Altered Ikea frame thingy wotsit :o)

Oh boy have I had fun this evening! I've altered a very very very cheap Ikea frame. I used Now That's Funky papers from Funky Hand, also used lettuce acrylic paint, K&Co rub ons, felt border, glitter glue, a swirl stamp and doodling. I used my new Ranger Inksentials white pen which is me new love! It is fab fabby fab fab!!




Before shot!











After.

Giant tag

I made a giant tag last night using papers from Funky Hand (V Funky). The photo is of my eldest daughter Abigail when she was 9 months old. We were on holiday on a boat on the Thames and there was this stonking great pole down the middle of the boat which she loved to hang on to. We joked she was a budding pole dancer!!

DCM Challenge - Hot and Spicy

Have made another quickie card as I need to get Maddie to playgroup shortly. It's not my best effort I have to admit. I went for hot & spicy colours. K&Co Mira papers, Anita's scribble flower stamp, K&Co glitter rub ons and a cheapy 99p sentiment stamp. xx

Funky Hand

Well I have to say I've been in heaven today. My 1st 3 Funky Hand CDs arrived yesterday and so I've been playing last night and a little bit this morning and a little bit late afternoon too! LOL!! All the papers are fab! I've been creating like a mad thing. Some of my creations I'm happy with and some didn't turn out quite as expected but hey ho we live and learn. The hardest thing is that because some of these cards might be shown on Create and Craft, we have to try and avoid stamped images as they like to only show stuff they sell. I can however use my Cuttlebug so (oh dear) I may just have to get more supplies for mine! The rest of the DT are incredibly talented - I hope I can keep up! Anice says we can blog what we make so here's what I've made so far. See what you think...

MOTHER!!!!!!...........................

..........don't you DARE take my photograph!!!!!

Oh the joys of terrible 2's!!!

DCM midweek challenge

Patterned paper doodling! If you get a chance to look here you will find a fabulous tutorial from Lythan on how to add a little extra to your patterned paper.

I had a very quick go late this afternoon. I used paper from the Now That's Funky cd from Funky Hand. I added dots, bizarre funky flowers and drew round shapes.





Paper before doodling

Girls card

I've had a little play again with the new Funky Fairy girls papers. I decided it was time to air my cows Penny Black stamp again. I've not used it for almost 2 years! I've used watercolour pencils to colour the image in and added a hand written sentiment and a Lakeland bloom.

Boys cards

I made a couple more boy cards with the fabby boys and girls kit at Funky Fairy's! The papers really are delicous! I ususally find boys cards so hard but not with these :o) I used a Sugar Nellie stamp on one card (monkeh) and a Penny Black doggy stamp on the other. x

Funky Fairy Challenge 16 stars & stripes

The challenge this week is set by Karen.

I was inspired by the new and totally fabulous Funky Fairy 'Girls and Boys' papers to set this challenge as Stars and Stripes. As always, you can use any papers and embellishments and you can make anything you wish: I just want to see stars and stripes in or on there.

The best thing is that there will now be a prize every week for one lucky person - a download of your choice from Funky Fairy Papercrafts so get creating - you could be a winner!!

This is my card using the fab boy papers and an animadoodle from the fab stamp range at Funky Fairys!!

100th post and exciting news!!

How fab that it should be my 100th post that I announce that I am now designing for the fabulous and talented Anice at Funky Hand !!

I'm dead excited about this and feel incredibly lucky! Now I just need to win the lottery so that I can give up work and do crafty stuff full time!! LOL

I also want to congratulate the other members of the DT and I look forward to working with everyone. Anice's announcement can be found here

Hugs
Jozza x

By crikey it works!! (and it's easy!!)

I saw this idea on someone's blog. Unfortunately I do a lot of blog surfing and I can't actually remember whose blog I saw it on but I do remember that it wasn't her idea it was from yet another blog! It was to decorate a pillar candle with a stamped image! Had a go this evening and it works!! And is easy!! I was almost wetting myself with excitement!! I really wish I had bought more than 2 candles when I was at Ikea on Wednesday!!!!

















You stamp and emboss the image you want to use onto tissue paper. Then colour it (I used Marvy Le Plumes). Lay the tissue paper image over the candle where you want it to go then heat with heat gun and it kinda melts in with the wax! Dead quick and simple! This is my first attempt so I'm sure I'll get better at it. I made a matching card and added glitter glue.

Lola is an angel!

After finishing the Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge I used some leftover bits and bobs to make a quickie card. It's not my best card by any means but it's ok.

Scrummy stash cafe sketch challenge

I wanted to have a go at this weeks Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge which is a sketch set by Vanessa.












I decided to do a scrapbook page although I am still a novice scrapper. I used a phot of my youngest daughter when she was about 6 weeks old which I printed out a few months ago with a view to scrapping it but never got round to it - so this sketch was a gift!


































I used papers by Fancy Pants Designs, I hand cut a circle frame and hand stitched it over the photo, I also stuck a die cut crown on Maddie's head, coloured a tag with distress ink and added a rub on and doodled swirls. I stuck buttons across the bottom and added a bloom and doodles swirls top left. I also drew around some of the images on the paper in black ink. I added the name Madeleine with Sue Dreamer alphabet stickers and added glitter glue to accent certain aspects of the layout.

