Deer in the Forest Christmas Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I have been helping Felting Workshop this morning. Tomorrow we are going to the theatre to see the show Magic that Goes Wrong. We are looking forward to it. This is one of the things that got delayed from last year. I will let you know how we get on. 

I have been making Christmas cards again. Here is my latest one. 

I started this card a while ago. I found all the bits on the side so I made it up. The corner dies are from one of John Next Door's Christmas releases this year. The patterned paper was in my stash. 

The trees were made with an old Creative Expressions die set called Winter Trees. The Deer were made with a Sizzix die set. 

I  have made about 90 cards this year and I have bought a few from a talented friend so we should  have about enough. I do want to make some special cards still. 

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting

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More Snippets Christmas Cards

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? Just to let you know that I had a lovely time at the Newbury Craft show. The new organisers did a fantastic job. I came away with quite few new crafty goodies. Yesterday I met my husband in Southampton so we could go the the cinema we ended up seeing Rocketman.  This was better than we expected. Today I am having lunch with a group of people that I used to work with. Being retired does have it's upsides.

I have been making Christmas cards again. You could say that I am obsessed with making cards using Snippets.

There are just so many strips of paper around to make backgrounds with. Funny thing how ever many cards I make the pile never seems to get any smaller. 

I used the deer from the Winter Wonderland die set from Sizzix. They were cut from Kraft Card and coloured with Distress ink. The ribbon in the background came from some craft stash that I inherited. 

This is the second card. I do like this design I will probably make some more cards like this. 

This is the Noel Word Die from Lil' inker Designs. 

Here are the cards together. More for my stash of Christmas cards. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 356 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

The July Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 61 at Craft Rocket Challenges

Challenge 52 at the Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 445 at Crafthazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 12 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 124 at the Dies R Us Challenge

Challenge 117 at Scrapy Land Challenges

Challenge 118 at Always Fun Challenges

Challenge 188 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

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Deer on a Snowy Night

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are all well. This has been a very busy week for me. Invigilating takes quite a bit of time. Then there is my weekly visit to Winchester. Today I am doing two sessions of invigilating then I am heading into Southampton to meet my husband. Then we will meet up with our daughter and son-in-law to have a meal. After that we are all going to the theatre to see American Idiot. I hope it will be a good show.

Last week when I had a bit of time, I had a bit of a tidy of my crafty stash and I found a lovely piece of paper that would make a wonderful snowy background for a Christmas card.

The backing paper came from an old edition of Making Cards Magazine. I did find that I had another sheet of the paper so I may well recreate this card to add to my stash. I extended the Branched Birch die from Sizzix. Once the trees were cut I inked them with Distress Inks. Behind the trees I added a silver circle to create the moon. 

I cut the deer from the Winter Wonderland die set from Sizzix out of craft card and inked them with Distress ink. I removed the antlers from one of the adult deer to make a female. 

This is a die from Creative Expressions. I cut it in gold and another in brown to make a shadow, I do find that adding a shadow helps the sentiment to show up against a busy background. 

I think I have made over 30 Christmas cards so far this year. All of them are flat and will small enough to go on ordinary postage. I don't want to get caught out like I did last year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 421 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 176 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

Challenge 6 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 22 at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Challenge 55 at the Craft Rocket Challenge blog

Challenge 235 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 566 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

The January Challenge at the Christmas Cards all Year Round Challenge blog

Challenge 13 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge

Challenge 106 at Scrapy Land Challenges. 

I would have like to enter this card into the Rudolph Days Challenge but there isn't one this month. The lovely Maureen who hosts the challenge is having some surgery and needs time to recover. 

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Delicate Pine Frame Gift Card Holder

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? I bet you have been busy. We got all our cards sorted for posting on Saturday. On Sunday our daughter and son-in-law came to us so we could go to the Nativity service at our church. The big draw was that there were live animals at the church. After the service we all drove to Fleet to take my parents out for a meal. After the meal we headed over to see my husband's parents. When we got home we collapsed in a heap. But of course there were still more things to do.

As we get closer to Christmas I have had a few last minute creations to make. I needed a holder for some gift cards.

I really like the Delicate Pine frame from Memory Box.  I needed a bigger card than the one I made before so on one of the layers I used the Falling Snow embossing folder from Creative Expressions. 

In the corner I added a sentiment from the Star Tags die set from John Next Door. 

Finally I added the small deer from the Winter Wonderland die set from Sizzix which I also I used to make the snow behind the Delicate Pine Frame. 

I really do hope that you have a good week.  I know there is a lot to do. I also know that I am going to struggle to do regular blog posts. Please bear with me. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Deer in the Snow Christmas Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I have been very busy. There just seems to be so much to do. It doesn't help when your husband needs extra cards for his work colleagues and I thought I had made extra.

I haven't made as many Christmas cards as I thought I had. Once I had made the extra cards for my husband I looked around my craft area and found lots of bits that had been cut but not used. So I made this quick card with them.

The backing paper was left over in my stash. 

I used the Delicate Pine Frame die from Memory Box for the frame and the tree. The deer and the snow were cut with the Winter Wonderland dies from Sizzix. 

The sentiment was cut with the sentiment die from the Happy Snowflakes die set from John Next Door. 

This isn't too bad for a lot of left over bits and pieces. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Friday 14th Challenge at the Daring Cardmakers Challenge blog

Challenge 173 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

The December Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 227 at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge 

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Two cards made with the Delicate Pine Frame Die Set

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We had a busy time as usual. We did buy a tiny Christmas Tree and it is in the lounge waiting to be decorated.

A little while ago I was lucky and I won a die on the Crafter's Castle Challenge Blog. It arrived last week and I couldn't wait to have a play.

I won the Delicate Pine Frame die from Memory Box. That includes the frame the tree and the birds.  I added a snow background with the Winter Wonderland die from Sizzix. The deer come with that die set too. The Happy Christmas comes from the Star Tags dies set from John Next Door. 

I made another card with the same design in  red, white and blue.  I know just who to send this card too. 

Here they are together. I am think I am getting close to the number of Christmas cards I need. If I find I am short I might make some more of these. Have a great week. 

I would like to enter the following Challenges: 

Challenge 192 at Dream Valley Challenges 

Challenge 231 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

The December Challenge at the Die Cut Diva's Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Cardinal wrapped up nice and warm

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I had a very busy day yesterday. I got myself to Winchester for an appointment and I managed to do a bit more Christmas shopping. Today will be quieter I have some parcels arriving and of course I am not sure when.

I couldn't resist sharing the card I made with the last of the Christmas Cardinals images from Beccy's Place. I had used the other images and this one needed its turn.

I had this idea in mind. I do love using hexagons and the way that they tessellate. I went through my stash of scraps and found papers with a similar colour palate. I made the design bigger than I needed it so that I could trim it to size. 

As I said he is from the Christmas Cardinals images from Beccy's Place they are available HERE. I made the background for the image in Publisher. This works really well with a pre-coloured image as you can loose the background white colour and pull the image to the front. The sentiment comes with the set. He just looks so cute in his scarf. 

I had some left over deer from another card so I  added two to the card. The ribbon was on a Christmas gift last year. 

I have really enjoyed using this set of images this year. I am sure I will be using them again. This is the last day to enter the November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges. I had so much fun joining in with the challenge this year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

The November Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 413 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 132 at the Kitty Bee Designs 

Have a great day. I will be back tomorrow with a Design Team Make. 

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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Winter Wonderland Christmas card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a good weekend. There is so much to do at this time of year. On Sunday we will be visited our parents. We took  mine out for a meal and then popped  over to see my husband's parents.

Well I was out in Winchester last Thursday and there was 20% off everything in C&H fabrics and they happen to sell Sizzix dies. It would have been rude not to buy anything.

I bought the Winter Wonderland die set with four deer and some snow and the Branched Birch die both from Sizzix. There were many dies I would have liked to buy it was very tempting. I cut a frame with the Stitched Lattice dies from Creative Expressions in black I used Pebeo Gilding wax on it. I used the snow die in the background and added a shiny silver moon. I cut the Branch birch twice I inked through the die and then over the branches so they weren't so bight white. 

This is the Contemporary Happy Christmas die from Creative Expressions. 

I cut Santa's Sleigh in black and I used Pebeo Gilding wax on the service. 

There are four deer in the set three are smaller. 

The set has a male deer with antlers to make the female I removed the antlers. The tree was made with one of the Winter Trees dies from Creative Expressions. 

I think you could make a nice frame with these dies I might give it a try. This reminds me of the song with the same name Winter Wonderland. 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:

The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Challenge 413 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Week 495 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

The November Rudolph Days Challenge 

Challenge 86 at Always Fun Challenges 

Challenge 172 at the Crimbo Crackers Challenge blog

The R is for Reindeer challenge at the Alphabet Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge - theme Christmas Animals

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends,

How is your week going? We have already got to Thursday. Yesterday I went into Southampton and I met my husband, who had taken a half day leave. The Christmas market is in full swing and we did a bit of Christmas shopping. Today I am going out with a friend for coffee. It will be nice to have a chance to catch up with her.

The new challenge starts today on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge blog and the theme is Christmas Animals.

The background is another old Christmas card. I hunted through a big pile of old cards to find a suitable one for the background. Around the edge of the card I put some Ice Stickles.

I used the Deer family die set from Creative Expressions. 

This card should be nice and flat for posting that should please my husband. 

Enjoy your day.  

I would like to went the November Christmas Challenge at Beccy's Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Fantasy Stampers - Winter Wonderland

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

It is the weekend. There always seems to be so much to do. We are visiting my parents to try to sort out a new computer for them and my husband's parents to sort out a new television. In the evening we are going to our local theatre (it is local it is 15 minutes walk away) to see the comedian Sean Hughes.

Happily, today  sees the start of a new Challenge on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog and the theme is Winter Wonderland.

I made an easel card using the stamps that I used for the last challenge. They are among my favourite stamps being very versatile. They are called  Dasher the Deer and Christmas Trees by Creative Expressions. I also used the Visible Image Snowflake from Dreaming of a White Christmas set to make the background.  The die cut trees were covered in glitter too. 

I cut the Sue Wilson snowflake tag twice and stuck them togther for extra strength to create the stopper for the easel. I stamped the sentiment and when it was dry I used a spray glue and applied a fine glitter. 

I hope that you have a wonderful weekend. 

The winners of the last challenge will be posted on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog tomorrow. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 202 and challenge 9 at a Snowflakes Promise Challenge Blog.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie