Blue Valentine

 Hello my Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week. This weekend we are going to the theatre with some friends to see Groan Ups. This is a rescheduled performance and we all know why. We are hoping to have a meal together after the show. 

I haven't been around much. Life is pretty hectic at the moment. What with four elderly parents to support, my sister who also needs support and of course our first grandchild expected in June. Crafting has been pushed to the background somewhat. I have been making things for the two design teams I am still on and I will show you those when the time is right. 

Yesterday I managed to make a Valentine's Day card for my dear hubby. 

I hunted through the old cards that I have kept and found this cute image of Tatty Ted. I based the colour scheme around the colour on the bears nose.

Aren't those bears cute. 

I used one of my older dies for the sentiment. The hearts were cut with a Creative Expressions die. 

I will be making cards for special people. I do feel we will be buying more cards from now on. 

Have a good weekend.

Happy Crafting

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A New Home Card

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I hope you had a good weekend. I do feel for the people who are back in lockdown. I wonder when we will be free of this awful virus. Our daughter and son-in-law move at the end of the week. Hopefully we will be able to help them unless something changes of course. Then it will be nearly time for the bunnies to go home. 😊

When I sold some of my cards in the summer all my new home cards were sold. I made this one to replace them. This is not the card I am giving to our daughter and son-in-law it is just one for my stash of cards. 

The background is made with Washi tape. I found this tape at a Garden centre last year it is a large roll it will last a long time. It is ideal for new home cards. 

The Heart dies I used are from the John Next Door range. The little house die set came free with a magazine sometime ago. 

The sentiment was made with a Britannia die set. 

Now I had a card in my stash for when I am asked for one. 

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

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

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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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Wedding Card made with my new Dies

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How has your week been? I have been invigilating but that is finished until after half term now. Today I will be helping at a Felting Workshop. I am hoping that I will be able to make another phone case as the one I made before fits my phone and my camera. For an update on my parents: my mum is still hospital and my dad is being taken to  visit her by a very kind neighbour. We will be going up at the weekend.

I have been a bit naughty and treated myself to some new dies from the John Next Door range. I just couldn't resist all hearts and butterflies in the Butterfly Heart Die Set.

I decided to make a wedding card. Hearts and butterflies are just so romantic. 

I added another heart to the centre of the two butterfly hearts this was so the sentiment would show up. The gold sentiment has a white shadow. 

I added congratulations too. 

My daughter has already bagged this card. She is having to miss a wedding in August as she and her hubby have a very cool trip to Poland lined up. She liked the idea of this pretty card. 

Have a great weekend. We will be mostly  hospital visiting. 

Happy Crafting

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New Home Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I am off to help at a wet felting workshop today. I am hoping to make a purse. I did try once before and it wasn't successful but I am up for another try.

I think I said a while back that I needed to make another new home card. Well last week I actually got round to making the one I needed.

I found a scrap of the backing paper in my stash and it just fitted the card blank. I cut an aperture with one of the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. 

The house die came free with an issue of Simply Cards and Papercraft. I love adding a red door and it opens. I cut thin strips of patterned paper to make the curtains and put yellow behind to look like lights. The hearts come with the house die. The column of smoke came from another die. I made the background paper with ink on shiny paper. The grass is a strip of pixie powder coloured paper. 

Word dies are so useful. 

The people I made this card for have already moved so I will be giving it to them soon. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Crafty Catz Challenge blog - Embossing Wet or Dry

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I hope you have had a good week and are ready for the weekend. My week hasn't been too busy so I have been able to make progress with the wedding makes. I did enjoy the Felting Workshop and I go the chance to make another picture. Mine aren't as good as my friend's but they are fun to make.

Being Friday the new challenge starts on the Crafty Catz Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of Wet or Dry Embossing. I went for dry embossing. The fabulous sponsor this time is Star Stampz.

I used two different Rose Embossing folders from Creative Expressions for the background. 

There are many wonderful images in the store if you click on the logo you will be taken there.

This image is called Balloons and Ice Cream and is available HERE.  I printed onto Neenah card stock and I coloured the image with my Promarkers. I used one of the shapes on my ScanNcut to cut out the image. 

The balloons were cut with a Tattered Lace die. 

This is another Tattered Lace die. 