Crafty afternoon

Well to distract myself while my baby was at her first playgroup session I indulged in a craft session. I had another play with my Funky Hand paper blossom papers and made a couple more cards.


I used paper blossom papers, buttons, large bloom, ribbon, Heidi Grace rub ons and paper blossom alphabet to make the word "friends"













For this one I also used paper blossom papers and alphabet. Again I used buttons, glitter glue and a swirl stamp.

DCM challenge - butterflies

The new challenge is butterflies - anywhere on your card. A tricky one for me as I don't actually have that much in the way of winged things in my stash. However after a hunt around I came up with a quick and simple card.


A small butterfly stamped directly onto the card, framed with a frame stamp on patterned paper (crate paper I think). I also stamped a floral border up the left hand side of the card. Used watercolour pencils for the colouring and added some glitter glue. Only took 20 mins.

My time to craft challenge 9 - in stitches

This weeks challenge is to create a project with stitches (either real or faux) on it. I made some more little tiles using boys papers from Funky Fairy's Papercrafts. The papers are faux stitched together to make a mini patchwork. I have also done a fake running stitch around the outside of the card. The sentiment is woodware stamps and it is Anita's sticky ribbon.

My time to craft challenge - Charlie Boy!

I wanted to do something with the new boy papers from Funky Fairy Papercrafts other than a card and as I live in a house full of girls (apart from OH) I decided to base something about one of my cats! As the my time to craft challenge is furry friends this would be ideal for that too! Charlie was the subject of a mini photo shoot this morning and he wasn't that happy about it cos he wanted to snooze!! With the photos and the gorgeous boys papers from Funky Fairy, I made a little bind it all book.

Flower power

One of may very favourite card designers is the fabulous Jo Kill who does loads of doodled borders on her cards. A while back she mad a fab flower shaped card and I thought it was great. I had a go at my own today.



I've used new girls paper from Funky Fairy on hot pink card. I doodled the border around all the petals and added a sentiment die cut with my cuttlebug. An embossed friend word, glitter glue and a fluffly embellishment finish the card.

Funky fairy challenge 15

This weeks challenge was very hard for me cos I find boys stuff sooooo tricky!! Fellow DT member Lulu set the challenge this week and it was boy/men cards. She sent each member of the DT some male embillishments and wanted us to use some of them on our creations. I chose a cute little pirate stamped image (as did several other members of the team!).

I used an A6 blue card and created a large scalloped edge down the side which I doodled on. I used paper from the new boy range at Funky Fairy's Papercrafts for the backing, then cut a skull & crossbones out of a different design from the same range. I stuck it on black card (flag) and doodled round the outside with white pen. I drew an eye patch on the skull. The pirate was coloured with watercolour pencils. I used a thin strip of black card for the flagpole and drew a crows nest to put the pirate in. A stamped greeting and a grungeboard arrow finish the card off. You can't tell from this photo but the pirate and flag stick out a bit.

New Funky Fairy papers

There's some fab new papers available to buy as a download over at Funky Fairy's papercrafts

They are called "Boys and girls" and are totally scrumptious! I made a card a while ago using the girls collection but obviously I couldn't blog it until the papers were released. I'm going to be playing with both sets of papers properly over the weekend but in the meantime I thought I'd show you my first effort :o)





The papers are Funky Fairy's and the image is by Pink Petticoat :o)

DCM challenge "shrink to fit"

So this week I'd like you to think small - not small cards, but small spaces of embellishment on regular sized cards.

You are allowed to cover no more than a 5x5cms area of your card with paper or embellishment - the rest of the card must be left plain

So oo-er I thought! I'm not sure if I will be able to do this. I tend to make "busy" cards on the whole. Anyhow I took on the challenge and am quite pleased with what I made :o)



My first card involved slight "cheatage" (love that word!!) cos I also stamped a flourish stamp on the card and doodled dots on it (I couldn't help it!), but the actual embellishment is miniscule (4.5x4cm). Being a fiddler I decided to make a teeny weenie book with my bind it all. I cut 4x4cm squares of white card and covered them with various papers from the paper blossom range at Funky Hand
I edged each square with black ink and then punched the holes. I used flowers and a sentiment from the same range at Funk Hand and also used alphabet stickers to spell out a word on each page of the book. Also added a teeny bit of sparkle in the form of glitter glue just to the front of the book and card.


































For my other card I used a 4.5cm square piece of mountboard on which I made a patchwork design (again using paper blossom). I stitched the teeny squares of paper with faux stitching (I have done a very similar design to this before but it was much larger!!) and then stuck it to the card. A tiny happy birthday sentiment finishes the card.

Another card & matching bookmark

I enjoyed making the challenge one so much that I made another! This was for my good friend Lydia's birthday.


Again I used Pinkie Pops papers, doodling and the my friend stamp, but I also used some new stamps - Mindy's flowers by Autumn Leaves. I lurve them! Have used watercolour pencils to colour them in and also added some sparkle with glitter glue.