Crafts Galore Encore - July Challenge - sponsor Oddball Art

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Saturday. I hope you have something nice planned. We will be doing the last few bits of wedding prep as well as looking for a fridge.

The first of the month sees the start of a new challenge on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog the theme is always Anything Goes and the sponsor this time  is Oddball Art by Lizzy Love  they are offering 3 digi stamps to the winner. What a fab prize.

The backing paper was in my stash. I used the Decorative Frames dies set from the Italian Collection designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expression to make the frame and the Stitched flag dies to make the flags. 

If you click on the image you will be taken to the Etsy store. There are some gorgeous images there. 

This is Mr Sweets the Fox he is so cute. There is a Christmas version of him too. I printed him onto water colour paper and used my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens to colour him. 

He is a cutie. I have not put a sentiment on, that can be added when I decide who to send this card to.

I would like to enter the July Challenge at the Crafty Calendar Challenge blog, Challenge 99 at LTSCB, Challenge 76 at the Dies R Us challenge blog and challenge 4 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog.

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Bottle of Vine Anniversary Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Well the weekend is nearly here. I hope you have something nice planned. We will be doing more things for the wedding as it really isn't very far away now. I have even had my hair coloured yesterday which is a first for me. We are also going to try and fit in looking for a new fridge. If you are wondering how we are managing we have a spare fridge which we are using in the meantime.

Last week at my mother-in-law's 90th birthday meal we realised that my husband's brother and his wife were about to celebrate their 35th Wedding Anniversary. They got married the same year as us. Their wedding was quite unconventional but lots of fun with the reception being on a boat down the Thames with a Jazz band. As I had treated myself to some new stamps and matching dies and  I wanted to try my new Tim Holtz stamping platform I decided to make them a card.

They do like a drink and fine wine is often on offer when you visit them so that was the inspiration behind this card. 

I knew I wanted to use my new stamps with Heartfelt Creations Italiana Grapevines stamps and matching dies. They were stamped in black archival and coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. The dies were nice and easy to line up. 

My new stamps, which also had a matching die set, are the Honey Doo Crafts A Bottle of Vine set. They were also stamped with black archival and coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens and then cut out with the dies I had treated myself to. 😊

There is no sentiment I popped that inside. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Free Gift Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine - Issue 167 July

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? It has turned very wet here such a contrast to the temperatures last week.

When I bought the latest issue of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine I was thrilled with the free gift and I couldn't wait to make a card with it.

The background papers came from my stash. 

I started by cutting a circle of water colour card. I had some Pixie Powders left over on my craft mat from another project and I wiped the circle through the ink to make the background. Then I stamped the fairy and the sentiment with black archival ink. I picked up some of the colour with a paint brush so the colour was a little darker on the fairy. I cut the frame with a Spellbinders lacy circle die and a Tonic die to cut our the centre. 

This is  a Crafter's Companion die.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the week. With the wedding so close nothing else is really happening for us just planning and organising. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground weeks 287 and 288.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine - Issue 167 Bonus papers

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How was your weekend? I was hoping for a quiet time having finished all the wedding makes. Unfortunately we have been let down with help getting things to the venue before the wedding and our fridge decided this was a good time to break. We also went to Portsmouth to a craft show and then to Aldershot for a celebration for my mother-in-laws 90th birthday. We are having another celebration in August. Not everyone can get together at the same time.

A little while ago I applied to be on the Reader's Design team for issue 167 of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine I was emailed the papers and I sent my card off. This time my card wasn't one of the ones chosen to be printed. It is pretty so I thought I would share it anyway.

It is very appropriate that the papers were wedding themed. I loved the swans. I used a tattered lace die to make the frames. For the background I used one of the papers and then over the top like confetti I put different sized hearts cut from one of the other papers. 

I used pink card to enhance the image. 

I did the same with the sentiment. 

My stash from the Portsmouth Craft show I did try to reign my self in a bit. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas in June

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good week. The weather has been amazing but it was quite a relief when things got a bit cooler on Thursday. Apart from the table plan everything is made for the weeding, It is such a relief.

I treated myself to some goodies from Crafter's Companion and one of them was a £10 Christmas mystery bag of products designed by Leonie Pujol. When it came there were two dies, two embossing folders and some sparkle pens. Now the two dies were entwined dies that went with a Christmas tree die. So being me I had to order that die too and it cost more than the mystery bag something that my husband found amusing.

It was so nice making something not wedding related. 

The sentiment came with one to of the die sets. 

I do like the more contemporary look of this tree.  

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Pollyanna Pickering - Tawny Owl - Birthday Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How are you keeping? We are very busy, there are only a few weeks left until the wedding. The preparations are going well. All the boxes for the various tables are packed. The trees are finished. I just have to finish off the buttonholes and the table plan ( I want to do that as close to the end as I can to take account of last minute changes). Sorry to be so boring I can't really think of much else at the moment.

As a break from wedding makes I decided to make a birthday card with one of my Pollyanna Pickering paper kits from the Creative World of Crafts.

The papers came from a pack from the Creative World of Crafts. 

I do love this image. The owl babies are so cute. 

Here is a description of the Tawny Owl that I cut from the image. 

Have  great week. 

Happy Crafting

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Isobel Craft Collection - Ladybirds

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. I hope you have something nice planned the weather is looking good. We had an unexpected trip to see the in-laws yesterday. My Mother-in-law is 90 next week and there is a planned meal at weekend and another in September. But our daughter and her fiance wanted to  visit yesterday so we tagged along this meant we could all go out for a meal. I have just completed the trees for the wedding so I am feeling a bit more on top of things. Here is a link to the page. 

A couple of days ago I shared a card I made with the new Gnomes stamps from the Isobel Craft Collection. Well I just had to share another card I made with the new Ladybird stamps.

I love using the resist technique to create a background. I stamped and heat embossed the ladybird stamp in two colours. Then I used Distress Ink to colour the rest of the page. 

There is a link on the Facebook page to where you can buy the stamps. 

I used the Heart of Hearts die set to cut our the stamped image. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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