Have great weekend. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 386 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog

Challenge 59 at the Simply Papercraft Challenge blog

Challenge 97 at the If You Give a Crafter a Cookie Challenge blog

The World Wide Open Design Team  Challenge 6

Challenge 149 at the Creative Finger Challenge blog

Challenge 362 at the I ❤ Promakers Challenge blog

Challenge 212 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 409 at the 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge blog

The June Challenge at Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Baby card for New Grandparents.

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How was your weekend? I hope you did something nice. I have been working on the image for the wedding invitations I am making for our nephew and his fiancee. The artwork has come in three parts that need putting together. It has been rather tricky. My husband had to do the scanning at his work as the main image was on A3 paper. He often ends up helping me when I make wedding invites it takes team work.

One of my best friends became a grandmother for the first time last week which is all very exciting. The new baby is a little girl and everyone is doing well. I made a card to celebrate.

So the new baby is a girl so the card had to be pink. I got all my baby themed dies and I put them together. It was quite a quick make. 

The baby blocks are by Tattered Lace I picked them up in a sale. 

The babygro is a Crafter's Companion die. 

Another Tattered Lace die one of my favourites. 

Look who is staying with us for a couple of weeks while my daughter and her husband are in America at a convention. They are very cute. 

It is such a big thing to become a grandparent and my friend never thought she would. 

Have a great week.

Happy Crafting

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A Mother's Day card with a tale to tell.

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How was your weekend? I hope you were able to do something nice. We made a trip to a nearby Waitrose so I could buy some Chilli Jam to make one of the the recipes in the Jamie Oliver Five Ingredients cookbook that I got for Christmas. We had to make a special trip as we couldn't  find anywhere else that stocked Chilli Jam. The rest of the day we spent tidying the rabbit room, which had become something of a tip, as they are coming to stay next weekend. On Sunday we went to see the Darkest Hour a very dramatic film.

I made this card with the bonus papers that would have been in the next edition of Quick Cards Made Easy magazine. But as we all know the  issue at the end of December was their last one ever. I did like the magazine a lot it is a shame it has gone. I am pleased that all the staff got jobs on other publications.

When the papers sent I printed them all. I started by looking at the sentiments and I decided to make a Mother's Day card. The papers were very pretty. There was always a stipulation that the card was square and no more than 150cm x 150cm. I used entwined  heart dies to make a fussy background. 

So this is the sentiment I chose and I made a frame for it using some of the card from the mats and layers. 

Then I used a punch to make the butterflies they added some extra detail to the card. I still like using punches they are quick. Did you spot the heart button in the corners. I bought those at the Makery in Bath where we went for my daughter's hen party. That seems so long ago now. 

I still feel it is a shame that the magazine closed. I hope you had a great week 

I would like to enter challenge 134 at the Let's Craft and Create Challenge blog , challenge 172 at Dream Valley Challenges and challenge 94 at the Butterfly Challenge blog.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

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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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Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine - Issue 167 Bonus papers

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How was your weekend? I was hoping for a quiet time having finished all the wedding makes. Unfortunately we have been let down with help getting things to the venue before the wedding and our fridge decided this was a good time to break. We also went to Portsmouth to a craft show and then to Aldershot for a celebration for my mother-in-laws 90th birthday. We are having another celebration in August. Not everyone can get together at the same time.

A little while ago I applied to be on the Reader's Design team for issue 167 of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine I was emailed the papers and I sent my card off. This time my card wasn't one of the ones chosen to be printed. It is pretty so I thought I would share it anyway.

It is very appropriate that the papers were wedding themed. I loved the swans. I used a tattered lace die to make the frames. For the background I used one of the papers and then over the top like confetti I put different sized hearts cut from one of the other papers. 

I used pink card to enhance the image. 

I did the same with the sentiment. 

My stash from the Portsmouth Craft show I did try to reign my self in a bit. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge for February theme Hearts and or Butterflies

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Yesterday I was on a school trip to the Sea City Museum in Southampton. It tells the story of the Titanic and it is very interesting it clearly shows the impact the tragedy had on the city.

The first Tuesday of the month sees the start of a new challenge on the Unicorn Challenge blog. The theme this time is Hearts and or Butterflies.

For the background I used some scripted paper from my stash. 

The butterflies were cut with a Sue Wilson die. 

I cut the aperture and made a frame for it with the Heart of Hearts die set designed by Sue Wilson. The thank you die came free with a magazine.

The daisy cluster die was cut in green and the flowers added behind in purple. I pearl was added to the centre of each. 

I did enjoy making this card I love using these beautiful dies. 

I would like to enter challenge 81 at the Creative Craft Cottage Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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