CD Sunday Plus Challenge #175 - Hosted by Meg

Hello and welcome

Already it's time for a new challenge over at CD Sunday Plus.  We all loved visiting your blogs and seeing your entries into our last challenge.  If you'd like to join in with the fun, full details of how to enter our challenge can be found over on the challenge page.

Here is my card for this challenge:

 I made this fun card using the Kanban Wobblers cd-rom and dies.   The die cuts out the base and rocker elements and the rest is cut out by hand.  He rocks and his head wobbles!  He makes me smile each time I look at him (which is a good thing at this time of year!)

Thanks for visiting today, and for any comments you leave.  I hope to see your entries on the Challenge Blog.

Jo xx

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

 Hello

A close friend of mine has a birthday this month.  We met at high school and have been friends ever since.  This is the card I have made for her birthday.

Isn't that just the most adorable image?  I made it in decoupage and then matted it onto cardstock that mirrored the design.  The sentiment is by Phill Martin and all the mats were cut using Sue Wilson's double stitched rectangles dies.

I am entering this card in the House-mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

Jo x

CD Sunday Plus Challenge # 174 - Hosted by Pamela

 Happy New Year

I hope you've had a lovely Christmas and that 2026 is a good one for you.

It's time for a new challenge at CD Sunday Plus and there are a few changes for this year.  Firstly, we no longer have a Facebook page and secondly, the challenge will now close at 9pm on the second Friday.  Any entries for this challenge therefore need to be posted by 9pm on Friday, 16th January.

Here is my card for this challenge:

I recently treated myself to the All Our Yesterdays collection from Highlight crafts as I thought it would fill in some of the gaps in my collection for men's cards.  I used some of the dies and downloads to create this card for a friends 30th birthday.  I don't often create this style of card, and really enjoyed making this one.

I hope you like my inspiration and you'll be able to join in with our challenge.

Jo x

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #173 - Hosted by Jocelyn

 Good morning

Today see's the start of a new challenge over at CD Sunday Plus and this is the last challenge for this year.  It is also the last challenge for Margaret, who is stepping down from the Design Team.  Margaret has been a part of the design team for as long as I can remember, and I think it's always sad when someone has to leave.  I will still be following her blog and will keep in touch, but will miss her being part of the team.

Here is my card for this challenge:

For my card I used artwork and dies from Carnation Crafts.  The sentiment is stamped onto a spellbinders die and the edge is also a spellbinders die.  A few pearls were then added to complete the design.

I hope you'll join us for our challenge, and look forward to seeing your creations.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you in January for another year of crafting.

Jo xx

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #172 - Hosted by Margaret

 Hello

Time for a new challenge over at CD Sunday Plus and this time Margaret will be hosting.  I used the Wine Buffs cd-rom by Katy Sue Designs to create this birthday card for my brother-in-law:

I selected a decoupage image which I matted onto cardstock cut using Teardrop and Sweep dies by Carnation crafts.  A few pearls were then added to complete the design.

It has been a stressful few weeks for our household as my youngest daughter has just bought her first home.  What we thought would be a very straightforward purchase turned out to be far from that, but I'm very relieved to say that the purchase finally completed on Friday, on my daughter's 25th birthday!  She is now busy doing some painting before she moves in.

I'm very proud of both of my girls, but it's going to be very strange neither of them living here anymore!  It will soon be just me, John and Bailey after 32 years of having our children live at home!  I'm very glad that neither of them will be living too far away.  

I hope to see you over on the challenge blog.

Jo xx

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #171 - Hosted by Me

 Hello

I can't believe it's time for the next challenge over at CD Sunday Plus!  Where does the time go?

It's the Guide Dogs Christmas Fair on the 30th November and so I'm busy preparing for that.  It's always a lovely event that we all enjoy doing.

I've used some of my 'favourites' on my card for today, which is a birthday card for a friend who likes to go walking.    

The decoupage is from the Jolly Nation Men's cd-rom.  I love Jolly Nation images, I wish they'd done a cd-rom with the Children's artwork on.  The mats and layers are created using Carnation Crafts Teardrop and Sweep dies and the sentiment is stamped.

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope to see you joining in with the challenge.

Jo x

Jolly Nation Men's cd-rom

W for Walker

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #170 - Hosted by Meg

 Good morning

Welcome to my blog.

Did you remember to put your clocks back?  Being an early riser, I welcome the daylight starting earlier in the day.

Today is the start of our next challenge over at CD Sunday Plus.  Recently I've been trying to use CD-roms from my collection that have had little use or haven't been used in a while.  As a friend is celebrating his 84th birthday, and is a lifelong Manchester United fan, I decided to re-visit one of my La Pashe cd's to make the following card from the 'Remember When' section.

 

It's a decoupaged card (still my favourite type of card making), and I couldn't resist adding the 2 little dogs.  I couldn't ever take my dog to a football match, even if it were allowed!  I have a 4 year old cocker spaniel who is my constant companion.  He's the softest dog you could ever meet, and would just be jumping up and be-friending everyone there!  He really does make all the hours I spend in the house so much better!

I hope you'll visit the challenge blog to see what my talented teamies have created and to enter our challenge.

Jo xx

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge #451 - Anything Goes with option of using Purple or Orange

 Hello

I've finally managed to make a card in time for the House-Mouse challenge!  I chose this adorable image from the Gruffies & Happy Hoppers cd-rom and added orange to the card:

I printed the image 3 times so I could turn it into decoupage.  The layers on the card were made with double-edge dies and the sentiment was made using Dimension stamps.  I edged the layers with distress ink as there wasn't room on the card to mat them!

This card is for my nephew who LOVES pizza!  I hope he likes it!

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #169 - Hosted by Pamela

 Hello and welcome to my blog

We had a lovely cruise but since getting home have both come down with the horrid but that's doing the rounds so are going to need another holiday to recover!

It's time for a new challenge over at CD Sunday Plus and this time Pamela is hosting.  Here is my card:

For my card I used a decoupage image from Crafters' Companion Tales of Jeremey Fisher cd-rom by Beatrix Potter.  I love all the Beatrix Potter stories, so nostalgic.

I die-cut the frame using Tear Drop & Sweep dies by Carnation Crafts.  I then used a woodgrain embossing folder which I used on it's side to represent water.

Margaret has sadly decided to leave the team at the end of this year.  I've enjoyed being on the team with Margaret and will miss her creations.

I hope to see you over on the challenge blog.

Jo x

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #168 - Hosted by Pamela

 Hello and welcome to my blog.

By the time this post is published, I will be mid-way through a cruise around the Baltic. At the time of writing this post, I am sat in the sunshine in Southampton awaiting our allocated boarding slot. We are both very much ready for a holiday!

Today Pamela hosting the new challenge over at CD Sunday Plus.

My card for this challenge is for a friend who loves her garden:

I used various dies and downloads from Carnation Crafts, edge dies from Spellbinders and stamped the sentiment.  I finished the card with a pretty butterfly gem from my stash.

I look forward to seeing you over on the challenge blog.

Jo xx

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #167 - Hosted by Jocelyn

Hello and welcome.

Time once again for our new challenge at Cd Sunday Plus which this this is hosted by our lovely Jocelyn.

This is a card I made for a friend's birthday. She has a sausage dog that looks just like this!

 I used Joanna Sheen's House-Mouse Decoupage cd-rom to make the card. I love the little mouse at the back using him as a trampoline!

This is the birthday gift I crocheted for her

This is the second of these I've crocheted....I don't think I'll be doing any more!!

Please do join us over at the challenge.

Jo xx

House-mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

 Hello

I've made cards to enter in the last two house-mouse challenges and then forgot to post them!  So I was determined to post this time!

This time the challenge is anything goes with the option of making a shaped card.  I used some hardly used spellbinders fancy edge dies to create my card.  I used dies from two different sets to mirror the shape on the front of the card, and so the card would close for posting.

I die-cut a sentiment and flower for on the front of the card.

I printed the decoupage image and backing paper from a Joanna Sheen cd-rom and added some co-ordinating card to complete the inside.

If you want to join in the challenge it card be found here.

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx