Autumn themed Decorated Tag

Hello My Crafty Blog Fiends and Visitors

How has your week been? This week I have seen quite a few friends for drinks in the garden. We also had a shock over one of the bills for my parents from the Care Company. We are in the process of sorting that out. This weekend our daughter and son-in-law are coming to visit their rabbits and to bring them supplies. It will be nice to see them. They will be able to tell us about where they have got to with their house move. 

I was looking back through my files and I found pictures of a tag I made for a competition but I never got round to blogging it. 

I have some large black tags that are rather fun to decorate. The background was made on my Geli Plate. 

I used the John Next Door Additions dies: Acorns and Leaves and Autumn leaves. I used craft card and green card some gilding wax and some distress ink to add interest to the leaves. 

This sentiment comes from the Additions dies from John Nest door. I also used the leafy flourish die set. 

Isn't that ribbon fabulous. I did win a prize with this tag. 

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Festive Trio - Card, Tag and Gift Bag all matching

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been., Mine has mostly been filled with invigilating. I did manage a room of children with three different papers and two different end times all by myself. I have one more session this week and some more next week. The weekend will be busy. We will be sorting out things for Christmas and our upcoming holiday. On Sunday we will be visiting both sets of parents.

Here is a trio of matching Christmas items that I made.

I bought the John Next Door Magazine box kit and it came with a lovely Snowflake embossing folder. I used glitter card for one of the mats when you walk past they all catch the light beautifully. 

The sentiment came from the Happy Snowflakes set. 

To make the flowers I used, from the John Next Door Christmas dies,  the Poinsettia die and the Swirl Poinsettia die. I created the leaves with the Poinsettia die. 

I did actually make the bag first the design was in the magazine and it fits a small bottle of liqueur and some sweets. I made the tag to match. This little set will be going to one of my lovely friends that I used to work with. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Week 544 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Challenge 462 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

Challenge 59 at the Holly and the Ivy Challenge blog

Challenge 49 at the Unicorn Challenge blog

Challenge 16 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie  

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Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog - Anything Goes Challenge 7

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

It is Friday already. I hope that you have something nice planned for the weekend. The start of the month is always busy in Blogland and today is no exception there will be two posts from me.

The new challenge of the new year starts on the Emerald City Crafts challenge blog.

I decided to decorate a tag. 

The ephemera is available from Linda Simpson designs click on the logo and you will be taken to the store. 

The ephemera I used is from a set called Les Beaux Oiseaux Designer Ephemera and is available HERE.  

I added various die-cuts to the design. 

I might even make this into a card sometime. 

I would like to enter this into the optional blue challenge at the More Mixed Media Challenge blog and challenge 133 at the Let's Craft and Create challenge blog. 

Have a fabulous weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog - Challenge 3 always Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

I am back this time for the third challenge on the Emerald City Crafts Challenge blog as always the theme is Anything Goes and we really mean that.

This month I decided to decorate a tag. I used some lace from my stash and I added die cut feathers and butterflies. 

The bird image comes from the Les Beaux Oiseaux Designer Ephemera available from Linda Simpson Designs. The images come in two different sizes. 

Linda Simpson has a new website where you can purchase digital downloads of the ephemera and papers. If you click on the image you should be taken to the store. 

This shows some of the detail of the Delicate Feather Tattered Lace die that I used. 

I do enjoy decorating tags the images and papers make is easy and they are a good way to use up small bits and pieces from your stash. 

Enjoy the rest of the day.

Happy Crafting. 

Hugs Jackie

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Some Good News - Emerald City Crafts

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your weekend going? We had a busy day yesterday running round doing things with our daughter towards the wedding. The wedding dress is back and I can lace it.  It should be a quieter day today.

This is just a quick post from me to share some news. There is a new Challenge Blog starting being run by Linda Simpson. She has started an Etsy shop where she sells papers and ephemera. The new challenge blog is called the  Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog.  The challenges start on the first Friday of the month and will run for three weeks the theme will always be Anything Goes. I was thrilled when Linda asked me to join her Design Team. The first challenge will start on 7th July.

I have created a tag with one of the images available from the store if you go the blog there is a link to the shop.

I picked up some Tim Holtz tags in a sale I think they are going to be very useful. I had the lace and the backing paper in my stash. 

This is the image it comes in a set. 

It would be lovely if you could join us for our first challenge. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

I would like to enter challenge 254 at the Brown Sugar Challenge blog. 

Take care. 

Hugs Jackie

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Fantasy Stampers - Poppy Appeal

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Saturday. I hope that you have something nice planned for the weekend. Once we have cleaned out the bunnies we are dashing off to see our daughter. Her fiance is working and we are going to help with some jobs around their house like taking stuff to the tip. On Sunday we are having lunch with our friend who lost his wife recently.

The new challenge starts today on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog the theme is Poppy Appeal. I do love poppies on cards.

I have a bit of a confession. I did make a card with all the elements you can see in the tag but I didn't like it. So I made the tag and I was much happier with the result. 

The wooden mounted  stamp is Poppy Poem by Penny Black. I stamped it with black archival onto water colour card and I coloured it with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

It was a shame about the card I will probably still use it and the present that goes with it can have a matching tag. 

If you pop back tomorrow the winners will be announced on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog. 

I would like to enter the Red for  Remembrance challenge at the Sweet Stampin' Challenge blog and the Anything Goes Challenge at the More Mixed Media Challenge blog. 

