Happy Retirement

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your weekend been so far? Some people get an extra day today. Which is nice. We have had a lovely weekend so far. On Sunday we visited our daughter and son-in-law to celebrate our daughter's birthday. We spent our time having walks with the dog and enjoying afternoon tea. They really do live in a lovely place with walks right on their doorstep. On Thursday last week we had our second jabs. This time neither of us had any side effects. 

On Friday last week our sister-in-law retired. She was the last one of our little group that was working so I had to send a card. 

The background is made with the Tartan die from the John Next Door range. I am looking forward to using this die for Christmas card. I did extend the die a little to make a larger card. 

I used a selection of Stencil dies from the John Next Door range to make the sentiment. 

The Stencil Alphabet die set was used to make the name. 

I know she loved her card. I think she had a good send off too. In a few weeks will be able to have a celebration. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge #98 at Crafting Happiness Challenges

Week 626 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Itty Bitty Botz Encore Week at Beccy's Place

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a lovely weekend. The weather has been very good. Today is our daughter's 30th birthday. We are going to be spending most of the day with them. 

This week is Encore Week at Beccy's Place where one of the older digital images sets is highlighted. This time the image set is Itty Bitty Botz. A set of really cute robots. 

Here is the card I made using the Shutter Card die set from the John Next Door range. 

I have had the rocket paper in my stash for so long. It was nice to use it on a project. I used the precoloured images. 

Here is the Itty Bitty Botz  image set it is available HERE. 

This was a fun card to make. I think the Shutter Card style suited the robots. 

Happy Crafting

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Happy First Birthday Murph

 Hi My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? Yesterday we had our second jab. We were in and out of the vaccination centre so quickly. There was even time for a coffee on the way home. The last time we went there was torrential rain. This time all was sunny. 

Today is the first birthday of our daughter and son-in-law's dog, Murph. He is a rescue dog from Romania. He is a lovely boy and he is very willing to learn. At the moment he is getting used to visitors. Lockdown hasn't helped with this. Today we are meeting them all in an enclosed field near where they live and then Murph can have some time off lead with there being no chance of getting lost or having strange encounters.   

I have had the backing paper in my stash for such a long time. It was lovely to be able to use it. The Stencil Alphabet dies from the John Next Door range are perfect for personalising cards. 

This is a recent photo of Murph. Murph does have his own Instagram page. He is called @megamuttmurph and he can be reached HERE. He does take a good photo. 

This is quite a clean and simple card. I have never made a birthday card for a dog before. 

Have a good weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Christmas Card for the May Rudolph Days Challenge

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? Today is the day we are going for our second jab. I will let you know how we get on. 

The May Rudolph Days Challenge has already started. This challenge runs from the 25th of the month until the last day of the month. I had to go back through my files to find a Christmas card I hadn't posted. I have been very busy and I haven't made any Christmas cards lately. I am hoping to get back on track. Here is what I found. 

The patterned papers were in my stash. All the dies I used are older ones from the John Next Door range. 

This is not the scene that comes with the Round Bauble die set. The scene comes from the Sam's Circles die set. I added the Santa from the Christmas Time die set. 

I am not sure which die set this sentiment comes from. It seemed appropriate with all the deer on the card. 

This is another card for my stash. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The May Rudolph Days Challenge

Challenge 525 at the Fab'n'Funky Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Beccy's Place - Just add Flowers

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? We are getting closer to our second jab. Thursday will be here before we know it. I am helping at a Felting Workshop on Wednesday. It our daughter's birthday at the weekend. I really aim hoping for no side effects we will just have to wait and see. 

I am one of the Blog Contributors at Beccy's Place and I get to work with some fabulous images. The Just Add Flowers digital image set is no exception. 

For this card I made a background with Snippets of Patterned Papers. I used the A Little Something Digital Stamp set (which is available HERE) to add flowers to the jug. 

This is the Just Add Flowers digital image set it is available HERE.  As you can see I have only scratched the surface of the potential this set has. I really enjoyed colouring the jugs and it brought back memories of my lovely Nan. 

For my next card I added flowers with my Tatty Daisy die from the John Next Door range. 

The final card is a tiny card. All the flowers and butterflies were left over from another crafting session. This was a great way to use them. 

Here they all are together. They were fun to make. 

Happy Crafting

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Diamond Point Birthday Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We had a busy day on Saturday and a more chilled day on Sunday. We did manage to get our for a walk before the rain started. Then there was time to craft. This week is going to be busy too. On Thursday we are due to get our second vaccine. I hope we don't get any reactions this time. 

I have been seeing lots of Diamond Point cards around Facebook. Well being me I had to have a go. John Lockwood did demonstrate this style of card on the Craft Store when he was demonstrating the limited edition kit earlier in the month. 

This one was made with all Claritystamp products including the card blank. There are tutorials for this style of card if you check on the internet. I used one of my Designer paper pads. 

The flower square was a club die with a different sentiment. In one of the Claritystamp  offers I treated myself to some corner dies that came with other sentiments one of which was Happy Birthday. 

I made this one for my crafty friend's birthday. As it could be hand delivered the care could be a little bigger. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge #149 at the Make My Monday Challenge blog

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Southey Squares and Stencil Relatives new from the John Next Door Range

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? We seem to be getting busier and busier. This week I have two felting workshops to help at and I have a few things that I need to be making. 

Today is the day the John Lockwood aka John Next Door releases his Southey Square dies and the Stencil Relatives and the Stencil Family Occasions die sets. 

I had the Southey Squares and the Stencil Relative dies to work with. I also used the Periwinkle die set and the Small Flowers and Small leaves die sets. 

The brief was to use as many combinations of relatives as I could. First up Special Cousin. 

Now Grandfather and Grandmother. I was thinking of my husband's parents when I made this one. 

I don't have a step daughter. This card could be for any achievement. 

We are actually Great Aunt and Uncle to our great niece and nephew. 

I do have a special son-in-law. 

I did use the Stencil Number dies to add to this card. It is just great how many combinations you can make with the dies. 

So here are all my samples together. At 6:00 I will find out which one's have been used on the Craft Store shows.  

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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