Always Fun Challenges - theme Male/ Dad

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? I hope you did something nice. We manged to remove most of the ivy from our garage. We attended a barbecue for people investing in cows for a farm in France. The cows have been bought and will be travelling to France in August. On Sunday we went to the Portsmouth Papercraft show and I met my crafty friend Sandy.

Being Monday the new challenge starts at Always Fun Challenges. The theme this time is Male/ Dad. As Father's Day is not far away it is time to share all those makes.

This is the card I made for my husband's birthday. 

Our challenges are always fun. 

I printed the image from a Creative World of Crafts  CD which is full on Pollyanna Pickering images. I printed the paper from the CD too. The aperture and frame were cut with the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. The ivy was cut with another Creative Expressions die set. 

The sentiment came from a paper pad and it was mounted on the a flag cut with the Stitched flag dies from Creative Expressions. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 120 at Kitty Bee Designs

Challenge 328 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge 249 at Creative Knockouts Sponsored challenges

Challenge 210 at the Crafting from the Heart challenge blog

The June Challenge at the A Perfect Time to Craft challenge blog

Challenge 15 at the 2 Crafty Critters challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Pollyanna Pickering Kestrel Thank You card

Good Morning My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Bank Holiday to those of you that get one today. I hope you have something nice planned. We are off to see our daughter it is her birthday on Tuesday but that is the day we travel to Liverpool. Now I am going to have a complete break no blogging, no wedding prep hopefully lots of fun. I have scheduled a post for Thursday for one of my Design Team commitments but that is it. I will do a proper catch up when we get back.

You probably all know by now that I have resigned from my school job. Now there is a team of four of us working in Year 3 and three of us are leaving. I think that says something. Anyway I want to make cards for the rest of my team to say thank you. This is the first one I made for the male teacher in the team.

The background does have texture and I now wish I had inked it. 

This die was a free with a magazine it is actually flora but I have used it more with the flowers removed. 

This image came from a pad of sketches by Pollyanna Pickering available from the Creative World of Cratfts. 

I cut the words from the image so they could be read more easily. 

That is the first thank you card I need to make two others. I have just applied for another job it is so long since I have done that. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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