Ruby Anniversary commission

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

I was food shopping a couple of weeks ago in the supermarket where I work when all of a sudden this loud voice boomed out "Jack, do you still make cards?" "Yes sez I". It was one of my bosses, never one for discretion, there she was near the greetings card aisle LOL. This card is the result, and of course, she wanted it within 48 hours. Still, it's more notice than I sometimes get!

Anyhow, enough waffling on, this is the card

A4 white linecard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5.

Deep red card is from stash and I have so little of it left I don't like using it LOL.  It is a sort of mirri card but not as shiny, more a dull sheen and it is very classy. I bought it from a shop in Cheshire some years ago and have never seen it anywhere since BooHoo.

Memory Box leaves cut from the same red card.

Flowers punched with Woodware punches.

White pearlised card embossed with Couture Creations Tied Together folder.

Sentiment computer generated and printe using Vivaldi font, then cut with Spellbinders pierced oval die.

White sticky back pearls coloured with Copic marker pen.

And there you have it. I have since heard that the recipients loved it :o)

Jackie xx

Green on Green

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

It's a lovely sunny start to the day here in the English Midlands, let us hope it stays that way!

Today I am sharing my green on green card with you, although it does tend to look a bit greyish, it is a lovely olive green and a pale pastel green!

 The olive green textured card is from stash, I bought it several years ago from PDA, I obly have one sheet left so I think a trip to Langley Mill needed soon!

The pale green card is DCWV, also from stash.

Enbossing folder used is Couture Creations Tied Together.

Flutterby and grapevine leaves cut with Memory Box dies.

Sentiment is computer generated and punched with SU.

White sticky pearls coloured with Copic marker pen.

Not must else can be said about it :o)

Jackie xx

I've been at the bits boxes again...

... and found this lovely image which I stamped at a friend's house some years ago and coloured at home, then for some unknown reason I consigned it to obscurity!

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

I can't believe the frozen snow is still with us after two days of sun. I live on the shady side of the street, so even though I don't go to work until the afternoon I still have to scrape the ice from the windscreen!

Wishing you all a Happy and healthy New Year...hugs

Here is my card for today, and I only used 1 bit from the boxes this time LOL.

What 'bit' did I use? The rose/script, sorry I don't know the make!

I used my Caran D'Ache watercolour pencils to colour it.

Matted with a scrap of Papermania textured card.

Basecard is Ivory textured card from PDA.

Pearlised card also from PDA, embossed with Couture Creations folder Giant Chain Wire.

Foliage dies from Memory Box.

Sentiment stamped and punched with SU :o)

Jackie xx

And now for something different, second attempt!

Good sunny Tuesday morning Bloggers, I hope all is well where you are...hugs

I have already done this once, then pressed the wrong button and lost it all, with a lot of blue air over Borrowash!!!

I have gone back to one of the styles I used to do many moons ago for this one.

I have 4 x A4  boxes, each with 17 little boxes in them full of leaves, flowers, balloons, stars and so on ad infinitum. All of them were punched and diecut from scraps probably 5 years ago, and then forgotten. I came across them and decided they had been inloved for lopng enough so I have brought them out of exile!

This is the first card made using some of them, and I will be making more over the coming weeks/months.

As Usual, the base card is linencard folded and cut to my favourite 7x5.

Next up is the pearlised panel embossed with Couture Creations Chainlink fence,

Thern comes the frame, which is the negative from a Spellbinders diecut.

The leaves are are, if I remember correctly, a combination from Spellbinders, Leone Em, maybe Xcut and ?

Flower cut with Tim Holtz Tattered Flower die.

Shading was rubbed in lightly using gilding wax.

I am fairly pleased with it even though my faves are CAS cards.

Beacuse of the faffing about getting this onto my blog, it may take me a day or two to catch up with your usually wonderful uploads, please bear with me :o)

Jackie xx

Made last Sunday at craft get together

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all warm and well on this very frosty morning :o)

I don't know where the week has gone, it has flown so fast!

My cards this morning are the ones I made last weekend crafting with friends. They are all 5x5 and the scalloped blanks were donated by one of the girls.

One of the girls wondered if glittercard would emboss and the first card show that the answer is yes, it does!

Embossing folders use are; card 1 Couture Creations, card 2 SU, card 3 Mbossabilities.

Poinsettia is cut from vellum with Marianne die.

Poppies and foliage cut from pearlised white card with Memory Box and Cheery Lynn dies.

Flutterbies cut from bronze pearlised card with Martha Stewart punch, sentiment stamped with ? and cut with SU punches :o)

Jackie xx

A couple I made and never blogged

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well with you :o).

By the way, I went to get my tyres sorted and was told they had at least another thousand miles in them yet YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

It's not often that I love my own work but I do love this one. 

It's one of  those cards that I don't want to let go!

The image is my own lavender photograph and I used my Couture Creations Tied Together embossing folder for the first time.

This one is out of my comfort zone, I don't usually do sticky outy bits! I think it is growing on me now.

I don't know what the flower is, but it is in the Orangery at Caulke Abbey and it is so beautiful.

Top card is 5x7 and the round one is about 5.75 

Dies used are Marianne, Memory Box and Grand Nesties.

Jackie xx