Christmas 41 and 42

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world...hugs.

Mother Nature conspires against us! I was due to meet with a lovely Blogger at Attenborough Nature Reserve yesterday morning for coffee and the rain was coming down by the bucketload and it was very windy so we postponed, this morning it is fine and dry, albeit a tad grey. Oh well Sally, let us hope it is kinder in the Spring!

At least I got three cards made instead LOL.

Speaking of cards, the two I have lined up to share today were very awkward to photograph due to them consisting of mainly silver mirri card, so I had to do them at awkward angles cuz you can see me in them nearly as clear as a mirror, that's my red dressing gown and hand on the left!

 Whilst looking for something else, I came across this Crafts Too embossing folder and I just happened to have some silver mirri card on my worktable for the card below, so I had to try it and I was surprised how clearly it embossed without taking the surface off.

I layered it onto black card from my scrap box then onto the basecard which was A4 folded and cut to 7x5.

It is so long since I discarded the sentiment stamp packaging that I can't remember where it was from!

 Basecard is same as above but cut to fit into 6x6 envelope.

Own teardrop tress cut on my old Cricut from MME glittery card.

Own stitched square also cut on the same old Cricut and layered onto pewter textured card from PDA.

Stars cut with Lea'bilities dies.

Both are very simple cards, still catching up with those filched by my Grand-daughter :o)

Jackie xx

Christmas 38

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well, or at least as well as you can be...hugs

Don't forget to put your clocks back before you go to bed tonight :o)

Since grand-daughter Sian filched 21 Christmas cards from my box for her church fund raising in York, and I hadn't made enough to start with, I have some serious catching up to do! This is 38 down, so that's another 30 required, plus the replacements. I think I am going backwards LOL.

So, without further ado, here is my card for today, a very simple one.

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

Green holograph card from stash, sorry I can't rmember where I got it from originally.

MME glittery striped card, this is the negative from cutting my own trees with my ancient Cricut.

Glitter stars cut with Lea'bilities dies from scraps.

I did warn you it was simple :o)

Jackie xx

More of my teardrop trees

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well, or getting there...hugs

I have been playing with my teardrop trees again and my card today features them.

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5.

My own SCAL trees cut with my ancient Cricut from MME sparkly card which I have had in my stash for many years, raised with sticky foam pads.

Background lightly chalked.

Sentiment stamped with Stamps and Smiles.

Can't find anything else that needs saying for the very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

 

Variation on a theme

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well in your world...hugs for those who need or want them

Well, my week of work went so fast I couldn't believe it!!!

I was lucky with the weather considering what it has been like since, and I managed to get out and about with my cameras, had a pub lunch with my cousin, watch the Tour of Britain, and even got some retail therapy thrown in, but the best of all was Sunday when I went to see my daughter and her partner singing (they are both singer guitarists) in the Bandstand Busk at Mercia Marina.  I haven't been able to go to any of her gigs since I started working Saturday nights over 8 years ago, so it was a real bonus which I enjoyed very much :o)

After I made my previous card (scroll down) I decided to have a play with SCAL and came up with my own teardrop shaped tree so here is a card using it!

I also created the stiched square in SCAL, and cut it, and the trees on my ancient Cricut.

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to nearly 6x6.

Blue card is Papermania textured card.

Silver mirri mat.

MME card for the trees.

Sentiment stamped with unknown stamp onto white pearlised scrap then cut with Die-namics stiched circle die.

All card used is from my stash.

White stickyback pearls coloured with Copic marker pen.

I created several different mats along with the stitched square and they will all be popping up over the next few weeks :o)

Jackie xx

 

Anniversay card fro friends plus Autumn is here

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world. Sending hugs to all who need or want them!

This post is picture heavy so you need to settle down with a cuppa and relax :o)

I had a lovely stroll at Attenborough Nature Reserve yesterday morning and the sign of Autumn were all around, it is my favourite time of the year!

 Anyhow, I digress, her is my card for the day and a few photographs that I took yesterday.

Own photograph taken earlier this year at Straw's Ponds, Ilkeston, printed onto my usual white linencard then cut with Xcut large circle.

Basecard cut from MME card with Spellbinders Grand Nestie.

Swans cut with Marianne dies.

Computer generated sentiment cut with SU punches.

Dragonflies cut with Xcut punch.

Leaves cut with Memory Box die.

 

And now a few photographs showing the signs of Autumn.

 

 And a few others taken on my stroll.

 

 Peek-a-boo

 Tern or gull, I am not sure!

 

 And finally, this shows what the lakes are, they are all gravel pits and extraction is still taking place. It just shows that a lot of beauty can come from gravel extraction, we just have to be patient as it takes years to show :o)

Jackie xx

Purple birthday

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world...hugs

Are you ready for the big day? I have now done all my shopping and anything that hasn't been got will just have to be left LOL.

My card for today is another one using bits, those boxes are bottomless :o)

 

 

Unfortunately I had to use flash as the day was so dull, hence the glare!

The only thing new on this card is the SU greeting, cut with Spellbinders, even the base card was folded and cut a while ago LOL.

Pearlised paper flowers punched with Woodware, Xcut and EK Success.

Leaves cut with my one and only  Sue Wilson die set a while ago.

MME card backing cut With Cricut.

Pearls from stash and coloured with Copic pen.

The very pink gragonfly has been removed since I took the pic, the colour was too far out of place :o)

Jackie xx

 

Great-grandson's birthday

Good morning everyone on this very misty start to the day, I hope all is well in your world...hugs

Ryan was 9 on Sunday, where does the time go to, seems like only yesterday that I became a great-granny!!! I made a gift card wallet for him and he was tickled to see himself on it :o)

 

 Ryan posing

Ryan with his mum and dad (my grandson Ben)

I took the photograph on the wallet on Christmas morning last year.

Background and font colour taken from his jimmyjams.

Font used it Ryan.

Scrap of MME card from the scrap box.

Jackie xx

Belated birthday present.....

.....from a dear friend.

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world. Here's some hugs for those who want or need them {{{{{hugs}}}}}

Not a card for today, but a wonderful gift. 

I loved the concertina wallet so much that I decided to have a go myself. I measured all the bits on this one and here is the result!

Everything used in the making of it was from stash.

The red card was a 12x12 sheet from who knows where!

The striped card is MME from a 12x12 pad I bought about 4 years ago in a sale at PDA.

Flower and leaves made using McGill and Xcut punches.

Fastener from small round punches. I am quite pleased with the result :o)
Jackie xx

Money wallet for my Grandson.....

.....who will be 29 next Sunday! Wherever did all of those years go to?

Good morning everyone, I do hope you all escaped the awful storms and are safe, warm and dry {{{{{hugs}}}}}

My offering for today is a very simple money wallet and here it is.

Base card is Kraft card a lookalike from PDA. 

A4 sheet folded at 5" and 10", the little flap left forms the money pocket, then cut to 7x5.

I used Papermania vanilla textured card for the front panel, embossed at each end with Cuttlebug snow folder.

Letter cut on the Cricut from MME card. Couldn't really be much more simple :o)

Jackie xx

Just a quickie this morning.....

.....as my son was rushed off to hospital yesterday afternoon and I suspect I will be having to fetch him home today. Got to ring this morning!

I only have a mini card, 4x4, to show you this morning. Not my best work but I love the flutterby LOL.

Card and flutterby were cut with the Cricut. I used the swirl from the SCAL image library.

Flutterby is a Panny Duncan svg. I cut the large one then lowered the size by 2 times for each successive one. I used MME card for them and for the inside. Added the pearls from stash and the stamp is from Stamps and Smiles :o)

Jackie xx

Christmas in July.

Well I have to do something to try and feel cooler, this heatwave is really taking it out of me!

Good morning everyone, I hope all is as well as it can be in your world...hugs.

Yesterday I was out before 8am, before the heat of the day, having a little hobble round a fairly local lake that I haven't seen before. I keep going out to try my new camera on different settings so I can get used to it :o) After 5pm I went out and found another lake that I had never seen before to do the same. I can't believe there were fairly two local (within about 6 miles) nature reserves that I didn't know were there!

These are Christmas card Nos. 36 and 37 for my own use, but in fact I have also made 52 for orders as well!

Both are white linen card folded and cut to 5x7.

Trees were hand cut from MME Card which I've had for several years.

Sentiment stamp is Penny Black, an old one.

Pearls from stash. Can't make up my mind  whether I prefer it with or without the pearls.

Both are very quick and simple if you want to make batches of the same card :o)

Jackie xx

Commissioned Christmas card

Good morning Bloggers, and welcome to my new follower. I seem to have lost one too!

What a glorious morning it is, wall to wall sunshine and blue skies, makes me feel so much more alive than yesterday's grey skies :o)

This is one of the cards I took to my Cousin's for her to choose from and she wants 20, she also chose 10 each of the church and Bethlehem ones from my 5 in 25 minutes post so I am in the process of making them!

For this one I used trees that I had cut yonks ago but for the 20 order I designed the tree in Scal and have cut them on my trusty old Cricut, all 60 of them. I had to put a new blade in for cutting the greeting though, poor thing was worn out LOL. My cousin loved the tumbling greeting, she thought it was great, and it was only tumbling because I couldn't fit it in so tried it and thought it looked a bit different from the norm! Trees and greeting are cut from MME and the base card is white linen folded and cut to 6x6. I hope you like it :o)

Jackie xx

Another flutterby

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well as it can be in your world...hugs

What a gorgeous sunny morning it is too, everywhere looks so lovely when it's bathed in sunlight.

I am so chuffed with myself. I've always wanted to create a banner for my blog and I finally managed it, yippeeeeeeeeeeeeee LOL.

On to my card for today. I so enjoyed creating the flutterby on the last one that I decided I wanted to do a bigger one and here it is.

Base card is plain white folded and cut to 6x6. 

New 6x6 Embossalicious folder, lightly chalked.

Flutterby is another Penny Duncan svg. I cut 5 sizes from MME card, the largest being 3.25" from top to tailtip, the smallest is 1.25". Gems from stash and the sentiment is from a Papermania stamp set. I hope you like it :o)

Jackie xx

Butterfly flutterby

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world...hugs

For once the sun is shining, we have wall to wall blue skies, the wind has finally dropped, and it feels quite warm :o)

For my card today I took inspiration from several I saw on DC. 

I folded and cut white linen card to 5x7.

I used a Marianne cut and emboss folder for the main panel and layered it onto MME striped card from the same pad as the card I used for the flutterby (so sorry the front has gone and I can't remember which pad).

Most of the ones I saw on DC had used dies to cut the flutterbies and I haven't got those so I set to and cut them on the Cricut using a Penny  Duncan svg and I am quite pleased with the result :o) 

The stamped sentiment comes from Lindsay Mason and alas it will be the only time I use it because when I pulled it off the block it came away in bits BooHoo!

Jackie xx

A page for a change

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you are all well and if not then I hope you soon will be...hugs

Thank you for all your good wishes for my return to work. It was a bit of a bodyshock but I am into my second week back and doing fine :o)

I have a scrapbook page to share with you today, a reminder of my lovely trip to Calke Abbey last week.

I created the image in PSP7 (Paint Shop Pro) from photographs taken on the day, then printed it edge to edge on Papermania textured card. Sadly I only have an A4 printer and I like my pages to be 12x12 so I cropped it to 8x8 and attached it to a sheet of Bazzill.  I cut the embellishment out from a 12x12 sheet in my stash, I think it might MME but not sure. It was much harder work cutting that out than creating the main image!!! I was always in danger of cutting the branches off cuz they were so fine :o)

Jackie xx

It's that owl again

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world and you haven't got the snow back. Keep warm and safe...hugs

Well, I have done my first shift at work for this year and it felt so good to go back. Yes, I really mean that LOL. January seemed like 6 months long and my first shift went by in a flash and I don't seem to have any ill effects so life is back to being good :o)

Anyhow, onto my card for today and the owl is back. I think it's a bit fussy but I will get over it LOL. I actually made this at the same time as the other one so that's my paper piecing done with for now :o)

all card used it Papermania textured card from the capsule collection.

I cut the white basecard to 5.5" with Go Kreate die on the Grand Calibur.

Owl stamped onto MME papers and hand cut then pieced together on Nestie cut backing.

SU sentiment stamp and punches.

Foliage cut with Cheery Lynn dies.

Flower punche with Woodware and Glossy Accents added to eyes :o)

Jackie xx

more paper piecing

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all warm, dry and well as you can be.

A very warm welcome to new follower Jolara :o)

Here is another paper pieced one from me. This cute owl is from a must have stamp set I bought three or four years ago and never used!

I cut a 5" octogon template on the Cricut then drew round it on a 5.25" Papermania Kraftkard blank and cut the spare bits off.

The corrugated card is from PDA and I cut it with a Nestie.

I stamped the Papermania owl three times on different MME paper scraps and handcut the relevant parts. I have added Glossy Accents to the eyes. I made the flower using a Woodware punch and added a Stickles centre.

The tree branch is from a Marianne die and I cut the little birdie off it.

Owl is raised on sticky foam pads :o)

Jackie xx

A different poinsettia

Yes, I finally managed to get the Marianne large poinsettia die set thanks to the lovely Doreen who pointed me in the direction of Cuddly Buddly. Thank you Doreen :o)

Not too sure if I need to add a swirl or something, not one for embellishments myself! 

I folded and cut linen card to 6x6 then added MME glittercard  squares punched with Woodware punch and a bit of Glamour Dust around the edges. 

Poinsettia cut from scraps :o)

Jackie xx