8x8 delphinium digi

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, and that you are warm and dry...hugs

Thank goodness it is cooloing down a bit, hopefully it will kill off the bugs that seem to be doing the rounds at the moment, almost everyone seems to be coughing and sneezing and downright miserable. I hope you are all soon feeling much better...hugs

My week and a half off work is coming to an end and I have not had one chance so far of taking my camera walkies :(  but I have had lots of time in the craftroom, and been out to lunch 3 times, so it wasn't such a bad holiday after all. I have today and tomorrow left so I hope the sun finally comes out!

Onto my card for today. I have had this digi image forever and only used it once before so I decided it was time to show it the light of day again LOL.

I used a Papermania 8x8 card base.

Bluish white pearlised card from PDA, embossed with Crafter's Companion Leaf Vein folder.

Delphinium digi image from Delicious Doodles, coloured with Copics then cut with Spellbinders Grand Nesties die, as is the frame.

Blue card from scrapbox.

Corners cut with my very old Provocraft dies.

Not much else I can say about this one :o)

Jackie xx

 

Christmas 46 and 47

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

My heart goes out to the people of Paris, especially to the families of those killed or injured.

I think I told you that my cousin wants 40 Christmas cards, all the same onelayer cards thank goodness! Well, I had a wonderful pub lunch with her yesterday and guess what, she wants another 10, all the same but different from the 40!!! I have made a start LOL.

On to my cards for today.

 Both basecards are 7x5, folded and cut from A4 sheets of white linencard from The Range.

Both mats are gold fluted card from PDA.

The first image of the Magi is a silhouette from my very old CorelDraw Software but I changed it to brown, added the words using papyrus font in MS Word and printed onto the same white card.

Hand drawn star and random stars done with gold pen and a smidgin of gold Glamour Dust.

For this image I googled public domain Christmas images last year and changed it to sepia.

Cut image and mat with Grand Nesties and added gold Glamour Dust.

Sentiment stamped with Stamps and Smiles (I think) 

Both are very simple cards :o)
Jackie xx

Anniversay card fro friends plus Autumn is here

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world. Sending hugs to all who need or want them!

This post is picture heavy so you need to settle down with a cuppa and relax :o)

I had a lovely stroll at Attenborough Nature Reserve yesterday morning and the sign of Autumn were all around, it is my favourite time of the year!

 Anyhow, I digress, her is my card for the day and a few photographs that I took yesterday.

Own photograph taken earlier this year at Straw's Ponds, Ilkeston, printed onto my usual white linencard then cut with Xcut large circle.

Basecard cut from MME card with Spellbinders Grand Nestie.

Swans cut with Marianne dies.

Computer generated sentiment cut with SU punches.

Dragonflies cut with Xcut punch.

Leaves cut with Memory Box die.

 

And now a few photographs showing the signs of Autumn.

 

 And a few others taken on my stroll.

 

 Peek-a-boo

 Tern or gull, I am not sure!

 

 And finally, this shows what the lakes are, they are all gravel pits and extraction is still taking place. It just shows that a lot of beauty can come from gravel extraction, we just have to be patient as it takes years to show :o)

Jackie xx

8x8 70th birthday commission

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

It's a bit dull and overcast here but at least it's dry!

A work colleague asked me to make a card for her Mum's 70th birthday and she wanted it to be CAS and include alcohol, karaoke and kindle! I puzzled for days on what to do, and played about on the computer,  and here is the finished card :o)

 I didn't have time to think about buying a champagne flute die as it might not have arrived in time, so I made my own in SCAL, then cut it with my ancient little Cricut. Likewise with the 70. Both were cut from a piece of glittercard which was a creamy white.

Pearlised panel was cut with Spellbinders Grand Nesties then embossed with Embossalicious folder. I used clear gems from stash for the bubbles.

 For the inside I opened a Word Doc and inserted a piece of sheet music and I used WordArt for the text. I didn't like the kid bit as this is for a 70 year old lady, so I changed it to Queen but forgot to take a pic after the change!

Next, I took a photograph of my own kindle and faded the page in PSP, then added the greeting using the Papyrus font.

I am very happy to report that the customer was bery pleased with it, thank goodness :o)

Jackie xx