Hearts A Flutter...

Hello, tis me again back after a bit of an absence. 
Have had a lovely day today playing with the brand new wooden decorative bits that have arrived. There are a few different shapes but I've picked a couple of the hearts in different sizes for this project. Hope you like it...

I covered the blank wooden hearts with paper from Kaisercraft and sanded them all round. They do come with hole's for hanging but the smaller one I left covered as I wanted to glue it onto the bigger one. Added a couple of wings and gave it all a bit of a rub over with some Distress Paint, replaced the cord with some paper ribbon, a bead and Voila...

I love it and I hope you do too...thanks for dropping by xxx

Little Red Book...

To be fair it started out as something quite different which goes to show it is always better to not have a set idea of where your going as what I've ended up with I'm so very pleased with...

It began with the idea of doing a gardening journal book with 'Rose Garden Abi' on the front but after the initial inking of the journal and sourcing some papers from my shelf I veered off in a completely different direction and I hope you like the result...

Found some really good quality but cheap hardback lined books in a stationary shop sale ages ago knowing that they would get used at some point, well that's what we do isn't it.

I inked all the edges including that ridge on the spine edge just to dull down the red a bit then covered it with the burgundy check paper that I inked the edges of also. 

Punched a border strip with a similar coloured burgundy card and added it to the spine edge followed by a strip of contrasting paper to 2/3rds across again inking the edges.

Where the 2 strips of paper meet I added a band of lace with a band of grosgrain. To this I then added a handmade bow all stuck down with a glue gun.

On the opening edge I used a diecut label to which I attached a metal embellishment and a little wooden knob, again inked with the same ink I used for the papers.

And to finish off a couple of metal corner embellishments...

I really hope you like it...

I'm back.....yayyyy

Well hello and Happy New Year

Who on earth would have thought it would have taken me this long to find my way back here...

So it's been a very very long time and an awful lot has happened but I think the best thing is just to get on with it as if I'd never disappeared.

So here is my first make of the year, well the first I've sat and made specifically for pleasure. Brought on by the fact we are snowed in and cant get to the shop so I thought I would get on and make a project to kick start my blog again...

Love these new stamps designed and made by Beverley Tonks at Bee Crafty. The little girl image is from the new 'Abi Grace' range and the round sentiment is from the new 'Love and Romance' range.

Also used were Promarkers for colouring, Spellbinders and Cheery Lyn dies and Bee Crafty Blooms...

Had fun doing this, especially when I found my distresser tool...

had a good ole scratch all round the first layer of paper



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