When you have a good idea make another Card.

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? Today our old car is being collected, it will be sold and the money will go to a charity of our choice. The car will be collected from our drive too. It is quite a neat way to get rid of an old car. 

I enjoyed making the Snippets Christmas card last week that I decided to make a birthday card. This is all with scraps of paper that I found when tidying the other day. 

I was intending to make a Christmas card but the blue papers I used suggested a birthday card. 

This image came from an old card. I cut the image and it's mat with circle dies from different John Next Door die sets. 

You can always use a birthday card. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) - The theme is Food and or Drink

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is everyone. Well Easter really isn't far away. Today our good old boiler is being serviced I am not quite sure how it keeps going. It is Good Friday tomorrow. We are hoping to pop into Southampton to see the Passion Play in  Guildhall Square (which is where my husband works).

I must get on with the matter in hand the new challenge starts on the Moving Along with the Times (MAWTT) challenge blog and the theme this time is Food and or drink.

This card started with the circle mats they were left over after cutting an aperture in another card and they were just too good to waste. The paper came from my stash. 

I was looking through my drawers of craft bits and I came across some Forever Friends decoupage sheets and this image with the fabulous cake. I cut other strawberries from the sheet to add to the card. I haven't done any decoupage for a long time. 

Have a great day. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Pink with a Twist Challenge at the Crafting by Designs Challenge blog

Challenge 147 at the Inspiration Destination Challenge blog

Challenge 162 at the Crafty Girls Corner Challenge blog

Challenge 64 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 322 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Alphabet Challenge - Letter C - Cake

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? We are a bit closer to Easter with today being Good Friday. We are going to church later for a service.

The new challenge starts today on the Alphabet Challenge blog the letter is C and the theme is Cake.

This is an 8" x 8" card. I created the background by stamping a cupcake stamp with Perfect Medium and heat embossing with a white powder. Then I used Distress Ink to colour the background. I do like the resist technique. 

The tea-pot, cups and cupcake dies came from my Crafter's Companion Advent calendar. 

This is an actual recipe I got it from the internet. I copied it into Word and I edited the text to make it look the way I wanted. I printed onto white card in brown and I inked the edges with Distress ink. The Happy Birthday die came from the same Advent Calendar. 

I hope you have a wonderful Easter.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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My card in Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine Issue 163

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you have had a great weekend. We have been down to Bristol and we stayed in the hotel that we will be using for the wedding. Luckily nearby there is a nice restaurant to use for a meal on the night before the wedding. Our daughter, her fiance and his parents saw the hotel and the restaurant and liked both. We also had a meeting about chairs and sashes - you knew there were so many ways they could be tied. So a lot was achieved and we know where lots of things are now.

While we were away I bought a copy of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine (issue 163) and I was thrilled to see my card in print.

I made this card for the sketch challenge in the current issue. 

I won a cute pack of LOTV images from the Pixie's Snippets Playground a couple of months back and I used one of the images to make this card. I used colours from the image in my design.  

Here is a picture of my card on the page with the lovely comment from the editor. 

While we were in Bristol we had a walk along the Clifton Suspension Bridge. This photo was taken from the Visitors' Centre.

I hope you have a great week. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 267 and 268 and challenge 148 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine - Bonus Birthday Papers

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a great week. I have been quite busy and I haven't had time to do much crafting.

Last month I applied to Quick Cards Made Easy to be on their Readers Design Team and I was sent the bonus papers for issue 150 which is out now. My card wasn't published but I thought I would share it with you anyway.

This is a 150cm x 150cm card it is the size they requested. I teamed the bonus papers with teal centura pearl card to make the mats. 

I cut the balloons out from one of the papers and mounted them onto die cut balloons. 

The cake was from another of the papers. It was fun mixing and matching the elements. 

There was a separate sheet of sentiments. I used one and off set it with a square of one of the other papers. 

It is a shame this didn't get printed. It is supposed to be on their website but I couldn't find it. 

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Happy 90th Birthday Grandad

Hi Bloggers

The day finally arrived and Grandad became 90 this weekend.



Here he is with his cake made by one of his Granddaughters (he has 5)  he is with his Nannie.

 

Here he is enjoying his meal surrounded by his family and friends.



This is his present organised by one of his Grandsons (he has 2). You should have seen his old one.



Just a quick reminder of the card I made he did like it especially as it opened up from flat. He had so many cards as there was a party arranged by friends yesterday.

Have a great week. I'll be back with more cards. I am still borrowing a laptop the desktop is beyond repair so we need to replace it.

Happy crafting.

Hugs Jackie