365 Cards

Here's a card I've made for Day 69 challenge at 365 cards - the theme is 3 B's - Blue, Black and Button.
The image i've used is from Joanna Sheen Dancing with Shadow's CD. The backing paper is from Dovecraft and I've embossed some Core'dinations card with Spellbinders M-Bossabilities - Flower Fun.
The sentiment and faux buttons were created on My Craft Studio and I've added glaze to the buttons to make then more dimensional.

Flower Power

Here's a card I've made for the joanna sheen challenge which is 'Flower Power'.
This card uses a toppers and backing paper from Joanna's 'If Flowers Could Talk' CD.

Christmas Wishes

This card uses an image from Joanna Sheen's 'Times gone by' CD-Rom and backing paper from my stash. The borders were created using a Martha Stwert punch and inked with Tumbled Glass Distress ink.

Challenges Entered:
Joanna sheen challenge: Christmas Wishes
Christmas cards all year round: Anything Goes

Peacock Inspiration

Here's my card for this weeks challenge over at CD sunday challenge where the theme is Inspired by Peacocks. The image i've chosen is from Joanna Sheen's Josephine Wall CD, I've used decoupage and backing paper from this CD. I've finished the card with a printed sentiment, co-ordinating flourishes, flowers and gems.

Elephants

This card uses an image form Joanna Sheen's Jayne Netley Meyhew Part 2 cd-rom and the co-ordinating backing paper. The sentiment was stamped along with the elephants head, which is from the co-ordinating stamp plate.

Challenges entered:
cd sunday challenge: Wild Thing
Crafty sentiments: Animals
Cupcake craft challenges: Monochromatic
Creative card crew.blogspot: Show us some green

House Mouse

This card uses a house mouse stamp from Joanna Sheen and this is one of my favourite images. It has been stamped with Black Soot Distress ink and coloured with ProMarkers. The backing paper was created using the 'Flourish' embossing folder from creative expressions and inked over with Distress Ink - Dusty Concord, shabby shutters and pine needles.

Challenges Covered:
I love promarkers: Green and Purple
Creative inspirations: In the garden
Pear tree designs: Ribbon
Paper take weekly: Anything goes
Bearlymine-challenges: Birthday Card
Crafty sentiments: Birthdays

Easel card - spring theme

I started this card playing around with cut n dry foam and Vibrant Primary Big n Juicy ink pad on a square of watercolour card. I then used a Touch of mica mask - Tulip and sprayed with Cosmic shimmer mist - Plum over the inked background. I than stamped over with a swirl stamp and embossed with a purple cosmic shimmer embossing powder and then swipped a versamark ink pad along the edges of the watercolour card and embossed with blue cosmic shimmer embossing powder. This then became the background to my card, which has been layed onto a square of paper punched with Martha Stewart 'punch around the page' flower punch.

The flower images is a stamp from Joanna Sheen - Jayne Netley Meyhew Rabbit stamp plate, embossed with cosmic shimmer again and coloured with ProMarkers. The base of the easel card was created the same way as the background but I inked through the mask with Hydrangea Big n Juicy rather than using the spray. The flowers on the base edge were the left over bits from when I punch out my page border and I just added some stickles to the centre of the flowers.

Challenges Entered:
Crafts 4 eternity: Make an Easel card
The stampman challenges: Curls and Swirls
One stop craft challenge: Spring Flowers
Crafty sentiments: Spring
Sweet stampin challenge : Oh so Girly

Friendship

This card uses an image from Joanna Sheen's, Glynn Williams - Time Gone By CD and backing paper from the Country Cottages CD by Joanna Sheen, which I punched with a Martha Stewart large border punch.

Challenges covered:
Cd sunday challenge : Friendship
Totally papercrafts: Friendship
Papertake weekly: Anything Goes + Flowers

Lavender and Lace

For this card I've stamped the Joanna Sheen Lavender Fairy stamp in Black soot distress ink and cloured with ProMarkers, then edged the image with Dusky Concord distress ink. The paper lace at the bottom of the card was from a paper kit I got from Create and Craft years ago! The patterned background card was created using Spellbinders Impressabilities flourish, through a Big Shot using Whitewash Core'dinations card. I then sanded the embossing and around the edge to bring through the core colour.

Challenges entered:
I love promarkers - Lavender and Lace
Oldie but a goodie challenge  -Fairies, mermaids, dragons or any other magical beings.
Crafty sentiments  - My Favourite things (at the moment are my big shot and Core'dinations card)
Stamptacular sunday challenge -Whateva

A card to brighten a dull and damp day!

The current challenge at Oldie but a goodie challenge blog is 'bright and cheerful' so I made this card to enter.
I've used a Joanna Sheen tulip stamp, stamped with black soot distress ink and coloured in with ProMarkers (Maroon, pink carnation, mustard, lime zest and pear green). The backing paper is a piece of Hunkdory foiled acetate attached with brads and I finished the card with a punched border strip (Martha stewart punch), which I colour tinted with Hydrenga Big N Juicy ink pad, and then added a ribbon and sentiment.

I'm also entering this card into the I love promarkers challenge - Punches.

Someone Special - Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

The theme for this months challenge at Lothian crafts  is a card for someone special and there is a great prize to be won.

For my DT card I decided to get inky and have a break from all those Christmas cards. I created the background using distress inks (Worn lipstick, faded denium and dusky concord) on watercolour card, blending them with cut and dry foam. I then stamped a tulip image from a Joanna Sheen stamp plate onto water coulured card and coloured with Distress inks - Barn door, marigold and Pine Needles. I then tore around the image and painted it with Rock Candy crackle paint.

Snowmen

Nearly finished the christmas cards now...this card uses a snowman, dog and cute mouse stamp from the same Joanna Sheen stamp plate and backing papers from my stash. The images have been stamped with black soot Distress Ink and coloured with ProMarkers. The dog and mouse were stamped first and then masked before stamping the snowmen.

   

Challenges Covered:

I love promarkers  - Snowmen

One stop craft challenge - Snow people

Ellephantastic challenges - Christmas

Christmas Robin

This card is for the current challenge over at CD Sunday , where the theme this week is 'Natural World' and they have a great prize to be won. The image and backing paper is from the Joanna Sheen CD - Times Gone by.

Christmas - Think Pink

This card is inspired by the current challenges over at Sunday sketch and stamp, which has a sketch to follow this fortnight, (couldn't believe it but I actually won the previous fortnights challenge) and Creative Inspirations, which is 'Pink Christmas'.

The stamp is from Joanna Sheen's Messy Rabbit colection, which I have coloured using ProMarkers and the backing paper is from the CC adorables CD

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

As it's the first of the month there's a new monthly challenge over at Lothian Crafts - this is my DT card. There's a sketch to follow for the theme and great candy to be won.

For my card I used one of Joanna Sheen's frame stamps, which I've embossed with Sheena Douglass 'wow' embossing powders in black. The flower is also a JS stamp coloured with ProMarkers. I've used a DCWV paper for the background and the flowers have been cut out of some pattern paper I had in my stash and Stickles added t the centre.

Easel Card

This easel card uses a frame stamp from Joanna Sheen (that i've had for ages, but for some reason never used!) for the main image. The frame has been embossed using Sheena Douglass 'Wow' embossing powders in black. The flower is also a Joanna Sheen stamp from one of  the Jane Netley Meyhew stamp ranges, which I stamped with black soot Distress ink and coloured with ProMarkers. I've found that Black Soot Distess ink works really well with ProMarkers and the image can be coloured staright away with no bleeding of the distress ink.

The inside edge of the frame has also been colured with ProMarkers, but I inked the outer edge and the edge of the sentiment with Big N Juicy waterfall ink.

The backing paper is from MSC Tattered lace CD, which I added glitter to the detail at the bottom. The butterflies were stamped onto the same BP and embossed with white embossing powder.

Challenges covered:
Ellephantastic challenges - Blue
Oldie but a goodie challenge - add a butterfly
Just inspirational challenges  - a shaped card

White Christmas

This card follows the sketch from the current challenge at Sunday sketch and stamp. The main image is stamped from the Joanna Sheen's Giordano Christmas stamps, which I've coloured with ProMarkers. It's also following the theme 'White and White with a coloured image', which is the current challenge at Crafty sentiments. I'm also entering this card into the Pear tree designs challenge where the theme is 'anything goes' and at Just inspirational challenges who have the theme this week of 'a stamped image'.

Christmas

Another Christmas card for the box!  I've used another image from Joanna Sheen Giordano Christmas Creations.
The backing paper is from a Create and Craft kit I bought last year.

Challenge Covered:
Winter Wonderland - Theme - Jesus is the reason for the season

Autumn Leaves

This card uses one of the new Joanna sheen House mouse stamps, which I've coloured in with ProMarkers. The backing paper on the left is from the Joanna Sheen Thomas Kinkade cd and the other paper is from a 12x12 sheet I had in my stash.`

Challenges covered:
Crafty Sentiments - Autumn/fall colours
Pear Tree designs - Autumn
The Stampman challenges  - Autumn
Ellephantastic challenges - Anything Goes

Christmas

  

This card uses a decoupage image from the Joanna Sheen - Giordano Christmas Creations CD. I've matted and layered the image onto some co-ordinating card stock, added some glitter, gems and sentiment to finish the card.

Challenge covered:

CD sunday challenge: Decoupage