Golden (50th) Wedding Anniversary Cards

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Good Afternoon. I hope you are having a good day. It is bright and sunny here today. I have already been out this morning. I do like to get out for a walk most days. This weekend we are visiting both sets of parents. I also need to sort some things out for my sister. Sunday will be a quiet day. On Monday we will be collecting my cards from the Hampshire Open Studios event. I have sold a few cards and I have received two commissions not too bad really. I do hope I get asked to participate again next year.

There is a very special couple at our church. They are in their 70s and they run a lot of activities for older people and people with dementia. Today is their 50th Wedding Anniversary. I just had to make them a card to celebrate.

I went with a gold and white theme. 

Here is the detail of the Oakham Lattice die set from the John Next Door range. You can always tell when I have used John Next Door dies as the floor is covered in lots of little bits. The sentiment and numbers are Crafter's Companion dies. The pearls made a nice addition to the design. 

This is one of the commissions I was asked to make. It is for the same couple that I my card was made for. This card used the Butterfly Heart Dies from the John Next Door range. I just love how you get so many butterflies you can use. 

That's all from me this week. I will be back after the weekend. I do hope that you have a good one. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 20 at the Crafter's Castle

Happy Crafting

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Tri-Shutter 70th Birthday Card

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I hope you have had a good week. The weekend is not far away now. Today I will be helping at another Felting Workshop and  we will be making pictures. I wasn't expecting to be involved today but the other lady who helps is unfortunately ill which is a shame. Tonight we are going to the theatre with friends to see Rainman.

I wasn't going to blog today but then I was looking through my files and I found this Tri-Shutter card that I made for a friend's birthday back in December.

I love this style of card. They are rather impressive, they fold up to go in a small envelope and they are great for using all your small dies. The chap in question is the husband of one of my crafty friends. She made her card to him at my house so it would be a surprise for him. This meant that I had a good idea about things he liked. I used a music embossing folder for the backing as he likes music. 

All the scoring was done on my scoring board and I used a craft knife to cut the slits. The colours I used are the ones of his football team. 

I just used small dies to fill in the spaces. It is fun finding ones to fit with the theme. 

I know he liked this card and that he had a great birthday. I might just make one like this for my uncle who is 85 soon. 

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Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas Cardinal wrapped up nice and warm

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How has your week been? I had a very busy day yesterday. I got myself to Winchester for an appointment and I managed to do a bit more Christmas shopping. Today will be quieter I have some parcels arriving and of course I am not sure when.

I couldn't resist sharing the card I made with the last of the Christmas Cardinals images from Beccy's Place. I had used the other images and this one needed its turn.

I had this idea in mind. I do love using hexagons and the way that they tessellate. I went through my stash of scraps and found papers with a similar colour palate. I made the design bigger than I needed it so that I could trim it to size. 

As I said he is from the Christmas Cardinals images from Beccy's Place they are available HERE. I made the background for the image in Publisher. This works really well with a pre-coloured image as you can loose the background white colour and pull the image to the front. The sentiment comes with the set. He just looks so cute in his scarf. 

I had some left over deer from another card so I  added two to the card. The ribbon was on a Christmas gift last year. 

I have really enjoyed using this set of images this year. I am sure I will be using them again. This is the last day to enter the November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges. I had so much fun joining in with the challenge this year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

The November Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 413 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 132 at the Kitty Bee Designs 

Have a great day. I will be back tomorrow with a Design Team Make. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Not Just Cards Challenge blog - November Challenge - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your weekend going? Today is a rather special day and we are off to church for a Remembrance service. I think it is going to be very busy.

As today is 11th the new challenge starts on the Not Just Cards Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes. I am sharing the card I made for my friend's special birthday.

I decided to make rosettes. I used my trusty Hougie Board to do the scoring. I made 5 rosettes in the end. I added two doilies and some patterned paper to the background. 

Why not come and join us our challenge are always Anything Goes. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

I added die cut circles to each. 

I added die cut details to each one. 

The glasses seem appropriate for celebrating. 

This is the Poppy Wave that my friend has created in the entrance to our church. People of all ages made poppies of all different shapes and sizes, 

I am not sure if this friend liked the card. We did have trouble going to the party which was a friend's house and we had been given the wrong house number. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 154 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper November 2018 Challenge 

Challenge 227 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 154 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 227 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the weekend

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Always Fun Challenges - Colour Inspiration

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? I hope you are ready for the week ahead.

A quick update on my dad. He is still in hospital his sodium level is down to normal and his potassium are rising. There is now a problem with his heart and he is waiting for a pacemaker to be fitted. We are travelling up everyday to Fleet from Southampton. We feed my mum and take her to visit dad, take her home put her to bed and get home about 9:00. My husband works in the morning before be travel up he is using his annual leave. I think this will be going on for a while. Because of all this I am stepping down from this Design Team and there maybe some others I am afraid. 

Being Monday it is time for the new challenge at Always Fun Challenges and this time there is Colour Inspiration.

When I saw the colours they made me think of a baby card. I wanted to make another tri-shutter card for a baby girl and this seemed to be the ideal opportunity.  The shape is easy to make and make and fun to decorate. I used a selection dies to decorate this card. 

This is the colour inspiration. 

Why not join our challenge they are always fun. 

One of our nieces is expecting and now I am ready with a card. 

Happy Crating

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Celebrate

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I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. We popped up to see our daughter and her fiance about wedding invitations yesterday and today they are off to their venue for a food tasting. So wedding plans are moving along.

Today something exciting is happening the present leader and his wife is handing over to a new leader and his wife. We have got to know the new leaders quite well and I made them a card to celebrate this change. It will be a big difference  for church but a good one. The service for the handover will take place this morning.

I based this card on one I made for an ordination a while ago. I used Distress Ink on embossing to highlight the detail. I used the ivy die cuts to break up some of the lines. 

I made with with a die that I won at the Pixie's Snippets Playground a few weeks ago. The die is from IO (Impression Obsession) it is called Birthday Top Edgers there are two other dies in the set. 

 

I cut the Spellbinders cross die in gold and offset it with a brown one to give a shadow. 

We popped the card through their door yesterday I hope they like it. I it was actually harder writing the message than making the card I needed my husband did help me. Enjoy the rest of the weekend, We are planning a quiet day after church my husband has a bit of a cold. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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