A Colour Challenge at CASual Fridays!!

Good Morning everyone...

Last weeks challenge made a stunning looking gallery with some amazing colour combinations against your black base cards and this week we have three colours for you to play with in this weeks CASual Fridays challenge...

You can make any card or project you want as long as these three colours are the main focus.

This weeks generous sponsor is Stop&Scrap, they have an amazing online store stuffed full of yummy stash... go check it out :0)

Well no matter how much I tried to think otherwise, I saw these colours as perfect for a guys card so I went with a geometric design...

.... these little rectangles are the waste from the Dienamics film strip die and this is just one cool way I wanted to use them because I just love the tiled effect...... do you see a grey blue dot in the white intersections ???  You're eyes are playing tricks on you of course!!!

To keep it suitable for a guy I kept the embellishments to a minimum and no bows either... guys cards are the perfect time to make a CAS card :0)

I hope you have fun with this colour combo and I look forward to seeing how you use them.... don't forget to visit the rest of the Girl Fridays to and see how the colours inspired them too :0)

Thanks for looking 

Jenny x

Teacher Thank You Gifts

Good morning again..... well my blog posts are just like buses... nothing for days and then three come along in quick succession !!!.... and still I'm trying to find time to catch up with you!!

The school term ended yesterday so Thursday night I was beavering away in the craftroom making covered jotter pads for James's three class staff.... yep I know it's last minute, that's pretty much how life's been this week!!!

They started life as a shopping list jotter pad measuring 7x21cm and with some thick card and patterned paper I've covered them and added a loop for a pen too...

I have a photograph tutorial over at Make the Day Special blog if you would like to know how they came together.
The papers are a mixture of Lawn Fawn Brightside Collection, October Afternoon and Fancy Pants... the bold patterns and fun colours do all the talking so I kept the embellishments to a single button which is involved in the fastening mechanism :0)

James has a regular taxi driver that takes him and delivers him from school, he's got to know James so well and that makes a huge difference to his school day having a familiar face every morning and afternoon so we gave him a bottle of wine as a thank you gift and this is the tag I made to hang on the bottle.
I've used MFT dies and stamps to make all the elements for this wine tag :0)

I wondered whether it looks good to give him a bottle of wine to carry around in the car until he gets home...!! Can't help thinking it wouldn't look good to other passengers!!...Lol

 It's lovely to have Hannah back home again, James gave her a huge hug :0) She had a great time with the young children at the school in Poland and soaked up a bit of culture in the freetime they had too but she really missed her comfy bed and home cooking the most... aww bless :0)

Well I gather the warm sunshine is going to finally make an appearance so I hope you make the most of it and have a great weekend :0)

Thanks for looking today
Jenny x

A Little Black Minnie!!!

The challenges here at CASual Fridays are always great fun and... er.... well...... challenging!, and this week is no exception :0)

We are asking you to use the colour BLACK as your card base colour....

We are sponsored by Lil' inker Designs this week and the lucky winner will receive a gift card to spend in their online store...have you seen the yummy stamps and dies you could own???

I just had to try the gorgeous bow die for my card and as soon as I started to lay some fun patterned papers down on the black card this familiar character came to mind :0)

I do not own the Disney Cricut cartridge and I just love the challenge of making my own design so I started with two nestie circles for the outline which is an aperture in the front panel.
To make her face I cut the same size circle in dirty pink/flesh tone Bazzill and used oval dies to draw around to get the shape right before trimming with a craft knife. Her eyes and nose are made using various dies and punches.... her mouth,tongue and eyelashes are cut freehand with a craft knife :0)
The bow is just perfect for her with the tails left off....... much easier than tying a real one in ribbon :0)

As always, don't forget to hop over to the blog and check out the rest of the Girl Fridays cards and then join us in the players gallery...... see you there :0)

Thanks for looking

Jenny x