An Anniversary Card for my dear Husband

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  I managed to try on some wedding outfits yesterday and I am very encouraged there are lots of lovely things out there. Karen kindly suggested using a personal shopper in John Lewis and I may well give this a try. Today I will be mostly working on the design for the evening invitations.

As you know I am trying to get ahead with my crafty makes so that I can concentrate on the things I need to make for the wedding. I have got to April and that is when our wedding anniversary is so I made a card for him. Easter cards will be my next make.

I made the background with a stencil placed on watercolour card. Then I sprinkled a selection of  Brushos and Pixie powders over the stencil and the paper. I spritzer the surface until I was happy with the mix of colours. The stencil was lifted carefully and then placed inky side down on to a piece of card I had waiting. This way you make two backgrounds at the same time. Once it was dry I added some white die cut anchors to add to the nautical theme.

This image is from an old card. My husband liked this style painting when we were looking in the art gallery on our last cruise. It would be lovely to buy some original art work. 

The sentiment was cut with some of my Britannia dies. 

On the off chance I sent in a card to Making Cards magazine for the Your Cards feature. I was thrilled to find that it had been picked as Star Card in the February issue. 

I am sure he will like this card when the time comes. I will just have to remember where I have put it. He never looks at my blog or Facebook page so it is okay to share.

I would like to enter Week 267 and 268 at Pixie's Snippets Playground ,January 31st Challenge at the TTCRD challenge blog and challenge 94 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artiste Challenge Blog February Challenge sponsored by Scrapmatts

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. I wonder if you have plans. I am going to start looking for a wedding outfit for me. On Saturday evening we are going to our local theatre to see a 50th  anniversary performance of the radio show Round the Horne.

This is something of a sad post for me as it is my last one for the Creative Artiste challenge blog. As many of your know our daughter is getting married later this year. I am making a lot of things for the wedding and sadly at the moment I don't have the time to apply to the mixed media projects. I have had a lovely time on this team. I am very grateful to my fellow team mates for their patience  and tolerance with my abilities.

On to today, on the first Friday of the month the new challenge starts on the Creative Artiste Challenge blog this is challenge 23 the theme is Anything Goes (Mixed Media) and the sponsor is Scrapmatts.

I decided to decorate one of my journal covers. I used one of my kitchen roll backgrounds. I did make quite a few and there is more kitchen roll drying to make some more. 

Our lovely sponsors this time.

I have quite a range of nautical dies and I used them to decorate the cover. The ship is a Tattered Lace die. 

I was sent some goodies by Scrapmatts  I painted words with acrylic paint. They seemed to be appropriate for a journal. 

Enjoy the coming weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafts Galore Encore - Kenny K Mermaid

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Where did January go? I can't believe we at February already.

On the first of the month the new challenge starts on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes and the sponsor is Kenny K stamps.

The background was created with inky kitchen roll. It was a piece that I had used to clear up after I had been using some Brushos to create a background for another card. The kitchen roll is left to dry. When it is dry the two pieces are pulled apart and then each piece  is glued to a sheet of card. So you get two from one sheet of kitchen roll. This is a technique I saw John Lockwood use. I love it because you don't waste the lovely inky colours. I added die cuts to make it look more like it is underwater. 

Kenny K Stamps is our kind sponsor this month. The digital stamps are available from his store. 

This die is one of the ones designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

I was so lucky that I was able to choose an image this time. She is called Mermaid and she was a delight to colour. I did use my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. She was also cut out with my ScanNcut I wanted the even while border that you can get.  She is available here http://www.kennykstamps.com/mermaid-fantasy-paper-crafts-card-making-digi-stamp-by-kennyk-stamps/

I did enjoy making this card the mermaid is a lot of fun. 

I would like to enter challenge 314 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog , challenge 33 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog , Challenge 37 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog and the February Challenge at the Crafting By Designs challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Poppy Mother's Day Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a good weekend and are now ready for the week ahead.

I have made  my second Mother's Day Card this one will be for my Mother-in-law she loves poppies. Which means the rose card I made will be for my mum.

The background was made the the Penny Black Poppy Poem stamp it was stamped several times with black archival and then the colour was added with Distress ink.

I used a stamp from a magazine for the sentiment and the poppies were made with the Tranquil Poppy die designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions. 

I think she will like this card she does love poppies so much. 

I would like to enter challenge 7 at Create with TLC.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Butterflies Everywhere

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. What have you got planned? We are off to the Newbury Craft show followed by a trip to see our daughter and our future son-in-law. Tomorrow we will be working on the wedding invitations again. They are progressing but slowly.

I was very lucky and received the Butterfly Frame die set by Sue Wilson for Christmas from our daughter. She knows what her mum likes.

Okay this has got to be the most basic way to use this die set. 

Here is the central detail. 

This die was one of the dies from my Crafter's Companion Advent Calendar. I love how the dot over the die is attached. 

While I was using this die set I was coming up with lots of different ideas for how to use it. You will probably see it quite a lot. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Mother's Day Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? It is just a normal working week for us. I did have lunch with a friend yesterday. After we popped into Hobbycraft and I picked up a couple of masks to decorate. We are going to a masked costume ball in March. The hunt for a costume is on it has to be pre 1900 any suggestions are very welcome.

I am still trying to do catch up on my crafty makes. I have made a Valentine's Day card and now I am on to Mother's Day cards.

I love lattices that is why I couldn't resist the Trellis Edger die set by Sue Wilson when it came out earlier this year. This is the first time I have used it. I did extend the die cut as the image is longer than the die. I think I will be experimenting with this die set a bit more. There wasn't really room for a sentiment on the outside so I popped one inside. 

This stamp is the Classic Rose by Heartfelt creations. I stamped it with Watering Can archival ink and then I coloured it with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I really must get some other water based pens I love how the colours move around and what happens when you add water. 

I now just have to decide whether this card is for my Mother-in-law or my Mother. I might wait to see what the other card I make is like. Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter challenge 197 at the DL.ART challenge blog and Challenge 313 at Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Twisted Easel Card - for the Isobel Craft Collection

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How was your weekend? We visited our parents on Saturday and on Sunday we both worked on the wedding invitations. I was colouring images followed by a bit of die cutting. My husband was using the computer to work on the inserts. We are making progress but nothing is finished yet. I am hoping to get some things done this week.

I decided to get my stamps out from The Isobel Craft Collection to have a bit of a play. I ended up making a twisted easel card.

I used two 6" x 6" kraft card blanks to make this card. It would take 3 card blanks to make two of these cards. 

This is the stamp set I used  it is the Garden set and there are still some available in the store. 

This is the topper for the easel card it would make a lovely card in its own right. I used my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens to colour the images and Distress ink to colour the paper.  

I used the Happy Birthday stamp from one of my other stamp sets from the Collection. 

I do love the ladybirds in this set. Sophy hosts online craft sales once a month she has products from lots of different companies at very good prices. The next sale is on the 5th February, it is all done through the Facebook page and you pay by Paypal. There are often competitions to win discounts. It is worth a look. 

 Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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