May Challenge Winner!

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenge last month, we had some fab entries. 

And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the May entries is

No 4 - Tracey Boley

Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.

AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jenny & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website

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Welcome to the May Challenge!

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenge last month, we had some fab entries. 

And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the April entries is

No 7 - Kbrandy4

Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.

Our Top Three from March are:

No 2 - Kelly Lloyd

No 6 - Susan Stacey

No 1 - Helen

Thank you for your wonderful creations, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar and show it off!

AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jenny & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website

The Design Team  will be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations blog to inspire you over the coming month.  The website features lots of new crafty products and the blog is easily linked for you to purchase items seen in the projects.  Click the logo to the side of the post to be transported to crafty heaven!

The Challenge title this month is Armed Forces as it is Armed Forces Day on the 19th May.  It can be a card or project depicting what this means to you. It could be the colours of a platoon, regiment, barracks or uniform of someone you know,  The colours black, green and brown for camouflage, or a dedication to a lost or loved one. It would be really nice if you let us know in your link why you made the project, if there is a dedication behind it.  This project is to salute the work that they do.
 
The definition is: armed forces: pl n: (Military) the military forces of a nation or nations, including the army, navy, air force, marines, etc.

To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. The rules are that we only require 1 item which can be purchased from J & C Creations to be featured on your project.  Please include this on your blog post. The Challenge will close at 6pm on the 12th June 2013.

As always, could we ask a huge favour please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. Also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.

Sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Here is some inspiration to get you started on this month’s Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration throughout May and June.

May Challenge - Rocky

Items used:

Spellbinder Die - Sprightly Sprockets S5=048

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Distress Embossing Powder - Vintage Photo

Archival Ink - Jet Black

Perfect Medium

Cosmic PVA dries clear

Stamp - Flypast

Items in blue are available from J&C Creations

May Challenge - Natalie

 

Armed Forces - Inspired by the colours.

Ingredients -

LOTV Sketch Pad Image

Magnolia Paper

Assorted Buttons

PVA Glue, Dew Drops & Cheesecloth

Tim Holtz Paper Distresser Tool

Copic Ciao Markers - C1, C5, E00, E21, E31, E33, R11, R20, YG63 & YG67

Items from J&C Creations -

Kraft #8 Tag

Vintage Photo Distress Stain

Ranger Glossy Accents

HAPPY CRAFTING!

NATALIE

XXX

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May Challenge - Georgina
 
 Products used:

Cream Card

Brown Card

Green Card

Topper I have designed on the computer

"With Love" Stamp - J & C Creations

Memento Ink "Toffee Crunch" - J & C Creations

Green & Brown Ribbon

Olympic Gold Shimmer Pearl - J & C Creations

May Challenge - Sue 

Items used from J & C Creations:

Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge, Walnut Photo, Crushed Olive, Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot

Stazon in Timber Brown

Versamark

WOW Embossing powders in Bright White

Other items:

Zig zag mask

Hot off the Press Flag and Chevron Stamps

Tim Holtz Stamp

Stampers Anonymous Classic Favourite Stamp

JustRite Vintage Travel Background Stamp

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April Challenge is Here

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenge last month, we had some fab entries. 

And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the March entries is

No 7 - Susan

Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.

Our Top Three from March are:

No 13 - Lynne

No 8 - Cindy

No 12 - Joyce

Thank you for your wonderful creations, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar and show it off!

AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website

The Design Team  will be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations blog to inspire you over the coming month.  The website features lots of new crafty products and the blog is easily linked for you to purchase items seen in the projects.  Click the logo to the side of the post to be transported to crafty heaven!

The Challenge title this month is Nurturing.  It can be a card or project depicting what this means to you.  It's your interpretation of the title.  To give you a little help this is what the definition states:


1. to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
2. to support and encourage, as during the period of training or development; foster: to nurture promising musicians.
3. to bring up; train; educate. –noun
4. rearing, upbringing, training, education, or the like.
5. development: the nurture of young artists.
6. something that nourishes; nourishment; food.

To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. The rules are that we only require 1 item which can be purchased from J & C Creations to be featured on your project.  Please include this on your blog post. The Challenge will close at 6pm on the 12th Mayl.

As always, could we ask a huge favour please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. Also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.

Sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Here is some inspiration to get you started on this month’s Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration throughout April and May.

 April Challenge - Nurturing - Georgina

Here is my card for a couple who's just had there baby!!

Products used:

Checkered backing paper

White Card

Marianne Design Creatable Border Die (J & C Creations)

Marianne Design Creatable Corner Die (J & C Creations)

Magnolia Tilda Stamp coloured in with Tim Holtz distress Inks (J & C Creations)

Brown Ribbon

Heart embellishment (J & C Creations)

 April Challenge - Nurturing - Sue

I chose the Penny Black stamp showing a patient mouse teaching cat to drive!  

Items used:

• Memento Inks in Tuxedo black, Summer Sky and London Fog.
• Stamps of Woodware - Balloon, Penny Black - miniful.
• Mask from crafters workshop - mini cityscape.
• Promarkers
• White cardstock
• Tim Holtz chit chat words 

 April Challenge - Nurturing - Natalie B

Available from J & C Creations

Stamp - ‘Minding Shelty’ – Penny Black
Card – Coredinations
Double sided paper – Best Creations
White flower – Prima
Ribbon
Dies used: Spellbinders ‘Labels 2’ & Tim Holtz/Sizzix Alterations On The Edge ‘Brackets'

April Challenge - Nurturing - Natalie

INGREDIENTS FROM J&C -

6x6 Card Blank

INGREDIENTS -

Pre Coloured Die Cut Image by LOTV

Echo Park & LOTV Papers

Sentiment Stamp by Papermania

Flowers, Paper Doily, Button, Seam Binding Ribbon, Cheesecloth, Dew Drops & Glitter

Ranger Glossy Accents & PVA Glue

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Update from J & C Creations

Hi Everyone

Just to let you know that there are lots of new products on the new and improved J & C Creations Website.  I know you're thinking how can we improve on perfection.......well we have!  Take a trip by clicking on the above picture to be transported.  Don't worry if you have never purchased anything before from the site, there is a step by step guide and if you don't have a debit or credit card again don't worry you can pay by cheque - follow the simple instructions. 

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March Challenge is upon Us!!

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenge last month, we had some fab entries. 

And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the February entries is

No 6 - Cindy

Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.

Our Top Three from February are:

No 1 - Rachel Fisher

No 7 - Kanda

No 5 -  Mel

Thank you for your wonderful creations, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar and show it off!

AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website

The Design Team  will be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations blog to inspire you over the coming month.  The website features lots of crafty products and the blog is easily linked for you to purchase items seen in the projects.  Click the logo to the side of the post to be transported to crafty heaven!

The Challenge title this month is EASTER.  It can be a card, project or altered art, religious or otherwise depicting what Easter means to you.  It's your interpretation of the title.

To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. The rules are that we only require 1 item which can be purchased from J & C Creations to be featured on your project.  Please include this on your blog post. The Challenge will close at 6pm on the 12th April.

As always, could we ask a huge favour please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. Also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.

Sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Here is some inspiration to get you started on this month’s Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration throughout  March.

 March Challenge - Easter - Rocky

 

Products used:

Penny Black - Bunny Friends

Archival Ink - Coffee

Distress Ink - Mowed Lawn

Double sided tape

Green Gingham Ribbon

Watercolour pencils

Items in yellow are available from J&C Creations.

Making your own mini egg container is a personal touch and it helps stretch one pack of eggs a little further.

March Challenge - Easter - Tracey Anne
 
I couldn't resist the chance to play with my Brand new Heartfelt Creations paper pack 'Vintage Floret Collection.' and the beautiful corner die also from Heartfelt Creations, 'Decorative Blossom Corner.'
Aren't they just fabulous!!!
So here's a card with it as the background and again in some of the Easter eggs and the main sentiment

HAPPY EASTER FOLKS XX

Items used

Heartfelt Creations Vintage Floret Collection Paper Pack

Spellbinders Heartfelt Creations Die 'Decorative Blossom Corner'

Spellbinders die Floral Doily motif Die

Tim Holts Distressing ink 'Crushed Olive'

Marianne basket Die

Easter Egg stamp

Glitter 

All items highlighted can be purchased from J and C Creations


March Challenge - Easter - Pauline
 

Items from J&C Creations:

6x6 blank white card

Coconut card

Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink pad

Penny Black wooden stamp – Easter Joy! (1936K)

Pink, green and yellow card

Doodlebug Design 12x12 paper – Birthday Girl Stripe

Small flower punch

Adhesive gems

Marianne Creatables dies Ivy Set (LR0206), Tiny Flowers 2 (LR0249) and the bird from Fence Set (LR0205)

March Challenge - Easter - Natalie

INGREDIENTS -

Tim Holtz -'Easter Blueprints' Stamp Set

Penny Black Sentiment Stamp

Archival Ink - Coffee

Distress Ink - Squeezed Lemonade & Shabby Shutters

Dew Drops, Ranger Glossy Accents & PVA Glue

White & Kraft Cardstock

Happy Crafting!

NATALIE

XXX

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February Challenge is upon us!

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenge last month, we had some fab entries. 

And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the January entries  is

No 19 - Lisa T

Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.

Our Top Three from January are:

No 5 - Rachel

No 11 - Denise and Furballs

No 10 -  Susan

Thank you for your wonderful creations, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar and show it off!

AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website

The Design Team  will be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations blog to inspire you over the coming month.  The website features lots of crafty products and the blog is easily linked for you to purchase items seen in the projects.  Click the logo to the side of the post to be transported to crafty heaven!

The Challenge title this month is INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP.  It can be between humans and/or animals.  It's your interpretation of the title.

To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. The rules are that we only require 1 item which can be purchased from J & C Creations to be featured on your project.  Please include this on your blog post. The Challenge will close at 6pm on the 12th March.

As always, could we ask a huge favour please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. Also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.

Sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Here is some inspiration to get you started on this month’s Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration throughout  February.

Tracey Anne
Here's my inspiration for the February Challenge 'International Friendship Month' Not the first time this stamp has been out as it is such a cutie I trend to use it a lot for  friendship and/or lovers cards.

 Items used:

Penny Black 'Furry Embrace' Stamp

The stamp Barn Friendship Sentiment' Stamp ( WOR123G) 

decorative Square die 

Marianne flower and swirl die( from Straight frame set)

Pearl embellishments 

patterned papers

Spellbinders labels17
Gold Peel offs
Alcohol pens to colours

Colours used for the little pussies were LG1, LG3, LG4, F2,NR2, NR3, Swing Seat NR3 ,NR5, Flowers LY2,LY4 and DG3, LG2, LG4 .
 All highlighted items can be found over at the J and C Creations website

Rocky

Items Used:

Stamp - Penny Black set - Hugs

Spellbinders - Blossoms Two & Foliage

Embossing Folder - Garden Lattice

Distress Inks - Bundled Sage/Tumbled Glass/Wild Honey/Rusty Hinge/Scattered Straw

Archival Ink - Coffee

Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder - Clear

This Penny Black set is great for friends, anniversary, Mother's Day and even Valentines, it has so many cute stamps in one set. The flowers are also cut with the Blossoms die set and snipped to give petals.

Sue

Items used from J & C Creations:

Penny Black stamp

Spellbinder Label 21

Heartfelt Creations Decorative Butterfly Corner 

Distress Pens

Patterned backing papers

Flower and pearls
sentiment from the internet:
Need a smile, text me - Need a laugh, call me - Need a hug, come see me - Need love, you've already got me.

Link your project here:

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Welcome, Crafty People!

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenges last year, we had some stunning entries. 

Sorry we have been away for a month but we are back full of crafty inspiration and your talent. What a combination!

And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the  November entries  is

No 13 - Pamela

Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.

Our Top Three from November are:

No 8 - Sam

No 11 - Celine

No 19 -  Joyce

Thank you for your wonderful creations, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar and show it off!

AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website

The Design Team  will be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations blog to inspire you over the coming months.  The website features lots of crafty products and the blog is easily linked for you to purchase items seen in the projects.  We have Sues Technique Tuesday and Thrifty Thursday, Jacquis Friday Master Class, Natalie showing us the 12 tags of 2013 from Tim Holts and a whole lot more.  The team will also be showing off their talents throughout the month, so do come and visit us.  Click the logo to the side of the post to be transported to crafty heaven!

The Challenge title this month is SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW.  So you need to dust off your oldest crafty stash and your newest finds and combine them together.

To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. The rules have slightly changed in as much that we only require 1 item which can be purchased from J & C Creations to be featured on your project.  Please include this on your blog post. The Challenge will close at 6pm on the 12th February.

As always, could we ask a huge favour please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. Also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.

Sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Here is some inspiration to get you started on this month’s Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration throughout  January.

  January Challenge Georgina

Here is one of my cards that I have made in 2013 !! Couldn't wait to get started, hopefully this will be a good year for everyone.

Products used for Something Old:

Music sheet backing card from old card stock

Black organza flowers

Spellbinder die (labels Twenty) from J & C Creations

Tim Holtz distress pens from J & C Creations

Products used for Something New:

Digital Stamp from Saturated Canary

Spellbinders (Floral Flourishes) from J & C Creations

Bow Maker

Red Ribbon

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  January Challenge - Natalie!

Hello!

Here is my card for this month's challenge over at the Challenge Blog!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas & New Year!

Natalie

xxx

Something New - Penny Black Cling Stamp 'Kisses 40-097'

Something Old - Penny Black Sentiment Stamp 'Love You 2843B'

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  January Challenge - Pauline

Items used:

Heartfelt Creations Delicate Asters (HCD 726) 

Memento Bamboo Leaves

FabScraps Heritage Pink Floral (C38 007A)

EK Success edger punch Arch Scallop

Spellbinders D-Lites Fantastic Flourish Two (S2-009)

Pink ribbon

Glitter

Gems

Small flower

Tiny pink beads

Method:

Die cut 6 flowers from the cryogen paper with each of the 4 flower dies.  Die cut 2 leaves. 

Curl all the petals of the flowers inwards and then assemble inside each other starting with the largest and ending with the smallest.

Colour the leaves using the Bamboo Leaves dye ink.

Die cut 3 pink flowers using the smallest die and assemble together, glue inside the flower and add some of the pink sprig embellishment to the middle.

Using green card, die cut a flourish using the D-Lites die.

I have used a strip of double-sided tape to adhere the glitter.

Assemble the card as in the photo.
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  January Challenge - Sue

 Penny Black - Ladybug 'n Hedgehog
Distress ink in Walnut Stain - SomethingNew

Bitty Spellbinder flowers - Something New

Button - Something Old

Spellbinder  Label 5

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January Challenge - Nat

Something Old - Penny Black stamp & ribbon

Something New - Spellbinders 'Labels 25' & leaf charm

Heartfelt Creations Vintage Floret stamps and dies  -  Something Old

Gilding Flakes  -  Something New

Best of Luck.
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