Here,s a few random cards that I,ve made over the last week,

The first one was for our friends 30th anniversary, they are a lovely couple and are still very much in love after all this time its great.


This next card was for a friend of my mums who loves flowers so this beautiful stamp worked perfectly for her card.

This card was for a challenge I did can not for the life of me remember which one or when I made it, but found it when looking through my office and used it for my friends daughter.

I love this stamp set, Crazy for Cupcakes, its so cute and the Sweet Always designer series paper is a great match for the set.

My lightbox thingy finally arrived, and having no instructions in the package I went ahead and tried it, as you can see my photos are still rubbish, and now after doing some searching on the net I,ve discovered I,m supposed to shine a light with a day light bulb onto the cube, how was I supposed to know that, anyway I have one on order now so hopefully they will improve soon.

Back later with some cards for my next class.

I,ve Been Busy

Hi all, had another busy week, It was Archies 4th birthday on Monday and went out for the day to Cruckly Farm, we had a lovely day and after the party the day before it was relaxing to juat walk round and enjoy the few glimpses of sunshine between the heavy showers, What is going on with the weather, all this rain and wind, we even had hailstone yesterday.
Anyway back to crafting, I have lots of cards to show, been working on my next class and have used lots of lovely bright colours. Will pop them on later.

My first class

I had my first class last night, at the last minute I changed my mind about the class I had planed and instead went for this one,it was great, we all had lots of fun, I,d made a few small mistakes and not cut enough of certain sizes for the packs but it still went well. I hope its the first of many.
We made four cards and a matching card holder,

Heres a close up of the box, still bad pics I,m afraid my light box thingy hasn,t arrived yet

We used the Soft Summer stamp set, and the Oval all stamp set, Tea Party DSP and the colours Pretty In Pink, and Barely Bannana, and of course my favourite punches the Oval and Scalloped Oval.

The cards looked great that the girls made and I forgot to take a photo of them all before they left, one lady had never even cut a piece of card before and could,nt believe how much she had enjoyed herself. Which is a lovely feeling for me, and I hope she carries on now.

It proves the saying that We are all crafters, some of us just dont know it yet.

Sues Blog Candy

A lovely lady left me a comment on my Daring Cardmakers card, so I popped over to her blog and found this post http://sueskraftykards.blogspot.com/2009/07/99-thingsand-some-blog-candy.html

She has created a game to play to be entered into her 2 year blog anniversary a list of 99 things which she wants to know if we have done yet, so heres the ones I have done from the list

1. Started my own blog

2. Slept under the stars

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland/ world/Paris

8. Climbed a mountain

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea (my dad had a small boat when we were young)

14. Taught yourself a art from scratch

16. Had food poisoning (while in Cyprus)

18. Grown my own vegtables (and fruit)

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitched hiked (stupid I know)

23. Taken a sick day when your not ill

24. Made a snow angel

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

41. Sung karaoke

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

57. Started a business

63. Been given flowers for no reason

67. Bounced a cheque

69. Saved a favourite childhood toy

75. Been fired from a job

77. Broken a bone

88. had chicken pox (as a child and also when pregnant with archie)

91. Met someone famous

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

33 out of 99, not many but a lot of things on the list are things I hopefully will fulfill in my life.

I,ve really enjoyed going through the list, I hope you pop over and join in to, just follow the link at the top of this post.

Golden Oldies cards

A couple of cards that I,ve made with the golden oldies stamp set, My colours were taken from the Stampin up mini catologue, and I think they work well together. The sentiments that come on these stamps are fantastic, and fit the images perfectly, One says 'My mind not only wanders - sometimes it leaves completely' and the other 'I still have a full deck, I just shuffle slower', checky but not too much, I know my Nanna would have laughed if she had received a card with either saying on.

I used

Golden Oldies stamp set,

I coloured them with my Stampin writer pens (ink pads work just as well) ,

Circle of Friendship stamps,

Circle punch and Scalloped circle punch,

Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive card stock,
Chocolate Chip Designer Series paper,

Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon.

Self adhesive gems.

Hope you like them.

Wedding card

Here,s the other wedding card I made last week for our friends, her wedding colour is green so thought I would co-ordinate the card to her colour scheme.
I used
Doodlebug clear wedding stamps
SU Chocolate chip ink,
Certainly Celery marker to colour the image and sentiment in, which I them went over with
some glitter gel,
SU Chocolate Chip and Certainly Celery card stock.
I Love love love these two together they look great on any type of card.

Hopefully my photos will be improving in the near future as I,ve just ordered a light box which should make a considerable difference in the quality of my pics at least thats the plan, you,ll have to wait and see the therory.

Sketch Saturday Challenge

Heres another challenge which I liked the look of, Sketch saturday Challenge blog is great for inspiration, they have some very talented ladies on their design team, pop over and have a look you,ll be pleased you did. There was asketch to follow, and with the post being on the 4th you had the option of using red, white and blue for independence day, I knew exactly which papers I was going to use I,ve had them ages, when I first started serial crafting I went mad and ordered tons of Doodlebug stuff and have lots of papers which I,ve never thought of using so they matched this challenge perfectly.





I used a pre made card blank, it was actually left from my wedding invitations,

The Magnolia image was kndly given to me also an age ago,

I coloured her in using Su Real Red and Brilliant Blue ink pads,

Doodlebug papers from the Stars and Stripes range,

Su Real Red and Brilliant Blue card stock,

Su Real Red ribbon,

and two prima flowers.



I,m really happy with this card so bright and cheerful.

Daring card challenge

Just like buses heres another posts.
I,ve just found a new challenge blog site Daring cardmakers Blog and the theme this week is
Blue and Green should never be seen, So while I had my stuff out I made this quick card up, using of course the Baroque Motif set
So heres my card.

I,ve used Green galore, Brilliant blue, and whisper white card stock, and the same ink pads, a bit of cutting and layering with some sparkly gems, the cherish sentiment is perfect as I,m going to use this as a wedding card for our friends who are flying off to Cyprus tomorrow to get married, I need to do another wedding card for one of Archies pre-school teachers as they are heading off to Gretna Green in the morning for their wedding also. All these weddings and I wont even be getting any cake, how unfair.

Baroque Motif Stamp Class

It seems I,ve neglected my blogg (again) lately, I just dont seem to find the time to update it as regularly as I would like but I promise I will try harder.
But I have been busy, I,ve had two stampin' Up workshops which were a great sucess and we had lots of fun at both (thank you ladies), Its lovely to be able to get together and spend some time stamping with friends its a bit like therapy only better.
I have also been busy getting ready for my first stamp class which is next week so if anyone would like to join us (I,m in Swanland near Hull) you would be more than welcome, I,m holding the first few at home and hopefully will get enough people to start having them in our local village hall.
Heres a few of the cards which we will be making, I apologise for the horendous photography I have just ordered a light box which should make my pics better as you really cant see the colours properly and no amount of adjusting will make them any better.

We will be using the Baroque Motif stamp set, it really is my favourite set to work with at the moment and so versatile I,ve even just made some christmas cards with it. I know its only July but I,m trying to avoid the mad November rush and get most of them done early.

I,ve used the colours Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue, I think they work perfectly together, some Chocolate Chip Patterns designer series paper, coloured brads and the beautiful Rhinestone brads to add a bit of sparkle, the flowers were white small primas which I have had for ages and I used my Stampin write marker in Bashful Blue to colour them to match my colour scheme. Theres a few more cards in the class and I,ll post full pictures when we,ve had it.

So if anyone would like to join us please contact me on mailto:jayne@carroll33.karoo.co.uk I would love to see you.