Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #84 - Anything Goes - Sponsor Star In My Pocket Digital Stamps

 Hi My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? Guess what,  we had a quiet one at home. We did manage to get out for some walks between the showers. 

Well today is the first day of February. That means that the new challenge starts on the Crafts Galore Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes and the sponsor is StarStampz. 

The background paper came from a Nautical paper pad from The Works. The little circles are the waste from the John Next Door Mandala die set. 

There are many wonderful images in the store. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

This image is called My Sweet Rose and it is available HERE. I coloured the image with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. I used some Tatterlace dies to cut our the image and the mats. The Hello is a Crafter's Companion die. 

I do so enjoy colouring with my pencils. This is a very sweet image. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 55 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 59 at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge blog

The February Challenge at the Colour it, Create it, Show it Off Challenge Blog

The February Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

The World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #1

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Valentine's Pop-Up Box Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How are you doing? I have been doing online shopping. It is so nice when things arrive at the house. I will try not to get carried away. 

I didn't realise quite how hard it would be to make cards for my hubby now he is retired. I have a crafty friend who has had this problem for a while. Now I sympathise hugely. We are meeting for a socially distanced walk later this morning, I can have a chat with her about this and hopefully get some tips. 

Anyway this is the Valentine's Day card I made for my hubby. I kept having to hide it when he came downstairs. 

I made a pop-up card for a Design Team project and I thought it would be nice to make my hubby one.  I do have instructions on my blog showing how to make these. This one is make from an A4 sheet of paper. You can reach my page HERE. 

After that it is just a case of decorating the panels how you feel. I found the heart paper in my stash. I used dies from Tattered Lace. Crafter's Companion and Creative Expressions. 

This is how the card folds up to put in an envelope. 

Not too long and I will be able to give my hubby this card. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 161 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog

Have a good weekend. I hope the weather will be good for walking. 

Happy Crafting

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Beccy's Place - Sing Joy digi stamp set

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a great weekend. Yesterday my husband  worked  at his University's  Open Day. I went out early and treated myself to breakfast at M&S. In the evening we went to a 50th Birthday party. Today we are having a lazy day sorting things out for our trip to London next week.

I am one of the contributors to the Beccy's Place blog. I was sent the Sing Joy digi set and I was asked  to make cards, tags and a box to put them in.

Here is the box I decorated the patterned paper with washi tape and musical notes made with a tattered lace die. 

There are many fantastic images in the store and Beccy runs regular competitions. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

Here is the open box showing the cards and tags inside. 

Here are the cards I enjoyed putting the images in different configurations. 

Here are the tags. 

Here is everything together. This is such a fun set to use. I am not sure who these cards will go to but whoever it is I am sure they will make them smile. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C506

Happy Crafting

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Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - Challenge #65 Anything Goes

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope that you have had a great weekend. As usual we have been busy. We did manage to fit in a trip to a local club to see Beatlemania with some friends. Anyone would think that we are Beatle mad - and they would be right 😊. Today this post is scheduled as we will be in Coventry for the funeral of my aunt.

Being the first of the month the new challenge starts on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog. The theme is Anything Goes. Our wonderful sponsor this month  is Polkadoodles. 

I did start by colouring the image with my Promarkers. As the image was in the PNG format I was able to make a background on my computer and place the image on top. I chose the colours for the mats and layers to match my colouring. 

There is so much to see in their wonderful store. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

This image is called Surprise Gifts - Winnie Celebrations 3 and she is available HERE. 

I wanted some pretty flowers to surround the image and I remembered my Peony Blossom from Tattered Lace. So I cut it a few times and paper pieced it. 

Have a great week. I will be back soon to pop around everyone's blogs. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Nautical themed Get Well Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week. The weather here has certainly been lovely. I also  hope you have something nice to do at the weekend. On Saturday we are seeing my parents and my sister. On Mothering Sunday our daughter is coming for the day and we are having a meal together. It should be a nice weekend. We are also hoping to do some bits in the garden too.

A few of our friends have been ill recently and I needed some Get Well cards. Here is one of them.

I found the backing paper in my stash and I cut an aperture in it with the Star Burst die. The anchor is an All Occasions die and the waves at the bottom is a Tattered Lace die. The sentiment came free with a magazine and has proved to be quite useful. 

This is a Tattered Lace sailing ship die it was just the right size for this card. I cut the die in brown and then added the white sails and red flags. I like the effect of the star burst behind the ship. 

I think the chap who received this card liked it. He is on the road to recovery now which is good. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Always Fun Challenges - Colour Inspiration

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How was your weekend? I hope you are ready for the week ahead.

A quick update on my dad. He is still in hospital his sodium level is down to normal and his potassium are rising. There is now a problem with his heart and he is waiting for a pacemaker to be fitted. We are travelling up everyday to Fleet from Southampton. We feed my mum and take her to visit dad, take her home put her to bed and get home about 9:00. My husband works in the morning before be travel up he is using his annual leave. I think this will be going on for a while. Because of all this I am stepping down from this Design Team and there maybe some others I am afraid. 

Being Monday it is time for the new challenge at Always Fun Challenges and this time there is Colour Inspiration.

When I saw the colours they made me think of a baby card. I wanted to make another tri-shutter card for a baby girl and this seemed to be the ideal opportunity.  The shape is easy to make and make and fun to decorate. I used a selection dies to decorate this card. 

This is the colour inspiration. 

Why not join our challenge they are always fun. 

One of our nieces is expecting and now I am ready with a card. 

Happy Crating

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Always Fun Challenges - the theme is Summer Fun

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a good weekend and are ready for the week ahead. We spent most of the weekend clearing the ivy from our garage roof. Our neighbours are away which means we can attack the ivy from their side. We did say to them that we would be doing this.

Being Monday the new challenge starts  at Always Fun Challenges the theme this time is Summer Fun. 

I used one of my inky kitchen roll backgrounds on this card. 

The challenges are always fun to join in with. 

The stamp I used  was  one I won from Creative Expressions some time ago. I stamped with Archival ink onto water colour card then I coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

The shells were cut with a set that I bought last year when I spent the day with our daughter while her fiance and my husband went on a stag do. She bought them as a treat for me. 

I will add a sentiment to this card when I decide who it is going to be sent to. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 209 at the Crafting From the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 372 at the My time to Craft Challenge blog

Have a great week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Always Fun Challenges - Challenge 57 Female/ Mum

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How has your weekend been so far? We have caught up a bit on the gardening jobs. The car hunting has ground to a halt there just doesn't seem to be much available. Yesterday we saw both sets of parents. My parents we took out for a meal I share a birthday with my mother and my dad's is five days later. It is easier if we celebrate them all together. We then took the jacket and hat back to my in-laws. It was so good that neither of us had to buy anything for our costumes for the Murder Mystery. Today we are meeting up with our daughter and son-in-law to see Infinity War and share a meal. This is one of my birthday treats.

Being Monday the new challenge starts at Always Fun Challenges. This is challenge 57 and the theme is Female/Mum. Mother's Day in America is 13th May which isn't far away. I am sharing the card I made for my mother's birthday.

I treated myself to some new dies there was a sale of Spellbinders dies on Create and Craft.  I decided to use them to make this card. The backing paper was in my stash. 

If you click on the logo you will be taken to the challenge blog. 

This is bunch of Lavender was made with the Lavender Bunch die set by Spellbinders cut with different shades of centura pearl card. 

This die set it is the Lavender Swag also by Spellbinders. The Ovals in the background are Tattered Lace dies. 

This is a Tattered Lace die. 

I do like these dies I think I will be using them a lot. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 20 at Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge

Challenge 209 at the 613 Avenue Create Challenge blog

Challenge 81 at the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Challenge 89 at the Scrapy Land Challenge blog

Challenge 39 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge blog

Challenge 205 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 107 at the Creative Craft Cottage Challenge blog

Challenge 69 at the Get Creative Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Always Fun Challenges - Flowers

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your weekend been? I hope you did something nice. On Sunday we went to visit my husband's parents and take them out for a meal. My husband is borrowing a hat from them that will  be part of a costume for a murder mystery evening we are going to this week. I have a lovely friend who has lent me my costume including a fur coat. If there are any photos I will share them with you.

You might have noticed that I have joined a new design team Always Fun Challenges. This is my first card for them. The challenges are weekly starting on a Monday and finishing on a Saturday. There is always a theme this time it is Flowers.

I was making a card for an event later in the year and I liked part of the design and I thought that it might work well on a card by itself. This is what I ended up with. All the papers came from my stash. 

The challenges are fun and you just have to follow the theme. 

I cut the sentiment with a Signature die set. 

The flowers were made with the Cape Daisy die set from Creative Expressions. They are the same dies I used to make the button holes for the wedding last year. This was the first time I have used the dies since the wedding. I used left over papers from the wedding too. I used the Faux Quillled Leaves dies from Creative Expression to make the leaves. The ovals were cut with some Tattered Lace dies. 

I do like to have a few cards like this put by you never know when you might need one. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 82 at the Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Pixie's Snippets Playground  Challenge 325

Happy Crafting

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A Baby card for New Grandparents.

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? I hope you did something nice. I have been working on the image for the wedding invitations I am making for our nephew and his fiancee. The artwork has come in three parts that need putting together. It has been rather tricky. My husband had to do the scanning at his work as the main image was on A3 paper. He often ends up helping me when I make wedding invites it takes team work.

One of my best friends became a grandmother for the first time last week which is all very exciting. The new baby is a little girl and everyone is doing well. I made a card to celebrate.

So the new baby is a girl so the card had to be pink. I got all my baby themed dies and I put them together. It was quite a quick make. 

The baby blocks are by Tattered Lace I picked them up in a sale. 

The babygro is a Crafter's Companion die. 

Another Tattered Lace die one of my favourites. 

Look who is staying with us for a couple of weeks while my daughter and her husband are in America at a convention. They are very cute. 

It is such a big thing to become a grandparent and my friend never thought she would. 

Have a great 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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