Grand-daughter's birthday card

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all as well, warm and dry as you can be...hugs

I cannot believe that my Grand-daughter will be 24 on Monday,  she doesn't  'do' blogging so it's safe to post! She also doesn't like flowery or fussy so I have kept it quite CAS.

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range and I have printed my photograph and sentiment onto the same. 

Photograph taken at Twycross Zoo a few years ago.

I found a scrap of green card in my bits box for the mat.

Corners rounded with my Corner Chomper.

Not really anything else I can say about it :o)

Jackie xx 

 

First Christmas card for 2016

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

I am on holiday from work this week, and I had intended going to buy a new desktop PC because this one is getting to be so slow now. It is old and still has XP on it, but it has been a very good friend. I can't get rid of it though cuz my SCAL doesn't work on Windows 7 ( I have it on my laptop) so I am keeping it to use with my even more ancient Cricut. So, I will be using my old laptop as my main computer before long. Yes, most of my "use a lot" favourites are old, just like me LOL.

Anyhow, not buying another computer has allowed me to go internet shopping for dies, and I have ordered/bought no less that 7 singles/sets in the past week. I have received two sets (one of them used on my card for today) and hopefully the rest will arrive today or tomorrow. 

In the meantime, methinks I may have a trip to Byrkley Park today or tomorrow, haven't been for quite a while!

The die set I have used on this is Stitched Square Layers from Memory Box, the other set is the rectangle version.

Sentiment was a gift from a Docrafts friend, and I love it so much that I promptly ordered it from Joanna Sheen, hoping it arrives today!

All white card is linencard from The Range and basecard is approx 6x6.

Not much else I can say except that I will be making it again :o)

Jackie xx

Last card of 2015, first post of 2016

Good morning everyone, and a Happy and Healthy New Year. I hope all is well in your world and you are recovered from the Christmas and New Year Festivities...Hugs. 

I don't drink myself so no hangovers for me LOL.

It seems like forever since I last posted and I have a lot of catching up to do!!!

So, here is my first post of the year even though I actually made last year( just before Christmas) and it is the first for my 2016 box!

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5.

I bought this gorgeous Memory Box die a couple of months or so ago but this is the first time I have used it. Cut from a scrap of the same linencard then mounted onto a piece of black card from the scrap box, which in turn was attached with sticky foam strips to raise it.
Sentiment stamped with My Creative Time stamp.

A very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

Last two cards of the season...

...just making a start on Christmas 2016 LOL.

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world and your Christmas plans are coming together...big hugs.

I had a peek out of the window and it is very dark but dry out there so far (everything crossed it stays dry but I doubt it)

I decided to save a couple of my robin cards for the end :o)

Both basecards are approx 6x6, folded and cut from A4 sheets of white linencard from The Range.

Both red and white pearlised cards are from PDA, the red one has been embossed with 8x8 Crafters Companion Leaf Vein folder, and the white one with 8x8 Embossalicious holly folder.

I gave the white one a light  dusting with chalk.

Both robins are my own photographs of course, the first one being played with in PSE5 and the second on in PSP7. Both were cut with Die-namics stitched circle dies.

Computer generated sentiments, the first one was cut with Die-namics stitched Fishtail die.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas :o)

Jackie xx

Christmas 63 and 64

Good morning everyone, I do hope you are not affected by the severe weather conditions at the moment, my thoughts are with those of you who are...big hugs

I have made many more Christmas card than my title hints at, but these number are just mine. I finally managed to get them posted yesterday! I have got a few spare "just in case" LOL.

Both base cards are my usual white linencard from The Range.

All red card used is pearlised and from PDA.

White pearlised card is also from PDA.

Gold linencard was given by a lovely crafting friend.

Embossing folder used on the first card is 8x8 Crafter's Companion leaf veins.

Embossing folder  on the second card is A6 size and it's so old I can't remember who it's by, maybe Cuttlebug!

Marianne diecut poinsettias on both cards.

All leaves diecut with Memory Box.

Tiny flowers punched with Woodware.

White pearls coloured with Copic marker

Sentiments are computer generated and cut with SU :o)

Jackie xx

3 very different cards

Good morning everyone, I hope you have all battened down the hatches ready for the fourth big storm in such a short time, the world's weather has gone mad, and it isn't even cold yet, at least not here in the Midlands!!!

At last, I have started writing my cards out, envelopes named and stamped but I still have to add the addresses!!! I did manage to get my overseas ones posted yesterday LOL.

As my title suggests, I have 3 cards to show you this morning, and all quite different from each other, so here they are.

 The first is a very simple card, approx 6x6, folded and cut from an A4 sheet of my usual white linencard from The Range.
Leaves cut with Crealie dies from a bit of green card from my scrap box.
Marianne poinsettia diecut from red pearlised card and the same green card as the leaves, and the centre from a scrap of pearlised buff card.
I used the same red card for the sentiment backing.
Sentiment is computer generated using the Smarty Pants font.
Stitched fishtails cut with Die-namics dies. 
Pearls from stash and coloured with Copic marker pen.

 Although it doesn't look it, this one is brown, ivory and gold.
It is 7x5, cut from A4 sheets of card.
Ivory Papermill linencard I bought from the Lovely Christine L
Brown linencard is from PDA.
I used Stampendous detail gold embossing powder for the stamped sentiment and images, all freebies from a mag.
Marianne poinsettia die again. 
Gold linen card was kindly given to me by the lovely ChristineL.

This one is quite a small A6 size. Not my size of choice but I had printed the photograph too small for a larger card.
Basecard is PMS hammered white, bought in the days when the PMS were still open!
Pewter textured card is from PDA.
My photograph, which I took about 7 years or so ago in my daughter's garden, is printed on my usual whit linencard, along with the sentiment using the Dauphin font.
Holly cut with Memory Box :o)
Jackie xx 

Robins x 4

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

OMG how the temperature plummeted last night, down to 1c when I left my friend's at about 10pm! Since then the heavens have opened and the rain is practically horizontal, the wind has gone to gale force again!!!

My title? Well I am uploading 4 robin cards but they are 4 different robins too, taken at various times at Attenborough Nature Reserve and St. Chad's Water. 

Basecards are 7x5 and 6x6 ish.

 All basecards are white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to size.

All images feathered in PSP7, but starburst created in PSE5, then printed in MS Word onto same linencard and three of the sentiments printed at the same time using various fonts. One sentiment printed in Word then punched with SU.

Panelled layer on third card is pearlised card, embossed with Embossalicious folder.

Diecut on last card cut with Memory Box die.

Pearls coloured with Copic marker pen :o)

Jackie xx

 

Great-grandson's money wallet

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well in your world and you haven't been affected by the extreme weather conditions...hugs to all of you

My Great-grandson Ryan was 10 years old at the beginning of November, I can't believe how the time has flown!!! This is the money wallet I made for him.

It's really very simple, Ryan loves to see his name on a card, but then it get's tossed aside for what is inside!

7x5 basecard folded and cut from A4 sheet of white linencard from The Range.

Banners cut with Die-namics die from a scrap of brown card.

Name cut with Memory Box dies from a scrap of striped paper.

Sentiment is a mix of stencil and 2 stamps.

As I said, very simple :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

Thinking of you

Good morning everyone, and what a soggy one it is too with the rain lashing the windows! I hope all is well in your world...hugs

Well, my holiday week is coming to it's end, it's back to work on Monday. So far it has either been thick fog or pouring rain every day, with no chance of going out with my cameras, and according to the forecast it is going to get worse!!! Still, I have spent lots of time in my craftroom, and went out for lunch one day so it has been all gloom, and yesterday I went browsing at PDA and of course one or two bits fell into my basket LOL.

It was lovely to see you last night Lesley, it's been a long time...hugs

On to my cards for today.

They are both very simple, indeed, they couldn't be much more simple!

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

For the first one, I used an old Crafts Too embossing folder on white pearlised card, then cut to size and rounded the corners with my Corner Chomper, what a wonderful tool that is, then layered it onto ribbed gold card from PDA. Sentiment stamped with My Creative Time.

For the second one I used one of my new Darice folders and ribbed pewter card, also from PDA

Sentiment stamped with, I think, SU.

As for the weather, it looks like another day in the craftroom, not that I am complaining :o)

Jackie xx

 

Commissioned leaving baby card

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

A work colleague asked me to make this, and just a few days before I was in The Range and had bought some embossing folders including the one used here, I must have been psychic LOL.

I used my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to fit 6x6 envelope.

Pearlised blue card embossed with on of my 4 new Darice folders.

Marianne pram and pin cut from same blue card.

Gingham paper printed from Docrafts Digital Designer.

Sentiment was computer generated.

Sorry I forgot to take pics of the inside.

 I am happy to report that my colleague was delighted with it :o)

Jackie xx

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 38

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well, or at least as well as you can be...hugs

Don't forget to put your clocks back before you go to bed tonight :o)

Since grand-daughter Sian filched 21 Christmas cards from my box for her church fund raising in York, and I hadn't made enough to start with, I have some serious catching up to do! This is 38 down, so that's another 30 required, plus the replacements. I think I am going backwards LOL.

So, without further ado, here is my card for today, a very simple one.

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to fit 6x6 envelope.

Green holograph card from stash, sorry I can't rmember where I got it from originally.

MME glittery striped card, this is the negative from cutting my own trees with my ancient Cricut.

Glitter stars cut with Lea'bilities dies from scraps.

I did warn you it was simple :o)

Jackie xx

Oooooooops! It's that daisy again

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world and the rain has gone, and boy oh boy did it rain!!! Hugs.

I couldn't resist getting that daisy die out again, I do love it. I have had it for about 6 or 7 years, but after using it a couple of times it lay forgotten and unloved, so now I am making up for it! I also have an A4 ream sized box bursting at the seams with pearlised card in several colours which I have bought over a period of years and keep forgetting about, so I thought it was time I resurrected them too LOL.

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to fit in a 6x6 envelope.

Layered panel is a dark blue/grey pearlised card.

Sizzix Bigs Daisy cut from a silver grey pearlised card, as are the leaves. 

All pearlised card from PDA.

Plain green card is from the scrap box.

All foliage cut with Memory Box dies.

The circles are the centres from the Daisy.

Large brad from stash.

This pic doesn't really do justice cuz the pearlised card has a wonderful sheen to it :o)

Jackie xx

 

Reflections

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you are all as well as you can be...hugs

I am loving these cool Autumn temperatures, I feel more alive :o)

My car was very poorly at the weekend, or at least I thought so. Daren't go anywhere on Sunday, daren't start the engine to move it away from the fence so I could open the door to get at the bonnet opening thingy to see why it was spitting oil, copious amounts of it, through the radiator grille,  couldn't reach it from driver's side of the car. Called my "goto for everything car related" Rob Monday morning and ten minutes later he had the bonnet open to find............... My oil filler cap had come off!!!!! Thank goodness it was nothing worse than that, big sigh of relief. I visualise depleting my savings considerably!

At least not being able to go anywhere Sunday meant that my huge buddliea bush had a good pruning, got to finish it off now the brown bin has been emptied!

Have you fallen asleep yet? I had better get my card uploaded :o)

As you can see, a perfect day for reflections.

This is one of my recent photographs taken at Mercia Marina, and I think it would be suitable for male or female.

Basecard is my usual white linencrad from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5.

I printed my photograph onto the same linencard and layered it onto navy blue linencard from stash.

