Cute Robin Christmas card and mindful colouring

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We had a quiet day on Saturday were we caught up on jobs around the house. On Sunday we visited our daughter and son-in-law. It is so nice to spend time with them and their doggy. 

I have been doing a lot of colouring. I do find that it helps to clear my mind. Now I have a few coloured images I have made some into cards. 

The paper was from a paper pad from Hobbycraft. The die-cuts were left over on my desk. They were created with John Next Door dies and glitter card. 

This is an old image from Beccy's Place the Store unfortunately this image has been retired. There are many other wonderful image sets in the store it is worth checking.  

So this is another card for my stash. I have actually bought some cards this year. I don't think I am going to have time to make enough. 

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Cute Baby Robin - Christmas Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I hope it is going well. My job is interesting to say the least I am looking after two boys in different classes at the same time. I hope it gets resolved soon. Though it is good for the number of steps I am doing on my Fitbit.

I have been making Christmas cards again. When I made the card for the current challenge on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog I printed two of the baby robins by Beccy Muir onto watercolour card. I found the second image yesterday and I decided to colour it with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I wanted to try something different with the background.

I decided to make an aperture card. I like my apertures to have a frame. I used my tonic circle dies to create both. 

What I did different with the background this time  is to  create it first and that way I could get the blue right up to the image. The stronger coloured pens covered over any blue that got on to the image. 

I have now made over 70 Christmas cards I am not worried anymore that I won't be finished in time this year. In between times I am experimenting with flowers for the wedding. It will all be fine. 

I would like to enter Challenge 442 at Cute Card Thursday , Challenge 102 at the Inspiration Destination Challenge blog and the September Challenge at the House of Cards Challenge Blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Here we are at the beginning of September, Autumn is almost here. I have a few more days before I go back to school. It has been a long break this time I have been very lucky. When I go back I will only be working mornings it is my plan to cut down a bit before I retire.

When it is the first of the month the new challenge starts on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog this time we have a sponsor Beccy's Place and the theme is Anything Goes. Nice and simple.

All the papers were in my stash. I used my Tonic Circle dies to cut the image and its mats. 

A lot of the images used by the Design Team were from Beccy's Place. I received an image from them last time they sponsored one of our challenges so I reused the image it is so cute. 

This is Baby Robin he is still available in the shop in the Christmas section.  I printed him on to watercolour card and then I was able to colour him with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I was so happy that this worked. I do love those pens. 

The sentiment was cut with a Sue Wilson Happy Christmas die. I cut one in black to make a shadow. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. I know that I have lots of things I need to catch up on before I go back to work. 

I would like to enter Challenge 27 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Well everything seems to have got a bit out of hand and I am very behind with lots of commitments. Life is returning to normal now my husband is home from hospital. I have time to catch up a little.

This is my latest card for the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog. The theme this month is Anything Goes and there are prizes on offer.

We have a Sponsor this month Beccy's Place who has provide the whole team with beautiful images to use. 

Click on the logo and you will be taken to the store. 

The image I chose to use is called Baby Robin  he is so cute and lovely to colour with my Promarkers. I cut him out with one of my new Sue Wilson pierced square dies. 

The sentiment was cut with a Sue Wilson die. 

Here is another view of the card. 

Enjoy the rest of the evening.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie