A Daffodil filled Spring Birthday Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? Much the same as ours probably. Staying home, keeping safe. We finished a puzzle, had a couple of nice meals, watched some films and had a family Zoom meeting. We did go out for some walks to. On Sunday we made it down to the River Hamble it makes a lovely walk from our house.  One piece of good news is that my parents-in-law, who are both in their 90s, had their first vaccination on Friday. Just one step closer to being a bit safer. 

I have been looking through my files and I found I birthday card that I have never shared before. 

I love daffodils and they are starting to appear in the shops. I will hold off for a while before I will be buying any though I might give in to some in pots for the kitchen windowsill. This card was made with a Hunkydory kit that came free from a magazine sometime ago. I haven't really been buying magazines lately. 

Aren't those daffodils so pretty. 

This card is still in my stash. I think this will be the year it will be sent to someone. 

Stay safe and take care. 

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Spring Daffodils

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We had a lovely quiet day on Saturday. On Sunday we braved the bad weather and we met our daughter and son-in-law at Mottisfont (National Trust Property) to see the Norman Thelwell exhibition. It was really worth the effort the exhibition is fabulous. I didn't realise that Thelwell lived near Mottisfont and he did many paintings of the the local area. Of course there were original paintings of his cartoons. I do recommend this exhibition. It is on until the 22nd April we are hoping to go back sometime.

When we had our quiet day on Saturday I actually did some crafting. My husband was sorting out my parents filing and I wasn't needed. So I started by cutting daffodils with the Altenew Layered Daffodil Die Collection from issue 188 of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine. I even had time to make them into a card.

I spent quite a long time finding card in my Snippets pile to make the daffodils and the leaves. The backing paper came from my Snippets pile too. 

The dies cut beautifully and are very easy to put together. 

I wanted to make a vase for the daffodils to sit in. I looked all through my dies and I came to the Bottle die set from John Next Door. So this vase is cut with the bottle die. I had some embossed card in my stash and I cut off the top of the bottle. I added a sentiment cut with a Creative Expressions die. 

I do love daffodils they are so bright and vibrant after a long grey winter. I often have a bunch in the house at this time of year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 347 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Week 509 at the Allsorts Challenge blog - Favourite Season Spring

Challenge 238 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 158 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 91 at the Make My Monday Challenge blog

The March Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Have a great week

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Distress Oxides Easter Cards

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I so glad that the snow has gone and that it is a little warmer.

I am in a few groups on Facebook and I saw some cards made with a technique using Distress Oxides. My first thought was I won't be able to do that. Anyway I visited the blog in question and there was a link to a video tutorial. So I had a look and I thought yes that is achievable. So I had a go with what I had in my stash.

 I cut some Neenah card stock to the size I required.  Then with my stamp press I stamped the daffodils with Perfect Medium and heat embossed them with a white powder. With three shades of Distress Oxides I inked the paper with some cut and dry foam starting with the darker colour and working in to the lighter colour. 

I buffed the ink off of the white embossing. Then I took a paintbrush and some water and I lifted the colour from the daffodil as I went I dabbed with kitchen towel. I put some yellow  Distress Oxide on my mat and added water I used this to paint over the daffodils. 

The Happy Easter is a Clarity Stamp and it was heat embossed with a gold powder. 

Here is the video that I saw on my friends blog. I found it very  useful.  I didn't realise how easy it is to put videos on your blog post. 

Here are all the cards together. I think I have enough Easter cards now. This was a a fun technique it was good to get the inks and stamps out again. These cards are nice and flat for posting.

I would like to enter the Easter Challenge at Moo - Mania and More ,Challenge 12 at the Craftaholics R Us Challenge blog , challenge 372 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog and challenge 139 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Daffodils for a Happy Easter

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How was you weekend? I hope you did something nice and that the weather didn't interfere with your plans too much. We had a lovely time at the party to celebrate the 70th Wedding Anniversary of my parents in-law. It is a fantastic achievement and it was lovely for them to be surrounded by their family and friends. The actual anniversary is on Wednesday and I will share the card I made for them then.

I have made a start on my Easter cards. Usually I start them a bit sooner than this. I think because the weather has been so dull I just haven't thought about it.

When I make card with apertures I am  left with all the inners of the circles (in this case). Well being me they all match and they are too good to not put on a card. I have also found that I can use the Double Pierced Square dies to make mats that completely cover my card blank. 

So in the middle of the circle I added a mat of the backing paper I had chosen. To this I added die cuts of the Spring Daffodils by Creative Expressions. The bow is one from Crafter's Companion. 

The sentiment came from a different die set from Creative Expressions. 

This is definitely a one off I won't be making another card like this one. I do like using up the left over bits from other cards.  I now have the artwork for the wedding invitations I am making for a nephew and his fiancee so I can begin work on those soon. 

I would like to enter challenge 2 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge blog and Challenge 319 at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) - Theme Flowers

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I am all back to normal. The house is all tidy the washing is sorted and I am back crafting. I have had some good news that I will be able to share with you soon.

The new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog and the theme this time is Flowers. Now there aren't many people who don't like flowers.

This is quite a small card I made it by recycling a card I had been sent that is where the background came from. The flowers were cut with a Britannia die set. 

It needed a box so that the flowers wouldn't get squashed. I used my Hougie board to make the box. Before I constructed the box I cut the aperture using the Double Pierced die set I cut the inner layer too. The lattice was cut with Stitched Lattice frames set. All from Creative Expression. There is acetate behind the lattice. 

I used Spring Daffodils die set designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

The Happy Birthday was cut with the die that came with the 2016 Crafter's Companion Advent Calendar.  

Here they are together. I was very pleased with how the box turned out. I think I might be making some more like this. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter challenge 35 at the Crafting with Attitude challenge blog , challenge 449 at the CRAFT challenge blog, challenge 511 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog , weeks 313 and 314 at Pixie's Snippets Playground , challenge 274 at the Brown Sugar challenge blog and challenge 44 at the Crafty Addicts challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Easter Wishes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Here we are Thursday afternoon one more day and it is the weekend. I must remember that clocks go forward an hour, it always takes me by surprise.

I made this card for my friend  to go with a small Easter gift  she collected them this afternoon. I hope she likes them.

This is quite a small card just 6" x 6".

The image came from one of last year's Easter cards I just cut it to the size I wanted with a die and I inked around the edge. 

I have a beautiful daffodil stamp by Heartfelt creations I used it to create the background I stamped it with CS Perfect Medium and then heat embossed with a gold embossing powder.

The ribbon I had in my stash and the sentiment was stamped with a Clarity Stamp.

I used a lot of Snippets to make this card, I do have a never ending supply, I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 169. 

I hope your Easter plans are going well. I think I know what we are doing now but anything could change. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Daffodils in the Spring

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. Have you got any crafty plans. I am hoping that we will be making my craft storage that was delivered yesterday. When it is constructed I can have a huge sort out.

This is the time for a new challenge on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog this time the theme is Spring is in the Air. Nothing says Spring to me more than seeing daffodils in bloom.

I used the Heartfelt Creations set HCPC 3359 Daffy Daffodils. The background was created by stamping the border stamp with 

perfect Medium and heat embossing it with CS fine detail embossing powder.

I inked over the daffodil heads with distress ink the embossing resisted the ink leaving the daffodil heads in white. 

A row of daffodils. They were stamped in Sepia Adirondack ink and  head embossed with CS fine detail embossed. They were coloured with Promarkers.

The sentiment stamp was a Clarity stamp and cut out with a Spellbinder die.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend whatever your plans are. Why not join us at the Fantasy Stampers challenge this time your stamps don't have to be fantasy themed but you do have to use physical stamps.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie