Joolse Blog

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Mother's Day

A quirky card I made using Nikki Hills Back to basics CD I also used a spring to give it a nodding head I made quite a few in this range for Mother's Day

Red n Cream double ribbon

This was wedding stationery I recently finished and have permission to show it from the bride. I do not show stationery sets before the wedding has taken place. But I do show my samples

Filigree Finishes

Some of the Wedding Stationery I have been working on I have a few wedding Fayre's all around Scotland this year

Also many Commisions for weddings

Saturday, 23 January 2010

I used a graphics program to make the footy shirt with the name on (Tutorial at top of the page for making and folding the shirt) I used VersaMark for the water marks in the background and co ordinating card for the mat and layering and finished with a die cut football

Hairdresser

I used the MCS Cd for this it is for a Hairdresser who loves to dye his hair bright vibrant colours

Get Well

I used Polka Doodles Cd back to nature for the images and decoupage and printed the greeting and added some glitter.

This is the first time I have worked with Polka Doodles and they are deffinately so easy to use Nikky Hall is a great illustrator/designer and have ordered several more of her Cds

Mandala Stamps

I used MCS for the background images and one of my mandala stamps. I stamped it five times for the layers on different shades of purples added iridescent glitter and ribbons

Wedding Stationery

Some Invitations I have recently completed I printed the initials stamped the wording and added two ribbons and gems

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Footy Invites

Football party Invites I used MCS for the backing, border and wording

Footy Invites

Football party Invites I used MCS for the backing, border and wording

One too many

I used MCS for the border and printed the bottles for the decoupage.

I used cuttlebug alfabet for the wording and numbers and printed the greeting

BEN 10

A Ben 10 card using free download images from one of the craft magazines

I used Green card and printed the greeting

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Footy Fanatic

I used Crafters Companion Hobbies Male Cd for the images

Builder Birthday

I used Crafters Companion Occupation Cd and printed the greeting

Harry's card

I recently had a visit from Harry my grandson who wanted to make cards, he wanted a jungle card for daddy.

I used Crafters Companion Guys, and Occupations Male Cd for the images I did the decoupage and let him do the glueing, inking and stamping in Harrys words winking and stamping He's only 3

2010 in the Pink

Some of the New year cards I have been working on cut and designed with Pazz;es, I used irredescent pink card, printed the greetings and added punched snowflakes, ribbon and glitter

Monday, 28 December 2009

Butterfly book

Butterfly Book I used the Bind it all, Organza ribbons and MCS no stamp required to fill the pages with Butterflies to be left or coloured in

Sunday, 27 December 2009

Karate Christmas

One of the reasons I enjoy making personalised cards is that you cannot buy these from the shops and you can play until you like the end result this was for a Karate club. I used Sharn Duncan Oriental CD and just popped hats onto the two end karate figures

Fairy Birthdays

A4 card I used the pazzles to cut out the swirls and then coloured the cut outs and used them as well. I got the decoupage image using MCS and added a few flourishes and wording

Doggy News

A card for a Male who like to read news papers and loves dogs I got the image from one of the decoupage Cds and changed the colour slightly, printed the greeting and matted and layered both

Born to shop

I made a few birthday cards in between the christmas cards which lightened the load!

this card I used Crafters Companion Hobbies Female decoupage I used a stamp for the boutique background and a few other stamps and coloured with a mixture of chalk and ink

A4 lattice heart card

Another Lattice heart cut with Pazzles I used punched snowflakes, holly leaves, pearly doodles and gems and printed the greeting in colours to match

Fireman Sam

I added a christmas hat and Christmas lights using MCS to the decoupage on one of the many Decoupage Cds I have and to finish added white pom poms

Penguin footballers

For my grandsons they are all football crazy hense the footballs.

I used Cuttlebug embossing folders crafters companion xmas cd and die cut footballs.

I printed the greetings straight onto the card and embossed with pearlised powder, then finished with punched snowflakes and a little glitter

Christmas card cheats

With all the orders I had to do I had to cheat a little for my own! I had bought a Xmas card kit a while back full of pre printed cards and toppers, all I had to do was put them together and print out the greeting to personalise them I made 80 lol

Saturday, 19 December 2009

Christmas Stockings

An A4 card I used a graphics programm to manipulate the image to turn it all black n white but leave the garland and stockings coloured and added names to each of the stockings.

I also printed extra stockings to decoupage finished with Ribbons and glitter

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Decoupaged Popcorn

I used Decoupage for this card a loving christmas scene also my Pazzles for the lattice heart

Twisterpage Baubles

Two cards I made using MCS, my Pazzles and finished with stamps and glitter

Pop Corn Bear Christmas

A few more Pop corn Bear Cards using Crafters Companion Cd and

my Pazzles

Pop Corn Brear Christmas

Two popcorn bear cards in the Merry christmas range the first is finished and ready to go

the second was the way I took them to the craft fare with lots of inserts and labels to personalise them. they where a total sell out. I used Pazzles to design and cut and Crafters Companion Pop corn Cd cosy and warm.