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BBTB2 SWEETHEARTS TAG

2012-02-06T15:00:00.012Z

Hello

It's Monday and BBTB2 time! This week our wonderfully creative Shelly chose the cut for us and asked us to use any of the tags from Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge, thanks Shelly I never realised how many gorgeous tags are on this cart!

An easy peasy Valentine tag from me this week! I found this really pretty tag with all the heart cut outs on the cart and cut it twice, once on flip, then I cut a solid tag also from the same cart using the plastic shell packaging from one of my new cartridges (all cut at 5")(you could use clear acetate I just thought I would recycle some of my packaging!) The red and white polka dots is printed from a Pink Petticoat cd. By flipping my second heart tag cut I could then sandwich the clear plastic/acetate in between and have perfect little heart windows, this was adhered with two layers of foam in between. I then added my sentiment with black glitter letters I and U and a clear gem heart in the centre of three of the heart 'windows', I also placed another heart on the reverse so back or front the tag says the same! Some ribbon and more gems to finish off a really quick and easy tag for a Valentine's gift!

We hope you will join us in the challenge at BBTB2 this week and if you don't own Sweethearts you can use any tag from any of your cartridges and don't forget to check out the fabulous tags the rest of the DT have created this week!

Thanks so much for popping in

Juliexx

AND THE WINNER IS.............

2012-02-05T12:53:00.000Z

As chosen by Random.Org

No. 2

Thats you Sandi!!

Congratulations Sandi if you can email me your address at juile.huxter@ntlworld.com I'll get your candy in the post to you

Thanks to all for your lovely comments
Juliexx

BBTB2 PRAM/STROLLER CHALLENGE AND MONTH END BLOG HOP!

2012-01-30T15:00:00.004Z

Hello
It's time for our month end challenge and bloghop at BBTB2! Carole asked us to use the pram/stroller cut from New Arrival Cricut cartridge but don't worry if you don't have this cart you can use any of the many cartridges that have a pram/stroller on as we'd love you to join us!
I designed this card by welding the shadow pram cut flipprd to the inside of an aperture card (also from New arrival) it's a 5"square card. I made sure the 'weld' didn't pass the centrepoint of the fromt of the card and scored down the centre to make this zig zag card shape. I'm not very good at explaining this but if you look at the pics hopefully everything will become clear!! Papers are all by Papermania and sentiment is a cuttlebug die. Just a couple gems and buttons to finish/
Now on to the bloghop! You should have arrived from the very talented Theresa's blog and your next stop will be our lovely Julia's blog to check out her gorgeous creation.
I am offering a little candy this week, a pack of pastel colour Promarkers so if you would like a chance to win these just leave me a comment and I will pick a winner this coming Saturday!

Thanks so much for stopping by as you hop!
Juliexx

BBTB2 CATERPILLAR CHALLENGE

2012-01-09T14:58:00.001Z

Hi
It's Monday and time for our BBTB2 challenge. Heather our leader has decided to step down from leading the team as she is going to be looking after her beautiful new grandbaby Blake. Thanks you Heather for all your hard work looking after us all at BBTB2, I'm sure we will still be seeing Heather's gorgeous creations appearing in our challenges in the future.
Our lovely DT sisters Carole and Donna are taking over the helm at BBTB2 and this week Carole chose the Caterpillar cut for us from Walk In My Garden cricut cart. I am lucky enough to have this cartridge which my dear blogging friend Lillie sent me as a gift a few years ago!
The card I made is going to be sent to a seven year old boy so no bows or bling!
I used a DL (81/2"x 3 1/2") card and covered it with DCWV papers for the sky and the ground. My caterpillar is cut at 2 1/2" shadow in black, base in yellow and layer in green polkadot. When I first looked at this cut I noticed that he had seven sections as well as his head so it would be perfect to add the letters for the word birthday to each of the sections of his body! I used white cardstock sticker letters from Papermania. All three layers are popdotted for dimension.The word Happy is also cut from the same cartridge at 1 1/4"shadow in yellow and base in black then pop dotted on to the card. Finally I added three little butterflies using a Martha Stewart punch and some googly eyes to my caterpillar.
Please pop over to BBTB2 and see the wonderful Caterpillar creations the DT have created this week and we would love you to join us and if you don't have the cartridge you can use any cartridge that has a caterpillar!
Have a lovely week and thanks so much for popping by today
Juliexx

BBTB2 CANDLE CHALLENGE

2011-12-22T00:15:00.001Z

Hi
This week over at BBTB2 Karen asked us to use the candle cut from Wrap It Up Cricut cartridge. I have this cart but have not used it and there are so many great cuts on it!

This was a quick card as my back is still playing me up hence the lack of blog activity and getting round to comment on everyones lovely creations so please accept my apologies.

I made this quick Christmas card using Tim Holtz Christmas embossing folder on white card matted on to gold self embossed foil card then on to a white card base approx 5x7"(all pop dotted). The candle is cut at 5 1/2" base white, layers gold, accents white. (pop dotted) To finish off I added some red gems, a litle red bow to the candle and found some red Christmas ribbon in my stash which I added to my card before adding the candle.

We hope you'll join in our challenge over at BBTB2 this week and if you don't have Wrap it Up cartridge you can use any candle from any cartridge!

Thanks so much for visiting and I would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas!
Juliexxx

BBTB2 TAG CHALLENGE

2011-12-12T15:04:00.000Z

Good afternoon
Today the lovely Lori chose the cut for this week's challenge over at BBTB2 which is any tag from Winter Frolic cricut cartridge. This cartridge has so many gorgeous tags it was hard to choose!
I decided to go with an oval tag which had a holly cut out in the base cut.
I cut the shadow at 5 1/2" in white and the base is cut using kraft cardstock. I doodled around the holly leaf cut out with a white gel pen then embossed with The snowman Christmas Sentiments embossing folder, I love all the Christmas greetings in different fonts on this folder and it's a great size folder at 5x7". I added little red buttons threaded with red thread for the holly berries and backed the holly leaves with green felt. The base is then pop dotted for a little dimension. To finish off I added some red gingham ribbon and a gold jingle bell.
These tags come together so quickly and easily and would look lovely on presents wrapped with brown craft paper.
So let's see your tags! Don't forget if you don't have Winter Frolic you can use any tag from any cart!
Pop over to BBTB2 and take a look at the gorgeous tags the rest of the DT have created this week.
Thanks so much for popping by!
Juliexx

BBTB2 JOY CHALLENGE

2011-11-14T15:00:00.008Z

Hi
This weeks challenge over at BBTB2 has been chosen by Mona who asked us to use Joy fromWinter Woodland Cricut cart.
I went with a clean and simple look this week and as it's a Christmas card shiny mirror card!
My card base is a 6x6"white card and the design is very plain and simple. I used a frame from Stretch Your Imagination cartridge and welded the joy shadow inside the frame using Design Studio, this has been cut in gold mirror card. Base cut Joy has then been cut twice in red mirror card and added atop. Finally I added some green holly leaves which is from a pack of confetti then added some sparkly red gems to finish off! So easy and quick to make which is ideal if you have lots of Christmas cards to make!
Now pop over to BBTB2 and take a look at the gorgeous creations from the rest of the DT and we would love you to join in, if you don't have Winter Woodland there are lots of carts with the word joy on that can be used!
Have a great week everyone!
Juliexx

Blog candy Winner!!

2011-11-13T21:59:00.003Z

Hello all
Well first of all huge apologies for the lateness of this post!

Here is my little candy for my winner

I used Random Number Generator and the winning number is 5 which is Lana!

Congratulations Lana! Can you please email me at juile.huxter@ntlworld.com your address and I'll get your package in the post for you!

Juliexx

BBTB2 GHOST CHALLENGE AND END OF MONTH BLOGHOP!

2011-10-31T15:29:00.000Z

Hello
Gosh I seem to have been gone forever! I've really been suffering with bad sciatica for about a month now so not been making any cards, but I really miss it so as it's BBTB2 Monday challenge I decided not to ler it beat me any more and made a quick card for this week's challenge!
Our lovely and very very talented Shelly chose the cute ghosts from Paper DollDress Up Cricut cartridge for the challenge,but you can use any ghost from any cart if you don't have PDDU.
I cut my ghosts in white cardstock at a few sizes between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2" and inked around the edges for a bit of definition. The background star paper is printed from a Pink Petticoat Halloween CD. I then cut Boo from Holiday Cakes cartridge at 3 1/4"in black polka dot (Pink Petticoat Lolas Boudoir CD} card and orange card and offset them as there is no shadow for this cut. Everything then adhered and pop dotted on to my base card which measures 10x4"
As it's end of month it's time for a bloghop and I'm last on the list this week, you should have reached me from Shelly's blog and if you have missed anyone you can start again at BBTB2 as you don't want to miss the chance of a little blogcandy along the way!
I do have a little blog candy for you but my camera needs charging so I will post a photo of it as soon as I've charged it up!
Just leave a little comment and a contact and I will draw a winner on Saturday 5th November
Thanks so much for visiting and hope you all have a wonderful Halloween!!
Juliexx

BBTB2 CUTTIN' UP TIME 4 FUN CHALLENGE

2011-09-19T20:45:00.000+01:00

Good evening
This week over at BBTB2 Heather chose the phrase Time 4 Fun from the Cuttin'Up cart, I admit I struggled with this one!
My card shows the witches flying across a 'clock' moon where it's Time 4 Fun, The Witching Hour! Well that was my thought anyway lol!
I welded 2 circles from Plantin School in Design Studio and the shadow cut of Time 4 Fun from Cuttin' up and then the shadow of 2 different size witches using Martha Stewart Seasonal Art cart. This was my card base and has been cut in orange cardstock. The base witches, phrase and the clock hands (from Designers Calender)were then cut in black and the phrase again in white and the 4 in a patterned cardstock. The witching Hour is computer generated and I added stickers for the clock numbers and some little gold ball accents to finish.
Pop over to BBTB2 and see the fun projects the DT have created this week and we would love you to join in with the challenge too!
Have a great week and thanks for popping in!
Juliexx

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MUM AND DAD!

2011-09-07T22:18:00.002+01:00

Good evening
Today is my mum and dad's 54th Wedding Anniversary!
I made this card for their special day using Kanban paper for the backing paper, Happy Anniversary is from Sweethearts Cricut cart and the butterflies are a Tonic pinch.
Below is a picture of my mum and dad a year before they got married and a picture of them today, as you can see they are as happy today as they were when they were 'courting!'

I am so lucky to have such a wonderful mum and dad!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY and many more to come!

Juliexx

BLOGHOP WINNER!

2011-09-03T23:31:00.001+01:00

Good evening
Just popping in as I promised to announce the winner of my little blogcandy today, I put the numbers into Random.org and the winner is:

Number 15

Diana L

Congratulations Diana! If you could email me at juile.huxter@ntlworld.com with your address I will post

your candy out!

Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments, I really do appreciate them.

Juliexx

BBTB2 HERITAGE CURLY TREE AND END OF MONTH BLOGHOP!

2011-08-29T16:00:00.003+01:00

Hello Everyone

It's Monday and time for the BBTB2 challenge and it's also month end so it's bloghop time!

This week it 's my turn to host the challenge so I chose the beautiful curly tree cut from the Heritage cartridge. Don't worry if you don't have this cartridge you can use any tree from any cartridge for your project.

I decided to make a thank you card and all my cuts are done at 5 1/2" using ivory pearlescent card and gold mirricard. I welded the tree from Heritage cart offset to a silhouette circle from Geoge And Basic Shapes cart using Design Studio and also cut a silhouette circle on it's own (both in ivory) I cut a circle from George in gold Mirricard and finally I cut my card base in ivory using the circle bauble tag from Joys Of The Season cart and cut the top of the bauble off by hand which gave me a circular card. All layers have then been pop dotted as follows: the gold mirricard on to my base card followed by the welded silhouette and tree followed by the silhouette circle, by pop dotting each layer I got a nice reflection of my tree against the mirricard. I then added some little frosted glass leaf charms and a gold thank you peel off to finish.

The design team have produced the most beautiful tree projects for this weeks challenge so please be sure to visit BBTB 2 and take a look and we would love to see your take on the challenge too!

Don't forget to follow our bloghop too for a chance to win a little blog candy on the way. If you are following the hop you will have reached my blog from Maria's wonderful blog, just leave me a comment (and contact details)and you could win the little candy below and then hop on over to Penny's fabulous blog for your next stop!

I will draw a winner on Saturday 3rd September!

Thanks so much for visiting me today and have a great week!

Juliexx

BBTB2 PIE CHALLENGE

2011-08-08T16:00:00.003+01:00

Hello
Today is BBTB2 Monday and this week our sweet and lovely Krista chose cut for us to work with. Krista loves to bake so she chose the Pie cut from Paper Doll Dress Up. Of course if you don't have this cart you can use a pie from any cart.
My card is 6x6" and the backing papers are the apple collection from the Autumn set of Pink Petticoat (download) printed in black and white. I used both the positive and the negative for the background. I then added some red and white gingham ribbon which I tied at the sides of my card. My apple pie is cut at 10" (it comes out at about 4" across irl). I cut it 3 times, once in little harlequinn card (another Pink Pettticoat download printed in a pistaccio green) for the base and twice on cream card. I cut the 2 pie tops away from their bases and used the tops to complete the piecrust for my apple pie. The two top layers have been pop dotted for some dimension and I inked around the edge of the top layer of piecrust with yellow ink and a smidge of brown. To finish off I added german glitter glass for a sugar coated top! and some teeny tiny red and white polka dot buttons. Finally I needed a sentiment and I was stuck!! It took me an age then all of a sudden it came to me lol!! the word Happiest had 'pie' in the middle! I printed the sentiment on my computer in red and green highlighting pie in black and layered them with pop dots on mats of green and red. Font is cheri.
Now go feast your eyes on the delicious pie's my DT sisters over at BBTB2 have created for you this week, they all look so scrumptious! and lets see your pies yum yum!
Thanks so much for popping in today
Juliexx

BBTB2 PENGUIN WITH UMBRELLA CHALLENGE!

2011-07-21T22:51:00.000+01:00

Good evening
Over at BBTB2 this week our lovely DT member Melissa chose the Penguin with umbrella cut from the Jolly Holidays Cricut Cartridge. I don't have this cart so my penguin and umbrella are from Zoobaloo and Create A Critter carts.
I thought I'd make a fun gone fishing card with the penguin fishing from a little umbrella boat!
My card is 6x6"and uses the following:
Penguin     Zoobaloo cut at 6"
Waves     Zoobaloo cut at 1 1/2"x4 and layered
Umbrella Create A Critter at 5"
Fishes      Life is a Beach border cut at 2" x2
Paper       PinkPetticoat downloads

Once I'd made all the cuts and assembled them on my card I added a cocktail stick and some thread for my penguin's fishing rod and a computer generated sentiment.

Pop over and visit BBTB2 and see all the absolutely cutest penguin cards from the DT! and please join us in the challenge this week you can use any penguin from any cart!
Thanks so much for visiting
Juliexx

BBTB2 MELON CHALLENGE + BLOGHOP!

2011-06-27T16:00:00.004+01:00

Hello
It's time for the month end challenge over at BBTB2 and Heather our fabulous leader chose the Melon cut from an old favourite cart Stretch Your Imagination
I decided to use the melon cut in a different way and made a banner!
All my American cyber friends will be celebrating the 5th of July very soon so I made this card to celebrate their special day!
My card is 6x6" and I cut three melons on blackout and layer @2". The papers are (stripey) printed from a Pink Petticoat download and the stars are from a free download from Gina K. The little boy cut is from A Childs Year (one of my faves to use at the moment :) ) and I flipped the cut and cut the shadow in red card and base in white card @ 3"and cuttled the base cut with CB folder Swiss dots. This has been pop dotted on to the card just for a little dimension. The word happy is also cut from A Childs Year in gold mirricard @ 1 1/4" and 4th is from Joys of the Season also in gold mirricard @ 2 1/4". To finish off I added some gorgeous adhesive little gold balls which my wonderful friend Lillie sent me, thanks Lillie!
As it's month end some of my DT sisters are hopping and offering a little candy along the way so pop over to BBTB2 now and follow the hop from there and see all their mouthwatering melon creations too! We would love you to join in our challenge too and you can use a melon cut from any cart to enter!
Have a great week everyone and thanks for popping in!
Juliexx

BBTB2 SUNNY DAYS CHALLENGE

2011-06-20T16:00:00.005+01:00

Hello!
Long time no blog! I've been busy with Connor, last few weeks of college and he gets a bit stressed with finishing all his assignments and I've been a bit stressed making sure he gets support again next year. This happens every year I guess I should be used to it by now, but anyway everything has been sorted now!
This week over at BBTB2 our wonderfully creative Susan chose the cut which is the phrase Sunny Days from the Celebrate With Flourish cart. As I don't have this cart I used Create-A-Critter which has the phrase on too!
My card is 6x6" and I started with the white base and then took two pieces of card , one blue dotty and one piece of lemon pearlesentcut at 6x6 and I cut them from the corner with my paper trimmer to produce the 'sun rays' and paper pieced on to the card. The lemon pearlescent is embossed with CB folder Divine Swirls. I cut a 3" circle using Plantin School cart in lemon and embossed with a QK folder and offset in the corner of my card for the sun. The umbrella silhouette is from A Childs Year cut at 3 1/2" in black card and Sunny Days from Create-A-Critter is cut at 1 3/4" in black and the layer in pink. Lastly I found these itty bitty pink shell beads in my stash and added them to finish off.
I really enjoyed making this as it made me feel all summery unlike the weather we're having here at the moment in the UK!! Rain rain and more rain! I think we had our summer in April lol I do hope it comes back soon!
Don't forget to pop over to BBTB2 and see the fabulous projects the DT have created this week and as always we'd love you to join in with the challenge too!
Hae a lovely week everyone and thanks so much for popping by!
Juliexx

BLOG HOP WINNER!

2011-06-05T00:51:00.001+01:00

Good evening!
I hope you're all having a lovely weekend, I just made the draw for my little blogcandy and Random.Org and the winner is.................................................NO 22!

SANDY FROM UKIAH!

Congratulations Sandy! Email me yor address at juile.huxter@ntlworld.com and I'll pop your candy in the post!!

Juliexx

BBTB2 CAKE CHALLENGE AND END OF MONTH BLOGHOP!

2011-05-30T16:00:00.002+01:00

Hello!
Well I've not been here for a couple of weeks, my laptop died on me and have just had it back but it cost me as I had to have a new hard drive! Luckily I had backed up though !
So on to today's BBTB2 challenge which has been set by our lovely uber talented Carole! Carole asked us to use the cake on p99 from the Celebrations cartridge, this was one of my early Cricut carts and what a great cart and do you know I was flicking through the handbook and there are no blank spaces not like a lot of the newer carts!
For my card I used a 6x6" card and papers are downloads from Pink Petticoat. The cake is cut at 4", I cut 2 shadows in black cardstock, blackout in pink, base in yellow/white polka dot and base shift in pink. I layered up all the pieces on to one shadow piece, added a Happy Birthday glitter peel off and lime green gems. Next I added three real birthday candles at the back of the cake and using 3mm thick black pop dots made a sandwich with the second shadow cut (hope that makes sense lol the candles are sandwiched between the two shadow cuts) I then pop dotted again on to my card. I think I might enclose a little note when I send this card " Candles for decoration only. Do not light!!" He he you never know better to be safe!
It's end of month too so that means a bloghop! This month my candy is a little wooden house, (picture below) I say little it stands about 9" tall and is all ready for you to alter and decorate. I just had to get one for myself too!
You should have reached me from our wonderfully talented Krista's blog, just leave me a quick comment to let me know you were here to be entered into my candy draw before zooming on over to see what fabulous creation Theresa has to show you! Make sure you leave me a way to contact you and I will make the draw on Saturday June 4th.
Don't forget we would love you to join in our cake challenge at BBTB2 and if you don't have the Celebrations cart there are lots of cakes to choose from on other carts that you can use!

Thanks so much for popping by today!
Juliexx

BBTB2 SUNGLASSES, FOREVER YOUNG CHALLENGE

2011-05-16T16:00:00.001+01:00

Hi all
This week over at BBTB2 Heather our wonderful team leader chose the cut for us and it's the sunglasses from Forever Young cartridge. You can use any sunglasses from any cart if you don't have this one.
These glasses remind me of the sunglasses my mum wore when she was young which remind me of cat's eyes hence my card today!
I used a 6x6"card and the backing paper is printed from the Pink Petticoat Lola Rose collection. The lovely cat is cut from Paisley cartridge (p73 tab cut so no markings on the cat) , I used design studio to size the glasses before cutting as they needed to be under 1". The glasses are cut using tiny leopard print pattern from the same Pink Petticoat collection ( I cut the arms off the glasses by hand) and the lenses cut with black mirricard (they are very shiny in real life although my photo doesn't show that!). The sentiment is computer generated fonts are Andy and Gigi. Everything is pop dotted on to the card for a little dimension and gems added for a bit of sparkle!
This would have been a quick and easy card but after trying to draw feline features and 6 cat cuts later I realised that drawing is definitely not my forte lol! so I settled for a little heart gem nose!
Pop on over to BBTB2 and see the fabulous sunglasses projects the rest of the team have created and please join in with us as we love seeing your wonderful creations!
Have a wonderful week and thank you so much for visiting!
Juliexx

BBTB2 HOME DECOR CROWN CHALLENGE

2011-04-25T16:00:00.003+01:00

Hello everyone
What beautiful weather we're having here at the moment! Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful Easter and plenty of chocolate!
Well it's time for our weekly BBTB2 challenge and I have the honour of hosting this weeks challenge! I chose either of the Crown cuts from the Home Decor Solutions Cartridge.
I created a card that I hope any little Princess would like to receive!
My card measures 8"x 5" and I have printed straight on to the card using Echo Park's digital kit Little Girl and this is from the Elements 1 pack which can be purchased here at Jessica Sprague. I thought this looked like the subway art which is so popular right now! I chose the tiara like crown from the Home Decor cart which I cut at 2" three times, once in pink (blackout) and twice with silver mrricard. (one base and one blackout), I adhered the pink layer to the back of the silver base cut then pop doted on to the silver base cut and then pop dotted again on to the card for some dimension. I have blinged up the crown to within an inch of it's life with clear and pink gems! Finally I cut the little wand from Paper Doll Dressup at 3" it's one of the icon cuts, I cut 2 of the base in silver mirricard and one of just the star which was on the shift of the icon cut. The two wands are layered on top of each other for some strength then I have added pink tuille behind the wand which is then 'sandwiched' with the star cut. Finally more pink and clear gems on the wand and on the hearts on the card and then the wand pop dotted on to the card.
Now don't forget to pop over to BBTB2 and check out all the gorgeous crown creations my DT sister have made and we would love it if you joined in the challenge, if you don't have Home Decor you can use any crown from any cart and there are lots!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful week!
Juliexx

BBTB2 PINEAPPLE CHALLENGE!

2011-04-18T16:00:00.002+01:00

Hello There!

It's Monday and challenge time over at BBTB2 and this week our very talented Karen chose the cut for us, the Pineapple from Wall Decor and More cartridge.

My card is 6x6" and the backing paper is from the Stripes collection which is a download from Pink Petticoat. I cut my pineapple at 7" 3 times twice in green polka dot paper (Bo Bunny)and once in yellow. I cut the green leaves from one of the green cuts and offset behind my base cut and cut the pineapple from the yellow, embossed it with a Quickutz folder which I cannot find the name of now (I used the debossed side) and mounted on the front of my base cut. I aded black gems to my pineapple some turquoise ribbon and a button, oh and not forgetting the orange straw which I cut down from a real straw! This has been pop dotted on to the card for a little dimension. The word Party is cut from Straight from the Nest cart at 2 1/2" and is part of the Hen Party cut. I cut the shadow in black card (American Crafts) and the base in pink card (C'ordinations) three times and again pop dotted on to the card. The colours are much more vibrant in real life, but as I am usually a night crafter my photos are not as great as they could be!!

I hope you will join in our challenge this week, we love seeing your creations and you can use any pineapple from any of the many carts if you don't have Wall Decor.

Have a wonderful week everyone and thanks for popping by!

Juliexxx

BBTB2 MOTHER'S DAY 2010 CHALLENGE

2011-04-04T16:30:00.001+01:00

Hello all
Hope you all here in the UK had a lovely Mother's day yesterday, I did!
Our challenge over at BBTB2 this week has been set by Lori and was to use any of the words/sentiments on the Mother's Day 2010 cartridge. I bought this cart after Mother's Day last year just for the cut I've used on my cards and have had this very simple idea for the cards ever since! As Mother's day in the UK was yesterday this was a great time for this challenge to be set! Thanks Lori!
My cards are 6x6" and both use Hunky Dory foiled card, stripe and polka dots in pink and lilac.I covered the fronts with the striped card, The Happy Mother's Day cut is cut at 5 1/2" in silver mirri card for the shadow and polka dot for the base cut then pop dotted on to the card. The butterflies are cut in silver mirri using a Tonic punch from Hobbycraft and I've added some tiny gems. That's it very simple easy cards and my mum and mother in law loved them!
The projects my DT sisters have created over at BBTB2 are absolutely beautiful so make sure to pop over and take a peek and we'd love you to join us in the challenge this week!
Have a great week and thanks so much for looking!
Juliexx

BLOG CANDY WINNER!

2011-04-02T21:11:00.003+01:00

Good evening
Just a quick post to say that I've made my draw with Random Number Generator and the winner of my candy is........................................................

NO 36

Theresa at Scrapper 69

Congratulations Theresa! Can you email me your mailing address at juile.huxter@ntlworld.com and I will send your candy to you.

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend!

Juliexx

BBTB2 DISNEY CHALLENGE AND END OF MONTH BLOG HOP!

2011-03-28T15:00:00.002+01:00

Good Afternoon

It's BBTB2 time again and this week the challenge is Disney and has been chosen by the wonderfully talented Maria.

I don't have any of the newer Disney carts so decided to use Mickey And Friends and I also used Hello Kitty Greetings. I welded Minnie at 3" on top of the HK birthday card using Design Studio, a nice easy design. Pink and green polka dot papers are Bo Bunny and added some clear gems coloured with a canary promarker and a bit of pop dotting for a little dimension.

Oh and as it's end of month it's time for our monthly bloghop. If you are hopping with us you should have arrived here from Theresa's fabulous blog and now be hopping over to Penny's blog to see her gorgeous creation. Be sure to leave me a comment to let me know you visited and a contact to be in with a chance of winning this little candy!

I will draw a winner on Saturday using Random number generator.

Hope you can join us in the challenge this week we would love to see your Disney creations!

Thanks so much for popping in!

Juliexx

BBTB2 PAISLEY DACHSHUND CHALLENGE

2011-03-21T15:01:00.002Z

Hiya
It's been ages again since I blogged!! But I'm here today with a card for the BBTB2 challenge this week.
Our lovely DT member Melissa chose the adorable dachshund cut from the Paisley cartridge for us to play with!
Well I thought this little dog deserved some birthday pampering so my card shows her mistress taking her to the 'Pooch Parlour!'
This card was so quick to put together which is a good thing as my mojo has taken something of a nose dive lately! I sure hope I find it soon!
I had purchased the digi background ages ago and it comes in a set called Girls About Town which you can buy HERE. This Digi collection comes in colour and black and white if you wish to colour yourself. I went with the already coloured image and sized and printed it straight on to a 6x6" card blank. I did add the Birthday Treat computerized sentiment to the image before printing. I cut my little dachshund using the card cut at 2 1/2" because I didn't want any line cuts that would have been on the base cut. I was going for a silhouette look! The girl is the pregnat lady from New Arrival cart and I cut her on blackout at 4" and just manually cut off her bump! They are then both pop dotted onto the card. Lots of crystal bling added and for the dog's lead I just threaded a jump ring over the girl's wrist and the lead is a silver peel off border.
Be sure to pop over to BBTB2 and take a look at the gorgeous projects the rest of the team have created this week, they're fabulous!
Thank you so much for popping in today.
Hope you all have a great week!
Juliexx

BBTB2 BIRD CAGE/BIRD HOUSE CHALLENGE AND END OF MONTH BLOGHOP!

