Same card, slightly different colours

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

Whooppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, my car passed it's MOT yesterday so I now have the rest of my week off to enjoy :o)

After two foggy days we are back to rain, but at least we can see where we are going! Yesterday the fog never lifted at all and came down very thick in the evening, but the rain chased it away overnight, thank goodness!

On to my cards for today, as it says in the title, the cards are the same but the colours are slightly different! 

Both are identical in construction. 

White linencard folded and cut to fit 6x6 envelopes.

Dark and pale bronze pearlised card from PDA.

TimHoltz/Sizzix tatered flowers cut from peach pearlised card, also from PDA.

Both flowers lightly inked with bronze Brilliance inkpad.

Gems and large brads from stash, had them so long I can't remember where they are from!

Memory Box leaf die used on scraps of green card.

Computer generated sentiments using Dauphin font.

That's it, so simple really :o)

Jackie xx

Friday night workshop card.....

.....this time by me!

Good morning everyone, another dull start to the day.

I hope all is well in your world, wherever you are ...hugs

It was my turn to host our Friday night workshop a couple of weeks ago. I did create 2 cards but you have already seen one of them earlier, it was the one with the two little blackbirds on, so  no need to upload it again!

This one is based on a card I made a few weeks ago but we each used a different stamp from an SU set.

Card base is a 7x7 ready folded from Papermania.

Image stamped onto 160gsm smooth white card from Staples, then coloured with Copics and the sky is chalked.

Offcut frame, the diecut panel was for another card a while ago, lifted with sticky foam pads.

Own clouds designed in SCAL and cut with my old Cricut.

Spellbinders frame and clouds cut from Papermania textured card.

Penny Black dragonflies stamped with Brilliance pearlescent ink.

Memory Box diecut foliage.

Computer generated sentiment punched with SU :o)

Jackie xx

 

More vellum flowers

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

I cannot believe it is Thursday again already! I do my food shopping on a Thursday and it seems like only a couple of days since I last did it, and yet here I am with bare fridge and cupboards. No wonder I will never be rich, I will just have to settle for being brainy instead, and if you believe that you will believe anything LOL.

Any how, I digress. Here is my card for today.

8x8 card blank from Papermania.

Embossed with embossalicious folder.

This is the second of three sets of Honey Doo flower stamps I bought.

Stamped onto pink vellum with Brilliance Cromson Copper inkpad, then heat embossed with SU white pearls translucent powder.

Handcut then made up the flowers and added pearl coloured with Copic marker to the centres.

All foliage cut with Memory Box dies.

I used Die-namics stitched round dies for the sentiment, which I stamped with My Creative Time, then added more pearls from stash, also coloured with Copic pen. 

Martha Stewart punched flutterbies added, I may add a smidgeon of Glamour Dust to them, not made up my mind yet :o)

Jackie xx 

 

Vellum flowers

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

My card today was inspired by two of my Docrafts friends Miella and June. In my early days of crafting I used flower punches and stamps a lot, and vellum. I have so enjoyed travelling back in time LOL. Miella and June have been using some beautiful flower stamps which I just had to buy and this card is the result!

The flower stamps are from Honey Doo Crafts, the leaves at the top are from Elizabeth Craft Designs and the one at the bottom are from Crealie Craft designs.

I stamped the flowers onto very pale pink vellum with Brilliance Pearlescent Lavender, then heat embossed with SU White Pearl translucent powder, then handcut them.

In my stash, I found a small piece of graduated green vellum which I used for the leaves.

I cut ther ovals using Spellbinders pierced oval dies.

Little Martha Stewart flutterby covers a nasty ink blot, otherwise that corner would have been blank LOL.

Sentiment stamped with ?

Clear gems colours with Copic marker pen.

White card is my usual linencard and the card size is 7x5.

I have really enjoyed my trip back to my early crafting days and will be making 

some more :o)

Jackie xx

 

Another commission, this time for a happier occasion

Good morning everyone, here's a few hugs for those who need or  want them {{{{{hugs}}}}}.

I drove over to Macclesfield yesterday afternoon, a round trip of 100 miles, to visit a very dear friend. It is the furthest I have driven since my shoulder and back pains started/came back, and Stephen's stroke. I did suffer last night for the long drive, but it was worth every minute of it. Thank you Viv for your wonderful curry. At least now I know that I can do it Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :o)

It's been a while since I updated you all on Stephen's progress. On the 26th of this month it will be 11 months since he suffered a massive stroke, and whilst he still has difficulty communicating and his arm is still paralysed, his walking is phenomenal.  He uses his bus pass a lot and gets on and off buses regularly to get himself out and about. For those of you who do not know, Stephen is my son.

Anyhow, onto my card for today :o)

I was asked to make an 8x8 card and the only stipulation was that it must have the Sizzix Daisy on it.

8x8 card blank, I think it might be Papermania.

Pearlised card was embossed with my new A4 Embossalicious folder.

Sizzix Bigz daisy, one of my all time favourites and recently recued from languishing in the bottom of a box.  The daisy was cut from the same pearlised card, and lightly inked with silver Brilliance inkpad, although it doesn't show up on here.

Memory Box leaves and sentment mat cut from silver mirri card.

Sentiment is computer generated and cut with Spellbinders, as is the mat. 

Leftover scraps were used to punch the flutterbies with Martha Stewart punch.

Inside panel cut with Spellbinders Grand Nesties.

I hope that I haven't put you all to sleep, this is a lot of writing for me :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

Tulip card and a fab day to look forward to

Good morning everyone. I hope you haven't got the dreaded snow yet. It seems hell bent on disrupting our crafting get together tomorrow, as two of our number have to travel from the Peak District, but I'm keeping everything crossed that can be crossed! There will be 7 of us all gathering at our friend Pauline's and there will hopefully be the obligatory bacon butties followed by some retail therapy before we settle down to an afternoon of crafting, much chinwagging and lots of laughter, followed by dinner (Pauline is a wonderful cook) before we all go our separate ways  :o)

Anyhow, onto my card which is very simple indeed.

The tulip photograph is one I took many moons ago and I just happened to find, in my stash, the perfect colour pearlised paper to go with it. Tulip and mat cut with Nellie Snellen die, Foliage band is from a Memory Box die and the sentiment is from an SU set, Brilliance inkpad, finished off with three gems from stash. 

I will be back in the week to let you know how our get together went :o)

Jackie xx

Violets

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

It's looking a bit dull here so far but still very warm!

I stamped this beatiful image up at a friend's house so I don't know where it's from. 

Such a beautiful, delicate looking stamp.

I coloured it with copics, of course, cut it out with Xcut nestie then sponged the edges with Brilliance inkpad. 

Punched flowers with Woodware punches from pearlised paper, same as the mat. 

Leaves are from McGill or Leone Em punch, sorry can't remember which! I cut and folded linen card to 5x7 :o)  

Jackie xx
Thank you very much to Viv  who tells me that this is a Hampton Arts stamp, 
thank you Viv :o)

Brilliant Sunday and a couple of cards

Good morning everyone. We've got gorgeous sunshine and white fluffy clouds at the moment but thank goodness it's not hot and sticky. 

I've got to try and play catchup today now that the gas safety chappie has declared me safe for another year and gone.

Now I have to say that Sunday was a very special day as I played hostess to our little crafting group this time and we had a wonderful time. We even had an unexpected visitor join us from Spain. Yes she came over specially for our get together.

We always start the day with bacon butties, then it was off to Byrkley Park for some retail therapy and back home again for philly and crackers with a bit of salad followed by fresh fruit salad.

Then came the chatting and laughing with a bit of crafting thrown in. 

For dinner I made a humongous meat and potato pie which we had with veggies followed by a huge birthday cake because one of our group has a birthday coming up.
We even had some drama next door as they decided to have a drunken fight and she ended up being carted off to the cells for the night while he was taken to the hospital bleeding badly and in a daze. I believe the deadly weapon was a flying can of catfood!

Anyway, before you nod off, I had better put my cards on :o)

Two very simple cards. The baubles are SU stamp and punch layered onto SU topnote diecut. Sponged with Brilliance inkpads :o)

Jackie xx