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Thursday 13 June 2013

May Challenge Winner!

J & C Creations Online Craft Shop
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

Monday 13 May 2013

Welcome to the May Challenge!

J & C Creations Online Craft Shop

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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Saturday 13 April 2013

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

J & C Nurturing

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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Monday 1 April 2013

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. 

Wednesday 13 March 2013

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 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
Spellbinders die Floral Doily motif Die
Tim Holts Distressing ink 'Crushed Olive'
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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Wednesday 13 February 2013

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 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.




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Sunday 13 January 2013

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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