2011-02-28T15:01:00.001Z

It's ages since I blogged, I've been really out of sorts for the last few weeks, but hopefully I'm on the mend now!
So, as it's Monday it's time for another challenge at BBTB2! Our very own super talented Sandi chose the cut for us this week but alas has been having problems with her computer so the wonderful Carole has taken the helm this week!
Anyway on to the challenge! The cut is either the birdcage from Straight From The Nest or the birdhouse from Stretch Your Imagination, but if you don't have these cartidges please use any that have a birdcage/birdhouse on.
I went with the birdcage from Straight From The Nest and my card is quite simple. I cut the birdcage at 3 1/2" in black and let me tell you I am amazed at how beautifully my Cricut cut this, parts of the cage are only about 1mm wide ! I created the base card with aperture using Design Studio and Plantin School which is 5 1/2" square with a 4" square aperture. Papers used are DCWV and MME. I added 2 little metal bird beads on the perch and hung the cage in the aperture using 3 jump rings.Then I added some roses around opposite corners. The tiny black swirls between the roses are the waste from the cage! Finally I added a rub on sentiment.
Now for the fun bit! It's end of month bloghop so make sure you visit my DT sisters blogs and you may even win some candy on the way!
We hope you will join us at BBTB2 in our challenge this week, we love seeing your creations
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT STEP CARDS

2011-02-08T18:10:00.000Z

Good afternoon
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week we are continuing on our theme for the month of different style cards. This week Nilda asked for a step card and this is my take on it!
My step card base is a sheet of 8 1/2x11", for the base I used a turquoise glitter striped cardstock I've had in my stash forever! I used my Scorepal and scored at 1"then 2" then 4" then 6" then 8 1/2"and folded like you would a fan. This gave me my step card so now just to decorate it.I used my Cricut for the cuts and Happy and Birthday is cut from Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes at 3" shadow in black and base in pink and pale green pearlescent card. Base cuts have been embossed with Cuttlebug folder Swiss Dots.These have then been pop dotted on to the top and bottom steps of the card. The row of presents are cut from Straight from the Nest cart and I cut 2 border cuts (one on flip) and one single in tangerine, lilac and pink pearlescent card and the top layer in black These have been embossed using Cuttlebug A2 combo Welcome Baby ,CB folder Victoria and Sizzix folder Diamonds.There you have it a bit bold and reminds me of Liquorice Allsorts!
Make sure you visit the Cuttlebugspot as my DT sisters have created the most fantastic stepper cards this week and we'd love you to join us in this fun challenge!
Nilda isn't feeling well this week so get well soon Nilda
Thanks so much for stopping by
Juliexx

BBTB2 FENCE CHALLENGE

2011-02-07T15:00:00.001Z

Good afternoon from a very windy Wales! The wind has been howling here for days!
Over at BBTB2 this week the Amazingly talented Theresa aka Treefrog asked us to use the Fence/Gate from Cricut Lite Cartridge Bloom or any other cartridge that has a Fence/gate.
I don't own any of the Lite cartridges so decided to go with the Songbird Cart.
For my card I used design studio to make the card base using the bird on a fence which I welded to a rectangle, I cut the fence twice more and embossed it vertically using the Woodgrain embossing folder by Craft Concepts. With my last layer I cut off the bird and the slats going across the fence, coloured my little bird with Promarkers and embossed my 'slats' horizontilly with the woodgrain folder to ensure the grain was the right way!These have then been pop dotted for dimension.I cut lots of grass and the little flower border all from Plantin School cart and layered some on the bottom inside and the flower border and some more grasses along the bottom of the fence. The flower border was cut in white and coloured with Promarkers, some gems added and two little resin flowers.Papers used on my card are DCWV for the blue background and the grass is Bo Bunny paper. Finally I made a little ribbon sun using some gorgeous yellow ruffle gingham which I bought from Practising Creativity and the 'sun rays'which say hello are Making Memories Tiny Alphas which I also coloured with my Promarkers.
Don't forget to visit BBTB2 and check out all the fabulous projects created by the DT this week they're absolutely gorgeous! We'd love you to join in our challenge too!
Thanks so much for popping in today!
Juliexx

BLOG CANDY WINNER!!!

2011-02-05T18:13:00.000Z

Good evening
I just made the draw for my little Blog Candy using Random Number Generator (see below)

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 45 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

And the winner is...............................................NO 45

LILLIE!!

Woo hoo Congratulations Lillie!!!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Juliexx

THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT TRIFOLD VALENTINE CARD

2011-02-02T23:16:00.001Z

Good evening
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week Nilda challenged us to create Trifold Valentine cards and wow you should see the wonderful creations the Design Team have come up with! Mine is quite simple in comparison but it is a trifold!
I designed my card using my Cricut, Plantin School cartridge and Design Studio. I took the square shape and
squashed it up to a 1" rectangle then stretched the length to 9". I duplicated this shape then took a shadow of I and U and a shadow heart and placed them between my 2 rectangles and welded them. I then cut 2 each of the letters and hearts making sure one of each was flipped . After cutting my design I scored at 3" and 6" to make my trifold card, rounded the edges with a corner rounder then pop dotted the letters on each side of the card and did the same with the heart after embossing with the Cuttlebug Love Heart embossing folder. The valentine across the heart is computer genrated and just cut as a thin strip and also duplicated on the back of the card. I used the same papers as the card in my post below as I designed both cards at the same time and am enjoying these colours for Valentines cards.
Please pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and have a look at the wonderful Trifolds my DT sisters have made and be sure to join in as there is a great prize for a random winner!

Oh and don't forget there's still time to enter to win my little blog candy in the post below!

Have a great week everyone and as always I'm so pleased you took the time to pop and see me!
Juliexx

BBTB2 HEARTS CHALLENGE AND BLOGHOP!

2011-01-31T15:00:00.001Z

Hello everyone
Well it's the end of January already and time for another BBTB2 bloghop!
The challenge this week has been set by the wonderfully talented Maria who asked us to use the Lovestruck 2010 Cricut cartridge and to create a scrapbook page or card which had to include two hearts. I have this cart so was good to go but if you don't have this cart there is an array of hearts to be found on lots of other carts!
My card is 6X6 and the polka dot paper is from MME Lush collection. I took the gorgeous heart and into DS, framed it with a square from Plantin School cart and then used hide contour to hide the outer line of the heart and welded the two together. I like this effect as the heart is then cut out either straight in to you card or layer as I have done. I used a corner rounder to soften the corners and pop dotted the layer on to my card and then cut a small red heart again from Lovestruck which I embossed with one of the little Cuttlebug folders from the Heart 3x3 cut and emboss set. My little border of red felt boys and girls with hearts is from Hobbycraft and I tied a little black and white gingham bow to the top of the heart with a little felt heart. The sentiment is computer generated , font is Gigi.
Now on to the bloghop! You should have reached my blog from the super talented Krista and now it's time to hop over and feast your eyes on the gorgeous card Susan has to show you! Don't forget to leave a comment to let me know you've visited to be in with the chance to win some candy. Please leave me contact details and I will make a random draw on Saturday 5th February!

Candy

Thanks so much for popping in to visit!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT ADVERTISEMENT CHALLENGE

2011-01-25T14:30:00.000Z

Good afternoon
Today is Cuttlebugspot Challenge day and the last in the series this month for inspiration challenges. Nilda asked us to take inspiration from an advert from a magazine or anywhere else you might see an advert.
The only magazines I subscribe to are Craft Magazines (no surprise there lol!) so when I was at the hairdressers last week I found an advert which I liked and my hairdresser let me rip out the page but unfortunately it got too crumpled in my handbag to photograph ! I did however find this picture on the internet of the same bedding shown in the advert so I was good to go!
The inspiration for my card centres round the vivid colours of the flowers and I found this pretty vase of flowers? on my Cricut cart Pagoda (another I haven't used before!!!!). I cut the base out in black twice at 4 1/2" and cut off the branches of the second one so I could pop dot the vase whih I embossed with Cuttlebug folder Forest Branches. I had some orange, fuschia and purple cardstock in my stash but had to make my own turquoise card on my computer which I used to cut all the little flower pieces and I embossed the large ones with the small dot Cuttlebug folder that comes with the 3x3 Cut and Emboss Butterly set. I embossed straight on to the card base using a Creative Expressions embossing folder called Crackle and some peeloffs for the little sentiment which I coloured fuschia and orange with permanent markers onto black card matted on turquoise.
Please pop over to The Cuttlebugspot and checkout the wonderful ideas and creations the rest of the DT have come up with and we'd love you to join in and there is a great prize you could win too!
Thank you so much for popping in today
Juliexx

BBTB2 BUTTERFLY CHALLENGE

2011-01-24T15:28:00.000Z

Good Afternoon
Over at BBTB2 this week our Design Team member Lori chose the gorgeous butterfly cut from Once Upon A Princess Cricut cartridge. I don't own this cart so I made my card using the butterfly cut from my Picturesque cart ( another cart I had to have and not used!! are any of you out there like this?lol YES I hear you say!)
I started out with a 6x6" card blank which I cut down by about 1 1/2 ". I purchased some fabulous new digi papers from my favourite site Pink Petticoat yesterday and thought they would make a lovely background for the butterflies.The download is brand new in the shop and is called Perfect Papers and is only £2.49 for 24 papers! I printed out 2 of the papers and adhered to my card. I cut a black strip card and punched with my Fiskars Apron Lace border punch. I then added 2 thin strips of the very sticky double sided tape on to the strip and ruffled some seam binding ribbon (which I got from Ribbon Girl ) across. I then inked around the edge of the card with an aqua blue chalk ink. Finally for my butterflies I used Making Memories shimmer paper from a 12x12 Slice pack and they are cut at 1 1/2" and 1 1/4".To finish off I added some Prima bling which I coloured black with a black permanent marker. Happy Birthday sentiment is computer generated.
Please pop over to BBTB2 for some wonderful Butterfly inspiration from the rest of the DT and we would love you to join in with us and share your beautiful butterfly creations.
Have a lovely week everyone
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUG SPOT CHILDHOOD GAMES

2011-01-19T23:36:00.000Z

Good evening
This week over at the Cuttlebugspot Nilda asked us to take inspiration from a childhood game for our projects.I chose to make a card using the game noughts and crosses /tic tac toe which I remember being taught to play as a child.. XOX and OXO now represents hugs and kisses so I decided to make a Valentine card for the man in your life who doesn't like frills!
My card is 5 1/2x5 1/2" square and I created some background word paper on my computer. The embossed square is Cuttlebug Plaid folder which I got from Cricut rewards and comes in a Christmas set. The folder is 5x7"so I just cut out a nine square and matted on Black card and pop dotted on to my card. I added black and white polka dot buttons threaded with red thread for the 'o's and the 'x's are cut in red card using my Cricut and Cutting Up cart at 1 1/2"
Please pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see the fabulous projects the DT have created using childhood games as their inspiration and we would love to see your take on the challenge.
Thamks for visiting today and have a great week!
Juliexx

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2011-01-01T00:55:00.000Z

Hello eveyone
just popping on to wish you all Happy New Year! Hope 2011 is a great year!

Get Latest Greetings,Scraps

Lots of Love to you all and your families
Juliexxxxx

BBTB2 GINGERBREADMAN CHALLENGE

2010-12-20T20:23:00.000Z

Good evening
Well it snowed heavily today here in Wales I didn't even get to work! I'll have to try tomorrow if I can dig my car out and the roads don't freeze!
On to today's challenge at BBTB2 and I was lucky enough to get to choose the cut this week and chose the Gingerbreadman cut from Just Because Cards cartridge. I decided to make a gingerbread girl!
For my card I used BO Bunny Christmas paper on my card and the snowflakes are Tim Holtz On the Edge Snow Flurries die. I cut my Gingerbread girl twice and pop dotted and added some white ric rac ribbon. Her skirt and bow she's wearing are made from a polka dot mini cupcake case! I added some buttons and gems to finish and her cute little face is a Peachy Keen stamp from the Simple Sallies set.
Be sure to pop over to BBTB2 and see all the adorable projects the DT have created this week and we would love you to join in even if you don't have Just Because Cards there are lots of other carts with Gingerbreads on!
Have a great week everyone, hope you're all ready for Christmas!
Juliexx

I LOVE 'ENDCAPS!!'

2010-12-17T22:12:00.001Z

Good evening
Not much crafting going on here at the moment, but I did make these quick tags for 3 gifts for my friends hence the title regarding endcaps! Fellow Cricuteers will know the term it is a way of getting text inside a shape which is available on some of the Cricut carts. This one is the tag using endcaps feature from Plantin School cart and the tags are about 9".My friends loved them!
We've had loads of snow here today and luckily it's my day off work and Connor finished college yesterday so we could stay in the warm! Lots more forecast for the weekend though! Everyone stay safe and warm!
Juliexx

HAPPY NEW YEAR AT THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT!

2010-12-14T18:56:00.000Z

Good evening
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week we are celebrating New Year!! Nilda asked us to make a project to celebrate the New Year. I went with a card with a glass on it to raise a toast to 2011!
I made the backing paper in my graphics programme and printed it straight on to the front of the 6"x6" card. The silver mirrorboard mat is cut from Nifty Fifties Cricut cart at 4 1/2" and embossed with one of the Cuttlebug folders from the Robots companion set.The cocktail glass is cut at about 5" and is from Cutting Up Cricut cart using the Cartoon button. I cut it 3 times in black and the centre is partially cut so just cut out and added the layer in white. I added the first layer then adhered two together and pop dotted so I could slide my cherry and cocktail stick ' through the middle.' I embossed the white part with Cuttlebug snow folder for the little bubbles and added some gems too. The cocktail stick is real and I cut a glittered ball for the cherry from a Christmas decoration nearly slicing my fingers in the process lol!. For the finishing touches I added glass glitter as frosting for the top of the glass and a little star charm for the glass charm.
Pop over and visit us at the Cuttlebugspot and chek out the fabulous projects everyone has created this week! We are havinfga two week break at the Spot for the Holidays and the challenges will start again at the beginning of January. Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE 'O HOLY NIGHT'

2010-12-07T10:24:00.000Z

Good morning

Oooh it's frosty this morning -6c when I took Connor to college!

We are celebrating Christmas over at the Cuttlebugspot this week and Nilda asked us to use a technique such as inking, for our projects.

Mine really isn't a technique but I do love the look of embossed mirrorboard and that is what I used for my star.

My card is very simple but I hope conveys the real meaning of Christmas.

The nativity is cut in black card using a Sizzix decorative strip die 'Nativity' which I recently bought in the sale at Sizzix.co.uk,( this is just a portion of the die). I computer generated the text before embossing my background with a Craft Concept embossing folder (these are very similar to Cuttlebug folders and work the same way) called Sun Rays (when I saw this folder I bought it with the idea for this card in mind). Finally I added a star which is cut at 2" using my Cricut and Joys of The Season Cart shadow in black and base in gold mirrorboard which I embossed with CB folder Swiss Dots.

Pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see the fabulous creations the rest of the DT have been working on and as always we would love to see your take on this weeks challenge.

Have a great week everyone! I'm just off to work!

Juliexx

FELT FLOWER USING SIZZIX BIGZ CHRISTMAS SPIRAL GARLAND DIE

2010-12-06T01:47:00.001Z

Hello there
I made this card a while ago for a friend's birthday, and as you know when I make cards to give I take the less is more approach so this card has a lot of white space!!
I printed the happy birthday strip which I made in my graphics programme straight onto a 6x6" white card and added a pink felt flower cut using the Sizzix Bigz Spiral Garland die. This is a Christmas decoration die that I purchased last year especially for making these flowers!! For the card I probably used about half of the spiral but if you used the whole spiral the flower would be bigger and would make a great decoration for a hairband, hat or bag and I'm sure to decorate many items! The thicker dies will cut so many materials too, this is why I still love these dies. I added a pearl to finish off and some leaves cut with my Cricut using Give A Hoot cart.
So don't think this die is just for a Christmas decoration it'so versatile!
Well all the snow is gone here in Wales at the moment but it's still very cold and we could have more next week! Keep safe and warm everyone
Juliexx

STACEY'S BIRTHDAY CARD

2010-12-03T20:28:00.001Z

Good evening
Last weekend was my friend from work Stacey's birthday. Stacey loves everything cupcake, Hello Kitty and skully! As I made her a cupcake card last year I decided to make this girly skully trainer shoe card for her as she received some gorgeous trainers with skulls on for her big day!
I cut the trainer shoe from Cricut Paisley cart I think it was at 3 1/2" my memory is terrible when I don't write things down lol! The card is 6x6"and the backing paper is digital download bubbles paper from Pink Petticoat and I added the words in black using Cheri font to the bubbles before printing it out. The skull paper for the shoe is also from Pink Petticoat Halloween Haunting Girls and the rest of the cardstock is from my stash. There are lots of layers to the shoe and I pop dotted them for dimension. To finish off I added lots of gems in pink and green, some organza ribbon and a little skull charm.
It's still freezing cold here but it's just started raining with a warning of ice and more of the white stuff next week!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Juliexx

PEGGY LOVES VINTAGE SANTA CARDS

2010-11-28T11:59:00.000Z

Good morning from snowy Wales!
I made these two little cards last night using the gorgeous Santa 1 cutouts from Peggy Loves Vintage. These are such cheery Santa Claus images and print out beautifully in any size you want and you get 7 different Santa images altogether!
As you can see I am a bit addicted to this ribbon weaving and have made the Ribbon wreaths on my card as I think they frame the santa's perfectly!
My cards are 5"x5" and I used Pink Petticoat paper downloads Stripes and bubbles and added lots of computer generated Ho's in different fonts to the bubble paper, this is why I love digital papers as I can add to them before printing as I'm not much of a stamper! I made my wreaths using 6mm double sided satin in red and white (ribbon from Hobbycraft) and added some gems and holly confetti to one and some snowflake buttons on the other. The Merry Christmas sentiment is computer generated using 'Antsy Pants' font. I got the tutorial for the wreath's here and they are so quick and easy to make!.
Making these cards has made me start feeling all Christmassy!
Juliexxx

WEDDING CARD

2010-11-27T17:17:00.001Z

Good afternoon
My friend asked me to make a wedding card for a wedding she was attending. I saw the invite which was cream with accents of black and red so I thought this may be the theme and set about making this card
I went simple and elegant, less is more as I usually do for cards I send or am asked to make so the card base is ivory hammer card and I also managed to purchase some ivory hammer paper from Hobbycraft to match for the insert. (looks white in my photo but in real life is ivory!!) The card is A5 in size (8 1/2"x5 1/2"). I used Tie The Knot Cricut cart to cut the cake cutting the shadow twice to pop dot in black, base in black and layers in cream. I then 'went to town' with lots of red crystal gems and pearls to finish off. The text is computer generated font is amaze.
Hope you're all enjoying the snow I love it as long as I don't have to try and drive!!
Keep warm and have a lovely weekend everyone!
Juliexx

BBTB2 HELLO KITTY GREETINGS

2010-11-22T18:32:00.001Z

Good evening
It's BBTB2 challenge day and Heather asked us to use the Christmas Kitty from Hello Kitty Greetings. I've had this cart for a while but not used it much so this was a little challenge for me in itself!
My card is quite large an A5 side opening card (5 1/2"x8 1/2" approx) as I woulldn't advise this kitty to be cut too small as there are some very small pieces! Kitty is cut at 4 3/4" base and layers and I cut an extra blackout to pop dot for some dimension.The papers and greeting are from a mixture of DCWV Christmas stacks and I also used black American Craft card. The dotty ribbon is from Costco and I added a strip of white card under the ribbon which I edged with my Martha Stewart loopy border punch. The gems , flower, pom poms and cute little heart picks that I used as little balloons are from Hobbycraft.
My DT sister have created some gorgeous Christmas Kitty's so be sure to pop over to BBTB2 and see them and we'd love to see your take on the challenge too!
Have a great week everyone and for my Amerian Blogger friends have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT THANKS CARD CHALLENGE

2010-11-16T09:23:00.000Z

Good Morning
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week we are following on from our last 2 challenges of the Thanksgiving Invite, then Setting the Table and Nilda has asked us to make a Thank You to our host for a lovely dinner .
I found this fabulous video tutorial for a ribbon weaved wreath HERE (thanks to Lynn for posting this link on her blog and thanks to En-May for the great tutorial) and it was so quick and easy to create!
For my card I used a cream A6 (US A2) card and cuttled it with the A2 trellis embossing folder from the Sizzix 'Hello Friend' set. I computer generated Thank You (sorry didn't note the font) onto some cream card and punched out with a 3" paper punch and adhered to the back of the wreath. My wreath is made from 6mm mustard gold satin ribbon from Hobbycraft and I added some little branches in cream using Martha Stewart branch punch which I finally found at Andy's shop Pinnacle Crafts! Finally I added some gold coloured gems to finish.
I can't wait to make some more of these wreaths for Christmas cards!
As ever pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see the wonderful designs the DT have created this week and we would love you to join in with us too! We have a new sponsor this week , Letraset and there is a chance to win some fabulous Promarkers!
Juliexx

BBTB2 GIVE THANKS CHALLENGE

2010-11-15T20:44:00.000Z

Good evening

This week at BBTB2 the wonderfully talented Donna chose the Give Thanks cut from the Thanksgiving cartridge as Thanksgiving is just around the corner in the US,

I don't have this cart so after a little searching I found that Designers Calender also has a Give Thanks cut and also a nice maple leaf on the circle shift button.

I cut the base card using the doily card cut from Wildcard cartridge at 5 1/4". The leaf in a circle frame is cut at 4 1/4" twice and I handcut the leaf from the second cut which I then embossed with a Creative Expressions 'Crackle' embossing folder and inked with Ranger Brushed Corduroy ink pad then pop dotted on to the first circle cut. I cut Give Thanks 3 times in gold mirricard and adhereed together. All the papers used are printed from Pink Petticoat Autumn collection download and to finish off I added some gold ribbom and a little heart which I coloured gold with a gold leaf pen.

My DT sisters have made the most beautiful creations this week so pop over to BBTB2 this week and please join us in the challenge.

Have a great week everyone!

Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT THANKSGIVING TABLE DECOR

2010-11-09T11:10:00.000Z

Hello everyone
Following on from last weeks Cuttlebugspot challenge to create a Thanksgiving Invitation this week Nilda asked us to set the table and create Thanksgiving Table decor.
I decided to follow the theme of my invite and since I was so pleased to finally find my CB cut and emboss maple leaf I decided to get as much use out of it as possible!
I cut and embossed 3 maple leaves in copper glitter card, 3 with ivory Pearlescent card and 3 with gold mirri card, adhering 3 different ones together and adding some gold squiggly wire. I then punched out 3 strips of gold mirricard using Martha Stewart Double Edge Weave deep edge punch. I used 2 strips on my candle and adhered the leaf decor atop, and used one to make the napkin ring with another set of my leaves. Finally I used my gold leaf pen to write the name on my placecard. This was a quick and easy project and could easily be used (using different toppers) for any occasion.
By the way once I'd done with photographing my project on Sunday evening that glass of wine was very enjoyable!! Oops I forgot to put the knife and fork in! Never mind you get the picture!
Pop over to the Cuttlebugspot to see all the fabulous creations this week and please join in with us too!
Juliexx

SHIRT CARD

2010-11-06T00:04:00.002Z

Good evening
This is a card made back in October . My mother and father in law have a laundry/ironing shop and my father in law always delivers the laundry to the customers and has become known to the staff as 'The shirtman'as this is what he delivers amongst a lot of other garments. The staff wanted to send him a card for his birthday and I found this great free template here. cut some buttons from an old shirt that my son no longer wears and the papers are fromP ink Petticoat Little Check download. I added two metal studs to the pocket and made a little credit card from white card and an edge rounder with a computerised greeting( sorry I can't remember the font) but this could also hold a gift card!
A quick and easy template to use for those oh so hard make male cards!!
Thanks for popping in
Juliexx

THANKSGIVING INVITATION. THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT

2010-11-02T08:25:00.001Z

Good morning
Tuesday's are the new day for the Cuttlebugspot challenge and this week Nilda asked us to create a Thanksgiving Invitation.
I decided to go simple and hopefully elegant and as I eventually found my Cuttlebug maple laef cut and emboss die after much searching I thought I would use it for my card!
The card is cut from ivory pearlescent ribbed card and measures approx 8 1/2"x4" and opens to the side. I cut and embossed two leaves, one in gold mirricard, one in a coppery brown glitter card. and added a brown satin bow. The strip across the middle is the same pearlescent layered on a strip of gold mirricard. The invitation words are computer generated, Thanksgiving is LD elegance and Invitation is Castellar. Another simple card and quick to make if you need to make a few!
Hop on over to the Cuttlebugspot and see the fabulous invites created by my DT sisters and join in too we love to see your work!
Juliexx

BBTB2 BANNER CUT CHALLENGE

2010-10-26T22:29:00.002+01:00

Good evening

Over at BBTB2 this week the wonderfully talented Beth from the DT chose the banner from Country Life cartridge . I don't have this cart so I chose the banner cut from Give A Hoot which has these lovely birds holding up a small banner and thought they would make a nice Christmas card. My card is very simple as I just used the cut as is, shadow ,base and layer. The card is DL in size (8 1/2x 3 1/2") and the base card is gold mirri card. I cut a layer of red glitter swirl card from DCWV Christmas Glitter card and pop dotted on to the base. My cuts are made at 2 1/2" as I like the 'off the card' look shadow in black, base in gold mirri and the birds are cut in white glitter card and pop dotted . I added pearls to the top of the banner,some black gems for eyes, white glitter letters and finally dangled some tiny bells from jump rings at the bottom of each of the banners (this was the harderst part of this card as I had to make the tiniest of holes to thread!).

As you know it's month end so some of my DT sisters are doing a blog hop so make sure to pop over to BBTB2 and follow the hop for some prizes along the way and feast your eyes on the gorgeous projects my DT sisters have created this week and as always we love to see your take on the challenge too!

Juliexx

THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT 'ANYTHING FALL'

2010-10-25T10:23:00.001+01:00

Good morning
It's a lovely crisp Autumn morning here today and that's also the challenge that Nilda has set us this week over at the Cuttlebugspot, anything Fall related.
Well I love the song Autumn Leaves by Nat King Cole so that was the theme that I used for my card!
First of all I set about finding the Maple leaf die and embossing folder that I purchased early this year especially for Fall cards. Hmm do you think I could find it..... No! I searched and searched! Do you do this, buy things and when you want to use them they're nowhere to be found, I blame it on my age lol!
Anyway having given up on that idea I found a sizzlits die with a nice leaf on and some little leaf punches in my stash.
The background is actually Autumn Leaves sheet music which I printed on a very very pale leaf background and cuttled with CB folder Autumn words and highlighted the words Autumn and leaves with a soft gold inkpad. I typed out the words of the song using font LD Elegance and printed onto to Autumnal coloured card and cut out the 2 largest leaves, I also cut a few in gold. I punched some little leaves in the same colours to trail down the card and cuttled these with the small folders that come with the 3x3 dies, I used one from the butterfly set and the folder from the snowman set so you get the miniature embossing for tiny items. After adding these to my card I added some swirly gold net ribbon from my stash. I have also added Nat to my playlist singing Autumn leaves to get me in the mood for Fall, one of my favourite seasons!
Pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see all the wonderful creations made by the team this week and we'd love you to join in too!
Thanks so much for looking and have a wonderful week everyone
Juliexx

SEWING BIRTHDAY CARD

2010-10-22T14:28:00.002+01:00

Good afternoon
My friend asked me to make a card for her mum who was turning 80. Her mum used to be a seamstress so she wanted a sewing theme for the card.
I searched the net and found a fabulous digikit here for just $7 and used it for the base of my card. The sewing patttern background, lace, faux stitching, tape measure and sentiment frame are all from the kit. I love digikits because you can recolour the elements to match with your graphics programme! I printed it all straight onto a 6x6" card and printed twice and cut the sentiment panel out from the second one to pop dot for a bit of dimension. The sentiment is also computer generated and the stitched Happy Birthday is Primerapples font and Mum is Pristina font. The cotton reels are cut with my Cricut and Happily Ever After cart at 1 1/2 and 1" and I wound some blue and pink floss around the reels. The thimble and needle are from a button pack from Hobbycraft and the rest of the buttons are from my stash. I was a litte lazy and insteead of stitching through all my buttons I used my white signo gel pen to make them look like I had stitched cotton through them! I think this is what the scrapping world would call a hybrid card?
Thanks for popping in to take a peek, have a lovely weekend
Juliexx

HALLOWEEN LUMINAIRE. THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT

2010-10-20T11:38:00.001+01:00

Hello
It's freezing here today! There was even ice on the windscreen this morning Winter is certainly setting in now!
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week Nilda asked for Spooky Halloween!
I thought I would make A Halloween luminaire which turned out great irl but unfortunately due to my terrible photographing skills doesn't look so good here!
I used my Cricut and DS and the following carts:
Mini monograms for round edge squares
A Childs Year for the Halloween silhouettes cut inside the squares
Plantin School circle for the cut out moon
Don Juan Cut out half moon
Behind my luminaire I lined with a lovely pearlesent vellum and embossed each side with a different folder using Cuttlebug folders Deb Devine, Divine Swirls, A folder from the CB Robotz 4 set and a Quikutz polka dot folder.
Sorry about the awful photos!
I hope you'll join in the challenge this week there's a great prize up for grabs and be sure to check out the fabulous spooky projects the design team have created this week!
I am also entering my project into Top Tip Tuesday challengewhich this week is 'anything goes'
Have a great week everyone !
Thanks for visiting
Juliexx

HALLOWEEN TREATS!!

2010-10-11T18:56:00.004+01:00

Good evening!
Well I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks I came down with yukky flu for about 2 weeks but I'm on the mend at last!

Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week the challenge is Halloween Treats!! I made a couple of little treat bags using 2 cut down cellophane card bags (the3"x8" are perfect for these!). For the top I used nesties Labels 3 die (I used the largest di) and it's folded in half tomake the top. I embossed with Cuttlebug folder Skull srolls folder . The pumpkin is cut using Sizzix Bigz die Pumpkin Toy and the little sentiments and hats are also cuttled with CB Swiss dots and I added 2 little pompoms to the hats. You can see the embossing better on the second and third photos!

All the fabulous papers and sentiments are from Funky Hand who just recently released this fab new download kit called Spooky Dookie for just £3.49! I am entering this project into the Get Funky challenge this month which is to use Five background papers.
Thanks so much for visiting today and have a great week!
Juliexx

BOO!! BBTB2 Candle Challenge

2010-09-21T00:39:00.003+01:00

Good evening
This week over at BBTB2 the fabulously talented Sandi Kelly chose the candle cut from October 31st cart. I don't have this cart so after searching through my carts found this candle on the Christmas Noel solutions cart.

I made a shaped card using the candle in DS (which I am so happy to say is back up and running! I felt so lost without it and would like to thank Provo for getting me back up and running with DS so quickly! I emailed them and within a few days received an email with a new activation code. Great service!) My card is 7 3/4" tall and the card shape was cut in black card on shadow then another shadow in black .The base is cut from orange glitter card and pop dotted for dimension. The ghosts are a Sizzix die cut twice , once in white card and again in white glitter card. I sandwiched a small piece of black glitter card between my ghosts so that they have black sparkly eyes! and also some black glitter card behind the orange flame. The large ghost is sandwiched between the shadow and base layer of the candle and the smaller ghost pop dotted atop the candle.Finally BOO is cut from another Sizzix die in black glitter card.

So come on over and join in our challenge and just take a look at the fabulous creations the DT have created again this week! You can use any candle cut and we would love you to join us!

Thanks for visiting today
Juliexx

'SIX PACK MATT!!'

2010-09-18T14:11:00.000+01:00

Good afternoon and happy weekend everyone!
I made a card for Matt who is the deputy manager at the store I work for and it was his birthday yesterday. Now all the girls who work with me think Matt is a bit of an adonis! So this card was perfect for him! I have to say that this design is not my idea, I got this idea from the fabulously talented Enfys at Going Buggy who made a similar card for her son earlier this year. When I saw it I got my son to start collecting the ring pulls from his coke cans and have built up quite a collection!!

The card is A5 in size and I cut the can tops using some mirricard which has an aluminium look to it and pop dotted for a little dimension. To cut the tops I used circle nestabilities and thought the embossed edge gave some authenticity to a can top! I just added the ring pulls which I adhered using Pinflair Glue Gel (love this glue it sticks anything!) The backing paper is from Papermania 'The Big One'stack and I computer generated the sentiment.

Thanks for popping in!
Juliexx

NOT JUST FOR CAKES!

2010-09-10T23:50:00.001+01:00

Good evening
Well my laptop is back up and running woo hoo so I will be able to get around to visiting my fav blogs again! I lost all my files which is the bad news but the good news is I don't plan on making the same mistake again and will back up regularly!

Anyway just wanted to post an easy card I made for my dad who celebrated his birthday at the end of August. I recently bought the Holiday cakes cart and although this cart is sold as a Cricut Cake cart let me tell you there are some great cuts on there that make quick and easy cards!

My dad recently bought a new car so this card using just the Holiday cakes cart was just the perfect card for him a number plate card!

Secondly I made this card for my dad from Connor my son using Serif Digital Scrapbooking free programme , I've purchased the upgrade which I will load on to my new desktop when I get it as I don't think my ancient desktop will take any more lol! The photo I used in this card is of my dad when he was a Second Officer in his Merchant Navy days.

See you soon have a great weekend all!
Juliexx

BBTB2 MINI MONOGRAMS CHALLENGE

2010-09-08T09:04:00.001+01:00

Good morning
This is me posting from my ancient desktop as my laptop is in the computer shop who have confirmed that I have lost all my files but are attempting to fix the laptop so all my files are gone!! So a huge lesson learned here I must back up regularly!

Anyway over at BBTB2 this week our readers chose Mini Monograms and Heather asked us to use any of the numbers in any form for our projects. Guess who read the challenge wrongly yes me! so I used letters! Another lesson learned read the challenge details properly lol! In my defence I have had a stressful week with my laptop and more importantly Connor starting college!

So here is my project for this week. I made a card and a matching charm bracelet for a little girl called Isabella, who goes by the shortened name Issy. The papers used for the card are backing papers in a soft green houndstooth from MAMBI baby girl stack and the letters cut using pink C'ordinations card with Mini Monograms. I just added two ribbons tied through one of the holes of the first and third letter to finish off and printed the sentiment over the backing paper. For the bracelet I broke up a chain necklace from my stash and also the little crystal bead charms were from my stash and just attached with jump rings. The pink letter charms are shrink plastic cut at 4" (I used multicut 3 times) then shrunk down with a heatgun. Just added a little green ribbon to match the detail on the card to finish. The ribbon, C'ordinations card and shrink plastic are all from Hobbycraft.

Please take a minute to visit BBTB2 and see the fabulous projects my DT sister have come up with this week and why not play along with us!

Finally just a quick update on Connor's first week in college. The support he has received so far has been wonderful, he's still very nervous and overwhelmed with it all at the moment but I feel very reassured that they will support and care for him there very well.

Enjoy the rest of the week
Juliexx

BLOG CANDY WINNER!

2010-09-04T16:09:00.002+01:00

Good afternoon all
I've picked a winner today for my little Blogcandy using Random.org
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                                             MARY JEAN

Mary Jean congratulations! Could you email me your address at juile.huxter@ntlworld.com and I'll send your candy out asap!

On another note folks just want to say that my Laptop died the other day so I'm working off my ancient slow as a snail desktop at the moment so if I don't get round to your blogs you know why!
I'm taking my laptop to the Computer shop on Monday in the hope that they can retrieve my files I have not backed up! I know I know my own fault and believe me I won't make that mistake again, if they can't retrieve I will lose all the digitals I have purchased, don't even want to think about it! And I feel like I've lost my right arm without my precious Cricut Design Studio just hope when I get a new laptop that Provo will be speedy in giving me a new number!

Ah well it's only a computer. My darling boy Connor starts college on Monday, so an exciting and scary time for us both, that's far more important than my computer! Good luck Connor I'm so very proud of you!

Enjoy your weekend everyone
Juliexxxx

BBTB2 FROM MY KITCHEN APRON CHALLENGE AND A BLOGHOP!!

2010-08-30T16:05:00.002+01:00

Good morning
Happy Bank Holiday on this gorgeous sunny Monday!
It's time for another challenge over at BBTB2 and this week Penny chose the apron cut from the From My Kitchen
cart.

This is such a pretty apron I decided to make a little cookie holder which is super simple! I ust cut 2 aprons one on flip at 6" using card which has been printed on both sides using one of my new Pink Petticoat downloads which has the most gorgeous vintage flowers and bud papers influenced by Cath Kidston. The back side of the card has been printed with co-ordinating stripey paper from the download and the pockets with pink polkadot. I sandwiched a little cellophane bag in between the apron which I used to hold my cookies. I decorated my apron with some pink trim, some pink gingham ribbon and a little heart to finish. The top of the apron acts like a little handle! Sorry about the quality of the photos as these were taken at 2am this morning!

Please visit us over at BBTB2 and take a look at the fabulous apron creations my DT sisters have created this week and of course we would love to see your take on the challenge too!!

Finally last but not least it's the end of the month so time for another Bloghop! If you are already on the hop you should have reached me from the Wonderful Theresa (aka Treefrog). Just leave me a comment and a contact email if you don't have a blog and I will choose a winner on Saturday 4th September for my little candy below. Next on the hop today is the Fabulous Carole (aka Crayola) so hop on over straight from here!

Have a wonderful week everyone!

IT'S A GIRL. THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT

2010-08-26T11:29:00.002+01:00

Good morning
I have some great news to share with you this morning! My son Connor got the GCSE results he needs to go to college!! I am so proud of him, for those of you who don't know Connor has autism so even coping in a mainstream school has been a huge journey for him after 10 years at a school for autism. He found doiug exams very stressful so we decided a college course would be better than staying on at 6th form as coursework based results will hopefully be far less stressful than exams. Well of course in order to get into college he had to pass GCSE exams catch 22 really! But anyway he did and he's so chuffed with himself and I am so proud, well I am proud of every little thing he has overcome and achieved. So onto a new chapter which comes with all the anxieties of getting the right support in place for him at college! He is very excited about going and he will be doing an IT course which is his favourie subject!

Anyway on to my card for today! Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week we have an 'Oh Baby' challenge! Nilda asked us to create a baby project.

My card is for a new baby girl and for my embossing I used my old favourite swiss dots CB embossing folder. For those of you with a keen eye you will notice that the embossed dots on the lettering are smaller than the embossed dots on the rattle! that's because the embossing on the letters is using the CB folder and the rattle is embossed with the sizzix equivalent. My card is 6x6" and covered with paper from Me and My Big Ideas paper from the baby girl stack, This paper is beautiful to feel as it's flocked! All the cuts are from cricut cart New Arrival, The rattle is cut at 5 3/4" and I think the sentiment is cut at 1 3/4" all in pink and white and pop dotted. I've added pearls and ribbon from Hobbycraft to complete. Hope you will pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and check out the adorable projects the team have created this week and join in with us too!

Hope everyone is having a great week and for those of you in the UK hope this rain stops soon!!!
Juliexxx

BBTB2 FLAMINGO CHALLENGE 'FEELING BLUE'

2010-08-23T19:26:00.000+01:00

Good evening
Over at BBTB2 this week Mellissa chose the Flamingo cut from Life's A Beach cart,with a twist though ! We were to cut the flamingo in another colour apart from pink!
I chose blue but also did a pink one naughty I know but it was to go with the Get Well card idea that came into my head!
My card is a piece measuring 12"x5" and scored at 4" and 8" to make a trifold card. The fab bubbly papers are printed from aPink Petticoat download and I also printed the co-ordinating solids from Pink Peticoat too. My flamingos are cut at 4 3/4" and cuttled with a Papermania embossing folder and pink and blue maribou feathers added to their tails. All the wording is computer generated font is Dingle Berry.
Pop over to BBTB2 and see the fabulous flamingos my DTsisters have created this week and please join us in this fun challenge, we always love to see your creations!
Have a great week!
Juliexx

BBTB2 CHALLENGE LIFE'S A BEACH LIZARD. 'RELAX'

2010-08-09T16:00:00.003+01:00

Hello everyone
It's Monday and that means it's time for another challenge over at BBTB2! Lori from the DT chose the cut for this week , the lizard from Life's A Beach cart.
I think this little lizard looks like a gecko (not that I know much about lizards!) so as I wanted to make her orange I checked on the internet and found that young leopard Gecko's have a lot of orange in them so I was good to go!
I made a leaf shaped card in DS using Give A Hoot cart, all the papers are Pink Petticoat dowload papers and pop dotted and layered. My gecko is cut at 5" 3 times, twice in white card and once in orange glitter card and I adhered all the layers together for a chipboard look before pop dotting her onto the leaf where she is relaxing hence the Relax sentiment which is cut from Paper Pups cart shadow in white and base in hot pink glitter card. I used DCWV Spring Glitter mat stack for my glittered cuts and have to say it cuts like a dream on my Cricut.I tied some rafia around the stem and some orange gem stones and some hot pink gems to her toes! My hot pink gems are clear gems coloured with permanent marker as I had run out of pink!!
Pop over to BBTB2 and check out the other luscious lizard creations from the DT and show us your creations too we love to see everyone's take on the cuts each week!
Oh before I go some great news! BBTB2 has now reached over 1000 followers so to celebrate and thank you all so much for your wonderful continuing support check back on BBTB2 tomorrow for some great giveaways!
Thanks for visiting me today and hope you all have a great week!
Juliexx

BBTB2 CHALLENGE PAPER DOLLS DRESS UP DINOSAUR

2010-08-05T23:31:00.001+01:00

Good evening
For our readers challenge over at BBTB2 we were to use a dinosaur cut from Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge. I love this cart not for the paper dolls but for the huge variety of other cuts it has!
I have to say my card looks a little childlike but this was intentional as it's for a dinosaur mad 5 year old little boy!
The card is 6x6" and I used a swirly loopy black and white background paper which is a Pink Petticoat download. I like digital papers as you can add to them on the screen before printing so I added the Dino Hugs wording in turquoise and lime randomly on the paper to match the colour of my large Dino. The dinosaur is cut at 8" which I know is large but I only wanted the top portion of him for the card! I cut him 3 times , once in white cardstock , once in turquoise cardstock and the top layer is green dotty paper by Bo Bunny. I cut the teeth from the bottom white layer then layered the 3 dino's atop each other for a chipboard effect and adhered the white teeth to the top green layer. I also inked around the top 2 layers with black ink. I adhered dino to the card and just cut around the card to cut the rest of him off ( this sounds cruel but I promise you he did not feel a thing!!) The dots on his body were made using the EK succes Swiss Cheese border punch ( great punch if you need different size dots) and the Hi added are Making Memories puffy alphabet stickers.
Don't forget to pop overto BBTB2 and see the fabulous dinosaur cards created by the rest of the DT and we would love it if you joined in the as we love to see your creations too and remember you can use a dinosaur from any of the Cicut Carts if you don't have Paper Doll Dress Up.
Thanks for looking!
Juliexx

OOOH CHILLY!!

2010-08-01T20:24:00.004+01:00

Good evening
It's time for another monthly challenge over at Lily -Bootoo. Anything Goes is the title and that means you can use any Lily-Boo image in your challenge and any occasion!
For those of you that don't know all Lily-Boo digi images are now available from The Cuddly Buddly online shop fror sale and instant download and there are lots of freebies to be had too so come on over and play this month!
I chose this cute little penguin and made an 'Oooh Chilly' Christmas card! This adorable little Penguin is on sale HERE for just 99p! My background paper is from Pink Petticoat christmas CD Fairy Lights and I also printed the penguin image onto a matching solid blue paper which I paper pieced for the sky and recoloured the snow with my white signo gel pen. The image is printed twice and coloured with Pro markers. I cut the hat, scarf, beak and one foot (flipper?) and pop dotted for a bit of dimension. I have a little tip here. When I cut out the pieces to layer I went round the edges with a black promarker and therefore you get no white edges showing! The sentiment is computer generated font Ravie and printed on to the blue solid and matted on black card and again pop dotted. I added some artificial snow to the snow area and a white pom pom to his bobble hat and finally the snowflakes are the waste from my Martha Stewart PATP snowflake punches with some crystal gems added to the centres.
Sir Stampalot has a challenge this month which is all about BLING so I am entering little Chilly the penguin into this challenge too!
Thanks for popping in
Juliexx

Bloghop Winner

2010-07-31T16:20:00.000+01:00

Good Afternoon
We have a winner! No 60. I have copy and pasted random.org. below. Congrats Stacey you have won my blog candy!

Stacey said...

Julie the little pic we brought up on my phone didn't reallt do this card justice!!! The background papers is fab I would love to be able to buy this!!! nom nom nom for the ice cream x x x

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WEDDING CARD

2010-07-30T21:03:00.000+01:00

Good evening

A couple of weeks back a friend asked me to make a wedding card for her to send .

When I make commissioned cards I tend to do less is more so I made this card all white with just some pearl trim.

The card is A5 in size (8 1/2"x5 1/2") using white hammer card. The cake is cut from Wedding Solutions Cricut Cart at 4 1/2". I cut one shadow and inked around the edges with a pink ink pad. The base was cut 3 times once in a self embossed striped card and twice in hammer card. I cut the hearts and cake plate from the striped card and layered them over one of the other base cuts. I cut just the cake from my final base cut and embossed it with another of my new Papermania embossing folders Victorian Fleur. I then pop dotted all layers for dimension. Finally I added some pearl trim from Hobbycraft to finish off and a computer generated sentiment (font Amaze)

Thanks for popping in on me and don't forget I have a litttle blogcandy still on offer on the next post down so if you would like to win leave a comment and contact on that post before midday (GMT) tomorrow (Saturday 31st July) when I will do a random draw.

Have a great weekend

Juliexx

BBTB2 ICE CREAM CUT FROM STRETCH YOUR IMAGINATION AND A BLOGHOP! 'D-LISH!'

2010-07-26T16:01:00.070+01:00

Good Morning

Over a t BBTB2 this week we are creating using the Ice cream cut from Stretch Your Imagination Cart. I love this cart it has so many fab images. I designed my card using a frame from the cart to make an aperture card which I did with DS. The card is 6x6" and the ice cream has been cut at 6" too. I made the word backing paper on my computer and found this fab sentiment 'd-lish!' on Forever Young cart which has been cut at 2". I resisted the urge to fancy up my card with bling and bows as I liked the retro feel of this card so it's quite plain for me !!

Hope you will pop over to BBTB2 and see the yummy creations the rest of the DT have made and also it's that time of the month again too, time for a BLOGHOP! If you are already following the bloghop you should have reached me from the wonderful Krista's blog. I am offering a little candy for you and all you need to do is leave me a comment to let me know you've been here as well as a contact for you and I will do a random draw on Saturday 31st July. Next on the BLOGHOP this week is the lovely Lori so make sure you visit her fab blog after mine!

Thanks so much for visiting today and have a great rest of the week!!

Juliexx

BLOGCANDY!

CUTTLEBUGSPOT CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

2010-07-19T23:30:00.002+01:00

Good evening
Well this week at the Cuttlebugspot we are celebrating Christmas in July!!
I decided to opt for a simple elegant card using cream finely ribbed pearlescent card, gold mirri card some pearls and some ribbon.
The card is A5 in size and folds from the top, I made this card by cutting an A3 piece of pearlescent cream card lenghtways. The Merry Christmas panel is an embossing folder from Papermania, they have started making these beautiful Christmas folders and I've had to buy 3 already! they are like the cb folders and give a lovely deep impression when embossed, of course I must buy the rest of the collection now!! I used the 3x3 CB dove emboss and cut folder in the corner which I cut twice once in cream and once in gold and slightly offset them and cut and embossed the leaf in gold. I adhered some gold ribbon (from Costco) down the centre of the card and made a bow at the top, then after matting the panel with pop dots for dimension onto gold mirricard placed the panel down in the centre and pop dotted the dove on the right hand corner. Finally lots of little pearls to finish. This card was quick to design and make up which is what I need with all the cards I have to make at Christmas time!
We would love you all to join in with the challenge this week and get a head start on your Christmas cards too! There's a great prize for the winnr too! Pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see all the gorgeous creations the rest of the DT have created!
Thanks so much for popping in to see me again!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT SKETCH CHALLENGE AND LILY-BOO

2010-07-17T23:28:00.002+01:00

Good evening
Well I'm late posting this week for the Cuttlebugspot, I don't know where the week has gone! I have been a bad blogger and haven't even had time to visit my fave blogs! I must try and manage my time better!
Anyway this week over at the Spot we were asked to follow a sketch by our very talented DT member Aymee.
I decided to use this fabulous new digi image from Lily-Boo which can be purchased HERE for just 99p! isn't she just the cutest litttle Pirate Girl.. I coloured her with Promarkers and my white signo gel pen for the polka dots on her dress and inked around the edges of the mat in pink. All the papers used are from Pink Petticoat paper downloads all mat and layered on black and the sentiment is computer generated. I have embossed the pink panel with a Cuttlebug Embossing folder which is from Oh My Crafts and was their Christmas exclusive last year.Finally I added a black bow to finish.
I hope you're all enjoying your weekend and if you haven't already been over to the Cuttlebugspot please pop over and join us in the challenge this week, as always there's a great prize to be had for the winner!
Thanks for looking
Juliexxx

BBTB2. OWL CUT STORYBOOK CART ' NIGHT OWLS' PAPER LANTERN

2010-07-12T20:03:00.003+01:00

Good evening
Over at BBTB2 this week DT member Karen chose the gorgeous Owl cut from Storybook cart for us to play with.
I seem to have a thing about candle decor at the moment so decided to have a go at making a paper lantern to place over a tealight.
I designed my littel lantern using DS and the Storybook Owl along with cuts from Plantin School. I used quite a lightweight card for this 160gsm as it shows the light from the tealight through better. My lantern stands about 5" tall and looks much nicer in the dark this photo was taken in the daylight.
Don't forget to pop over to BBTB2 and see the gorgeous creations the DT have made this week and we would love you to join in with the challenge too!
Have a great week and thanksfor popping in today
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT DECORATED CANDLES

2010-07-05T20:27:00.000+01:00

Good evening
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week Nilda asked us to dust off our 2x2" dies /embossing folders so I looked in my stash and found this Cuttlebug 2 step die set Scribbled Flowers that I have had for about 3 years and never used! I've included the die in my photo I'm sure you recognise it.
I decided to decorate a set of candles for my project this week. Using the outline flower die from the set I cut 6 flowers with American crafts black cardstock for each candle and attached them together with small silver jump rings and added crystal gems to the centres of the flowers. Voila a plain set of candles all prettied up!
Pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see the gorgeous creations my DT sisters have made this week and be sure to get out your 2x2" dies/embossing folders and join us! There's a great prize again this week for the winner!
Thanks for popping in today
juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT. CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY

2010-07-03T15:07:00.001+01:00

Happy weekend everyone!
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week Nilda asked us to make something to celebrate Independence Day which is this weekend July 4th.
I made a Freedom card. The card is a large card approx 10x4" and the base cardstock has a self embossed white stripe. I used a bold font for the word freedom (sorry can't remember the font) I used SCAL for this and I should use it more as you can choose any font you have on your compute and shadowing is a breeze! The shadow card has a linen self emboss and the base letters have been embossed with the Stars Cuttlebug folder. I cut the bunting using Give A hoot Cricut cart, stripey paper is Pink Petticoat and star paper is Gina K and adhered them on some red and white bakers twine. Finally the letters are gold glittery letters from Making Memories.
We'd love to see your take on our challenge this week and there's a whopping great prize for the winner this week of a $50 gift certificate from Simon says Stamps!!
Enjoy the weekend everyone I will be watching Wimbledon on TV! And to all my American Blogging friends I would like to say HAVE A WONDERFUL JULY 4TH!
Thanks as always for visting me today
Juliexx

BBTB2 PAPER DOLL DRESS UP GENIE LAMP CHALLENGE 'TEA FOR TWO'

2010-07-01T03:15:00.002+01:00

Hello there
Well I've been away for a few days I took Connor and his friend Dan down to the caravan in West Wales for a little break as they have just finished their GCSE's so it was a well earned break for them. They had a great break and we had a fab day out at Oakwood Theme Park too!
Well back to the challenge over at BBTB2 this week and Julia from the Design team chose the Genie lamp cut from Paper Doll Dress Up cart for us to play with. When I saw this cut all I could see was a teapot and the song Tea For Two kept going through my head lol!
So I decided to make a Tea For Two little shadowbox card. I made the little shadowbox in DS using squares from Plantin School.The card measures 6x6" and 1/2 inch deep. The little girl and boy having tea are from A Childs Year cart cut in shadow twice and base once for a bit of depth. I cut the teapot (genie lamp) 3 times and cut the lid and base off the third one and inked with a pink Versacolour chalk ink. I have also inked around the frame and the figures.I handcut a little hanging sign which is hung by 2 jump rings to the top of the frame and finished the sentiment off at the bottom of the frame ana added a couple of tiny pink heart gems. (Sentiment is computer generated) I added a pink frosted heart from my stashto the teapot and finally 3 pink roses from Hobbycraft to the top corner. All papers are Pink Petticoat. This card reminds me of when I was little as my mum had a black lacquered jewellry box which my dad got her from Japan when he was in the Navy. I used to love to open it and see the little ballerina spinning round to the song ' Tea For Two' I must ask her if she still has it!
Hope you will visit us at BBTB2 the DT have made the most fantastic creations using the Genie lamp and we would love to see your take on this weeks challenge!

Thank so much for visiting

Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT WEDDING TAG

2010-06-23T14:31:00.002+01:00

Good afternoon
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week the theme is all about Tags! Nilda asked us to make tags.
I decided to make a tag for a wedding present, it will suit a large wedding pressie as it.s 7"!
I cut 3 tags from white self embossed card using Tags Bags and Boxes cart with my Cricut, it's the tag with a rounded top(not that you can see the top as it's covered with my huge bow! I embossed one of the tags with CB embossing folder Goochie Script and pop dotted on to a plain tag. I then cut the third tag off at the top and embossed with a wedding cake embossing folder by Sizzix from the Wedding Set of folders and pop dotted on top. I added lots of pearls and crystal gems and some gorgeous pearl trim at the bottom which I bought at Hobbycraft. Finally I tied a huge white bow at the top with this lovely taffeta/satin ribbon which I got at Costco.
I hope you will visit us at the Cuttlebugspot this week and show us your tags and take a look at the gorgeous tags my DT sisters have created. For the winner there is a great prize!

Thanks for popping in today!

Juliexx

BBTB2 RAINBOW CHALLENGE

2010-06-21T20:27:00.002+01:00

Good evening
The challenge this week over at BBTB2 is to use the Rainbow cut from Once Upon A Princess Cricut cart. Since I don't have this cart I used Hello Kitty greetings as there is a cute card cut for a rainbow! I used DS to weld the word Make across the top in shadow using Cutting Up and cut the base as single letters and layered and The A is also from the same cart. I cut wish in shadow and base using Stamping. The stars are all from George. Lots of layers and pop dotting to this card. The white card used for the base card and the cloud is a lovely embossed card from Hobbycraft. All the glitter papers are DCWV Spring Glitter Mat Stack card (this was my first time cutting glitter card on my Cricut I had to multicut 3 times. I was a bit worried but the DCWV glitter card doesn't shed so it was fine!) and silver mirricard for the outline cut. I wound some wire around a skewer and attached a star to finish off.
Pop over to BBTB2 and see the gorgeous Rainbow projects the rest of the DT have created this week and we would love you to join in too so we can see your wonderful creations!
Juliexx

SEQUIN FLOWERS THE PLAY DATE CAFE

2010-06-20T10:44:00.000+01:00

Good morning

Happy Father's day to all the dad's out there today!

I was recently making this card and when bloghopping spotted that Julie's colour challenge over at The Play Date Cafe this week was the exact same colours I was working with so I am entering it into the challenge, I've never been brave enouigh to date, have you seen the creativeness over there wow!!
Anyway the reason for this card was to send out to Crafty Sue who recently won my little blog candy which included some stringed sequins and of course I had to buy myself some and decided to create the little flowers in the same way the ribbon flowers I have been seeing have been made by just twirling round and round til you are happy with the size you need!

The card is approx 6x4" black card base. The paper is printed on card from Pink Petticoat Lola's Boudoir CD . I cut the stems by hand and added a black bow to finish off. Sequins and ribbon are from Hobbycraft.
Have a great Sunday everyone I'm off to see my dad for Father's day then taking Connor and his friend Jack go-karting!!

Juliexx

LAYOUT AT THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT! MY FIRST EVER!!

2010-06-17T22:31:00.000+01:00

Well hello there everyone
I've been MIA for a couple of weeks! My son Connor has had two weeks solid of GCSE exams so it's been a very stressful time around here!! Today was his last exam and he had such a look of relief on his face bless him!! As well as that I had my 50th birthday last week arrgggh how did that happen where did those years go I'm only 29 in my head lol!! Well I haven't really celebrated yet, thought I would wait til after Connor's exams so will be celebrating with friends next week!!
So sorry I haven't been bloghopping I will get round to visiting you all over the next couple of days though!
I did do my DT project for the Cuttllebugspot this week and Nilda asked us to do a Layout!! Layout me??? I'm a cardmaker lol and have only ever done a few little 6x6 albums. Well this was a real challenge for me so be kind if you have a look!
I did a 12x12 using a photo of Connor when he was about 7 and he got to hold this very stern looking Eagle Owl so I thought I would use the phrase Whoo loves you? being from the owl and Connor with a thought bubble saying I'm not sure. He's looking very dubiosly at the owl!
I cut some mounds for the grass and embossed (cutting small mounds like this made it easier as the A2 cuttlebug folders were able to emboss) and pop dotted 2 layers. The trees were cut with my Cricut as were the letters which have been cut in white and embossed (thought it gave a cloud look!!) and the sun was handcut and embossed.. The owl and little birds in the trees are little charms and some cute feathers(Iknow they're not owl feathers but the colour matches!)
I used the following supplies for the LO
Papers: DCWV and Anna Griffin for the plain colours and the patterned tree paper is American Crafts Blue Skies.
Cricut carts: Sesame Street font for white words and Give A Hoot for the trees.
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders: Tiny Bubbles for the lettering, Forest Branches and Spots and Dots for the grass mounds.
Sizzix Embossing Folder: Birthday Set #2 for the trees
Quickutz Embossing Folder: Polka Dots for the sun
Charms: from my stash
Feathers: Hobbycraft
I hope you'll pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see the fabulous layouts my DT sisters have created and we hope to see yours too! There's another great prize for the winner this week!
Thanks so much for visiting!
Juliexxx

BBTB2 BLOGHOP WINNER

2010-06-05T08:08:00.000+01:00

Good morning
Without further ado I would like to announce that the winner of my little blog candy is

CRAFTY SUE

Congratulations Sue I will email you for your address and get your goodies out in the post!
Thank you all for the lovely comments and I'll be doing a little BBTB2 bloghop candy again at the end of June so watch this space!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT DAD'S AND GRADS CHALLENGE

2010-06-04T00:21:00.000+01:00

Good evening
Well the Cuttlebugspot is back after a well earned rest and Nilda asked us to use Dad's and Grad's for our theme this week. I chose to go with Dad's as Fathers day will soon be here 20th June so I made this card for my dad.
My card is very simple in white and blue. The base card in white is A5 in size (8 1/2x11" folded in half). The frame is from Life Is A Beach Cricut cart and is the yacht frame which also cuts a yacht to layer over the yacht in the corner of the frame. I cut it twice as I wanted to layer two yachts for extra dimension. Theseagulls are cut from the same cartridge and the sun is from Accent Essentials cart. The blue backing paper is DCWV and I embossed the frame with a Cuttlebug folder from an Oh My Crafts exlusive set called Shapes. The sun is embossed with a quickutz folder and finally a computer generated font.
I hope you will visit the Cuttlebugspot and see the fabulous cards the rest of the DT have created this week and of course we would love to see your dad or grad creations and for the winner this week there is a fab prize, a $20 gift certificate from Custom Crops!
Thanks for looking
Juliexx

BBTB2 SWEETHEARTS -BLESS THIS NEST AND A BLOGHOP!!

2010-05-31T16:00:00.033+01:00

Good afternoon
Hope you're all enjoying the Bank Holiday!
Over at BBTB2 this week we were challenged by the very talented Jeri to use the Bless This Nest cut from Sweethearts cart! We are also having our end of month bloghop more details on that later in the post!
I made this New Home card using the Bless this Nest cut which I welded in Design Studio off the edge of a long rectangle (Plantin School cart) which is my card base, I also welded New Home (Cuttin Up Cart0 at the other side. I cut the words again twice to layer and pop dot. I cut a house and all it's layers (Wildcard Cart) which I added to the centre of my card and added some stitched black narrow ribbon and a Christmas tree metal bauble hanger for the smoke from the chimney! All papers are printed using Pink Petticoat downloads except the grass which is Bo Bunny. Oh and a little black gem for the door handle.
Now back to the important bit lol! This is my first blog hop at BBTB2 and you should have reached me from BBTB2 and after you've been here please visit Jeri and see her fabulous take on this weeks challenge. I have a little blog candy on offer for you so just leave a comment on my blog by midnight on Friday 4th June and I will draw a winner on Saturday 5th June. Here is my little candy and be sure to visit Jeri from here as she may have a little candy too offer as well!

Have a great week everyone!

Juliexx

BBTB2 CHALLENGE FOREVER YOUNG DRESS FORM 'HAUTE COUTURE'

2010-05-24T16:15:00.074+01:00

Hi Everyone
It seem like an age since I posted! Things are mega busy around here at the moment Connor has started his GCSE's so we are busy revising such a stressful time for him I remember it well I hated exams too! I will be glad when he has his last exam on 17th June when we can all relax and I can get back to more crafting too!
Anyway, over at BBTB2 this week we are using Forever Young Cart and the Dressform cut. I love this cart it's so full of fabulous girly cuts!
For my project this week I decided to go with an 'Haute Couture' look to my card. I hope you think I have succeeded!
My card is simple in cream and black with a bit of bling and measures approx 6"x7". Papers are from DCWV All dressed up stack for the stripey 'wallpaper' background. I cut the dressform in black shadow feature and cream base at 5" then base shadow in black for the dress. I cut the top offf of the dress to give a strapless look and embossed with part of the CB folder Flourish Frame. I added some net to the bottom and finished with some silver gems. The chandelier is from Home Decor and the screen is actually tags from Tags bags and More cart which I stretched in Design studio! I welded 2 long rectangles to the side of the screnn which have been scored and folded to the back in order that the screen is lifted in the middle from the card. papers for the screen are from Pink Petticoat Lola's Boudoir collection printed on to cream card. It's hard to see but I added a piece of eyelash fibre hanging over the screen in an attempt to replicate a feathe boa to complete the outfit. Lastly a computer generated sentiment on cream matted on to black and pop dotted.
Please pop over to BBTB2 and see the fabulous projects my DT sisters have created this week and we would love you to join in and see your wondeful creations too!
Have a great week !
Juliexx

BBTB2 PEGGY LOVES VINTAGE AND TAGS, BAGS BOXES AND MORE CHALLENGE. WISH YOU WERE HERE!

2010-05-10T16:54:00.008+01:00

Good afternoon
This week over at BBTB2 our challenge is to use a tag from TBBM cartridge along with some gorgeous vintage images from Peggy Loves Vintage.
I decided to use these adorable images of a little boy and girl playing in the sand building sandcastles. So in order to set the scene I wanted some little beach huts in the background and these are actually made with tags from TBBM!
My card is a shadow box card which I designed using DS and Plantin School and it will fold down flat for posting. I printed the two children out twice and cut them out and just cut out the children again to pop dot for a little dimension. I welded five tags together in DS and cut lots of tags in patterned paper which I cut up and inked and adhered over my welded tags along with some Prima vintage lace. I cut the waves from LAB border feature and the seagulls are also from this cart. Sun is from doodlecharms and finally the sentiment is computer generated , font LDJ Miss Me. The box is quite deep and all pieces inside are adhered two four tabs at 1/2" spaces so in real life this is really quite 3D although my photography skills don't exactly show this well! The papers are from a Jessica Sprague paper download except for the frame which is DCWV.
I had so much fun making this little beach scene and thought this would be a novel way to use the tags!
Please make sure you pop over to BBTB2 to see the fantastic creations from the rest of the DT and also see some of the other fabulous images from Peggy Loves Vintage.
Thanks for looking and have a great week!
Juliexx

LEAF PENDANT AND MATCHING GIFT BOX BBTB2

2010-05-03T20:36:00.002+01:00

Good evening
Hope you are all enjoying your Bank Holiday Monday I've been working so just like any other day to me!
Over at BBTB2 Heather has decided that the first Monday of each month will be readers choice for a cut so if you have anything you would like to work with just let us know either by leaving a message on BBTB2 blog or emailing Heather.
The readers choice for May is from Life Is A Beach and the cut is Leaf 1.
I decided to try something different well for me anyway! I've been hoarding some Shrink plastic/shrinkies which I bought a while back and have not used (sound familiar lol!) So I cut the leaf using my cricut and a sheet of black shrink on multicut 4 at 4 1/2"and it cut through beautifully, I did this through design studio as I wanted to use the hide contour feature for the line through the leaf centre. I cut off the stem and punched a hole through the top before shrinking the leaf with my heat gun. I added a large silver jump ring and some lime green gems down the centre of the leaf then threaded on to some lime green ribbon. (Ribbon and shrink plastic are from Hobbycraft). I then made a little gift box to match the pendant . This little box is so easy to make just a half a piece of A4 card (8 1/2x11") cut in half lengthways then fold in half lengthways again. score from each centre edge to the centre point of the 2 top edges fold your scorelines and you end up with this cute little triangular box ! Punch 4 holes and thread through ribbon for closure. For the paper I used Pink Petticoat . I cut 3 of the leaves .2 in black and one in green at 2 1/2" and added gems to them. I added matching green ribbon and some black tuille to finish off. The gems and ribbon match perfectly IRL although the colours look different in the photo!
Pop over to BBTB2 and see the gorgeous creations the rest of the DT have made this week and we'd love you to play along with the challenge too!
thanks for looking!
Juliexx

MAY CHALLENGE AT LILY-BOOTOO. SHAPED CARDS! IN 'THE DOGHOUSE'!

2010-05-01T19:29:00.003+01:00

Good evening
There's a new challenge up for May over at Lily-Bootoo and this month Lucy asked us to make a shaped card. I couldn't resist the 'hang dog' look on this adorable digi image from one of the new sets drawn by the very talented Sam. He comes in a set of cute doggie images for just £1.99.
I love making shaped cards so I got out my trusty Cricut and made this card using Design studio to make the shaped Kennel with the following carts
Kennel                 Paper Pups Cart
Bone                    Mickey and Friends
The word Dog      Cutting Up
The word House   Plantin School
I'm not much of a colourer but this image only required colouring the black patches with a black promarker and I added glossy accents to make his nose all shiny!
The polka dot paper is Pink Petticoat and the yellow is from DCWV Citrus stack.
I think this card could be a sorry card for I missed/forgot your birthday or so many other sorry cards and I'm sure you'd be forgiven when they see the sweet little face on this little doggy and wouldn't be in 'the doghouse' for long for forgetting!
Hope you can join us in the challenge this month we'd love to see your shaped cards over at Lily-Bootoo, pop over and have a look at the super creations the rest of the team have created this month!
I am entering this card in to a few challenges too
Cupcake Craft        Don't Be Square
CRAFT                  Shaped Card
Meljens Designs      Shaped Card
Penny's Challenges
I'm off now to play mum's taxi and take my son's friends home before coming back to a nice glass of wine !
Have a great weekend everyone!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT FAVOURITE FLOWERS

2010-05-01T00:48:00.000+01:00

Good morning
Hope everyone is having a good week.
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week we are celebrating our favourite flowers! My favourite flowers are tulips but I always had a hard time with the stems wilting lol until I got a tip many years ago to put a piece of copper in the water in your vase for example a penny and I couldn't believe it it worked no more wilting stems!
Anyway for my card I used a cream card base which I have embossed with CB folder Goochie's Script this is one of the latest UK exclusives. My tulip stamp is actually a clipart purchased from Lettering Delights.com clipart set Vegetation 2. I printed it 3 times onto cream card and cut two extra tulip heads. I coloured the stem with Promarkers and pop dotted the 2 tulips and embossed the top one with CB Swiss dots and added two pale green crystal gems. This is matted on a rectangle die cut with my Nellie's die . The black and cream stripey ribbon is SU. Finally a happy birthday rubon.
My DT sisters have created the prettiest projects this week so make sure to pop over to the Cuttlebugspot and see them and if you enter the challenge this week there's a super prize of a $50 from Simon Says Stamp!!
Thanks for popping by
Juliexx

BBTB2 Bee Challenge QUEEN BEE!

2010-04-26T23:36:00.005+01:00

Good evening
Over at BBTB2 this week the super talented Donna chose the challenge and it was to use the beautiful bee from the Sentimentals cartridge or any bee from any cartridge if you did't have the cart.
I don't have this cart........yet lol! so I cut open my Pooh and Friends cart (which I've had for a year still unopened!) as there is a cut little bee cut on there.
I went with an idea of a Queen Bee, this card could be for a birthday or Mothers day as what girl doesn't like to be treated like a Queen on her special day!
I designed the card using DS and 4 carts! thats a lot for me as I don't like hot swapping the carts too much, I know if I had a gypsy this would be so much easier but I like that the DS gives me a real size mat to build up my design on.
The carts I used:
The Bee Pooh and Friends
Queen Bee text welded to bee hive is Cutting Up
Beehive welded to make a hive shaped card Walk in my Garden
Crown is Sweet Treats.
For the papers which are all printed digis Margie!! All papers are Pink Petticoat except for the Yellow dotted paper which I thought looked like honeycomb and thats a paper from Kitsty Wiseman's CD Patty Picklicious. All black card is American Crafts and crown is silver mirricard.
The gems on her wings and googly eye are from my stash.
We would love to see your take on the challenge and you can join in with usover on the blog . My DT sisters have made the most fabulous BEE creations so pop over to BBTB2 and take a look and they also have a bloghop going on too with lots of candy to be had!
See you soon!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUGSPOT AT THE MOVIES CHALLENGE!

2010-04-21T10:25:00.004+01:00

Good morning all

Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week we have had so much fun ! Nilda set us a wonderful challenge to create

a project/card featuring our favourite movie/TV show.

When I was little my favourite film was Mary Poppins and I even had the album so I knew all the songs word for word!
So of course that just had to be the theme for my card this week!
My card is approx 6"x6" and I started off with the backing paper which is a download from Pink Petticoat and the benefit of it being a digi paper is that I was able to add the text straight into the clouds! I printed it twice and cut out 2 clouds which I embossed with CB folder Swiss Dots and pop dotted. Next came the houses which a gorgeous clip art set from Lettering Delights and comes in PNG format so you can place the houses wherever you want and of course I wa able to add my text again before printing. I printed these twice and cut one layer to lay at the bottom of the card and a few roofs to layer and cuttled 2 with CB folder Tiny Mosaics. I also cut one of the roofs out of red and white polka dot paper (Pink Petticoat) to co- ordinate with Mary's umbrella! Finally I found this fabulous SVG file for use with SCAL programme to cut out on my Cricut from a wonderful blog Reddy's Ramblings, thank you so much Reddy, this file is fab with all the extra bits to layer Mary included. I chose to cut her as a silhouette and just used the umbrella layer and bag layer as highlights. I placed my Mary Poppins flying above the houses! I did have to look up the spelling of Supercalifragil................................... on the internet lol! Sentiment is all computer generated font is Fontdiner Sparkly. I so enjoyed this weeks challenge and hope you like my card , my DT sisters have some fabulous creations over at the Cuttlebugspot so be sure to visit and why not join in the fun and you could also win a prize this week.
I am also entering this into the Simon Says Stamps challenge this week which is a movie theme with dry embossing
Thanks as always for taking the time to visit me!
Juliexx

BBTB2 CHALLENGE FROM MY KITCHEN

2010-04-19T20:29:00.003+01:00

Good evening
Well this week is my first challenge as a DT member for BITTEN BY THE BUG2. To say I was nervous is an understatement! Dee Dee from the team chose a cut from From My Kitchen cart and I wouldn't have even known this cut existed! It's the tabs card cut on the ice cream cut. It's a pretty little card with some flowers cut out.
I decided to use the tab as a tag card for a bunch of flowers. Backing paper is silver and duck egg blue from Hunky Dory. I first cut the tabs card at 7 1/2"in black and white polka dot and just used the flower cut outs for the large flowers. I also cut it at 1 1/2" in the same paper for a tag and backed with some lemon striped paper and rub on sentiment and added some little pearls and a gem. I made the ribbon flowers using a wonderful video tutorial by Kirsty Wiseman see her blog here. The tutoruial is for crepe paper flowers and the white flower is done with crepe but I decided to try some wired pink and green ribbon for the other two flowers and added pearl centres Finally a pink bow to finish off!
You should see the fabulous projects the rest of the team have created! Hope you'll pop over to BBTB2 and we'd love you to join in the challenge and don't forget to check out the Magnolia contest which is still going on!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a great week
Juliexx

MAKE A WISH

2010-04-18T00:04:00.005+01:00

Good evening
Hope you're all enjoying the weekend and the lovely weather we're having in the UK!
I made this card for a challenge recently but didn't use it so I am posting it today and entering it into a couple of challenges.
The stamp (Bella panel by Stamptivity) reminds me of when I was a little girl and when the dandelions had gone to seed we would pick them and blow the little feather like seeds which we called 'fairies' and would make a wish. Oh to be young again!
For the background I used a free download from years ago that I found on my computer and changed the colours to pink and green. The black butterflies are a mixture of vellum and acetate punched with my MS butterfly punch and coloured with a black promarker and pink pearls added. I inked around my stamped image with a pink versamagic chalk ink and matted on to white card which has been cuttled with CB folder Jules Jewells and inked with pale green chalk ink. I added some black organza ribbons some paper roses which are again inked with pink and Prima pink pearl swirls. The sentiment is computer generated font is 'Santa's Sleigh'
I am entering this into the following challenges:
Sir Stampalot Challenge 'Fantasy'
By The Cute And Girly 'Fairy Tales'
Thanks for visiting
Be back soon!
Juliexx

CUTTLEBUG SPOT BLING CHALLENGE AND A BLOGHOP!

2010-04-12T22:07:00.004+01:00

Good evening
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week Nilda set a bling challenge so get out your gems and glitter!
For my card I decided to use a new butterfly die by Marianne Design that I recently bought and covered it with clear and lilac gems. The backing paper is a Pink Petticoat download called Granny's Wallpaper and I have made the border at the bottom using my large scallop EK border punch and laid gems along the scallops and two lilac metal roses. I set a gem oval behind the butterfly and 3 lilac metal roses. The bottom of the card is cuttled with a Sizzix embossing folder from the Birthday set and the text is computer generated font is Dali.
Now for the fun! The Cuttlebugspot is part of a bloghop with some other challenge blogs with some fab prizes so hop on over there now and see what you need to do to be in with a chance!
Have a great week everyone!
Juliexx

I'M SO EXICITED TO TELL YOU................

2010-04-11T10:50:00.004+01:00

....That I've been chosen as one of the new members of the BBTB2 Design Team!! Woohoo I'm still pinching myself to make sure I'm not dreaming!!
I received an email from Heather yesterday and just want to say thank you so much, I am so honoured to become part of such a wonderfully talented team. I'm so excited and nervous too! I start with my first project on 18th April!
If you love your Cricut I hope you'll pop over and visit us at BBTB2 and see all the wonderful creations the design team create every week!
Well that's my exciting news for today I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend it's warm and sunny here today at last Spring has arrived in the UK.
Thanks for listening to me today!!
Juliexx

SPRING CHALLENGE AT LILY-BOO TOO!

2010-04-06T09:47:00.002+01:00

Good morning
It feels like I haven't been here for ages! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter.
This month over at Lily-Boo too challenge blog we have a Spring themed challenge going on! The challenge is a colour challenge and the only stipulation is that your card/project includes the colours yellow, pale green and blossom.
My card is quite simple, I made this little thank you card using a gorgeous daisy image from the Flowers Collection. I cut an A5 card in half so this card opens from the side and covered with backing paper from a lovely new gingham download from Pink Petticoat. I left the image quite plain and just paper pieced the flower centres with some spotty papers again Pink petticoat and coloured the leaves with promarkers. I used one of my new Martha border punches for the white punched strip and inked the edges in pale green and added some lemon organza ribbon. Finally I inked the edges of the card and added a thank you rub on.
Be sure to pop over to the Lily-Boo too blog and take a look at the gorgeous creations the Dt have made this month and we'd love you to play along too!
Have a wonderful week!
Juliexx

BBTB2 DESIGN TEAM CALL

2010-03-27T23:47:00.008Z

Good evening
The girls over at BBTB2 have a design team call going on. If you have never visited and you love your Cricut as much as I do then you really must! It's my first port of call every Monday morning when they post their fabulous challenge cards.
Here are some of my favourite cards I've made using my Cricut, I thought it would be easier done in one post.
Thanks so much for taking a look
Juliexx

CROCHET FLOWER

2010-03-23T04:19:00.003Z

Good morning
I've been learning how to crochet flowers! It's amazing what you can learn on You Tube! I found this great site that has all sorts of wonderful tutorials and ideas its called Little Birdie Secrets.
There is a little story behind this card I originally made it for this weeks Cuttlebugspot Challenge but I totally got the wrong week! I seem to be having one of those weeks, hmmm I put it down to my age lol I will be turning 50 this year!
Anyway I've been crocheting lots of these little flowers so I thought I would male this card
It's 5x7" and embossed with a CB folder from the Oh My Crafts exclusive shapes bundle folder. I cut a green 'stem' and embossed with Swiss Dots CB folder. I handcut the leaves paper is from Patty Picklicious CD and added my pink crochet flower and a dotty button . The Happy Birthday is compute generated. Lot's of white space on this card but I liked it left simple and you'll probably be seeing more of these little flowers on my cards as I can't stop making them lol!
Juliexx

PEGGY LOVES VINTAGE CONTEST!

2010-03-21T10:31:00.003Z

Good morning everyone
It's a beautiful sunny Spring morning here today!
Peggy over at Peggy Loves Vintage has just announced another great contest and you could win some fabulous candy as well as some of Peggy's wonderful vintage images.
All you have to do is make a project using this cute little bunny which you can download free from the blog just click HERE!
For my card I made the bunny into a shaped card for the front. I printed him three times and did a little decoupage with him. The dotty background paper is from my stash, my greeting is computer generated and pop dotted and I added a little red flower button. Finally I added a little white pom pom for his tail which I have inked to match his furry coat. I also inked around the card and greeting.
We hope that you can join us just pop over to Peggy Loves Vintage for full details of the contest and see the fabulous projects the DT have made using this adorable bunny!
Thanks for looking and hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Juliexx

HAPPY EASTER! THE CUTTLEBUGSPOT MEETS LILY-BOO!

2010-03-17T10:47:00.002Z

Good morning
Well over at the Cuttlebugspot we have a new sponsor this month and it's Lily-Boos Boutique who have the most gorgeous digital image stamps. Of course I am biased because I am lucky enough to be on both these wonderful design teams!
For my card I decided to use the adorable bunny from The Easter Collection. I printed the image out twice once on plain white card and once on green patterned paper and paper pieced the top of the tree after embossing it with QK dotty embossing folder. The rest of the image I coloured with Promarkers and the sky is chalked. The image is then layered on to pink and lemon pearlescent card and the backing paper is printed from Pink Petticoat Little big dots download. The sun is cut using the smallest die from my Nellie's circle die cuts with lemon pearlecent card and embosssed with the same QK folder. I cut a little white picket fence with another die and punched out some little pearlescent eggs. The eggs have been embossed with CB folders build a snowman and the tiny tiny dots of the CB 3x3 buttlerfly set, these tiny embossings really lend themselves to smaller die cuts. Finally I added some tiny pearlecent butterflies punched with MS butterflies punch and added a matted computer generated greeting font Curlz MT
This week all you need to do is leave a comment over at the Cuttlebugspot to be in with the chance of winning some fabulous Lily-Boo downloads!
Also Lily-Boo is looking for new Design Team members so if you fancy joining us and working with these gorgeous images pop over to Lily-Boos for more details!

WELCOME LITTLE ONE

2010-03-09T21:00:00.004Z

Good evening
Over at the Cuttlebugspot this week Nilda asked us to make something vintage.
I found a gorgeous vintage baby image which is from Peggy loves Vintage New Babies vol 1 and just had to use it!
For my card I used DCWV paper from the Luxury stack then cut an oval in cream with my Nellies Diecutter (they're a bit like nesties but made by a Dutch designer) and cuttled with CB folder Swiss Dots. I tied a cream satin bow behind the oval and computer generated the sentiment using font LD elegance and added two ribbon roses in cream. I printed the baby in a rose image on glossy photopaper 4 times and cut and layered it using pop dots for dimension.
I then decided to have a go at making a pair of little baby shoes and found a free SVG file at Laura's blog The Alliance Trader. Thank you Laura the file cut like a dream on my Cricut! I used SCAL to cut the 2 little shoes in pink pearlescent card and cuttled again with Swiss Dots CB folder. I added a cream ribbon rose to each for the shoe 'buckle' and flat back pearls around the bottom of the shoes. I'm really pleased with how these turned out and will certainly be doing more in the future!
I hope you'll visit The Cuttlebugspot and see the wonderful designs the Design team have created this week and if you leave a comment you could win a £15.00 voucher for the Craftbarn online store and if you would like to join in and make a Vintage creation you could win some fabulous jammies (covers)for your Cricut and Cuttlebug handmade and so kindly donated this week by our very own Lillie on the DT!
Hope to see you there!
Juliexx

MOTHER'S DAY

2010-03-07T15:38:00.003Z

Good afternoon
It's a glorious sunny Sunday here in Wales today, still very cold and fresh but gorgeous weather!
My card today is for Lily Boo too challenge which this month is Mother's Day and I am also entering it into the Just Buggin challenge which is use a card feature from your Cricut Cart.
I printed the polka dots from Pink Petticoat mini big dots download directly on to white card and the card feature is the doily card from Wild Card Cricut cart cut @ 5". The gorgeous digi image is from Lily-Boos Boutique circles collection which is coloured using pale yellow Promarker and has a few silver gems also coloured yellow with the Promarker to match. This has been pop dotted onto a lemon circle mat cut with my circle nesties and then pop dotted on to the centre of the card. I computer generated the Happy Mothers Day font LD Fancy Folk. Finally I coloured some White organza again with my yellow Promarker and tied a triple bow using it with some Black and white polka dot ribbon too!
Don't forget there is a DT call out over at Lily-Boos click on the link to go to the blog for more details!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Juliexx