Thanks Sew Much

Hi there :)

I must apologise to those who may have seen this card already, crafting time has again been in short supply recently so I'm sharing a card from last months Craft Stamper magazine.... the theme was sewing so I used an older Paper Smooches stamp set called Needle Little Love....

I stamped, coloured and cut out the images by hand when I made this a couple of months ago...... but now Paper Smooches has a die set to match so you don't have too and it's just been added to the store here :)  The circular window gives an extra detail and allowed me to include the soft green background for my images and the sentiment snuggles perfectly within the scene..... I've used a couple of words from Many Thanks to create it :)

   

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Prickly Birthday Wishes!!

Good morning, what a gorgeous weekend we had.... hope you did too :0)
Not the best weather to craft in... much better to be out enjoying the sun just like the prickly little characters on my card today!!!

Have you seen these cute cacti in the new Paper Smooches set called Southwestern Charm??  Not only are they great for making a landscape or scene but they make great houseplants too, ideal for housewarming/new home cards or even a birthday card for the Mother in Law.... *wink* !!!!   

After a quick search through my Paper Smooches sets I found two suitable containers..... the base of the sewing machine and the thimble from Needle Little Love :0)

These guys (or gals) are so much fun to colour and I just had to add that smiley face and some prickles too. I went with a good old general 'Happy Birthday' this time from Birthday Sampler  but I'm sure you could think of some funny puns to use alongside the cacti and print them out on a computer of use Lawn Fawn alphabets to spell them out!!

                                         

Don't forget our monthly challenge ends this week, check out the details here and join in before it's too late!!

Thanks for stopping by, catch ya next week :0)

Jenny x

On the Angle!!

Good Morning Crafters :0)

Jenny here and I'm popping by with a card I've made using Paper Smooches stamps.

I've noticed that having elements across your card on the diagonal seems to be popular in 

crafting at the moment so being one to usually trail behind the 

bandwagon, I thought I'd jump on it instead!!

My inspiration for this card is the photo at the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge blog
...  the colours and patterns just called to me :0)

Have you played along in their weekly challenges??

I decided on a sewing and fabric theme... the dotty strip is a border from 'Geo-graphic' embossed

 on blue card to look like ribbon across the corner of the card. The flowers and leaves are 

from 'Needle Little Love' embossed in white with a stitch made across the centre of each and 

the panel was de-bossed using a piece of hessian by running them through my Bigshot together... 

I think it looks similar to Aida fabric :0)

As always I don't have gems to match the deep turquoise colour but I do have a

bottle of Adirondack Pearlised Acrylic paint that does so after some practice runs on 

scrap paper I carefully made my own faux gems :0)

I really love the colours together and who knew that cream and white 

sit happily side by side too!!!

Just before I go...

.... did you see that we are having a design team call at Make the Day Special???

If you would like to join a bunch of friendly, crafty ladies (I'm bias of course)

 pop over to the Facebook page to find out more details here :0)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

Paper Smooches stamps used : Needle Little love, Geo-Graphic and Simply Said (currently out of stock)

Feeling Bright

Hi... Jenny here :0)

Have you seen the fab new Paper Smooches sets for January???

There are 4 new sets and I've used three of them on this fun card...

The dinousaurs in the Cuteasauraus stamp set are exactly that and I've used the
circle design from Bold Blooms to make custom spotty paper for their skin!!!
Can you see the stitch lines down the side of the card?... they are from another of the new sets called
Needle little Love, it's such a versatile set with lots of decorative elements.

Thanks for looking

Jenny x