Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog - Use ribbon on your Project

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I have been keeping myself busy and I have been able to do a bit of crafting. It has been good to get back to making things.

The new challenge starts today on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog and the theme is to Use some Ribbon on your Project. We are very lucky to  have a sponsor this time, Crafty Ribbons.

Can you believe it has been over a year since our lovely daughter and son-in-law got married. Of course I had to make a special card for their anniversary. I used a Tattered Lace Oval Shutter Card die set to make the card base and cut all the mats and layers. 

We are very lucky to have been sponsored by Crafty Ribbons this time. There will be a prize. If you click on the logo you will be taken to the store. 

The topper was left over from the invitations and features the Lovebirds stamp from Clarity stamps. They were coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. The ribbon was leftover from the wedding too. 

I made a box to hold the card. On the card and the box I used the Cape Daisy die set and the Faux Quilled leaves from Creative Expressions to decorate the box. . 

I know they liked their card. The anniversary was back in July in fact the day my dad was taken into hospital. 

Happy Craftng

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 547 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Challenge 397 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog

Challenge 152 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 219 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 52 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

Challenge 9 at the Classic Design Team Challenge blog

Challenge 9 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge blog

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Crafty Catz Challenge blog- Anything Goes with the optional twist of using the Sketch

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I have been rather busy which I must admit I rather like. I have been invigilating, I helped at a Felting workshop and I have been out to lunch. This evening our daughter and son-in-law are coming to supper it will be lovely to see them and share a meal. All of this has made it rather hard for me to keep up with my crafting and blogging. Our weekend will be full of gardening.  Our garden has been somewhat neglected for several years so it is taking a while to get it back into order.

Being Friday the new challenge starts today on the Crafty Catz Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes but we have the optional twist of using the Sketch provided by Niki one of our very talented designers. The sponsor is Digi Doodle Studios. The design team had wonderful images to work with.

All the papers lace and ribbon I used came from my stash lots of it left over from the wedding last year. 

Our sponsor this month is Digi Doodle Studios if you click on the logo you will be taken to the store. 

Here is the sketch. I rather enjoyed using it. 

This image is called Jade and Skye Digi Doodles Sheep Dog Digi Stamp and is available HERE. I printed the image onto Neenah Card Stock and I coloured with Promarkers. Then I used the ScanNcut to cut out the image. 

I had been using the Cape Daisy dies from Creative Expressions and the Star Flower leaves from John Next Door to make flowers for other cards. They seemed to go well with this design. 

This is my go to Happy Birthday die from Crafter's Companion. 

Have a great weekend. Of course there is the Royal Wedding and the FA cup final all to enjoy. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 326 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge 148 at the Cut It Up Challenge blog

Challenge 5 at the Digi Doodle Studios Challenge blog

The May Challenge ate Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

The May Challenge at the Always Happy Birthday Challenge

QKR Stampede Challenge 296

Challenge 147 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 48 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

Challenge 118 at Kitty Bee Designs. 

Happy Crafting

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Always Fun Challenges - Flowers

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your weekend been? I hope you did something nice. On Sunday we went to visit my husband's parents and take them out for a meal. My husband is borrowing a hat from them that will  be part of a costume for a murder mystery evening we are going to this week. I have a lovely friend who has lent me my costume including a fur coat. If there are any photos I will share them with you.

You might have noticed that I have joined a new design team Always Fun Challenges. This is my first card for them. The challenges are weekly starting on a Monday and finishing on a Saturday. There is always a theme this time it is Flowers.

I was making a card for an event later in the year and I liked part of the design and I thought that it might work well on a card by itself. This is what I ended up with. All the papers came from my stash. 

The challenges are fun and you just have to follow the theme. 

I cut the sentiment with a Signature die set. 

The flowers were made with the Cape Daisy die set from Creative Expressions. They are the same dies I used to make the button holes for the wedding last year. This was the first time I have used the dies since the wedding. I used left over papers from the wedding too. I used the Faux Quillled Leaves dies from Creative Expression to make the leaves. The ovals were cut with some Tattered Lace dies. 

I do like to have a few cards like this put by you never know when you might need one. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 82 at the Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Pixie's Snippets Playground  Challenge 325

Happy Crafting

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The Wedding Card I made for our Daughter and her new Husband.

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The wedding is well and truly over. I have been very slow about getting the house sorted. We have managed to make ourselves very busy we were worried about feeling a bit flat after the wedding but that hasn't really happened. I will have a few days when I finish work to get some things sorted before we go on holiday.

I made a lot of things for the wedding and of course I made them a card as well.

As I had made things for the wedding I was able to use papers and elements from other makes for their card. 

This is the top of the card. 

The birdcage is an Apple Blossom die and the birds and branches are Sizzix dies. 

This is the lower part of the easel. 

These lovebirds were used on the invitations. 

This is the happy couple just after they had been married. You can see the things I made: the trees, the bouquet, the buttonhole and the little display for the table. This photo was taken by Chris Carter of Super Effective Photography. 

They had a lovely display, in their room at the hotel , of cards they had received. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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