Christmas 19.....

..... a card to make you think cool.....

Good morning everyone, I have given up on trying to sleep, it's 5.45am and I have been up more than an hour now. I hope the heat isn't affecting you as badly as it is me! Anything over 20c is way too much for me, and it was 35c when I went to work at teatime yesterday. Thank goodness it is cooling down for the weekend

Anyhow, I digress, so here is my card for today.

I made this one simply to give me a reason to use my new Memory Box die set. Both the fence and  trees die come from the set of 4.

Basecard is my usual white linencard, folded and cut to fit 6x6 envelope.

I then cut and aperture with Spellbinders die. Paper inside the card is from HOTP and I have had it for at least 8 years. I know that because I haven't bought any papers for about that long!

All diecuts are cut from a slightly off white glittercard.

Leaping deer also cut with Memory box die and the tree inside the card punched with Woodware punch. "Icicles" punched with Martha Stewart.

I will add sentiment if and when required :o)

Jackie xx

The last of my red set

Good morning everyone, what a glorious start to the day with wall to wall blue skies and sunshine. I hope all is well in your world, Hugs.

These 3 cards are the last of my red set, making 9 in all and bringing my total number of Christmas cards so far to around 40 fo this year!

I have really enjoyed making them.

Base cards are white hammered from Papermill Direct many years ago, folded and cut to 6x6.

Apertures cut with Spellbinders Nesties.

Papers are a mixture of HOTP and Basic grey, also from many years ago!

Stamps used are SU, Stamps and Smiles and ?  Dies used are Memory Box and ?

They are the last of my aperture cards, for now at any rate :o)

Jackie xx

Clock card + a welcome

Good morning everyone, I hope you have survived the storms intact!

I would like to welcome new follower Alison this morning, Hi Alison, I will be round to checkout your blog later :o)

My card this morning is another fairly simple flat card for posting.

 

I cut and folded plain white card to 6x6 then covered it with paper from stash, sorry I can't remeber whether it is HOTP or Kay&Co. I cut the clock and cogs with the Cricut from copper pearlised card and the sentiment stamp has no name on it! It is truly a card created from old stash :o)

Jackie xx

Two very simple cards

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well with you :o)

Not the best I've ever made but I decided I would show them to you anyway LOL.

The card above may not be the best ever, but I was chuffed that I managed to design the 'let it snow' caption and the snowman border. The HOTP paper is an offcut from years ago

This is my fave of the two. The buff coloured card is from PDA, the reindeer is, I think, a Sizzix diecut from a friend, and of course the TH tree embossing folder. Sentiment stamp has no name on it but I punched it with SU :o)

Jackie xx

Methinks that these work better

Thank you so much for your opinions on my previous uploads. I am inclined to agree so I did these two on some HOTP papers from an old (about 5 years or so) wedding pad. I think they work much better :o)

Once again the white shows up better on here, but IRL the silver shows up more than it does in the picture. Must search through my stash now to find some different colours :o)

Jackie xx

More playing on the Cricut

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you're all well or getting there :o)

I've been playing with SCAL again and designed the fat snowman and his hat, and the snow family and I am quite happy with them. Sorry about the shadows, the sun was quite strong.

I am not so sure about the cards but I just wanted to use the snowmen! Hopefully I'll do better next time LOL.

I used Peachy Keen face stamps on them coloured with copics. I found this ancient HOTP paper from stash :o)

Jackie xx

One I made earlier and forgot to post

Good morning everyone, the sun is shining and it's wall to wall blue skies at the moment, but thankfully not hot. I don't know what happened to the downpour we were supposed to get yesterday!

Anyway, on to my card, which I made a couple of weeks ago and promptly forgot about it (another senior moment)!

It's another basically quite simple card.

Cut and folded white card to 6x6

Green card from old HOTP Christmas stack

Stamped at a friend's house so don't know the make. Coloured with copics then cut with Xcut nestie, then sponged edges.

Ribbon scrap from stash

Woodware sentiment, bent onto the block,  with tiny hand drawn flower, and that's all there is to it apart from the copic coloured string of pearls :o)

Jackie xx