Christmas 39 and 40

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

I have been printing/stamping/colouring etc to catch up with the cards filched by my lovely Grand-daughter, managed to get several toppers made and I have enough bits and pieces on the go to make about 16 cards. My worktable is looking like a production line at the moment LOL.

I have two similar, but not the same, cards today, both very simple to make!

Both basecards are my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5.

Both cards have a mirri backing layer, one blue one green.

I used two different Marianne Cut n Emboss folders on the pearlised white panels.

Blue one has a Lea'bilities diecut from white glittercard scrap, green one has a Marianne sleigh diecut, also from white glittercard scrap.

The little star on each card is a Lea'bilities diecut.

As I said earlier, very simple :o)

Jackie xx

 

Christmas 34

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

I got soaked coming out of work just before 10 o'clock last night, but the temperature was still 15C. The rain came heavier later but at least it has stopped now!

Back to Christmas for my offering today, I can't believe how close it is now and I am nowhere near ready, I have usually just about finished my cards by this time of the year and started on my cousin's 4o or so!

Basecard is my usual white linencard, folded and cut to just under 6x6.

My own stitched square, cut on my old Cricut from red linencard, then layered onto gold mirri card, as is the (unkown) stamped sentiment but that was cut with Die-namics round stitched dies.

Marianne Poinsettia cut from plain red/green card and foliage punched with McGill and Leone Em punches.

A smidgin of Glamour Dust to finish.

Methinks I had better get crackin' and get the rest made :o)

Jackie xx

 

The other 5 of the 7 embossed cards I made a couple of weeks ago

Good morning everyone, I hope all is as well as it can be with you...hugs

Thank you for all of your kind wishes for my shoulder, which continues giving me some grief, but at least unlike earlier in the year I can still drive so I don't need to be off work! For those who asked, punching all those leaves for the wreath card didn't bother my shoulder at all, I punched them on the floor with my heel LOL.

Anyhow, enough of my waffling, here are the cards.

All base cards are PMS hammered white folded and cut to 7x5.

All embossed panels are white pearlised card.

Various makes of embossing folders were used, sorry, can't remember them all.

Spellbinder, Marianne and Memory Box dies were used.

Mats are red and green mirri card, gold and silver textured card.

All materials are from stash, nothing new was used in the making of these cards :o)

Jackie xx

Emboss and diecut cards

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

I was having a look through my (many) smaller embossing folder the other day and decided it was about time I used them again. Here are 2 of the 7 cards I made. All were very simple but that's what I like :o)

White & Silver, white & gold, I love these two combinations.

When I moved my craftroom, I discovered a whole box full of  Paper Mill Shop (before they all closed) hammered white and another box full of their hammered ivory, so I decided it's time to use them before I buy any more linen card!

Both base cards are folded and cut to 7x5.

I also found my (lost) solver and gold textured card so I have used them here too. 

Embossed panels are white pearlised card which I bought from Donnington last year.

Leaping deer is Memory Box die cut and Tree  is a Marianne die cut.

The sentiment is from and ancient Woodware word stamp set :o)

Jackie xx

Last of my freebie PD images

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

I cannot believe how manic food shopping is becoming and there's another 3 weeks to Christmas yet!!!!! The customers are spending a fortune (not that I am grumbling, it pays my wages) so it's difficult to believe there isn't much money around!

Anyhow, on to my cards for today. They are the last of the public domain freebies that I downloaded.  All card used is from stash.

Although they look black and white here, they are both sepia.

This one is ivory linen card folded and cut to 7x5. Image printed onto Papermania vanilla textured card then layered onto brown card. Tree is Marianne diecut.

This one is vanilla Papermania textured card folded and cut to 7x5. Other details the same except for the Memory Box diecut corner and the main image has a fine sprinkling of Glamour Dust. Greeting on both is from an ancient set of Woodware word stamps :o)

Jackie xx

Fairy staircase

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

A few peeps suggested that the fungus growing up the tree on one of my latest photographs looked like a fairy staircase which gave me the idea for this 12x12 page. Not too sure about it but heyho, I can always try again later :o)

I used several stamps from Lindsay Mason and Lavinia. The fairies were created by myself and PatEssex on Docrafts from two of my own photographs. That was in the days when we were producing CDs from our own pics. The lady we used is from a photograph I took of the Memphis Belle (remember the film) aeroplane at Duxford some years ago, and the wings are a flutterby I took at a bird and butterfly  park somewhere in Dorset or Somerset, I think it was at Rode, also many years ago. The large mushrooms at the bottom are actually a wooden one at Carsington Water, Derbyshire and I thought it made a great resting place for our fairy LOL. All in all, I have created the image using 4 different photographs, then printed it onto Daler-Rowney tracing paper and cut it to 8x8. Dies used are Marianne and Memory Box. I haven't done any journalling as it is just for me, but I may add a title later :o)

Jackie xx

My new die

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well in your world :o)

A warm welcome to new follower Aussie Annie, I hope to hear from you soon.

I am off out to my friend's today and we will be going out to lunch for the first time this year so I am really looking forward to that. I lost January altogether with my shoulder not co-operating, so I am making up for it this month LOL.

On to my card for today. I bought this lovely die last Saturday so of course I had to use it almost immediately :o)

You have seen this rose photograph before but this time I changed it to sepia and I quite like the effect. Printed straight on to Papermania textured card and matted onto Marianne die cut from bronze pearl card, and raised on foam squares. Base card is also the same Papermania card folded and cut to 6x6.

I hope you like it :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

Wedding or engagement card

Stop Press! I have changed to Google Chrome and now my blog is behaving beautifully (fingers crossed) :o)

Good morning Bloggers, I am hoping I can upload this, but we will see! I am still having problems with blogger and it's driving me crazy. I am having to go the long way round to visit you but hopefully I will get to you eventually. Once I get in I can do most things but I cannot access my comment moderation page so if your comment hasn't appeared yet that is why. I can read them in my emails though so I have seen all the lovely comments that haven't yet appeared on my blog, thank you so much everyone :o)

On to my card for today, whit is a tad OTT for me but I am quite happy with it.

 There are a couple of firsts on this one for me. First time using pins and first time using my Marianne Anja corner, although you can't see much of it LOL.

Dies used are Marianne, Cheery Lynn and Nesties, punches used are Woodware and Leone Em, and it's all put together on  a 5x7 basecard which I cut anf folded from white linen card.

I do hope this loads up okay (fingers crossed) :o)

Jackie xx