Glamourous Ladies Christmas Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a good weekend. We actually went to a socially distanced concert on Saturday. It was so lovely to be at an event. Everything was in place to keep you safe. I can't believe we are so close to Christmas. 

This is the card that I made for my good friend. We decided to meet for a walk to swap cards so I was able to make her card a bit bigger. 

I keep cards with images of this type of lady. My friend likes them a lot. 

So this image was cut from an old card. 

The Poinsettias and Ivy were cut with dies by John Next Door. I added pearls to the centres to make them a bit more opulent. At the back is white glitter card. 

I know my friend liked this card. It was lovely seeing her for a walk. Unfortunately we did get caught in the rain. Tonight is the night that  two planets are in conjunction  which will make what some people are calling the Bethlehem star. I do hope the skies will be clear enough to see it. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 76 at the Crafting Happiness Challenge blog

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Beccy's Place - Jolly Holiday

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? We have had a busy few days. All our cards are now written and in the post. We just have the local hand deliveries to do. Our house is actually decorated. Things are starting to look Christmassy. On Tuesday we had our flu jabs. Luckily it didn't hurt. 

Here are the cards that I made for the new release of Jolly Holiday images from Beccy's Place. Today my cards are being showcased on Beccy's Blog. 

For this card I coloured the stocking with my Faber Castell Polychromo colouring pencils. I created a pattern that looked a bit tartan so I chose a tartan paper to go with it. I added poinsettias made with dies from the John Next Door range. 

Click on the logo and it will take you to the store. 

This is the Jolly Holiday image set, it is available HERE. 

Here is my second card. This time I chose to use the Red Cardinal in the stocking. Again I coloured with my Polychromo pencils. This time I used a gel pen to add snow. 

Don't forget to check out Beccy's Blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog - Challenge 6

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

Today is a busy day for me in Blogland. I have three Design Team posts that coincide. Sorry for the overload of my makes.

The the first post is for the new challenge on the Emerald City Crafts challenge blog the theme is always Anything Goes. 

I started with the image and made the card to match. 

This image comes from the Joyeux Noel Ephemera collections available HERE. 

There are lots of lovely bits in Linda's store it is well worth a look. Click on the logo to visit the store. 

I made the Poinsettia with the Classic Poinsettia die from Creative Expressions. 

The 25 was cut with an X-cut die set. 

I stamped the holly and coloured them with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

I sent this card to a Christmas sale and it actually sold. 

I would like to enter the Month of Christmas Cards Challenge at Beccy's Challenge Blog. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog - Theme Anything Goes - Sponsor Lemon Shortbread

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? It was a nice quiet start to the week for me. Tomorrow one of my crafty friends is coming round and we will be making Christmas cards together.

Being the first of the month the new challenge starts today on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes and the sponsor this time is Lemon Shortbread

I used Sue Wilson's Double Pierced Rectangles to make a frame for the image. 

There are lots of gorgeous images in the store if you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

This image is called Poinsettia Girl and she is available HERE.  She is very pretty and I coloured her with Promarkers. 

Sue Wilson classic Poinsettia die set from Creative Expressions. 

This card will have to go to someone special it is going to be expensive on the postage. To be honest most of my cards are. Enjoy the month ahead. 

I would like to enter Scrappy Land Challenge 77 , challenge 42 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog, the Christmas Challenge at the Delicious Doodles Challenge blog , A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge 55 , Challenge 84 at the CCC Digi Creations Challenge blog , challenge 346 at the I ❤ Promarkers Challenge blog , challenge 41 at the Merry Christmas challenge blog , the November Challenge at Crafting by Designs and the Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Challenges.  

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Card number 33

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? I have been a bit under the weather. My migraine took a couple of days to clear up and I managed to hurt my back. I am feeling a lot better now and I have been doing my back exercises. We have been sorting out different things to do with the wedding. There is a whole year of this before we get to the big day.

Well yesterday I shared one of the 15 Christmas cards that I was going to finish today and finish I did. Only I can't count,  when I got to sticking the images onto the cards I found I had one left over. So there where 16 images in the pack not 15 and I first thought.  I used the extra image to make this card.

I decided to make a bigger card I know a special couple who will love a card like this and it doesn't need to go in the post. 

There were four different images and four of each making 16 images not 15 as I thought. I really should look at things properly before I start using them. 

I used the Sue Wilson Classic Poinsettia dies to create the flowers. They were embossed and  then inked with Distress ink. 

This is another Sue Wilson die there is room for this one on this card. 

Yes I am well into the swing of making Christmas cards now. I need a few other sessions making batches of cards. Tonight we are off to the local garden centre they are open late and do a deal on meals it would be rude not to. Have a great evening.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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My First Christmas Card of 2016

Hi My Crafty blog Friends

How is your week going? It was certainly nice to see some sun today even if it was a bit cold.

I do have to apologise that I have made a Christmas card. I did promise myself that I would start making them in January and up until today I hadn't made one. Also I was rather naughty and I had bought quite a lot of Sue Wilson's Festive dies from the last release and I hadn't got round to using some of them. This made me feel a bit guilty so I decided today was the day to make an effort. After all if I only make one Christmas card a month I will only have 12 when we get to Christmas.

