Pink and ivory

Good morning Bloggers, I hope it is drier and brighter where you are than it is here!

My card for today is yet another using a different one of my three Marianne cut and emboss folders , I love them, they are so versatile.

Materials and equipment used are;

Ivory linen card

Bazzill card

Memory Box corner die

Marianne cut and emboss folder

SU sentiment and punches

I hope the sun shines in your part of the world today :o)

Jackie xx

GC card for the box.....

.....and I sold it almost immediately :o)

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

This is another one of those 'just becaue I wanted to' cards and I really enjoyed making it. We have just received our bonus from work, and I am breaking up tonight for a week, so I will be off to Byrkley Park to buy some more Grand Nesties, then I can make more shaped cards. Anyhow, on to my card for today :o)

It is A5 size, cut on the GC.

Basecard is Bazzill, backing paper is from stash, sorry no name on it. Same with the paper used for the flutterby and flowers!

Dies and punches used are Grand Nesties, Cheery Lyn, Marianne, Woodware and Xcut. It really is a very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

Variations on a theme

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well with everyone.

I am so disappointed that we have had cloud cover for the last two nights so no chance of seeing Aurora Borealis :o(  Did any of you see it?

I cannot claim credit for the design of these cards, I saw something similar on the Docrafts gallery, I think it was HollyAnne! These are my take on Annie's cards.

All basecards are white linen cut and folded to 5x7

I used each of the only three Marianne cut and emboss folders that I posess, matted onto  mirricard (a blue, a red and a purple) and each card has a Marianne and a Memory Box diecut from glittercard and popped with sticky foam pads. It's not often that I love my own cards but I am delighted with these :o)

Jackie xx

Two from Sunday

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you are all well or nearly there :o)

These are the two cards I made on Sunday at out craft get together.

For the first one I cut and folded linen card to 6x6. 

I used my new embossing folder with white pearl card for the backing then inked the edge with Brilliance inkpad.

Image is SU stamp coloured with copics and matted onto lavender card, both cut with Nesties.

Borrowed sentiment stamp and cut tiny flutterby from new Marianne set of dies.

For the second card I cut and folded linen card to 5x7.

Marianne cut and emboss folder on white pearl card for the main panel, matted onto a kind of mat mirri card, which I also used for the Marianne die cut foliage.

SU sentiment stamp to finish.

Jackie xx

Snowdrops

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well and happy.

I have two cards to show you today, both made using my own snowdrop photographs. So appropriate at this time of year. Yes, I know that flutterbies and snowdrops would not be seen together IRL, but we can call it cardmaker's licence :o)

Materials;

White linen card cut and folded to 7x5

White pearlised card embossed with Creative Expressions and Marianne embossing folders

Flutterbies from Martha Stewart punch

Foliage from Marianne dies

Main image and mats cut with Nesties

Plain green card for mats

I hope you like them :o)

Jackie xx

You've seen the photographs, here are the cards.....

.....except for the swan, I haven't made that one yet!

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well. When I went to bed last night the frost was very thick, when I got out of bed at 4am it was all gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not that I am complaining, of course.

I had a great day yeaterday. Started these 4 cards, then went and had a wander round Long Eaton before going to George's tradition for my lunch, then came home and finished the cards off, then later I spent a couple of hours with CSI :o)

Anyway, I digress so on to my cards

The pine cone one is my first Christmas card this year.

Materials used are;

Own photographs played about with in PSE5 and PSP

White linen card

plain black card

A smidgeon of Glamour Dust (on the pine cone card)

A scrap of ribbon

Memory Box corner die

Marianne leafe die

Stampendous embossing powder

Hero Arta pine branch stamp

Have a wonderful day everyone :o)

Jackie xx

I've been playing.....

.....with the resist technique, at least I think it is LOL.

Hi everyone on this very frosty Saturday morning. Thank goodness I don't go to work until 2pm so hopefully won't have to scrape the car!

I folded linen card then cut with nesties labels 6 to make the basecard. 

I used PB Queen Anne's Lace and stamped with Versamark then heat embossed with Papermania Seafoam white.

Next step was to brayer with Big & Juicy Spice inkpad then added the Marianne diecuts which I popped with 1mm foam pads and Bob's yer uncle, couldn't be much more simple :o)

Jackie xx

New home card

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

I had the most fantasic day out with my daughter yesterday. We shopped (she for quilting stuff and me for clothes, not a craft shop in sight), we picnicked and we marvelled at the aerobatics of a raven and a kestrel while we were picnicking at Monsal Head in the beautiful Peak District.  I had never seen a real live raven and couldn't believe just how big they are!!!!!

On to my card for today, which is for friends who have moved to the coast.

Own photograph used, and quite a mix of dies and punches. Memory Box, Marianne, Papermania and SU. Sentiment printed in Word :o)

Jackie xx

Hold on to your dreams

Good morning everyone, Monday again already. Don't the weeks fly by so fast!

Does it show that I love doing this style of card? 

 I just had to use my new Marianne bird die and teamed it up with others from the same stable. Background is brayered with Big and Juicy and then stamped with Papermania greeting and Srampendous stamps using Memento black/London fog inkpads :o)

Jackie xx

Monochrome card and a welcome

Good morning bloggers, I hope you are all well or getting there :o)

I would like to say welcome to Rachael, my latest follower, Hi Rachael.

I see the wind is back and the morning is very grey and dull but at least it is dry so far, not holding my breath though!

Anyhow, on to my card for today, which I have to say I am very happy with :o)

I do love browns, earth colours. I cut and folded white card to 5x7. Brayered another piece of white card with Big and Juicy inkpad Spice then stamped it with Kanban dandelion stamps and  SU greeting for the background using Memento inkpad.

The embossed panel was created with my new Craft Concepts dandelion folder and matted onto corrugated card from PDA. To finish off, I added a couple of Marianne diecuts which I cut from Bazzill. Hope you like it :o)

Jackie xx

Happy New Year + first card for 2012

Good morning everyone, I hope 2012 is very kind to all of you :o)

I was ill all over the Christmas period,  coughing so much I never went to bed for 10 nights! BUT, I have started 2012 feeling so much better. Anyway, onto my card, which is the second for 2012, can't show the first one yet because I know the recipient pops in here from 

time to time!

This is for my cousin whose birthday is early in February. I cut and folded the basecard from Bazzill. The corrugated card is from PDA and the paper from Kay & Co. Flutterbies cut and embossed with SU embosslits folder, the rest cut with Marianne dies.

Now I am going to try and play catchup on your blogs :o)

Jackie xx

Birthday card for a dear friend

Good morning everyone, I hope that you have escaped those gales and lashing rain although I fear that not many have, and the forecast is not good for the rest of the week! At least it's a good reason to lock ourselves in craft areas.

This is my first card for 2012 and is for a friend who I know doesn't come on the blogs.

For once, I haven't cut and folded my own card, this is from an 8x8 Papermania pack of Kraft cards. The corrugated and plain card card is from PDA.  Tools used are; Marianne dies, Go Kreate scalloped circle dies, SU stamp and punches, Martha Stewart flutterby punch. All punched and diecuts are pearlised card from stash. Paper inside card is from J&P Pictures. 

I hope you like because I am delighted with it :o)

Jackie xx

Another simple card

Good afternoon everyone. I'm a bit late today but I just had to get stuff done before turning the computer on! Then it was lunch time and I really enjoyed my stew and dumplings and I've got cheese and onion bread in the breadmaker so I will be having that for my tea :o)

 Anyway, on to my card,  for which I have used some of my new Marianne dies again, I love them.  

I used  nesties to frame the main image.  I roughly brayered plain white paper with Big and Juicy inkpad Spice, andthere is just a hint of SU stamps :o)

Jackie xx

Simple card

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all warm and well and not living in the areas that are set for gusts of up to 100 mph!

This is quite a simple card.  

I cut and folded white hammered card to 6x6 and covered with J&P paperwhich has been punched with Martha Stewart trellis punch.  The flower and grasses are from my brand new Marianne dies, and I used a tiny SU greeting stamp. 

