8x8 delphinium digi

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, and that you are warm and dry...hugs

Thank goodness it is cooloing down a bit, hopefully it will kill off the bugs that seem to be doing the rounds at the moment, almost everyone seems to be coughing and sneezing and downright miserable. I hope you are all soon feeling much better...hugs

My week and a half off work is coming to an end and I have not had one chance so far of taking my camera walkies :(  but I have had lots of time in the craftroom, and been out to lunch 3 times, so it wasn't such a bad holiday after all. I have today and tomorrow left so I hope the sun finally comes out!

Onto my card for today. I have had this digi image forever and only used it once before so I decided it was time to show it the light of day again LOL.

I used a Papermania 8x8 card base.

Bluish white pearlised card from PDA, embossed with Crafter's Companion Leaf Vein folder.

Delphinium digi image from Delicious Doodles, coloured with Copics then cut with Spellbinders Grand Nesties die, as is the frame.

Blue card from scrapbox.

Corners cut with my very old Provocraft dies.

Not much else I can say about this one :o)

Jackie xx

 

CAS Christmas

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

Thank goodness it wasn't so hot yesterday, I felt a bit more alive!

I had a few trees left over from a recent Friday night workshop with my friends, so I decided to use them up. This set is the result, I am quite pleased with it :o)

Couldn't be much more simple LOL.

All cardbases are white linencard folded and cut to 7x5.

Trees and frames cut with Provocraft dies from scraps of green glittercard.

Sentiment staped with Stampendous.

That's threre more for my Christmas box making a total of 23 made this year plus a few left over from last year so I am nearly halfway there :o)

Jackie xx

 

Commissioned 50th birthday

Good morning everyone, what a beautiful sunny start we have to the day here. I hope it is the same for you wherever you are...hugs

I am very late this morning so I will get this posted and come back later to catch up on your blogs!

My cousin asked for a music card for her son, but she asked me not to put 5o on it!

Like my daughter, Daniel is a singer/guitarist, so I used a photograph I took of one of her guitars some years ago. The basecard is plain white card from stash, folded an cut to fit in a 6x6 envelope.

Bronze card also from stash, bought long ago from PDA.

Panel embossed with Embossalicious 6x6 folder.

Music notes cut with ancient provocraft dies.

Guitar printed onto semigloss photocard, to give it a bit of shine, and fussy cut, then rasied onto sticky foam pad.

Computer generated seniment also raised with sticky foam pads
Ooooooooops! Nearly forgot to say that I rounded the corners with my new Cropodile corner chomper :o)

Jackie xx

Circleburst daisy

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

I am on holiday from work this week, so I am enjoying the freedon that gives me. 

I had to wait yesterday in for the gas service chappie in the morning, but when he had gone I went off to Byrkley Park for a bit of retail therapy. I made the mistake of browsing before I went into the craft section. I indulged myself in the Cotton Traders dept. and came out with a shirt and a pair of shoes!!!

Onto the craft shop where I bought a few bits and pieces including a pair of 6"x12" cutting plates for my Big Shot, and a set of sentiment stamps. I also got myself some A4 boxes. I had intended buying a couple of those, but at 4 for £10 (normally £3.50 each) they were a bargain!

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

Very simple design.

I used my usual white linencard, folded and cut to fit a 6x6 envelope.

Panel cut with Memory Box large circleburst die then backed with scrap of peach textured card from offcuts box. Provocraft corners cut from same scrap.

The flower and fliage is from my bits box, it's been in there for aeons :o)

Jackie xx

Unknown flower, open card for any occasion

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

On Thursday afternoon, as usual, I set off to do my food shopping and before I got to the supermarket I had bought a new reclining sofa!!! I only went into the store to look and there, right in front of me, was the exact sofa that I wanted, at a very good price,  so I bought it LOL. Delivery is on the 5th Feb. so I am looking forward to being able to relax and ease the pain a bit more than my old sofa allows. I know when I sit on my friend's reclining sofa I am more comfortable that than  on any other :o)

Anyhow, enough waffling from me and on to my card for today!

Not sure whether you would call it sunburst or starburst but I like it whatever it's called LOL.

I'm afraid I don't know what the flower is, but I took the photograph in 2011 at Barnsdale Gardens and I love the colour of it.

I opened it in PSE5 and used the cookie cutter tool to get the effect, one of my favourites.

I cut it, and the mat out with Spellbinders.

Corners cut twice with a very old Provocraft die then I cut it in half (the diecut, not the die).

Basecard is white linencard and the orange card is Papermania textured card.

I really do love this effect and I hope you do too :o)

Jackie xx

Last of my three "finds"

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, and you are warm and dry...hugs

I went to PDA at Langley Mill yesterday afternoon to get some brown textured card that I love and I only had 1 sheet left. They are in the middle of moving things around and enlarging the shop area so they have lots more stamps and dies etc. than the last time I went around November last year. 

Of course I bought more than the brown card I went for LOL. I also got some white double sided pearlised card, and a couple of embossing folders including the chicken wire one that I have long wanted, and my first jar of gilding wax to play with. Add the 200 envelopes and my proposed £10 spend became £40+ LOL.

Here is the last of my three finds in my craftroom, no doubt there will be many others that haven't seen ink!

I used the same ivory linencard, from Papermill Direct, that I used on the other two, but this time I folded and cut it to 6x6.

Brown card is the same as the one I bought at PDA yesterday.

Pink pearlised card is only one sided, which I had forgotten, and I put it into the Embossalicious folder the wrong way so what you see is the debossed side!

Staped the Papermania sentiment onto an offcut of the ivory linencard and coloured with Copics. I added Glossy accents to the pink lettering but you can't see it here!

Dies used are Spellbinders and Provocraft :o)

Jackie xx

Retirement card

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

I had to make this card in a hurry as I hadn't known in advance that this lady was retiring!

I cut an 8x8 card down to fit into a 7x7 envelope cuz I have lots of them that need to be used!

One again I have been visiting Karen's Doodles  and came up with this image, printed it onto smooth white card then coloured it with copics.

Backing is white pearlised card embossed with Emosslicious 8x8 folder.

Sentiment is computer generated using Dauphin font,  and is what I say to myself quite frequently LOL.

Corner cut with an ancient Provocraft die.

Paper inside designed by me using one of my old rose photographs :o)

Jackie xx

CAS easel card

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, isn't all this sunshine wonderful.

I hope you all have a lovely Easter :o)

Today's offering is deliberately CAS and I am quite pleased with it.

Papermill Direct white linen card folded and cut to 6x6.

Own dahlia photograph, taken a couple of years ago at Calke Abbey.

Red card is Papermania textured card. 

Image cut and matted with Spellbinders Nesties.

Provocraft corner die cuts.

Flutterbies punched with Martha Stewart.

Sentiment from an old Stamps and Smiles set :o)

Jackie xx

Another of my flower cards

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

I am loving all this Springlike weather we are getting at the moment, long may it continue!

I took this photograph in 2007 and believe it or not this is the first time I have used it! So, without more ado, here it is :o)

Nothing new was used in the making of this card!

Own photograph of the cosmos flower of course, feathered in Paint Shop Pro, then printed onto Linen card from Papermill Direct, in fact all the white card is the same. The pink is Papermania textured card, as is the green.

Cut with Spellbinders Nesties, then mounted onto a circle of  McGill punched leaves.

I found the Provocraft metal corner die lurking in the bottom of a drawer when looking for something else, I have had it aeons :o)

Jackie xx