Moving Along with the Times Challenge blog - the theme is Bugs

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How is your week going? I am having quite a quiet week which is great for catching up on crafty makes of one sort or another. The following couple of weeks are going to be rather busy.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at the Moving Along with the Times Challenge blog and this time the theme is Bugs. By this we mean any type of insect.

I wanted to make an Valentine's Day card for my husband and I found inspiration from a  cushion in Next. I go there often it is an easy walk from our house and they have a Costa. What's not to like?  Any way back to the cushion it had bees and a heart on it. I tried making a felted bee but I didn't like what I made so I bought some dies instead.

For the background I used the Honeycomb Haven embossing folder from Creative Expressions. It seemed appropriate. My backing paper was another inky kitchen roll creation. 

 I added the honeycomb die that came in the Dovecraft Bee Happy Premium Die Collection to the background. 

The theme of this times challenge is Bugs. Even butterflies and dragonflies count. Click on the logo and you will be taken to the blog. 

The heart die was one designed by Leonie Pujol for Crafter's Companion. The Bee Happy came from the Dovecraft set. 

I think this bee die is fabulous and this what prompted me to buy the Dovecraft die set. All the other dies were a bonus. 

My husband did like his card on Valentine's Day. In fact we have only just put it away. 

Enjoy the rest of the week

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 109 at the Scrapy Land Challenge blog

Challenge 421 at Penny' s Paper- Crafty Challenge blog

Challenge 125 at the Crasz 4 Guyz Challenge blog

Challenge 445 at the Krafty Chick Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Butterfly Birthday Card

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How is your week going? I hope you haven't been too badly affected by Storm Gareth. Interestingly the next storm will be called Hannah. There was a list of names on the BBC news site. I am having a quiet week which means there is a lot of time to craft. This is great because it gives me a chance to catch up before it all gets busy again.

I was recently very lucky and a won a die set during Holley's month long celebration of 9 nines years since her successful brain surgery. Holley's blog can be visited  here http://holleybarnhartsblog.blogspot.com/

Every year in the month of February Holley gets lots sponsors and she is able to offer  many prizes around the world. I was thrilled when my prize arrived through the post. 

I had a bit of a tidy up recently and I found a stack of foiled card like the one I have used here. 

I won this wonderful butterfly die. The butterfly cuts beautifully and it has a die for a mat under the detail.  I used some paper that I had decorated using the shaving foam technique. I used the Double Pierced Square dies from Creative Expressions to cut the mats for the butterfly. 

I used a Creative Expressions die to create the sentiment. It was cut in purple and some more of the shaving foam paper. 

Thanks again to Holley for my fabulous prize. I made this card for one of my husband's work colleagues who is having a special birthday soon. I have also made a card  for the whole team to sign. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 431 at the Fab 'n' Funky Challenge blog

The March Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 386 at the Crafty Creations Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week 

Happy Crafting

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Not Just Cards Challenge Blog - March Anything Goes Challenge

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I hope you have had a great weekend. The wind has been really strong and taken down our neighbours fence that lies between our properties. We did get to the cinema on Saturday and saw the new Captain Marvel film. It was very enjoyable and it is worth waiting until the end of the credits if you are planning on going.

Being the 11th of the month the new challenge starts at the Not Just Cards Challenge blog. The March Challenge is Anything Goes, our usual theme.

I made a birthday card for the lady who runs the farm where our cow is looked after. The farm in question is in France and it is one of a herd on Aberdeen Angus cows. We called our cow Rosie I think she is known by her number in reality. It is a great pleasure to us to be able to say that we own a cow.

I did make one of my Snippets backgrounds for this card. I am rather obsessed with using up my scraps of patterned paper. 

The challenges at the Not Just Cards Challenge blog is always Anything Goes. Why not join us. 

The image I used is from the Farm Fresh Digital stamp set from Beccy's Place it is available HERE.  I bought this set with our farming friends in mind. The background for the silhouette cows was made in Publisher. The Happy Birthday was cut with a Crafter's Companion die.  

I added some extra detail with one of the dies that came in the Crafter's Companion advent calendar. 

I know this card was received safely, along with the wellie socks and sweets, and was much appreciated. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The March Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 160 at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

Challenge 159 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 164 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog

Challenge 229 at the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge blog

Challenge 238  at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 58 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

The March Challenge at the Die Cut Divas Challenge blog

Have a great week 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Tri-Shutter 70th Birthday Card

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I hope you have had a good week. The weekend is not far away now. Today I will be helping at another Felting Workshop and  we will be making pictures. I wasn't expecting to be involved today but the other lady who helps is unfortunately ill which is a shame. Tonight we are going to the theatre with friends to see Rainman.

I wasn't going to blog today but then I was looking through my files and I found this Tri-Shutter card that I made for a friend's birthday back in December.

I love this style of card. They are rather impressive, they fold up to go in a small envelope and they are great for using all your small dies. The chap in question is the husband of one of my crafty friends. She made her card to him at my house so it would be a surprise for him. This meant that I had a good idea about things he liked. I used a music embossing folder for the backing as he likes music. 

All the scoring was done on my scoring board and I used a craft knife to cut the slits. The colours I used are the ones of his football team. 

I just used small dies to fill in the spaces. It is fun finding ones to fit with the theme. 

I know he liked this card and that he had a great birthday. I might just make one like this for my uncle who is 85 soon. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Get Well Card featuring Clyde the Dragon

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I have a relatively quiet week. Today I am helping at a Felting Workshop which is run by my dear friend. I think  we will be making pictures. Sometimes I get to make my own project sometimes I help to complete a project for the group. I won't know what I will be doing until I get there. I do so love helping though it is a lovely gentle morning in very pleasant surroundings.

Although I have had some time to craft this week I have been struggling a bit to know quite what to do. I was looking at the Bugaboo website and I spotted the free image of the week which is Clyde Get Well. The little dragon was so cute he was just begging to be made into a card.

The backing paper was created with some inky kitchen roll when from when I had been using some Brushos. The ribbon was from my stash. The layers were cut with the Double Pierced Square dies from Creative Expressions. 

Isn't Clyde cute. He was printed onto Neenah card stock and coloured with Promarkers. I used the Double Pierced Rectangle dies to cut out the image and its mat. 

The flowers and leaves were created with punches that emboss. I have had these punches for a while it was good to use them again. 

I think this is quite a cheerful Get Well card it will go into my basket until I need one. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 58 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

The March Anything Goes challenge at the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog

Challenge 571 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Week 10 at the Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge

Challenge 238 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 379 at the I ❤ Promarkers Challenge blog

Challenge 15 at the Crafter's Castle Challenge blog

Challenge 109 at Scrapy Land Challenges 

Challenge 430 at Fab 'n' Funky Challenges 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - March Challenge 

Challenge 32 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Spring Daffodils

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? We had a lovely quiet day on Saturday. On Sunday we braved the bad weather and we met our daughter and son-in-law at Mottisfont (National Trust Property) to see the Norman Thelwell exhibition. It was really worth the effort the exhibition is fabulous. I didn't realise that Thelwell lived near Mottisfont and he did many paintings of the the local area. Of course there were original paintings of his cartoons. I do recommend this exhibition. It is on until the 22nd April we are hoping to go back sometime.

When we had our quiet day on Saturday I actually did some crafting. My husband was sorting out my parents filing and I wasn't needed. So I started by cutting daffodils with the Altenew Layered Daffodil Die Collection from issue 188 of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine. I even had time to make them into a card.

I spent quite a long time finding card in my Snippets pile to make the daffodils and the leaves. The backing paper came from my Snippets pile too. 

The dies cut beautifully and are very easy to put together. 

I wanted to make a vase for the daffodils to sit in. I looked all through my dies and I came to the Bottle die set from John Next Door. So this vase is cut with the bottle die. I had some embossed card in my stash and I cut off the top of the bottle. I added a sentiment cut with a Creative Expressions die. 

I do love daffodils they are so bright and vibrant after a long grey winter. I often have a bunch in the house at this time of year. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 347 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Week 509 at the Allsorts Challenge blog - Favourite Season Spring

Challenge 238 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 158 at the Creative Fingers Challenge blog

Challenge 91 at the Make My Monday Challenge blog

The March Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Have a great week

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog - March Challenge - Anything Goes

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Here I am back again with my second post of the day.

The March Challenge starts at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog. The theme is Anything Goes and the sponsor this time is Bugaboo Stamps. There is a prize $12 gift code for the randomly chosen winner of the challenge.

Now I must admit to being a bit obsessed with using my Snippets to make backgrounds and here is another one made in Easter colours. 

There are many wonderful images in the store. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

This image is called Theodore - Easter and he is available HERE.  I made a background for the image with Publisher this is where I added the sentiment too. I do find it easier making backgrounds on the computer.  Pre-coloured images or PNGs are easier for this to work.  The image being a PNG  was coloured with Promakers. 

I am keen to make a few Easter cards this year. I think this image will be very useful. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 332 at the Color my Heart Color Dare Challenge blog

The March Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 571 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Challenge 119 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog

Challenge 32 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 337 at the QKR Stampede Challenge blog

Challenge 81 at the Crafting with Friends Challenge blog

Challenge 87 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

I hope you have a great weekend. We are hoping to see the Thelwell exhibition at Mottisfont. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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