Nativity Christmas Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I hope it is good. I wonder if you remember I was having a few problems at work. Well they didn't really resolve and on Monday I handed in my resignation letter, I will work until the end of term but I will not be going back in September. It does all feel a bit unreal at the moment.

I decided that I wanted to get all of my husband's cards made for the year and the last one to make was the Christmas card.

Last year I bought a Nativity die set from Crafter's Companion. I made the background with Pixie Powders and colour burst ink. I had to remover lots of the colour so I now  have paper towels covered in ink to make into more backgrounds with. The embossing folder I used is called Falling Snow  by Creative Expressions. 

All the dies I used came in the set. I cut them  in black and embossed them and used some gilding wax to highlight the details. 

This is a die designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

I do have some other simpler ideas for this die set. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artiste - April Anything goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I do hope that you have had a very good day. This is the last post from me you will be pleased to know. Our day didn't work out as we thought it might we were at the hospital a lot longer than we expected. So we went to Port Solent for a meal and then we saw the Eddie the Eagle film which I can thoroughly recommend.

The new challenge starts today on the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog and the theme is Anything Goes with a twist to use chipboard, stencils or flowers the sponsor is The Dusty Attic an Australian company who produce laser cut creations and embellishments.

I decided to decorate a journal cover. I write a journal everyday I have been doing it for about 26 years. Just recently I realised that it was much nicer to buy plain journals and decorate them myself.

The background was created from Kraft card using the Faux Leather technique there is a tutorial showing how to do this at the top of my blog.  

The flowers were made with my Sizzix Bigz Tattered Florals die I used felt and leather to create them. I added leaves cut from paper with the Faux Quilled Leaves die set.

There was a space on the cover and I wasn't sure how to fill it and them I remembered my butterfly dies I cut one from brown card and used gold gilding wax on it. 

I am looking forward to writing in this journal. This is the last post from me for today. I am going for a lay down in a dark room. Enjoy the weekend. Take care.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Poppy meets Sparkle pens

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your weekend been so far. As predicted we have mostly been making thing for our niece's wedding which is next week on Easter Saturday. It all took a lot longer than I thought and we still have one quite long job to finish tomorrow. I will photograph everything and blog it after the wedding. Everything is very nicely themed.

I made this card for my Mother-in-law's birthday she loves poppies. To be honest I wanted another chance to play with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens and I thought this Penny Black stamp would be a good choice.

I made the the frame with some Sue Wilson noble dies. 

The image was stamped in black archival ink and coloured with my sparkle pens. I did use a brush and some water to move the colour around.  

I use the dining room table for everything this is what it looked like when I was writing my Easter cards. All the cards that I can give by hand get a small chocolate bunny. 

I am sure my Mother-in-law will love this card. I think poppies are her favourite flower. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Take care.

Hugs Jackie

Unicorn Challenge Blog - Mystical and Magical

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Well this is my first day back at school. It is also the first day of the first challenge on the new Unicorn Challenge blog. Please come and support us. The theme is Mystical and Magical. Please come and join us in this new venture. It is a monthly challenge starting on the first of each month.

This is my Design Team card for inspiration and I chose to use my mermaid stamp from LOTV.

I chose to use blue and aqua coloured card for the mats to give the card a marine feel. 

The mermaid was stamped with black Archival and heat embossed with a clear powder. Then she was coloured with Promarkers. The frame was cut with a Sizzix die. The Black frame was embossed and I rubbed gilding wax all over it and buffed it with a dry wet wipe. 

Before I assembled the card I added a large ribbon in green

Please join us for our very first challenge. 

I hope you have a great week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie