Build a Bouquet die and stamp set from issue 162 of Simply Cards & Papercraft

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope your weekend has been good. We did manage to buy a fridge and matching freezer from a local shop some friends told us about recently and the price was good too. My husband has been working on his speech for the wedding and that is nearly finished. I just have the table plan  that will be displayed to finish this will be done next weekend. I had to make another for the caters so they know where everyone will be sitting.

When I got issue 162 of Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine I just had to use the Build a Bouquet stamp and die set that came with the magazine. I made a card and sent it into the magazine. Well I have had issue 164 at home for a while (I have a subscription) and when I couldn't sleep last night I was looking through it and on page 98 I spotted my card.

All the papers I used were in my stash. The jam jar had its own die. 

The sentiment came with the set and was stamped with Watering Can Archival ink. I matted it with the same card as the main mats for the card. 

The single flower stamp had its own die so it was easy to cut out. I stamped with Watering Can Archival and I coloured with my Stampin Up water colour pencils. 

I stamped the main bouquet three times once coloured I cut them out by hand. 

Here is my card printed in issue 164 of Simply Cards & Papercraft.  They wrote a lovely message about the card. 

Have a great week.

I would like to join the challenge at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Alphabet Challenge blog - Letter G - Give Thanks

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. This weekend our daughter is home. She has a hairdressers appointment and her dress is coming back from being altered. Everything is getting close and exciting. My husband and I are hoping to collect our new glasses which we ordered two weeks ago. I have managed to get glasses to match my outfit.

The new challenge starts today on the Alphabet Challenge blog the letter is G and the theme is Give Thanks. This will be my last post for the Alphabet Challenge blog as I have decided to step down from the team. I have enjoyed my time with them but now it is time to move on. I wish them all the best for the future. You never know I might go in for some of the challenges.

I like making Thank You cards. They are always useful to have in your stash.

I used an embossing folder the make the background. I used some Tonic dies to cut an aperture and an inner frame. Behind the aperture I used the Bed of Roses embossing folder by Creative Expression. 

This rose stamp came free with a magazine some time ago I now can't remember which one. I coloured it with my Stampin Up water colour pencils and I used a blender pen to move the colours around. 

This thank you die is floral but I have used it much more with the floral elements removed. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.  

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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With Love

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you  had a great Easter break?  For us it has been good we have got so much done. A gardening project was completed, my husband  bought a suit, rings were polished, groom and groomsmen suits were ordered and  we sorted out  the table decorations. We saw family and friends it was a good break. I still have a few days before I go back to school which is nice.

I made another card with the image and paper from the April Issue of Making Cards Magazine. The papers and images are so pretty.

This is a 6" x 6" card.  I used a Spellbinders ornate square die to make the frame. 

I used a Tattered Lace die to make the sentiment. 

I coloured the just pot with my Stampin Up colouring pencils and the blender pen. 

This is another card for my stash. I have a long list of jobs to start today I'd better get on. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

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Thinking of You in Purple

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

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

Hugs Jackie

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Cute Kitten - Happy Birthday

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Yesterday our daughter had her dress fitting and it has been taken off to be altered. My husband and I went to the masked ball in the evening, it was lots of fun. I had never been to anything like that before.

When I was at the craft day I wanted to practice with the water colour pencils and blender before I started on the projects that had been prepared for us so I had an idea of how the pencils worked.  I stamped an image on a piece of scrap paper and had a little play.

As I coloured the image at the event and I had no idea that I would make it into a card I chose the mats and layers to match my colouring. I used my Double Pierced Squares and Rectangles, designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions, to cut the mats and the layer. I like the pierced effect they give.  

This is one of the stamps from the Pretty Kitty stamp set by Stampin Up. The image was coloured with water colour pencils that were blended with a blender pen. 

Here I am using the Crafter's Companion Happy Birthday die again. I use it a lot as it is a very good size and the dot on the i is attached. 

I was pleased with how this card came together. There is a cute doggy set of stamps as well. 

I would like to enter the March Challenge at the Penny Black and More Challenge blog , challenge 6 at Daisy Chain Challenges  and Weeks 271, 272 at Pixie's Snippets Playground and challenge 195 at 616 Avenue Create. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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My Makes from the Charity Craft Day

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Friday. I hope you have had a week and have something nice planned for the weekend. Our daughter is coming home this evening so that she can have a dress fitting tomorrow. In the evening my husband and I are going to a costumed masked ball. We have hired our costumes it should be fun.

The first weekend of the half term holiday I went to a Charity Craft day led by a Stampin' Up demonstrator so we were using Stampin' Up products mostly their water colour pencils with a blender pen.

Here are all the cards I made together. There was a variety of styles and techniques used. 

Here we used the Pretty Kitty Stamp set and the Stitched Shapes Framelet Dies. The little heart was cut with a punch. 

This card used a die from the Detailed Dragonflies Thinlet die set. I had to work on this card when I got home as I had a rather nasty grey smudge on the original. 

This card used a colouring page that I coloured. The die was from the Detailed Drgaonflies die set. 

More colouring pages and a large Thank You stamp. 

I do own this stamp set it is the Birthday Blooms set. 

The elegant lady came from the Beautiful You stamp set. 

It was a good day and I now have some more lovely cards in my stash. 

Enjoy your weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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