Thank You Card with Gerbera Flowers

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We spent most of our travelling back and forth to see my parents. My mum was taken into hospital on Thursday evening and my dad is at  home being taken care of by the carers. We went up on Saturday and Sunday. This week between both me and my husband are very busy so we won't be able to visit again until next weekend. We are waiting for tests to find out what has been wrong with my mum.

When you have a birthday and you get nice presents you need thank you cards. All mine are made now and given out to people. I had lots of bits left over from making another card. So I decided to make them into a thank you card.

All the card I used for the layers was left over from another project. 

When I was travelling to Winchester once a week I treated myself to the Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlets Dies  Mixed Media set two. I used one of the dies in the set to cut this flourish into the card. The thanks die is from Crafter's Companion. 

The flowers were cut with the Gerbera Flower die from the John Next Door Range. I used the Leafy flourish die to add the foliage. The butterflies were cut with the Small Butterfly die set. 

The friends who received this card liked it a lot. 

With all the things going on at the moment, I am not sure how much crafting I will be able to fit in. I will just have to see. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The May Challenge at the Die Cut Divas Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Deer family in a Winter Forest

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I am trying to sort out lots of things. Then on Thursday I have my regular trip to Winchester. I do love this and I get to see the Christmas market which I think is one of the best around.

Last week when I was there I treated myself to some dies in the pre Black Friday sales. I was very keen to play with them. The first thing I made was the card in my previous post. Then I decided to make something a bit simpler.

I have lots of off cuts of white card left over from making wedding invitations this year. They are just the right size to fit the Branched birch die. I inked through the die to make patches darker then I removed the die and lightly inked the trees. I had some navy card to cut the snow for the background. 

I found some craft card in my stash of bits and cut the deer from it. I added a bit of ink to them. 

The snowflake border was cut in white. 

I used the same navy card as the snowy background to cut the sentiment. 

I am very pleased with my new dies. They even encouraged me to get my inks out which I haven't done for a long time. 

Happy Crafting 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 340 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges

The Winter Wonderland Challenge at the Try it on a Tuesday Challenge blog

The Through the Craft Room Door Challenge 27th November

Challenge 172 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 413 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 208 at the Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge blog

The R for Reindeer challenge at the Alphabet Challenge blog

Hugs Jackie

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Crafty Catz Challenge blog - ATG with the optional twist of Summer Fun

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? It has just been so hot. I do find it hard to get on with jobs. My laptop gets very hot which makes it hard to use in the hot weather. On the plus side I have been able to test clothes that I am taking to Malta to see how comfortable they are in the heat.

I am hosting the new challenge that starts at the Crafty Catz Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of Summer Fun. The fabulous sponsor is Paper Shelter.

The backing paper at the backing was an old one from back when I made a card for the long gone Quick Cards Made Easy magazine. I added bunting at the top made with Tattered Lace dies. 

Our fantastic  sponsor has wonderful images in the store. If you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

This image is called Summer Attitude and she is available HERE. There seem to be quite a few images on sale at the moment including this one. I found an image to use as a background and I used the pre-coloured image from the set. 

I have been asked to make a tropical themed wedding card and I bought the Tim Holtz Tropical Sizzix die set for that card. It was so good to be able to try our the dies on this card as they fitted with the image so well. 

The trees, flowers and leaves all came with the same die set. 

Watch out for a  tropical themed wedding card in the future. It would be so lovely if you could join in with the challenge at Crafty Catz. 

I would like to join in with the following challenges; 

Challenge 50 at Craft Rocket Challenges 

Challenge 537 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday July Challenge

Challenge 71 at the Crafting with Friends Challenge blog

Week 27 at the Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge

Challenge 387 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog

Challenge 7 at the A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 215 at the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge blog

Challenge 213 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 399 at the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge blog

Challenge 50 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

The July challenge at Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Challenge 93 at Scrapy Land Challenges 

Challenge 100 at the Dies R Us Challenge blog

The 16th Challenge the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas in a Box

Hi Bloggers

Hasn't the week flown by I just don't know where the time goes. I can't believe that this time last week we were at the Excel queuing up to see Brent Spiner (Commander Data) at Destination Star Trek 3. As I  promised I will put a few pictures at the end of this post for those Trekkies out there - you know who you are. :)

Today's project is a card and matching box. They were both shown on Create and Craft when Sam  Poole did her last shows in August. The box was filled with toffees, this went down a treat with the crew in the studio. Needless to say the box came back empty but I can fill it again and give it to someone as a gift.

First  I created two  2 A4 background sheets by inking two white sheets of stamping card with red and green Distress inks. When the sheets had dried I stamped a poinsettia stamp with perfect medium and then I heat embossed with CS White Detail embossing power. I repeated this with a gold embossing powder. 

I made the card first I matted and layered the background onto a 8" x 8" black card blank and I added CS Antique Gold PVA glue dots around the edge.

The poinsettias were made with a Sizzix Bigz die Tattered Poinsettias by Tim Holtz. Once they were cut I inked and shaped them. To the centres of the poinsettias I added CS Antique gold PVA. 

I added some silky crush ribbon and an antique button and I made a tag with some dies and some left over background paper.

The box is a straight forward and the largest I could make from two A4 sheets. I scored the box with my Hougie board and I cut the aperture with a die. The acetate, that I placed in the aperture, is heat resistant  I used perfect medium and heat embossed it with white and then gold  embossing powder. I did make a matching tag, I stuck to the box for posting so it didn't get lost. The box looked lovely filled with red and gold wrapped toffees which weren't too expensive but they looked much more impressive in the box.

Now for Destination Star Trek 3 

This was the event logo you could see it everywhere.

We saw Colm Meany first he was a replacement for Jonathan Frakes who couldn't attend.

We had a break and then we saw Brent Spiner. The guests mostly do question and answer sessions he was very funny to listen to.

This is Patrick Stewart and his son Daniel (who was in one episode of Next Generation playing his son). I got better pictures of them as they stood still longer.

We did see lots of other people as we were walking around. Lots of people attend in costume and it is fun to see them. We are hoping to go again when it comes back to London.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie