Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog theme Swirls and or Curls

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has the week been for you so far? It has been very cold here, sunny but cold. I have been working on colouring the images for the wedding invitations. I have managed to fit in making a few other things as well.

The new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times Challenge Blog the theme this time is Swirls and or curls.

I have had these swirl stamps in my collection for a long time and this was the first time I used them. On a piece of white card I stamped the swirls with Perfect Medium and heat embossed them with a gold powder. Then I used Distress ink to colour the page and finally I spritzed it with water and patted it dry with paper towel. 

I then created a topper with some of the butterfly dies Sue Wilson designed a while back. 

I hope you will join in with the challenge it runs for two weeks. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) - Christmas Scene

Hi My Crafty Blogs Friends

How is your week going? I had a lovely catch up with friends yesterday and I got to purchase some crafty goodies. The preparations for Christmas are certainly steaming ahead.

You might have noticed from my sidebar that I have joined the MAWTT challenge blog Design Team. I responded to a request on Facebook and I was thrilled when they accepted my application.  I am in team B and this is my first post for them. The new challenge starts today and the theme is Christmas Scenes.

I have been very guilty this year of buying lots of lovely dies and not getting round to using them. I used three of those dies on this card. All the dies in question were designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expression.  I started by cutting the Starry Night Sky die in black. I used a silver mat behind it to show off the stars and the moon. 

In the center of the Christmas Scene Mini background is a tiny Santa on his slay with two reindeer. They were just the right size for my card I just cut more reindeer and glued them in place. 

I cut both of the dies in the Christmas Cottage Scene set in white and  backed them with gold mirri card to look like lights. You can just see the two deer. 

The Merry Christmas was cut with a Signature die. 

Thank you for stopping by enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge - Add Some Glitter

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Christmas preparations have really notched up a step. There is so much to do.  I hope your plans are going well. Yesterday I sorted out all the presents that need posting so they can go in the post today. Every little helps.

The new challenge on the Unicorn Challenge blog starts today the theme is Add Some Glitter.

I made this card after watching a demonstration by Sue Wilson on Hochanda. For the background layer I took a piece of white card and I stamped some poinsettias in black archival around the edge. Once the ink was dry I  stamped the same poinsettias with Perfect Medium, over the black ones, these were then heat embossed with some gold embossing powder. Finally I inked over the edges of the card with Black Soot Distress ink.  

I took a piece of black card and I stamped the poinsettias with Perfect Medium over the surface. Then I dusted them with two shades of mica powder. Then from the center of the black  I cut last years festive angel by Sue Wilson. Behind the black sheet I put a double sided sticky sheet. I cut a gold angel which this time I embossed to get all of the detail. The angel was placed in the aperture of the black sheet and stuck to the sticky sheet. I used some fine glitter to cover the exposed sticky sheet. 

Peace was cut from some glitter card. Around the edge of the black I added some dries clear glue and I sprinkled it with a course glitter. I added gold dazzlers to the corners and ribbon across the center. 

I have been asked to make two more of these cards for a friend. So now I have three black angels to use, I think I can feel a design coming on. I have lost count of how many Christmas cards I have made this year but I am getting worried that I don't have enough. Time is running out and there is wedding prep to do as well. 

I would like to enter the Celebrate Challenge at the Try it on a Tuesday Challenge Blog , challenge 33 at A bit more time to Craft Challenge Blog , Shine Challenge at the Cuttlebug Mania Challenge blog , frame it challenge at the Winterwonderland Challenge blog ,Challenge 34 at A Snowflakes Challenge Blog and Week 258 at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

I hope that the rest of the week is kind to you. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Snowy Christmas Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good weekend. Yesterday our daughter actually bought a wedding dress and now it is hanging up in our spare bedroom. Today we are taking our daughter back to her house ready to fit  some beading round the new rabbit room so the bunnies can go home next week.

I was a bit naughty and treated myself to a subscription to Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine. This month the free gift was a snowflake die, a snowflake embossing folder and some stamps. Not bad really. I used the gift to make this card.

I created the background on watercolour card with a mix of Brushos, Pixie Powders and Distress ink. Once it was dry I stamped one of the snowflake stamps in Perfect Medium over the background and dusted it with gold mica powder. Then I stamped the same stamp with Cobalt Archival. I cut the die seven times out of white pearl card. 

I used the Sue Wilson Pireced flag dies to create the flag. Then I used another stamp from the set for the sentiment.  

Here you can see the detail of the die. In the magazine there is a rather nice ornament made with this die. I might have a go at making some.

I was very pleased wtih how this card turned out.

I would like to enter challenge 48 at the  Weekly Christmas Card Challenge Blog and challenge 32 at A Snowflakes Promise. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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LOTV Wedding Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you have had a wonderful weekend and are now fighting fit for the week ahead. We visited our daughter and did lots of jobs in the house. When her fiance got home we went out for a nice meal. Then on Sunday we saw our friend who lost his wife recently we had another very nice meal out. So not much cooking for me this weekend.

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for her. The bride and groom wanted money as a gift so she thought a nice card would be a good idea I tried hard not to let her down.

For the background I used a Spellbinder's corner die. I cut four and placed them in the corners over a patterned paper. 

This is a Crafter's Companion die. I cut it twice so I could create a shadow. 

The image came from the LOTV Occasions Set 3. This is such a useful set. I stamped with black archival onto water colour card and then coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I coloured the image first and my colouring suggested the colours for the rest of the card. Blues was the suggestion by my friend but it became more teal. To frame the image I used some dies from the Innsbruck set from the Austrian Collection by Sue Wilson. 

I used the Sue Wilson Esquiste Poppy die set to create the flowers and the Olive branch die set to make the foliage. 

My friend was very pleased with this card. I am very pleased that she like it. 

I would like to enter Week 254 at Pixie's Snippets Playground and challenge 337 at Craft Your Passion Challenges. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artiste - Anything Goes - Sponsor Foilplay

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. I am so glad that week is over. We are seeing our daughter in her new house tomorrow and helping with a few jobs which will mean that the bunnies can go home the week after.

The new challenge starts today on the Creative Artiste Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes and the sponsor for U.K residents is Foilplay.

For this challenge I created another wedding frame that was a gift for the wedding we went to back in October.

The frame came from The Range they have a good stock of frames at very reasonable prices. The backing paper I have had in my stash for a while. This is the third frame I have made from the same two sets of tiles and this one was a struggle. We only had one R left .It is surprising how many words to do with weddings have Rs in them.   My husband helped me to sort out the words for the Crossword. We did try many combinations. 

There was a space in the corner so I cut the Sue Wilson Mr and Mrs die in black and silver for that space. 

Here is the wedding party. The bride is a work collegaue of my husband. The really weird thing is that one of my work colleagues was there because her partner knew the bride. We had no idea we would be at the same evernt until we got there. 

I was told afterwards that the happy couple were very pleased with this frame. 

I would like to enter Challenge 450 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog and Challenge 223 at the Brown Sugar Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Angel of Peace

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How was your weekend? Our daughter came home and we talked about lots of things to do with the wedding. We also cried together a bit as one of our good family friends has just died after a two year fight with cancer. Life does have it's ups and downs.

I made this card after being inspired by the demonstrations I saw Sue Wilson do when we watched her live at Ally Pally.

For the background I used the new 8" x 8" Falling Snow embossing folder.  The ribbon was being sold for 50p a roll at Ally Pally. 

This is last year's Christmas Angel designed by Sue Wilson from Creative Expressions. 

This die came with a dove a few years ago. 

I might make a few more cards like this. I do like the new embossing folder. 

I would like to enter the Tic Tac Toe Challenge at the Winter Wonderland Challenge blog ,Challenge 29 at A Snowflakes Promise .Challenge 31 at Make My Monday , Challenge 141 at Dream Valley Challenges and Challenge 331 at Craft Your Passion Challenges. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Ruby Wedding Anniversary Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Monday. I hope your week has started well.  I had a lovely time at Ally Pally and I chatted to lots of crafty people. I spent lots of money. We even got on telly, even if my husband did keep falling asleep in the front row. It was a good day and worth the early start.

I was chatting to one of my friends and it became clear that she and her husband would soon be celebrating their Ruby Wedding Anniversary. So I decided that I would  make them a card.

I used my favourite heart lattice embossing folder to create the background.  

I cut the 40th with my Britannia number dies.  

The heart was made with the Sue Wilson Heart of Hearts die set. 

This was cut with some more Britannia dies. 

I hope the couple liked this card. It was their anniversary when we were are at Ally Pally. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Masculine Birthday Card

Hi My Blog Friends

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We had an amazing time. The Retro Festival was fantastic. I kept seeing things that I remembered from my childhood. There was clothes, cars, music and food. We did steer clear of the carousel being like the one my husband fell off and broke his wrist last November. That seems so long ago now and he has made such a fantastic recovery.

After the festival went back to our daughter's fiance's parent's house for a BBQ to celebrate the dad's birthday. So I needed a masculine birthday card and I knew he was very interested in cars. In fact he had one on show at the Retro Festival.

I decided to make a clean and simple card. The embossed background I found in my bag of bits. 

I used my favourite Sue Wilson sentiment die. I think this one is so good for masculine cards.

I used the classic car stamp from Visible Image. I coloured it with my Promarkers. 

Here are our daughter's fiance's parents by their car in the show. It is a replica Cobra and he restored it himself. Doesn't it look like the car in the stamp?

This was one of the stalls at the Retro Festival it was just full of things my husband and I remembered from our youth. There was even a telephone table like one we replaced in our second house.  

He seemed pleased with card. We even had some time to talk about the wedding which was nice. It is so good that we are all talking and planning together. 

Enjoy your week.

Take care. 

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Card number 33

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? I have been a bit under the weather. My migraine took a couple of days to clear up and I managed to hurt my back. I am feeling a lot better now and I have been doing my back exercises. We have been sorting out different things to do with the wedding. There is a whole year of this before we get to the big day.

Well yesterday I shared one of the 15 Christmas cards that I was going to finish today and finish I did. Only I can't count,  when I got to sticking the images onto the cards I found I had one left over. So there where 16 images in the pack not 15 and I first thought.  I used the extra image to make this card.

I decided to make a bigger card I know a special couple who will love a card like this and it doesn't need to go in the post. 

There were four different images and four of each making 16 images not 15 as I thought. I really should look at things properly before I start using them. 

I used the Sue Wilson Classic Poinsettia dies to create the flowers. They were embossed and  then inked with Distress ink. 

This is another Sue Wilson die there is room for this one on this card. 

Yes I am well into the swing of making Christmas cards now. I need a few other sessions making batches of cards. Tonight we are off to the local garden centre they are open late and do a deal on meals it would be rude not to. Have a great evening.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Alphabet Challenge Blog - K - for Kindness

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Friday! I hope you have had a good week. I have been making the most of my time off. I have been able to do  a bit of crafty experimenting. Today I am hoping to get a long way with the Save the Date cards for our daughter and her fiance. They are visiting this evening as we will be looking after their rabbits for them so they can go away for a few days.

The new challenge starts on the Alphabet Challenge blog the letter is K and the theme is Kindness. I must admit this theme was chosen by me and I will be choosing the top three. I was thinking of Sympathy cards, Get Well cards or Thinking of You cards. One of the design team made a Thank You card - I didn't think of that but it does fit nicely with the theme.

I started by creating the background with the Heart Lattice Embossing Folder. I used white card and once embossed I inked over it to bring out the detail of the embossing. The gold lattice was made with a Spellbinders die and the Oval frame was made with the Innsbruck die set from the Austrian collection by Sue Wilson. 

I used a Thinking of you die set and the Pierced Flag dies by Sue Wilson  to create the sentiment. 

I do love the Sue Wilson poppy dies they make such beautiful flowers. The foliage was made with the Olive Branch die set.  

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. My husband has next week as leave we have lots of plans I doubt that we will get everything done. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Daisy Cluster - Thank You

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I have been very tired since the weekend we did so much. I feel like I am playing catch up with myself. The end of term is in sight and I nearly have all the leaving cards sorted.

I needed a thank you card  to give to the teacher I have been working with this year.

 I must admit that I used a card blank and mats and layers that were from a project I started but it went in a different direction. That did save me a bit of time on this occasion. The patterned paper was part of a bundle I got from a craft workshop I attended recently.  I added some Candi to the corners. 

I cut the main die from the Daisy Cluster Die set in green Centura Pearl card and the flowers in mauve. Pearls were added to the centre of each daisy.

I used the oval die from the Thank you die set to cut a white oval and the two dies together to cut the sentiment. 

Here is a picture from the wedding on Saturday the bride and groom are with my husband's parents the bride's grandparents. 

I am on another school trip tomorrow this one should be fun it is to a Model Railway open day. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 237.

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie