8x8 Christmas 29

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

It's a bit dull and grey here but very warm. I am off to Long Eaton to get money then to George's Tradition for lunch, then hopefully I may get into the craftroom to play for a little while :o)

Here's another 8x8 card today and my 29th Christmas card for the year, long way to go yet!

Paper and topper are from J&P Pictures.  Both are printed on to Papermania textured card. backing panel put through GC in Die'sire 8x8 folder then sanded, topper layered onto gold textured card from stash then popped on foam pads. Ribbon from stash :o)

Jackie xx

It's that owl again

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world and you haven't got the snow back. Keep warm and safe...hugs

Well, I have done my first shift at work for this year and it felt so good to go back. Yes, I really mean that LOL. January seemed like 6 months long and my first shift went by in a flash and I don't seem to have any ill effects so life is back to being good :o)

Anyhow, onto my card for today and the owl is back. I think it's a bit fussy but I will get over it LOL. I actually made this at the same time as the other one so that's my paper piecing done with for now :o)

all card used it Papermania textured card from the capsule collection.

I cut the white basecard to 5.5" with Go Kreate die on the Grand Calibur.

Owl stamped onto MME papers and hand cut then pieced together on Nestie cut backing.

SU sentiment stamp and punches.

Foliage cut with Cheery Lynn dies.

Flower punche with Woodware and Glossy Accents added to eyes :o)

Jackie xx

Romantic swans

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well in your world. Another sunny start to the day but thank goodness there is a lovely fresh breeze with it :o)

For my card today I have used two of my new Marianne die sets and for the first time, I actually did the embossing for the the anja die in the Grand Calibur. I normally do it with a ball tool but I am so pleased with how it turned out. I did the swans embossing with the ball tool but now that I have discovered it is so easy in the GC I won't be doing it by hand any more :o)

I cut and folded white linen card to 5x7, added the die cuts, tiny pearls and Woodware stamped sentiment and Bob's yer Uncle, that was all there was to it :o)

Jackie xx

A couple more from the Norfolk broads

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well with you. I've given up discussing the weather!!!!!

Onto my cards which are part of the Norfolk Broads set I did with the beach huts and lighthouse which can be seen here

Base cards are white linen cut and folded to 5x7, images are, of course, my own photographs printed onto and backed with Bazzill, cut with Grand Nesties on the GC. Foliage is from Cheery Lynn and Marianne dies and sorry, not too sure of the stamps, possibly Hampton Arts inked with Memento London fog :o)

Jackie xx

Oink + a peacock

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well with you. Thank you for your kind messages about my BP testing. I certainly would not want to do that again but all went well, if painful at times. With the infernal machine doing it's thing every half hour throughout the 24 hours on such a hot and sultry day/night, I got precious little sleep but hey ho, 'tis done now so it's just a waiting game to see if I need to take tablets to correct the BP. Oh well, worse things happen at sea, so "they" say LOL.

On to my cards for today. I have added a new dimension to them in the form of embossing and I do think it's a worthwile addition, I hope you do too :o)

Meet Oink, Derby's resident water buffalo. He lives in Darley Abbey for those of you who would like to meet him for real. He has been there for many years. Why was he named Oink? Well, he makes an oinking sort of snorting sound and he grew up with pigs as companions! I took this photograph last Sunday :o)

 The peacock can be found finishing visitors meals for them at Blackbrook Zoo, just on the Ashbourne side of Leek.  I took this photograph 4 years ago, must go back there one of these days! The embossing was done in the GC using my latest Crafts Too bamboo embossing folder, accidentally debossed on the first card and embossed on the second one. Sentiments were done in MS Word using Papyrus font :o)

Jackie xx

Two baby bibs

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

I was supposed to go back to work yesterday after a week's holiday, but instead I was home because I daren't move more than a few yards from the loo :o( On the bright side, my craftroom is next door to the loo so all was not lost LOL.

On to my cards for today. They could not possibly be more simple. Oh how I bless the day I bought my GC.

I cut the bib cards out using Go Kreate and Nesties. They are approx 5". stuck ribbon scraps on and inked the edges.  Marianne diecuts to finish off :o)

Jackie xx

A bit of an experiment

Good morning Bloggers, at last a sunny morning with wall to wall blue sky here in deepest Derbyshire! I hope all is well with you.

A friend made a car using a baby bib card blank, so I thought"I could do that myself" Hence the title :o)

I cut the basecards on the GC using a Go Kreate die, then cut out the neck bit with a small round Nestie. Not sure if I prefer it with or without the ribbon!

All the embellies were cut on the Cricut from Bazzill Bling,  using Balloon font and SCAL shapes :o)

Jackie xx

A birthday card and a welcome

Good morning Bloggers.  First a welcome to Elaine, my latest follower :o)

Well the morning couldn't be more different from yesterday if it tried. Yesterday was blue skies and sunshine all the way and I was out walking round St Chad's Water in my cardi. This morning it is dull and grey, windy and quite cool!

Anyway, on to my card for today. It is a card for my favourite waitress at George's where I go for my lunch every Thursday.

The basecard is Bazzill, folded and cut on the Grand Calibur  to 6x6. Paper is from stash and I have had it so long I can't remember wher it was from. The sentiment and 50 were cut from Bazzill on the Cricut. Leaves were punched with Leone Em and flowers with Woodware punches, and tiny pearls from stash for the flower centres. Ooops! I nearly forgot to say that the flowers were punched from a scrap of paper which I used on another card!  :o)

Jackie xx

New toy and first card with it

Good afternoon everyone on this gloriously blue, sunshiny day.

I have my new toy and I have made one card using it so far.

Well, I had to buy myself a Mother's Day pressie didn't I, especially as I had already bought some Grand Nestabilities LOL

I cut the card from an 8x8 Papermania kraftcard, and the backing, with the GC, the foliage was cut with Marianne and Cheery Lyn dies and the sentiment was stamped and punched with SU :o)

Jackie xx

A wonderful birthday + a new baby card

Good morning bloggers on this gorgeous start to the day. Wall to wall blue here although a tad nippy. I cannot believe it is nearly a week since I last posted, hopefully I will be able to catch up on your blogs over the next day or two.  

I have had a wonderful birthday long weekend, what a shame they have to come to an end! I spent Thursday with my cousin and we went out and had a lovely lunch.  On Friday I went out and bought myself a birthday present. My old compact camera has given me brilliant service for 5 years, but I have now retired it because I wanted something smaller and more up to date. So, I replaced my Nikon Coolpix 1 (6.5 megapixels) with a Nikon Coolpix S3100(14 megapixels) which is bright redLOL. My main camera is still my beloved Nikon D40 DSLR but it isn't always convenient to carry such a big camera around.

Here they are, the old and the new, for size comparison. I can get the new one in my handbag. I have taken over 20,000 photographs (I promise you I am not exaggerating)  with the old and I hope to take at least that many with the new :o)

Onto my card, made yesterday at our wonderful craft get together. I did make others but haven't taken their pics yet.

This is for our hostess's son and DiL on the birth of their gorgeous new granddaughter on Saturday. I used my new Marianne die which my wonderful friends gave me. I couldn't make up my mind in the shop whether to buy it or not, and when we got back to the house they had bought it for me. Aren't friends just the greatest people?

Talking about craftshops, I bought myself two sets of Grand Nesties with my birthday money so now I have to go out and buy a Grand Calibur LOL.

Sorry, I should have warned you it was going to be a long post :o)

Jackie xx