Proteas at Beccy's Place

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How is your week going? Today I am sharing the cards that I made with the Proteas Digital Image set from Beccy's Place. Here are the cards I made. I do love getting these flowers in a bouquet until now I didn't know what they were called. 

Today it is my turn at Beccy's Place Blog. 

I coloured the the images with my Faber Castell Coloured pencils. I do love a corner die and I used the Presscut Nested Oval dies as well. 

They were great images to colour. 

This is the Proteas Digital Image set it is available HERE. 

I do like making DL cards. I cut the images out with the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. 

I enjoyed making these cards. 

Happy Crafting

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Floral Thinking of You Card

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How was your weekend? I had a lovely birthday. Our daughter and son-in-law came for lunch in the garden. Before that we all went for a walk in the wood near us with their dog. We got on a lot better with the dog this time. I think he is starting to know us. It was a great relaxing day. Yesterday we went down to Gun Wharf Quays and had a meal outside. This wasn't quite as enjoyable has it should have been as it was very cold and windy. I did get a good deal on Lindt chocolates in the shop there. Later on I can show you what I used them for. 

Here is a Thinking of You card that I made with some John Next Door dies. 

The patterned paper came from my stash. I used the Small Flowers, Small Leaves and the Small Butterfly dies to surround the sentiment. 

This is one of the dies that comes in the Stencil Sayings die set. 

Have a great week. We are off to see friends in Lymington today. It will be nice to visit the New Forest. 

Happy Crafting

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Plants on a Windowsill - Fresh Cut dies

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I hope you have had a good week. The weather has been kind to us and we have been able to meet with some people in their gardens. 

I joined the Claritystamp Die Club just after the start of lockdown last year. I have received some gorgeous dies but I haven't got round to using a lot of them. So I need to resolve this as I have signed up for another year. 

Here is my first attempt. 

I used some of the Antarctica Designer papers for this card.  

I cut the die in black and then cut it in different colours so that I could paper piece it. 

I used one of the Clarity sentiment stickers. 

I think this will be another card that is going to the sale in August. I am now committed to having a small table. I have a few special cards I need to make soon. Have a great Easter. 

Happy Crafting

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Tranquil Thinking of You Card

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How is your week going? I had a bad day yesterday for most of the day I had trouble with a headache that left me feeling quite poorly. Then in the evening we had some bad news from my sister. I know things will be sorted but I was rather upset. I am having coffee with a friend today and I am feeling a lot better. 

I made a card for another friend of ours who is in hospital. He went in for a back operation about a month ago and he has been left needing a wheelchair. He is on the list to go to a rehabilitation unit but he caught pneumonia and he is not well enough to go there yet. Obviously we can't visit so I will be sending a few cards. 

I have a paper pad from The Works this is where the background paper came from. The ribbon was in my stash. 

This image came from an old card. I found the image first and that set the tone of the card. 

I didn't feel that Get Well Soon was an appropriate sentiment. Thinking of you seemed to be the right thing to say.  

I know he liked this card. He is feeling a bit better as we are getting more WhatsApp messages. He has a long recovery ahead of him. 

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

Happy Crafting

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Thinking of You Doodle Card

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How are things going for you? As I said last week things aren't much different for us. My hubby is still working from home. We are still shopping for a few people. I am growing so many things in our garden. Later on we will be able to have a salad! There are also lots of birdy visitors. We haven't appreciated our garden as much before. I am so glad that we have it.

A lot of you will know that I have been following the Doodle sessions that Barbara Gray does every weekday at 10:00 am on Facebook. Later they can be found on YouTube. I have been inspired to make a few cards that I have drawn the images for. This is the first one. I needed a thinking of you card for a lady from church whose husband died. He did have Covid 19 but it was his underlying health conditions that were the problem.

I made the lovely background paper. I found it when I was tiding. I have no idea how I made it. I would really like to make some more.There are a few sheets left. The candy in the corners is made with the Cogs dies from the John Next Door range. 

I used my Double Pierced circle dies to draw the circle. This meant that after I had cut the circle out I could easily used another of the dies to cut a mat for the image. The pattern in the circle is one that we learnt when doodling. I drew the seed heads and leaves first with pencil and them with a Micron pen. Once everything was dry I used Distress ink  with a brush to colour the image. I also used Distress ink to paint the border. 

I hope the lady, I sent this too, liked it. I have no idea how she is coping. I think I will be making a few of these cards. 

I hope you have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

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Thinking of You in Mauve

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How has your week been? On Tuesday I didn't have a good day. I had lots of phone calls to make about my parents. I also received a call from the Care Company to say that we owed too much money.  I had just paid an invoice. Lastly I heard that my uncle had died the night before. My poor cousin lost her mum recently as well. I decided the least I could do would be to make a card.

This is a design I have made before. There is always room for improvement. Plus there are usually new goodies to use. I decided on mauve for the card. I embossed white card and coloured it with a Distress. Yes I still have them and I still use them. 

This is a Spellbinder's cross. The set has proved very useful over the years. 

Finally I added the Ivy Spray dies from the John Next Door range. They are so easy to use and they go round an object beautifully. I kept them white as they showed up nicely against the background. 

This card went in the post on Wednesday my cousin should have received it by now. I know some people don't make this type of card. I like to, as it gives me time to think and reflect on the people involved. I have also used this design for ordination cards. 

Today I am helping at a Felting Workshop. Tomorrow I am at an  Arm Knitting workshop before we dash off to Aldershot to see my in-laws. I wonder how long it will be before we have to stop doing things. 

Have a great weekend

Happy Crafting

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Pollyanna Pickering Owl - Thinking of You

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I hope you had a great weekend. For us Saturday was quite quiet. We did manage to have a nice lunch out. Our Saturday evenings are now filled with Strictly Come Dancing. We know some very good friends of Emma Barton and we have met her. So we are following her progress on the show. I must say I am really enjoying the shows. On Sunday we had a trip to Aldershot to have a finance meeting with all my husband's brothers, spouses and his parents. There is nothing to worry about it was all forward planning. After we had a meal out together. The plan is to make these meeting regular.

I made this card for a friend who has recently lost her mum . I do just love images by Pollyanna Pickering.

The papers in the background came from a pad of papers from Creative World of Crafts. The colours of the papers suited the image so well. 

This owl is so cute. I have a pad of images I still have a few of these owls left. 

Have a great week. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 31 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Challenge 451 at the Fab 'n' Funky Challenge blog

The October Challenge at Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 106 at the Make My Monday Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

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Two masculine cards made with Pollyanna Pickering images

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How is your week going? We really made the most of our extra day at the weekend. We popped out in the morning. First to the garden centre for a coffee and a piece of cake to share. The real reason for going there was to buy another plant for our garden. Then we went to Halfords and my husband bought new windscreen wipers that he fitted when we got home. The new plants for the garden were planted. The potted Christmas tree was repotted. I sorted out the weeds on our drive. My husband also did some filing. It was a good day of catching up on jobs.

I really do like images by Pollyanna Pickering. I think the ones I have chosen this time make fantastic masculine cards.

I decided to make a Father's Day card for my dad. Since the summer when he was very ill his short term memory has been affected. The strange thing is he is very happy now much happier than he has ever been and he says nice things now which he never used to do. I think he will like this image of a tiger. 

The card is on the side and when I walk past it I always think how much I like this tiger. 

This is a Signature die. I have had it for a long time and I use it for just about every Father's Day card I have made. 

Someone from our church was rather ill. It was suggested that I make him a Get Well card. If you notice I used the same backing paper and ribbon for both cards. 

This owl is adorable. 

Here are the two card together. I really do like those images a lot. 

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Challenge 26 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Always Fun Challenges - Flowers

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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

Hugs Jackie

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A Difficult Card to Make

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How is your week going? Yesterday I was on a school trip that involved a very long walk. Fortunately the rain held off until we got back.

Just before I went away for our daughter's Hen Do we received a very sad phone call. One of our oldest friends told us that their 23 year old daughter had died suddenly she had a seizure and her heart failed. It is just so unbelievably sad.  They were also about to move house at the weekend from London to Leeds.

I wanted to make a card but it was really hard to know quite what to do. So I went for tasteful. I just want them to know that we are thinking of them. A new home card at this time didn't seem to quite fit the bill.

I went back to my small collection (it is growing) of Pollyanna Pickering images. I found some pretty backing paper and lace. I cut the flowers from the lace to place behind the image. 

The sentiment came from another pad of Pollyanna Pickering images from the Creative World of Crafts. 

This has to be my favourite image. I love the owl he is beautiful. 

The really hard bit will be writing this card. I will get my husband to help me he is good with words.

I would like to enter challenge 27 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge Blog and challenge 476 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week

Take care

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Thinking of You - Woodware Tatty Daisies

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How was your Easter? Did you eat lots of chocolate? We gave up chocolate for Lent so it was nice to have a bit yesterday. We are now waiting for our daughter and her fiance to arrive. The meal is in the slow cooker and it will be ready when they arrive. I love my slow cooker. I think we are going to work on the table plan today that is going to be hard.

When I was at Ally Pally I treated myself to some new Woodware stamps. I was looking at some of the samples Julia Watts had and I just couldn't resist.

This is an unusual card for me being a DL card. It will go through the post really nicely. I created the background with a mix of Pixie Powders, Brushos and Distress ink around the edges.  

This is the Tatty Daisies stamp by Woodware ( which is now under the banner of Creative Expressions). As it is such a long stamp I had to use it diagonally across my largest block. I stamped onto the background with Perfect Medium and I heat embossed with a black detail powder. Then I put some Pixie powders into a well on a tray and added water. Then with this mix I painted the daisies. Don't they look like they are smiling?

The sentiment came in the stamp set and was heat embossed in the same way as the daisies. 

We have also done a bit of work in the garden and a cheeky robin helped us. 

I do love robins, he kept swooping down to find worms and bugs that had been uncovered.

I was very pleased with how this card worked out. I want to do a bit more experimenting I have a few other ideas. 

I would like to enter challenge 44 at the Make my Monday Challenge blog, week 277 and 278 at Pixie's Snippets Playground and challenge 155 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Take care. 

Hugs Jackie

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Thinking of You in Purple

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How is your week going? The children finished school today and I have two more days to go until the Easter Break. We have also treated ourselves to a trip to the theatre tomorrow for our anniversary and there was a good offer on seats.

I held out for a while but in the end I couldn't resist the April issue of  Making Cards Magazine. So today I made a card with one of the images and some of the papers that came with the magazine.

This is a 6" x 6" card my husband had asked me to make some smaller cards. I used my Spellbinder's Lacy circle dies to frame the image. 

The pot on the image was not coloured I used the Stampin Up water colour pencils and a blending tool to colour it. 

I love how the image and the papers go so well together. I is really quite easy to make a pretty card. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Thinking of You

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a good weekend and are ready for the week ahead. We popped over to the New Forest  to drop off the dress I had bought for the wedding as it needed a small repair. Being earlier than we expected we just had a coffee in a rather nice pub. After that we headed into Southampton for a rather successful shopping trip followed by lunch. It was a very productive day. On Sunday I spent some time making more flowers for the wedding of course.

I was asked to make a card for a man that had a nasty road accident. The person who asked me to make the card had stayed with him until the ambulance came. I decided to use one of the owl images and papers that came with Making Cards Magazine last month.

I have made a card with this set of papers and images before and it has proved rather popular as it has been sat on my shelf especially with the person who asked me to make the card. 

The owl is lovely and just a bit quirky. 

I used dies I had won in a competition for the sentiment. 

I have enjoyed using these images and papers from Making Cards Magazine. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

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