Made from scraps

Good morning everyone, it may be dull but it's still very warm! I hope all is well in your world, Hugs.

My exciting news today is that I have bought me a new car, well, new to me. My trusty little V reg Suzuki is a real old lady now at nearly 16, and very low so difficult and painful for me to get into and out of.  I have bought an 04 reg Peugeot 307 turbo diesel which is nearly twice the size and it purrs like a kitten, but best of all, I can get into and out of it much more easily. I will be picking it up on Thursday and Stephen doesn't have any therapy that day so I will get time to play with my new toy LOL.

On to my card for today. Nothing new was harmed in the making of it. Even the inkpad I used it 7 years old! :o)

Base card is white hammered from Papermill Direct years ago (I had one of those huge boxes full!), folded and cut to 6x6.

I covered it with a scrap of Basic Grey paper, also from years ago, which I had first inked around the edges. 

Flower cut from same paper with Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die, then inked before being attached with a gem brad.

Foliage cut with Cheery Lynn dies from a scrap of card from PDA.

Sentiment stamped with My Creative Time and the tiny dragonfly stamp is from a set of 40 in a box that I have had for aeons and never think to use!  :o)

Jackie xx

What a difference a blue badge makes.....

Good morning everyone on this glorious wall to wall blue sky and sunshiny start to the day, I hope it's the same where you are...hugs

As many of you know, I have not been able to take my cameras walkies for about 15 months due to not being able to walk much nowadays, but my shiny new blue badge has made it possible for me to visit Elvaston Castle Country Park (virtually my local park) for the first time in quite a while. I only took my small camera this time but I so enjoyed it. These are just a few of the photographs I took while I was shuffling around :o)

Maybe not the best I've ever taken but the enjoyment I got was tremendous :o)

The formal gardens are Grade 2 listed.

If you follow the path on photograph 3, you eventually arrive at the magnificent Golden Gates, brought back from the Napoleonic wars by the then Earl of Harrinton. 

Remember those gardenia photographs, well the bush they grow on is on photograph 7, no blooms yet as it is a tad early for them, but I hope to be back there in Aug when they are in bloom again because those flowers are spectacular!

Jackie xx

 

Commissioned set of 6, own photographs

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

OMG did we have thunderstorms yesterday!!! The rain was coming down in stair rods and bouncing up off the road, and of course, it was whilst Stephen was out making his own way to the hospital, which he did okay. Thank you for your lovely messages about him and his progress :o)

Onto my cards for today, 6 of them, commissioned by my cousin. She loves my one layer photograph cards and uses them instead of letters!

All of them are printed onto white linen card from Papermill Direct, folded and cut to 7x5.

All photographs taken by me at various places and various times between 2007 and 2013.

I hope you like :o)

Jackie xx

Remember that gardenia?.....

.....here is another one, same plant, different bloom. I took the photograph at Elvaston Castle in August 2007.

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

For my card today, I have used another of my gardenia photographs. Very simple design. 

 

Base card is white linen, folded and cut to 7x5.

Photograph printed onto the same linen card, then cut with Spellbinder Nesties.

Green card used for the foliage is from some I bought way back in 2009 at the Edinburgh Woollen Mill Shop in Cheddar Gorge, my stock is dwindling now!

Foliage cut with Cheery Lynn dies.

Sentiment stamped and punched with SU.

I hope you like :o)

Jackie xx

You've seen the blue set, now here is the red set

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

I opened the curtains this morning and what did I see? Yes, rain, rain and more rain :o(

Oh well, there's nothing we can do about it so we may as well make the best of it!

I am off to Long Eaton this morning to take Stephen for his speech therapy.

I took him for his neuro therapy on Tuesday and he is doing so well that they asked him to make his own way there next week to see if he can plan a journey okay.  He goes out every day and uses his bus pass a lot, but he just gets on the bus to anywhere without planning, so they are really testing him now. No doubt I will be on tenterhooks while he is gone but I am sure that he will be alright (says she biting on her knuckles, LOL)

Anyhow, time to get onto my cards for today. I said when I posted the blue set that I was thinking of making a red set too, and here they are, or at least some of them!

All base cards are white hammered from the Papermill shop years ago, folded and cut to 6x6, then apertures cut with Spellbinder's Nesties.
Papers are from stash, also from years ago. They are HOTP except for the spotty one, which is Basic Grey.
Dies used are Memory Box,  flower punches are Woodware, and poinsettia is an SVG file from Penny Duncan and cut on the Cricut.
Various stamps used with Memento inkpad.
I hope you like them :o)
Jackie xx

Peony digi watercoloured

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well, or heading in the right direction...hugs

For my card today, I used a peony digi image from Imag-e-nation. I have had it for a long time so I thought it was about time I used it!

For the base card I used white linen card from Papermill Direct, folded and cut to 7x5.

Peony image printed onto the same card, coloured with Caran D'Ache watercolour pencils, then cut with Spellbinders Nestie. Mat and Memory Box leaf vine cut from Bazzill. Sentiment stamped with My Creative Time. Very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

3 new Darice folders

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

For the first time this week, we have woken up to wall to wall blue skies and sunshine :o)

Over the past few weeks I have bought 3 more Darice embossing folders and these are the cards made using them for the first time, I hope you like.

I love these Darice folders despite their small size, they are so clearly defined and well suited to being the main subject of the card.

All card used is from stash, folded and cut to 7x5.

It is fairly self explanatory how they were made so I won't go into detail.

Punches used are from SU, Martha Stewart, Woodware and Leone Em and Xcut.

Sentiment stamps used are from Stamps and Smiles, My Creative Time and ?

Jackie xx

7 cards inspired by Docrafter junescraftybits

Good morning everyone, still raining here. They do say it will be fine for the weekend though!

I hope all is well in your world, hugs.

A few weeks ago, DCer junescraftybits uploaded two cards that took my fancy and these are my interpretation of those cards. This is my blue set, I am just starting on a red set which I will show later if they are worth sharing LOL.

They are all 6x6 and the paper inside is from HOTP which I bought whilst on half price sale about 6 years ago. I bought so much of it and I still have some left!
Apertures cut with Spellbinders except for the hexagon which was cut with Xcut.
Dies used are Marianne,  Memory Box and a set od green dies which I have lost the name too! Martha Stewart grass punch used for icicles, Poinsettia cut with Cricut from an SVG by Pamela Duncan. Sentiments stamped with various stamp sets :o)
Jackie xx

Anniversary in the round

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

It's too early to tell what it's going to be like out there but it is raining at the moment!

I have now been off the statins for a month, and it hasn't made one iota of difference to my aches and pains, so I am going back on them on Friday. At least I have proved that it's not them that's making it worse!

 

I have a few friend's anniversaries to make cards for this year and here is one of them, I decided on a shaped one for a change, this one is 7" 

Base card cut from Bazzill Basics (which I have had forever)  and the back is plain white, with a score 1" down to allow for opening.

Image is an old one from Mo's Digital images, coloured with Caran D'Ache watercolour pencils, then cut with Xcut large die, as is the larger white mat. I used Spellbinder's Grand Nesties for the rest. Foliage is Memory Box die cut.

I hope you like it :o)

Jackie xx

A Christmas selection

Good morning everyone, another dull wet one! I hope you are all well, or getting there, hugs for those who want or need them.

I have now received my blue badge and it was great being able to park in the disable section at the hospital Friday morning :o)

I had a mammoth session making Christmas cards while I was in the mood for them and here are a few of them.

The first one is 8x8 and the rest are 7x5 with the exception of the purple tree one, which is A6.

It is fairly evident how they were constructed so I won't go into detail. If there is anything you want to know, please ask :o)

Jackie xx