New Home Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are enjoying the weekend. Yesterday we visited both our sets of parents. They are all fine. My brother-in-law and his wife  are trying to move closer to my husband's parents. This is very kind of them, they want to be on hand to help if it is needed.

So I made a card for when they eventually move, which we hope is soon. Moving is never easy.

I did make this card with a Design Team creation in mind. When I went to post it to the  Design Team blog I found I had got the theme wrong. No worries I needed this card anyway. The background brickwork is some textured card stock coloured with distress ink. 

This is an LOTV image from a sheet of images that has been in my stash for a while. The New Home sentiment was cut with some Britannia dies. 

This flower pot of flowers was made with a Spellbinders die set. 

I do hope I get to send this card soon they have been trying to move for a while now. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Our Daughter and her Fiance's New Home

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? This is a happier post from me today. Our daughter and her fiance have just moved into the house they have bought together. It is a lovely little house it is brand new. We visited yesterday it is so nice to see them in their own house they have worked hard to get it. There is still lots to sort out but they will get there.

As you might know we have been looking after our daughter's rabbits while they were waiting to move and they will be here for a bit longer. So when I saw this stamp I knew it was right for a new home card for them.

The brick background was created by inking some textured paper from my stash. The ribbon was also from my stash. 

The image was created with a Penny Black stamp called Bunny Friends. I stamped onto watercolour with black archival then I coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I created a frame for the image with the Double Pierced Rectangles from Sue Wilson. 

The sentiment was cut with some Britannia dies and I used Tattered Lace dies to create the backing. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

I would like to enter challenge 30 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog, October Challenge at the Penny Black and More Challenge blog, challenge 21 at Morgan's Artworld , challenge 20 at Crafting with Attitude and Week 251 at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Happy Father's Day in the Garden

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I keep getting confused as to which day of the week it is. I don't work this afternoon so I will have some time to craft. I need to catch up on some design team bits and then it is on with the invites.

I set myself a challenge the other day. I was looking at my snippets box and I thought there is a card in there. So I decided I would make a card using as many of my snippets as I could. I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 175 / 176.

Recently I made a box for a present and I needed a piece of A1 card this meant there was a large piece left over that made a 7" x 7" card blank. I cut all the mats and I ended up with a piece of stamping card I stamped the Visible Image footprint stamp with brown, black and clear and them they were heat embossed. Then I inked over the footprints with green Distress Ink.

I wanted to use this image again I love the idea of gardening and then having a break. This time I cut a tree with an  Memory Box die I did extend the die a bit you can see the join in the photo.

I used the leaves die that came with the tree and I made an owl all from the same set. The Father's Day stamp came from a cover mount set from Do-crafts magazine last year.

I love the Spellbinder flower pot dies they mean that you can put flowers on a masculine card and they don't look too girly.

I popped a cheeky little cat popping out from behind the tree. 

This card will be for my Father-in-law who loves gardening. I was looking at the new challenge on the Cardz 4 Guyz challenge blog and the theme is gardening so I would like to enter that challenge too. 

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

Happy crafting

Hugs Jackie

Gardening / Drinking Tea Birthday Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope your week has started well and continues in the same vein. What a busy week I had last week two Design Team posts in one weekend. My husband made my storage solution on Saturday. Now I have lots to sort out.

I made this card for my dad, with the idea of entering the Challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz this week the theme is Pastimes. 

I found a fun backing paper in my stash and cut it to size. To make the foot print paper I used the Visible Image footprint stamp that came with Craft Stamper magazine last November. I remembered my friend Diane saying they would make good wellie prints. I used black embossing powder to make the footprints look mucky. I used Distress ink to add the colour to the mat. 

The image was a Forever Friends one that I had in my stash. After all the hard work gardening he deserves a nice cup of tea. 

I added the pot plant to show what he has been working on. This was cut with one of my favourite Spellbinder die sets.

Of course he would be sitting under the shade of a tree.

This the corner of the dining room before the storage unit.

Here is my husband making my crafty storage unit on Saturday afternoon. I was finishing my Easter cards while he did this. 

Here is the unit full up and in the corner of the dining room. We do have doors for this unit they will be added soon.  I do have a big pile of stuff that didn't fit so I need to do some sorting out.

I hope my dad likes this card he doesn't often say much. I hope rest of the week is good for you. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie 

New Home

Hi Bloggers

How is your week going? I am back to work after a half term break. This means fitting crafting in when I can. My Grand Calibur has made it back to Create and Craft now I have to wait and see what they are going to do about it.

I made two versions of today's card as I know two  people who are moving home soon. The two versions are slightly different to each other but I prefer this one. At least they will never be next to each other on the shelf to be compared.

To create the background I first cut the window with a Spellbinders die from some white card. I put the window to one side and then embossed the card with a mask. Once it was embossed I used some Distress ink  and inked through the mask to create the brickwork. 

I stuck some spotty paper behind the aperture and then reinserted the window I had cut earlier.

The flower pots and herb plants were cut with three sets of Spellbinders dies. 

The sentiment was cut with two  Brittania word dies, I backed it with a Spellbinders die that I cut about a bit to achieve the look I wanted. 

The cards are quite flat cards as I like to post New Home cards to people who have just moved house as I think it is good to get something nice in the post in your new home not just bills. 

That is all for now. Enjoy the rest of the week. Thank you for your visit it means a lot to me.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Flower Pots and Chocolate - Happy Birthday

Hi Bloggers

Thank you for all your comments on my Father-in-laws 90th Birthday celebrations. He had a wonderful two days and now he can cut the grass in safety.

Today's project is a card and matching chocolate wrapper. This is a good way to jazz up an ordinary present to make it a bit special.  I do like things to match.

The dies are from Spellbinders, I had wanted them for a long time and then they became available on an offer and it would have been rude not to. I love plants in pots and these looked great. Each pot is a different set and there is even a little die in each so you can cut different coloured tops without cutting the whole plant.

Not one but two bars of rather nice chocolate all in the one wrapper.

Here is the detail on the card quite simple really so I will be making some more of these to have in my card stash.

I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy crafting 

Hugs Jackie