Season's Greetings

Hi.

A very quick post today to share my last Christmas card  :)

This is a very simple design and uses a couple of Penny Black stamps - Victorian Home and Christmas Express. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches - Christmas Sampler.

Enjoy your Friday and thanks for stopping by :)

Jay Gee

Happy Birthday

Hi there!

I am so happy tomorrow is Friday - I am looking forward to getting my hair done and then having a nice relaxing weekend :)

Today I wanted to share this card I made for a friends birthday. This stamp is called 'Fashionably Wrapped' by Penny Black and the stamp actually has this lovely lady holding a bouquet of holly. By masking or in this case cutting it off, this stamp becomes more versatile and is perfect for birthdays!

My fashionable lady was coloured with copics and cut out separately. The present is patterned paper from Basic Grey and the ribbon was coloured with distress inks.

Thanks so much for stopping by - I really appreciate your visit :)

Jay Gee

Penny Black

Happy New Year's Eve! I hope you all have fun tonight and stay safe whatever you decide to do :)

Penny Black have combined with Flower Soft and are having their first ever blog hop - their are some gorgeous creations, so make sure you check it out.

I love both cards by Kathy Racoosin, but her simpler version is my favourite - more my style :) I used it as inspiration for my card... flower focal image, centred sentiment, colouring/stamping on top of a pattern.

This gorgeous flower image is called Pin-striped. I stamped onto music paper and coloured with distress inks and paper pieced. The sentiment is from Jane's Doodles 'Pretty Peonies' set.

Thanks so much for looking :)

Jay Gee

A New Challenge Site

About a week ago I sponsored the opening of a new challenge site called Runway Inspired Challenge. If you have not visited the blog yet, I highly recommend that you do. The whole challenge concept is brilliant, as is the Design Team headed by the super talented Jennifer Rzasa.

Anyway, I could not pass up the opportunity of playing along in their first challenge. Here is the inspiration photo...

... and here is what I came up with. I am in love with this Penny Black stamp called 'pin-striped'.

Thanks for looking :)

Jay Gee

SOLD!

It is so exciting getting new stamps... or ink, or paper, or ribbon, or.... anything!  I just got a couple of new stamps from Penny Black, so had to ink one up :)

Now be kind - I am working hard to improve my colouring skills, LOL... I do think I am getting better. And thanks to Elizabeth for the idea of adding extra bushes around the house :)

I am entering this into the current Wee Memories Challenge.

Just one more day of work for me before finishing school and starting 5 weeks holiday! Can't wait. Enjoy your day :)

Jay Gee

Another Alteration

Hello


I decided to have another play with the 'Mademoiselle Noel' stamp from Penny Black while it was out. I have really enjoyed finding new ways to use this stamp. Your can see the other two cards I made here and here.


This time around I removed the bunch of flowers she was carrying and gave her a bag instead. The background has lots of distressing and I flicked water onto it... kind of looks like snow :)

Well it's Monday, so I am off to work :( Have a great week.

Jay Gee

Hi

Last week I used this 'Mademoiselle Noel' stamp from Penny Black to make this Christmas card.

Today I have used her again with a couple of alterations :) I removed her santa hat and added a little more hair. I also added a criss cross pattern to all the 'fur trim' on her dress and hat - which now, hopefully looks like a headband.

Thanks so much for all your comments... they really make day :)

Jay Gee

A New Stamp

I bought this 'Mademoiselle Noel' stamp from Penny Black after Christmas last year and finally got around to inking it up. It is such a cool stamp and I really need to get some more from this 'series'.

I saw this card on Mariana's blog and wanted to try this technique.  I stamped the polka dots 3 times (imperfectly) with white ink and then wiped the ink pad around the outside of the kraft panel. The image itself I paper pieced and coloured her skin, boots and flowers with copics. Her dress and hat I paper pieced from the same card stock as the card base. For the white trim I used 'puff paint' for a little bit of texture.

Thanks for coming by :)

Jay Gee