New Baby Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a great week. The weather here has been rather kind.

I was asked to make a new baby card for a colleague of my husband. The request was for it to be not gender specific.

I decided to go for yellows and greens. The paper and card were in my stash. I cut a frame for the image with Innsbruck die set from the Austrian Collection designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

The cute hedgehog is a stamp by Penny Black called Baby Hammock. I added the sentiments top and bottom from a stamp set by LC Designs. All the stamps were stamped with Watering Can Archival and the image was coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

I used the Delicate Daisy dies and the Faux Quilled Leaves single leaf to create the flowers and leaves. Those are Sue Wilson dies too. 

I was pleased with how this card turned out. I often make cards for people at my husband's work.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Quick Cards Made Easy February Edition

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I hope you are all okay there has been some very sad news around this week.

This blog post is to share my card that was published in the February issue of Quick Cards Made Easy magazine.

I have blogged this card before. I sent in a photo after seeing a request for pictures of cards on Facebook. The card is made almost entirely with Creative Expressions products. 

This is the cover of the magazine. The free gift by the side. I like the free gift a lot which is a bonus. 

Here is the double page spread found on pages 26 and 27. 

Finally here is my card in detail. It is so nice to see your cards in print. If you are on Social Media there are often appeals for cards to be featured in magazines. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Take care everyone. 

Hugs Jackie

Gorjuss Birthday Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your weekend shaping up? I wonder how many of you are at the NEC? If you are I hope you are having a wonderful time and not spending too much money. We are staying home having a quiet weekend catching up on a few jobs.

This the  birthday card I have made for my cousin. We will actually be seeing her on her birthday as we are going all the way to Lowestoft to see her daughter in a production of Alice in Wonderland before rushing home to collect our daughter and heading home for Easter. Her boyfriend will be joining us for Easter Sunday  and they will both be sewing. They make cosplay costumes for conventions. When they have something finished I will share it here on my blog.

The upside to having  a sort out is that you rediscover things in your crafty stash that you had forgotten that you had. Hence the Gorjuss decoupage image that I found to use on this card. The image determined the colour scheme of the card. I found a beautiful paper in my stash. The ribbon was in my stash too I liked the stripes, like the stripes on her stockings, unfortunately there wasn't enough for a bow. 

I stuck the base image to a small piece of the backing paper and then I made a frame for the image. I decorated the frame with some die cuts from a Tattered Lace mini die that I received today. There is an offer in the April issue of Making Cards  magazine to get five Tattered Lace mini dies you just have to pay the postage of £2.95. The little heart I cut from the paper round the image with a small heart die. 

I made the flowers with the Sue Wilson Delicate Daisy dies. The leaves were cut with the Sue Wilson Faux Quilled leaves. I have given in and ordered one of those tools Spellbinders sell that get all the little bits out of the dies as I do find this rather tedious.  

I do hope you have a great weekend and that you find some craft time. I am planning to do a bit on the wedding invitations. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

Beautiful Flowers

Hi Bloggers

How are you all feeling? I know so many people with colds and I have had one myself. That meant lots of the things that I wanted to get done at the weekend didn't happen. But the new computer is up and running. The next task is to try to get the data from the old computer and there is a lot of data to sort out.

Today's card was made for an appeal by Jo Austin, on her Facebook page, she knows a local girl who was involved in a bad accident that left her in a coma. The girl is now making a slow recovery. She and her family have been getting some comfort from handmade cards that had been sent to them.

When we were on holiday in Devon we had a trip to Bude and there was not one but three Craft Shops. In one of them I bought a pretty flowery mask which I have waiting to use for a while. I used it to create the background by inking through it with distress inks onto white card. Then I inked round the edge with a darker colour. Then I used the mask to emboss a piece of pale mauve card. 

I thought that the  Delicate daises dies by Sue Wilson matched the mask beautifully so I cut several sets and stuck them together before inking them. I teamed them with  Faux Quilled Leaves also by Sue Wilson.

The sentiment was from a Sentimentally Yours stamps set by Phill Martin. Everything was assembled with CS dries clear PVA. I added the centres to the flowers with CS Shimmer Purple Violet Pearl PVA. 

I created the insert by putting a plain piece of paper in the middle of a piece of paper before I inked through the  flowery mask again with slightly lighter ink. The sentiment is a Clarity one and I have started inking with two colours I think it gives a nice effect.

I posted this card today so it should be there soon. It is lovely how sending a nice card can make a difference to someone. 

I hope you all have a good week.

Happy Crafting