Stepping Out with Jocelyn

Good morning everyone, these Sunday's seem to come round so quickly and it is another challenge from the team over at

CD SUNDAY

I have scheduled my post as I will have been to Telford at a Stampin Up meeting on Saturday and no doubt will be very tired after an early start.

Good to see your entries for 'Curious Cats' as chosen by Wynn, I have enjoyed visiting you to leave comments on your blogs.

I made my choice for my challenge of 'Layer it Up' - you didn't make it easy for me but I have decided on my TOP 3 so pop over to CD Sunday to see if you are included.

I have a small prize for the winner.

For our challenge this week, Jocelyn is

STEPPING OUT

Lots of scope for this theme so I look forward to seeing your designs

This is my DT Card below

I made an 6 x 6 Card using backing papers from 

Ooh-la-la-Creations CD Shoes in Bloom.

2 sheets of  Lilac Pearlised card were used to print off two different designs.

One piece I cut diagonally and attached it to the edge of the card.

My beautiful shoe was printed directly onto Vellum Paper and attached with White Butterfly Brads from my stash to white Pearlised Card

 I have these so long I can't remember where I bought them from.

A little Parchment work has been done in one corner, must confess I have had this topper made for such a long time and the Parchment work was done when my eyes were better than they are now.

I hope you will join in with us, please remember to use something from a CD in your design and give credit to the CD you use.

See you all in two weeks

CHRISTMAS IS COMING with JENNY

Good morning to you all and welcome to our first challenge for October from the team at

CD SUNDAY

My post is scheduled as I will be having a lie in after spending the day at

The Happy Stampers Show at Port Sunlight.

I had an early start yesterday and quite a bit of driving but worth it to meet up with several of my crafting friends, some of whom I met for the first time.

Thank you for all your entries for the last challenge, it is lovely to see some many entries and some people joining in twice.

Check back in two weeks to see who Wendy has chosen as her TOP 3

Your theme for this fortnight has been chosen by JENNY and as it is getting ever nearer to Christmas you won't be surprised with her choice of theme of

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

I have done something a little different this time which you can see below

With many thanks to SAM HAMMOND DONALD and one of her Tutorials I decided to make a few cards which fit into a lovely box. Perfect for a present, not only for Christmas but you can adapt it for any sort of cards.

I used my Ooh-la-la- Creations CD - The Shawn Jenkins Collection - Christmas section to make my box, cards and also a matching card and envelope.

The box is easy to make, if you follow Sam's tutorial you will see what I mean.

My cards are blank 4 x 4 complete with envelopes

For my design, I printed off 'Merry Christmas' a few times onto 120 gsm paper which I attached to the blank cards.

My main card matches the design but I chose to print it as 'Pyramage' for effect.

The envelope is a paper from the same section on the CD and made using my Stampin Up Envelope Board. This is a worth while investment as I am using it a lot now. You can google the uses for the board and you will be surprised how many different sizes of envelopes and other things you can do with it.

To wrap round my box I used the same paper as my large envelope and added a Red Satin Bow.

I am getting quite good with bow tying now

I look forward to seeing your designs, visiting and leaving comments on your blogs

Take a moment to check out the rest of the teams designs, you won't be disapointed.

CD Sunday - Faithful Friends

Good morning to you all and welcome to our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY

It is all change for us and we are pleased to have Jenny back after her short break and thank Carol for doing a great job in her absence. 

Last week we said goodbye to Gloria as our Guest Designer, thank you Gloria, but watch out as I am sure she will be back later in the year

Joining us for the month of June is the lovely WYNN. She has been joining in with us for some time and the team likes her designs so we asked her to Guest Design for us for the month of June.

Wynn is lucky to live in Cyprus where the weather is better than here in the UK

As it is the start of a new month we have a Sponsor, Wendi & Emma mother and daughter who are-

Ooh-la-la-creations 

They kindly sent the design team images from their latest CD - Faithful Friends to work with.

They are offering one lucky person the choice of a CD from their Online Shop.

Onto the challenge and my DT Card is shown below

RECIPE

My favourite 6 x6 Scalloped Card for the base.

I chose 3 different papers to mat and layer up my design.

The main image of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is printed onto Glossy Photo Paper and some Card Candi completes the design.

There are a lot of super images on the CD and it was difficult to choose my favourite.

Do pop over to our blog to see more Faithful Friend's images, lovely designs from the team as usual.

I hope you will join us again this week, the only thing to remember is to use something from a CD in your design and tell us which CD you have used.

I look forward to visiting you all and leaving comments on your blog.

CD SUNDAY - BUNDLE OF JOY

Good morning to you all. I hope you are keeping warm and safe with all the snow in the UK.

Fortunately I am here in sunny Spain and I don't want to boast about the temperatures here. Low 20's at the moment with a light breeze.

Another Sunday which means another challenge from us over at 

CD SUNDAY

This week is it the turn of fellow DT - SUE and she chose

BUNDLE OF JOY

MARINA continues as your Guest Designer and I know you will like her latest contribution, do take a look at her blog to see what she has created.

I was struggling this week as I couldn't find any images suitable on the collection of CD's I have here, however my fellow teamie - Carol, very kindly sent me a few images to use, thanks Carol

My DT Card is below

RECIPE

Cream 5 x 5 Card Blank

Beautiful Bundle of Joy image from Ooh-la-la CD - Kiddiwinks

I printed this using Glossy Photo Paper and then placed it onto the card base.

For dimension I used a Photo Frame which I got from Craftwork Cards a while ago, this fitted nicely around the image. As the frame was already embossed I improvised and used my Eye Shadow's to give the flowers a little colour.

Card Candi for the centre of the large flowers and a couple of Gems for the smaller flowers.

I originally left the design like this, however I thought it needed a little something extra, so I took it into CAP2 and added the sentiments - Bundle of Joy & Congratulations.

I hope you will join us again as we love to look at your blogs and leave comments on your designs.

Take a moment to check out my fellow teamie's blogs, you wont be disapointed.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning everyone, I hope you are making the most of the Bank Holiday, the weather is unsettled where I live so hope it is better with you.

Another Sunday and another challenge from us at

CD SUNDAY

As usual our DT's have been busy preparing their designs as well as out Guest DT - Debs

This is the last week for her being a GDT and we have so enjoyed having her input we will be sorry to see her go. Hopefully we can persuade her to return at a later date.

Thankyou Debs, you have been a perfect GDT.

For our challenge this week we would like to think:

'JUST BECAUSE'

Another easier challenge as we all like to make this sort of card to send to our friends and loved ones, just to let them know we are thinking of them.

For my DT Card this week, I chose to go again with Ice Cream Colours

RECIPE:

6 x 6 Scalloped White Card

Backing Papers and beautiful image from - Ooh-la-la-creations CD - Carnival of Colour. I only received it this week and couldn't wait to start playing with it. It is beautiful CD, second only to their Shoes in Bloom CD.

I cut the matching backing papers using my Nestabilitie Dies - Label 1, I am fortunate to have the complete set of these.

The dies and papers have been placed at an angle and the lovely Rose topper placed in the middle.

A couple of flowers made using one of my punches and for my finishing touch I added Card Candi from Craftwork Cards

I must confess though that I purchased quite a few packs this week as they were on offer, well, I couldn't let a bargain go, could I.

We hope we will join us again this week, remember our only rule, use something from a CD in your design and say which CD you have used.

Our Top 3 continues and it is Jenny's turn to choose this week so check out the blog on Tuesday to see who it is she has chosen.

Lastly, do pop over to see the lovely creations from my teamies, stunning as usual.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE - IF THE SHOE FITS

Good morning to you all and welcome to our latest challenge over at
CD SUNDAY
Thanks for your entries in last weeks, nice to see new bloggers taking part.
For our challenge this week, we, the DT's chose
IF THE SHOE FITS.
We have Jocelyn as our Guest Designer for this month, do take a look at her blog, she does beautiful things and this week so has done us proud.

For my DT card I chose to use the lovely CD from Ooh-la-la-Creations which is all about Shoes in Bloom.

I printed one of the backing papers onto 'snake' like card which I had in my stash.

My beautiful topper has been printed on Vellum and then I added a little bit of parchment work using one of my Parchment Grids of butterflies. (What a surprise for me!!)

This has been attached by Brads to some lilac pearlescent card, my sentiment was computer generated onto the same card and cut round with deckle scissors.

My finishing touch was of course a lilac butterfly.

We hope you will join in with us again, remember our rule, please use something from a CD and say which it is you have used.

Do take a look our our blog as the rest of my teamies have some beautiful things to share.

Sponsor 4 - Christmas Sparkle

Good morning all my blogging friends, what a week we have had with all the snow. I hope that you are all keeping warm and looking forward to our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY


This week we have our 4th Sponsor - Wendi & Emma, who are

Ooh-la-la-Creations

If you haven't heard of them then I recommend you pop over to the Online Shop to see their range of fabulous CD's. You won't be disapointed.


Their chosen theme is - CHRISTMAS SPARKLE

The lucky participant chosen by Random Generator next week will be able to chose a CD from OLL Range.

Thankyou Wendi and Emma for agreeing to be our Sponsor this week.

The DT's were given lovely free files of images from their latest CD - Christmas Presence to use for their cards.


I chose this beautiful topper, backing paper and matching tag for my card along with Silver Christmas Tree decorations.
A length of Satin Ribbon in matching tones of Blue has been added along the bottom of the main card.
To complete the card I added a Happy Christmas Tag, attached with a blue brad and a couple of individual christmas trees for a little sparkle.

Do take a look at the fabulous samples made by the Design Team, each one a different theme.

Remember, all you have to do is to use something from a CD, it can be an image or even a small piece of paper and say which CD you have used.

We look forward to seeing and leaving comments on your designs.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to all my followers.

Sunday is upon us once again, which means time for the latest weekly challenge from

CD SUNDAY



Our challenge this week is:

NO EMBELLISHMENTS



This certainly challenged me this week as I tend to think cards look bare without embellishments.
You can see my DT card below

The rest of the DT team have come up with fantastic cards again this week, so do pop over to the blog to see their creations. You won't be disapointed.

We have had a lot of entries for last weeks challenge and I would personally like to thank you all for joining in with us and hope to see you again in the coming weeks.

RECIPE

Dreams of Tranquility CD from Ooh-la-la-Creations
This is a beautiful CD and well worth adding to your collection. The artwork is by Jonathon Earl Bowser and this particular image is called - Song of Deep Water

Our rules are simple, we ask you to use something from a CD and say which you have chosen. It can be a small piece of paper or an image. The choice is yours.

We look forward to seeing your creations and leaving comments on your blog.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE 11 - JUST FOR YOU

Good morning and welcome to the latest challenge from CD SUNDAY
The theme for this week is
JUST FOR YOU
there are lovely creations from the DT members, so please take a look.

I am sure most of you will have CD's hidden amongst your stash, so now is the time to bring them out and join in with us. The only rule we have is that you have to use an image, embellishment, or even a small piece of backing paper from a CD in your creation. Please say which CD you have used as we may not have seen it before.

MY CARD RECIPE:

Pearlised Lilac Card for the base
Backing Paper from Ooh-La-La Creations Shoes In Bloom CD which I have printed onto pearlised paper and then used a Martha Stewart Punch for a fancy edge.
Topper from the same CD - Sweet Peas selection, printed onto white parchment and edged with a two needle tool Pergamano Tool
Silver Mirri board to which the topper is attached with brads from my stash.
Sentiment - Just For You - from my computer mounted on Silver Mirri which I edged with decorative scissors and a butterfly brad attached at the bottom of the sentiment.

I really enjoyed making this card and can recommend this lovely CD
We hope you will join in with us this week and look forward to seeing your creations.