Cute Cat in a Flower Pot

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I had a busy day yesterday. I was out with a friend in the morning and in the evening we had a meal out with friends. I must admit to being rather nervous about the way things are going with the virus. Again it is a case of waiting and seeing. 

I made this cute card for a friend who really, really likes cats. In fact she has three rescue cats. 

I used some scraps of patterned paper to make the patchwork background with some hexagon dies from Crafter's Companion. 

I found the image and the sentiment in my stash. As soon as I saw the cute cat I knew it would be ideal. I cut mats for the image and the sentiment with the Double Pierced Circle dies by Creative Expressions. 

I enjoyed making this card. I know my friend liked it a lot and so did her cats. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 386 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge 42 a the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

The September Challenge at Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Have a great day. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Cardinal wrapped up nice and warm

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I had a very busy day yesterday. I got myself to Winchester for an appointment and I managed to do a bit more Christmas shopping. Today will be quieter I have some parcels arriving and of course I am not sure when.

I couldn't resist sharing the card I made with the last of the Christmas Cardinals images from Beccy's Place. I had used the other images and this one needed its turn.

I had this idea in mind. I do love using hexagons and the way that they tessellate. I went through my stash of scraps and found papers with a similar colour palate. I made the design bigger than I needed it so that I could trim it to size. 

As I said he is from the Christmas Cardinals images from Beccy's Place they are available HERE. I made the background for the image in Publisher. This works really well with a pre-coloured image as you can loose the background white colour and pull the image to the front. The sentiment comes with the set. He just looks so cute in his scarf. 

I had some left over deer from another card so I  added two to the card. The ribbon was on a Christmas gift last year. 

I have really enjoyed using this set of images this year. I am sure I will be using them again. This is the last day to enter the November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges. I had so much fun joining in with the challenge this year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

The November Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 413 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 132 at the Kitty Bee Designs 

Have a great day. I will be back tomorrow with a Design Team Make. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - theme Perfectly Pink

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week started? I hope everything is well with you and your family. I am slowly sorting out the room the bunnies used and then we can move back in all the things that are stored in there.

The new challenge starts on the Unicorn Challenge blog and the theme this time is Perfectly Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness.

Well what do you do when you have hexagons left over? You make a card with them of course. The ribbon was in my stash and I only just had enough. I wanted to make a DL card. 

The flamingos came from the bonus papers from an older issue of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine. All the other papers were in my stash of bits and pieces. 

The Hexagon dies came from an issue of Crafter's Companion Inspiration magazine. 

The heart die came in a set from Creative Expressions. 

The sentiment was cut with a Tattered Lace die. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter Weeks 301 and 302 at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge Blog - Geometric Shapes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

Where is the time going it is Thursday already. Today I am having lunch with a friend to celebrate her birthday. I hope you have something nice planned.

The new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog and the theme for the next fortnight is Geometric shapes.

I used some of the bonus papers I had printed for a card for Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine. I didn't have quite enough for the background of the card so I reprinted one of the patterns and made it bigger to fit the card. 

I cut the papers with some hexagon dies that came with one of the Crafter's Companion Inspiration Magazines. I do love the flamingos. 

The sentiment came from the bonus papers to. It was cut out with one of the Double Pierced Rectangle dies from Creative Expressions. 

Yesterday I helped my friend (she is in the middle) as she led a felting workshop. The ladies all made four coasters and a flower to make a brooch. I got to bring home a poppy I had helped to make. When it is finished I will share a photo of it with you. I have some other dates lined up to help it is lots of fun. 

I was quite pleased with how this tropical themed card turned out. I do like using hexagons on cards. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Isobel Craft Collection Design Team Challenge

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a great weekend. We have just got back from celebrating our future son-in-law's birthday. We had a lovely meal with them and his parents. Then we went back to their house to have cupcakes made by the company who are making cupcakes for their wedding. The cupcakes are very yummy.

Last week Sophy from The Isobel Craft Collection set a challenge for her design team. We were to make a monochrome easel card with one of the her stamp sets. Well I do like a challenge. I used the first stamp set I ever got from The Isobel Craft Collection.

I decided to make a twisted easel card. I thought the bees were ideal for a monochrome card. I used black and yellow card to make the mats and layers. On the top yellow layer I used the hexagons stamp from the set and stamped it in black. I did ink round the edges with yellow Distress Ink. 

I stamped other elements from the stamp set and black and where I added colour I used my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I cut the different images out with some hexagon dies in my collection these have a stitched border. 

I do like that easel cards fold flat for posting. This is the card folded for posting. 

Here is the rub. This card will be posted on The Isobel Craft Collection Facebook page along with the other entries and I need votes. Please vote for me. 

Sophy is also hosting one of her wonderful craft sales this evening. This is the link to this event https://www.facebook.com/events/326143511093173/. There will be lots of crafty bargains. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Isobel Craft Collection - Singing in the Rain

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good weekend. We had a lovely time looking at wedding dresses with our daughter yesterday. She tried on 14 different dresses in two different shops. She now has a clear idea of which type of dress suits her best. There is now a plan to go back to one of the shops in November to make a final choice. It was a very good day.

I have made another card with the new release of stamps from the Isobel Craft Collection. I was sent the Garden Delights stamps set. I wanted to use the raindrops and the clouds this time.

I had fun with the raindrop stamp making the background using the resist technique with heat embossing and Distress Ink. I stamped the sentiment and clouds onto water colour card with Black Archival. Then I used some hexagon dies to cut them out. The spotty ribbon was in my stash. 

The stamps are available from the https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sophy8?ref=search_shop_redirect. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Today is my husband's birthday so this should be another good day. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

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Bee-lated Birthday

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I have been very busy the end of term is always busy. I have some leaving cards to make.

I was asked by Sophy Haes, who runs  The Isobel Craft Collection - The Cardsmaker's One Stop Shop www.facebook.com/theisobelcraftcollection,  to use some of her stamps to make a card and mention her Facebook page on my blog. I agreed and I choose the Bee Set of Stamps. They are so cute.

This is the card I made. I stamped the stamps onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink and when this was dry I coloured them with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

This is the stamp set you get lots of stamps they can be bought from the Etsy shop. 

For the background I used the honeycomb stamp. All the other stamps where cut with some Crafter's Companion nest hexagon dies. They came with the latest edition of Crafter's Inspiration. They were ideal for this project. 

The stamps were in various sizes and suited different dies from the set. 

The finished card measures 7.5" x 5". The ribbon was in my stash. Why not visit Sophy's page www.facebook.com/theisobelcraftcollection. This page also holds monthly sales where you can buy craft goodies from brands such as Phill Martin, Sue Wilson, Sizzix, Spellbinders, Creative Expressions, Tonic Studios and many more! Here is a link to her next sale https://www.facebook.com/events/1726696614265379. Why not grab a crafty bargain. 

I would like to enter Challenge 66 at Creative Craft Cottage , Challenge 117 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog and Challenge 317 at Craft your Passion Challenges. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Fantasy Stampers - Girl Power

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Here we are at the weekend. This is a special day for me it is actually my birthday. We are meeting my parents and my daughter and her boyfriend for lunch in Winchester. Later on I am hoping to see the new Avengers Ensemble film.

This is my Design Team card for the Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog the theme this time is Girl Power. I struggled a bit with this theme and then I remembered some Gorjuss stamps in my stash and I chose this one as I thought she looked determined and thoughtful. She is called The Collector.

I started with an 8" x 8" card black blank. I do like this size there is so much potential. 

I stamped the image twice one was coloured one with Promarkers and cut  out by hand the other was left uncoloured and then cut  out with a hexagon die. This meant that it was easy to line the coloured image over the uncoloured one I used a gel glue to give it a bit of height. You also get natural shadow without having to do any colouring. 

The sentiment was from a stamp set designed by Sam Poole.

With the  Gorjuss stamp set came some little heart stamps and I stamped one of these in black around the edge of the red mat to add some interest.

I might post some pictures of my special present tomorrow. Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Patchwork Butterflies

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good week, I can't believe that we are half way through already.

I wanted to share a little card that I made for  challenge # 25 on the The Butterfly Challenge blog H is for Hexagon.  I used so many snippets I would like to join with the Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 166. There is an Anything Goes Challenge on the Scribble and Scrap Blog that I would like to join in too. That's a lot of challenges for me.

I really enjoyed making this card. I used a Sizzix  hexagon die to cut the papers to make the background I could cut four sheets of paper at the same time. It was good to be able to use some of the snippets in my stash and you don't need much of each colour. I cut a piece of coconut white card and I stuck the hexagons to this I wanted some of the white to still show. 

The main image is from a Kanban topper set the butterfly is beautiful it started life as a circle but that was easily changed. I matted it to make it show up and I stuck it to the card with mounting foam.

The sentiment and small butterflies are from a set of stamps by Phill Martin I think the set is called Butterfly Meadow. I do find the little butterflies very useful.

I am very pleased with how this card turned out. I do like creating backgrounds like this. 

I hope the rest of the week is kind to you.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie