Thank You Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope that you had a good weekend. We had another really busy one. On Saturday we went to Ally Pally for the Craft show. Of course I bought some new stash and I met some of my online friends. On Sunday we went to Ascot Racecourse for a Cruise Show. This was followed by a trip to West Green House on our way back - you can use your National Trust membership card to get in. It was so nice to look round the garden and of course use the cafe.

Last week I made a special thank you card. It is always good to have some put by.

I used a selection of dies from the John Next Door range from Crafts-Too. The backing paper was cut with the lattice corner die from the Sandwich box die set. 

This thank you die came free with a magazine some time ago. I used the Square Background Gerbera flowers frame die set to frame the sentiment. I did put a dark purple sentiment on top of a pale purple one but when I looked at the card the sentiment didn't show up enough so I put another pale one on top. 

I cut some patterned paper with the Gerbera Flowers die. I just love how you can cut so many flowers so quickly.  Behind the flowers I placed the Star Flower leaves. 

I also put butterflies on the design made with the Small Butterflies die set. 

This one will go into my box until it is needed. I often get urgent requests for cards. It is good to be prepared. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The April Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Week 514 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Challenge 456 at the Crafty Catz Challenge blog

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Weaving with Snippets

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I have a busy week this week and on Thursday we are going away so that we can attend my uncles 85th Birthday lunch that he is organising himself. Today I will be helping at a Felting Workshop I think we are making bags.

When I made my thank you cards back in January I created background papers for them with Distress Oxides. I made the papers  a bit bigger than I needed. When the backgrounds were trimmed down there were small inky strips left over. Being  me I had to save them they just couldn't go to waste. So until now they have sat in a box waiting to be used. I saw a demo from Maria at Clarity stamps and she was weaving with strips of paper. I just had to have a go.

This is just a small card in fact just 4" x 4". I used the Gerbera Dies Square Background die, from the John Next Door range,  to create a pretty aperture. Then on the reverse of the aperture I stuck double sided tape. I only removed the top of the tape from two adjacent sides. Then I stuck strips going down along one side. Finally I used the remaining strips to weave the background. Once I had finished I exposed the rest of the sticky and stuck the ends down. All the ends were trimmed so they didn't show. 

You can see the detail of the weaving behind the Thanks die. 

I added some of the butterflies cut with the Small Butterflies die set from the John Next Door range. 

I do like to have a few thank you cards in my stash you never know when someone will be kind and you will need one. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 348 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Enjoy the rest of the week

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Thank You with Flowers and Butterflies

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Are things back to normal for you now? Round here the children go back to school on Monday so they have a few more days to enjoy. My husband is back at work and I am slowly getting the house back to normal. I am hoping to have a big sort out this weekend. All the bits we have for Christmas have got a bit out of hand.

What do you need when you have had lots of lovely presents? Why thank you cards of course. So once I had got my craft desk sorted out after its Christmas move I was able to start crafting again.

I started by making a background with my Distress Oxides. I used watercolour card and lots of colours. I used lots of dies from the John Next Door range designed by John Lockwood. starting with  the stitched edge dies from the Snowflake background die set to make the two mats. I cut the Gerbera Square Frame die in dark purple. 

This thanks die  (from Crafter's Companoion)  cut from the waste  from  middle of the of the Square Frame die. 

I cut the flowers and leaves with the Gerbera Flower and Star Flowers dies all from a sheet of patterned pape with a white background. I changed the colour with Distress Ink. The butterflies were cut with the Small Butterfly die set. 

I did enjoy making this card. I need quite a few thank you cards so the rest will probably be a bit more simple. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 152 at the Through the Purple Haze Challenge blog. 

Challenge 47 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge blog

Challenge 83 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 87 at the Cardz 4 Galz Challenge blog

Challenge 563 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Challenge 114 at the Butterfly Challenge blog, using Imperial Purple, Die-cuts and butterflies. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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