Cute Easter Bunnies Easter Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week. We are super excited our coffee machine is coming back today. According to the tracking it should be here before lunchtime. Oh boy have we missed that machine.  I will let you know how we get on. 

I have made a few Easter cards this year. I was going through my files and I found this cute bunny image that I thought would be nice to colour and that is what I did. Now I can't remember whose image it is. 

I used Snippets of green and yellow patterned paper to make the background. I do like making these backgrounds. 

I wish I could remember whose image this is to give them credit. I coloured the cute bunnies with my Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils. I do find the colouring very relaxing. 

This is a sweet little card. I did enjoy making it. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Spring Things Challenge at the Daring Cardmakers Challenge blog. 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 398

The March Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 678 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Have a good weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Trio of Baby Cards

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a good weekend. Our local garden centre is having an offer on breakfasts this month. So on Saturday we met our friends there and enjoyed breakfast together. On Sunday our daughter and son-in-law came for lunch and to visit their bunnies who they are missing a lot. Hopefully they will be in their new house soon and then they can have the bunnies back.  

Last week I decided to make some new baby cards. These are the cards that are quite often in demand. 

The backing paper was in my stash. The bunnies were cut with an All Occasions die set. The Congratulations die is from the John Next Door range. 

This sentiment is a Creative Expressions die. I made it a drop shadow. 

I made a boy version. The embossing folder and the It's a Boy sentiment are from Creative Expressions. 

Here is the girl version. 

There they are all together ready and waiting for when I am asked for a card at short notice. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Twisted Easel Easter Card made with the Oakham Lattice die set

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors.

I hope had  great weekend. Last week we were so busy. This weekend by contrast was so quiet but those kind of weekends are great for catching up on jobs in the house and garden. Last year we had an ivy infestation to cope with. This year we have got to do something about our disintegrating  shed.

I made this Easter card to give to a friend. I used mostly dies from the John Next Door range from Crafts-Too.

I do love the Oakham Lattice  die set that John Lockwood designed. I have used it to make a wedding card recently. Changing the colours means that it can be used for all sorts of occasions. There is so much detail in the dies. 

This shows the base of the card I used the centre of the Oakham Lattice die set to make the stopper for the easel. Have you spotted the bunnies they are from a Britannia die set. 

I decorated the card with the Star flowers and the Star Flower leaves made with Snippets of paper and card. . The sentiment is from a Creative expressions die set. 

Have a great week. I can't believe Easter is nearly here. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 15 at the Creative Crafters Challenge blog

Challenge 241 at the Crafting From the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 115 at Sparkles Monthly Challenges 

Challenge 90 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

The April 2019 Challenge at Country View Challenges 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - No Designer Papers

Challenge 350 at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

Challenge 59 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times - MAWTT - Butterflies

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I have had a great week. I was thoroughly spoilt on my birthday I had lots of lovely presents and cards.

Well the new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times Challenge Blog (MAWTT) the new theme is Butterflies and there is a prize of a set of stamps designed by John Lockwood. So it is well worth entering.

I looked through my stash and found this cute LOTV bunny image to use and the butterfly script backing paper as well as the ribbon. 

I decided the to use the beautiful Butterfly Frame  Sue Wilson die set to frame the image. 

I cut the extra butterfly die from the set in pink and backed it the backing paper. 

This card has no sentiment yet. I thought I would add one later when I know who the card is going to. It might make a nice engagement card. 

Enjoy the rest of the week

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Bunny Easter Card

Hi my Crafty Blog Friends

I hope your week has started well.

I was given some old cards by someone at work. I sorted through them and the majority I didn't keep. But this bunny image was so adorable I had to use it.

I wanted to use yellow and green for the mats and layers as those colours say Spring to me. The spotty paper was in my stash. 

Aren't the bunnies cute you  can see why I had to use them. I cut an aperture for the bunnies and a frame using the Sue Wilson Double Pierced Rectangle dies. 

These last die-cuts came from the Easter Basket die-set by Sue Wilson. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter Weeks 273 and 274 at Pixie's Snippets Playground, the  March Challenge at the House of Cards Challenge blog , the Easter Challenge at the Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog , challenge 40 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog and the March 21st Challenge at the TTCRD challenge blog.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Our Daughter and her Fiance's New Home

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? This is a happier post from me today. Our daughter and her fiance have just moved into the house they have bought together. It is a lovely little house it is brand new. We visited yesterday it is so nice to see them in their own house they have worked hard to get it. There is still lots to sort out but they will get there.

As you might know we have been looking after our daughter's rabbits while they were waiting to move and they will be here for a bit longer. So when I saw this stamp I knew it was right for a new home card for them.

The brick background was created by inking some textured paper from my stash. The ribbon was also from my stash. 

The image was created with a Penny Black stamp called Bunny Friends. I stamped onto watercolour with black archival then I coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I created a frame for the image with the Double Pierced Rectangles from Sue Wilson. 

The sentiment was cut with some Britannia dies and I used Tattered Lace dies to create the backing. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

I would like to enter challenge 30 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog, October Challenge at the Penny Black and More Challenge blog, challenge 21 at Morgan's Artworld , challenge 20 at Crafting with Attitude and Week 251 at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Kusudama Flower table decoration

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I am enjoying what I think is called a Staycation. My husband has taken the week as leave and we are having a lovely time catching up with friends, going out and going to the cinema. We do love going to see films.

I did get the Save the Dare fridge magnets finished. So that is the first wedding job done. There are many more to come.  We have been talking about table decorations and I have been having a play.

We had been thinking about paper flowers and I remembered I had been given and Kusudama ball kit by my crafty friend. This is just a play. We did see in one shop a jam jar with lace stuck on it, which I thing would look nice, selling for £6. They would be so easy to make. If you mention weddings the price just seems to shoot up. There is a battery tea light in the bottom it doesn't show to well in the sun. 

I have seen these flowers before I was surprised how easily they went together. The centres are Babies Breath with Bead from Hobbycraft. 

Here are the fridge magnets. They are just a bit smaller than A7. I actually bruised on of my fingers cutting the magnetic tape to stick on  the back. . 

I made a box to keep them together. Our daughter did draw the picture herself it is her rabbits as a bride and groom. Yes the boy rabbit is smaller than the girl rabbit. 

This is just a first experiment. I am not sure how table decorations will work out but it will be a fun project to work on. 

Have a great day. We are just off to a Silver Screen screening at the cinema.

I would like to enter Week 373 at the Allsorts Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Easter Card

Hi My crafty Blog Friends

How is you week going? I hope everything is okay for you. We are plodding along. Life is almost back to normal.

I actually thought of this design as I was walking to work this morning. Then there was a bit of a struggle to remember  when I got home.

This is quite a small card just 6" x 6". I am loving my Double Pierced Square dies. You will probably see them used on a lot of my cards from now on. It is so much quicker to use them than pierce around the mat with a piercing ruler. I did use lots of bits from my bits box to make this card. 

The flowers were cut with Daisy Cluster die set by Sue Wilson. The bigger die was cut in green and the flowers in pink. The cross was cut with a Spellbinder die in gold. You can just about see the bunnies I added by the sentiment. I want to make about 20 Easter cards I might make a version of this card.

Here is my stash from the Newbury Craft show. A lot of it comes from the goodie bags we were given on the way in.  I am going to share some of this with a couple of crafty friends. 

Quite a quick post from me today. There is lots to do. 

I would like to join in with Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 213.

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Bunnies and Butterflies

Hi Bloggers

How's that for a nice piece of alliteration? I think I need to go for a quiet lay down in a dark room to recover as I might have over extended myself. How has your week been? I seem to have been very busy but not achieved anything concrete. I hope you have a good weekend.

I made today's card for the challenge on the Butterfly Challenge blog this time it was to use three designer papers. Because I used so many snippets of paper to complete this card I will be entering it for the  Pixie's Snippets Playground challenge as well. Both challenges are worth checking out and you end up with useful cards in your stash for those times when someone says "Have you got a card for so and so's birthday"? That actually happened this week.

I know this card is for a butterfly challenge but I did go a bit mad with the butterfly theme. I stamped butterflies in two shades of Distress Ink on the backing sheet. I did use some mirror card I don't often use this but I think a little bit is OK now and again, though it doesn't photograph well.

The main LOTV image has butterflies on it. The paper round the image also has butterflies on it. The only paper that does not have any butterflies is the strip across the middle which has hearts. 

Then I did some die-cutting and I made more butterflies to sit on the punched and inked flowers.  The centres of the flowers and the heads of the butterflies are made with CS PVA glue.

 Our other piece of family news in that my husband's father who is a Normandy Veteran will be on the live broadcast of Songs of Praise on Sunday. It is being broadcast from the Garrison church in Aldershot. He is involved with rehearsals most of today.

Thank you for stopping by and for any comments that you might leave.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie