Back to School at CASual Fridays!!

Hello.... It's Friday and nearing the end of the school holidays here in the UK, James goes back next Thurs and that first morning is going to be hard work!!!

So with the new school term looming you'll understand that it's no coincidence that this weeks challenge at CASual Fridays has a school theme to it then :0)

This week we want to see your cards for those starting or going back to school.... teachers or pupils!!!

The sponsor this week is Pretty Paper Studio, check out there store here.

I have to say I have never made or received a 'Back to School' card.... kinda feels like your rubbing salt in the wound!! ... it was bad enough having to buy new uniform as soon as the school holidays started! .... you can tell I didn't like school much can't you *wink*

I decided to make a denim rucksack for my card as a new school bag was possibly the best bit of going back in September along with new pens and a pencil case :0)

Love the primary colour scheme... I thought this would be perfect for a little one starting school, they have much more enthusiasm for it :0)
I used various shape dies to make the bag and pencil and the sentiment is computer generated using 'Chalkdust' font.

Remember to check out the CASual Fridays blog where you will see Piali has joined us this week as our newest Girl Friday...I hope you pop by to make her feel welcome :0)

Thanks for looking  :0)

Jenny x

CFC#67 Banners and Flags

Good morning

I really enjoyed the CASual Fridays gallery last week... with quite a few beach themed cards I almost felt like the summer holidays had started again for us here in the northern hemisphere :0)

This weeks challenge at CASual Fridays is to show us Banners or Flags on your cards....

I have gone with a golf theme for my card and used various dies to make up a small green, complete with flag....

The centre of the Dienamics Upsy-daisy makes a great golf ball with the small indentations pressed into it and I also thought it would look good as part of the sentiment too. 

The sentiment is a Sizzix alphabet strip called Hunky Dory...... I love using these alphabets...I have a few and must remember to use them more, they're so versatile :0)

Hop over to CASual Fridays for more inspiration and details of this weeks prize before joining us in the gallery with your flags and banners... look forward to seeing what you make :0)

Thanks for looking

Jenny x

CFC#66 Splish Splash!!!

Hellooooo it's me again so it must be CASual Fridays time and I have to say that I enjoyed looking at all your square cards last week... so many great designs, you all make choosing ten favourites a difficult task :0)

... this weeks challenge has a watery theme for you.....

...... so if you find it under water then we want to see it on your card... how inventive can you be, I can't wait to see , eek I'm rhyming now :0)
This weeks sponsor is Stop and Scrap which is a great online store stuffed to the rafters with stash from well known crafting companies :0)

For some reason I had this cute fish stamp set from Inkadinkado still un-inked, gee that's a tongue twister waiting to happen!!!..... so I rectified that for my card to share with you this week...

Photographing this card to show the fish bowl was almost as difficult as deciding how to stick the thing down!! Glossy accents came to the rescue applied to the 'gold' fish which is between the acetate bowl and vellum water... great for hiding PVA glue behind it too *wink*
I dusted down the cricut to cut the bowl and have to say this was the first time I used acetate in it and I'm quite pleased with how it cut :0)

Remember to check out the rest of the Girl Fridays cards and the fab prize on offer this week over at CASual Fridays and then dive into those craft supplies and join us in the gallery for some watery fun :0)

On a more personal note I have to blow the ol' family trumpet this week because here in the UK it was A level results day yesterday and our clever girl has got her first choice place at Bath University with an A* and two A's!!!
*beaming proud mummy face* Yay.... whoop de whoop and a toot toot toot :0)
She so deserves that peace of mind now until Uni starts at the beginning of October when it's nose to the grindstone again!
Okay putting the trumpet away now :0)

Thanks for looking today.

Jenny x

F 'ant' tastic day!!

 

Hellooo hello.... how about a joke to start the morning.....

 

Q. Why did the ants run along the top of the cereal box?
A. Because it said to 'Tear along the dotted line' !!!

 

You have to admit that's quite funny, I know it definitely made you smile !!

 

You're probably wondering why that joke... well my card for today's post over at Make the Day Special features the marching ants from Happy Summer and they are those ants tearing along the dotted line!!

 

I used the Quinns and Claire's Alphabets to make the sentiment focal point and a bit of paper piecing to add a pop of colour....not sure if he's adding or removing the letter F though!!!

These have to be the cutest ants you'll meet and they haven't got wings like the pesky ones flying about on hot days!!

A short and sweet post today because Hannah and I are off to London today to watch 'We Will Rock You'.... I saw it when it first opened 10 years ago but had to squeeze another viewing in with Hannah before it closes next month at the Dominion Theatre :0)

Thanks for looking

Jenny x

 

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CFC#65- Square Cards

Helloooo :0)

Friday has crept up on us again... is it me or are these weeks going faster in the Summer Holidays!!! and I can't believe the Olympics are finishing this weekend either... what an amazing spectacle they've been :0)

You're probably here wanting to know what this weeks challenge at CASual Fridays is, well here it is.....

 The only requirement this week is that your cards are SQUARE and CAS of course :0)
This weeks sponsor is Stampotique Originals and they were generous enough to provide the girl Fridays with  stamps to work with for our DT cards :0)

 I just knew I had to have this little fella when I saw him in the store and then I found the perfect sentiment to go with him.... love the sarcasm.... Just the sort of thing I'd say to hubby if he came home with a face like that :0)

Because he's a well rounded little chap I paper pieced him and shaped the layers for dimension... I love the quality of the Stampotique stamps, so crisp and precise :0)

Click here to see the rest of the Girl Fridays cards and details of this weeks prize then get your square blank canvases out and be creative..... remember it's hip to be square!!!

Thanks for looking :0)
Jenny x

Ice Cream anyone???

Morning....

....just popping by the neglected blog to share an ice cream or three with you :0) It's my attempt to try and pretend we are having a summer!!

This is the card I'm sharing over at Make the Day Special blog today and I've used Lawn Fawn stamps to make an ice cream, .... but Lawn Fawn don't have an ice cream stamp.... yep,  I made one up instead :0)....

I used the gnomes hat from 'Gnome Sweet Gnome' and the top of the pie from 'My Silly Valentine' to make my yummy treats and I really love how stamping with tone on tone ink colours have given them a softer feel :0) 

I'm not so happy with the sentiment, I cut the stamp in half so as to stamp it in the oval and it says 'Keep Cool' but now when I look at it it reads 'Keep Coal'....it looked perfectly fine when read on one line, how strange is that!!!

I haven't forgotten about showing you James's newly decorated bedroom we are still in the process of sorting his stuff out... we are having a toy cull because we are in danger of having more than the local branch of Toys'r'us!!! He will still quite happily play with pre-school toys and we think now is the time to loose some of them whilst redecorating and re-organising his room.

Everything is taking longer though because of the summer hols including crafting and commenting so apologies for not getting round to you all... I'll catch up eventually :0)

Thanks for looking and don't forget, if you live outside the States, you can buy Lawn Fawn stamps along with other American brands at Make the Day Special, too many to list so go check them out :0)

Jenny x

Twinkling Stars!!

Hellooo....

It's time to check out this weeks new challenge at CASual Fridays and being a daydreamer, it's a favourite of mine.... looking to the skies :0)

Yep, we want you to think about what you might see in the sky and join in the fun with us for 'On Cloud 9'....

It's the first challenge of the month so we are searching for a guest designer to join us in September and our sponsor is the well known Simon Says Stamp.

I looked to the sky at night for my card because I wanted to use this sweet sentiment from a MFT stamp set called 'The Great Outdoors'...

I used the bitty texture stamp from Annabelle Stamps Bkgd by design 5 for my galaxy of stars and dotted a few star gems on for the twinkling ones.... I thought the sentiment was quite appropriate with the amazing performances taking place at the Olympics in London at the moment, even without taking home a medal there's a whole lot of twinkling stars there!!
Pretty simple and CAS...I just let the sentiment do the talking :0)

Remember to check out the rest of the Girl Fridays cards not forgetting Sanketi who is Guest designing with us this week :0)

Thanks for looking.

Jenny x

Horsin' Around

Hello hello hello..... I'm here today because it's the first of the month and time for a new challenge at St Luke's Charity Card Challenge ...that's another month chalked off this year!!!

You can't have escaped noticing the Olympics going on in London at the moment so this month we have decided to keep with the theme and challenge you to make a sporty card :0)

My favourite sport is anything equestrian but particularly the cross-country and the Olympics coverage means we get to see it on TV!!!
I've always been horse-mad, I learn't to ride and would often write about, daydream about or draw them as a youngster, I was convinced I would have my own one day but life had other ideas!!!

I found a diagram of a saddle from a book which I made bigger and used as a template then hand cut the saddle blanket and horsey card base to fit the saddle proportions.... it was great fun making the stirrup leathers and running the stirrups up the straps as you do in real life :0)
This card pleases the 'making things in miniature' part of me.... I love playing with card or paper :0)

Our prize this month is generously donated by Waltzingmouse Stamps and is this stamp set called 'Blessed By You'

So what's your favourite sport and is it in the Olympics??? Why not hop over to the St Luke's blog and see how the rest of the DT were inspired by this theme.... all the details can be found there about the challenge.

Thanks for looking :0)

Jenny x