Sailing Boat Father's Day Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope that you had a fantastic Easter weekend. The weather was certainly good for getting out and about. My husband had the Wednesday and Thursday off before Easter as well. We were able to get some jobs done in the garden the shed is ready to demolish. We went to the cinema and to the  theatre. We spent some time with friends and family. We even fitted in visits to  two National Trust properties. Of course there was coffee and some cake along the way. Everything is back to normal now. I have two lots of washing drying outside. I think the rest of the week might be a little wet.

Last week when there was time to craft I made my Father-in-law a Father's Day card. He is always pleased to receive my cards and he tells me how much he likes them. As he is loosing his sight I do like to make them textural for him.

The background paper was made by me with some ink on some very shiny paper. I applied the ink with cotton wool dipped in surgical spirit. The clouds, anchors and ship's wheels were added enhance the theme and to add some texture.  

This is the Sailing Boat die for the Stained Glass Collection from Creative Expressions. I cut the die in black and I cut a border for it with the Double Pierced Rectangle dies also from Creative Expressions. I cut a blue mat and I put some double sided sticky sheet on the blue. Then I stuck done the black image. I cut the die several more times so that I could paper piece the scene. When I was happy I covered the remaining sticky with some glass microbeads. 

The sentiment was cut with a Signature die. 

My Father-in-law was in the navy and he likes a nautical themed card. It is fine for me to share it as being 94 he is not in the least bit interested in Social Media. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 167 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 218 at the Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge blog

Challenge 119 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog

Challenge 112 at Scrapy Land Challenges

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Always Fun Challenges - Challenge 65 - Patriotic

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We have made good progress with the wedding makes. There isn't too much more to do just that table plan.

Being Monday that is the time for the new challenge at Always Fun Challenges this time the theme is Patriotic. So what better to do than make a birthday card for my father-in-law. He just loves shaped cards. These colours are just what he likes.

I decide to make one of those impossible cards. I found a tutorial and apart from changing the measurements a bit I followed the instructions. It really wasn't too hard to make. I have a pack of nautical papers in my stash. That ribbon my mother-in-law gave me a little while ago. 

Come and join in the fun at our latest challenge. 

The fun bit was the decorating. This is a Tattered Lace die it was just the right size for this project. All my nautical dies come out when I am making a card for my father-in-law. 

I cut the anchor and ship's wheel in blue and red to give a shadow. 

This is Creative Expression die it fitted nicely in the corner. 

I know my father-in-law will love this card. He is always so pleased with them and he lets me know. Which is sweet. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 213 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

The July Challenge at the Always Happy Birthday Challenge blog

Challenge 71 at the Get Creative Challenge blog

The July Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Under the Sea with a little Mermaid

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Are you all prepared for Easter? Just one more day and it will be the Easter holidays for me and just two days to go until the wedding.

I have been playing with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens again. I hunted through my stash until I found this LOTV stamp of a cute little mermaid.

For the background  I added lots of die-cut nautical images including anchors, ships and ship's wheels. I added a doily for good measure. 

I wish you could see the sparkle in the photo graph. I used watercolour paper and I stamped the image in black archival. Now for the confession I had to put a die-cut on the image to hide a smudge at the bottom of the image. Covering the smudge affected the whole design. 

I was quite pleased with how the card turned out in the end. I do love the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens and I think I will have to buy some more. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. The weather has been very nice here but I think it will have changed by the weekend which is a shame for the wedding. 

I would like the enter the Challenge at Crafting by Designs - Three or More Layers , Week 221 at Pixie's Snippets Playground, Challenge 418 at Cute Card Thursday and the Challenge starting on TTCRD on 22nd March.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Creative Artiste - Wedding Gift

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? It is nearly the weekend not long to go now. Like on Tuesday this is the first of two posts for me today, again the start of two challenges has coincided.

This post is for the new challenge that starts on the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog. The theme is "Anything Goes" with a twist of using chipboard. The sponsor is Scrapmatts.  I have just come back after having a two month break the team were very understanding when my husband had his accident and things just got a bit too much for me. Things have improved greatly at home and I am in a much better place.

I am sharing a gift I have made for the couple that I have been  making the wedding stationery for.

I wanted to make something like this after we went to their house and discovered that they had fridge Scrabble. I used an 8" x 8" shadow box frame.  The background was made to match the wedding invitations. I used my Gelli plate to mix and print three shades of Distress ink. Once it was dry I used a mask to ink through with silver to make the netting pattern.  

I bought two lots of letter tiles so that we had lots to play with. We had fun planning out the words my husband helped me. You could make something like this for any occasion just by changing the words and the colours. 

This shows the detail of the background a bit more clearly. 

The wedding is on Easter Saturday. I still have a few things to make. We are having one last meeting to go over what I need to do. 

I hope you have a great weekend. We are off to Reading for one night. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Sixtieth Birthday Boats

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your weekend been so far? I spent most of yesterday working on the Wedding Invites. I have made some progress but we hit another barrier meaning that we need to talk to one of the happy couples again. I am saying we as my husband is helping me with the printing. We did manage to get out for a coffee though as we often do at the weekend.

This is the card I have been struggling with. It is a commission for a 60th birthday card for a chap from his mum but it was  his sister who  ordered it. I was given the brief of the size which is A4, the colour blue and boats and planes.

The first thing you will notice there are no planes I just couldn't get them to work with the design. I did check that this would be alright. Filling an A4 card is quite a task. I made the background by stamping some nautical stamps with CS Perfect Medium and then heat embossing them with a silver powder. This was then inked over with a couple of shades of Distress ink. 

I made the sentiment  with Spellbinder dies for the shape and Brittania and Tonic dies for the words and numbers. 

These two images came from greetings cards. I used my matting basics dies to cut the images and the mats.

I made this with my Sailing Ship die I used a real map to make the background.

I used these die cuts  to balance the design. You can just about the silver anchor in the background.

I hope the lady likes it I will be giving it to her tomorrow. Today I will be doing more work on the invites.  Have you got any plans for today?

I would like to enter the May challenge at The Crafting Cafe the theme is Around the World. Boats help you get around the world.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

A Sailing Ship Birthday Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been so far? We aren't even half way yet. I can't believe how close we are to Easter it  only a couple of weeks away.

My friend asked me to make this card for her husband after she saw the Save the Date cards I made recently. Her husband is making a sailing ship that comes in weekly parts.

I started with the background I have a set of nautical stamps and I used these to stamp and heat emboss in silver and clear. Then I used three shades of Distress ink to ink over the embossing. 

The background for the ship was cut from a real map and then inked round the edge. I cut the ship three times in brown, white, red and blue using a Signature die from Joanna Sheen. I kept the brown as my base then I cut the relevant bits from the other colours to stick over the top. I also hand cut some black card to go behind the ship to highlight the details. 

I cut the ship's wheel to fill in a space.

I have used this Happy Birthday stamp quite a bit lately it fits so well with the dies.

I do like how this turned out. Making it kept me busy while I waited for the man to come and fix our cooker. It is all sorted now.

I hope the rest of the week is kind to you and that you are able to fit in some crafting. 

Hugs Jackie

A Boat for a Birthday.

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good weekend and everything you wanted to do has gone to plan. I got my crating done and our friends came to stay for the night on their way back from a conference. We shared a nice lunch together and they headed home a few hours ago.

Do you remember me saying that my mother-in-law wanted me to make two birthday cards for her? She wants to give them  to a couple who help them out a lot and have birthdays very close together. Today I am sharing the card I made for the chap.

This is a very simple card but then I don't think a lot of men like fuss, there are always exceptions though. The image came from a birthday card that my father-in-law received for his 90th birthday in fact he had seven of them all the same. I choose the card stock for the matting and layering to match the colours in the image. I found lots of bits I could use in my snippets box including the backing paper with the boats on it. 

I recently treated myself to a second set of matting basics dies by Spellbinders to compliment a set I already had. This makes it easier for me to cut smaller mats from the main mat of the same colour. This is how I made all the mats for the image.

I found snippets in my box of bits to make the mats for the sentiment. This was stamped and heat embossed.

I  cut the anchor and the ship's wheel with dies that I had bought for the wedding invitations I am making. 

There you have it. I think my mother-in-law will like this card it is an A5 card the size she wanted or in her words "nothing too big."  As I have used so many snippets in one way or the other I would like to join in with Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 167.

I hope you have a good week. I will be back to share the card I made for the the lady later this week.

Happy crafting.

Hugs Jackie