First Christmas Card of 2022

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

Happy New Year to everyone. We have had a quiet few days. My back is finally starting to feel much better. So I can now do some gentle crafting, Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post of 2021 my favourite makes. 

I was putting away the Christmas cards I was actually inspired to make one of them into a new card. I am trying not to do so much lifting and bending when I craft, that is limiting what I can make to some extent. 

Here is the first Christmas card I have made this year. In fact it is first thing I have crafted at all. 

I used one of my kraft card blanks. The lace was from my stash as was the pattered craft card and the gold mirror card. 

This is the image from the card. I trimmed it down and added a mirror card mat. 

When I need to get going again with my crafting I usually start with Christmas cards as simple ones are still effective. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Snippets Thank You Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I have been quite busy. Unfortunately I have hurt my shoulder and this has meant that even with some free time this week  it has been hard to craft. So I am a bit behind where I wanted to be with my makes.

I made a thank you card to send to a very special lady who runs the challenge at Pixie's Snippets Playground. I have been lucky and won a few of the prizes that have been on offer over the years. I have a endless supply of Snippets and I am on a mission to use as many of them as possible. I really enjoy joining in with the challenge. Di often makes me smile with her posts and I am enjoy finding out about what Dudley is getting up to. It is such an achievement to have been running the blog for so long.

Here is the card I made using lots of Snippets of course.

I made the background with strips of patterned papers. It is worth keeping all those Snippets to make the strips. I added stars to the design made with Snippets of silver mirror. 

The thank you die is from Crafter's Companion and I used the Refined Rectangle Frame die set to create an interesting mat for the sentiment. 

I do love making those backgrounds with the patterned papers. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 345 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

The Thank You Blog Hop at Darnell's Blog

The February Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Challenge 157 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 48 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge blog

Challenge 162 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 107 at the Scrapy Land Challenge

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Recycled Nativity Christmas Card

Hello My Crafty Friends and Visitors

How is your weekend going? Today we plan to catch up on jobs in the house and garden.  Then in the evening we are going to our local theatre for a comedy show. It should be fun. Tomorrow we will be visiting my parents and hopefully popping in to see my husband's parents. We had so much to sort out last time we visited my parents  didn't make it to see the in-laws.

I have been reusing old Christmas cards again. This is quite a simple make but I do like the look of this card.

I found some paper and gold mirror card that matched the original card. 

The card had an inner image and the manger image closed over it. I decided to put the manger image on some foam pads to raise it off the background. The sentiment was there already that is one good thing about old cards.. 

I do enjoy reusing old cards. Most of my makes this year are large the postage is going to be expensive. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 410 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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