Christmas Penguins

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good weekend. Sadly my special plans did not work out so I have nothing exciting to share with you. So today I have been helping my daughter move out of her house in Winchester and into her boyfriend's house in Newbury. Unfortunately this has meant us having to store a lot of furniture at our house. We are still trying to think of the best way to fit it all in. I am sure there will be some trips to the tip. Tomorrow we are visiting a special friend who is not very well. So I will be making good use of the time I have gained.

I have been using Anita's Decoupage sheets again. They were in the bundle I received from Docrafts a few weeks ago. I think a lot of my Christmas cards will be coming from this bundle.

I forgot to take a picture of the sheet these two little sets came from. The penguins are very cute. Both cards are just under 6" x 6" this means they can be made from an A4 sheet. 

Here is a close up of the first card. I had some sparkle card left over from the 60th Anniversary cards I made recently and the backing paper I found in my snippet stash. The shiny blue card was in my Christmas snippets box. 

I used more of the glitter card it had been cut into squares that I just had to resize them for these cards. The backing paper was an off cut too. The decoupage for both cards I made up with a gel glue which is fine if they have time to dry if there isn't time there is always foam pads. 

  

That's another two cards for my stash. These will be ones that I hand out as they are a little to deep for posting. I make flatter cards for posting. 

I would like to enter these cards for Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 192.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and the week ahead. I have quite a few 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Two more Christmas Cards

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a great week and it is nearly the weekend. My husband has been on leave this week and we went to our first Silver Screening at the cinema. You can start going to these screenings when you are 55 it costs £3.95 each to see the film and you get a coffee. We saw the romantic film The Longest Ride. This was followed up with a nice lunch altogether it made a good day out. On Wednesday we went to London.

I have been playing with the goodies I got from Docrafts again. I really like Anita's decoupage sheets.

These are the cards I made.

This is the sheet the images came on. 

For both cards I used my Sue Wilson corner dies they are so pretty and frame the images so well.

Here is a close up of the image I assembled the decoupage with gel glue. 

I decided not to put a sentiment on the cards there is one on the insert. 

This is a beautiful image. 

Just to get you in more of a Christmas mood this is one of the Christmas trees they had in the Christmas shop in Selfridges. It is a lovely shop to visit some of the toys are amazing there was a six foot dinosaur that cost £4500. 

I have made a good start with my Christmas cards. These sets from Docrafts are really helping and the corner snowflake die of course. 

I hope you have a good weekend whatever you have planned. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie