Audrey in Bright Green and Mango!

The colour combination on the Passion for Promarkers blog was too tempting to resist this week, Bright Green and Mango, such fresh Springy colours and great fun to use together. I was lucky enough last week to pick up the free digi stamp of Audrey which was available for a limited time as a Birthday treat on the Greeting Farm blog.

I follow Carol's unusual sketch on her Challenge blog this fortnight, the sketch is quite simple and uncluttered so I thought I would team Audrey with some lovely glittered stripey card from the Citrus DCWV stack. The ribbon and buttons are both by Papermania.

I really love colouring in TGF images, I gave Audrey a Mango hat and Bright Green T-shirt. I added some glittery Sakura pen to her necklace and I am really pleased with the colouring of her jeans!
I added a Hero Arts greeting in a Spellbinders star to finish the card off.

I am so glad it is Friday today! We have a busy Weekend of visiting Family and meals out to celebrate Mother's day so I doubt I will have a lot of time for Crafting.
Have a lovely Friday!

Raining kisses and WOYWW

Carol's sketch fun is back! I loved playing along with Carol's sketches last year and she is back now with a new Challenge after a well earned break. Every fortnight, Carol releases a sketch to follow and this fortnight she has a wonderful prize for the lucky winner.


I had ordered these stamps from Elzybells a while back but this is the first time I have used them. I decided to make a bright a cheerful card as an antidote to all this horrible snow we keep having. I have definetely had enough of the snow now!


I used Cosmo Cricket Umbrella papers (which I bought yesterday) to cover my base card and the paper strips are from the DCWV Citrus stack (a firm favourite of mine at the moment!) I used some lovely textured card to stamp my image onto. I actually bought this at my local hardware store when we were snowed in! What a find!
The sentiment is also from Elzybells. The felt circle is from Making memories and the button is from my stash.
Unbelievably....it is also already Wednesday! So time for WOYWW. I forgot to take a piccie of my desk this morning, it was very tidy anyway so was a bit boring.


This is what it looks like now.....not tidy! Nothing very exciting on there really, a whole lot of Promarkers, my favourite linen string which I bought at a Carboot sale so is irreplacable! My silver jars have my buttons in sorted by colours. There is a lovely Whiff of Joy stamp on the desk which I received from my blog buddy Claire for Christmas which I intend to mount on klingon and use for my next Card. Why not head on over to Julia's blog and check out all the other desks, you could even upload a link to a photo of your desk...we would love to have a nosey at it :-)
Am off now to tidy my desk! I hope you all had a good day and managed to avoid any snow dramas!
Jane
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Carol's sketch fun challenge card

I made this card earlier this evening to take part in Carol's sketch challenge but I think I missed the deadline :-( I had trouble with my camera running out of battery and then uploading piccies so I think I was a bit late!
It doesn't really matter though as I had lots of fun making the card.



Carol had provided a lovely sketch for us to follow again and she has a lovely prize up for grabs. I will have to make sure I am a bit more organised next time!
Oooh! Nearly forgot, image is Messy Rabbit coloured with Promarkers and glossy accents and the paper is DCWV Christmas stack, ribbon is from my stash and the snowflakes are confetti embellished with a gem. Sentiment is Elzybells.
Jane
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Another Jolly Nation Christmas card

This is another Design Team card using the fabulous Jolly Nation Christmas decoupage pack. I used Carol's sketch from her latest challenge to make up a quick card.

I used a yellow card blank for the card and layered up Jolly Nation matching backing paper. The patterned pink paper is by Anna Griffin, I bought the pad ages ago when I won some Hobbycraft vouchers but this is the first time I have used it.
Why don't you pop along to Carol's blog and take part in her Challenge, she has a fab prize up for grabs!

Jane
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One card......two challenges!

This is the first time I have made a card to take part in 2 challenges at the same time. I bought the Clare Curd Signature range paper pad and a set of stamps at the weekend and have been itching to use them. I decided to follow the Challenge on the Stampin Chic blog, I hope I have made it within the deadline! The papers are all gorgeous and such great quality, it was a real pleasure to work with them and I am so pleased with this card.

The Challenge is colour blocking so I used papers in the same tones of brown. All the papers are from the Clare Curd pack. I love the patterns. I love stripes and polka dots so I am really spoilt with this pack of papers as there are so many of them in different colours. The stamp is lovely too. The girl reminds me of my best friend Fi. She is very sophisticated and stylish...unlike me!

I used Carol's sketch from her challenge blog. Her sketches are always great and I really enjoy working with them. Check out her blog and have a play along, she has a lovely Popcorn the bear stamp for the winner.

The weather here today cannot make up it's mind, it is either raining and grey or bright sunshine. Every time I think I should put out my washing it starts raining!

Jane
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