Not Just Cards Challenge blog - September Challenge - Anything Goes

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I have been very busy. I think I have been out every day. Some of the evenings  have been busy too. At the weekend we are going to a socially distanced wedding. This will be an interesting experience. 

The new challenge has started at the Not Just Cards Challenge blog the theme is always Anything Goes. So it is nice and easy to enter. There are no prizes but there is a badge to display on your blog if you are picked as a winner. 

This is the anniversary card that I made for our daughter and son-in-law. I can't believe that they have been married for three years. The paper I used was in my stash. 

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

This image came from an old card. I just loved the cute hedgehogs so much. The little bows were in my stash too. 

I know they thought this card was cute. Their next big adventure is when they move house for which they do not have a date yet. 

Happy Crafting

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Cute Hedgehogs posting a Christmas card in the Snow

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How is your week going? It was so wet and windy yesterday. We had a Eat Out to Help Out meal with our friends yesterday. We booked it early on and it was hard to get a booking. In the end we booked for a very late lunch. It was a very nice meal though. Today I am visiting the lady who is opening her house and garden as part of the Hampshire Open Studios event. She is allowing me to have a table of cards. We will sorting out the final details. 

I have been practising  my colouring again. I do like using my pencils and I find that I can colour much smaller images which in turn means the cards I make don't have to be so large. This is much better for postage. 

The backing paper came from my stash. I added a couple of snowflakes cut with Sue Wilson's dies. 

This image is from Di's Digis but it doesn't appear to be in the shop anymore. I coloured those cute Hedgehogs with my Faber-Castell Polychromo Colouing pencils. The mats and layers were cut with the Double Pierced Square dies from Creative Expressions. 

This is a a super cute card. I will save this one for my cousin and her partner as they both love seeing the hedgehogs in their garden. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The August Rudolph Days Challlenge

The Anything Goes Challenge 25th August at the Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) Challenge Blog

Challenge 41 at the Christmas with the Cuties Challenge blog

Week 33 at the Colour Crazy Craft Challenge blog

The August Challenge ar Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge blog

Challenge 504 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 77 at the Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 25 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Have a great day. 

Happy Crafting

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Cute Little Hedgehogs in a Line

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We had a quiet day on Saturday. There were lots of jobs around the house and garden that we caught up on. In the garden I harvested 1kg of potatoes that I had grown in a pot. We had some them with our dinner on Sunday they were delicious. On Sunday we had a walk to our local country park to see the field of sunflowers there. We did see the sunflowers but we also got caught in the rain. Later we went to have a cup of tea with our good friends. Sunday was a good day. 

I have been tidying my desk and going through  my files and I found this cute little card that I hadn't shared with you. 

The background paper and the ribbon was in my stash as well as the buttons. 

This is an image stamped with a Little Clair's stamp set. It is such a shame they are no longer in business. I coloured the stamped image with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I did do this some time ago I found the image when I was doing some tidying. I no longer colour with those pens but I use them to make backgrounds. 

This is one of the cards that I will have on sale at the Hampshire Open Studios event. SeaDrift Studio where I will be showing some cards will be open Bank Holiday weekend. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 62 at Crafting Happiness Challenges 

Have a good week

Happy Crafting

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - the theme Love/ Valentine's

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How is your week going? I had a day catching up with job yesterday. Today I am going out with a friend. We both like crafting so we might come back here and make some things together after lunch.

Being the first Tuesday of the month the new challenge starts on the Unicorn Challenge blog. The theme is Love/ Valentine's. This is just the right time of year to be making this kind of card.

I used an old card to make this card. The flowery rose paper was inside the card and fitted my card nicely. I cut the aperture with my Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. 

This is such a cute image. The die I used for the sentiment is one from Tattered Lace. I don't know if they still make this one, The ribbon with the bow came from another card. So there was lots of recycling in this make. 

I will be sending this card to my cousin. She is going through some treatment at the moment and I want her to know that we are thinking of her. She love hedgehogs she often posts pictures of the ones that come to her garden on Facebook. 

I would like to enter challenge 56 at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Under the Mistletoe Cute Hedgehogs

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How is your week going? When we got up yesterday we had a bit of a shock our daughter had been messaging us all night - never a good sign. Her husband was taken into hospital during the night and was still there in the morning. He eventually got onto a ward and he managed to get some rest. We went up to visit in the evening. Hopefully he will be able to come home today.

I have playing along with the Month of Christmas Cards Challenge at Beccy's Challenges.  I have really enjoyed it and I have won some credit to use in the store which I am really looking forward to using. This will be my last card for the challenge which I think finishes tomorrow.

My cousin has been rather poorly in fact she is being treated for Breast Cancer. She and her partner are very fond of the hedgehogs that visit their garden. So I thought I would make a special Christmas card for them with hedgehogs on it. I remembered that Di's Digi Stamps has lots of hedgehog images. I treated myself to a couple of images in the Black Friday sale there was 40% off Christmas images.

I found the holly paper in my stash which was handy. 

This image is called Hedgehogs Mistletoe Kiss and is available HERE.  It was printed onto Neenah card and coloured with my Promarkers. I have been trying to get better with my colouring. I am quite enjoying it now. 

This was cut with a Creative Expressions die. 

Yes I do like red and green and gold together for Christmas cards. I hope my cousin likes this. 

I would like to enter the Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Challenges, challenge 348 at the I Love Promarkers Challenge blog, challenge 45 at the Merry Christmas Challenge blog and the December Challenge at the Crafting By Designs Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog Second Birthday

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Good morning. How are you? This is my second day of being retired everything is all a bit weird at the moment I am sure I will quickly get used to it. There is so much that I want to do.

Well the new challenge starts on the Unicorn Challenge blog and it is our second birthday (where did the time go?). To celebrate the theme this month is Birthday and we have not one but two wonderful sponsors Di's Digi Stamps and Fabrika Fantasy.

I had a look in the Di's Digi Stamp store and I couldn't resist this cute image. I used three shades of blue centura pearl card. I made a frame for the image with the Double Pierced Rectangles by Creative Expressions. The top layer was embossed with the Heart Lattice embossing folder also by Creative Expressions unfortunately I don't think it is available any more. 

Fabrika Fantasy have some wonderful images on their site.

Di's Digi Stamps also has some gorgeous image. We are very lucky to have been sponsored by them both this month. 

I treated myself to one of the images from Di's Digi Stamps this one is called Hedgehogs Bluebell Fun. The image was printed onto water colour paper and coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

I do love circle sentiments they often fit onto a card where others couldn't. This is a LOTV sentiment that came free with a magazine some time ago. I used my Tonic circle dies to cut the circles. 

These bluebell were cut with some Spellbinder dies. 

This is a good time to join our challenge with two sponsors. I am looking forward to seeing all the entries. 

I would like to enter challenge 13 at Angie's Digital Stamps, TTCRD Anything Goes Challenge for the week starting 5th Sept, Anything Goes Challenge at the Cuttlebug Mania Challenge Blog and challenge 493 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Cute Hedgehogs - LC Designs

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a great week. I am heading off to meet friends for lunch a bit later. Not working is just brilliant. Yesterday my husband had the day off and we went to the cinema and we had a lovely lunch. I am progressing well with the buttonhole flowers too. We also managed to post the invitations to the wedding. It is all starting to get a bit real. You can see the designs Here.

I think I have said before that I treated myself to some LC Designs stamps when I went to the Newbury Craft show.

I used paper scraps from my stash to create the background. 

The image and the sentiment were stamped on to water colour card with black archival ink and then coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

I just added some lace and gems to finish off the design. 

I would like to enter Weeks 269 and 270 at Pixie's Snippets Playground and Challenge 317 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

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