A Special Anniversary Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I have been very busy as it usual these days.  There is still so much to do for the wedding. This is my 500th blog post that is amazing and a lot of cards.

I was contacted by one of my cousins and I was asked if I would make a card for her to give her parents on their 65th Wedding Anniversary. I am not sharing the card I made for her yet but this is one I made to send them myself. They are my aunt and uncle after all.

I based the design on the Valentine's Day card I made for my husband. I had the background paper in my stash. On the Valentine's card I used glitter and I would have done the same on this card only I didn't have any blue glitter. I will have to do something about that. 

I used the Heart of Hearts die set and the Love Heart die set both from Creative Expressions to make the main focus of the card. 

I cut the sentiment with some Britannia dies. 

I will be posting this card to them  in a couple of weeks. I sent the card to my cousin yesterday so she should get it soon, I hope she likes it. 

Happy Crafting

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - Go Green

Hi my Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Work is plodding along and I am getting on with wedding makes and trying to get ahead with my Design Team makes.

Well the first Tuesday of the month see the start of a new challenge on the Unicorn Challenge Blog this time the theme is Go Green.

When we went to the Newbury Craft show I bought this LC Designs stamp with this challenge in mind. 

I stamped the image and sentiment onto water colour card with black archival ink and them it was coloured with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I used some Tattered Lace die to cut the image the mat and the lacy border. 

Some people wanted to see pictures of our costumes for the masked ball. 

This is the costume we hired for my husband. The boots were amazing. 

This is my costume with my mask. I didn't need the shawl in the end. 

Both of us in masks. 

Here is the cake and cupcakes at the party. The cupcakes were delicious. 

This is a good card to have in my stash. Those elephants look like they are having lots of fun. 

I would like to enter the TTCRD March 7th - March 13th. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Cute Kitten - Happy Birthday

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Yesterday our daughter had her dress fitting and it has been taken off to be altered. My husband and I went to the masked ball in the evening, it was lots of fun. I had never been to anything like that before.

When I was at the craft day I wanted to practice with the water colour pencils and blender before I started on the projects that had been prepared for us so I had an idea of how the pencils worked.  I stamped an image on a piece of scrap paper and had a little play.

As I coloured the image at the event and I had no idea that I would make it into a card I chose the mats and layers to match my colouring. I used my Double Pierced Squares and Rectangles, designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions, to cut the mats and the layer. I like the pierced effect they give.  

This is one of the stamps from the Pretty Kitty stamp set by Stampin Up. The image was coloured with water colour pencils that were blended with a blender pen. 

Here I am using the Crafter's Companion Happy Birthday die again. I use it a lot as it is a very good size and the dot on the i is attached. 

I was pleased with how this card came together. There is a cute doggy set of stamps as well. 

I would like to enter the March Challenge at the Penny Black and More Challenge blog , challenge 6 at Daisy Chain Challenges  and Weeks 271, 272 at Pixie's Snippets Playground and challenge 195 at 616 Avenue Create. 

Happy Crafting

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My Makes from the Charity Craft Day

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Happy Friday. I hope you have had a week and have something nice planned for the weekend. Our daughter is coming home this evening so that she can have a dress fitting tomorrow. In the evening my husband and I are going to a costumed masked ball. We have hired our costumes it should be fun.

The first weekend of the half term holiday I went to a Charity Craft day led by a Stampin' Up demonstrator so we were using Stampin' Up products mostly their water colour pencils with a blender pen.

Here are all the cards I made together. There was a variety of styles and techniques used. 

Here we used the Pretty Kitty Stamp set and the Stitched Shapes Framelet Dies. The little heart was cut with a punch. 

This card used a die from the Detailed Dragonflies Thinlet die set. I had to work on this card when I got home as I had a rather nasty grey smudge on the original. 

This card used a colouring page that I coloured. The die was from the Detailed Drgaonflies die set. 

More colouring pages and a large Thank You stamp. 

I do own this stamp set it is the Birthday Blooms set. 

The elegant lady came from the Beautiful You stamp set. 

It was a good day and I now have some more lovely cards in my stash. 

Enjoy your weekend. 

Happy Crafting

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Crafts Galore Encore - March Challenge - Fabrika Fantasy

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you are having a good week. All of a sudden it is March time is marching on.

The first of the month sees the start of a new challenge on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog. The theme is always Anything Goes and the sponsor this time is Fabrika Fantasy. 

I decided to make a birthday card. 

There are many wonderful images in the store. 

This is the Summer Fairy image she is available here  http://www.fabrikafantasy.com/summer-fairy-digital-stamp.php#.WLSRz_nyiUk . As I was able to have a PNG image I was able to colour the background on the computer. I then printed onto watercolour card and coloured the image with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

I made a summery border with die cuts and punches to mirror the border in the image. 

This is the die I got from Crafter's Companion at Christmas. I am using it a lot as it seems to fit so well into my designs. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter the March Challenge at the Classic Design Team Open Challenge , challenge 95 at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog,challenge 14 at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog. , challenge 39 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog , challenge 7 at the Fabrika Fantasy Challenge blog, the March Challenge at Crafting By Designs and challenge 336 at the Crafty Creations Challenge blog.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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My card in Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine Issue 163

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope that you have had a great weekend. We have been down to Bristol and we stayed in the hotel that we will be using for the wedding. Luckily nearby there is a nice restaurant to use for a meal on the night before the wedding. Our daughter, her fiance and his parents saw the hotel and the restaurant and liked both. We also had a meeting about chairs and sashes - you knew there were so many ways they could be tied. So a lot was achieved and we know where lots of things are now.

While we were away I bought a copy of Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine (issue 163) and I was thrilled to see my card in print.

I made this card for the sketch challenge in the current issue. 

I won a cute pack of LOTV images from the Pixie's Snippets Playground a couple of months back and I used one of the images to make this card. I used colours from the image in my design.  

Here is a picture of my card on the page with the lovely comment from the editor. 

While we were in Bristol we had a walk along the Clifton Suspension Bridge. This photo was taken from the Visitors' Centre.

I hope you have a great week. 

I would like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 267 and 268 and challenge 148 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Elegant Wedding Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

It is the last day of the half term holiday just the weekend to go now. We are heading off to Bristol later this morning.  We will be staying in the hotel we will be using for the wedding so that we can check things out. On Saturday we will be visiting the company who we are hiring the chairs from. It is going to be busy.

One of the ladies at work is getting married soon. It is only going to be a small affair but I wanted to make her a card. She showed me a picture of her dress and I used the colours as inspiration for this card.

I took an 8" x 8" card blank and trimmed it down to 7" x 7". I found two sheets of the pink card in my stash for the mats and layers. The paper came from a pad by Wild Rose Studios I am using these papers for our daughter's wedding. For the background detail I used the corner die from the French Collection Border Corner Tag die set by Creative Expressions. 

I cut the sentiment with the Expressions Ornate Oval On Your Special Day die set from Creative Expressions. I do cut these sorts of details from centre of the mats below to save card. 

I used a piece of matching paper and a Deep Punch around the page punch set to create the border. I added a plan square that I inked around the edge so I can write a message. 

I hope she likes this card. I isn't long till her wedding now they have only been planning it for a few weeks. 

I would like to enter the Just Words Challenge at the That's Crafty Challenge Blog , challenge 239 at the Brown Sugar Challenge blog and challenge 359 at the Crafty Catz Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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