Gone Fishing - Happy Birthday

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I am having a day off from invigilating which is nice as it gives me a bit of time to catch up on things and to start my packing.

I was looking through my files and I found a card I made for our good friend for his birthday. He does love his fishing.

The papers I used are mostly from a lovely pack that I bought in The Works. 

This LOTV image came from a pad. I just added a bit of Distress ink. 

I have used this Crafter's Companion die a lot this year. I just love that the dot above the i is attached. 

Just a quick post today there is lots to do but it is all good fun. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The November Challenge at Craftyhazelut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 178 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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LOTV Bunny 18th Birthday card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors,

How is your week going? I have been enjoying the sunny weather by catching up on a few jobs. It is nice not to be held back by in any way with the rain. The birds seem to be enjoying the sunny weather too.

A while back someone on Facebook in one of the groups I am in put out a request for birthday cards for her daughter's 18th birthday. I agreed to send a card this is it.

I started by finding an image and I based the colours of the card  around that. The paper was in my stash. 

This cute LOTV image came from a pad of images. I thought the bunny was cute and the balloon and cake were just right for a birthday. I cut an aperture with the Double Pierced Rectangle dies by Creative Expression. 

I used the Double Pierced Circle dies to highlight the age. The numbers were cut with some Crafter's Companion dies. 

The balloons ware a Tattered Lace die. The flowers were created with a punch and the leaves are the Star Flower Leaves from John Next Door. 

I did get a lovely thank you for this card which was nice. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The challenge starting the week 17th April at the TTCRD Challenge blog

Challenge 88 at the Scrapy Land Challenge blog

Challenge 16 at the Crafthahloics R Us Challenge blog

Challenge 324 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge 376 at Penny's Paper- Crafty Challenge blog

Challenge 47 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

The April Challenge at the Always Happy Birthday Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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LOTV Nativity Christmas Cards

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How was your weekend? I hope you were able to do something nice. On Saturday we went to our niece's party in Swindon it was at the local football club.  We had planned to visit some National Trust properties on the way there and on the way back but the weather wasn't on our side. We ended up doing quite a lot of shopping. We did get some bargains.

This year I am determined to not be in a rush making Christmas cards in December. I also have challenged myself to enter the Rudolph Days  Challenge every month until December.

This was quite a quick card to make. I love LOTV toppers they are so cute. The backing paper was in my stash as was the ribbon.  

These images are so cute and they remind me of my days in school. 

This is the comtempory Happy Christmas die from Creative Expression. 

The card was so quick to make I made a second card with another image from the set. 

We are having internet issues at the moment. I might be a bit intermittent with my contact until they are resolved. 

Happy Crafting

I would like to enter the January Rudolph Days Challenge. 

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LOTV Angelic Christmas Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How was your weekend? We got lots of things sorted. The bunny room is nearly ready and the garden is looking a lot tidier. My husband keeps saying that I have lots of time now to get things sorted out. I wonder if it is going to work out like that.

I have found it a bit hard to get back into card making. I have joined a design team as a guest for September so that has helped a bit. Today I made a Christmas card.

I was going through my Christmas stash and this little angel was the last one on an LOTV (Lily of the Valley)  set of images. I found the paper there to just enough for this card. The snowflake die came free with a magazine last year. 

I am not sure why I didn't use her when I used the other images. She is very pretty. The image and mats and layer were cut with my Double Pierced Square dies from Creative Expressions. 

I cut the Sue Wilson Merry Christmas die from white sparkly paper. I love how it shows up against the background. 

This card didn't take long to put together. I have decided that when I am not sure what to do I will make Christmas cards. I always need lots of those but not as many as last year. Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times - MAWTT - Butterflies

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I have had a great week. I was thoroughly spoilt on my birthday I had lots of lovely presents and cards.

Well the new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times Challenge Blog (MAWTT) the new theme is Butterflies and there is a prize of a set of stamps designed by John Lockwood. So it is well worth entering.

I looked through my stash and found this cute LOTV bunny image to use and the butterfly script backing paper as well as the ribbon. 

I decided the to use the beautiful Butterfly Frame  Sue Wilson die set to frame the image. 

I cut the extra butterfly die from the set in pink and backed it the backing paper. 

This card has no sentiment yet. I thought I would add one later when I know who the card is going to. It might make a nice engagement card. 

Enjoy the rest of the week

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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My card in Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine Issue 163

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you have had a great weekend. We have been down to Bristol and we stayed in the hotel that we will be using for the wedding. Luckily nearby there is a nice restaurant to use for a meal on the night before the wedding. Our daughter, her fiance and his parents saw the hotel and the restaurant and liked both. We also had a meeting about chairs and sashes - you knew there were so many ways they could be tied. So a lot was achieved and we know where lots of things are now.

While we were away I bought a copy of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine (issue 163) and I was thrilled to see my card in print.

I made this card for the sketch challenge in the current issue. 

I won a cute pack of LOTV images from the Pixie's Snippets Playground a couple of months back and I used one of the images to make this card. I used colours from the image in my design.  

Here is a picture of my card on the page with the lovely comment from the editor. 

While we were in Bristol we had a walk along the Clifton Suspension Bridge. This photo was taken from the Visitors' Centre.

I hope you have a great week. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 267 and 268 and challenge 148 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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New Home Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are enjoying the weekend. Yesterday we visited both our sets of parents. They are all fine. My brother-in-law and his wife  are trying to move closer to my husband's parents. This is very kind of them, they want to be on hand to help if it is needed.

So I made a card for when they eventually move, which we hope is soon. Moving is never easy.

I did make this card with a Design Team creation in mind. When I went to post it to the  Design Team blog I found I had got the theme wrong. No worries I needed this card anyway. The background brickwork is some textured card stock coloured with distress ink. 

This is an LOTV image from a sheet of images that has been in my stash for a while. The New Home sentiment was cut with some Britannia dies. 

This flower pot of flowers was made with a Spellbinders die set. 

I do hope I get to send this card soon they have been trying to move for a while now. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Angel Christmas card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I do hope that your preparations are going well. It really isn't long to go now until the big day. Last night we did a Sainsbury shop we had a voucher for  £10 off not bad. It was really quite busy but we got everything we wanted.

I was looking through my files and I found that I hadn't shared this card. It is just a little card that I made for someone at school.

For the background I used the Snowflake Lattice A4 embossing folder. 

This is  a pre coloured LOTV image. Their angels are just so cute. 

This is a Sue Wilson die from last year's Festive Collection. 

The recipient was very pleased with this card. I hope the rest of the week is kind to you. 

I would like to enter the challenge at Cuttlebug Mania create a Christmas project without red or green. 

Happy Crafting

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LOTV Wedding Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you have had a wonderful weekend and are now fighting fit for the week ahead. We visited our daughter and did lots of jobs in the house. When her fiance got home we went out for a nice meal. Then on Sunday we saw our friend who lost his wife recently we had another very nice meal out. So not much cooking for me this weekend.

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for her. The bride and groom wanted money as a gift so she thought a nice card would be a good idea I tried hard not to let her down.

For the background I used a Spellbinder's corner die. I cut four and placed them in the corners over a patterned paper. 

This is a Crafter's Companion die. I cut it twice so I could create a shadow. 

The image came from the LOTV Occasions Set 3. This is such a useful set. I stamped with black archival onto water colour card and then coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I coloured the image first and my colouring suggested the colours for the rest of the card. Blues was the suggestion by my friend but it became more teal. To frame the image I used some dies from the Innsbruck set from the Austrian Collection by Sue Wilson. 

I used the Sue Wilson Esquiste Poppy die set to create the flowers and the Olive branch die set to make the foliage. 

My friend was very pleased with this card. I am very pleased that she like it. 

I would like to enter Week 254 at Pixie's Snippets Playground and challenge 337 at Craft Your Passion Challenges. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Card number 33

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? I have been a bit under the weather. My migraine took a couple of days to clear up and I managed to hurt my back. I am feeling a lot better now and I have been doing my back exercises. We have been sorting out different things to do with the wedding. There is a whole year of this before we get to the big day.

Well yesterday I shared one of the 15 Christmas cards that I was going to finish today and finish I did. Only I can't count,  when I got to sticking the images onto the cards I found I had one left over. So there where 16 images in the pack not 15 and I first thought.  I used the extra image to make this card.

I decided to make a bigger card I know a special couple who will love a card like this and it doesn't need to go in the post. 

There were four different images and four of each making 16 images not 15 as I thought. I really should look at things properly before I start using them. 

I used the Sue Wilson Classic Poinsettia dies to create the flowers. They were embossed and  then inked with Distress ink. 

This is another Sue Wilson die there is room for this one on this card. 

Yes I am well into the swing of making Christmas cards now. I need a few other sessions making batches of cards. Tonight we are off to the local garden centre they are open late and do a deal on meals it would be rude not to. Have a great evening.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Card Number 18

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I had a lovely visit with my good friend yesterday she even had cake and we made icing butterflies. I am still trying to collect those wedding ideas. If you go to my page about our daughter's wedding you can see where we have got to with the design for the table centres.

Well I have been busy today. First I finished the trial table decoration, then I made something for one of the Design Teams I am on. Lastly I started working on a batch of 15 Christmas cards. At the moment only one is finished. But all the bits are cut to make the others and they will be finished tomorrow the I will be up to Christmas card number 32. Maybe I shouldn't count my Christmas cards before they are finished.

If it works out I will have 15 cards like this. I had a little pack of  LOTV toppers with three different designs but all blue and with children acting out the Nativity. All the mats and layers were cut with my Sue Wilson Double Pierced Squares sets A and B. The white layer was embossed with the Snowflake Lattice A4 embossing folder by Creative Expressions I also used a little Distress ink to bring out the detail of the embossing. 

These images are cute and they help to make very quick cards. 

Where would I  be without my Sue Wilson Happy Christmas die. It fits into spaces that other dies don't. 

So by this time tomorrow there should be 15 of these cards. Then I will start to feel a bit better about my Christmas cards. These cards are also nice and flat for posting. 

Enjoy the rest of the evening. 

Happy Crafting

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Creative Artiste Challenge 16 - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Today is a busy blog day. It the first of the month and it is a Friday.

The new challenge starts today on the Creative Artiste Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes. There is a sponsor this month Scrapmatts  who are based in Australia. The design team were all sent goodies to play with. I have a little confession I lost my goodies I keep expecting them to turn up but they haven't yet.

In my stash I had a chipboard door hanger that I painted all over with Gesso. When this had dried I used some decoupage glue to cover the door hanger with different shades of blue tissue paper. There was another wait for this to dry. I did cover both sides. I took a stencil and inked through it with a silver ink. 

If you click on the link you will be taken to the store. 

This is an LOTV stamp that I love. She was stamped with black archival onto water colour card and then coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens.  She was cut our by hand and added to the door hanger with a gel glue. 

At the bottom I added shells, pearl strings and die cuts. 

Here is the hanger in place on the bathroom door. Thank you for visiting today. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie