Action

*Dusts off Blog*

I made a card! a double pronged approach for the wonderful dare @Daring Cardmakers';

This week we have just one word for you

Action

It's a one word challenge - the idea is that you use the word however it inspires you, or whatever it makes you think of. 

For example it could be sports action, or film, or an Action phrase like 'Action Stations', 'Take Action' or 'Lets see some Action!, or the card itself could have an action or moving element,  

Or anything else inspired by the word - it's all up to you.

 and Dad's Birthday :)

I used Cocoa Vanilla and BG Paper, hand cut bat and a printed sentiment.  The ball is attached with a wobble sticker :)

TFL :)

Leaf It Alone!

My dare again this week at Daring Cardmakers'!

With the following dare;

Leaf It Alone!

All too often the humble leaf is upstaged by flowers on our cards so I would like to see you make the leaf the star!

 This is my card;

I used Chasing Embers Font, MFT dies, black, white, kraft and glitter cardstock and some Basic Grey Sequins

also linking up to MFT Card Colour Challenges

Happy New Year!

            Happy New Year!

My turn to kick start the dares this year over at Daring Cardmaker's;

  

Hi, it's Jo here with the first card dare for 2016 and another Elemental Inspiration challenge,here's my picture to inspire this month;

Credit

Here are my Element Suggestions for this picture: 

tape, glitter, cake cases, colours, stamps, ric rac, stars, sequins, hearts twine etc.!

Remember you need to use at least THREE different elements and the colour combination can only count as ONE of those elements

and this is the card that I made;

I used Dovecraft silver glitter tape, Clearly Besotted image and sentiment stamps a mini peg and a star punch.

The DT have been truly inspired - you can see their beautiful cards on the Daring Cardmakers' blog :)

Past and Present

I didn't realise how long its been since I last blogged!  Things have as ever been hectic - particularly with this little pickle;

and we've been decorating  - note the paint tins in the background - not the easiest with a little helper!

and onto some cards, some made a while ago;

and a current one;

^^ this one made for the current sponsored dare @ Daring Cardmakers;

This week we have a pre-Christmas treat for one of you - a beautiful crafty gift you could win, thanks to our lovely sponsor,
 Bubbly Funk

Recently celebrating 10 whole years selling crafty stash on-line, Bubbly Funk has had a slight change of direction and is now specialising in selling stencils and the paraphernalia that goes alongside.  You'll find a huge range of stencils and masks in many different sizes, plus the inks, paints, sprays, mixed media goodies and the tools you need too. 

Caroline, of Bubbly Funk has put together a special prize pack which includes

3 stencils to play with, plus chipboard mini albums and keychains,
 crystal flowers, ink and ribbon

We were given a lovely stencil to play with - mine is the lovely Rubber Band stencil which I used to emboss some PinkFresh patterned paper, I also used; October Afternoon washi, Crate Paper paper, Doodlebug glittery adhesive dots, Concord and 9th Take a Bough Die, Bazzill cardstock, glitter tape and a Wink of Stella glitter pen.

Also popping this into Virgina's fabulous Glitter themed challenge - All about Glitter! as there are lots of glittery elements :)

Feeling Fruity!

My turn to dare at Daring Cardmakers' this week with cards featuring fruit.

We have had abundance of fruit this year and have been busy tucking into homemade crumble, pies and jellies!

and here is my card;

the pineapple is a digital download from here

I also used Lawn Fawn dies, MME and AC papers and tape and some glitter foam, gems and twine from stash.

TFL - and don't forget to check out the team's fruity creations!

Blog Hop!

If you arrived here from Pattie's blog - welcome!

 Ruby Rock-It and Daring Cardmakers have teamed up together to give you this wonderful blog hop!  

Yes, that’s right, you can sit, relax, and hop through the blogs of our Creative Team members as we show you what we have been creating!

Here's my card created for the blog hop;

Everything is Ruby-Rockit with the little addition of Bazzill cardstock, a couple dies and a doily.

Here’s the details:  Enjoy the hop and leave a comment for each of our fabulous designers along the way, and be sure to leave one on your last stop the Ruby Rock-It blog!  For those that follow until the end leaving your sweet sentiments along the way, will be entered to win a fabulous prize from us!  We will announce our winner the first week of September!

Here’s your blog hop order…

Kathy

Erin

Lythan

Pattie

Jo

Christine

Nat

Alicia

Leo

Beck

Sharon

Teresa Horner

Miri

Jenifer

Beckie

Teresa Abajo

Svenja

Shannon

Dawn

Ruby Rock-It

It's now time to hop over to Christine's blog

Enjoy the hop!

Hello Football

The Lovely Lythan dared us this week @ Daring Cardmakers' with the fab theme of;

Let's hear it for the boys

Its time to see some of those cards for men. What are the things you add to a card to make it more pleasing to the masculine eye? (Yes, I want to shamelessly steal some ideas!)

I made this for Josh - to celebrate the start of the Football Season  and used a Tattered Lace football die, Baby Fox font and a Lawn Fawn heart die.

and... catching up - this is my card for last week - Kathy's terrific texture dare;

TFL!

thank you balloons

Todays's second card is made loosely with the current inspiration photo at Daring Cardmakers' - (triangle, corrugated and colours), but made mainly with Virginia's brilliant current challenge at Virginia's View - 'Embellishments' in mind;

It simply used Pink Fresh studio paper and a homemade tag style embellishment for the sentiment - the embellishment really is the only thing on the card!

Also popping it into Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge- tie it up.

TFL!

August Elemental Inspiration

But now for something completely different... with August's first dare for you @Daring Cardmakers' - and a brand new Guest Designer to introduce to you

We're so very happy to have the wonderfully talented
Carol Plume

sharing her inspirational work with us for the next few weeks - you can see her first card here today, but please pop over and visit her blog to see just how clever and versatile she is!

So.... as with every new month we have another Elemental Inspiration picture for you:

This is my card;

I used;

(for a closer look and a bigger version click here)

and Pink Fresh Studio  and Watercolor papers, Bazzill cardstock, Hero Arts Hello Operator digi stamp and Calligrapheez font.

TFL!

Berry Special

Made with this background, Chaotiq font, MFT dies and Papermania dots and vellum

For Less is More's berry colour challenge,

and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Wednesday Challenge

TFL!

New Beginnings

Nat dared us this week at Daring Cardmakers' with this fantastic dare;

It's my turn to set the dare this week and well, today happens to be the day that one chapter of my daytime career ends and another begins. So, inspired by 

"New Beginnings"

and everything they entail I challenged my fellow teamies to create a card on this very theme.

Whether new beginnings in work, love, family, life in general or in celebration of a new adventure, or simply sharing inspirational and uplifting words of wisdom - the choice is yours!

This my card - a Wedding one :)

It uses one of the awesome digi stamps available free from issue 139 of Simply Cards and Papercraft

and I added a sentiment using Baby Fox font.

TFL - and don't forget to check out the brilliant new beginnings cards that the DT have made on the Daring Cardmakers' blog :)

Also popping this one into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Ruby Rock-it Birthday

This week at Daring Cardmakers, we've been playing once again with fantastic products from Aussie company Ruby Rock-It. There are just oodles of wonderful products for all types of crafters so why not take a peek at their {website} or follow them on their {facebook page}

The dare is to make a birthday card which is ROCK themed, this could be music or lots of bling to represent precious rocks.  We would also like to see the colour RUBY somewhere too.

I used rock salt :) and watercolour to make the background and used lots of lovely Ruby Rock-it bits and bobs to make this;

There is a fabulous prize on offer this week for a lucky crafter joining in with the challenge - all the details and the amazing DT cards can be found on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

and a second card today - clean and simple and quick and easy - with a beach theme for Less is More's current challenge; Life's a Beach.

(an inside photo as the weather today is as far removed from beach weather as possible!)

The background is from an old set of digis, resized to fit a card front and simply printed directly onto the card.  Watermelon is from here and fonts are Lillybelle and MS San Serif.

Teacher Thanks cards

Two teacher thanks cards;

Both made with Docrafts printables - I printed the images and added water with a paint brush to make this cool watercolor effect.

Everything is Docrafts with the addition of printed sentiments using Chaotiq font and some watercolor paper.

For the first, I used the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch;

TFL!

Birthday Wishes

A quick card using the current MFT sketch;

I flipped the sketch horizontally;

Paper is Heidi Swapp, Tape is Paperchase and AC, Docrafts Pearls and Glitter paper.

MFT scribbles and sentiment dies and I added watercolour backgrounds to the flowers and some hand cut leaves.  Font is KG Defying Gravity.

TFL!

Christmas In July

Dawn dared us this week at Daring Cardmakers' and guess what?

 It's Christmas!!!!

We all need to make a head start with these cards.  I know I have a few to make to post back to the UK.  Its always difficult to start making them early especially when the weather is so sunny and lovely. Get those Christmas tunes on and start feeling festive!

Here's my Christmas card;

I used Memory Box, Sizzix and Crate Paper dies, Heidi Swapp and Doodlebug papers, Papermania glitter paper and vellum, Ruby Rock-it arrow, American Crafts washi tape and pearls from stash.

Don't forget to check out the DTs cards on the Daring Cardmakers' blog - its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Also adding this one into the current City Crafter challenge;

Woodland Animals :)

TFL!

Monsta Birthday

Jared's Birthday required a 'monsta' card so here it is :)

It used Tombats7, Talk and one of my new favourite fonts; Baby Fox, some inky splatter and a splash of Watercolour and all made in Photoshop.

a one layer card and am popping it into the current Less is More dare;

Masculine

and here are the rest of my current favourite free brush fonts;

1. We Lived Happily Ever After, 2. Baby Fox,

3. Sweet Pea, 4. Mix Brush, 5. Lillybelle, 6. Refuge.

(inky background is from here :))

TFL!

July's elemental Inspiration

I'm up at Daring Cardmakers' this week with another Elemental Challenge for you all;  

I chose the picture as it's light and summery - perfect for the fantastic weather we've been having;

(source)

This week as with every first week of a new month we would like you to pick out a minimum of three elements from the picture to design your card with.

 These elements could be anything at all but each can only be one thing, for example the colour can only be one - you can't separate them into individual colours. There are loads to choose from and you can see which ones the Design Team chose to use in their brilliant cards on the Daring Cardmakers' blog :)

Here's my card;

I used the background design, gold leaf, pink flowers, paper clip and watercolour.

tfl!

Watercolour Birthday

a relatively clean simple card; 

made using the free embossing folder from Simply Cards and Papercraft 138;

I made cards using the fabulous free digi cats stamps for this issue - you can see one of the cards that I made at the top of the cover :)

Ruby Rock-it

A very special dare on the Daring Cardmakers' blog this week;

We are excited today to introduce the first of two sponsored Ruby Rock-It dares!

Here is a little about Ruby Rock-it :

Ruby Rock-it Designs was created by Fynmark in Australia in 2008. Already successful with other mainstream papercraft brands in the local market Creative Director Joanna wanted to create a new brand that focused on all the things she loved – vintage style papers and richly textured embellishments – and so Ruby Rock-it was born. “It’s an acknowledgement to my grandmothers who were a huge influence in my life growing up – their tea-cup patterns, their love of all things olde-worlde.”

There are just oodles of wonderful products for all types of crafters so why not take a peek at their {website} or follow them on their {facebook page}

So here is this week's dare!

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Baby Rock-It!!

The products the DT are using are from the Fundamental range from Ruby Rock-it 

The dare is to make a Baby themed card which has a 'rocking' or 'moving' element to it!

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We have this wonderful little prize back from RRBF for one lucky person who completes the dare this week (Winner will be drawn randomly just after next week's dare is revealed):

The DT have as usual made amazing cards which you can see on the blog and here's mine;

I used one of the gorgeous little frog brads to make tag that moves to reveal a hidden journalling card;

TFL!

Dad...

The final Dad card;

Made using Crate Paper, American Crafts bits and bobs from stash

TFL!