Tinyrose's Craft Room: Branched Birch

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Tuesday, 15 October 2019

A Bit More Time to Craft - Challenge 102 - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? It was so wet yesterday but I did get out for coffee with a friend. Today I have a quiet day to finish things off and pack. Tomorrow we are going to London for a Bootleg Beatles concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It is part of In the End tour and will feature music from the Let It Be and Abbey Road albums. I am super excited about this trip.

The new challenge starts today on the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog. The theme is always Anything Goes and there are gorgeous digi papers on offer as prizes. I really enjoy working with these papers.

I have been busy making more Christmas cards. Last year I ran out and I don't want to do that this year. I used two of the paper sets the Gothic Flakes for the background and the trees were cut from the On It's Way set.

Our challenges are always Anything Goes. Why not enter click on the logo and you will be taken to the challenge blog.

I cut the Happy Christmas, Creative Expression's Die, from white glitter card.

The deer family were cut with the Sizzix Winter Wonderland die set. I make the female by cutting the antlers from one of the die cuts. They were cut in Kraft card and the edges inked with Distress ink. The trees were cut with the Branched Birch die from Sizzix. It is very easy to extend this die. In the background you can just see some green trees cut with the Winter Trees dies from Creative Expressions.

I did make two of these cards. That is a two more for my stash.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 195 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 58 at the Holly and the Ivy Challenge blog

Challenge 459 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

Challenge 31 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Challenge 15 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

The October Challenge at Your Scrapbook Place

Challenge 21 at the Creative Crafters Challenge blog

The Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) Anything Goes Challenge Week Beginning 15th October

The Crafter's Castle October Challenge #22

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Friday, 25 January 2019

Deer on a Snowy Night

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are all well. This has been a very busy week for me. Invigilating takes quite a bit of time. Then there is my weekly visit to Winchester. Today I am doing two sessions of invigilating then I am heading into Southampton to meet my husband. Then we will meet up with our daughter and son-in-law to have a meal. After that we are all going to the theatre to see American Idiot. I hope it will be a good show.

Last week when I had a bit of time, I had a bit of a tidy of my crafty stash and I found a lovely piece of paper that would make a wonderful snowy background for a Christmas card.

The backing paper came from an old edition of Making Cards Magazine. I did find that I had another sheet of the paper so I may well recreate this card to add to my stash. I extended the Branched Birch die from Sizzix. Once the trees were cut I inked them with Distress Inks. Behind the trees I added a silver circle to create the moon.

I cut the deer from the Winter Wonderland die set from Sizzix out of craft card and inked them with Distress ink. I removed the antlers from one of the adult deer to make a female.

This is a die from Creative Expressions. I cut it in gold and another in brown to make a shadow, I do find that adding a shadow helps the sentiment to show up against a busy background.

I think I have made over 30 Christmas cards so far this year. All of them are flat and will small enough to go on ordinary postage. I don't want to get caught out like I did last year.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 421 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 176 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 6 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 22 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Challenge 55 at the Craft Rocket Challenge blog

Challenge 235 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 566 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

The January Challenge at the Christmas Cards all Year Round Challenge blog

Challenge 13 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge

Challenge 106 at Scrapy Land Challenges.

I would have like to enter this card into the Rudolph Days Challenge but there isn't one this month. The lovely Maureen who hosts the challenge is having some surgery and needs time to recover.

Have a great weekend.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Tuesday, 27 November 2018

A Deer family in a Winter Forest

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I am trying to sort out lots of things. Then on Thursday I have my regular trip to Winchester. I do love this and I get to see the Christmas market which I think is one of the best around.

Last week when I was there I treated myself to some dies in the pre Black Friday sales. I was very keen to play with them. The first thing I made was the card in my previous post. Then I decided to make something a bit simpler.

I have lots of off cuts of white card left over from making wedding invitations this year. They are just the right size to fit the Branched birch die. I inked through the die to make patches darker then I removed the die and lightly inked the trees. I had some navy card to cut the snow for the background.

I found some craft card in my stash of bits and cut the deer from it. I added a bit of ink to them.

The snowflake border was cut in white.

I used the same navy card as the snowy background to cut the sentiment.

I am very pleased with my new dies. They even encouraged me to get my inks out which I haven't done for a long time.

Happy Crafting

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 340 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges

The Winter Wonderland Challenge at the Try it on a Tuesday Challenge blog

The Through the Craft Room Door Challenge 27th November

Challenge 172 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 413 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 208 at the Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge blog

The R for Reindeer challenge at the Alphabet Challenge blog

Hugs Jackie

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Sunday, 25 November 2018

Winter Wonderland Christmas card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a good weekend. There is so much to do at this time of year. On Sunday we will be visited our parents. We took mine out for a meal and then popped over to see my husband's parents.

Well I was out in Winchester last Thursday and there was 20% off everything in C&H fabrics and they happen to sell Sizzix dies. It would have been rude not to buy anything.

I bought the Winter Wonderland die set with four deer and some snow and the Branched Birch die both from Sizzix. There were many dies I would have liked to buy it was very tempting. I cut a frame with the Stitched Lattice dies from Creative Expressions in black I used Pebeo Gilding wax on it. I used the snow die in the background and added a shiny silver moon. I cut the Branch birch twice I inked through the die and then over the branches so they weren't so bight white.

This is the Contemporary Happy Christmas die from Creative Expressions.

I cut Santa's Sleigh in black and I used Pebeo Gilding wax on the service.

There are four deer in the set three are smaller.

The set has a male deer with antlers to make the female I removed the antlers. The tree was made with one of the Winter Trees dies from Creative Expressions.