Magical Unicorn Birthday Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? I didn't have a good day on Wednesday but things picked up after that. I am having a table at one of the Hampshire Open Studios venues in a few weeks time. I was asked. I am finding the whole thing a bit daunting, Anyway I have been making a few things for it. This card is one of them.

The background was made with one of my sheets of inky kitchen paper for the sky and the grass was a piece of watercolour card coloured with Distress Oxides. 

This is the Unicorn stamp set from Woodware. I think he was stamped with Watering Can Archival ink. He was coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. Some of these pens seem to have gone a bit funny and the ink blobs out. So I have taken to putting the ink on my craft mat and using a paintbrush and water to apply it. This unicorn is very sparkly which is only as it should be. 

The sentiment came with the stamp set and was cut out with a cloud die. 

I did the same with this sentiment. 

I made the rainbow with the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. You do get two rainbows and lots of brightly coloured circles. 

I have various cloud dies that I used on this card.  That is one more card for my table. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 170 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Week 28 at the Colour Crazy Craft Challenge blog

QKR Stampede Challenge #357 Anything Goes 

The July Challenge at Wednesday's Creative Inspirations Challenge blog

Through the Craft Room Door challenge for the Week of 16th

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie 

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Woodware Tatty Daises and Distress Oxides.

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I am glad the snow has gone. In fact our snow had disappeared by Friday evening. On Sunday we got to meet our four month old great niece. She is a little sweetie and we did get a few cuddles. It is so nice to have a baby in the family.

Sometime ago I made a panel using Distress Oxides and the Tatty Daisies stamp from Woodware. It has been lying around on my craft desk for ages. I have finally made it into a card. It is amazing what you find when you have a tidy up.

I know the background is made with blended Distress Oxides that was then flicked with water to make the spots. 

I can't remember if I stamped and embossed before I added the Distress Oxides to the paper or after. I did use water to remove some of the colour from the flowers and then I painted them with Pixie Powers made into a paint with water. 

The sentiment came from one of my sets of images from Beccy's Place. I had printed it and die cut it some time ago. 

This will be a nice flat card for posting. I really am trying not to make so many dimensional cards this year. The postage costs are prohibitive. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) Challenge the theme is Rainbows

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Here is the second post of the day from me. This time for the new challenge on the Moving Along with the Times challenge blog (MAWTT) and the chosen theme is Rainbows.

I set myself a bit of a challenge with this card. I own the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions and I thought I ought to be able to make a rainbow with them. I am trying to use my stash rather than buy lots of new things.

Now I am rather pleased with how this turned out. I got not one but two rainbows and all the mats from the middle of the circles. For the background I used a piece of card that I had covered with dry inky kitchen roll. This was an idea from John Lockwood and it is just brilliant to not waste all the inky goodness. The grass was cut with a die from the Nativity set from Crafter's Companion. The clouds came from a Marianne build a sheep set. 

The unicorn was stamped with the Woodware Unicorn stamp set. I used Watering Can archival ink to stamp onto watercolour card and then I coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

Both of the sentiments come from the stamp set. 

This shows the detail of the rainbow. I stuck the circles to a piece of card to make the rainbows easier to handle. 

I was very pleased with how this card turned out and that I didn't have to buy a special die to make a rainbow. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. 

I would like to enter challenge 11 at the Mix it Up Challenge blog, challenge 37 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge blog, challenge 107 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog , challenge 142 at Through the Purple Haze, challenge 63 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog, challenge 519 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog and challenge 145 at the Inspiration Destination Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

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Brushos and Pixie Powder Sympathy Card

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Good morning. It is so wet and damp this morning. I have a meal cooking in the slow cooker. It seems like the perfect day to stay in and craft. I hope you stay safe and warm.

I was looking through my files of photos and I came across this card that I haven't shared yet. It is a Sympathy card they are never easy to make. My husband wanted a card for someone at his work who had just lost his father-in-law.

I made two sheets of the background card with a stamp and a mixture of wet Brushos and Pixie Powders on my craft mat. Once I had finished stamping I spritzed the card to make the colours blend and mellow. I made one sheet a bit lighter so that the main stamp would show up a bit better. 

This is a Woodware stamp called Going to Seed. I stamped it with Perfect Medium and heat embossed it with a black powder. 

I do like creating these background but I do get very messy. I do have lots of inky kitchen roll that I should be making into backgrounds. 

I am not going to be around much for the next few days. We are visiting Disneyland Paris for a few days with our daughter and son-in-law. I hope the weather is kind to us. We are all going to take waterproofs I think we will need them. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter challenge 60 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) - Add a Number

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

Good morning. I hope you are well and that the weather is being kind, We are having a short break in London so this the first of some scheduled posts from me. I will catch up with everyone when we get back. If all has gone well we should have been to a performance of Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe theatre and today we are booked to see the Pink Floyd exhibition at the V&A museum.

Today also sees the start of a new challenge on the Moving Along with the Times Challenge blog (MAWTT) the theme is Add a Number. This is the card I made for my mother-in-law's 90th birthday she adores poppies.

The background paper was in my stash. All the mats and layers were cut with the Double Pierced Squares from Creative Expressions. 

This is another Creative Expressions die. 

This poppy stamp is by Woodware. I masked off the front poppies so I could stamp the poppy behind. They were coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

I have had these number dies for a while. Not long after I got them I lost the "th" die so I cut "with" now and cut it down. 

My mother-in-law did love this card she had it back in June for her actual birthday.

I would like to enter challenge 102 at Aloha Friday Challenges.

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Take care. 

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - theme Mystical and Magical

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are all keeping well. This is a scheduled post as we are on holiday in Italy a little treat to ourselves after all we did for the wedding and to have something to look forward after it.

The new challenge starts today on the Unicorn Challenge blog and the theme is Mystical and Magical. Themes like that always make me think of Unicorns.

To create the background I used Brushos. The clouds were created with a die that came with a Build a Sheep die set. 

The Unicorn is a Woodware stamp he was stamped onto water colour paper and coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

The two sentiments came with the Unicorn. 

I used glitter card for the mats to make the card more sparkly. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Mosaic Owl - Woodware stamp

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I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. We had our meeting at Bristol Zoo for the wedding and the one hair trail for the day. So a very busy productive day including lots of food.

I treated myself to a new guillotine, a tonic one, and I am very pleased with it. I used it on this card.

The background was made with some textured card coloured with Distress ink, 

I treated myself to the Mosaic Owl stamp from Woodware. It was stamped on to water colour card with black archival and coloured him with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

This is a Crafter's Companion die cut in two shades of green. 

My husband has already taken this card for one of his work colleagues. 

I would like to enter challenge 88 at the Creative Craft Cottage Challenge Blog and the Creature or Animal challenge at the Seize the Birthday Challenge Blog. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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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 - Fushia Spray

Hi Me Crafty Blog Friends

Well another week has started. I hope that you had a wonderful weekend. Unfortunately I have a cold which has dampened the weekend a bit. The bunnies have returned home to be with our daughter she has a new bunny room for them. They should be very comfortable and it is good to know that they weren't out in the storm on Saturday night.

Last week at work we had some very sad news. One of our colleagues has been diagonised  with Ovarian Cancer. I offered to make a card for everyone in our team to sign. I wanted to make something pretty.

I started by colouring the image. Then I made the mats and layers to match the colours I had used to colour the image. The lace and backing paper were in my stash. I used a Memory Box die to make the flourishes at the side of the image. 

The stamp I used is called Fushia Spray by Woodware it was stamped onto watercolour card with Watering Can Archival ink and then coloures with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I used the Double Pireced Rectangle dies designed by Sue Wilson to make the mats and layers for the image. 

This stamp was also stamped with Waterring Can Archival and cut out with the Double Pireced Rectangle dies. 

I do hope the lady likes this card. I will be taking it with me when I return to work so that it can be signed by the team.  

I would like to enter Week 256 at Pixie's Snippets Playground , challenge 339 at the Craft Your Passion Challenge Blog,  challenge 137 at the Crafting From the Heart Challenge Blog ,challenge 76 at Creative Craft Cottage and challenge 90 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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