Phoenix Inspirations

I have teamed up with my lovely friend Mynnette to bring you a brand new challenge blog. It starts in January and we would love you on our team. It's called The Rainbow Card Challenge The DT call will run throughout November and then in December we will announce the team and details of the first challenge. Isn't it exciting?!! All the details can be found on the blog and we are asking you to produce a card with a MONOCHROME theme. There are other requirements too so please do pop over and have a read. Here is a card I made a few years ago but it will give you and idea of what we are looking for I hope this will inspire you to have a go! Thanks for looking today - take care - J xx

So far this year I have made the grand total of 1 Christmas cards which is shameful. I really don't want it to be a mad rush at the end of November to get them made and I would really like to sell for our company charity - Make A Wish. I don't get rid of many of my Christmas sets and the card I have for you today uses one I have had for ages. It's called Come to Bethlehem and features the Three Wise Men in silhouette. I have teamed it up with Waterfront and here is the result Unfortunately this won't make it into my stash as it was a Facebook swap but I am going to seriously get on with my Christmas crafting so watch this space! I hope you like my card today and that it inspires you to start your Christmas crafting - thanks for stopping by - see you soon - J xx

It's time for another Christmas card challenge at the  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  and this week Asha has chosen a lovely palette of colours for you to chose from - take a look Red   OR   Blue  +  Black   AND   White  +  Silver   OR   Gold Here is my card Hope it doesn't show too much but this card was very hastily made this morning! Nothing like leaving it to the last minute eh? Materials - Stampin' Up (except for gold bow) Stamps: Come to Bethlehem (retired), Good Greetings Ink: Midnight Muse (retired), Black Stazon Card Stock: Whisper White, Gold Foil, Basic Black Accessories: Tiny Circle Punch, Gold Embossing Powder, Brayer If you would like to place an order for any of the above current items please do email me on deezinesart@icloud.com If you would like to take a look in my side bar you will see that there is a whole mini catalogue dedicated to holiday crafting - just click on it to...

It's time for another Christmas Card challenge over at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  - take a look And here is my card A very CAS card today, scored, stamped, sponged and embellished - all with the one colour! Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Come to Bethlehem Ink: Basic Black, Versamark Card Stock: Whisper White Accessories: Clear EP, Black Ribbon, Basic Rhinestone (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website - click  HERE  to take a look. Please don't forget to pop over and see what the other DT ladies have to show you and I hope to be visiting your blogs soon to see what you have created -

The very Patricia is hosting this month's challenges at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  and she kicks off with this fab sketch This is such a lovely sketch - you can really go to town with backing papers and layers or keep it clean and simple - here's what I did with it Now I don't know if any of you have had the chance to peruse the new catalogue (sneakily placed in my side bar) but you may have noticed the lack of Christmas stamp sets so I'm afraid I've had to resort to a retired set - Come to Bethlehem. The gorgeous sentiment is current though - phew! Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Come to Bethlehem, Delightful Dozen Ink: Crumb Cake, Real Red Card Stock: Whisper White, Real Red, Crumb Cake (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also s...

That's right we have a colour challenge this week for you at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown and it's just a simple combination of red and white - take a look       My card is just as simple - hope you like it     All I've used on my card is the main image from Come to Bethlehem and some Real Red ink. I doodled a frame around the image too. Don't for get to visit the other DT entries to get some inspiration - they have made some stunning cards this week.   I'm away at the moment visiting Mum and Dad as they live very close to Telford. Dad very kindly gave me a lift there yesterday as I attended the Stampin' Up Regional Training day there. I had great fun and came away totally inspired and buzzing with new ideas. I also had the great pleasure of meeting the lovely Vicky - my upline (link in the side bar) and we had great fun trying out some new products and mingling with all the other lovely Stampin' Up demos. I also swapped loads...

Time for another Christmas challenge at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  and this week Louise wants to see Christmas Animals - not birds - Animals Had to get my thinking cap on for this .......... and came up with ......... Camels! take a look Here are my camels along with the Three Wise Men embossed in gold and framed using my Window Framelits. Here's the inside Stampin' Up materials used Stamps: come to Bethlehem Ink: Versamark, Basic Black Card stock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Riding Hood Red Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder, Window Framelits Other Non Stampin' Up items: Snowflake Embossing Folder (If you would like to order any of the Stampin' Up items you see on this blog please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com or see the details above in the top tabs - thanks). There is a whole menagerie of Christmas Animals over on the blog please do pop over and take a look. Thanks for looking today - see you soon - Jacqueline xx

We have a colour challenge this week at the  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  - take a look Here is my card This a piece of Clipart printed on to card stock, I glittered the halos with gold and then just mounted on to black card stock - simples! Materials Stamps: Come to Bethlehem Ink: Basic Black Card Stock: Whisper White, Basic Black Other: Gold Glitter (I can order any current Stampin' Up item for you and have it delivered direct to your door - please see all the details above in the top tabs). Please don't for get to pop on over to the blog and take a look at all the other golden cards from the DT this week - bye for now - Jacqueline xx

It's time for another challenge over on the  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  and this week Danielle has chosen the theme of Hearts and/or Love Here is my card All items are Stampin' Up Stamps: Pines and Poinsettias (retired), Come to Bethlehem Ink: Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler Card Stock: Whisper White Paper: Subtles DSP - Old Olive (All current Stampin' Up items from the Annual catalogue or Spring/Summer Mini can be ordered through me and delivered direct to you door - please see the details in the top tabs - thanks). Please don't forget to pop over to the blog and see all the LOVEly work created by the DT and leave them some HEARTfelt comments!! See you soon - Jacqueline xx

Good afternoon everyone, how do you fancy a colour challenge today? Well over on the  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  we have a fabulous colour combination for you - take a look And here is my card I used white card stock for my base and inked up the Three wise Men stamp from Come to Bethlehem in Chocolate Chip ink - I removed the ink from the star and inked that with Versamark. After stamping I added clear embossing powder to the star and heat embossed it. My background was created by sponging my yellow ink and using torn copy paper to make hills. The foreground was inked with more of the chocolate chip ink. Here are a couple of close ups Materials Stamps: Come to Bethlehem Ink: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Versamark Card Stock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip Accessories: Sponges, Clear Embossing Powder (All items are Stampin' Up - to place an order for any of the products in the Annual Catalogue or new Spring/Summer Mini please see the d...

Here is this week's new challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  - in the words of Ruth who has chosen this month's challenges:- Hello friends , thank you to everyone who joined us last week , we loved seeing  your purple, silver & white cards!  We've updated our challenges for 2013, we'll be having theme OR recipe challenge weeks.  This week it's a recipe challenge - a Ruth recipe in fact! The recipe ingredients are: * patterned paper * glitter * and you must decorate the INSIDE of your card as well as the card front.                                                            Told you it was a Ruth recipe!   Here is my card - inside and out! Here's a close up of my glittery bits Isn't is great that the snowflake image on my paper fits so nicely in my die cut frame? ...