Congratulations on your Wedding Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are all well and enjoying the sunny weather we are having. We have been making iced lattes they are very nice. The coffee machine was a good investment. 

Last week we went to the wedding of one of our good friends. Sadly his first wife died four years ago. We had all known each other for years. Even with all the restrictions the wedding was lovely. We had refreshments in the grounds of the church after the weather was perfect. We are so pleased that they have found each other. 

I used the Heart Lattice embossing folder in the background. I also added a selection of dies. 

This is an image drawn by our daughter. It was so lovely to be able to make such a personalised card. 

Here is one of the pictures from the wedding. They look so happy together. 

As I had the images I was able to make a matching tag for their small gift. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Pretty Roses in a Vase

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? Ours went to plan. It was nice seeing my in-laws on Saturday and the vacuum cleaner was sorted out. Then on Sunday after our online church service we went to Lee-on-Solent. This is about a 20 minute drive from where we live. We had a walk along the beach. You can see the Isle of Wight from there and there were lots of people out sailing. It was so lovely to have a walk somewhere different. When we got back we put the cards I am putting into the sale next weekend  in plastic bags along with envelopes. Tomorrow I will have a go at prices them. When that is done I will be ready for setting up on Friday. 

Here is another pretty little card that I made from an old card. 

I thought the roses were so pretty. I cut the image down so that it and its mat would fit inside the frame made with a Spellbinders die. The lace was in my stash. The pink patterned paper you can see behind the lace is the back of the main patterned paper that I used. I have a big box of 6" x 6" papers and they are all mixed up I can't remember where they came from.

This is such a pretty image. I was able to make the bottom of the card into a tag. 

There you have it another card for the sale. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The August Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 63 at Crafting Happiness Challenges

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - the theme Love/ Valentine's

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I had a day catching up with job yesterday. Today I am going out with a friend. We both like crafting so we might come back here and make some things together after lunch.

Being the first Tuesday of the month the new challenge starts on the Unicorn Challenge blog. The theme is Love/ Valentine's. This is just the right time of year to be making this kind of card.

I used an old card to make this card. The flowery rose paper was inside the card and fitted my card nicely. I cut the aperture with my Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. 

This is such a cute image. The die I used for the sentiment is one from Tattered Lace. I don't know if they still make this one, The ribbon with the bow came from another card. So there was lots of recycling in this make. 

I will be sending this card to my cousin. She is going through some treatment at the moment and I want her to know that we are thinking of her. She love hedgehogs she often posts pictures of the ones that come to her garden on Facebook. 

I would like to enter challenge 56 at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Fantasy Stampers - Peaches and Cream

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good week and something nice planned for the weekend. We have had a busy week visiting people and looking for a new vacuum cleaner after our  old one broke. As we are looking after our daughter's rabbits, who are rather messy, I didn't want to be without a vacuum cleaner for too long. We picked it up yesterday and I am very pleased with it.

The new challenge starts today on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog the new theme is Peaches and Cream. That is such a pretty colour combination.

For the background I used the Victorian Swirl Embossing folder by Tattered Lace. I embossed some cream card and then some peach card and I cut them in half and  I tried the halves together to see which  combination I liked best. 

The roses were created with the Altenew Build-a- rose stamp and die collection that came free with Simply Cards and Papercraft a few months ago. It is nice to have the dies that match the stamps. 

This Happy Birthday stamp came free with another magazine a while ago. 

I did enjoy using these stamps again. 

If you check back tomorrow on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog the winners of the last challenge will be announced. 

Have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Altenew Roses Thank You

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How was your weekend? I hope you had a great time. I spent most of Saturday making Christmas samples for Tattered Lace. Then on Sunday we went to the Sincerely Yours Papercraft Show in Portsmouth. It was so nice to be out and about.

When I got my free Altnew Stomps with Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine a couple of months ago I made two cards. I didn't get round to sharing the second one until now.

I have had the Spellbinders Lattice die in my stash for ages and I haven't really used it until now. I cut an aperture in the backing paper with an oval die and I made a frame for it with some of Sue Wilson's dies. I popped the lattice behind the aperture. 

The roses and leaves came with their own die to cut them out. 

The flag was another Sue Wilson die and the Thank you stamp came from the same set in the magazine. 

This is my stash from the Portsmouth Papercraft show. Some of it was given to me by my crafty friend. Spot the lace I am going to have a go at making flowers for our daughter' s wedding. Watch this space. 

After the papercraft show we went for a walk by the water we saw a Little Egret (above) and an Oyster Catcher (below). 

I enjoyed using these stamps I must get them out again soon. 

Have a great week. 

Take care. 

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