Commissioned set of 6

Good morning everyone, yet another dry one although a bit hazy. I hope all is well in your world...hugs

My friend said "make me a few cards please, with different sentiments" so here they are.

She loves my one layer photograph cards so that is what I made for her! She also bought a few others from my box :o)

Stop Press! Please note, it is a Speckled Wood Butterfly, NOT a moth!

 These middle two are made up with two photographs merged, unlike the rest which are single photographs.

All cards are made with white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5.

All are my own photographs of course. The flutterby was one I took some years ago at Osbourne's Pond, which is at one end of Shipley Park, and the rest were taken at Attenborough Nature Reserve a few weeks ago.

I used several different fonts for the sentiments.

The flutterby was tubed by my very good friend PatEssex (Docrafts) and the rest were feathered by me in PSP7.

Jackie xx

For my box

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

It is very grey and wet here this morning after a wonderful sunny (but very cold) day yesterday!

On to my card for today.

I took this photograph, along with over 100 others, at Shipley Park, Derbyshire, way back in  July 2007.

I sat there for an hour or so completely enthralled with the grace and beauty of these young ladies despite the fact they were dancing barefoot with very muddy feet due to the heavy rains we had been having at the time!

They are Nusantra and if you ever get the chance to see them, you won't be disappointed.

Base card is my usual white linencard, folded and cut to 7x5.

I feathered the photograph in PSP7, and printed it onto the same white linencard, then cut with Spellbinders pierced oval die.

Wavy borders are the waste from my previous card (see below).

Foliage cut with Memory Box from a scrap of card.

White sticky flat backed pearls coloured with Copic pen :o)

Jackie xx

I've been playing again...

...this time it's Martha Stewart's turn :o)

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

Whilst looking for something else I came across my boxes of very neglected Martha Stewart punches. I have 14 single ones and I think 6 PATP sets so I thought it was about tome to use them :o)

Due to my penchant for CAS cards I can't make up my mind whether I like the result, but here it is anyway. Just in case anyone sees it as black and white, it is actually cream and brown :o)

All card used is from stash and is from the Paper Mill Shop before they all closed down. I used to love going up to the shop at McArthur Glen, Mansfield!

All punched with Martha Stewart apart from the Memory Box poppy, of course.

Inside I have used my photograph of the speckled wood flutterby I took a couple of weeks ago on the Nutbrook Trail, near Osbourne's Pond, Shipley Park. 

It is really a fair bit darker than it is here but I have lowered the opacity in a bid to make it look more ethereal (I hope). Sentiment is computer generated.

Trying my new cameras B&W function

Good morning Bloggers, it's a very soggy morning but temperature wise it's perfect for me at last! I hope all is well in your world, and if it's not I hope it soon will be...hugs.

A couple of weeks ago I went to Osborne Pond at Shipley Park and decided I wanted to try taking B&W photographs with my new little camera. Normally if I want B&W pics I take them in colour and then convert to greyscale in PSP, but this time I  took the same ones in colour and in B&W. I must say that I am chuffed with the results and the reflections are great, even if I do say so myself LOL. I think they are much more striking that the greyscale conversions!

We all had a wonderful day yesterday, but I will tell you about that next time :o)

Jackie xx