That's it, so simple :o)

Jackie xx

A brilliant day anda at last, I made something.....

.....I feel as if I have been in a crafting wilderness this last two weeks, but I am hopefully back amonst friends now :o)

Sunday was a fantastic day when I hosted our crafting get together and we even had a friend and her hubby fly over from Spain to join us. We started the day with our usual bacon butties, then it was off to Byrkley Park for some ratail therapy where I managed to get some Marianne dies that I have been wanting. You will see some of them on my DLO below.  When we got back we had the soup that I had made the previous evening. It was an "allsorts" soup, I just threw anything I had to hand in it and even if I do say so myself it was good ;-)

A great afternoon of crafting, in which I made precisely nothing, was followed with Chicken casserole and veggies and the lovely Pam had made bread and butter pudding and brought it with her.

Did I hear someone snoring there? I had better get the piccies on then :o)

My apologies for the quality of the photographs, I used the wrong camera in low light because I hadn't got time to change the lens on the other one!

All of the photographs were played with in PSE5 and PSP11 and they are matted onto gold paper. The 12x12 backing paper is from stash.  For the title I used Calvin font in SCAL and cut it out on the Cricut. Marianne dies for the embellishments and the journalling was printed in Word, Harrinton font.

Have a wonderful day everyone :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

It's that poinsettia again.....

..... I love it because I can cut it to any size I want :o)

Good morning everyone. After that glorious sunny day on Sunday I cannot believe the difference now, so dark and gloomy and very wet!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyhow, onto my card which is very simple

I used Penny Duncan's svg poinsettia file again for this one and she very kindly gave permission for me to design a corner with it, thank you Penny

I used the flower centre from Marianne's poinsettia die set, and the sentiment is a Stampendous stamp. All the flowers were sprayed with CC glitterspray :o)

Jackie xx

Not too sure about this one.....

.....it's a bit loud for me!

Good morning everyone. It's been raining overnight but we have some pale blue sky so far this morning, fingers crossed it stays that way.

Right, onto my card which is a bit OTT for me LOL

I designed the doily in SCAL and cut it with the Cricut, then cut the middle out with a Nestie and replaced it with a Nestie cut sentiment from Papermania. Poinsettias are Marianne Designs diecuts and Nellie Snellen punched. Background is mirri card embossed with Cuttlebug folder. I can't remember what I cut the holly leaves with, I found them languishing in a box of bits :o)

Jackie xx

Very simple card + I just had to share a comment with you

 Good morning everyone. It's a bit of a nondescript start to the day outside, not cold, not warm, pale grey sky and not a bird in sight!

I just had to share this comment on my blog with you, isn't it so beautiful, I was very touched by it. It is from a Spanish gentleman and I had to ask a friend who lives in Spain to translate it for me.

 "It is a pleasure to walk through your work that is of an exquisite richness.
I leave all my affection a salutation"

What a beautiful use of words.

Anyhow, on to my card which couldn't be much more simple :o)

I think this is ideal if you need to make a lot of cards in a little time!

Another new embossing folder, embossed straight onto an pale lemon A6 pearlised card then added the Cricut cut bauble, snowflake cut with McGill punch, tiny one at the bottom is the centre from a Marianne poinsettia die set and covers a smudge! No name on sentiment stamp because I can't remember which set it's from :o)

Jackie xx 

A wonderful day.....

.....was had by all :o)

We set off at 8am yesterday in the rain, it's rained all the way to Macclesfield, all day while we were there, and all the way home until we got back to Derby where the ground was dry. We had a wonderful day of laughter, chinwagging and retail therapy with a little bit of crafting thrown in for good measure. Despite all that I only made 1 4x4 minicard but we were all busy making flowers for future use :o)

Here is the little card I made

I cut the card shape with an Xcut nestie then embossed it with an FF folder. I borrowed our hostess's punches (sorry, don't know the make) to cut and emboss the poisettias and another friend's Marianne leaf dies, and a tiny star punch for the centres. Sorry I can't remember what stamp set the sentiment came from. it really was very simple to make :o)

Jackie xx