This card was made entirely with Sue Wilson dies. I am loving the double pierced squares and rectangles sets a and b. When I was at Newbury John Lockwood showed me how to use them in a different way. I cut a wide frame with two of the dies from the double pierced rectangles set then I cut an inner frame in a contrasting colour and stuck it over the top of the first frame. I cut the snowflake background die in white to go behind the frame. On a piece of dark blue card with a double sided sticky sheet cut to size. I stuck the background to the sticky sheet and then covered the whole thing with Diamond Sprinkles.

I cut lots poinsettias with the Classic Poinsettia dies in a pale blue and I inked the edges I did shape them with a ball tool. 

I added the sentiment to the centre of the design. 

I was very pleased with how this card turned out. I now have an idea for a 50th birthday day card that I need to make.  Enjoy the last day of the week the weekend is nearly here. 

I would like to enter Challenge 15 at A Snowflake's Promise ,Challenge 289 at the Fab'n'Funky Challenge Blog,  Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 213 and Christmas Cards Challenges 8.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

The Crafty Addicts Challenge Blog - Autumn Colours

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good week. It has been rather wet here and that has been messing up the traffic.

Today sees the start of a new challenge on the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog and the theme is autumn colours. I did it again I ordered the image before I realised about the colours. The sponsor that my image came from is called Lacy Sunshine Stamps. The image I chose to use is called Peace on Earth - Angel Kiss and she is in the Christmas section of the store.

Don't I make things hard for myself choosing a Christmas image to use with autumn colours? Then I remembered the angel that used to go on top of our tree and she was dressed in golds, greens and browns. 

I cut all the mats and layers and I used dies to cut the mats for round the image. There is some brown glitter card in there I got this free at a craft show and I thought I won't use that. Well I was wrong it has nearly run out and I am thinking of buying some more. On the top layer I stamped  a small poinsettia stamp all over page with CS Perfect Medium then I heat embossed it with a clear powder. Finally I inked all over the page with three shades of Distress ink.

This is a beautiful image I coloured her with my Promarkers. 

I cut the sentiment with a Sue Wilson die in gold and brown this meant that it could have a drop shadow. This helped to give it definition against the background. 

I made a poinsettia using Sue Wilson dies again with brown, gold and green. 

If you click on the logo above you will be taken to the store. 

There you have my Christmas card made in autumn colours. I think you could make a Christmas card just about any colour you like. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

A Fair Trade.

Hi  Bloggers

I hope you are having a great weekend. Christmas prep is in full swing in our house. I have even started to wrap presents.

Someone at work made me an offer that I couldn't refuse, she offered to make me a Christmas cake if I made a Christmas card for her mum. I was very happy to accept  this offer here is what I created for her. She has already made the cake. That was speedy and we both get to do something we enjoy doing.

  I based this card on one I had made previously but without my Grand Calibur I had to think of a way round not being able to do A4 embossing.

I cut the while mat for the aperture as wide as would so through my Big Shot. I like the white on black look I achieved this with a die cut in white for the sentiment.

Around the the edge of the black mat I stamped a snowflake with Perfect Medium and alternately heat embossed with white and then with clear embossing powder.

The one stipulation was that the word MUM was on the card, I cut this with my new Tonic alphabet dies - they are good. I cut off the the fancy bits for a cleaner look and so it would fit in the space I had left for it .

For the insert I cut the Mosaic Poinsettia out of Funky Foam and I used it as a stamp. 

Finally I used the leftover bits from the alphabet dies to decorate the envelope.

I think I got a fair trade for a cake. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. We are off to Salisbury to collect a rabbit for my daughter.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Christmas Wishes

Hi Bloggers

Here we are at the start of anther week. I am lucky as I am on Half Term holiday so I have some extra time to craft. My hope is to finish my Christmas cards. I think I need another 20 but they won't be as detailed as the one I am sharing today.

I made this card for someone very special and I know they will appreciate the effort I have put into it. There is no stamping here everything is made with dies or embossing folders.

I used Sue Wilson Festive dies and one of her Festive embossing folders.

I layered up the Poinsettia dies to achieve this look and added a flat back pearl to the centre.

I cut the aperture and made the gold frame with dies from Sue Wilson's French collection. The sentiment is made with a Signature die made by Joanna Sheen.

I'd better get on with my Christmas cards they aren't going to make themselves. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Holly Christmas

Hi Bloggers

I have been busy at work this week and I haven't had much time to be crafty. So I am going to share a Christmas card I made a couple of weeks ago with you today.

 This card measure 7" x 7". I used a Sue Wilson embossing folder, Sue Wilson dies and stamps to create this card. I do like the holly and John Lockwood has used the same die to make a gorgeous wreath. There is a link to his blog at the side of my blog. The bauble was made with a Spellbinders die that had a matching stamp. The sentiment was one that came with the Festive Wreath set by Sam Poole.

This a close up showing the stamp that matches the Classic Poinsettia die  isn't it pretty?

This shows the holly die and the branches that come with Pine Bough die. The berries were made with CS Berry Red Pearl PVA glue.

I hope the rest of the week goes well for you. I am hoping to get some crafting done over the next couple of days. Then I will be back to share.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie