayhew Decoupage - Winter Collection. The green sparkly card I have had for years, it was good to finally make use of it!

Items Used:

Decoupage - Jayne Netley Mayhew Decoupage - Winter Collection.

Papers - these are very old, think they may be Papermania?

Memory Box Holly Vine

Small red gems from stash.

Gold and Green sparkle card from stash

Stickles - Diamond

If you take a look at the  Joanna Sheen Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the design team.

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my first card of the day, I really do appreciate it.

Bye for now

hugs

Food for Thought at the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

Thank you so much for you lovely comments on my recent cards, you are all so kind.

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge.

This week our theme is

Food for Thought

As always the wonderful prize for the lucky winner will be a £15 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

I have decoupaged a gorgeous image from a set by Joanna Sheen called TC Chiu  - Fruit and Flowers.

Unfortunately I found it hard to get a decent photo of this card. 

Here is the side view first as I think this is the better picture to reflect the true colours

Here you can see the full image, sorry about the glare on the shiny paper.

Items Used:

Decoupage - Joanna Sheen's TC Chiu  - Fruit and Flowers

Martha Stewart Vintage Floral PATP punch

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Butterfly Wishes

If you take a look at the Joanna Sheen Challenge you will see the gorgeous creations made by this week's design team and see who were the winners of the last challenge.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

MAWTT - no (designer or digital) papers

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend

bye for now

hugs

So Sweet - Joanna Sheen Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend. It wonderful and sunny here at the moment, just right for my Son's last cricket match of the season.

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge.

This week our theme is

So Sweet

As always the wonderful prize for the lucky winner will be a £15 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

I have used a sweet decoupage sheet that was given to me by a lovely crafty friend a couple of years ago. This is available from Joanna Sheen which comes in a set with lots of other cute images.

Items Used:

Decoupage - House-Mouse Designs- Just the Two of Us

Papers - Echo Park and Papermanina (I think as they were loose in my box)

La la lands Heart Banner

Sentiment - Tina Wenke Sweet Wishes

If you take a look at the Joanna Sheen Challenge you will be able to see the wonderful creations made by the design team and see who were the winners of the last challenge .

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - We're Going Dotty

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.
I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend

bye for now

hugs

Use Ribbon at the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends

I hope you are having a good weekend. The weather here hasn't been too bad so far, hopefully it will stay dry for my Son's cricket match later.

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge.

This week our theme is a nice easy one

Ribbons

As always the wonderful prize for the lucky winner will be a £15 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

I made a centre stepper card, I love this design and it seemed to work well with my image - the fabulous Joanna Sheen Country Kitchen Blackberry Stamp

Items Used:

 Joanna Sheen Country Kitchen Blackberry Stamp coloured with Promarkers

     Ribbon - Cottage Check - Antique Gold

Papers - Papermania Cranberry and Apple

Memory Box Lavish Branch

Whimsy Corner Die Set

Button and Twine from stash

If you take a look at the Joanna Sheen Challenge blog you will see the wonderful creations made by this week's design team and see who were the winners of the last challenge

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons -  Anything Goes with ribbon

Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes
My Sheri Crafts - Fall Colours

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. Your support and encouragement really means a lot to me and I love the read any comments you may wish to make

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend

bye for now

hugs

Embossing at the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge.

This week our theme is

Embossing (dry or heat)

As always the wonderful prize for the lucky winner will be a £15 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

After printing a cute image from the Joanna Sheen House Mouse Project CD Rom, I decided to try something a bit different and made a shadow box card.

It was really easy, there is a fabulous totorial for this on the Papermill blog here

Side view to show the dimension. I love how the card folds flat to fit into a normal sized envelope.

Items Used:

Image - from Joanna Sheen House Mouse Project CD Rom

Crafts Too Embossing folder - Seed Heads

Joy Crafts Vintage Butterfly

Spellbinders Labels 28

Sentiment - LOTV Handwritten Phrases

If you take a look on this Joanna Sheen Challenge blog you will see the wonderful creations made by this week's Design Team and see who were the winners of the last challenge.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - Dry Embossing

My Time to Craft - Aperture

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog again today. It really means so much to me and I love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs 

Citrus Colours at the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Hello to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend. 

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge

This time our theme seems really appropriate for the hot weather we are having here in the UK at the moment:

Citrus Colours

As always the wonderful prize for the lucky winner will be a £15 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

Well, I did warn you on my last post that this was going to be bright and I'm sure you will agree that it is!!

I was sent some Country Kitchen Rubber Stamps - Cloudy Lemonade.  A fabulous stamp set which includes the main image a smaller image and a recipe. I was also sent some Queen and Co - Self-Adhesive Candy Stripers which I used for the flower centres

Here it is  -  get your sunglasses ready!! Sorry if it gives you a headache!

Close up of the recipe

Items Used:

 Stamp -Country Kitchen Rubber Stamps - Cloudy Lemonade coloured with Promarkers

Queen and Co - Self-Adhesive Candy Stripers

Papers - Doodlebug designs

Spellbinders Lables 1 and scalloped labels 1

Go Create Large Square Frilly Frame

Nellie Snellen Floral punch

Martha Stewart Frond punch

If you take a look on the Joanna Sheen Challenge, you will see the wonderful creations made by this week's design team and also see who were the winners of the last challenge

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Oldie but Goodie - In the garden (old papers and very old but favourite flower punch)

Penny Black and More - Die and Punches

Graphic Markers - Candy colours - sherbet lemons (yum)

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today, it really means a lot to me and I love to read any comments you may wish to make

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Bye for now

hugs

Father's Day / for a Male at the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Hello to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend. 

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge

This fortnight our theme is to create something for

Father’s Day / for a Male

As always the wonderful prize for the lucky winner will be a £15 voucher to spend online at Joanna Sheen.

For this challenge I was sent some House Mouse Gruffies stamps, quite handy really as my dad is rather partial to a slice (or two) of pizza! The only thing is, he would prefer to have a pint of beer to wash it down with!

Items Used: 

Stamp - House Mouse Gruffies Slice of Happiness coloured with Promakers

Papers - MME On the Bright Side and Papermania Happy Days

Sentiment - Kaisercraft Occasions

Dienamics Fishtail Flags Stax

Wooden Stars from stash

If you take a look at the Joanna Sheen Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of this week's design team and also see the amazing winning entries from the last challenge.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Hobby Cutz - Male/Father's Day
Ladybug Crafts - For the men in your life
Creative crafts Challenges 2 - We Love you Dad
Papertake Weekly - hello boys :)
Totally Gorjuss - For Dad
Inky Impressions Father's Day/For a Guy
Polka Doodles ~ Males
Crafty Sentiments ~ For a Male

Lisa B Designs - Those Magnificent Men!

Right, that's it from me for now. I'm off to visit my dear dad soon and then my hubby and son are playing cricket so fingers crossed the rains stays away.
I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend
Bye for now
hugs

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