I hope that you have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Tattered Lace - Cathedral Die

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope your week is going well. We are half way already.

I made some samples for the Noah's Ark shows on Create and Craft this week. When you see my samples you may wonder a bit. I was sent the Ark stencil set and template but no animals so didn't make any samples with it. I was sent a Cathedral Die and some wedding sentiments.

Here are all the samples together. It was a rather dull day to take photos so the contrast isn't so good. 

The first card I made was this simple wedding card. I cut the Cathedral in silver and put white behind it to show off the detail of the die. 

I found some pretty lace paper in my stash and used it to make this Save the Date cards. 

I made a tag that could go with a present, 

Finally I made a money wallet that you could put a financial gift in. 

I enjoyed making these samples. 

Enjoy the rest of the week.  

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Classic Rose and some news

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Here we at the start of a new week. I have really enjoyed my  half term but it back to reality now.

Now for my  lovely crafty news. I am thrilled to say that I have asked to join the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog Design team. This is my first card for them. Sometimes I will have digi stamps to use but this time the theme was "Anything Goes".

This 7" x 7" card started with the stamped image which is the Classic Rose by Heartfelt Creations. The other papers I used were in my stash and yes there are buttons on this card too. 

I stamped the image with Black Archival and then I heat embossed it with a clear powder. I put some Distress ink on my craft mat and added some water and I applied the ink to the image with a delicate water colour brush. I mounted the image onto a thin black mat.

I used a Sue Wilson  die to cut out the tag. I cut it twice once in pink and once in white I trimmed the white one so that there was a pink border. The sentiment was cut with a Tattered Lace die. The ribbon is from Creative Expressions and is the  Sheer Wrinkled Edge Ribbon in Dusky Pink

This is the result of a mistake I made when I was stamping. I stamped with black archival but then I heat embossed with a white powder ( all the little pots look very similar). I don't really like wasting anything so I coloured it with distress ink and I used it on the inside of the card like a watermark. 

I hope that you have a good week and have time to join in the challenge at Crafts Galore Encore.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Christmas Baubles

Hi Bloggers

It is a grey, wet Saturday here and we don't really have any plans for the weekend which is unusual for us. So it will be nice to catch up on a few jobs round the house.

This card and tag came about because I was making wedding invitation samples, in white and blue, to show to our niece as she has asked me to make her invites. So on my table there was lots of blue and white card and I had a new bauble die that came free with a magazine that I wanted to try.

I made the background by inking some white card with Stormy Sky Distress ink and then stamping over  it with a star stamp using Perfect Medium. After that I heat embossed the stars with a silver embossing powder. The stamp is by Sam Poole and gives a lovely random starry effect.

The baubles I cut and embossed in white card and I made a blue backing from some of the off cuts from the invites I had been making. To the centre of each bauble I added and CS 5mm flat back pearl.  The pine branches were cut with a Sue Wilson die.

I haven't really been much into making tags. But because there were so many scraps left around on my table it seemed silly not to use them. Also if I give this card to someone who I usually give a present to I will have a matching tag to use. Maybe I should start making wrapping paper as well.

I hope you have a great weekend whatever you are doing. Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Happy crafting

Hugs Jackie

Butterfly Tag

Hi Bloggers

Just a quick post from me today. When I posted my butterfly cards Jenny L mentioned a butterfly challenge blog. So I checked it out and the current challenge is to make a tag. So that is what I did I made a tag and I will be entering it for the challenge.

I don't make many tags. I liked the butterflies that I had die cut and inked for one of my butterfly cards so I repeated what I had done here. I inked the top mat as well because it was the only way to get the colour that I wanted.  The leaves were made with  a Tonic die and the butterflies were made with a die from a Sizzix stamp and die set. Tag shape and mats were cut with a Sizzix die set. I might make something like this but on the other side of a window.

Thanks for looking.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Nautical Just for You with a matching tag.

Hi Bloggers

I hope you are having a fun filled weekend. I was lucky enough to see Singing in the Rain at our local theatre last night and it really did rain on the stage, twice. The people in the front rows got very wet. Today we are having a bit of a quiet day and my husband is taking the opportunity to set up our new computer. So I will have to get used to the pleasures of Windows 8.

Today I am sharing with you a card and matching tag that I made with Sam Poole's nautical range of stamps.

The card and tag both started with the background which was made at a friend's house when she invited me round to have a play with a Gelli plate. It was something I had never tried before and I was very impressed with the results, especially how well the Special touch netting mask worked with this technique. 

I stamped the Just for you stamp onto white card and I coloured it with Promarkers. It was cut out with a Spellbinders rectangle die which meant I was able to ink through the die.I cut a frame for this uses some of the larger dies from this set. The embossing folder I used for one of the other layers was the Quilted Flowers A4 embossing folder and once embossed I inked round the edges to bring out the detail.

This shows the detail of the stamp. I did stamp it twice and cut the anchor from one so I could mount on foam in the middle.

For some added detail I added an Antique Button and some Bakers Twine I did want the card to have a masculine feel.

I was able to make a matching tag as we had used a piece of card to mask the centre of the Gelli plate but of course it got printed too, waste not want not. I do like things that match. I think, in the future,  I might get my own Gelli plate. At the moment I don't really have enough time to experiment so I am hoping to be invited round to have another play at my friend's house sometime she is a very good teacher.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie