New Baby card in Blue

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? Not much going on here but that is too be expected. Zoom is working overtime in our house. 

Just before Christmas the best friends of our daughter and son-in-law had a much longed for baby boy. This is the card that I made for them. 

This is a tri-shutter card. I have made them for babies before. It is a good way of showcasing a lot of smaller dies. The backing paper is an older Tattered Lace paper. I used dies from Tattered Lace, Creative Expressions and Crafter's Companion. There is lots of scoring and cutting to make this design. 

This card folds up as small as this. It is still a bit thick for posting. This one went in a parcel. 

This was posted before Christmas but I have no idea if it arrived or not. I hope it did enjoy making this one. 

Stay safe and take care. 

Happy Crafting

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Poinsettia decorated Christmas Box

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? On Saturday we visited my parents and significantly managed to get them to agree to have a live in carer. I just have to get that sorted now. We followed this by meeting up, for a Christmas meal, with our daughter, son-in-law and his parents. The venue was the Heron on the Lake in Fleet and they do a very good festive meal. On Sunday we caught up on lots of Christmas jobs. I have felt like I have been chasing my tail since we came back from holiday.

My mother-in-law loves good quality dark chocolate (much like me). We usually buy her several bars of chocolate and I make a box for them. She uses the boxes I make for many different things.

I do like making boxes. Using a scoring board makes this very easy. Before I make the box up I cut the lattice into the card stock and stick some acetate behind. 

The Poinsettias were made with dies from the John Next Door range. I added a ribbon to make the box more festive. 

I know my mother-in-law will love this box. I wonder what she will use it for afterwards. 

We are doing something very exciting tomorrow. With friends we  are going  to see Michael Bublé

at the O2 in London. Our travel plans have been affected by the strikes but that is all sorted now. I will let you know how we get on. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 247 at the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge Blog

Challenge 73 at the International Art & Soul Challenge blog

Have a great week

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Not Just Cards Challenge Blog - September Challenge

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going?  My hubby is off work and we have been catching up with lots of things that needed sorting out. This morning he got up early and went to take our daughter and son-in-law to the airport. I am helping at a Felting Workshop today.

Being 11th of the month. The new challenge starts at the Not Just Cards Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes.

I am sharing a baby card that I made when our great nephew was born back in August. We still haven't met him yet but he looks super cute in all the photos.

I do like these Tri-shutter cards. They are just great for all those small baby themed dies that I have in my collection. Because I make this style of card from scratch it is easy to make the mats and layers. The backing paper was in my stash it is all over covered in little hearts. I used many different makes of dies to make this card. 

Why not join in with our challenge? Click on the logo and it will take you to the Blog. 

All the scoring was done with my Hougie board. I used a craft knife to make the slits. 

I do like making this style of card. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The September Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

The 10th September Challenge at the Through the Craft Room Door Challenge blog

Challenge 398 at Crafty Creations Challenges

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Exploding Box Nautical Themed Birthday Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week and are ready for the weekend. Now my mum is out of hospital and the carers are all in place we can have a weekend off. On Saturday our good friend is having a birthday tea at home and we are helping. She is going to be 60 and she has 60 guests coming. On Sunday we will be celebrating our daughter's birthday which was earlier in the week. We are having a trip to Marwell Zoo which is near where we live. It should be a good weekend full of fun.

My father-in-law loves the cards that I make. So I do like to make something a bit special for him. I thought I would have go at making an exploding box card.

I found the instructions for an exploding box card in one of my Hougie Board books. I did make the lid a bit bigger as I do like my layers. 

I used papers and dies that suited the theme. 

Now I made a film of opening the box. It is a very short film and it may not work. 

I decorated some of the inner flaps with nautical dies. 

Here is the another decorated panel. 

The ship in the centre is a Tattered Lace die. It only just fits in the box. 

Here is the box and lid. I know he will love this card. I would like to make a card like this for my husband's birthday. This was a good practice. 

I would like to enter the following Challenges: 

The Secret Hideaway Challenge at the Daring Card Makers Challenge blog

The May Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 220 at the Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge blog

Challenge 175 at the Cut It Up Challenge blog

Challenge 166 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Challenge 115 at Scrapy Land Challenges 

Challenge 164 at Creatalicious Challenges 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? Yesterday a lovely friend took me out for the day. Unfortunately I ended up with a really bad headache. I had to come home early and our evening plans were cancelled. I think the headache was a reaction to all the stress there has been lately. My mum is now home and she will be living upstairs. I am not sure if it is because of the dementia but she sleeps a lot.

Last week when I was making the wedding card with  Butterfly Heart die set, from the John Next Door range from Crafts Too, I couldn't believe just how many beautiful butterflies there were that came away from the die. So being me the WASTE had to be made into a card.

I used my Hougie board to emboss the background. 

I went a bit mad cutting more butterflies to add to the ones I already had. 

This is a Crafter's Companion die. 

There you have it quite a simple card to make. I couldn't let those butterflies go to waste. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 353 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Enjoy the rest of the week 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Not Just Cards Challenge blog - November Challenge - Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your weekend going? Today is a rather special day and we are off to church for a Remembrance service. I think it is going to be very busy.

As today is 11th the new challenge starts on the Not Just Cards Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes. I am sharing the card I made for my friend's special birthday.

I decided to make rosettes. I used my trusty Hougie Board to do the scoring. I made 5 rosettes in the end. I added two doilies and some patterned paper to the background. 

Why not come and join us our challenge are always Anything Goes. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

I added die cut circles to each. 

I added die cut details to each one. 

The glasses seem appropriate for celebrating. 

This is the Poppy Wave that my friend has created in the entrance to our church. People of all ages made poppies of all different shapes and sizes, 

I am not sure if this friend liked the card. We did have trouble going to the party which was a friend's house and we had been given the wrong house number. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 154 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper November 2018 Challenge 

Challenge 227 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 154 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 227 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the weekend

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Anything but a Card - A Box

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a good weekend and are ready for the week ahead. This is a scheduled post we are on our way to Malta. Life has been so fraught I am looking forward to some time away.

Being Monday the new challenge starts at Always Fun Challenges and the theme is Anything But a Card. So I made a box. I am no longer on the design team but I thought I would share this anyway.

Recently it was my mother-in-laws birthday and she likes chocolate. We have taken to buying bars of chocolate for her they just needed a box to show them off. I had a sheet of A3 patterned card and it was just right for this box. 

To decorate the top I used all dies from John Next Door. 

Here is the chocolate in the box. 

One final look at the box. That is all from me until next time. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) - Theme Flowers

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I am all back to normal. The house is all tidy the washing is sorted and I am back crafting. I have had some good news that I will be able to share with you soon.

The new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog and the theme this time is Flowers. Now there aren't many people who don't like flowers.

This is quite a small card I made it by recycling a card I had been sent that is where the background came from. The flowers were cut with a Britannia die set. 

It needed a box so that the flowers wouldn't get squashed. I used my Hougie board to make the box. Before I constructed the box I cut the aperture using the Double Pierced die set I cut the inner layer too. The lattice was cut with Stitched Lattice frames set. All from Creative Expression. There is acetate behind the lattice. 

I used Spring Daffodils die set designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

The Happy Birthday was cut with the die that came with the 2016 Crafter's Companion Advent Calendar.  

Here they are together. I was very pleased with how the box turned out. I think I might be making some more like this. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter challenge 35 at the Crafting with Attitude challenge blog , challenge 449 at the CRAFT challenge blog, challenge 511 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog , weeks 313 and 314 at Pixie's Snippets Playground , challenge 274 at the Brown Sugar challenge blog and challenge 44 at the Crafty Addicts challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge blog - Anything Goes - with the optional twist of Santa Claus is coming to Town

Hello my Crafty Blog Friends

How is has your week been?  I hope you have something nice planned for the weekend. Tomorrow we are going to a Christmas choir rehearsal in the morning. Then there will be some things to sort out for Christmas. On Sunday the choir will be singing in the Sunday Service. We will be doing four songs. It should be good our choir master is very talented.

This is the last challenge of 2017 for the Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge Blog.  This is challenge is number 397 the theme is Anything Goes and the optional twist is Santa Clause is coming to Town.  There is also a Guest Design Team call for January. The sponsor this time is Digital Paper Craft. The Design Team used their own images for this challenge.

This is a tiny A6 card. I wanted to make  some more small cards. Because I made a rosette with my Hougie Board it is a bit dimensional for posting. My husband gave them to people at work when they were at their Christmas meal last Monday. 

There are lots of exciting things in the store if you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

The Santa from the Christmas Cookie-Cutter stamp set was stamped with Archival ink onto Neenah card and coloured with Promakers. He was cut out with the matching punch. 

The sentiment comes from the same set. 

I made four cards like this and they have all been given out. I do like that cute Santa. 

The Crafty Catz next challenge starts on January 5th 2018. 

Enjoy your weekend. 

I would like to enter challenge 99 at the Sparkles Monthly Challenge blog . challenge 57 at the Crafting with Friends Challenge Blog , challenge 58 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog , challenge 47 at the Merry Christmas Challenge Blog and the Christmas Challenge at Moo Mania & More. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Happy New Year!

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I know it is a couple of days before we celebrate the coming of the  New Year. We have been invited to our future in-laws to for a small party that should be fun we all get on well. There is even talk of hiring a big house altogether next year for Christmas.

This is a card I made for the Reader's Design Team for issue 160 of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine. My card wasn't one of the main ones featured in the magazine but it was featured as a small thumbnail with my name down the side.

I used lots of elements from the bonus papers to make this card. I also matted the layers with matt black card and gold mirror card. 

I used my Hougie board to  create some rosettes. 

I used some of the sentiments on this card. 

I like the small image of the champagne glasses. 

I must admit that I am looking forward to next year. I have about 6 months to get all the things I need to make for the wedding made. I am cutting back on a few things to make this possible. Of course I need to think about an outfit as well and my husband will need a new suit. 

I would like to enter challenge 458 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog and challenge 118 at the Inspiration Destination Challenge blog. 

I hope that you have a great start to the New Year. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafts Galore Encore - Gift Bag

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Yes I am back again today! It is the first of the month and there is a new challenge on the Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog. This time we have a wonderful sponsor Bugaboo Digi stamps and there are prizes. The design team were all able to choose an image each to work with so if you go to the blog you can see their wonderful inspiration pieces.

I chose the Halloween Silhouette Scene. I am really enjoying using silhouettes in my card making at the moment. I decided to make a gift bag as this is the time of year for collecting sweets.  I made the bag first from black card using my Hougie board to do all the measuring and scoring.  

For the image I printed it onto  white  160 gsm card stock and I cut it out. Then I used two shades of Distress Ink to ink over the image. I used my Versa Mark pen to draw round the edge of the image and to highlight the eyes and windows then I heat embossed it with a glow in the dark embossing powder. If does work,  this really does glow in the dark. I added an extra little die cut cat in the corner. I used a spellbinder die to make a frame for the image I think it looks a little Gothic. 

If you click on this logo you will be taken to the Bugaboo store there are lots of images to choose from. 

Not long and it will be the weekend. I have been rather busy with Design Team bits and pieces and at the start of the month there will be quite a few posts from me. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Another Leaving card and a box to put it in.

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I hope the heat hasn't affected you too badly. I do know some people who have been quite badly affected by the heat. Not long now and it will be the weekend and there might be time to relax.

I am sharing another leaving card with you today. There are a few people leaving work at the end of term. This card is based on one I made a few days ago but it is on a  smaller scale.

I wanted to be able to make the box for this card from two sheets of A4 card I also wanted it to be large enough for a bar of chocolate as well. The dimensions of the card are 13cm x 19cm. I cut the mats with half centimeter increments. The top white mat I cut with the Sue Wilson Carina die from the Gemini collection. 

The flowers were made with a Spellbinders die they were cut from white paper that I found in my snippets box. The edges were inked with Distress Ink before they were rolled with my quilling tool. I cut the trailing Ivy dies from green card. Finally I made a tag with the one of the pierced tag dies. The words were cut with  Brittania dies. 

Here is the box it did take the whole width of  a piece of A4 card and I used two, one for the top and one for the bottom. I used my Hougie board to do the scoring. All you have to do is cut the card to size and all the measuring is done with the board it really is a good bit of kit. 

We have recently changed our laptop and I am learning to use  different photo editing software. You will have to bear with me while I am learning. One big plus is that you can put text onto the picture without having to go to another program, which is what I was doing before. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground week 183.

Enjoy the rest of the week. I do hope that is doesn't get too hot again.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie