WARM Christmas Wishes!!

Hi ya

Well, I hope you're all enjoying the warm Easter weekend, hasn't it been lovely?

Anyway, I warned you the other day that I'm in Christmas mode (I KNOW I'm weird, lol), so here's my latest attempt.

The image is a digi from The Greeting Farm, I think it's called Autumn Anya, but I figured being all wrapped up in her scarf it would do for Christmas too.  The patterned paper is also a digi, and is from a set by Donna at Bearly Mine Designs, called Christmas Fun.  I made some plain paper in a dark shade of purple to blend with the DP and the Copic colours that I used to colour my image.  I've also used a Fiskars snowflake border punch, a Doo Hickey die for the swirl and a heart shaped doily from my stash.  The DP is stitched in place with zigzag stitching, and I designed the ticket stamp on the computer, then cut it out with my lovely die from Whimsy - love these, they release SO easily.

Hope you like it.

Hugs

Judi xx

Miss Anya does summer!

Hi again

I was asked on Monday if I would make a card for one of my daughter's work colleagues - her birthday is on Friday, ANOTHER ONE, at the last minute!  The only info I had was that she likes turquoise, and is quite 'girly'.  So with the lovely weather we've been having I decided to make a sunny, summery card and this is what I came up with.  Sorry I'm in a bit of a rush tonight, so I won't bore you with the details, but if there's anything you want to know, feel free to email me.

Hugs

Judi x

Challenge Card

Hello again

Today I'd like to share a card that I've made for the Copic Colour Challenge, among others.  I've not made a card for a challenge in ages, so I hope this fits the bill.  Luckily, I had the exact colours required, and have used a lovely little stamp called 'Ruby' from The Greeting Farm. The yellow paper is another one from my first Papermania purchase, and the delightful teal colours are from the pile of fab papers that my lovely friend Tasha gave me.  I used the MS doily punch to create the border, and a Leone Em punch for the leaves.  Flowers, ribbon, and pearls, from my stash.

Other challenges:

Stamp Something - Something Girly
Paperplay Challenges - Just Because
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays
Simon Says Stamp Challenge

As always, I hope you like it.

Judi x

Ian - Again!

Today I've used the other one of my Ian stamps.  I think I prefer this one, as there is a bit more to colour and he looks like the 'boy next door', if you know what I mean.

The papers are My Mind's Eye, and has been matted with card came from my stash.  Once again I've made my own, what I believe is called 'card candy' - the little green circles.  The sentiment is a stamp from Cats Life Press, and is framed with a pinking circles nestability.  A really simple card, but I think that guys prefer a 'less is more' approach.

That's it for a few days now, as we're off up to Yorkshire for a week or so, let's hope the weather is kind to us, although I am of course taking some images and my copics with me, lol.

Ian - Anya's boyfriend!

Afternoon folks

Sorry I haven't posted for a few days. but I've been busy making a card box / carrier, so that my daughter can take my cards out and show her friends - hopefully selling some along the way!!   I don't actually make my cards with a view to selling them, just for my own enjoyment really, but if anyone likes them enough to buy, that's lovely.

Anyway, I've finally gotten around to playing with one of my new Ian stamps, from The Greeting Farm.  (For anyone who isn't in the know, he's Anya's boyfriend).  I've had the checked paper for quite some time, and thought it a good colour combo for a 'male' card, but didn't have anything to go with it, apart from the matching plain green, so thinking cap on, and suddenly I had it!!  A nice brown ink, used with a splodgy patterned rollargraph stamp, and I was away.  I treated myself to the rollergraph guide a couple of weeks ago, and while it seemed expensive at the time, it has made it SO easy to line up the patterns and make my own background designs.  I can see it's going to get a LOT of use!!

As usual, Ian was coloured with copics.  The 'Hey dude' sentiment was computer generated, and the 'Happy Birthday' was a stamp from Claire Curd's sentiments collection.

Hope you like the card

Judi xx