Tiny Cute Sheep Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? I hope you got up to something nice. On Saturday we headed down to Mill Rythe a holiday camp on Hayling Island and we had a visit with our in-laws who were staying there with friends. On Sunday our daughter and son-in-law dropped off the hamster, we are looking after her while they go on holiday. Then along with our son-in-law's parents we had a meal at our local garden centre. Finally we  went to the Dinosaur Crazy golf which has opened near us. I have to say is just amazing and lots of fun.

This card started life as an off-cut from a larger card. I had been using the cloud dies on another project and I decided I wanted to make a sheep with the dies.

This is just a 4" x 4" card. I found a Spellbinders die that cut a border of flowers. I cut them in white card and coloured them with my Sparkle pens. The clouds are Crafter's Companion dies and seagulls are from the Nautical Scenes die set. I used spotty green paper for the grass. The sky is another dotty paper. Basically I raided my scrap box of bits. 

This is such a clever die set. You can make the sheep face on or facing to either side. It is a Marianne die set it is called Eline's Sheep. 

Here we all are enjoying the Dinosaur Crazy golf. There were moving dinosaurs, growling dinosaurs,  a viking boat and a vivid blue waterfall.  

I am happy to say that this was one of the cards that sold at the Hampshire Open Studios event. I might just make another one. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The September Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge.

Challenge 30 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Magical Unicorn Birthday Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I didn't have a good day on Wednesday but things picked up after that. I am having a table at one of the Hampshire Open Studios venues in a few weeks time. I was asked. I am finding the whole thing a bit daunting, Anyway I have been making a few things for it. This card is one of them.

The background was made with one of my sheets of inky kitchen paper for the sky and the grass was a piece of watercolour card coloured with Distress Oxides. 

This is the Unicorn stamp set from Woodware. I think he was stamped with Watering Can Archival ink. He was coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. Some of these pens seem to have gone a bit funny and the ink blobs out. So I have taken to putting the ink on my craft mat and using a paintbrush and water to apply it. This unicorn is very sparkly which is only as it should be. 

The sentiment came with the stamp set and was cut out with a cloud die. 

I did the same with this sentiment. 

I made the rainbow with the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. You do get two rainbows and lots of brightly coloured circles. 

I have various cloud dies that I used on this card.  That is one more card for my table. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 170 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Week 28 at the Colour Crazy Craft Challenge blog

QKR Stampede Challenge #357 Anything Goes 

The July Challenge at Wednesday's Creative Inspirations Challenge blog

Through the Craft Room Door challenge for the Week of 16th

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie 

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Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #64 Anything Goes.

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a good weekend. Now I don't usually post on a Sunday but as it is the first of the month the new challenge starts at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog. The theme is Anything Goes and the sponsor is Vera Lane Studio.

I made the backing paper myself with ink on shiny paper. The lattice die is from Creative Expressions and the clouds and grass are Crafter's Companion dies. 

If you like this style of images click on the logo and you will be taken to the store. 

This rather cute kitty can be found in Farm Animals Set 2 which is available HERE. I printed the cat twice (flipping one) onto Neenah card stock and coloured them with Promarkers. Then they were fussy cut so that they could be added to the background. 

The animal noises come with the set. 

I know someone who has just taken in two rescue cats. I think she might like this card. 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:

Challenge 122 at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog

Challenge 27 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Challenge 93 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 27 at the Crafty Animals Challenge blog

Challenge 6 at A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge

Challenge 5 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Happy crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Sailing Boat Father's Day Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope that you had a fantastic Easter weekend. The weather was certainly good for getting out and about. My husband had the Wednesday and Thursday off before Easter as well. We were able to get some jobs done in the garden the shed is ready to demolish. We went to the cinema and to the  theatre. We spent some time with friends and family. We even fitted in visits to  two National Trust properties. Of course there was coffee and some cake along the way. Everything is back to normal now. I have two lots of washing drying outside. I think the rest of the week might be a little wet.

Last week when there was time to craft I made my Father-in-law a Father's Day card. He is always pleased to receive my cards and he tells me how much he likes them. As he is loosing his sight I do like to make them textural for him.

The background paper was made by me with some ink on some very shiny paper. I applied the ink with cotton wool dipped in surgical spirit. The clouds, anchors and ship's wheels were added enhance the theme and to add some texture.  

This is the Sailing Boat die for the Stained Glass Collection from Creative Expressions. I cut the die in black and I cut a border for it with the Double Pierced Rectangle dies also from Creative Expressions. I cut a blue mat and I put some double sided sticky sheet on the blue. Then I stuck done the black image. I cut the die several more times so that I could paper piece the scene. When I was happy I covered the remaining sticky with some glass microbeads. 

The sentiment was cut with a Signature die. 

My Father-in-law was in the navy and he likes a nautical themed card. It is fine for me to share it as being 94 he is not in the least bit interested in Social Media. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 167 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 218 at the Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge blog

Challenge 119 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog

Challenge 112 at Scrapy Land Challenges

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Kinetic Easter Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a good weekend. We were busy as usual. We have started looking for another car but this will take a long time it always does with us. The Bootleg Beatles concerts was amazing and we had a good time with our friends. On Sunday we visited our parents. The photo books of our daughter's wedding I ordered looked amazing and were very well received.

I think this is my last Easter make to share. I made a Kinetic card with the dies that came from Papercraft Essentials magazine. I made this to sent to my cousin who just loves Hedgehogs.

I used a cloud embossing folder for background. 

The spinner element was a cute hedgehog. The stamp came free with the magazine along with the slider dies. 

The daffodils were cut with some dies from Creative Expressions. 

Another Creative Expressions die I have used it a lot this year. 

I know my cousin liked this card she sent me a lovely message.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 66 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 69 at the Make My Monday Challenge blog

Challenge 202 at the Crafting Form the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 463 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge the theme is Rainbows

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

Here is the second post of the day from me. This time for the new challenge on the Moving Along with the Times challenge blog (MAWTT) and the chosen theme is Rainbows.

I set myself a bit of a challenge with this card. I own the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions and I thought I ought to be able to make a rainbow with them. I am trying to use my stash rather than buy lots of new things.

Now I am rather pleased with how this turned out. I got not one but two rainbows and all the mats from the middle of the circles. For the background I used a piece of card that I had covered with dry inky kitchen roll. This was an idea from John Lockwood and it is just brilliant to not waste all the inky goodness. The grass was cut with a die from the Nativity set from Crafter's Companion. The clouds came from a Marianne build a sheep set. 

The unicorn was stamped with the Woodware Unicorn stamp set. I used Watering Can archival ink to stamp onto watercolour card and then I coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

Both of the sentiments come from the stamp set. 

This shows the detail of the rainbow. I stuck the circles to a piece of card to make the rainbows easier to handle. 

I was very pleased with how this card turned out and that I didn't have to buy a special die to make a rainbow. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. 

I would like to enter challenge 11 at the Mix it Up Challenge blog, challenge 37 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge blog, challenge 107 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog , challenge 142 at Through the Purple Haze, challenge 63 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog, challenge 519 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog and challenge 145 at the Inspiration Destination Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Up, Up and Away

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Bank Holiday.  I hope you are having a fine bank holiday weekend for those of you who get a Bank Holiday. Yesterday we celebrated my Mother-in-Law's 90th birthday. We had a lovely time altogether and the weather played its part and was just right. Today I am hoping to go back to the Hampshire Open Studios at Abshot Barn to collect the Batik we bought last weekend  I am quite excited about getting it home.

I was making a card for a challenge blog and I created this background in the end I decided it wasn't right for the image I was using. It was too good to waste so I used it to make this card. I made the background by masking off areas so I could control where the Pixie Powders and Brushos went. The clouds I cut with a die and laid them over the paper. I spritzed a couple of times with the clouds in place and once more with them removed. I didn't want a definite line on the clouds. 

The balloon was cut with a Spellbinders die set called Up and Away Hot Air Balloon. 

This is a Creative Expressions die. 

When we set off home yesterday I said "this is a hot air balloon day" it was  lovely claim sunny day. Can you imagine my delight when we actually saw one on the journey. As I was in the car the picture isn't that good. 

This is another card for my stash for those times  when my husband comes home saying he needs a card for someone at work by tomorrow. It has happened quite often. 

Enjoy the rest of the day.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - theme Mystical and Magical

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are all keeping well. This is a scheduled post as we are on holiday in Italy a little treat to ourselves after all we did for the wedding and to have something to look forward after it.

The new challenge starts today on the Unicorn Challenge blog and the theme is Mystical and Magical. Themes like that always make me think of Unicorns.

To create the background I used Brushos. The clouds were created with a die that came with a Build a Sheep die set. 

The Unicorn is a Woodware stamp he was stamped onto water colour paper and coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

The two sentiments came with the Unicorn. 

I used glitter card for the mats to make the card more sparkly. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Counting Sheep

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How was your weekend? We visited both sets of parents on Saturday and did jobs in the garden on Sunday we took 4 large bags of garden waste to the tip. I can't believe next week is Ally Pally I am so looking forward to it.

I was very naughty recently and I ordered some  lovely dies. Really I should be saving money to spend on things for our daughter's wedding but you know how it is the dies were very tempting.

Aren't these sheep cute and it is one die set and the sheep can face different ways. It is a Marianne Collectable die set. 

So cute. 

They can point in different directions but facing the front. 

The cloud and stars are in the die set too. I just had to use the stars. 

Have a wonderful week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Isobel Craft Collection - Singing in the Rain

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good weekend. We had a lovely time looking at wedding dresses with our daughter yesterday. She tried on 14 different dresses in two different shops. She now has a clear idea of which type of dress suits her best. There is now a plan to go back to one of the shops in November to make a final choice. It was a very good day.

I have made another card with the new release of stamps from the Isobel Craft Collection. I was sent the Garden Delights stamps set. I wanted to use the raindrops and the clouds this time.

I had fun with the raindrop stamp making the background using the resist technique with heat embossing and Distress Ink. I stamped the sentiment and clouds onto water colour card with Black Archival. Then I used some hexagon dies to cut them out. The spotty ribbon was in my stash. 

The stamps are available from the https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sophy8?ref=search_shop_redirect. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Today is my husband's birthday so this should be another good day. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

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Confirmation Card for a Boy

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

What can I say we are nearly at the weekend just one day to go? I have lots to do I expect you all have too.

I was asked to make cards for two young people who will be getting confirmed this coming Sunday. I did get a bit more notice than I usually get for my makes. I have finished the card for the boy so I can share that one with you today.

So what do you do for a boy? I decided to go with bold bright colours and an unfussy design. Of course there had to be a cross with it being a confirmation. I have had the cloud embossing folder for a while but I haven't used it much. The letters for the name were cut with some Tonic dies that I have. The bunting was cut with my Tattered Lace Flower Pot Shelf die. 

The cross was cut from gold mirror card, with a Spellbinders die, and backed with white card so I could raise it on foam pads. 

I will share the girl's card when I manage to get that finished, I have made at least made a start. I have a few outstanding commissions at the moment. I had better get a move on with them or they will be due before I know it. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie