Simply Sketched Saturday May Challenge

Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Jillian Selwood

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*. Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping!

The lovely Kathleen Rintoul-Waite designed our sketch this month and here it is:

When I saw the four layers I knew I wanted to do an ombre effect. Purple is my favourite colour, just in case you didn't realise! So I went with three shades of purple, the difficulty was deciding on going from dark to light or light to dark. In the end I thought the light to dark was more striking so here is my interpretation.

I have used a Thick Whisper White base, the next layer is Wisteria Wonder, then Perfect Plum and then on top is Elegant Eggplant. The ribbon is Wisteria Wonder and the flowers are die cut with the Botanical Builder framelit dies. I love white heat embossing on dark colours it just looks amazing.

Thanks for stopping by today, Don't forget to use the links below to see the other beautiful cards created. Jillian xx

Card Swap April

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs

The theme for April's card swap was Pets or Animals. Despite having a cat and a dog I didn't have any cat or dog or indeed any animal stamp sets so I had to resort to punch art again. Punch art is becoming a bit of an obsession!

This month I was sending my card to Toni Harris, the wonderful lady who organises the card swaps. She has a beautiful cockerpoo dog called Button. I tried to make my dog the same colour as Button.

I CASE'd (copy and share everywhere) this card from Stampin' Sacha. Check out her blog at http://stampinsacha.blogspot.co.uk/ for more inspiration.

This is the card I received from Jane Carroll which I absolutely love.

Thanks for stopping by, until next time

Jillian xx

Wedding Bouquet Card

I recently made this Wedding Bouquet card for a Crafty Card challenge I was taking part in. It is made in Blushing Bride cardstock. I was so pleased with it that I decided to make another one in Pool Party (a sort of pale greeny blue colour).

Yesterday I went over to Craft and Crumpet in Accrington to take some new stock, 17 cards in total. I took both of these cards and whilst I was having my lunch someone bought the Pool Party card. Shirley asked me to make some more.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Jillian xx

Flip fold cards

Flip fold cards are so easy to make and they look so effective. I have a few birthdays coming up next month so I've made a few, all different colours.

There is still plenty of room inside to write a message to the lucky recipient.

Simply sketched monthly challenge

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*.  Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping!

This is my first ever blog hop – how exciting.

This is the sketch we were given this month by Karen McDonald:

I have been following Michelle Zanotti’s blog this month on ‘Let’s use the Leftovers…Series’ so when I saw the five circles on the right I knew exactly which colours I wanted to use.

The retiring 2014-2016 In Colours are, from top to bottom, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Tangelo Twist and Blackberry Bliss. I would never have thought of using them together but I think they look stunning – I hope you do too.

Thanks for stopping by and just use the buttons below to keep hopping!

Card swap – March

The card swap for this month is Trains, planes and automobiles.

I had recently bought the ‘Guy Greetings’ stamp set from Stampin’ Up! and fortunately this included a lovely vintage car. I was rather pleased with how this turned out.

My card from Angelina at Intatwyne Designs is a slider card and is absolutely stunning. I’ve never made a slider card so I think I need to check out some videos on You Tube and start practising!

The theme for next month is Pets or Animals – again another hard one for me as I don’t have any stamps that are suitable.

Craft and Crumpet

Craft and Crumpet is a lovely café and gift shop in Accrington, Lancashire. The gift shop sells locally handmade gifts and cards. The owner, Shirley, posted on Facebook that she was looking for new and interesting items to stock in her gift shop.

So I sent her an email and arranged to go and see her with my boxes and bags. For some reason I also took some cards with me as well.

Shirley was interested in quite a few of my bags and boxes and thought they would sell. She loved the cards and asked me to make some for her to display. She particularly asked me to make some that were specific to crafters.  These are some of the cards I made.

I popped into Craft and Crumpet for lunch with my friend Pam at the beginning of last month and was rather pleased to see all my boxes, bags and covered notebooks displayed on this trolley.