Joyfold?

So do you know what a joyfold card is? Great if you do come and join in the fun at Penny's Paper Crafty, if you don't come on over and get the link to the Split Coast Stampers tutorial. I have to say it took me a while to get my head round it then by the third effort I had it firmly in my head and now I could make a joyfold card for any occasion!
We have two great sponsors this week - they are:

For my card I have used an image from Sassy Studio Design, this is Glinda and she is from the Wizard of Oz collection, what a fabulous collection that is too!

I used a selection of black and white papers and card to make the card some are from Paper Cellar and the others are from my stash. I cut the corners using a Spellbinders die and I used bright silver on one side and shiney black on the other, all of which have red hearts. The rose was white and I coloured it with a Promarker, crimson to match Glinda's lovely gown, she is also coloured with Promarkers.

This is what the card looks like open!

I hope you can come over to Penny's and join us for this challenge - maybe you'll learn a new technique!
I hope to see you there and in the meantime thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Tuesday Again (I thought it was Monday!)

Tuesday today and going back to work so my mind tells me its Monday!

Today sees another Coloru Challenge over at the Outlawz and today it is my turn to host and post!

For my inspirational picture I chose a phot I took in a gorgeous little moutain village in Spain, they always look so fresh and clean!

 

For my card I have used an Elisabeth Bell image that is on a CD of Elisabeth Bell designs that was on Create and Craft and as I love her work it was a must have!

 



 

I teamed her up with some Nit Wits Papers and some lushe organza ribbon, a nice Prisma flower and a pretty birthday ticket from Crafty Sentiments finished it off.

 

 

I coloured this adorable image with Promarkers - isn't she sweet!

 

I hope you will hop over to the Outlawz and join our challenge this week, I'd love to see you there!

 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!



Healing the Dragon!

Today sees the latest challenge over at Penny's Paper Crafty.  The theme is 'Circles'.

We have two sponsors this week

 



For my card I have used an image from The Paper Shelter - Healing the Dragon. I think its a fabulous image but lots of colouring and is an image that you need to allow plenty of time to colour!

 

 

For my background I used up some of my scraps! As the them is circles I cut lots of circles from different scraps of paper and glued them onto a plain cream card, I just added the image and a little circle for the sentiment!

 





I coloured the image with Promarkers and edged it with some heat embossed gold.

I hope you will join us over at Penny's for this latest challenge, I'd love to see you there!
Thanks for stopping by I appreciate your visit and hope to see you again soon!

Tuesday.........

Doesn't time fly - I can't believe it's Tuesday again!
Tuesday means the Colour Challenge at the Outlawz and this weeks picture was chosen by Ursula

 

So for my card this is what I came up with

 

 



I jus.t so love this cute little birdie from Doodle Pantry, I matted the pretty pink Nit Wits paper onto some yellow card, added some lace flowers that I coloured with Promarkers then added some bling to the centres, the sentiment is from Craft Sentiments and I think they are just so cute!

 

This is what the little birdie looks like, coloured with Promarkers and just so sweet, every time I see this image it makes me smile!

 

Well I hope to see you all over at the Outlawz for this latest challenge, come on over and check out the lovely makes from the DT - you may even decide to stay awhile.

 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you at the Color Challenge this week!!



Sassy Graduation!

If you belong to the SSD group over at PCP you will know that Jackie Randolph has started a progressive freebie and this is the first image

 

 

In the UK we don't do much for graduation but I do know that any of the grads this year will need lots of luck to get a job!

 

I used a template from an Anna Marie Designs CD, I have 5 of them and always forget about them! So I cut the base card from some cream card using the template, I then cut the horseshoe from the template from some satin silver card, I backed it with some glittered black cut my sentiment and added the brads them mounted the whole thing onto the card. The flowers are punched and I have added some bling to the centres

 



I coloured the image with Promarkers she is definitely a sassy lady!

I will also be entering her in to the Crafting Cafe Challenge which is Lady Luck!

Hope to see you soon!

Check Out our Design Team!

We have had some new members of the design team join us at Eclectic Ellapu so I hope you will go check out their blogs and leave them some love!

This is the expanded  Pink Team

• Elaine - Owner
• May
• Dawn
• Claire
• Laurian
• Sheena
• Asha
• Valou
• Yvonne
• Amy
• Rina
• Kelly
• Elaine R
• Lisa Grace
• Adrienne
• Sandie

So for the new challenge we have some wonderful inspiration for you from these incredibly creative people!

This week challenge is: Anything Goes, everyones favourite!

My card this week was made for our apprentice who has left to have a baby.

 

I made an 8 x 8 card so everyone in the office could sign it. I cut the card from some white card the layered up with some sparkly blue topped with cerise. I added some lace and layered up with some Lucy Cromwell paper that has gorgeous glittery flowers and butterflies on. Some flourishes and some cute bows for finishing touches.

 

The image was a freebie last weekend from Mo Manning and is just gorgeous and also very appropriate for this card!

 



This is a close up of this darling image! The sentiment was printed out and cut to shape with a corner punch then inked with shades of pink.

Well thats my card and I hope you will come over to Eclectic Ellapu and join us this  week - remember you can enter any craft project we love to see all your creations!

 

Hope to see you there!

 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Another Type of Project

I don't do very often - a stepper card.

The new challenge at Penny's Paper Crafty is for a stepper card. I don't make them very often but really enjoyed playing with this one!

 

I printed the card with a peachy coloured Raspberry Road paper then cut out my card. I have added some Spellbinders lace dies cut from some pearly peach card and some orange gems the big flower is from Jak Heath, she gave them away on her blog and they are quite spectacular, thanks Jak!

 

My image is from Stamp Art Design who is one of our sponsors this week.

 

So get out your patterns and find that step card you have been meaning to make and come over and join in the fun - there are some great prizes to be won, so what are you waiting for!

 

See you there!!