Under the Sea themed Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? We have a few things going on. One of which for me is having a haircut. My hair is straight and has just got longer. I have been cutting my own fringe. I think I have managed quite well during this time. It will be nice to have my hair all tidied up by the hairdresser. I might just keep it a bit longer though as I quite like it. 

Back in May I made this under the sea themed card. 

I used a background that I made a while ago with Brushos and Pixie Powders. No one talks about them much now. I will still be using them as I have lots. The die set I used is the Under the Sea Die set  by Memory Box and it came free with a magazine. 

I used up so many scraps of card making this card. Everything that was die cut came from the scrap pile. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 381 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Get Well Card featuring Clyde the Dragon

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How is your week going? I have a relatively quiet week. Today I am helping at a Felting Workshop which is run by my dear friend. I think  we will be making pictures. Sometimes I get to make my own project sometimes I help to complete a project for the group. I won't know what I will be doing until I get there. I do so love helping though it is a lovely gentle morning in very pleasant surroundings.

Although I have had some time to craft this week I have been struggling a bit to know quite what to do. I was looking at the Bugaboo website and I spotted the free image of the week which is Clyde Get Well. The little dragon was so cute he was just begging to be made into a card.

The backing paper was created with some inky kitchen roll when from when I had been using some Brushos. The ribbon was from my stash. The layers were cut with the Double Pierced Square dies from Creative Expressions. 

Isn't Clyde cute. He was printed onto Neenah card stock and coloured with Promarkers. I used the Double Pierced Rectangle dies to cut out the image and its mat. 

The flowers and leaves were created with punches that emboss. I have had these punches for a while it was good to use them again. 

I think this is quite a cheerful Get Well card it will go into my basket until I need one. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 58 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

The March Anything Goes challenge at the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog

Challenge 571 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Week 10 at the Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge

Challenge 238 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 379 at the I ❤ Promarkers Challenge blog

Challenge 15 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge blog

Challenge 109 at Scrapy Land Challenges 

Challenge 430 at Fab 'n' Funky Challenges 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - March Challenge 

Challenge 32 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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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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Brushos and Pixie Powder Sympathy Card

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Good morning. It is so wet and damp this morning. I have a meal cooking in the slow cooker. It seems like the perfect day to stay in and craft. I hope you stay safe and warm.

I was looking through my files of photos and I came across this card that I haven't shared yet. It is a Sympathy card they are never easy to make. My husband wanted a card for someone at his work who had just lost his father-in-law.

I made two sheets of the background card with a stamp and a mixture of wet Brushos and Pixie Powders on my craft mat. Once I had finished stamping I spritzed the card to make the colours blend and mellow. I made one sheet a bit lighter so that the main stamp would show up a bit better. 

This is a Woodware stamp called Going to Seed. I stamped it with Perfect Medium and heat embossed it with a black powder. 

I do like creating these background but I do get very messy. I do have lots of inky kitchen roll that I should be making into backgrounds. 

I am not going to be around much for the next few days. We are visiting Disneyland Paris for a few days with our daughter and son-in-law. I hope the weather is kind to us. We are all going to take waterproofs I think we will need them. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter challenge 60 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog.

Happy Crafting

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Card for our Son-in-Laws birthday

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a good weekend. We have been involved with delivering my car to Andover so that our daughter can use it while her husband (our son-in-law) is recovering from his operation and can't drive. On Sunday we managed to catch up with some of the Christmas jobs that need doing and we had Christmas choir practice.

Today is our son-in-law's birthday and tomorrow he goes into hospital to have his gall bladder removed. That was what was causing all the pain last week. He is on a very restricted diet so I don't think there will be much celebrating today. He will have to save that until after.

The background is made from Brusho and Pixie Powders soaked kitchen roll. It is what I use to mop up you leave it to dry then the two layers are separated and glued to some card. I used a Decoupage glue it seems to suit this well. I got the idea from John Lockwood and I love it as I used to hate throwing away all the inky colour. 

They have a hamster so this cute little image from an old card was ideal. 

This is my ever trusty Creative Expressions die. The bird came from their window box set. 

This tree came from the window box set as well. There was a space that it filled nicely. 

I hope he opens his card before he sees it on Social Media. Oh well it can't be helped. 

Enjoy your day.

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

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Pixie Powders and Brushos Christmas cards

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Happy Monday? How was your weekend? I hope you did something nice. On Saturday we visited our daughter and son-in-law and had a lovely meal together. We discussed our plans for visiting Disneyland Paris next year to celebrate my big birthday. Then on Sunday we had our friend,  who lost his wife last year,  over for lunch it was lovely to have a catch up. One of his daughter's and her husband have bought a working dairy farm in France it is all very exciting.

Last week I settled down to make some batch Christmas cards for which I needed to create backgrounds. I used water colour card and a mixture of Pixie Powders and Brushos. When they were dry I thought they were rather too pretty for what I had planned. I ended up making some different cards.

I stamped and heat embossed snowflakes in silver and white onto the background. I chose mats and layers to match the colours in the Pixie Powders and Brushos. 

 
I cut this Creative Expressions die in white glitter card and offset is with a deep purple die cut. 

I have had this ribbon for a long time this seemed like the right time to use it. 

A DL card with die cut snowflakes with and pearl added to each. The die came free with a magazine last year. I used the last of the ribbon on this card. 

Another DL card this time just three die cut snowflakes and a different ribbon. 

I had one tiny scrap left over so I made this tiny card. The Santa is a Creative Expressions die and the sentiment was cut with some Britannia dies. All the decorated paper has gone now. 

Here they are altogether. They do look rather splendid on the side. I still need to make the batch of cards I was planning I will have to make some more backgrounds.

I would like to enter challenge 179 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog and challenge 45 at A Snowflakes Promise Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Up, Up and Away

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Bank Holiday.  I hope you are having a fine bank holiday weekend for those of you who get a Bank Holiday. Yesterday we celebrated my Mother-in-Law's 90th birthday. We had a lovely time altogether and the weather played its part and was just right. Today I am hoping to go back to the Hampshire Open Studios at Abshot Barn to collect the Batik we bought last weekend  I am quite excited about getting it home.

I was making a card for a challenge blog and I created this background in the end I decided it wasn't right for the image I was using. It was too good to waste so I used it to make this card. I made the background by masking off areas so I could control where the Pixie Powders and Brushos went. The clouds I cut with a die and laid them over the paper. I spritzed a couple of times with the clouds in place and once more with them removed. I didn't want a definite line on the clouds. 

The balloon was cut with a Spellbinders die set called Up and Away Hot Air Balloon. 

This is a Creative Expressions die. 

When we set off home yesterday I said "this is a hot air balloon day" it was  lovely claim sunny day. Can you imagine my delight when we actually saw one on the journey. As I was in the car the picture isn't that good. 

This is another card for my stash for those times  when my husband comes home saying he needs a card for someone at work by tomorrow. It has happened quite often. 

Enjoy the rest of the day.

Happy Crafting

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Stained Glass Butterfly and Pixie Powders

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How is your week going? It has been rather wet here though I have managed to get the holiday washing done. We did have a lovely time away and I really enjoyed the book I took away with me (Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses by Carole Matthews) it is a very good read.

Before we went away I had a play with the Butterfly die from the Stained Glass collection by Creative Expressions. When we returned from holiday I made a card with the results of my experiments.

When you use Pixie Powders and Brushos there is always a lot of ink left over. As many of you do, I hate waste so the background piece is made with soaking up the link with a piece of water colour card. It has a lovely sheen that doesn't show in the photo. 

For the background for the die I used Pixie Powders and Brushos to get the colour. Then the piece was covered with some double sided sticky sheet. The black die cut was placed on top. Then I cut the die in various colours and placed pieces into the die cut. It is a great way to use up scraps of paper. Once I was happy the remaining sticky was covered with Micro Beads. The frame was cut with the Double Pierced Rectangle dies by Creative Expressions. 

This die came free with a magazine, I can't remember which,  it has been very useful. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter challenge 84 at the Butterfly Challenge blog , Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 293 and 294 and the Anything Goes with Dies challenge at the Happy Little Stamper Challenge blog.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - theme Mystical and Magical

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I hope you are all keeping well. This is a scheduled post as we are on holiday in Italy a little treat to ourselves after all we did for the wedding and to have something to look forward after it.

The new challenge starts today on the Unicorn Challenge blog and the theme is Mystical and Magical. Themes like that always make me think of Unicorns.

