Wedding Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your week? I hope you have something nice planned for the weekend. Today we are doing jobs around the house and on Sunday we will be visiting our parents.

On Wednesday the son of our very good friends got married. The weather that day was just amazing it was so bright, sunny and warm. Well my friend had asked me to make a wedding card for them to give their son and new daughter-in-law, I will share that in the future. I wanted to make a card from us for the happy couple. Having made the other card I knew the wedding colours so I used them to make our card.

I found the background paper in my stash. 

I used the Just Married die from the Rustic Wedding collection from Crafter's Companion to make the happy couple. They were cut in white and backed with the mint card. I made the aperture and it's frame with the Heart of Hearts die from Creative Expressions. 

I surrounded the heart with the Gerbera flowers and the Star Flower leaves from John Next Door. 

There was just space for this sentiment cut with a Tattered Lace die. 

Here is a picture of the happy couple. 

I hope they liked their card. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Week 488 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Challenge 222 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 53 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

Challenge 153 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 10 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge blog

Challenge 94 at the Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Challenge 55 at the Crazy 4 Challenges Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Quick Get Well Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a great week. The weather was just amazing yesterday. I was helping at a Wet Felting Workshop and we were able to have our coffee break in the garden. I felted a soap. You can see it HERE. 

In the light of our son-in-law breaking his elbow I needed a Get Well Card. I turned to my stash of Pollyanna Pickering papercraft kits. He received the card on Tuesday. Yesterday he went back to the hospital and the cast came off. He has a small break and he has to be careful. No lifting and only short drives. This is amazing as he will be able to go back to work. He did like the card.

Last week I was looking at the backing paper wondering about when it would be useful, well yesterday it was. It took two passes of my Tattered Lace alphabet to get all the the letters for the sentiment. The die came free with a Tattered Lace magazine, some time ago,  the letters are a good size but the B doesn't cut properly. Fortunately this time I didn't need any B's. 

The topper comes in a pad all done and ready to go. I just trimmed the edges and matted it with black.

There it is nice and flat for posting and it is on its way now. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 53 at Craft Rocket Challenges 

The challenge starting 3rd October at the Crafting by Designs Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A batch of Poinsettia and Snowflake themed Christmas cards

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I hope you had a good weekend. Ours didn't go exactly as planned. We did  eventually get to the 60th birthday party in London. We arrived in the right road and we knocked on the house we had been given the number for. Only the person there knew nothing about a party, he was very nice about it. We went off and stood some way off and tried to phone - no luck. Just then our friend drove by and stopped and told us the right address. The number we had been given  was 8 out. Later we got home to news that our son-in-law had fallen on his arm arm and was in pain. On Sunday our daughter took him to A&E and he came home with in a plaster. They suspect he has broken his elbow. So we popped over to them to visit.

A little while ago I mentioned that I needed to make a batch of Christmas cards for the people that my husband works with. Eventually I came up with a design and I managed to get them finished yesterday.

In the background is some gorgeous Crafter's Companion patterned card. Over this I place the Snowflake Square die from John Next Door cut in white glitter card. 

This is John's Happy Christmas die cut in gold with a black shadow. 

I used the poinsettia dies and the matching stamps to make the poinsettias. The dies and stamps make so many flowers at a time. I still have some left to use on another project. The ivy die was cut in green glitter card. I only used one die cut ivy on each card I snipped them apart so more showed around the flowers. 

Here they all are together. They aren't exactly the same but I think they make a nice set. My husband is pleased with them. He did ask for 10 but being me I made 12 just in case. Of course they won't go to waste if he doesn't need them. 

Enjoy the rest of the week 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The October challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Challenge 405 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

The September Challenge at the Merry Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 168 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 77 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 3 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Retirement card using my favourite Pollyanna Pickering Snowy Owl picture

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your weekend going? Yesterday we went up to London to attend a friend's 60th Birthday party. It was lovely to have a catch up. Today we are meeting our daughter in Southampton. She is starting a new job tomorrow and she wants some new work clothes. I want to treat her to a new work bag.

I can't believe this is the last day of September. I realised if I did one more blog post this month I would do better than I did in August. My friend retired last week and I decided to make her a card.

I made the card this way so that I could use one of the matching inserts. The background paper came from an american paper pad that I have had for a while. The doily's I have had for a while too. I really am trying to use things that are in my stash. 

This has to be my all time favourite Pollyanna Pickering picture of a Snowy Owl it is gorgeous. I still have a few left on the pad from Creative World of Crafts. I used my Spellbinders matting and layering dies to cut the image and the mats I used. 

This is a Spellbinders poppy die I often go back to this die even though I have other poppy dies. 

The picket fence is a Marianne die. The sentiment was cut with a Britannia die. 

I will get this in the post on Monday. It should be nice and flat for posting. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. It is October tomorrow. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Sent with Love and Flowers

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? We have seen some wonderful sunshine  which has been nice. I have been having a quiet time  but I am still finding it hard to craft. One day was wiped out with a massive headache. On the plus side my parents seem to have settled down with their care package and they seem a lot happier. Another piece of good news it that we became Great Aunt and Uncle this week our niece gave birth to a beautiful baby daughter. We had lots of fun in Next picking out a gift to send. All the baby things are just so cute.

I decided to make another card with the flowers I made a few weeks ago.

I used a lot of dies from John Next Door. For the background I used some inky kitchen roll that had been stuck to card. Over this I put the Gerbera Corner die cut in white.

This this the sentiment that comes with the Small Butterfly die set I cut it with the inky paper and made a shadow of gold. I do this often with die cut sentiments it helps them to stand out from the background. 

When you use the Gerbera die  you get so many flowers. I stuck two of each size together after shaping adding a pearl to the centre. I do love the small butterfly dies. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. I am still trying to finish the ten Christmas cards for my husband's work colleagues. 

Happy Crafting

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Snowflake Square Christmas Card.

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I haven't got so much planned this week so I am hoping to make some more Christmas cards. This year I am so behind on my makes. I think we are going to have to buy some cards. At least the postage will be cheaper I do find it hard to make flat cards.

Last week we had a lovely meal with some friends at a local pub. While we were there  picked up there Christmas menu. When I saw it I realised that I would be able to use some of the images to make Christmas cards.

I have been finding it hard to craft. When I get going it is alright it is the starting that is the problem. I did treat myself to some of John Next Door's new Christmas dies. That did seem to help a bit. The background paper is the cover of the Christmas leaflet from the pub.  I cut the Snowflake Square die in white glitter card the grey mat behind and the black mat with the die set. 

I used the Poinsettia stamp set with the matching dies. The flowers were shaped with a ball tool and make. The Ivy Spray die was cut in green glitter card. 

The sentiment is one of his too cut in white and black. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 187 at Dream Valley Challenges

Challenge 221 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

The Rudolph Days September Challenge 

Challenge 404 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

The Challenge starting 15th September at the Merry Christmas Challenge blog

The S and T Challenge at the ABC Christmas Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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So Sorry You are Leaving

Hello My Crafty Friends and Visitors

How has your weekend been going? We had planned to get a lot of gardening done yesterday. The best laid plans, we did manage a couple of hours before the rain started in earnest. On the plus side we have booked four trips to our local theatre. It is just up the road at the secondary school it has 300 seats and they get some good comedy acts there.

Last Thursday I was lucky to have a completely free day. It was the perfect time to craft. Anyway I got a message from someone  I know who asked if I could make a leaving card to be picked up later that afternoon. I love a challenge so I agreed. I had just made a Christmas card with the Snowflake Square Die set from John Next Door and it comes with two dies that have an interesting stitched effect. So I used them to make the top two layers. I created the sentiment on the computer. 

I used the Pitcher of Daisies image which is a free image on the Beccy's Place blog. I created a background in Publisher and place the Pitcher on top. I also printed three other pitchers all the same size which meant that I could decoupage the image as I wanted. Normally I would use gel glue for decoupage but as this was a rush I used foam pads. For speed I used the precoloured image. 

This card has been picked up and given to the recipient so it is okay to share it.  Enjoy whatever you are doing this weekend. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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