What do you do with your leftover Designer Paper?

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your weekend been? Some people are lucky and have an extra bank holiday day off today. Being retired this doesn't make so much difference to us. Though we are probably less likely to go out as things will be busier. We had a nice time on Saturday visiting our daughter and meeting their dog again. This visit was more successful and the dog didn't bark at us once. Next weekend they will be visiting us as it will be my birthday. I do hope the weather is good. 

I have been using the Claritystamp Designer Paper in a lot of my cards lately and this means that there are bits and pieces of the paper leftover. The paper is far to good to waste so this is what I came up with. 

Can you see all the different papers I used to make the background. I think it looks a bit like a quilt. 

This is one of the Claritystamp club dies I received last year. I am working my way through my club dies to make sure that I use them. All the black card came from my stash of bits and bobs. 

I still have some bits and pieces of Designer paper left I might have another go at this design. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixies's Snippets Playground - Challenge 402 - Ruby's Memory 

Have a good week

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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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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Alphabet Challenge Blog the letter C for Cats

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good day. We are just about to set off to the hospital for my husband to have some tests, this is a leftover from when he broke his wrist last year. After we are going to head off to Gun Wharf Quays in Portsmouth in the hope of seeing the Batman V Superman film and having a nice meal somewhere.

The Alphabet Challenge starts on a new letter today and the letter is C for Cats.

I had a look through my stash and I found a sheet of Kanban cat toppers. I thought the image was so pretty that I wanted to use it. There was a patchwork theme on the sheet as well and I used this as inspiration for the background of my card. 

Isn't this a cute cat. I used a lacy circle die to make the mat for the image and I backed it with gold to match the gold on the image.

The sentiment came from the same sheet.

To create the background I used a hexagon die to cut many hexagons from different patterned papers. Once I had stuck the hexagons to a backing sheet to create a patchwork on the paper I covered the whole thing with a double sided sticky sheet and poured microbeads on it. It does create a lovely subtle background with texture.

I am not sure who to send this card to. It needs to be someone who likes cats. I know a lot of dog lovers but no cat lovers. There must be someone out there who would love a card like this. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. I will be back later. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

Not Just Cards - Delightful Digi's Olly the Owl

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are enjoying the summer. Yes we are still away and this is another scheduled post this time for the Not Just Cards challenge blog. The them is always "Anything Goes" so why not join in for a bit of fun.  Don't forget your makes don't have to be cards. I used an image and backing papers from Delightful Digi's who are one of the sponsors this month. The images and backing paper came from the the O-Sew- Sweet collection.

I decided to decorate my journal cover it was plain brown and needed some jazzing up. I will let you into a little secret this journal is with me on the cruise. I write a diary entry everyday it is much cheaper to buy plain journals and decorate them myself. I used Olly the Owl image and the Patchwork quilt  background in Purple. 

I coloured Olly with Promarkers. He is in a frame that has flowers in the corner. 

I printed Olly three times but I only coloured the flowers on two I cut them out and added them to the main image. I finished everything off with ribbon and die cuts. 

I love having the freedom to decorate the journals how I want it makes a nice change from making cards. I do hope that you have a good week. I will be back by  the end of the week actually on my husband's birthday.  

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