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Thursday, 1 November 2018

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - October Challenge - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? This is a very busy week for me. I am not complaining though I do like to be busy. Today the new challenge starts on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes. This time the sponsor is the fabulous Beccy's Place.

Of course I had to make a Christmas card. I still need to make some more and life is getting a bit hectic at the moment.


The backing paper came from my stash I inked the edges to soften the hard line. The ribbon was in my stash too. 


There are many wonderful images and sets in the store. Click on the logo and you will be taken there.


This is the Golden Bell digital stamp set which is available HERE.  I printed the image and the sentiment onto Neenah card I did add a blue background with Publisher. I used the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions to make the aperture and frame. The holly was made with a Tattered Lace die that I got in a sale.  


Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:
Challenge 54 at the Craft Rocket Challenge blog
The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges. 
Challenge 409 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog
Craftyhazelnut's November Patterned Paper Challenge
Challenge 4 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog
Challenge 19 at the Mix it Up Challenge blog
Challenge 28 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Under the Mistletoe Cute Hedgehogs

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? When we got up yesterday we had a bit of a shock our daughter had been messaging us all night - never a good sign. Her husband was taken into hospital during the night and was still there in the morning. He eventually got onto a ward and he managed to get some rest. We went up to visit in the evening. Hopefully he will be able to come home today.

I have playing along with the Month of Christmas Cards Challenge at Beccy's Challenges.  I have really enjoyed it and I have won some credit to use in the store which I am really looking forward to using. This will be my last card for the challenge which I think finishes tomorrow.

My cousin has been rather poorly in fact she is being treated for Breast Cancer. She and her partner are very fond of the hedgehogs that visit their garden. So I thought I would make a special Christmas card for them with hedgehogs on it. I remembered that Di's Digi Stamps has lots of hedgehog images. I treated myself to a couple of images in the Black Friday sale there was 40% off Christmas images.


I found the holly paper in my stash which was handy. 


This image is called Hedgehogs Mistletoe Kiss and is available HERE.  It was printed onto Neenah card and coloured with my Promarkers. I have been trying to get better with my colouring. I am quite enjoying it now. 


This was cut with a Creative Expressions die. 


Yes I do like red and green and gold together for Christmas cards. I hope my cousin likes this. 

I would like to enter the Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Challenges, challenge 348 at the I Love Promarkers Challenge blog, challenge 45 at the Merry Christmas Challenge blog and the December Challenge at the Crafting By Designs Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Thursday, 3 August 2017

Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog - theme Things that Fly

Hi My Crafty Blogs Friends

I hope your week is going well. We are still on holiday. I did look at the weather forecast before we went it promises to be very hot and sunny. Just right for a bit of relaxing.

The new challenge starts today on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blogs and the theme is Things that Fly. So not just birds but I have chosen to use a robin.



I just adore robins on Christmas cards. The background was just created with some papers from my stash. 



I found a robin decoupage sheet in my Christmas stash. It is ages since I have done any decoupage. I cut the mats with some Tonic Circle dies I have had them for ages they are very useful. 


The sentiment was cut with one of the Sue Wilson Festive dies I can't remember from which release. 


Before we went on holiday I treated myself to this book with the intention of reading it while we are away. I don't actually read much so this is a bit of a challenge for me. I will let you know how I get on when we get back. 


Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Sunday, 11 December 2016

Owls for Christmas

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you are having a great weekend. We have spent our time catching up on lots of Christmas jobs like sorting cards and presents. Today will be more of the same.

On to the card. I was asked by someone to make her some Christmas cards with owls on them. This an updated version of a card I made last year but I couldn't find it on my blog so I am sharing this version.


I used two embossing folders in the background layers. The dark brown layer was embossed with my new wood grain embossing folder. I did cut the aperture with a circle die before I embossed the card. 


The owls were stamped with an old Creative Expressions stamp that I got when I was on the Sam Poole Design Team. This time I stamped them with black archival onto water colour card and then coloured them with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I do love those pens. These owls are very easy to cut out. 


You can just see the holly and the branches that I cut with some older festive dies designed by Sue Wilson. 


The sentiment was cut with a Signature die. 


I might have made this design before but I always make changes every time I make a design. This time I had a wood grain embossing folder. The lady I made the cards for loved them. I did make one of these for my in-laws as it has lots of texture. 

I would like to enter challenge 218 at the Glitter'n'Sparkle Challenge Blog and Challenge 39 at the Not Just Cards Challenge Blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week.  

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Thursday, 1 December 2016

Crafts Galore Encore December - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

December is here not long now to Christmas I hope your plans and makes are going well. I can't believe how quickly the time is going.

