Saturday, 23 January 2010

Randon acts of kindness!

Yet again I am thrilled to have been the lucky recipient of not one but two random acts of kindness or RAKs!

The adorable Jane Beljo emailed me her sweet digi-stamp of Mia and Bosko. How kind!
I especially wanted to post this little card today as Jane has just launched her new digital stamp set called Jane's Bakery over at Squigglefly! The set is a real bargain at $3.00 as there are lots of different images to play with!

The second RAK comes in the form of the cute gingham ribbon on this card. This pretty ribbon, and other goodies, arrived with an eBay purchase from someone who trades as 'Mindysmummy'. How kind is that!!!!
I printed Mia and Bosko onto some plain white card and coloured them with Promarkers. I added some Diamond Glaze to accentuate the little heart on Mia's jersey. This was my first attempt with Diamond Glaze and I was a bit shocked at how quickly it oooooozed from the bottle! The background is the Hero Arts digital friendship stamp, printed on some textured blue card. I layered the image and embossed half the base card with my Cuttlebug.
I wanted to leave the card very simple to showcase Mia and Bosko, so just added the ribbon and those little red punched hearts.

I am going to enter this card for Raise the Bar Challenge #2 as the theme is the 'Gift that keeps on giving' otherwise known as 'RAK'!

As a final little RAK I'd like to send this card to someone who is sweet enough to leave a comment on this post. Please make sure that I can back track to your blog to contact you. I will be using the very technical 'names in a hat' method to make the draw!
Happy crafting everyone!

25 comments:

Jane said...

What an ADORABLE card! LOVE it! Awesome colouring!

Jo said...

Hi Jo, I am so glad I popped across, I always wondered what RAK stood for!! Lucky you and such a cute card, gorgeous image. Hugs Jo x

Jill said...

Love your card using all of those RAKs!! The friends background is perfect with this image!

Fuzzy Slippers said...

What a great use of your RAK's! The image is sooo sweet.

Fuzzy Slippers said...

Thanks so much for the tip on the Caardvarks challenge!!! I just posted to their site. I also put a link on my post to your page and kudos to you for the tip! :)

CinnamonSally said...

Love your card Jo. Now I know what a RAK is!
I love the background goes so well with this image.

Elise said...

What a happy and darling little tale of crafting and a fun and fab journey! Such festive colors and wonderful composition ~ you had FUN! Great job, sweet D.J.!

Jessica said...

Super cute card!!! Love the little girl and you are so good and coloring them :) TFS

Tyggereye said...

That Diamond Glaze stuff can be tricky! I know! Great card. Beautifully colored. Thats a neat Digi kit. Love using it to make a card!

Pajalu said...

What a beautiful card Jo :D. I love that it was made with raks'. That makes it extra special. I've become a follower (actually I thought I had before) thanks for the comments on my blog. Smudge sends a meow to Custard - that's about all she can manage in this heat ;) xoxoxoxo

Holly Young said...

Adorable card. I love the friend background with this image!

Amy said...

Such a cute card, love the colors you used!

Alice said...

congrats on the RAKs, hope you enjoy creating with all those goodies!! I adore your Mia and Bosko card!! too cute!

Tiffany Ervin said...

Aren't RAK's just so much fun! Mia and Bosko are colored in perfectly and look so happy sitting against your friendship background, a very cheerful card Jo!

Anonymous said...

This is lovely Jo....I really like the backing sheet, and the image is so cute.
Great colouring again, I love those rosey cheek's...
As for the RAK...congrat's...The second one Mindysmummy is a fellow blogger, and has been so generous with load's of peep's..I once recieved two seperate gift's from her...
She's selling off load's of stuff on ebay because she fancy's a change and want's to concentrate on other thing's

Hope your having a great weekend...
x
Vicky

donna mikasa said...

Love Mia and Bosko on the "Friends" background--what a clever idea! There's a "red heart" challenge over at Caardvarks, too! This card would fit perfectly....

Darlene said...

WOW what awesome RAKs! Your card is adorable! Thanks so much for joining us at Raise The Bar! We do hope to see you again next week!

Unknown said...

Very cute card. Thanks for joining us at Raise the Bar this week...and what a neat idea to send it off to someone as a RAK too.

Nikki Schmaltz said...

This is soooo cute! I love the text BG and your color combo. Anything with Kraft is always GOOD!

Deirdre said...

Beautiful card, love what you did with the image. Aren't Jane's images amazing. Great card.

Nicky said...

Great card love the white border round the image really makes it pop - love digi stamps so off to look at these xx

Teresa Kline said...

oh my this is ever so cute....just adorable...have a wonderful day!

enjoy *~*

~*Joni said...

This is so cute! Mia and Bosko are adorable together, and how appropriate that you paired them with a RAK ribbon that accents her heart perfectly. I love how generous the crafting world is! You are such a sweetie to RAK this on to a commenter, I love the pay it forward idea. Have a wonderful day and thank you for joining us at Raise The Bar!

Vanessa said...

This is adorable, Jo!! Love the colors, the background is perfect for it and your coloring is amazing!

Hugs,
Vanessa

Suzanne C said...

Lovely card! Love the friendship background to go with the cute friends on the front!