Tatty Daisy Card - Just Because

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? Yesterday I had my hair cut. I had forgotten how much I enjoy the experience. Also I have known my hairdresser for 23 years and she like a good friend. She used to cut our daughter's hair and always asks about how she is getting on. This morning we dropped off a Covid test each. We are taking part in a trial. In a few days we should get the result. 

I have been making a few cards. My friend is opening her house for the Open Studios event and she has asked me if I would like to have a table of cards. Of course I said yes. This will take place August Bank Holiday Weekend. That really isn't far away. 

Sometime ago I treated myself to the Tatty Daisy die from the John Next Door range. I had a design in my head that I wanted to try. As you know I have been making simple cards recently this is another one. All the card I used was from my stash. I do like this pink card, it has nearly all gone, but I don't know where it came from. 

I cut the daisies from scraps of white paper that has a sheen to it. The centres were coloured with Distress ink and candi was added as well. I cut and added the Rose Leaves also from the John Next Door range. 

This sentiment is from Creative Expressions. It is quite useful as it makes the card more flexible to use. 

I was quite pleased with how this card turned out. There are some other things I want to try now. 

I just looked up the meaning of Daisy and it meas Day's Eye and it came from Old English. If we get another cow we might call it Daisy. 🐄

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Flowers All Over Challenge at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Barn Owl Birthday Card

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How are things going for you? Have you ventured out anywhere different or further away? Have you had people round to socialise in your garden? We haven't changed what we are doing much. We are still shopping for a few people. Next Wednesday we have booked to go to Exbury Gardens.  You have to book ahead for a specific time. Only a few people are allowed in each hour. My husband is taking a days leave so we can do this. I am still a bit nervous about it. 

I was looking through my files and I found the birthday card that I made for my cousin. I tried to make him one before this one  and it turned out rather feminine. I sent that one was sent to one of my other cousins. 

I do love images by the late Pollyanna Pickering. I chose the image from one of my pads. Then I chose papers to match the image. I found an Ivy Border die from Creative Expressions I cut the die twice using a pale green card. I darkened the die with Distress Ink. 

This is a gorgeous image of a Barn Owl by Pollyanna Pickering. He looks so cute peeking round the corner.

It is raining today. The garden does so need the rain. We still had our walk this morning that is what waterproof coats are for.  I will be colouring with Barbara Gray a bit later. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 18 at Paper Funday Challenges

Challenge 410 at the Crafty Creations Challenge blog

The June Challenge at Wednesday's Creative Inspirations Challenge blog

The June 2nd Challenge at the Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) Challenge blog

Have a good day. 

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Thinking of You Doodle Card

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How are things going for you? As I said last week things aren't much different for us. My hubby is still working from home. We are still shopping for a few people. I am growing so many things in our garden. Later on we will be able to have a salad! There are also lots of birdy visitors. We haven't appreciated our garden as much before. I am so glad that we have it.

A lot of you will know that I have been following the Doodle sessions that Barbara Gray does every weekday at 10:00 am on Facebook. Later they can be found on YouTube. I have been inspired to make a few cards that I have drawn the images for. This is the first one. I needed a thinking of you card for a lady from church whose husband died. He did have Covid 19 but it was his underlying health conditions that were the problem.

I made the lovely background paper. I found it when I was tiding. I have no idea how I made it. I would really like to make some more.There are a few sheets left. The candy in the corners is made with the Cogs dies from the John Next Door range. 

I used my Double Pierced circle dies to draw the circle. This meant that after I had cut the circle out I could easily used another of the dies to cut a mat for the image. The pattern in the circle is one that we learnt when doodling. I drew the seed heads and leaves first with pencil and them with a Micron pen. Once everything was dry I used Distress ink  with a brush to colour the image. I also used Distress ink to paint the border. 

I hope the lady, I sent this too, liked it. I have no idea how she is coping. I think I will be making a few of these cards. 

I hope you have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Cornflower Lattice Friendship Card

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How are you getting on? I hope none of you have this nasty virus and that you can get the supplies that you need. What truly strange times we are living in. I am pleased that we are allowed out for exercise so I should still be able to walk. Recently we walked to our local Bronze Age burial mound. It is so strange that it is there. The mound is unimpressive when you see it but it has been there for a long time. There are some other paths and tracks I would like to investigate in the local area. I also have some seeds so I will be able to grow some flowers.

We wanted to lend a Beatles CD to our friends who are the Beatles fans. I also had a book to lend. So I decided to make a card to go with them. I have actually been finding it hard to craft. Which is strange as there is so much time, maybe that is the problem.

I wanted to make a pretty card with a lattice background. All the dies I used on this card are from the John Next Door range. I cut the lattice three times to make the background. I also cut the Ivy Spray four times. 

I cut the Cornflower die four times in white. I made up the flowers and then I inked the edges with Distress Ink. 

Because we love our friends and miss them I chose to use this sentiment. 

You would not believe how many Snippets I used on this card. Everything apart from the mats and layers came out of my extensive collection of Snippets. It is strange but however much I use there always seems to be more. 

You should have seen us deliver this we rang the door bell and ran away. What strange times we are living in. We did message our friends so that they knew it was there. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 374

The Anything Goes Challenge Week 24th March at the Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) challenge blog

Challenge 52 at the Unicorn Challenge blog

Challenge 68 at the Craft Rocket Challenge blog

Challenge 182 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Stay safe and well. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Adventures in using up Patterned Paper Snippets

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How was your weekend? Our plans changed completely when my husband came home ill on Friday afternoon. He has had a cough for a while and it just seemed to take a turn for the worse. So a weekend of rest was the order of the day. He still isn't right. I am not sure when he will go back to work.

After making my snippets Christmas cards I was having a think about making birthday cards this way. Not only do I have lots of snippets of Christmas papers but lots of other patterned paper snippets too.  Here is what I came up with.

I saw a card on Facebook which showed the lines of the card offset. I only got an impression of the card I have no idea whose card it was. After I had made all the mats and layers I cut a piece of card to cover with strips.  I did offset the strips they are an inch wide and cut on my guillotine. When I had covered the card and cut the strips around the edge I used some Distress ink on the edges. 

I wanted an intricate die to make a focal point on the card. I chose to use the Sophia die set from Creative Expression. The sentiment in the middle came from a Hunkydory kit that came free with a magazine.  

Once you have made a card do you get ideas on how you could improve the design. This was the case here. I had some time to craft on Saturday I will share with you what I made soon. 

Have a great week. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

The January Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Challenge 87 at the Cardz 4 Galz Challenge blog

Challenge 156 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Challenge 160 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 234 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 56 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

Challenge 13 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge 

The January Challenge at the Crafting by Designs Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Deer family in a Winter Forest

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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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Mixed Media Plate and Fairies

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How have you all been? It seems like ages since I have blogged. The wedding was brilliant we had such a lovely day. The zoo was such a good location for the wedding. When I have sorted my photos I will do a special blog post about the wedding. The happy couple went home after the wedding. Their honeymoon is in September.

The weekend before the wedding I made it to the Newbury Craft show. It was lovely because we had a good catch up with John Lockwood and he shared some of his plans with us and we saw Sam and some of his new stamps and stencils which you all know about now. He was demonstrating with mixed media plates that he was using with a Stamping Platform. I was impressed and I bought all three of the shapes of plate that were at the show. When you get home is it always difficult to remember what you have seen. Anyway in the week before the wedding I had a play.

Having watched John again on Hochanda I want to have another play. I used distress ink and stamps from my collection. I do seem to have a lot of fairy stamps. I used various stencils from my collection too. Though now I have seen John's stamps and stencils I want those too. All the black stamping was done with black archival ink. The frames were made with the Douvle  

This was the first card I made. 

All the cards were sprayed with Crafter's Companion Pearl Spray and Shine. 

I do want to make some Christmas cards with the mixed media plates. I think they will really speed up my card production. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Birthday Blooms for You

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? It has been quite sunny here which has been nice for a change. It was just a bit too hot for Sports Day yesterday but that is behind us now.

I wanted to make a card for a friend that is going through a hard time at the moment.

I made the frame for the image with some of my Noble dies by Sue Wilson. I do like the piercing that you get with this set.

This has to be my favourite flower stamp it comes from the Birthday Blooms set by Stampin Up. It was stamped with black archival onto watercolour card this meant that I was able to colour it with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens and some water and a watercolour brush. Now can you see the dots in the background? That is another stamp from the set. I used two shades of Distress ink to stamp round the flower. Then I used a translucent mica powder to dust over the dots. I have to admit I had never done this before and now I am not sure why not the mica clung to the distress ink and I was left with a lovely sheen. 

I liked it so much I did the same with the sentiment that also came with the Birthday Blooms stamp set. 

I really enjoyed making this card I used so many of my favourite things to make it. 

I would like to enter Challenge 21 at Jade's Sparkling Butterflies ,Challenge 24 at Cardz 4 Galz and the End of Term blog hop and prizes at House of Cards.  

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

First try with Brushos

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How is your week going? Today is the last day of term it is going to be rather emotional as so many people are leaving as well as all the Year 6s. I will have to take tissues with me into the last assembly.

When I went to the Newbury Craft show I treated myself to some Brushos. I was going to buy a smaller set but I was advised to buy the slightly bigger set with more standard colours. I had a play a couple of weeks ago and it took a few attempts to make something I liked.

I cut all the mats and layers with 0.5 cm differences. With the top red mat I embossed it with the Sue Wilson A4 embossing folder Quilted Flower and I inked it with Black Soot Distress ink. The ribbon came from a set of pyjamas  we bought our daughter for Christmas. The bow was already tied. 

As I said it took me a while to get something I liked the look of when I had my play with the Brushos. I tried what I had seen in a demonstration and it didn't work for me. On to watercolour paper I stamped the Zentangles Blossom set by Creative Expression with Perfect Medium and heat embossed it with a sparkly black powder.  Then I sprinkled a very small amount of the Brushos powder on to the image, Finally I spritzed it with water and I left it to dry.

The sentiment was cut with some Spellbinder dies. 

This is the set of Brushos I bought. I am itching to have another play but it will have to wait until I come back from holiday. 

I would like to enter this card into Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 186.

I hope the rest of the week is kind to you. I will be settling down with a lovely large glass of wine this evening because I don't have to get up tomorrow. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Fantasy Stampers - Pretty Petals

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Well the weekend is finally here. I wonder what your plans are? We are finishing off our holiday shopping today and later going to a Summer BBQ and house warming. It should all be fun.

Today sees the start of a new challenge on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog the theme this time is Pretty Petals. Why not join us for a bit of fun?  And don't forget the stamping.

I was looking through my collection of stamps and I came across this one from  Creative Expressions  it was designed by Sam Poole  and is called Zentangles Blossom.  I decided to go for a CAS style this time. 

Thank you stamp is one from Clarity stamps. I stamped the thank you and the flower with Blue Archival ink and heat embossed with a clear powder. I coloured the flower with Distress in using a water colour paint brush.  

I do hope that you have a good weekend and get done all the things that you want. 

Don't forget about the new Challenge at Fantasy Stampers. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Butterflies, Music and pictures from Ally Pally

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I had just the best weekend. We went to Ally Pally on Saturday  and I met some lovely people and I bought lots of crafty stash. Then on Sunday we went to Beatles Day at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings with two friends. Altogether it was a stella weekend. There was not much time to craft though. I am still on Easter holidays which is fab. I might get a bit of time to catch up. We are away again next weekend this time in Devon.

I made this card to enter the Butterfly Challenge #28 Butterflies and Music Notes. I would like to enter it for Pixie's Snippets Playground - 172 I used a few snippets to make this including the page of an old music book.

I made the background first using  Visible Image butterfly stamps. I stamped the large and the small butterfly with Walnut Stain and Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink they were then heat embossed with a clear powder. I inked over the page with Old Paper Distress ink and inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. 

I cut a square from a page of an old music book and I stamped the large butterfly with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and heat embossed it with clear powder.

I cut the Tattered Lace Music die from some snippets of  white paper and added them to the design.

Here are some of my photos from Saturday at Ally Pally.  It is an amazing building, where they hold the Big Stamping and Scrapbooking show twice a year.

This is Pam Smith she is on the Creative Expressions Design Team. I got to know her when we were on Sam Poole's Design Team together. 

 Mark and Helen from Visible Image they make wonderful stamps. Mark told me that he sits in the evening cutting out the stamps by hand, that is dedication.

John Lockwood he is also on the Creative Expressions Design Team. He was so nice to me, I did bring him jelly babies, he gave me some dazzlers.

 Jenny Redfern she is a freelance demonstrator and she was on the Samuel Taylors stand. I got to know her through Facebook. It is so nice when you meet Facebook friends in real life. 

 Julia Watts and Phill Martin both on the Creative Expressions Design Team. I got to speak to Sue Wilson as well, mostly about cruises, but I didn't get a photo. 

Finally this is Florence she recognized me from Do-crafts site it was lovely to put a face to a name.

My stash from the show I can't wait to have a play.

Just a quick reminder of the card I made.

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie