First Christmas Card of 2022

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

Happy New Year to everyone. We have had a quiet few days. My back is finally starting to feel much better. So I can now do some gentle crafting, Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post of 2021 my favourite makes. 

I was putting away the Christmas cards I was actually inspired to make one of them into a new card. I am trying not to do so much lifting and bending when I craft, that is limiting what I can make to some extent. 

Here is the first Christmas card I have made this year. In fact it is first thing I have crafted at all. 

I used one of my kraft card blanks. The lace was from my stash as was the pattered craft card and the gold mirror card. 

This is the image from the card. I trimmed it down and added a mirror card mat. 

When I need to get going again with my crafting I usually start with Christmas cards as simple ones are still effective. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Hunkydory Christmas card number 14

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your weekend going? We had a lovely time at  Gun Wharf Quays yesterday. We managed to   do some Christmas shopping and we had a nice meal in Cafe Rouge to use our vouchers. The in the evening on Saturday we went to an Autumn event at our church which was fun. Today should be a bit quieter.

Do you remember the batch of Christmas cards I made from a Hunkydory kit that came free with issue 188 of Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine?  Well there were some bits left over from the kit and I was able to make another card.

The paper came from the set it is just so pretty. 

This image was cut from a piece of card in the kit. The sentiment was made with a Tattered Lace die. 

I have enjoyed using this kit and there are still a few bits left. I would like to use it all up this year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas in June

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good week. The weather has been amazing but it was quite a relief when things got a bit cooler on Thursday. Apart from the table plan everything is made for the weeding, It is such a relief.

I treated myself to some goodies from Crafter's Companion and one of them was a £10 Christmas mystery bag of products designed by Leonie Pujol. When it came there were two dies, two embossing folders and some sparkle pens. Now the two dies were entwined dies that went with a Christmas tree die. So being me I had to order that die too and it cost more than the mystery bag something that my husband found amusing.

It was so nice making something not wedding related. 

The sentiment came with one to of the die sets. 

I do like the more contemporary look of this tree.  

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Oh Christmas Tree

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I hope things are going well for you.

I have been making Christmas cards again. This time with stamps sent to me by the Isobel Craft Collection.

I used the holly stamp from the set to create the background with heat embossing and Distress Ink. 

This is the Christmas Design stamp set available from the Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/236329368/a6-set-of-photo-polymer-clear-stamps?ref=shop_home_active_4

The Christmas Tree was stamped onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink and coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

This is one of the greetings in the set. 

I was thrilled to receive this stamp set and this is another Christmas card for my stash I am well on target now I should be finished soon. 

Enjoy the reset of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas cards numbers 35 - 40

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Just a quick post from me today. I am now working towards us going on holiday and fitting a bit of crafting in as well. I had a lovely time yesterday with my friend at Gun Wharf Quays in Portsmouth. We did lots of shopping and we had a very civilised lunch in Loch Fyne.

After putting on two lots of washing. I decided to make some Christmas cards. I am much more familiar with the bits in my Christmas stash now and I remembered a box of Kanban toppers. I had a look in the box and found this sheet of toppers to make 6 cards.

I made some 5" x 5" card blanks and added an insert. I went through my scraps to find bits of black and gold card I could use for the mats. For the backing paper I used  two 12" x 12" matching sheets. The sentiments came from  another sheet in my stash, 

Here are all six cards together. 

Here is the detail on one of the toppers. 

This came from a sheet of sentiments. 

I am hoping to have made 50 Christmas cards before I go on holiday. If I have another look in the box I am sure there will be things I can use. I do like to set myself challenges. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. 

Happy Crafting. 

Hugs Jackie

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Last Minute Christmas Cards

Hi Bloggers

How are your Christmas preparations getting on? It really isn't long now and there is so much to do. This is not helped by your husband saying I need 12 Christmas cards for people at work. So that was my Sunday afternoon sorted out for me. We could have bought cards but that feels like cheating.

I made one of these from a recycled card and the top of a chocolate box. All the gold card I used was retrieved from my scrap box. It did take a while to find enough scraps of a reasonable size. I would like to enter this card for Pixie's Snippets Playground Number 155.

I made 9 of these the image was from one of the Kanban  sheets I won recently. The paper was in my stash and the snowflakes were punched  from the waste from the inserts. 

I really didn't have long so they had to be quick cards and suitable for a man to send. Sorry this is just a quick post today. I am struggling to keep up with the blogging while being so busy at home I know that you understand.

 I couldn't be too cross with him as these were waiting for me when I got in from a work meal on Friday. Bless him.

I hope the rest of the week is good to you. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie