Fantasy Stampers - Flower Power

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. I wonder what you have planned? We are seeing our daughter and her fiancé to celebrate my birthday which is on Monday. We will be hat shopping, for the wedding in July, seeing a film and having a meal. The weather should be nice which is a plus.

Today a new challenge starts on the Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog and the  theme is Flower Power

I used the Fushia Spray stamp by Woodware. I must admit that I bought this stamp with the idea of using my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens and that is what I did. 

I stamped the image with Black Archival ink onto water colour  before colouring it with the pens. 

The sentiment is a Lily of the Valley stamp that came free with a magazine sometime ago. 

If you check back on the Fantasy Stamper Challenge Blog tomorrow the winners of the last challenge will be announced. 

I would like to enter the May Challenge at the Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog, May Challenge at Crafting By Designs, the Make it  Take it May challenge at the Craft Stamper Magazine , Coloring Challenge at the Seize the Birthday Challenge Blog and the May Challenge at the Classic Design Team Open Challenge.

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Creative Artist - Canvas

Hi My Crafty  Blog Friends

It is Friday the weekend has arrived. We have a fun day planned tomorrow. Our daughter and her fiancé will be visiting as it is my birthday on Monday and that is the best day for use to get together. We will be starting off with hat shopping for a wedding in July.

My Design team makes have been nicely spread out this month. Last month three of them came together on the same day. Being the first Friday of the month the new challenge starts on the Creative Artiste challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes.

We have a sponsor Maja Design the prize will be a pack sent out from the sponsor.

I have made something I have never made before - a canvas.

I quite enjoyed making it in the end. I used lots of things from my stash that I haven't used before. This is quite a small canvas it measures 6" x 8". First I covered it with Gesso and then a layer of tissue paper to get some texture going. I found some spray inks in my stash and I had fun spraying the tissue paper. Once this was dry I used texture paste and masks to create some more texture. Once everything was dry I went through my crafts bits stash and added bits and bobs to the canvas. 

The butterfly was created with a Sizzix die and stamp set. 

The flower was made with the Sizzix Bigz die Tattered Florals. I love how those dies can cut fabric. 

The birds are from Marianne dies,

This bird started out white. 

More of the Tattered Florals. The bunting was created with a Tattered Lace die and the die cuts were left over from another project. 

I did enjoying making this canvas. Next time I will have a bit more idea of what to do. 

Have a wonderful weekend,

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Father's Day Card Number 2

Hi My Crafty Blogs Friends

I hope your week is going well. It is so nice to have a short week before getting to the weekend again.

I have made another Father's Day, card I need to make three. I haven't yet been asked to make a card for our daughter's, fiancé's father but I think that might come in the future. The one I am sharing today has been made for my father he likes watching the birds in his garden.

I chose the colours for the mats and layers from the colours on on the Goldfinch. 

This image came from a magazine some time ago. I am glad I found it as I was struggling as to what to put on my dad's card. I cut the image and its mats with my Double Pierced Rectangles by Sue Wilson. 

I love this die it is a Signature die from Joanna Sheen. I cut it twice once in black and once in red I used the black to create a shadow effect. This helped the sentiment to stand out from the background, 

I hope my dad likes this card he never says much. Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Unicorn Challenge - Spotty Dotty! Polka Dots

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a good weekend and that those of you that got one had a wonderful Bank Holiday. We spent our extra day taking afternoon tea to my parents to celebrate our birthdays. We even took my husband's parents with us. It was a lovely time and no one had to stress about organising the food because it all came from Marks and Spencer. 

The first Tuesday of the month sees the start of a new challenge on the Unicorn Challenge blog and this time the theme is Spotty Dotty! Polka Dots.

As you can see I tried to get as may dots into the design as I could.  Everything I used came from my stash. 

The girls are wearing dots, the ribbon has dots and the papers have dots. This was such a fun card to make. Even the sentiment, which was a sticker, has dots on it. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are enjoying the weekend and some of us have an extra day to look forward to tomorrow. We are off to see my parents to celebrate our birthdays. I share a birthday with my mother and my father's is five days later. My mum isn't too well and doesn't want to go out so we are going to take afternoon tea with us all bought from M&S.

Being the first of the month the new challenge starts today on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes. I am sharing a frame that I made as a wedding gift for a wedding we are going to in July.

I made a frame like this for the family wedding that was earlier in the year. This one is for another niece and her fiancé I know she will be carrying sunflowers at her wedding. 

The Sponsor for this challenge is Di's Digis

Click on the image to be taken to the store. 

I have a lovely set of sunflower stamps and I used it to create this background. 

Part of the set creates a layered sunflower. I made one for the frame. 

We had a few goes at laying out the words. 

This is the wedding card I created I used the same sunflower stamp set for the background just this time I stamped it in grey ink. 

The big plus about this wedding is that we will be staying 10 minutes drive from the Harry Potter Studio Tour, we have our tickets already, we are going on the Sunday after the wedding on the Saturday. It will make a very nice weekend. 

I would like to enter Challenge 19 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog. 

I hope that you enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Alphabet Challenge Blog - Letter E for Embossing Folders

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

We have arrived at the weekend and a long one for some of us as well. We are hoping to go to a local garden, sometime at the weekend, to see the Spring flowers. On Monday we are visiting my parents to celebrate our birthdays that all come very close together. May is an expensive month.

Today a new challenge starts on the Alphabet Challenge blog the letter is E and the theme is Embossing Folders.

I was rather taken with the Beautiful Rose embossing folder and stamp set that came with issue 148 of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine and this is what I used to make the main part of this card. I embossed the Beautiful Rose embossing folder on to white card and I cut an aperture in the card with a circle die. I cut a smaller circle in a darker pink card to fit inside the aperture. Behind the aperture I embossed some white care with the Bed of Roses embossing folder. All the embossing was inked to bring out the detail of the folders. 

The Beautiful Rose was stamped onto watercolour card with black Archival ink. I used my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens to colour the image and then I used my Brother ScanNcut to cut it out and leave a border. 

The Happy Birthday sentiment came with the Beautiful Rose set and it was stamped onto a Pierced Flag. 

This shows some of the detail of the embossing folders. 

It certainly is a beautiful rose this will be another card for my box of cards. I did enjoy colouring the rose I think I will be using this stamp a lot. 

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

My New Dies

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? We have reached half way which is always good. Yesterday, along with lots of other people, we had snow! Did you see any? It didn't last long here and it was sunny very soon after.

When Sue Wilson released her latest collection of  dies I couldn't resist the Exquisite Poppy dies, the Olive branch dies, and the Stitched Lattice frames. I am very naughty. My Mother-in-law loves poppies and I decided to remake her birthday card.

I was so pleased with the way this card turned out and I just love the dies. I can see myself using them a lot. I cut the lattice twice once in white and once in blue and off set them one behind the other inside the stitched frame. 

I used the Just for you Oval set for the sentiment. 

Aren't the poppies gorgeous. 

I think my Mother-in-Law will like this card. She would have liked the other one too she is lovely. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 226 , TTCRD challenge for 26th April till the 2nd May and Penny's Challenge 275.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie