Alphabet Challenge blog - Letter G - Give Thanks

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. This weekend our daughter is home. She has a hairdressers appointment and her dress is coming back from being altered. Everything is getting close and exciting. My husband and I are hoping to collect our new glasses which we ordered two weeks ago. I have managed to get glasses to match my outfit.

The new challenge starts today on the Alphabet Challenge blog the letter is G and the theme is Give Thanks. This will be my last post for the Alphabet Challenge blog as I have decided to step down from the team. I have enjoyed my time with them but now it is time to move on. I wish them all the best for the future. You never know I might go in for some of the challenges.

I like making Thank You cards. They are always useful to have in your stash.

I used an embossing folder the make the background. I used some Tonic dies to cut an aperture and an inner frame. Behind the aperture I used the Bed of Roses embossing folder by Creative Expression. 

This rose stamp came free with a magazine some time ago I now can't remember which one. I coloured it with my Stampin Up water colour pencils and I used a blender pen to move the colours around. 

This thank you die is floral but I have used it much more with the floral elements removed. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.  

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Sympathy card and Pictures from the Farnborough Craft show

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a great weekend and that the return to work hasn't been too bad. I had a fantastic time at the Farnborough Craft show. One bonus about taking my Father-in -law was that we were able to park inside the tent as he is registered disabled because of his visual impairment. We ordered the storage for my Really Useful boxes and got a show price with 20% off - result. I met a few people and of course I spent lots of money. I will post some pictures at the end of this post.

We heard some sad news on Saturday the husband of the lady, who was church warden at the same time as my husband, died suddenly. I wanted to make a card to pop in the post quickly.

The card blank I used was 7" x 7". The mats were cut with 1/4" difference between them. The patterned paper was in my stash and I inked the edge with Old Paper Distress ink.  The die I used was one of my Sue Wilson dies. 

The image was from a Hunkydory set that was in my stash. The image was decoupaged to give it some depth. 

At Farnborough I met crafty friend Diane. She helped me out of a fix,  when I was ill I ordered two lots of tickets for the show, Diane had two of the tickets and another friend had the other ones (she went on Friday).

On the Samuel Taylor's stand my friend Jenny Redfern (from Facebook) was demonstrating.

This is Fiona Clayton from Crafter's Companion she was demonstrating Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers also on the Samuel Taylor's stand. 

Here is the stash  I  there is just some A3 colouring card that didn't make it in from the car in time for the photo. The arrow is pointing to the picture in the catalogue of storage that we ordered.

I will leave you with a picture of the card I made for our friend. I hope it brings her some comfort it must have been such a shock for her.

I hope you have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Mum's the Word

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I am posting this quickly before we set off to the Make It craft show at Farnborough. We are taking my in-laws who live near the venue. My mother-in-law loves beads and my father-in-law will sit and people watch. The  big treat for me will be buying some storage for my really useful storage boxes to hopefully organize my cradfty stash.

This is my Design Team piece for the  Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog. The theme for the challenge which starts today is Mum's the Word.

I had already made my Mother's Day cards so I decided to make a heart shaped gift for my mum.

This started life as a plain MDF heart. I painted both sides with  white Gesso and left it to dry.

When this was dry I mixed some pearlised PVA paint with some red die to make a pink paint to paint the front of the heart. This was left to dry - I did leave it overnight. It might not need so long but I fit this type of project around other ones that I am doing and that was more convenient this time. When everything was dry I stamped the Clarity Rose stamp No. 84 all over the background with Perfect Medium and then heat embossed it with CS Ivory Fine detail Embossing powder.

This is the  Classic Rose stamp  HCPC3619 by Heartfelt Creations I have only recently bought this stamp . It was stamped and heat embossed and then coloured with Promarkers. I cut it out from the background. I like this stamp a lot I think I will be using it often. 

I wanted to use Glossy Accents on the letters and I first tried stamping the letters but everything smudged, I must have used the wrong ink. So I tried again with dies and I was much happier with the results. 

The back of the heart  was decorated in a different way I wanted to try applying one sheet of tissue paper to the back with Decoupage glue. I saw John Lockwood using a sanding block to make the tissue the right size I must say it worked a treat. The ribbon was attached with CS Dries Clear PVA glue it didn't take long to hold the ribbon in place and the bond is really strong.  

I hope my mum likes this it is a gift made with love. I hope you have a great weekend and that you get a bit of time to craft.

I would like to enter this for the The Crazy Challenge - For My Mom.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Lots of stamping and two new friends who have come to live with us.

I had lots of fun with this card. I don't often do stamping there is so much stuff to get out but when I do I always enjoy it. This started with a Barbara Grey rose stamp that was a club members gift. I had been want to use it for a while. I stamped it in Perfect Medium all over a piece of white card. Then I heat embossed it with a clear embossing powder. After that I inked over it with Distress ink using cut and dry foam where the embossing was stayed white. That was the background done. I took ages choosing some ribbon from my stash. Then out came the gilding flakes I  use Indigo Blu glue and flakes so I stamped and gilded the rose on some pink paper three time and cut them out with scissors. The leaves are from the Tim Holtz Bigz Die Tattered Leaves. The sentiment is individual letters stamped and them gilded.

Our daughter has come home to live with us and she has brought these cute little fellows with her. They are so soft.

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