To create the background I used Brushos. The clouds were created with a die that came with a Build a Sheep die set. 

The Unicorn is a Woodware stamp he was stamped onto water colour paper and coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

The two sentiments came with the Unicorn. 

I used glitter card for the mats to make the card more sparkly. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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A Fish in a Jar

Hi My Crafty Blogs Friends

How has your weekend been? We have been quite busy as  my parents and my birthday are next week. On Saturday we took my parents out for lunch. In evening we took part in a quiz with some friends and our team came third it was all for charity so that was good. Today we had a meal with our daughter and her fiance and saw the film Guardians of the Galaxy 2 that was my choice. I do love my science fiction films and television.

A couple of weeks  my copy of Simply Cards and Papercraft  came through the post ( I have a subscription). I loved the stamps and dies that came with issue 162 of the magazine.

I did used the jar die to cut an aperture in the top layer of water colour card. Then I used Pixie Powders to decorate the sheet. 

The sentiment  stamp came with the set. 

Now on the sheet to go underneath I stamped the jar the the fish. They were coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I used acetate in the aperture and foam tape to raise it up. I put some beads in to make a shaker card. 

There you  have it a birthday shaker card. 

I would like to enter the Anything Goes Challenge at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog and the Birthday Wishes challenge at the Come and Get It Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Thinking of You - Woodware Tatty Daisies

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How was your Easter? Did you eat lots of chocolate? We gave up chocolate for Lent so it was nice to have a bit yesterday. We are now waiting for our daughter and her fiance to arrive. The meal is in the slow cooker and it will be ready when they arrive. I love my slow cooker. I think we are going to work on the table plan today that is going to be hard.

When I was at Ally Pally I treated myself to some new Woodware stamps. I was looking at some of the samples Julia Watts had and I just couldn't resist.

This is an unusual card for me being a DL card. It will go through the post really nicely. I created the background with a mix of Pixie Powders, Brushos and Distress ink around the edges.  

This is the Tatty Daisies stamp by Woodware ( which is now under the banner of Creative Expressions). As it is such a long stamp I had to use it diagonally across my largest block. I stamped onto the background with Perfect Medium and I heat embossed with a black detail powder. Then I put some Pixie powders into a well on a tray and added water. Then with this mix I painted the daisies. Don't they look like they are smiling?

The sentiment came in the stamp set and was heat embossed in the same way as the daisies. 

We have also done a bit of work in the garden and a cheeky robin helped us. 

I do love robins, he kept swooping down to find worms and bugs that had been uncovered.

I was very pleased with how this card worked out. I want to do a bit more experimenting I have a few other ideas. 

I would like to enter challenge 44 at the Make my Monday Challenge blog, week 277 and 278 at Pixie's Snippets Playground and challenge 155 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Take care. 

Hugs Jackie

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An Anniversary Card for my dear Husband

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  I managed to try on some wedding outfits yesterday and I am very encouraged there are lots of lovely things out there. Karen kindly suggested using a personal shopper in John Lewis and I may well give this a try. Today I will be mostly working on the design for the evening invitations.

As you know I am trying to get ahead with my crafty makes so that I can concentrate on the things I need to make for the wedding. I have got to April and that is when our wedding anniversary is so I made a card for him. Easter cards will be my next make.

I made the background with a stencil placed on watercolour card. Then I sprinkled a selection of  Brushos and Pixie powders over the stencil and the paper. I spritzer the surface until I was happy with the mix of colours. The stencil was lifted carefully and then placed inky side down on to a piece of card I had waiting. This way you make two backgrounds at the same time. Once it was dry I added some white die cut anchors to add to the nautical theme.

This image is from an old card. My husband liked this style painting when we were looking in the art gallery on our last cruise. It would be lovely to buy some original art work. 

The sentiment was cut with some of my Britannia dies. 

On the off chance I sent in a card to Making Cards magazine for the Your Cards feature. I was thrilled to find that it had been picked as Star Card in the February issue. 

I am sure he will like this card when the time comes. I will just have to remember where I have put it. He never looks at my blog or Facebook page so it is okay to share.

I would like to enter Week 267 and 268 at Pixie's Snippets Playground ,January 31st Challenge at the TTCRD challenge blog and challenge 94 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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