Unicorn Challenge blog - theme Make it Girly

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope your week has started well. I hope you have some nice things planned for the week ahead.

This is something of a sad post for me. I have decided to step down from the Unicorn Challenge Design Team. I have been with them since the beginning so it was a hard decision to make. It is a lovely team to be part of and I have enjoyed my time with them. I wish the whole team all the best for the future.

The new challenge starts today and the theme is Make it Girly. I was asked to make a card for one of my girlfriend's friends.

It was a special birthday but I didn't want to put the age on the front some people are a bit sensitive about that. The pretty backing paper I found in my stash. 

I used the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions to make the aperture and the frame. The oval pierced dies came from another set but I am now not sure which one. The sentiment was cut with a Crafters Companion die. The lattice was cut with an Creative Expressions die set. 

The butterfly was cut with Magical Butterflies die set from  Creative Expressions. 

Finally I made the flowers and leaves from the Christmas Rose die set also from Creative Expressions. 

I know this card was very well received. I hope you can join in with this months challenge. 

I would like to enter the TTCRD March 6th - 12th Challenge. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Rose Christmas card.

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your weekend going?  We have had quite quiet weekend so far. Yesterday we sorted out our passport applications which we did online with our own photos. When we came to send off our old passports we had to send them to different offices. My husband's is on the way to Durham and mine is off to Glasgow. Today it is more work in the garden and a meal out with friends in the evening. Altogether a nice weekend.

A while back I made this card for a competition. I didn't come anywhere but I thought I would share it when I found a photo of  it going through my files.

I found the backing paper in my stash and it has Christmas Roses on it. 

This is a Creative Expressions die cut twice to create a shadow. 

The robin was cut with a Tattered Lace die that came free with a magazine. He is sitting on a spray made with the Holley Spray die set and Festive Bough dies set both from Creative Expressions. 

I had the the Christmas Rose die set from Creative Expressions last year but I only started using it this year it is so pretty. 

I was quite pleased with how this turned out. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

I would like to enter the November Christmas card challenge at Beccy's Challenges and Challenge 26 at the Christmas Card Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog - Challenge 5

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

I will start with an apology. I will be posting twice today. Two of the Design Teams I am on coincide today. It happens once a month. I know I made a statement about not blogging so much and I don't seem to be sticking to it.  Design team commitments often come at the start of the month.

Back to business. The new challenge starts today on the Emerald City Crafts Challenge blog it is our fifth challenge and the theme is always Anything Goes.

Linda has many wonderful things on her website. If you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

This image comes from the Joyeux Noel Ephemera available from Linda's website. 

I used a collection of Creative Expressions dies to make an embellishment that reflected the flower spray from the image. 

This is a stamp from IndigoBlu. I was really lucky and picked it up in a sale for 50p. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. We might be going to the NEC craft show on Sunday I won a ticket just one and there is all the travel and parking costs to think about. 

I would like to enter the November Challenge at Beccy's Challenges and challenge 54 at the Crafting with Friends Challenge blog.  

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Rose Christmas Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? This is my first week of being retired and really it is not much different to being on an extended school holiday. Some how all the time gets used up. Lots of people did warn me about that. I am slowly sorting through all my craft things. It all got a bit out of hand while I was preparing for the wedding.

I had finished one project and  all these rather pretty Christmas Roses were left over well they were too good to waste.

The piece of green spotty paper was die cut and in my straps and this card was built around it. I used my Double Pierced Rectangle dies to cut all the mats and layers. 

I bought the Christmas Rose die set last year I have only just started using it. The roses are so pretty. I did emboss them to get the extra detail and ink the edges. 

There wasn't much room for a sentiment this is a Tatterlace die. 

I do need to make more Christmas cards. I might make some more like this one the Christmas Roses are just so pretty. I am not sure why I waited so long to use the die set. 

Enjoy the rest of the week whatever you have planned.  

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Rose Christmas Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? For some of us a long weekend is ahead of us. I hope you have something nice planned. We will be celebrating my mother-in-law's 90th Birthday, which was in June, this was the earliest we could get everyone together. People are so busy these days.

Yes it is another Christmas card from me. I was making a card for one of the Design Teams I am on and I liked the way the flowers and foliage worked together this inspired me to make this card.

This is a DL card. I found the script backing paper in one of my tidying sessions. 

This is the Season's Greetings die from Creative Expressions. In fact all the dies I used are ones designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

Last year I bought the Christmas Rose die set and this is the first time I had used it. I also used the twigs from the Pine Bough die set and the Holly Sprays die set. The holly berries were created with Berry Red Pearl PVA glue. 

I was very pleased with how this card turned out. I have another idea that I might just try out soon. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. 

I would like to enter the August Rudolph Days Challenge , Challenge 79 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog , Challenge 43 at A Snowflakes Promise Challenge Blog and the Summer Link-up at the Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge blog.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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