Little Musings Willow......

There is nothing I like more than a bargain ~ other than a freebie......

This is where SJ come's in, her beautiful images are available as stamps or digital images

from her own website and now and then she offers free digital images for us o play with......

This is the little beauty she kindly gave us this week who reminds me so much of my darling

granddaighter Abbie.

Now those of you who know her will admit she is a bit of a cartoon anyway

but this image so reminds me of her dressed to go off down to the stables to play

with her pony "Berry Boo Princess"

See what I mean....

butter wouldn't melt..........NOT!!!

oh but I love her soooo much xxx

Huggles......J x

Molly and her Bloomin' Sleigh.....

So after having a couple of days feeling ab-so-flamin'-lutely pants with a bad back and head cold I've managed to drag myself from my sick bed......wait for the violins....I've made a card with one of my new Molly Blooms stamps. I've had them a few days but could not get my mojo out of bed let alone myself. 

So here it is, coloured with ProMarkers and layered quite simply on just one sheet of patterned paper and decorated with a few punched out snowflakes and some die cut Cricut vines and snowflakes....

It would have been easy to use a red paper so in true Julie-Ann style I used orange...

So please if you like it let me know, it's nice to get feedback.

If it's rubbish don't say anything, I'll just delete it :p

Hugs J x

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An Inky Masterpiece........Not!!!

I have been fighting the good fight in keeping my craft room tidy for, ooooOO the best part of a long time and have now decided that I should do it properly. So I am not only putting things back in the right place but also giving all the boxes, bags and drawers a right good turf out. So far I've been to the recycling bin outside 3 times to empty my bin and I've only done one set of shelves......

Tidying out the small tubs and boxes is going to be the nightmare I think as I get so easily distracted. For instance........

my tub of small ink pads has seen little action since I got my distress inks and has therefore suffered from neglect leading to the deterioration of several of the foam based ones. My plan then was to test them all and be brutal in the keeping of ones that are past using, even for doing edges ( really tried to think of reasons for keeping them ) This created a little masterpiece which i will now share with you...

Oh bother it's upside down.......




You can tell because if you look really close you can see the little pink mice with whiskers and tails that came about from testing pink cats eyes inks and then me doodling on them....



So now do you understand why this is a job that's gonna take forever as I get so distracted nothing, truly ever gets finished....

Ta ta, see ya soonly...........xxx

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Two Today.......



You don't always need to add an image as a focal point. This first one just uses one from the On the Edge range of cards from Craftwork Cards - cut around the shaped edge for the front and added a strip inside the front edge - a couple of cut branches from my Cricut - a few Bee Crafty Blooms and some pretty hat pins....

The paper is cut from a piece of 12 x 12 K & Co Mira - I like to use 12 x 12 as I can pick certain elements or size for whatever my card is going to be...

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Now for this next one I have used a previous;y coloured image as it fitted the paper I had picked - 12 x 12 Arctic Frog - Garden Party...

So remember, when you go to your local craft shop's for stash give the 12 x 12's a good look - you will be surprised at how well they work with us card makers...

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Take care

Julie-Ann x

What's with the ATTITUDE?

So I'm gonna have a play with another one of my purchases, Sugar Nellie Little Miss Attitude.....

She so reminds me of someone but who?.............. I'm sure it will come to me soon......

This time I'm going to start by choosing a paper to work with and for this card I've picked one from the Wild Rose collection.

Abi,,,,,sorry, Miss Attitude coloured taking my lead from the colours in the papers...

Nearly done, just a few extras needed for my liking......

I'm happy with the final result

So, what do you think......

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A Rare Day Off........

What a great day....

Started off waking up to the sound of my youngest grandson having a conversation with a couple of wooden dolls about the sleeping arangements in the dolls house whilst still in bed.

Then it was off to the stables with Sam to get the horse's clipped as their winter coats are just about in and they are sweating up when exercised, nothing to do with the fact my poor ole chap has to cart me about.......

So here is Sam giving Lily her first clip of the season and the first one done by Sammy in a long time and what a blooming good job she did of it, so good in fact that I got a couple of strips taken off my lad Squire as he does sweat along his neck but doesnt do enough work with me to warrant as much off as Lil' has. She's had a trace clip which is taking the hair of her neck and belly with a bit off the sides, but leaving her bum and back covered so she doesn't get cold.

.......and after all that hard work we treated ourselves to a lovely long ride around the villages and had a good old natter....

Me and my boy............x

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this is how he felt about it all

and as for Lil' well she wasnt going to ruin her new hairdo so just smiled for the camera....

Then it was home for BLT's and cuppa ...... lush xx

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Just Gorjuss.......

Today I took delivery of my first Gorjuss Girls stamps, Foxy and Little Miss Attitude. I have had a brilliant time playing with them and here's what happened .........

The images have been stamped onto smooth white card with a black Versafine ink pad....

Now which one to do first.......

I decided to use Derwent Colorsoft pencils for this as they give a lovely soft colour when blended with a thinner like Sansodor.........

After going around the outer edge of her coat with coloured pencil I then dipped the paper stump into the solvent and gently blended around the edges slowly bringing the colour to the center...

More colour is put down and then blended the same way as the coat but with the hair I put down several colours and blended them together...

I'm really happy with finished result...

et voila...

the finished image on a card

A Victorian Challenge.......

Hello, bet ya didn't expect me to be back so soon......

Well in an effort to get blogging again I decided to have a go at this weeks challenge on the "Sell Your Craft" group on FB and here is my effort. The brief was "Victorian Era" where you could make anything that had a Victorian theme, which is great for everyone no matter what their crafty preference.

So what did I do............?

Firstly I took an 8 x 8 card and inked the edges with a dark brown ink pad, then cropped a piece of pink patterned paper to 7 3/4 square and again inked the edges with the same ink pad. Next was to cut down a piece of pink paper to approx. 6 x 5 and punched a decorative edge down the right side,again inking the edges to match the rest. This piece I stuck down at an angle to give a bit of interest. Now the image is a computer generated one from copyright free site, re-sized and given the same treatment as all the other papers and again stuck down on the opposite angle to the last. Lace and ribbon were wrapped around and a metal ribbon slide is put onto the picot edged satin. Paper roses have been given a quick spray with gold sparkle and stuck down with hot glue. Finally a little bit of bling to finish it off.........

Hope you like it..............Julie xx

Challenges Entered

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SellYourCraftsHere :~ Victorian

http://trulyscrumptiouschallenges.blogspot.com/ :~ Distressed

http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.com/ :~ Lace

http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/ :~ Pink

Things have gone a bit CRACKERS!!!!!!!

Yes, Christmas has started in style. Have had the new crackers in from Stix2 and here is one I made on Satuday when Michelle came into the shop and demo'd the new glue gun and foils aong with the new cracker kits......

I started by punching some light cream paper to create an extra layer inside the ends of a white sparkle cracker. Then added a band of the same cream pearl paper around the centre after punching both sides. Once the cracker has been rolled and joined I stuck on a pretty hand meade pearl paper rose and a couple of punched out leaves using the new glue gun then tied the ends with some lovely satin edged organza ribbon .....

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I hope you'll agree it would make a lovely wedding cracker .......

There is a competition to win a massive goody bag from Stix2. All you need to do is e-mail a picture of your cracker design to Michelle and the bestest one will win. The e-mail address can be found over on the Bee Crafty page and if I knew how to do a link I would but until Bev show's me how over the week-end you will need to pop over there yourself :o) .......

(I will update this post as soon as I know how)