Jellypark says thank you

It's been a while since I posted, I've had a terrible technology fail to deal with amongst other things and it has meant that not only could I not craft but I couldn't update my blog either. I'm back now and raring to go :o).

I'm delighted to announce that the latest challenge over at Jellypark Friends Challenge Blog is all about saying thank you. We would love to see any projects where you are giving thanks to someone.

My team got to work with the new release images of which there are 2. I chose this super cute little squirrel or squibbel as my little girl used to call them (I like that better to be honest.) I didn't make a card, shock horror but a cute tag.

I started colouring him up and noticed a cloth on my table from when I had been cleaning so I wondered what would happen if I loaded the cloth with my blender pen, well it gave a great texture for his fur, success :o) 

My mum brought me the little wooden acorn and foam leaf from Poland and they work perfectly with the image which is available from the jellypark store. There's also a super cute little bird image available to.

Have a great weekend and happy crafting.

Mel :o)

p.s my blog looks a mess, while I was away something happened to it and the template stopped working, it messed everything up and I'm really struggling to get it looking nice again so please bear with me.

Jellypark Stamp Spotlight Friday

It's stamp spotlight Friday over at Jellypark Friends.

I used Girl with cake for this card.

This card is currently being featured in Complete Cardmaking magazine along with lots of other gorgeous creations from the Jellypark DT.

Claire has also very generously given away lots of images free with this magazine including the "tea and cake at my house ticket" which is featured on my card. The magazine is available in shops now. The girl with Cake digi is available => here <=

Happy Crafting

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Have a great weekend!!

Mel :o) x

Jellypark Friends Bug Challenge

Hello crafty peeps and a happy Friday to you all.

The weather has taken a turn for the better which I'm so pleased about, I'm particularly happy that the sun has come out for the Olympics. It's been wonderful and I have enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would :o)

Well done to the Top 3 from the Jellypark Friends last challenge which was all about the Olympics.

Our new challenge over at Jellypark Friends is all about bugs. We would love to see your projects with bugs included somewhere. The warmer weather has certainly brought more of them out to play. I noticed today that we had lots of flying ants around.

My card is using Butterfly Girl she is one of my favourite images and I thought it would be cool to colour her in ladybird colours.

I used a plain red background paper and die cut some spots, I created the ticket myself and coloured the image up with promarkers. I've had the black ribbon for ages, I was so pleased to be able to finally use some of it on my card :o)

There are also 2 gorgeous new release images over in the Jellypark Store and the DT have made some amazing cards to showcase them over on the Challenge Blog.

Happy Crafting

Mel :o) x

Rain rain go away, don't come back another day!

What a strange day weather wise, it started out blue skies and sunshine and then the heavens well and truly opened and apparently we have rain, rain and more rain forecast for next week :o(

Oh well it inspired me to make a card so every cloud has a silver lining :o)

The idea for the card came from some photograph's that I've been playing around with. I got some new software which let's you turn certain bits of a colour photograph black and white. I've framed some very cute photos of the kids as a result.
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I printed the image out in the middle of a sheet of white card and then coloured her up with all 5 of the Warm Grey Selection of promarkers and also the new grey squirrel from the limited edition Autumn pack. I used 4 different reds (lipstick red, red, berry red and crimson) for the umbrella. I kept forgetting that I wasn't cutting around her, which I usually do so the blender pen came in very handy when I went over the lines ;o)

I hand stamped the words which were so appropriate for this gorgeous image. I used a white gel pen to highlight the parts I wanted to be bright white. The edges are distressed with a Tim Holtz black soot ink pad. The black flowers are hand made with aurora borealis gems in the centres. 

I printed 2 copies of the image this was going to be the one for the card but I coloured outside the lines too much so I cut around her not very neatly and used her for the mask (we waste nothing us crafters).

Then I went all Jackson Pollock, I got an old toothbrush and started flicking ink over the entire card as you can see the mask took quite a hit. Once I removed the mask I flicked over the coloured image with an almost dry brush.

 

Happy Crafting

Mel :o) x

Challenges entered:-

Saturated Canary - Challenge 22 - Black and white + one other colour
Paper take weekly - make your own (the flowers are hand coloured and constructed by me)
Craft your passion challenges - challenge 120 - black, white + one

A new challenge and new releases over at Jellypark Friends

Happy Friday peeps, hope the weather is being kind to you.

It's time for a new challenge over at the Jellypark Friends challenge blog and in celebration of the Olympics we are asking for Olympic/sports related entries.

My group had the pleasure of working with the new summery release images, available today from the new look Jellypark Store.

 I saw them and thought how perfectly they worked together so I printed off the tree image with a digitally created background (Jellypark scrapbook pack, clouds and grass element) and coloured it in, I then printed the girl on a swing seperately. After colouring her up I cut around her with my craft knife and made cuts in the tree and threaded the rope from the swing through. She has been attached to the card with a 3D gel.

Beautiful images as usual from the very talented Claire.

Cool or what!!!!

Happy Crafting

Mel :o) x

Challenges entered:
Crafts and me challenges - challenge 94 - anything goes
Delightful sketches - dog days of summer