Still using the bits.....

.....I think I have enough of them to last a lifetime LOL.

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

I have the mother of all colds, never get a mild one. Sniffling, sneezing, no voice! Who would like to take it from me, I won't charge!!!

Once again I have been raiding the bits boxes, and believe it or not, I found 3 more boxes of bits whilst looking for something else, which I didn't find!!!Make that two lifetimes they will last me LOL.

Base card is my usual linencard folded and cut to 6x6.

Sissix vellum daisy and Marianne foliage all cut from scraps many moons ago, as was the Woodware punched circle.

Sentiment stamped with My Creative Time.

Large brad from stash :o)

Jackie xx

Scrap flower

Good morning everyone, and what a dull one it is although still uncomfortably warm for mw! I hope you are all well ore getting there, Hugs.

I recently bought yet another new A4 embossing folder so I had to have a go with it didn't I LOL, so here it is. it's an Embossalicious folder and it's called Hessian, so without further ado here is my card for today.

 Base card is white hammered folded and cut to 6x6.

Pearlised white card embossed with my new folder mentioned above, then inked around the edges with ancient Colorbox inkpad before being attached with DS tape.

Big flower cut with Sizzix Bigz daisy die, and small flower punched with Woodware punches, from a scrap of blue sparkly card.

Foliage cut from a green scrap with Memory Box die. No name on the pins!

Sentiment will be added if and when required.

 Just in case you are interested, here is my lovely new car :o)

Jackie xx

8x8 Commissioned vows renewal

Good morning everyone, I am so sorry that I have not been commenting, I am guilty of taking time out to play with my new car and yes, I am loving it :o) I will endeavor to catch up with your posts in the next few days!

Believe it or not, 7 months after applying for P.I.P. for Stephen, the DWP representatives finally came to see him on Friday. So now we wait yet again to see if he will be allowed to have this extra money to give him independence!

I hope all is well with everyone, hugs.

On to my card for today. If you think it looks familiar, it's because I have used the front of a round card I made previously as I thought the image was perfect for the occasion. Please ignore the coaster on the inside, that is just to cover the private message :o)

For once I didn't make my own card blank, this is from a pack of Papermania 8x8 blanks. I embossed the front with an 8x8 Embossalicious folder then attached the front from another card and added the flower, sentiment  and bling.

The digi image is from Mo Manning, printed onto plain white smooth card then coloured with Caran D'Ache watercolour pencils.

All coloured card is Bazzill Basics.

Daisy cut with Sizzix Bigz dies from plain white card, then the petal tips inked with an ancient Colour Box pad which was just the right colour.

Foliage cut with Memory Box and McGill.

Inside border cut with Spellbinder.

Image and inside panels also cut with Spellbinder.

Sentiment is computer generated the cut with SU punches.

Pins unknown.

Jackie xx

A change from Christmas cards.....

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, and if not hugs to you.

I thought I would give you a change from the Christmas cards, although I have made another 10 of them this week, that makes about 30 so far, long way to go yet :o)

For my card today I used my Sizzix Bigz Daisy die which you may remember I rediscovered a couple of weeks or so ago along with my TH Tattered Floral Bigz die, and I mean to use both of them more :o)

Once again I have used paper from way back before 5 years ago, sorry there isn't a name on it.

Base card is hammered white from PMS. also way back before the Papermill shops all closed, folded and cut to 6x6.

Daisy cut from the same paper as the backing then inked with Big and Juicy pad, gem/brad added, flower then raised with sticky foam pad. Foliage is Marianne and Memory Box dies cut from a scrap of PDA textured card. Ribbon is also a scrap from my ribbon box. 

Nothing new was harmed in the making of this card :o)

Jackie xx

Black and white. You've seen the photographs now here are the cards

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, and if it isn't then I hope it soon will be...hugs.

I couldn't make up my mind whether to make cards with these photographs but several of you made it up for me and here are the results :o)

Unfortunately, the first one looks a bit washed out in the pic but it is just as black as the second one. Both photographs are printed onto my favourite Papermania textured card then the first cut with guillotine and the second cut with Grand Nesties. Both are layered onto white linen card folded to A5. Foliage dies used are Marianne, Cheery Lynn and Sissix :o)

Jackie xx

It's that daisy again

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

I am sorry to say that I haven't so far managed to source any of the gold and silver linen card I mentioned previously. I went to PDA yesterday (I am lucky enough to live only 12 miles from them) and got some of theirs which is quite different but I bought some anyway. Their linen card is more knobbly than my favourite one but still good, and their gold is not what I would call gold, more bronze but still nice. They call it casino gold. I also found some gold and silver that is finely fluted so I had to buy some of that too, watch out for it coming up on my cards later :o) Having said all that, if anyone finds any like the Kanban one anywhere please let me know :o)

Okay, I'll stop waffling, here is my card for today!

This is a 7x7 card cut with another of my new Grand nesties and embossed with my new A4 MBossability folder. The ivory and the fawn cardcards are both pearlised from stash and the pink and green is from scraps. Once again the daisy is from me 'rediscovered' Sizzix Bigz die and the foliage is Leone Em punch and Cheery Lynn die. It's the first airing for the Docrafts baker's twine. Flower centre brad is from stash :o)

Jackie xx

First from my new toys

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all warm and dry. It seems that winter is back so we may as well make the most of it and stay in our craft spaces!

This is the first card using one of my new sets of Grand Nesties and what a beautiful set it is too. The largest circle is exactly 8" across.

It is also my first time making this style of card and I am fairly pleased with it.

The only new things used on this card are the large Nesties, all the rest is from stash. I dug my old Sizzix Bigz daisy die out, poor thing hasn't seen the light of day for many moons but now I have rediscovered it I will use it more!

All card except the green is pearlised. Swirl is Cheery Lynn, leaves are Memory Box and the sentiment is SU cut out with small Nesties. Flower and sentiment are raised on foam pads :o)

Jackie xx

Canada geese anniversary

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well in your world and you are all warm and safe...hugs.

I am a bit excited because I had my first little drive for weeks yesterday, just a short journey  to the post office, about 1.5 miles round trip, and there doesn't seem to be any damage done to my shoulder so today I will try just a little bit further. I am taking it just one step at a time as I don't want to end up back to square one! 

Back to an anniversary card with my own photograph for the moment, I am still making up cards from the stuff I found so watch this space :o)

I took this photograph at Darley Abbey Mills last summer. The geese were perched on a log stuck at the top of the weir. As usual, the photograph was feathered in PSP and then printed onto Papermania textured card from the Capsule collection, the sentiment added using Viner Hand font, then cut out with Go Kreate dies and attached to the white lined base card which was folded and cut to 7x5. Foliage was cut with a Sizzix die that hadn't seen the light of day for a long while!  :o)

Jackie xx

Another from my GC

Good morning everyone on this lovely sunny but cool start to the day :o)

My card today is the second cut with my lovely Grand Calibur. I have cut some more but haven't made them up yet! I am just so pleased with the GC that I wish I had bought it many moons ago.

Base card is white linen, backing paper is from an old (about 6 years) Kay&Co pad,  Sizzix flower is vellum, cut last year some time but never used, same with the flutterbies from Martha Stewart punch, and the flower centre is the waste from a card made aeons ago which I 'cuttlebugged'. 

So, it is a card made up from stuff that had been forgotten and now is found :o)

Jackie xx

Scrapbook pages and a welcome

Good morning everyone. So far it looks like a nice calm morning out there.

I would like to start the day by welcoming a new follower, hello Christine, thank you for joining me :o)

And now onto my 12x12 DLO. I decided it was time I got my scrapbooking head on as I have not done any since about January!

Of course I had wanted to load them left first then right so they are in sequence but Blogger decided otherwise! Never mind, I am sure that you can work out 

which is which :o)

The backing paper was from stash and has no name on.

All brown and orange card is Bazzil, gold mirri also used. Titles created in Scal using Balloon font and cut on Cricut. Round mats were cut with Nesties and Go create. Swirl is from Sizzix long die and the bottom border is the negative from same  :o)

Jackie xx

Gold and silver

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you have all survived the ravages of the tail end of

hurricane Katia!

I had a gold and silver day yesterday and made 6 cards, which brings my total to 80 of the 100 target I set myself by the end of this month. Here are 4 of the 6 that I made.

How come that it always loads them up in a different order to what a selected them in?????

Oh well, never mind eh! 

As you can see, the couldn't be much more simple, but I quite like them. Once again I have used my wonderful Tim Holtz trees - my favourite embossing folder of all time - and just added a Sizzix reindeer, and the Papermania stockings for the other 2 cards :o)

Jackie xx 

Oh dear, what a load of baubles

Good morning Bloggers, or maybe just 'morning' as it's far from good! It is blowing a gale and lashing rain this morning, not that I am complaining because we do desperately need it (the rain, not the wind). It's a great reason to shut myself in the craftroom :o)

I am sorry to say it is yet more Christmas cards and yes, even more baubles. My aim is 100 Christmas cards by the end of this month :o)

I have got 68 so far so only 32 to go, or is that 62 with 38 to go LOL.

All bauble except the blue were cut on the Cricut, the blue one cut with Sizzix die :o)

Jackie xx

Playing with SCAL

Good morning everyone on this lovely sunny start to the day.

Although I have now had SCAL for some time I haven't had much chance to play with it, so I played while I was off work last week! both of the frames on these two cards are SVG files from Penny Duncan

 I used this first one to frame a parhment Sizzix Daisy and the sentiment is from SU. I used an FF embossing folder on the edge of the card base but it soesn't show up very well here.

I used this one to frame my own flutterby photograph, and the little creatures are from a set of 40 tiny  stamps that rarely sees the light of day. I have played some more since then but haven't made the cards to show you yet :o)

Jackie xx

My new cooker arrived.....

..... and would you believe it, I had forgotten to take the chicken breast (for casserole) out of the freezer, so what was the first thing I did? I opened a tin of Baxters Italian tomato and Basil soup to keep me going because by that time - 3pm - I was starving!!!!!

Later I had cheese on toast because I was going out and didn't have time to cook anyway. Now I am sat sitting typing in to the delicious aroma of my chicken casserole cooking in my top oven. Yes, I think you all know by now that cooking and I do NOT mix so I went and bought a cooker with not one, but TWO ovens :o)

Anyhow, on to my card.

Yes, I am sorry it is yet another brayered card but I can't help it, I love them. At least I have 2 new Big & Juicy inkpads so there will be some different colours :o)

This time I used my Queen Anne's Lace stamp for both background and topper and the only embelishments are Sizzix leaves and Martha Stewart flutterbies.

Well it's nearing the end of my week off work so I am going to Byrkley Park after lunch for a last bit of retail therapy. Then it's back to work on Monday grooooooooooooooooan.  :o)

Jackie xx

My offering for Copics blog candy...

... over at http://charmedcrafts.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-candy-with-twist.html

The colours aren't showing quite right here, the flowers are peach coloured and the card is a tad more orange

Jackie xx