Eighty-fifth Birthday Card for Someone Special

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a good week. Today is the start of my husband's Easter holiday. So craft and blogging time is going to be cut short for the next few days. Though I do have a rush wedding card to make for our daughter and son-in-law they need it by the weekend.

Recently we had a few days away in Suffolk so we could attend my lovely uncle's 85th Birthday celebrations. We had such a nice time and the weather was good too.

I wasn't sure quite where to go with this card, The image I chose to use dictated the colours that I decided to use. 

This is a Thelwell painting it was used on the advertising literature from the National Trust Thelwell exhibition at Mottisfont. This landscape is local to Mottisfont as Thelwell lived in a village near by. I cut the image and its mats with the Double Pierced circle dies from Creative Expressions. The image was sprayed with Spray and Sparkle from Crafter's Companion. 

The sentiment was cut with Happy Birthday Circle die set from Creative Expressions. The numbers were cut with Crafter's Companion dies. 

My uncle liked this card though he did moan about it being large. It was a special birthday so it had to be a large card. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The April Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 112 at Scrapy Land Challenges

Challenge 119 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog

The April Challenge at the Die Cut Diva's Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafty Catz Challenge Blog - Love is in the Air

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is nearly here. I hope you have something nice planned. It is going to be a busy one for us. In the evening on Saturday there will be a party to celebrate my in-laws 70th Wedding Anniversary. We have helped with some of the preparations. I have also arranged for a card to be sent from the Queen. We are staying in a Premier Inn over night so we can help with the tidying up after the party. There will be a dash home on Sunday  so our daughter and son-in-law can bring the rabbits and hamster to stay. They will be travelling to America next week. I am so glad I got the rabbit room ready last weekend.

Being Friday the new challenge starts on the Crafty Catz Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of Love is in the Air. The sponsor is Lacy Sunshine.

In the background I used some of the dies from the Sandwich Box die set from John Next Door. I am very impressed by how well these dies cut. The patterned paper was in my stash and matched the colours I had used for the image. 

The sponsor is Lacy Sunshine there are some wonderful images in the store if you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

The image I used is called Rory's Love Graffiti and is available HERE.  She was printed onto Neenah card stock and coloured with Promakers. 

The is a circle stamp I do find it very useful especially if I haven't left much room for a sentiment. 

I hope you have a great weekend. Take care. 

I would like to enter challenge 516 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog, challenge 45 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog , the February Challenge at the Wednesday's Creative Inspiration Challenge blog, challenge 282 at the QKR Stampede Challenge blog, week 430 at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge blog and challenge 352 at the I ❤ Promarkers Challenge blog , the Birthday Challenge at the Cuttlebug Mania Challenge blog and the February Challenge at the Classic Design Team Challenge Blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge #28 - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How are you? My husband goes back to work today. It has been a lovely Christmas break. Now it is all back to normal.

The start of the month is always busy in blogland and the start of a new year is no different. Being the first Tuesday of January the new challenge starts on the Unicorn Challenge Blog. The theme for this challenge is the ever popular Anything Goes.

I was asked by a friend of mine to make a card for a friend of their's who they met at dancing. She is 90 and she still goes dancing at least once a week if not more often. The card had to have a dancing theme.

I had just bought some non-shed glitter card from a Craft Show and I had been shown that the silver card could be effectively coloured with alcohol pens. That is what I did, all the glitter card was coloured Promarkers.  

This is a Signature die and it is called First Dance. So it would look good on a wedding card. By using more of them in coloured skirts it looks more like ball room dancing 

The Perspective Happy Birthday Circle die I thought done in glitter looked a bit like a glitter ball. 

The numbers and letters were cut with my Crafter's Companion alphabet and number dies. 

I was told that Dottie was thrilled with this card and it has even been put into a frame.  I am very pleased that she like it. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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