MONDAY'S MALE

Hi Everyone

Happy Monday!

I hope you are having a good day and the sun is shining nicely for you.

Beautiful here .. .. which means my washing line is groaning under the weight of all the washing .. .. and I will be groaning later about all the ironing I have produced LOL!!

So Monday is my male card day and I have gone for a card which would be suitable for Father's Day which is looming!  But it would also work for a birthday card.

 

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  Digistamp Boutique "Harry and Beer"
Backing Papers:  Scrapberry's "Edge of Town"
Die-namics Die Set:  Blueprints14
ProMarkers
X-Cut Star Punch
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I am also going to enter this into the Digistamp Boutique Challenge for May.

Many thanks for all your lovely comments on yesterday's post.  The sketch was very popular and the stamp too.  The stamp is a very old one which I bought from a craft shop that was closing down many years ago. It had been used in their stamp classes .. ..  and I purchased it .. .. along with lots of other pre-loved stamps that had just been "thrown" into a bargain bin!  It is by Hero Arts "H2817" Garden Flowers Sketch.

So that is me for today .. .. off now to design some save the date tags for a potential new "happy couple" and also to try and get my Teeny, Tiny Tuesday card made and scheduled to see if that makes any difference in the length of time it is taking my posts to appear on my dashboard!  

Have a lovely evening everyone.

Love Jules xx

SUNDAY SNIPPETS AND A NEW SKETCH

Hi Everyone

Happy Sunday - I hope that you have had a good day and a lovely weekend.

Mine has been taken up mainly with work for happy couples and liaising with potential "new" happy couples.  Exciting times!!

But this afternoon I escaped briefly to my craft pod to see what I could create with some of my snippets .. .. ready for taking over to Pixie's Snippets Playground where you will find masses of inspiration for ways to use up all those leftover pieces of card, paper and ribbon that we all hoard away!!

So here we go with my creation:

As regular visitors will know, on a Sunday I am super lazy and do not list my ingredients but if there is anything you would like to know then please just ask away.  But I have used a new sketch which I added to my little sketch library today, which you can find on the tab at the top of my blog.

Sketch number 30 - can't believe I am into the 30's already .. .. .. and don't forget each one can be rotated so there are actually 120 sketches!!  Woo hoo!!

Please feel free to use any of the sketches if you like the look of them.

So that is me for today.  Enjoy what is left of today .. .. and I hope the coming week is a good one for you.

Love  Jules xx

A THURSDAY CARD .. .. ON A SATURDAY!

Hi Everyone

Happy Saturday!

Don't ask me where I have been because I'm not sure .. .. .. I think the time thief visited the House of Hearts when I had my head turned and stole nearly half a week LOL!!

In fact I am so late that I haven't even posted my Thursday's Child card .. .. I really must get into this scheduling malarkey in the hope of improving things.

So let's rewind the clock and pretend it is Thursday .. .. which brings a card for a child:

 This used:

Image:  Penny Black "4054K" Gentlest Kiss
Sentiment:  Woodware Clear Magic Singles "Make a Wish"
Backing Papers:  Pink Petticoat (sadly no longer trading)
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
ProMarkers
Chalk
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Ribbon from my crafty stash box

and now we can whizz back to Saturday .. .. and that is how quickly the end of my week has gone LOL!!

A lot of what stole my time made me feel like I had gone back to secretarial work .. .. .. lots of typing, filing, printing and research. Hopefully next week will be kinder to my little blog.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

All being well I will be here with my snippets tomorrow.

Love

Jules xx

WHITE CARD WEDNESDAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Wednesday!

One of the more challenging themes to my week .. . but it is good to work out of your comfort zone and test yourself ..  .. and good to reduce the white card mountain too.

So here is my offering for today where everything started out as a piece of white card (except for the ribbon, lace and nail heads of course LOL!!):

This used:

Image:  Inkylicious Clear Polymer Stamp "Vintage Butterfly"
Background Image:  Stampin' Up "Blooming with Kindness"
Sentiment:  Lili of the Valley "Sentiment Tags"
X-Cut Die Set:  Square Parenthesis
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads:  Victorian Velvet, Spiced Marmalade and Peacock Feathers
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Black ProMarker Pen
Onyx Black Versafine Ink Pad
Clear Embossing Powder
Lace and Ribbon from my crafty stash box

and that is me for today.

No sunshine outside my window this morning .. .. .. just lots and lots of rain.

Oh well.  At least I don't need to water anything in the garden.

Have a great day .. .. whatever you are doing,

Love Jules xx

TEENY, TINY TUESDAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Tuesday!

Lovely bright sunshine here at the moment .. .. but a strange looking sky.  Not that it matters, I'm not planning to go out in it.  Well .. .. .. only as far as the bottom of the garden to open up the greenhouse (and scowl at the weeds that are growing faster than anything else that is planted). 

I am not even tempted to fill the washing line .. .. there is already too much ironing to be done! LOL!!

Today is my teeny, tiny card day, and for anyone new to my little corner of blogland, these cards are very small .. .. measuring just 3.5 inches square.

So .. here is my Tuesday offering:

This used:

Penny Black Die:  "51-095" Hearts in Circle

Backing Paper:  Dovecraft Serendipity

Sentiment:  Computer Generated using font "Poor Richard"

Nestabilities:  Circles and Scalloped Circles

X-Cut Butterfly Punch (very old and probably no longer available)

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Tiny Pearl from my crafty stash box

We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board

and that is it!

Catch you again tomorrow with my "white card Wednesday" creation.

Enjoy your day .. .. whatever you are doing!!  A very long and varied list for me today (which doesn't include any of that ironing LOL!!).

Love

Jules xx

MONDAY'S MALE AND A NEW SKETCH

Hi Everyone

Happy Monday!!

I love Mondays.  The thought of a whole sparkly new week lying ahead of me to make a difference with!  

Lots on the list for this week already .. .. weddings are definitely hotting up again with work already going into the diary for 2017!

I do love that my days are so varied.

Anyway .. .. round to my Monday Male card for his week:

This used:

Image:  Bugaboo Stamps "Mouse Candle" (probably my favourite image from Bugaboo .. use it lots!)

Sentiment:  Computer generated using font "Zipty Do"

Backing Papers:  Pebbles Inc "Happy Day"

Martha Stewart Punch:  Embossed Zig Zag

ProMarkers

Glossy Accents

Gold Glamour Dust

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Ribbon from my crafty stash box

and sketch number 29 - which I added to my little sketch library today.

If you like the look of any of my sketches please feel free to use them.  You will find them on the sketch tab at the top of my blog.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Love

Jules xx

SUNDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Happy weekend!

I'm afraid that Saturday was a non-starter on my blog this weekend.  Sorry :-(

Who knows perhaps one day I will be so organised I can have scheduled posts!!  Now that would be novel wouldn't it?  LOL!!

My lack of an appearance was all due to me allowing Mr Heart to drag me from my desk "kicking and screaming" into the outside world .. .. and I simply ran out of time to make anything to share!! The only creation I managed was an order for taking with us to our friends house in the evening.  

So, out in the day and then a meal with friends in the evening .. .. too much gadding about for my own good yesterday!   

But I have had chance for a little play with some of my snippets today, using what is probably my favourite technique for using up some of those small patterned leftovers.  I love mixing all the different papers from different collections.

So here we go .. .. all ready for taking over to Pixie's Snippets Playground.

So my Sunday rule of being lazy and not listing my ingredients comes into play today .. .. but if there is anything you wish to know then please just ask away and I will do my best to answer.  Not sure I know where "all" of those backing papers have come from though!!

Have a lovely rest of the weekend everyone and I will catch you tomorrow with my Male on Monday make.

Love

Jules xx

p.s.  my dashboard display is still playing up.  I am beginning to think it is a permanent fixture :-(

FEMININE FRIDAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Friday!!

Don't these weeks speed by fast?  They lasted much longer than this when I had to endure school lessons all those years ago!!

So Friday's theme has become "feminine Friday" on my blog and this is my offering for this week:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black Slapstick "40-395" So Kind

Sentiment:  Penny Black "4393F" Best Birthday

Backing Papers:  First Edition Papers "Love Story"

MFT Dienamics Die Set:  Blueprints 14 

ProMarkers

Ribbon from my crafty stash box

and that is me for today!  

A lovely bright day here .. .. and .. .. we have good news on the car front.  The garage are bringing Mr Heart's repaired car back late this afternoon.  You may remember  that someone re-shaped it for him a few weeks ago.  Well thankfully it wasn't written off.  Phew!!! 

Enjoy the rest of today and have a good weekend.

Love

THURSDAY'S CHILD

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday!

I hope you can see some of that lovely sunshine where you are .. .. we are definitely off to a promising start here!  A real improvement on all that rain we had yesterday!

So Thursday here on my little blog means a card for a child .. .. and here is today's offering:

This used:

Image:  All Dressed Up Stamps:  "Fairy Magic"

Sentiment: Lili of the Valley "Sentiment Tags"

Backing Papers:  First Edition Papers:  "Paper Flowers"

Martha Stewart Edge Punch: Daisy

X-Cut Punch:  Flower

My Trusty Sewing Machine

ProMarkers

Glamour Dust

Ribbon, Pearls and Gem from my crafty stash box

and that is me.

I won't hang about as I need to hit the ground running today .. ... there is a lot to be crossed off that list if my head is to stay above water!!

Edit:  Just noticed that I am in time to enter this little creation into the All Dressed Up Challenge.. .. so have just linked it up!

Have a great day everyone.

Love

WHITE CARD WEDNESDAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Wednesday!

I hope your week is going well.

All good and busy this end .. .. and yet another week that is flying by in the blink of an eye!!

Anyway, I am round to Wednesday again which is the day I have allocated to using up the white card offcuts that are mounting up here in the House of Hearts.

I am still not brave enough to have tackled a "white on white" creation .. .. but perhaps one day!!

In fact today's share looks like Wedneday should have been named "wacky and wild Wednesday" because my finished card is super bright .. .. but every piece of card started off white.  I will explain more later but for now here is my card .. ..  OK .. ..sunglasses at the ready!!!!

This used:

Image:  WOW! "De-Vine" Background stamp
Sentiment:  Wow! "Big Words"
Black Embossing Powder
Tim Holtz:   Distress Paint "Twisted Citron
First Edition: Flower Dies
X-Cut Punch:  Small Flower
X-Cut Embossing Folder:  Polka Hearts
My Trust Sewing Machine
Quickie Glue Pen and Glamour Dust
Ribbon and Gems from my crafty stash box

I embossed the centre panel image with black embossing powder and then went over it with the distress paint.  The embossed panel was also mounted onto a piece of white card that had had just the edges painted.

Then all the hints of pink were created with a ProMarker.

The sparkly "smile" was created by stamping the sentiment, drawing over the top with a Quickie Glue pen and sprinkling with Glamour Dust.

.. .. .. and that is it .. .. I hope I didn't hurt your eyes too much!!  I am sure I used to have a dress with a pattern on in those colours back in the 60s!!

OK .. .. time to crack on here.  A mountain of work to get through today!

Have a good day everyone.

Love

TEENY, TINY TUESDAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Tuesday!!

Not such a bright and beautiful day today .. . but never mind, it could be worse!

Here with my little teeny tiny make for this week .. .. which is a whole 3.5" square.

This used:

Image:  Creative Cafe Clear Stamps: CS6143C C Doodle Flowers (I have had these a LONG, time)
Backing Papers and Sentiment Strip:  Kaisercraft:  Treasured Moments
First Edition Die Set:  Nesting Stamp Dies
ProMarkers
Ribbon and Gems from my crash stash box
My Trusting Sewing Machine
We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board

and that is it.

My dashboard problems don't seem to be improving no matter what I do .. .. hopefully things will sort themselves out eventually.

OK .. . off to be hyper productive (I hope) .. .. and I'll catch you again tomorrow.

Have a good day!

Love

MONDAY'S MALE

Hi Everyone

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a brilliant weekend .. .. and managed not to get sunburnt!! 

Mr Heart and I went out for a meal on Saturday evening and saw quite a few people "with a glow" about them !!

Today I am here with my Monday's male card .. ..

This used:

Backing papers:  Scrapberry's "Edge of Town"
Sentiment:  Anita's "Happy Birthday" background stamp (very, very, very old)
Tim Holtz Sizzix Die: "656636" Gadget Gears
Scrapberry's Stencil:  "Gear Wheels"
Dreamweaver Metallic Silver Embossing Paste (for use with the stencil"
Pebeo Gilding Wax:  Silver and Copper for adding to the black die cuts
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Twine from my crafty stash box

I really enjoyed making this card .. .. it was great to play with the embossing paste and the gilding wax that was opened very early doors this morning!

I can see lots of potential for the wax and am looking forward to playing a little more.  

A very "different" type of card for me .. .. not a cute image in sight!!  LOL!!

Have a great day everyone.

Love

Jules xx

SUNDAY SNIPPETS AND A NEW SKETCH

Hi Everyone

Happy sunny Sunday (or at least I hope it is sunny where you are).  Definitely is here!!

Here today with my snippet make for taking over to Pixie's Snippets Playground where we are encouraged to use up some of those bits of paper/ribbon that we just can't part with, ideally not cutting into any new fresh sheets at all!.

That is definitely true of the piece of ribbon on my card today.  It has been floating around in my craft pod for that long, that I was sick of seeing it.  No matter how many times I put it into my little bag of ribbon offcuts it re-appears on my desk .. .. clearly just super keen to be used!!  LOL!!

So here we go:

and as always I am lazy on a Sunday and do not list my ingredients - but if there is anything you wish to know then you only have to ask.

This card also uses a new sketch which I added to my little library today.  Please feel free to use it, or any of the others in my collection if you want to.  They can all be found on the tab at the top of my blog.

OK then .. .. time to go and link up and then see how long it takes for my post to make an appearance on my dashboard .. .. .. the way things are going it could even be tomorrow!!   For some reason it has been taking hours and hours recently!!  I don't know about you but I don't even have many recent posts from other blogs on my dashboard either.  I am going to try leaving my signature off this time to see if that helps.  (Nah!!!  It made no difference at all!! LOL!!)  

Enjoy the rest of your day.  I am off on kitchen duties next :-(

Love

CELEBRATION SATURDAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Saturday and happy weekend!!

My celebration Saturday theme starts today .. .. so here we go with a card that celebrates a wedding anniversary:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black Transparent Stamp Set "30-146" Loads of Love
Sentiment:  Computer Generated using font "Zipty Do"
Backing Papers:  First Edition Papers "Love Story" and We R Memory Keepers "Love Notes"
ProMarkers
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Glossy Accents
Glamour Dust

I am also entering this card into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for May .. .. where the theme is "masculine".

When I ordered this clear stamp set I was expecting this particular image to be quite small, and suitable for my "teeny tiny Tuesday" cards .. .. but was very pleasantly surprised to see how large this gorgeous image from the set actually is.  I have wooden Penny Black stamps that are much smaller!! This card is 14.5cm square, so as you can tell, that cute image certainly isn't "titchy".

Did you manage to catch Debs yesterday on Create and Craft?  I thought she did a brilliant job .. .. well done Debs!! You are a natural!

OK off to link up now .. .. enjoy the rest of your day.

Love