Sister's Oriental card

One of my sisters had her birthday on Tuesday. This is the card I made for her using Oriental Match-Its. The lilac backing paper is one I found online somewhere. I've introduced my sister to card making so she will have looked at it very closely to see what I'd used! Hope you had a good day Audrey.

A7 swap

I recently joined a new swap on http://www.crafttelly.com/forum/.

We decided to try our hands at making an A7 card - it's a bit bigger than an ATC. I've always struggled with ATCs but thought I'd have a go.

The backing paper was free from a magazine. I stamped the image and watercoloured it using Derwent pencils. I enjoy watercolouring, why I don't do more I don't know!

Blog watch!

I've been catching up and the blogs I follow and have come across some scrummy blog candy at http://kath-allthatglitter.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-birthday-blog-and-candy-too.html#comment-form

It's one of my sister's birthday today so if I was to win I'd just have to share the candy with her - wouldn't I? But with over 300 entries I don't think there's much chance of me winning.

Card Competition

I entered a card comp in February. It was run by Fee over on http://www.feejdesigns.yuku.com/directory.

She provides the papers and you have to follow certain rules. This time there had to be at least one button.

I forgot to take a photo of the inside but it's an 'exploding' card. The insert is a bit like those paper things we used to play with as kids. The one you put your fingertips into and opened and closed the them. Do you know what I mean?

I didn't win but I came second!!! My prize was to pick a CD rom from her website to the value of £15.99. I have a lot of her CDs but found one that had passed me by so I picked 'Girly Girly'. can't wait for it to come.

Scor-pal giveaway

More blog candy this time a Scor-pal. I've wanted one of these for sometime so fingers crossed!
If you want to join in then pop along to Wendy's blog:
http://papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-first-blog-candy-giveaway.html

The Crafty Pad Blog Candy

Just been blog hopping and came across some blog candy at The Crafty Pad. Pop over there for a chance to win a great new stamp: http://thecraftypad.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-candy.html

Blog Award!

Hey! I have my first Blog Award!!!! Thank you Hazel (http://didosdesigns.blogspot.com/) for this award - you're a pal!

Now the hard part, I have to pass it on to 10 other blogs.

1 The first one is easy, I've followed his blog for sometime now and it's a pleasure to pass this on to him. It's Fabrizio or Fabyon as he's also known as http://craftingmad.blogspot.com/

2 and 3 I've recently joined a forum (yes another one!) http://www.feejdesigns.yuku.com/directory and 2 of the members have blogs that I follow.
http://denyze-densden.blogspot.com/ and my namesake http://www.pjayscraftblog.blogspot.com/

4 I know Phree from another forum (http://www.crafttelly.com/forum/) and have followed her blog for a while http://inkstainsurvivor.blogspot.com/

5 This just had to be number 5!! This young lady is 5 years old and has her own blog. You deserve this award Holly and I hope you get many more .http://hollyspaperworld.blogspot.com/

6 I love the cards on the next blog they are amazing! http://sandradrydesigns.blogspot.com/

7 When I came across the name of this next blog I just had to put it in my favourites! http://bling-kin-eck.blogspot.com/

8 http://bubble-deb.blogspot.com/ Another blog where I love the card designs.

9 Now for an overseas blogger - Brandi. Again another great name for a blog!
http://barelybananadays.blogspot.com/

10 Lastly but by now means least - I love the clean, uncluttered look of Amanda's cards. http://littlespaceofmyown.blogspot.com/

There were a few more I'd have liked to give this to but they already had it!!

Have a good day everyone - I hope to be adding to my blog more often, life just seems to get in the way all the time!