Sunflowers with Beccy's Place

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How has the weekend been so far? We are seeing our daughter and son-in-law on Monday. We are looking after the dog while they have a look for beds.

This week is Encore Week at Beccy Place this time Carla and I used the Thinking of You Digital image set. The cards we have made are on Beccy's Blog today. 

Here is the card I made. 

I  had the paper left over from another project. It was perfect to go with the images. 

The sunflowers were coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils. I used nested Oval dies from Presscut to cut the image and the sentiment. 

This is the Thinking of You Digital Image set and it is available HERE. 

The gold square was left over from another project. I think it adds a nice touch. 

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

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John Next Door - Christmas - Release 2

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How has your week been. For some of us it is a long weekend. Being retired we tend not to do things at the weekend or on a bank holiday. But of course these are the best times to see our daughter and son-in-law. That is what we are doing on Monday. It will be nice to see them. 

Here are the samples I made for the second release of Christmas dies from the John Next Door range. The launch show is on the Craft Store on Sunday at 6.00 pm. I didn't get many of the dies to make samples with but the ones I did are beautiful. 

The NOEL dies and the frame are new. The Small Poinsettias and the Small foliage were in the first release. I have pretty much swapped over the Crafts-Too Linen card and gloss card and glitter card. 

There is a sneak peak of some papers on this card coming soon. 

I wanted to do the letters in a line. It did make a very long thin card. 

This has to be my favourite die set. The frame and the tree come together. 

I do love red and green on Christmas cards. There is another sneak peak for some stamps that are coming soon. I did foil the sentiment with my Kaleido. 

I do like gold and silver too. Really there aren't many colours I don't like. This reminded me of a programme I used to watch when I was younger called the Singing Ringing Tree. 

Can you spot the mistake in this photo? I put one of the cards for the limited edition kit and left one of the second release cards out. Oh well most of them are here. 

Have a good time.

Happy Crafting

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When you have a good idea make another Card.

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How is your week going? Today our old car is being collected, it will be sold and the money will go to a charity of our choice. The car will be collected from our drive too. It is quite a neat way to get rid of an old car. 

I enjoyed making the Snippets Christmas card last week that I decided to make a birthday card. This is all with scraps of paper that I found when tidying the other day. 

I was intending to make a Christmas card but the blue papers I used suggested a birthday card. 

This image came from an old card. I cut the image and it's mat with circle dies from different John Next Door die sets. 

You can always use a birthday card. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas Snippets with a cute Robin

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How was your weekend? As predicted we had a quiet time. This was good as it gave us the chance to get over going to an open air Bootleg Beatles concert at Stansted Park which is about half an hours drive from us which we attended with friends on Friday evening. We did get out for a couple of coffees. 

I have been making more Christmas cards. I was sorting thorough some scraps of paper that I have had for a while. This is the result. 

So you can see the background I made with the patterned paper snippets. When you make a background with this type of pattern it is good for using up smaller snippets. 

This cute robin came from an old card. I used circle dies from 3 John Next Door die sets to cut the image and its mats and layers. Two of the dies I found had a stitched pattern round the edge. 

This is the sentiment that comes with the John Next Door Bauble die set. 

 I am very pleased with how this card turned out. I now have over 70 Christmas cards for this year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #410

Challenge #37 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog

Challenge #110 at Crafting Happiness Challenges 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

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John Next Door Christmas Limited Edition Kit

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How  has your week been? Do you have something nice planned for the weekend. We don't have any definite plans we will just see what happens. 

Today John Lockwood aka John Next Door released his limited edition Christmas Kit on the Craft Store. Here are the cards I made with the kit and a few other older dies and papers. 

I think this card uses just about everything in the kit apart from the stars. I made the white specs on the paper with a white Posca Pen. 

Here is what you get in the kit. That is double sided glitter card. It is brilliant for making ornaments. 

For this card I used the Alphabet Stencil dies along with corner dies from the kit. 

Those snow flakes are so pretty. I did add stars to this card. 

For this card I cut the snowflake in white a few times. I laid them on the backing paper and I ran this through my die cutting machine. This imbeds them into the paper a bit. The sentiment is an older John Next Door die. 

Here you have a nice simple but effect cards. Not all cards for Christmas need to be complicated. 

I do like making pop-up box cards. There are instructions for them on my blog HERE. It was great having double sided glitter card as I didn't have to worry about the backs of the snowflakes. 

Here are all the makes together. I do wonder if any of them will be on telly. 

Happy Crafting

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Proteas at Beccy's Place

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How is your week going? Today I am sharing the cards that I made with the Proteas Digital Image set from Beccy's Place. Here are the cards I made. I do love getting these flowers in a bouquet until now I didn't know what they were called. 

Today it is my turn at Beccy's Place Blog. 

I coloured the the images with my Faber Castell Coloured pencils. I do love a corner die and I used the Presscut Nested Oval dies as well. 

They were great images to colour. 

This is the Proteas Digital Image set it is available HERE. 

I do like making DL cards. I cut the images out with the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. 

I enjoyed making these cards. 

Happy Crafting

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Happy Wandering Birthday Card

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How was your weekend? We had a quiet one at home, The weather was nice though and we spent some time in the garden. 

At the weekend it was our son-in-law's. father's birthday. Here is the card I made for him. 

Can you spot the real map in the background? Russ loves travelling around in his car. This weekend he has had a proper road trip travelling to  lots of different places. I made the name with the Stencil Alphabet dies from the John Next Door range. 

This image came from an old card. I just love this cute image. 

I hope Russ liked his card. 

Have a good week.

Happy Crafting

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A Diamond Point Christmas card

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How is your week going? My hubby enjoyed the cricket on Wednesday. Yesterday we had date, night to us that means a meal and the cinema. It is a long time since we have done that. Today we are taking my in-laws to a garden party. Before that I am hoping to pop into the Art of Craft shop which is just down the road from where my in-laws live. 

From now on I will be mostly making Christmas cards. Here is another one I made with the Diamond point design. 

I just love this design. I think I will be making some more cards like this. 

This fabulous gingerbread man came from an old card. The patterned paper I have had in my stash for a while. 

I have made sixty Christmas cards so far. I do need a few more. 

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Challenge #554 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

The August Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge #37 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog

Have a great day. 

Happy Crafting

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Snippets Christmas Card

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How is your week going? We seem to be quite busy. Today my hubby is going to cricket for the first time. We live near to the Aegeus Bowl the home of Hampshire Cricket. He is going with friends. I hope he has a good time. I on the other hand will be having coffee with friends. It should be a nice day for both of us. 

At the moment I don't have any deadlines looming so yesterday I made some Christmas cards.  I am so behind on Christmas card making this year. 

The background was made with Snippets of patterned paper. There were so many lying around on my desk they were just asking to be used. 

This is an old card. I cut the card and it's mount with my Double Pierced Square dies from Creative Expressions. I made the Candi for the corners with my Limited Edition Mandala die from the John Next Door range. 

I had two of the  old cards so I was able to make two new cards. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge #409 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge #99 at the Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge #37 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

The August Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge #554 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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John Next Door Christmas Release One

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How was your weekend? We had a nice time. On Saturday it was my husband's birthday and with our son-in-law's he picked up our new car. This also meant that I got to spend some time with our daughter like we used to do. We even watched some trashy wedding themed telly together. When we were all back together we shared a nice meal and some birthday cake. On Sunday we had a quieter day though we did pop out to a garden centre. We just need to get our old car taken away. 

At the weekend John Lockwood aka John Next Door released part one of his Christmas selection. Here are the samples I made with the dies and stamps. 

Aren't those dies just stunning. When you use the small poinsettia die you get so many flowers. 

I do like making slimline cards. The sentiment was foiled with my Kaleido. 

The dies work well on a gift bag. 

I love these snowflakes I should have used them more. 

That mandala is so pretty and there are so many ways to cut it and arrange it. 

Here I put two of the Baroque frames together. They are ideal for ribbon. I love those corners. 

Another one with the Baroque frame. 

I think I used most things on this card. 

This is a picture heavy post. I did have fun with these dies and stamps. Foiling with the Kaleido works very well especially now I have learnt to leave the ink to dry for a long time. I have also changed my stamping platform. 

Have a great week. 

Happy crafting

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Warm and Woolly with Beccy's Place

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I hope you are having a good weekend. Yesterday my hubby picked up a new car. We haven't changed our car for a while and there is a lot to get used to. The old one was showing signs of wear so it was time for it to go. 

Today I am sharing my makes with the Warm and Woolly images from Beccy's Place.  Today I am featured on Beccy's Blog. 

I uses some patterned paper in my stash. 

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

I used the Nested Oval dies from Presscut. As the Perwinkle die and the Small Leave die from the John Next Door range. I coloured the image with Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. 

This is exactly what you will get with the Warm and Woolly set as well as line art. The set is available HERE. 

I also made a tag. I used the John Next Door Luggage Tag die set. I used the ovals on the sentiment. 

Here are both of my makes together. I did have fun colouring these images. 

Happy crafting

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