On the first of the month the new challenge starts today on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog the sponsor is My Besties and the theme is Anything Goes.


I used the Double Pierced Rectangle dies to create the frame for the image and the Snowflake border die to make the border. Both of which are from Creative Expression. 


The sponsor this month is Sherri Baldy her is a link to her Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SherriBaldy


The design team were given three images to work with and they are the prize on offer this month.  Here is a link to the website  http://www.mybestiesshop.com/store/c3/ALL_Digi_Stamps_.html

It is worth checking the challenge blog to see the different ways these images have been used. 


This is the image I used it it available here  https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/210211523/instant-download-digital-digi-stamps-big?ref=shop_home_active_36. I coloured her with my Promarkers. 


The cute little gingerbread man with his bow tie were stamped and cut out with a punch. 


The holly was stamped onto water colour card and coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 



We are definitley on the countdown to Christmas now. There seems to be so much to fit in before then   

I would like to enter the December Challenge at the My Besties International Challenge blog.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Thursday, 1 September 2016

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Here we are at the beginning of September, Autumn is almost here. I have a few more days before I go back to school. It has been a long break this time I have been very lucky. When I go back I will only be working mornings it is my plan to cut down a bit before I retire.

When it is the first of the month the new challenge starts on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog this time we have a sponsor Beccy's Place and the theme is Anything Goes. Nice and simple.


All the papers were in my stash. I used my Tonic Circle dies to cut the image and its mats. 

http://www.beccysplace.com/

A lot of the images used by the Design Team were from Beccy's Place. I received an image from them last time they sponsored one of our challenges so I reused the image it is so cute. 



This is Baby Robin he is still available in the shop in the Christmas section.  I printed him on to watercolour card and then I was able to colour him with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I was so happy that this worked. I do love those pens. 


The sentiment was cut with a Sue Wilson Happy Christmas die. I cut one in black to make a shadow. 


Enjoy the rest of the week. I know that I have lots of things I need to catch up on before I go back to work. 

I would like to enter Challenge 27 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Thursday, 28 January 2016

My First Christmas Card of 2016

Hi My Crafty blog Friends

How is your week going? It was certainly nice to see some sun today even if it was a bit cold.

I do have to apologise that I have made a Christmas card. I did promise myself that I would start making them in January and up until today I hadn't made one. Also I was rather naughty and I had bought quite a lot of Sue Wilson's Festive dies from the last release and I hadn't got round to using some of them. This made me feel a bit guilty so I decided today was the day to make an effort. After all if I only make one Christmas card a month I will only have 12 when we get to Christmas.


This card was made entirely with Sue Wilson dies. I am loving the double pierced squares and rectangles sets a and b. When I was at Newbury John Lockwood showed me how to use them in a different way. I cut a wide frame with two of the dies from the double pierced rectangles set then I cut an inner frame in a contrasting colour and stuck it over the top of the first frame. I cut the snowflake background die in white to go behind the frame. On a piece of dark blue card with a double sided sticky sheet cut to size. I stuck the background to the sticky sheet and then covered the whole thing with Diamond Sprinkles.


I cut lots poinsettias with the Classic Poinsettia dies in a pale blue and I inked the edges I did shape them with a ball tool. 


I added the sentiment to the centre of the design. 


I was very pleased with how this card turned out. I now have an idea for a 50th birthday day card that I need to make.  Enjoy the last day of the week the weekend is nearly here. 

I would like to enter Challenge 15 at A Snowflake's Promise ,Challenge 289 at the Fab'n'Funky Challenge Blog,  Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 213 and Christmas Cards Challenges 8.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie
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Friday, 4 December 2015

Creative Artiste Challenge Blog - Challenge 9 Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is nearly here. I am doing a really nice thing at work today. There is a special service at Winchester Cathedral arranged by Hampshire Music service for special needs children. It is very well done and everyone gets to join in. In a lot of ways this is the highlight of our year. The only downside is that I haven't left my husband alone for so long yet. I have arranged for some friends to pop in and see him.

There is a new challenge starting today on the Creative Artiste Challenge blog the sponsor is Foilplay and the theme is Anything Goes.

I was very lucky and I won this kit to make a candle holder on the Creative Expressions Facebook page. They have a competition every Friday it is well worth entering.


The MDF pieces were painted  and the inside stamped before I slotted the sides together. I could have stuck this together but I decided not to so that it could be packed away when we aren't using it. 


I made it a sort of skirt using lots of my Sue Wilson dies. This is detachable. 


You can see the stamping in gold and silver on the inside. The candle is one of those electric ones I just feel they are a little safer. 


Here it is lit in the evening. This will be one of our main Christmas decorations this year most of our things are in the loft and the boxes are too heavy for me and my husband can't manage them with one hand. 

I hope that you have a great day today. It is a very busy time of year. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie
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Monday, 5 October 2015

Not Just Cards Challenge Blog - Challenge 25 and winner of the Blog Hop image

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you have had a great weekend and are raring to go for the week ahead.

Today see the start of a new challenge on the Not Just Cards Challenge Blog. The theme is always Anything Goes. This time we had images to work with mine came from Ikes Art.


The image is called Winter Robin. I started with a 7" x 7" kraft card blank I cut all the mats and layers. With the white layer I cut an aperture with an circle die and then I embossed it with the Snowflake Lattice folder by Sue Wilson. I used the Sue Wilson holly dies to cut the holly. I used two of the circle dies to create a frame for the aperture. I created the berries and the corner dots with CS Berry Red PVA. 

If you click on the logo you will get taken to the store there are lots of lovely images to chose from. 


I coloured the robin with Promarkers. I used a brush and some blue ink to colour round the image. Then I made dots with my Versa Mark pen and I heat embossed them with a white powder. 


The sentiment was cut with the Seasons Greetings die by Sue Wilson ( anyone would think I was a big fan). This was mounted on some glitter card. 

Now is the time to reveal the winner of my image from our September Blog Hop. Here is my card as a reminder. 


She is from Star Stampz and called My Sweet Sunflower. I had 39 comments so I put the numbers into a random number generator. Here is the result.

So comment 38 was the winner and that came from Zub Momi. The prize has been claimed and sent. 



I do hope that you have a good week. Why not join in with this months challenge. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Delightful Digi's - Christmas Candle

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

We are well into the working week now. The end of term is marching ever closer. This week I have been mostly watching rehearsals for the Summer Production at school. This time they are putting on the panto Aladdin. I do marvel that so many of the children are confident enough to sing solos. I couldn't have done anything like that at their age.

I am sharing another Christmas card using an image and backing paper from the 2015 Christmas collection at Delightful Digi's.  Did you know that there is a Delightful Digi's Facebook group as well?


I used the Candle image and the Berries paper in red from the Christmas collection at Delightful Digi's. I haven't made an easel card in a while, ever since I found my poorly uncle displaying one on it's side. I thought it would be fun to have another go. I cut the biggest square card blank from a sheet of A4 that I could and I cut the topper from a second sheet. I discovered that my Tonic square dies matted nicely within this size so I used them to cut all the mats. 


This is the base of the card the stopper was made with a free die from a magazine last year. The corners were cut with a Spellbinder die. 


I coloured the image with Promarkers. To get the highlights on the berries I used a blender pen. For the background I cut a circle from a post-it note so I could cover the flame. Then I used a brush to lightly ink the background with blue. Once this was done I removed the post-it note and I covered the rest of the paper with a mask I made with a circle cut out so that I could ink the flame separately. 


It must be years since I made an easel card I will be making a few more. I do like making shaped cards I will just have to be careful who I send them to or be there when they are opened so I can explain how to display it. I have quite a collection of Christmas cards now but there are still more to make. 

I hope the rest of the week is kind to you. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie
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Saturday, 22 November 2014

A Fair Trade.

Hi  Bloggers

I hope you are having a great weekend. Christmas prep is in full swing in our house. I have even started to wrap presents.

Someone at work made me an offer that I couldn't refuse, she offered to make me a Christmas cake if I made a Christmas card for her mum. I was very happy to accept  this offer here is what I created for her. She has already made the cake. That was speedy and we both get to do something we enjoy doing.

  I based this card on one I had made previously but without my Grand Calibur I had to think of a way round not being able to do A4 embossing.


I cut the while mat for the aperture as wide as would so through my Big Shot. I like the white on black look I achieved this with a die cut in white for the sentiment.


Around the the edge of the black mat I stamped a snowflake with Perfect Medium and alternately heat embossed with white and then with clear embossing powder.


The one stipulation was that the word MUM was on the card, I cut this with my new Tonic alphabet dies - they are good. I cut off the the fancy bits for a cleaner look and so it would fit in the space I had left for it .

For the insert I cut the Mosaic Poinsettia out of Funky Foam and I used it as a stamp. 


Finally I used the leftover bits from the alphabet dies to decorate the envelope.


I think I got a fair trade for a cake. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. We are off to Salisbury to collect a rabbit for my daughter.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie
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