Pretty in Pink

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. I hope you have had a good week and have great plans for the weekend. I start half term holiday now and I think I will be mostly making Save the Date cards as the card has finally arrived. I am still coughing so any progress is a bit slow. I never did go back to work last week.

This is a special post for me because I have been accepted on to the Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog Design Team. I am thrilled to say the least and this is my first offering. The current challenge is Pretty in Pink and this is my creation. You can find all the details of the challenge on the Fantasy Stampers Blog by clicking here.

Well Pretty in Pink what to do? Then  I remembered this beautiful  rose stamp that I bought in SplodgeAway  Facebook sale and I was away. 

I started with the layers the back mat I embossed with the Sue Wilson embossing folder Heart Trellis  and I inked it with Worn Lipstick Distress ink,

For the background I had a bit of fun, I used three shades of Distress ink and with Cut-n-Dry foam inked all over the page. When I was happy with the colour I sprayed some water over the whole background. I left it to dry naturally the water gives it a lovely  speckled effect. The final touch was to stamp the sentiment which is a Clarity stamp. 

I stamped the Viva Decor "3D Rose" set onto white stamping paper with Plum Archival ink and then the pieces  were heat embossed with CS Clear Detail Embossing Powder. To colour the images I put some Distress ink on my craft mat I added some water. I put the colour onto the image with a watercolour brush. I have never done this before I was pleased with the results. I cut all the pieces out by hand and I layered them up.  

 The final touch was to add the ribbon. I found this on sale in a fabric shop in Winchester I am now wishing I had bought a bit more it is so pretty. 

So that is my first post for Fantasy Stampers. Why not join in the challenge?

Enjoy your weekend.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Thinking of you in Mauve

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are all well. I have not had a good week my cold has got a lot worse and I have had to take time off work. I think it might be on the turn now but it has been long and slow.

How sad is this? I ended up making myself a simple Get Well card. I had to be simple because everything I have tried to do this week has gone wrong which has meant that I am getting behind with things that I need to do. Of course I won't keep this card for me, someone else will receive it sometime. I just needed to make something I was pleased with.

This card started with the ribbon which is so pretty. I found the paper in my stash to match the ribbon  which wasn't particularly easy. The card blank is 6"x 6". The larger ivory mat was embossed with the Heart Lattice embossing folder by Sue Wilson.

Here is the butterfly it is one that came on one of the Tattered Lace magazines. My very kind friend has lent it to me. If you are reading, and you know who you are, I promise to give it back soon.  

Here is the sentiment cut with a Britannia die set. The little hearts in the corners are the waste from another die. 

So there you have it. I would like to enter it for Challenge 24 "Butterflies and R is for Ribbon" on the Butterfly Challenge blog. You can't see much of the  ribbon but it is there, you can't miss the butterfly.

Well I hope the end of the week is good for you. The way I am feeling I don't think I will be in work tomorrow. I am just going upstairs for a little sleep. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

Butterflies

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a great weekend. I really enjoyed the craft show in Portsmouth it was very quiet. There weren't many stands and there didn't seem to be many people milling around as before. I did manage to buy quite a bit even though. The best bit was definitely meeting up with my crafty buddy and she got to decorate a coaster on the Oyster crafts stand. There will be another show in June I am hoping to go back again, You even get free tea and coffee.

This is a card I made with the members gift from C & C TV I was cheeky and posted it on their Facebook Page I did get some very nice comments.

I started by cutting the mats. The top mat was a lovely pale blue into this I cut an aperture and then I embossed it with the Art Deco  embossing folder by Sue Wilson. Once done I inked all over the mat with some Distress Ink.

I stamped another one of the stamps  from a set that were the cover gift on Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine 138. I added some butterflies that came from the  Phill Martin set Butterfly Field. I cut the black frame with some of Sue Wilson's dies. The blue mat is raised on foam tape so the image is set back a little.

The sentiment was cut with a Signature die.

I cut the free tonic die in white and then I inked it to be the colours I wanted. I cut an extra four butterflies  they were easy to cut away from the rest of the die and it meant I could use up some smaller pieces of paper not wanting the whole of the die. They also added some dimension to the card.

Altogether I had quite a crafty weekend. One of my cards was shown on one of Sue Wilson's show on Saturday.  I was such a twit I didn't put my address in the email for the chance to win one of Sue's beautiful cards.

I still have the cold hanging around and it has developed into a nasty cough. It is half term next week I hope I am better by then that is when I am hoping to make the Save the Date cards and I will be helping my daughter to make a cosplay costume. I hope that you all have a good week ahead.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Butterflies in Love

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are enjoying the weekend. I am  really looking forward  the Portsmouth Craft show tomorrow. I am hoping to buy lots of crafty stash and meet up with one of my crafty friends for a bit of a catch up.

I have had this design in my mind for a while. With my husband being out most of today I had the chance to create it. I used lots of Snippets and it has butterflies so I would like to enter the Challenges on the Butterfly challenge blog V is for Valentine and Pixie's Snippets Playground week 163.

I like the idea of filling a page with squares and making them look a bit like stamps. None of the elements are too large so it is a perfect opportunity to use lots of snippets. I am on a quest to use up my stash of tiny useful bits. The background paper is in the style of an old French newspaper.

I used Sizzix dies to cut the heart and the letters. The scalloped square was cut with a Spellbinder die.

The butterflies were also cut with a Sizzix die.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Night, Night Teddy

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here! I hope you have something good planned. On Sunday I will going to the Sincerely Yours Papercraft show at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth. I am really looking forward to it. I should be meeting at least one of my crafty friends and of course I will be shopping.

I found this cute little teddy  bear in my stash. I thought he would be suitable for the challenge 22 at Crafting Musketeers this month which is Cute.

It is quite a simple card but  I did get to use some dies that I haven't used in a while. The papers were from my stash .

I cut the heart circle frame in black and teal.

I wasn't sure which sentiment to put on this card I decided to for a general one. It might make a nice get well card.

The little hearts are the waste from the die. They looked so pretty I wanted to use them they couldn't go to waste.

I hope you have a great weekend. I am hoping to get a bit of crafting done tomorrow. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Thank You

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Thank you for all the get well messages. I  ended up taking two days off work and now I am mostly left with a cough. I knew I was starting to feel better when I started feeling like I wanted to make something.

I have had two very kind gifts recently and I wanted to make thank you cards for the senders.

I started with a 6" x 6"  black card blank. I cut two mats one gold and one black.

I stamped the Clarity thank you stamp in CS Perfect Medium round the edge of the black mat and I heat embossed it with a gold embossing powder. I did start by trying this with gilding flakes first but I wasn't happy with the result.

The centre panel was made with a set of stamps designed by Phill Martin. I did raise this panel on foam tape to give a little dimension.

The final touch was to add some dots in CS Olympic Gold in the corners. 

I hope you enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Sweet Little Bird

Hi My Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good weekend. We had a nice time in Brighton but unfortunately I started a cold on Saturday  evening meaning that I didn't feel much like looking around today so  we came away earlier than we expected. I must say it is nice to be wrapped up in the warm and home and not wandering around in the cold. At least it wasn't raining. I had one very nice piece of news waiting for me when I got home I had come joint first in the Fantasy Stampers Challenge - Fairy Nice.

Today's card is one that I made using one of the free stamps from Cardmaking and Papercraft Issue 140. I liked the stamps so much I also bought the matching dies they are very pretty I think they will be very useful.

This is a smaller card for me being 6" x 6". I stamped the image onto some white card with black archival and I heat embossed it with CS Clear fine detail embossing powder. Once this was done I had some fun colouring the image with Promarkers.

I cut the image out with one of my Tonic circle dies and I inked round the edge of the image once it was cut. I cut a slightly larger circle in black card and then I cut the Spellbinder die twice once in pink and once in black. You can see from the image how I layered  all the elements up. 

I used some patterned paper from my stash and I raided my snippets stash for the extra patterned paper.In fact lots of the card I used came from my rather extensive Snippets stash. One day I will get it under control.  The ribbon came from the wrapping of a pyjama set I had at Christmas. I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground - 162.

I hope you have a good week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie