Christmas Card number 33

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? I have been a bit under the weather. My migraine took a couple of days to clear up and I managed to hurt my back. I am feeling a lot better now and I have been doing my back exercises. We have been sorting out different things to do with the wedding. There is a whole year of this before we get to the big day.

Well yesterday I shared one of the 15 Christmas cards that I was going to finish today and finish I did. Only I can't count,  when I got to sticking the images onto the cards I found I had one left over. So there where 16 images in the pack not 15 and I first thought.  I used the extra image to make this card.

I decided to make a bigger card I know a special couple who will love a card like this and it doesn't need to go in the post. 

There were four different images and four of each making 16 images not 15 as I thought. I really should look at things properly before I start using them. 

I used the Sue Wilson Classic Poinsettia dies to create the flowers. They were embossed and  then inked with Distress ink. 

This is another Sue Wilson die there is room for this one on this card. 

Yes I am well into the swing of making Christmas cards now. I need a few other sessions making batches of cards. Tonight we are off to the local garden centre they are open late and do a deal on meals it would be rude not to. Have a great evening.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Card Number 18

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I had a lovely visit with my good friend yesterday she even had cake and we made icing butterflies. I am still trying to collect those wedding ideas. If you go to my page about our daughter's wedding you can see where we have got to with the design for the table centres.

Well I have been busy today. First I finished the trial table decoration, then I made something for one of the Design Teams I am on. Lastly I started working on a batch of 15 Christmas cards. At the moment only one is finished. But all the bits are cut to make the others and they will be finished tomorrow the I will be up to Christmas card number 32. Maybe I shouldn't count my Christmas cards before they are finished.

If it works out I will have 15 cards like this. I had a little pack of  LOTV toppers with three different designs but all blue and with children acting out the Nativity. All the mats and layers were cut with my Sue Wilson Double Pierced Squares sets A and B. The white layer was embossed with the Snowflake Lattice A4 embossing folder by Creative Expressions I also used a little Distress ink to bring out the detail of the embossing. 

These images are cute and they help to make very quick cards. 

Where would I  be without my Sue Wilson Happy Christmas die. It fits into spaces that other dies don't. 

So by this time tomorrow there should be 15 of these cards. Then I will start to feel a bit better about my Christmas cards. These cards are also nice and flat for posting. 

Enjoy the rest of the evening. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Christmas Reindeer - Christmas Card 17

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been so far? Unfortunately for me the weekend caught up with me and I ended up with a migraine yesterday. I had so much I wanted to do but  I didn't get much of it done. I expect a lot of your know how this feels.

I am sharing a simple Christmas card I made last week. I have been trying to get ahead with my Design Team makes as well as making things to show our daughter for the wedding. I am very aware that I don't have many Christmas cards made. So at the end of one of my crafty sessions I made this quick card using an image from an old card. I will be doing this a lot this year I have a big stash of old cards some people pass them on to me.

I looked all through my craft stash to find a tartan paper to match the bow on the reindeer, this is the closest I could find. 

I love this die by Sue Wilson it makes a contemporary sentiment. 

When we received this card last year I knew I would want to use him to make another card. 

I am hoping to get some more Christmas cards this week. I hope the rest of the week goes well for you. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Isobel Craft Collection - Singing in the Rain

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good weekend. We had a lovely time looking at wedding dresses with our daughter yesterday. She tried on 14 different dresses in two different shops. She now has a clear idea of which type of dress suits her best. There is now a plan to go back to one of the shops in November to make a final choice. It was a very good day.

I have made another card with the new release of stamps from the Isobel Craft Collection. I was sent the Garden Delights stamps set. I wanted to use the raindrops and the clouds this time.

I had fun with the raindrop stamp making the background using the resist technique with heat embossing and Distress Ink. I stamped the sentiment and clouds onto water colour card with Black Archival. Then I used some hexagon dies to cut them out. The spotty ribbon was in my stash. 

The stamps are available from the https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sophy8?ref=search_shop_redirect. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Today is my husband's birthday so this should be another good day. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artiste Challenge Blog - Anythings Goes

Hi My Craft Blog Friends

I hope that you have had a wonderful week and that you have got done all the things that you wanted to do. I have a week mostly catching up on jobs. I am now preparing for our daughter to visit this evening. The plan is to make my husband a birthday cake and tomorrow we are going somewhere so she can try on wedding dresses. This is super exciting.

The first Friday of the month see the start of a new challenge on the Creative Artiste Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes. We have a sponsor Stamporations and the Design Team were sent masks to work with. I was sent the Shutters mask and the Bold Florals mask.

The masks were quite different so I decided to make two cards. 

To create the background I laid the Bold Florals mask on to some watercolour card. First I sprinkled some mica over the mask and then with a brush I put some Brusho powder where I wanted it on the design. Now it was time to spritz it with water. While it was still wet I lifted the mask and I left the design to dry. As I had  added mica the background has a slight shimmer. 

Here is a close up on the background. I was lots of fun to create. 

The lilies were created with a Spellbinder die set and coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I really do try to use them whenever I can. I love the way they can be moved around with water.  

I used a Sue Wilson die to cut the flag and its mat. The sentiment was cut with a Britannia word die set.  I didn't want to put too much on the card to hide the pretty background. 

This card is quite different in tone. I actually made this one first. I put the Shutter mask onto some water colour card. It was sprinkled with some of my Brushos this time more randomly. Once this was done I spritzed the mask with water. I removed the mask and turned it inky side down onto some ready and waiting watercolour card. This is how I created the second mat. 

The sentiment came from the Woodware Gone to Seed stamp set. It was stamped in Perfect Medium and heat embossed with a sparkly black powder. 

This is the Gone to Seed stamp I love it. Again it was stamped with Perfect Medium and heat embossed with a black sparkly powder. 

I had lots of fun making these cards. I love masks all the things you can do with them they are so versatile. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Isobel Craft Collection - New Release of stamps - Garden Delights

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going. I have been rather busy making cards and looking after our daughter's rabbits who are staying with us for a few weeks this summer. This means that our daughter and her fiance can have a bit of time away together.

I was very lucky to be selected for the Design Team for the Isobel Craft Collection. A new collection of stamps has been released and there are five sets altogether. I was sent the gorgeous Garden Delights set to work with.

I love these cute bugs. I stamped them with black archival onto watercolour card and coloured them with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens I do love those pens. 

This is such cute border. Again it was stamped in black archival and coloured with my Sparkle pens. 

The stamps are available from the Etsy shop Sophy8.

This is the stamp set there are some lovely elements. I do have lots of other ideas for cards I could make with this set.

Enjoy the rest of the week and I hope the weather is kind to us all. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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New Baby Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good week.The weather here has been a bit variable but it is nice when the sun is out. After all we all need our Vitamin D.

One of my husband's work colleague's wife has just had a baby boy. I was asked to make a card for everyone at the office to sign. I seem to make this type of card quite often.

This is an 8" x 8" card and it has an extra insert so there is lots of room to sign. As this card was for a baby boy it had to be blue. The frame  for the image was made with the Double Pierced Squares sets A and B by Sue Wilson. The bunting is another Tattered Lace die. 

This is my go to Congratulations die it is made by Tattered Lace, 

This was cut with an Emerald die set that I won from Hochanda. I can't say I don't win anything. 

This little guy comes from the LOTV Occasions 3 stamp set. Of course depending on the colours the baby can be a girl. It is a very useful stamp. The little hearts came with the Mr and Mrs die set by Sue Wilson. 

I have joined Bloglovin and I would love it if you followed me there of course I would follow you in return. 

I would like to enter Challenge 54 at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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