Forever Friends Christmas card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Did you have a good weekend? It was certainly good having the extra day. It is a shame it rained so much on Sunday. A quick update on my parents there has been no further talk of stopping the carers going in. This is a huge relief I am sure there will be more hurdles to overcome. My parents can no longer cope on their own they really do need the help. I don't want to find my dad like he was back in the summer.

I would like to say thank you for the messages of support that I have received about my parents. I know so many of you understand.

I have been looking through my files for cards to share. As you know I stepped down from a few design teams and I am having a break from two others. I am struggling to make anything at the moment. I hope things will be a bit more settled when we get back from a short break.

Before everything happened with my parents I was getting on well with making my Christmas cards. I found the image in my stash I have had it for ages. I added trees cut with the Winter Tree dies from Creative Expressions. 

I do like the Forever Friends bears they are very cute. 

This is a Creative Expressions Santa die it comes with two reindeer. I just cut extra and add them. 

I found the sentiment in my stash too. Some of my stash I have had for ages. At the moment while I am not really crafting I am trying not to buy any new crafty bits.  

Here is the finished card. The papers I used were in my stash too. One of these days I will have a proper tidy up. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 35 at the Holly and the Ivy Challenge blog

Challenge 333 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) - The theme is Food and or Drink

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is everyone. Well Easter really isn't far away. Today our good old boiler is being serviced I am not quite sure how it keeps going. It is Good Friday tomorrow. We are hoping to pop into Southampton to see the Passion Play in  Guildhall Square (which is where my husband works).

I must get on with the matter in hand the new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) challenge blog and the theme this time is Food and or drink.

This card started with the circle mats they were left over after cutting an aperture in another card and they were just too good to waste. The paper came from my stash. 

I was looking through my drawers of craft bits and I came across some Forever Friends decoupage sheets and this image with the fabulous cake. I cut other strawberries from the sheet to add to the card. I haven't done any decoupage for a long time. 

Have a great day. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Pink with a Twist Challenge at the Crafting by Designs Challenge blog

Challenge 147 at the Inspiration Destination Challenge blog

Challenge 162 at the Crafty Girls Corner Challenge blog

Challenge 64 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 322 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - Pretty Pinks/ Halloween

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has the new week started for you? I can't believe it is already Tuesday.

The first Tuesday of the month sees the start of the new challenge on the Unicorn Challenge Blog and the theme is Pretty Pinks or Halloween. That is because not all of us like making Halloween cards but some of us do. This challenge should suit everyone.

I had a hunt around in my stash and I found some long forgotten Pyramage sheets with cute images on them and they were pink.

I don't think I could have made this more pink if I tried. 

I had some off cuts of sheets I had coloured with Pixie Powders and I used a Sue Wilson butterfly die to create this butterfly. 

I do like Forever Friends images they are just so cute. I created the frame with some other Sue Wilson dies. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. Take care.

I would like to enter the Think Pink Challenge at Dragonfly Dreams , Challenge 87 Love to Scrap Challenge Blog , Challenge 103 at Creative Moments , Challenge 25 at The Crafty Addicts Challenge and Challenge 318 at 4 Crafty Chicks. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Forever Friends cute Christmas cards

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I am slowly getting used to my timetable. It is nice just working mornings and coming home in the afternoon to craft or have time with friends.

I have been making Christmas card again. I made 12 of this design. They are also part of the envelope challenge set by my husband. I have now used 20 out of the 50 envelopes we found the other day. Only another 30 to go.

The design is similar to the robin stocking ones I made before. I cut down the card blanks to make them fit the envelopes and cut the mats and layers accordingly. 

I have had this cute Forever Friends stamp for a while. I cut a sheet of watercolour card into 12 pieces and stamped the image onto each piece with black archival ink. They were then coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens.  I think you already know how much I love these pens. 

This is just to prove there are 12 of them. They are also nice a flat for posting. 

I do hope that you enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter Week 246 at Pixie's Snippets Playground , Challenge 28 at a Snowflakes Promise Challenge Blog and Challenge 40 at Christmas Card Challenges. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Fantasy Stampers - Teddy Bears' Picnic Midway Motivation

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. Do you have plans? I am off to a crafty workshop with my friend. It is a charity event raising money for a good cause.

We are now half way through the latest challenge on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog the current theme is Teddy Bears' Picnic. I offered to make this challenges midway motivation card this time. So I had to hunt through my stash for a stamp with bear on it.

Once I had decided on the stamp I cut all the mats and layers. I used a Tattered Lace die to cut the bunting. The layers around the image and the die behind the sentiment were created with Spellbinders dies. 

I  was delighted when found this little Forever Friends stamps in my stash I think it came free with a magazine some time ago. He was stamped in black archival onto water colour card and coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I do like using them. 

This is a LOTV sentiment stamp that also came free with another magazine some time ago. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Fishing for a Happy Birthday

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been so far? I went back to work on Monday and that evening when I got in I had the most  awful headache it was so bad I couldn't do anything so I have got a bit behind with my crafting and commenting.

On Tuesday I felt better and I made this card for a friend's birthday. He likes fishing so it has a fishing theme.

I have had this Forever Friends image for a while now it is so nice to know someone who will appreciate it. I started by making the background I stamped a variety of stamps with Perfect Medium and they were then heat embossed with a metallic green powder. Finally I inked over the page with two shades of blue distress ink. 

I have a memory box die set that comes with a tree, two owls and some leaves they are fun to use. 

Here is the cute little bear who looks rather like he might go to sleep.

At the moment this is my favourite Happy Birthday stamp it fits so well into my Spellbinder matting and basics dies making the mats easy to make.

I hope my friend likes the little scene I have created. 

I would like to enter the challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz this week the theme is "Birds".

I would also like to join in with Pixie's Snippets Playground weeks 178 and 179.

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

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Happy Father's Day in the Garden

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I keep getting confused as to which day of the week it is. I don't work this afternoon so I will have some time to craft. I need to catch up on some design team bits and then it is on with the invites.

I set myself a challenge the other day. I was looking at my snippets box and I thought there is a card in there. So I decided I would make a card using as many of my snippets as I could. I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 175 / 176.

Recently I made a box for a present and I needed a piece of A1 card this meant there was a large piece left over that made a 7" x 7" card blank. I cut all the mats and I ended up with a piece of stamping card I stamped the Visible Image footprint stamp with brown, black and clear and them they were heat embossed. Then I inked over the footprints with green Distress Ink.

I wanted to use this image again I love the idea of gardening and then having a break. This time I cut a tree with an  Memory Box die I did extend the die a bit you can see the join in the photo.

I used the leaves die that came with the tree and I made an owl all from the same set. The Father's Day stamp came from a cover mount set from Do-crafts magazine last year.

I love the Spellbinder flower pot dies they mean that you can put flowers on a masculine card and they don't look too girly.

I popped a cheeky little cat popping out from behind the tree. 

This card will be for my Father-in-law who loves gardening. I was looking at the new challenge on the Cardz 4 Guyz challenge blog and the theme is gardening so I would like to enter that challenge too. 

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

Happy crafting

Hugs Jackie

Gardening / Drinking Tea Birthday Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope your week has started well and continues in the same vein. What a busy week I had last week two Design Team posts in one weekend. My husband made my storage solution on Saturday. Now I have lots to sort out.

I made this card for my dad, with the idea of entering the Challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz this week the theme is Pastimes. 

I found a fun backing paper in my stash and cut it to size. To make the foot print paper I used the Visible Image footprint stamp that came with Craft Stamper magazine last November. I remembered my friend Diane saying they would make good wellie prints. I used black embossing powder to make the footprints look mucky. I used Distress ink to add the colour to the mat. 

The image was a Forever Friends one that I had in my stash. After all the hard work gardening he deserves a nice cup of tea. 

I added the pot plant to show what he has been working on. This was cut with one of my favourite Spellbinder die sets.

Of course he would be sitting under the shade of a tree.

This the corner of the dining room before the storage unit.

Here is my husband making my crafty storage unit on Saturday afternoon. I was finishing my Easter cards while he did this. 

Here is the unit full up and in the corner of the dining room. We do have doors for this unit they will be added soon.  I do have a big pile of stuff that didn't fit so I need to do some sorting out.

I hope my dad likes this card he doesn't often say much. I hope rest of the week is good for you. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie 

Sail Away Thank You card for our leader at a PGL Residential.

I haven't been crafting much lately as there is a lot going on at the moment. I survived the residential with the Year 6 children but is was very hard work. Anyone who goes away with groups of children will know what I mean. Our group leader was only a young lad but he was brilliant and I wanted to make him a card. All the adults who went signed the card and the children all wrote letters. We found out that he liked sailing hence the picture which is actually recycled from an old card. The paper with the little sailing boats on is from a Forever Friends set. All the other paper came from my stash and I used Distress ink to ink the edges. Finally I found my Baker's twine that I wrapped round all held in place with the red super sticky tape. The button which looks liked weathered wood I found in and old box of buttons and is held on with Pinflair glue. I like making simple cards for men.

Thank you for looking. Happy Crafting.