Valentine's Pop-Up Box Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How are you doing? I have been doing online shopping. It is so nice when things arrive at the house. I will try not to get carried away. 

I didn't realise quite how hard it would be to make cards for my hubby now he is retired. I have a crafty friend who has had this problem for a while. Now I sympathise hugely. We are meeting for a socially distanced walk later this morning, I can have a chat with her about this and hopefully get some tips. 

Anyway this is the Valentine's Day card I made for my hubby. I kept having to hide it when he came downstairs. 

I made a pop-up card for a Design Team project and I thought it would be nice to make my hubby one.  I do have instructions on my blog showing how to make these. This one is make from an A4 sheet of paper. You can reach my page HERE. 

After that it is just a case of decorating the panels how you feel. I found the heart paper in my stash. I used dies from Tattered Lace. Crafter's Companion and Creative Expressions. 

This is how the card folds up to put in an envelope. 

Not too long and I will be able to give my hubby this card. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 161 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog

Have a good weekend. I hope the weather will be good for walking. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Not Just Cards Challenge Blog - April Challenge - Anything Goes - New Home Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How are you getting on? We are fine. My hubby is now on leave. It has been strange today. We are still shopping for two older couples and I am checking up on an older lady who lives on her own. That is a well as trying to sort out the shopping for my parents. It is so hard to get those shopping slots.

The April challenge starts today at the Not Just Cards Challenge blog the theme is always Anything Goes. I made a card that I won't be needing for a while.

I do like to have New Home cards in my stash. In fact our Daughter and Son-in-Law are thinking of moving and were looking into this before the Corona Virus caught up with us all.  When I was shopping with a friend (remember when we used to be able to do that) and I spotted and had to have a huge roll of washi tape with houses on it. That is what I used to create the background for this card. 

Why not join in with our fun easy challenge. If you click on the logo you will taken there. 

I used the Heart of Hearts die set from Creative Expressions to make the big heart and its mat. The house die set came free with a magazine a while ago. The sentiment was cut with some Britannia dies. 

Well I did enjoy making this card and making a start on the huge roll of washi tape. 

On a personal note last year for my birthday I received a journalling bible. Well I hadn't touched the bible since I was given it. I did say that I have been following the doodling sessions run by Barbara Gray on Facebook. I have a lovely skill set of drawing skills that I can call on and  I used them to start my journal. I am going to start a page on my blog with my sketches. This really is something I never thought I would do. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 133 at the Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Week 556/7 at the Allsorts Challenge blog Something Old - house die, Something New - Washi Tape Something Blue  - Sky. 

The Anything Goes Challenge 7th April at the Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) Challenge blog

Stay safe and well. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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The A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog - Challenge 104 - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week. This is my last day of invigilating. It will start up again in January. I am very excited as on Sunday we are heading off on a cruise to the Canary Islands. This means that I won't be around for a bit. I know that my blog and my Facebook page will suffer but you need to have a break sometimes. There will be a couple of scheduled posts while I am away. When we get back it will be nearly Christmas with all that entails.

Being the 15th of the month there is a new challenge at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog. The theme is Anything Goes and there are some wonderful digital papers on offer as prizes.

This is a card that I made for a Facebook friend's daughter who got married at the beginning of October. The wedding was a big success I saw lots of photos on Facebook. I do love a good wedding.

I chose to use the All Change Digital paper set. I knew the colours of the wedding and this paper was perfect. 

Our challenges are lots of fun. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

I used the Heart of Hearts dies from Creative Expressions to cut the aperture and the frame. In the centre is the bride and groom cut from the Just Married die set from Crafter's Companion. 

The congratulations is a Tattered Lace die and the hearts came from the Heart of Hearts die set. 

I used the Star Flowers and Leaves dies sets from the John Next Door range to make the flowers and the leaves. 

This was a lovely card to make and the paper worked so well. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 125 at Scrapy Land Challenges

The Challenge the week beginning 12th November at the Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) Challenge blog

Challenge 456 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog

Challenge 175 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 22 at the Creative Crafters Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge - theme Have a Heart

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I have had a poorly husband who has been off work for a bit. On Tuesday we visited the hospital so he could have a chest x-ray to check things out. He is now working from home but the cough still persists. I was hoping to go to the Newbury Craft show on Saturday we will just have to see if my hubby is up to going.

The new challenge starts at the Moving Along with the Times Challenge blog and Donna for team B has chosen the theme Have a Heart. So we would like to see a heart or hearts in your creation.

I made a new home card.

For the sky I used some rescued inky paper towel which I had glued onto card. The clouds were cut with some Crafter's Companion dies. The green hills were cut with the Snow Scenes dies from John Next Door. 

Why not join in with our challenge. Valentine's Day isn't far away. Click on the logo and you will be to the challenge blog. 

The heart was cut with the outer dies from the Heart of Hearts die set by Creative Expressions. The house and tiny heart dies came free with a magazine and have proved to be very useful. 

I think these word dies are from Britannia. The daisies were made with the small Star Flower dies from John Next Door. 

I added some small butterflies made with the Small Butterfly dies from John Next Door. 

I wanted the card to have a summery feel. Even though I sent the card in December. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 386 at the Shopping Our Stash Challenge blog

Challenge 234 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

The January Challenge at the Crafting by Designs Challenge blog

Challenge 160 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 30 at the Love the Craft Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Wedding Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your week? I hope you have something nice planned for the weekend. Today we are doing jobs around the house and on Sunday we will be visiting our parents.

On Wednesday the son of our very good friends got married. The weather that day was just amazing it was so bright, sunny and warm. Well my friend had asked me to make a wedding card for them to give their son and new daughter-in-law, I will share that in the future. I wanted to make a card from us for the happy couple. Having made the other card I knew the wedding colours so I used them to make our card.

I found the background paper in my stash. 

I used the Just Married die from the Rustic Wedding collection from Crafter's Companion to make the happy couple. They were cut in white and backed with the mint card. I made the aperture and it's frame with the Heart of Hearts die from Creative Expressions. 

I surrounded the heart with the Gerbera flowers and the Star Flower leaves from John Next Door. 

There was just space for this sentiment cut with a Tattered Lace die. 

Here is a picture of the happy couple. 

I hope they liked their card. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Week 488 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Challenge 222 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 53 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

Challenge 153 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 10 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge blog

Challenge 94 at the Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Challenge 55 at the Crazy 4 Challenges Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times Challenge Blog (MAWTT) - Theme Love

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

This is a busy morning there is a second post from me. As you can see the new challenge has started on the Moving Along with the Times Challenge blog and I am the host this time. I chose the theme of Love. It just seemed like the right time of year what with Valentine's Day coming up. But you don't have to stop there. So many other types of cards could be made for anniversarys, weddings, engagements or just to let someone know you care.

I made an anniversary card for my husband. Our anniversary is in April. It is fine for me to share his card as he doesn't read my blog or do Social Media. We had a huge break through when he agreed to do WhatsApp and now we can have family chats and he doesn't get left out.

I started with the image from an old card. I used the colours from the image for the mats and layers. The last grey layer was embossed with the Heart Lattice embossing folder from Creative Expressions. 

This image came from a large card. I thought it might look a bit like us on one of our trips. 

This is a signature die. 

This image came from another card. I used the Heart of Hearts die set to cut the hearts. 

Now I have just got to remember where I have put this card when our anniversary comes. This year it is on a bank holiday so we will be able to send the day together. 

I would like to enter challenge 106 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog , challenge 36 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge blog and challenge 18 at the Create and Makes Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going?

The last challenge of 2017 starts on the Unicorn Challenge Blog today and the theme is  Anything Goes. The Design Team will be having a break in December and will be back raring to go on the first Tuesday of January. So let's make this last  challenge  of 2017 go with a bang.

Back in the summer I was asked to make a wedding card by the girl who comes to the house to  give me Sport's Massages. The colour choice was pink, cream and gold.

The paper was in my stash and I just had to use the pink lace. 

I used the Creative Expressions Heart of Hearts die set to create the hearts. The Mr and Mrs die is from Crafter's Companion. 

The bunting die is one from Tattered Lace. 

The Congratulations die is a Tattered Lace die too. 

We had a lovely time at the NEC. Unfortunately on the way there we were subjected to some road rage. A man got out of his car and swore at my husband and banged on the window. He had taken objection to my husband changing lanes though there was space and he had signalled. Fortunately the man got into his car and drove away. 

We had a lovely long chat with John Lockwood and he made us a Christmas card that he signed. I was taking the selfie so I look a bit strange. I wanted my husband in the picture as he gets on well with John too. 

I won the ticket to go to the NEC from Jenny Mayes Facebook page. We went to the Hobby Art  stand to say thank and the hand over a little gift and a card. 

I was rather pleased with how this wedding card turned out. 

I would like to enter the challenge starting 7th Nov at the TTCRD Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Isobel Craft Collection - Ladybirds

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. I hope you have something nice planned the weather is looking good. We had an unexpected trip to see the in-laws yesterday. My Mother-in-law is 90 next week and there is a planned meal at weekend and another in September. But our daughter and her fiance wanted to  visit yesterday so we tagged along this meant we could all go out for a meal. I have just completed the trees for the wedding so I am feeling a bit more on top of things. Here is a link to the page. 

A couple of days ago I shared a card I made with the new Gnomes stamps from the Isobel Craft Collection. Well I just had to share another card I made with the new Ladybird stamps.

I love using the resist technique to create a background. I stamped and heat embossed the ladybird stamp in two colours. Then I used Distress Ink to colour the rest of the page. 

There is a link on the Facebook page to where you can buy the stamps. 

I used the Heart of Hearts die set to cut our the stamped image. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Special Anniversary Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I have been very busy as it usual these days.  There is still so much to do for the wedding. This is my 500th blog post that is amazing and a lot of cards.

I was contacted by one of my cousins and I was asked if I would make a card for her to give her parents on their 65th Wedding Anniversary. I am not sharing the card I made for her yet but this is one I made to send them myself. They are my aunt and uncle after all.

I based the design on the Valentine's Day card I made for my husband. I had the background paper in my stash. On the Valentine's card I used glitter and I would have done the same on this card only I didn't have any blue glitter. I will have to do something about that. 

I used the Heart of Hearts die set and the Love Heart die set both from Creative Expressions to make the main focus of the card. 

I cut the sentiment with some Britannia dies. 

I will be posting this card to them  in a couple of weeks. I sent the card to my cousin yesterday so she should get it soon, I hope she likes it. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Cute Pandas Valentine's Day Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Valentine's Day. I hope that you have a wonderful day today whatever you are doing.

I made a Valentine's Day card with the free embossing folder and stamps from Issue 142 of Papercraft Essentials Magazine.

I started with the background I cut a piece of card to fit the hearts embossing folder. I then used the Heart of Hearts die to cut an aperture. Finally the card was embossed and sanded back. 

The girly panda was stamped onto a piece of white card and coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. Then she was placed behind the heart aperture. The happy boy panda was stamped onto another piece of card and then cut out by hand. 

The sentiment came with the stamp set. 

We had our Valentine's meal on Saturday we did the meal deal from M&S. We swapped cards this morning otherwise nothing special is happening.  I hope that you have a good day.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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