Girls, Girls, Girls over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog!

Oooh, a fab challenge over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge blog this fortnight - all things girly! Could there be a more tempting, easy peasy challenge? Frankly, I think not! And, with a £15 Sheenie voucher up for grabs, who could resist?

I am still battling ridiculous computer problems so Sheenie Paula sent me some images from the fabulous Daisy and Friends CD to work with. This one is quite CAS for me!

I coloured the image with copics and used spun sugar distress ink around the edges. The papers are from  Wild Rose Studio - Annabelle's Meadow I think! I really have got to stop buying paper, seriously, we are clearing out the third bedroom to turn it into a nursery and I have to re-home all my craft stuff. I'm having to hide it everywhere!!!!! It's not looking good.

Back to the card. The butterfly is a spellbinders die I got for my birthday :D The banner is the La La Land beautiful die that I could just not resist. Well, it doesn't take up much room and is the least of my worries!!!!

The DT have made some scrumptious cards this week and I hope that you have time to check them out. Thank you for visiting me - I do at least realise I am a really terrible blogger! Biggest of hugs, Jayne xx

Thank you over at Lili's Little Fairies!

This post starts with yet another apology! My daughter was sick all night on Tuesday and is off school at the mo - ooh what a jolly 40th birthday I will be having today!! She's mad keen on dominos so I guess I'll be getting soundly thrashed in that department!

Over at the Fairies we would like you to make a 'thank you' card - and PLEASE could you use a LOTV image/sentiment. We had lots of fab entries this week but lots didn't use an LOTV image :(

In brief (sorry, need to get back to the patient) the LOTV image is coloured with copics and the papers are by Melissa Frances. So sorry it's another quick post - will try and catch up with the blog when things are more settled here.

Quick update - HUGE thanks to Christine, Lorraine, Squirrel and Kate for your completely fabulous cards! I have the most gorgeous selection of cards ever! Mwah xx

Hugs, Jayne xx

Lace over at Lili's Little fairies!

Huge apologies that my post is both late and half finished! I decided to start painting the baby's room but as it's still stuffed full of furniture it was no easy task!! Still I've painted one wall and now can barely move!!! Ah, the joy :)

This week we have two Stamposaurus stamps to give away and all we want you to do is use some lace on your card. Easy peasy! This is my offering:

I think I only stopped throwing embellishments at this one when I ran out of room :) Still, I had fun! I used my new La La Land heart banner die - it's just yum scrum!

Apologies to leave the post unfinished but I now have to hot foot it to school to read with a bunch of reluctant 5/6 year olds. Let's hope they all stay above the table this week. Big sigh.

Hugs, Jayne xx

Kraft it over at A Little Bit Crafty

This month our challenge over at A Little Bit Crafty is to use kraft card on your project or card. We had a huge amount of entries last month and I'm super glad that the challenge was so successful particularly as Paula has worked so hard setting it all up :))

Our sponsors this month are:

£10.00 voucher at Clare Curd Crafts

£7.50 voucher at Hobbycutz

What more persuading do you need to join in?

So, this month I went for another Saturated Canary image - one for the boys, 'Skater Boy'. I've coloured with copics and the papers are from a freebie We R Memory Keepers paper stack called Travel Light. A bit brighter than my usual offerings - blame the hormones!! The little Kraft tickets are by Maya Road and the stars were cut with the Star X-Cut nestie dies.

I nearly posted without adding photos of my card again! What is with me at the moment!!!

Sorry I haven't been around lately. I keep falling asleep on the sofa in the middle of the day!! I'm not sleeping at night because I keep getting a weird pain under my rib. Must be my age :)

Hope you get the chance to join us this month and please check out my DT sisters awesome offerings :D

Hugs, Jayne xx

Recycle Something over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog!

Over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog this fortnight we would like to see you use something recycled on your card. This could be an old button, ribbon or, like me, a cereal box!  I received these yummy House Mouse stamps from Sheenie Towers for this challenge! They are the House Mouse 'Chocolate Heart' set and can be bought here. There are days when I think I've got just the best job ever!

I cut out two cheery Lynn heart dies from a cereal box and painted them with white acrylic paint and then distressed them with walnut distress stain. The little felt flower on the bow is from my daughter's broken hair slide (she doesn't much 'do' hair slides. Or tidy hair of any description for that matter :))

The papers are from a the Debbi Moore Shabby Chic Teddy Bear CD ROM (which includes some really beautiful papers!)

So, that's me. There is a £15 Joanna Sheen voucher up for grabs for the winner so I really hope you get chance to enter.
Apologies for the late post. A combination of feeling rough, computer difficulties and a VERY long performance involving a five year child and a written comprehension came together to cause utter chaos. Ahh, the joys of life :)
Hope you're having a great weekend, hugs Jayne xx

Seeing Double over at Lili's Little Fairies

What is with this weather? The sun is now shining but it's blowing an absolute gale. I cut short my power walk in fear of being blown away! Still, I've managed to get some colouring done and I managed to salvage my washing from my  'accidentally putting a new blue tee shirt in with my white load' disaster :)

Today over at the Fairies we would like you to use a LOTV image that consists of two people/animals/animal and person. Couldn't be simpler! As an added bonus we are sponsored by Stamposaurus and have two gorgeous stamps to give away :)

I was about to sign off and remembered that I hadn't actually posted a pic of my card - blimey, I'm all kinds of nuts at the moment!!!!

I used the totally scrummy Gabrielle Collection papers from Bo Bunny on this one; I really love this green colour. The sentiment and image are both LOTV. I've used a little Melissa Frances corner; they were half price at my local craft shop and therefore impossible to resist :) I coloured with copics; my distress marker colouring is not improving and I'm on the verge of giving it up as a bad job!!

The good news is that I managed to transfer two albums to my ipod; the bad news is I haven't got a clue HOW I did it! Back to the drawing board.

Hope you're having a great week. Thank you for stopping by, hugs, Jayne xx

A Little Bit Crafty midway reminder!

A quick post today to remind you that we are half way through our first 'A Little Bit Crafty' Challenge. We've already had a ton of stunning entries :) I came over all girly pink for this one!

The papers are from Wild Rose Studio - really pretty they are too, such a shame I've practically covered them in embellies! The fabulous stamps are all from Dreamees. I've used their new script stamp with spun sugar distress ink to print a background behind the Penny Farthing then stamped the bike over the top. The flowers I made by stamping out the medium and the small Dreamees hot air balloon stamps multiple times and colouring them with copics. I'm loving these stamps :)

I've run out of lace and other essentials and am not sure if I have sufficient funds to visit WOC :( I've been given an ipod nano as an early birthday present and today I'm going to see if I can get the contents of a CD onto said pod. Putting the two side by side doesn't seem to have worked so I'm guessing I have to do something with the computer!!!!!! Oh man, it's going to be such a long day ;)

Ooh, and just a gentle reminder that it's just ONE entry per person :)

Big hugs, Jayne xx