I Thought of You !!

Hi everyone,

I'm using Blogsy to write this as I'm currently in London for our nephews wedding tomorrow, trouble is I haven't used it in a while so lets hope it works.

It's my day to share a card over at the Make the Day Special blog and I wanted to share it on here too because I've been playing with some of the new Wplus9 stamps and dies that Emily has just taken delivery of.....

I have used the 'Heartfelt Mix' stamps and matching dies to make this whimsical card by using the three line stamp as strings for a bunch of heart balloons which have been cut using the dies and inked to give dimension. The sweet sentiments in the set can be paired up to use inside and outside the card, they really are quite heartfelt as the name suggests!! The message inside my card says 'and smiled'.

To see the new stamps and dies visit the shop here and whilst your there have a look round the rest of the store...... I gather there are Magnolia stamps in stock too now

Right well I hope all the links work and now I've got to figure out how to schedule it to appear Saturday morning!!

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

 

Can you Toot Your Own Horn??

Now I bet you're curious about this weeks challenge at CASual Fridays with a title like that!!
No... nothing to do with transport, instead we want you to be inspired by your own blog header and translate that into a design on your projects :0).... how fun is that??

We have a great prize this week from our sponsors  a.muse studios  worth over $35!!!

I looked at my blog header and decided to not go literal with the layout on my card but kept with the tree theme and injected some colour by adding falling leaves....

I cut a few Memory box branches and 'pruned' them so they didn't all look the same before positioning them on the card..... oh boy did that take a while fiddling with them!!
The oak leaves are cut from basic grey PP with the Lil'inker Acorn die and then stuck back to back so they could withstand being shaped and curled.... I love the dimension they give to the scene :0)
The hessian/burlap bkgd and jute on the card base are to represent my blog bkgd.

I'm so looking forward to seeing where your blog inspiration takes you... don't forget to go check out the rest of the Girl Fridays cards this week by clicking here

Thanks for stopping by :0)
Jenny x

Guest designing at CASology

Hello  :0)

I'm here today guest designing with CASology, I was so happy to have won the 10th challenge last week with my Lawn Fawn Owl card... I haven't had much time to play along with challenges for weeks so winning a guest designer spot was a bonus :0)

This weeks cue word is SHOE and as always I had to think aside from the obvious.....

I needed a card for a family wedding this Saturday so I came up with the idea of silver horse-shoes for the bride and groom!
I love the purity of white space on a wedding card and the PTI impression plate gives a faux quilted texture alongside the (not so neat) stitching *wink*
Thank you so much to Melissa and her fab DT for having me join them this week, I can't wait to hop over and see their cards.... in fact it'll be fun to see how everyone uses the cue word  :0)

Talking of shoes..... I thought I'd share a photo of our estate car stuffed to the roof just before we set off to the University of Bath with Hannah at the weekend...

Yep there's quite a few pairs of shoes and bags of clothes in there...... from memory of the rooms we saw last summer I really thought we would be bringing some of it back but she has moved in easily... and still has space for all the text books and folders she'll accumulate soon :0)

I'm going to really miss her around home but with James keeping me on my toes, it certainly isn't going to feel like an empty nest!!
James came with us to see Hannah's new room but the highlight of the trip for him was finding the laundry room....

He really did look like a child in a sweet shop.... it's a good job he couldn't see inside the one machine that was working or we'd never have got him out of there!!!

Thanks for stopping by :0)

Jenny x