Sentiment stamped with My Creative Time stamp.

Not a lot else I can say except that I didn't want embellies taking the eye away from the photograph :o)

Jackie xx

Cow Parsley seedhead and some photographs

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

I had a wonderful day at Mercia Marina Sunday and the weather was very kind although fairly cold. I was there for their last Bandstand Busk of the season, and my daughter was singing so that was an added bonus. They have these sessions once a month during the summer and they are great. They put a bucket out for donation and were able to present a cheque for £400 to The Uttoxeter Lions for their Prostrate Cancer Screening programme.

On to my card for today. 

I took this photograph at Attenborough Nature Reserve a about month ago and yes, the sky really was that colourless at the time. If you look closely you can even see a few seed falling!

Matted onto a scrap of brown paper from the bits box.

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5, then stamped with Penny Black Queen Anne's Lace which I thought morrored my photograph very well.

Sentiment stamped with Woodware.

Flatbacked pearls coloured with Copic marker pen.

Here's a photograph or three from Sunday Afternoon. The sun was very strong and from the wrong angle so these are the best I could do!

 A few of the musicians, including my daughter Susan ( in the middle), had a jam session at the end of the day. Here they are singing Mustang Sally.

 

 Moore and Moore Beer, the Bandstand Busk event organisers

Susan accompanied by John Beer playing the bones.

If you love live music from local bands/soloists, checkout Mercia Marina's FB page watch out for the Bandstand Busks next year, they are great fun :o)

Jackie xx

8x8 commissioned 50th birthday

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all as well as you can be...hugs

Glad to know the forecast is for dry tomorrow, I am off to Mercia Marina to see my daughter and her partner singing in the last Bandstand Busk of the season!

I was asked by a work friend to make a large card for a fisherman, and it had to have bubbles. I think the bubbles were to represent booze as well as water LOL. Luckily I had some of my old photographs which I had taken some years ago! 

 

Basecard is 8x8 Papermania blank.

Own photograph taken on the Erewash Canal at Long Eaton around 6 years ago.

Framed by my very good friend PatEssex (Docrafts). 

Iprinted it onto my usual linencard from The Range.

"Bubble" words printed onto same card in MS Word, then cut with Die-namics stitched circle dies.

Fish stamped with SeeD's stamp for a very old SeeD's set with Memento London Fog.

Glossy Accents bubbles.

The inside is too personal so I am not showing it :o)

Jackie xx

All in blue

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

It sounds like our Indian Summer is about to end, according to the weather forecast. I have been enjoying it because it was beautifully sunny without the heat!

It was so lovely yesterday after lunch so I went to Elvaston Castle, my local country park. I haven't downloaded my photographs yet but if any of them are good enough to show then you may see a few here tomorrow.

On to my card for today, I have used that tattered flower again, I love it so I don't know why I neglected it for so long!

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

My own stitched square, cut with my old Cricut, layered onto beautiful blue holographic card.

Tim Holtz/Sizzix Bigs diecut flower, sponged with gilding wax.

Memory Box diecut foliage.

All card used and large brad from my stash.

I will add sentiment when I know who I am giving it to, and maybe gems.

I really must use this flower more often :o)

Jackie xx

 

Christmas 32

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all as well as you can be...hugs

It's Thursday once again, food shopping day! I just cannot believe how fast the weeks are flying by, it seems like yesterday that I did the food shopping last week. We would all be better off if we didn't have to eat LOL. But then, would we? I suppose if we didn't have to eat we wouldn't get paid as much!!!

For my card today,  I use another of those Woodware stamps that jumped into my basket recently, the only trouble was, I had no pearls big enough for the large bubbles so I had to go out and buy card candi.  Oooops! I went to The Range and bought a few packets of different colours, then a few day later I went to Byrkley Park and saw more packets with different colours in so I had to buy them, what have I started?

Anyhow, before you all nod off, here is my card.

My usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to just under 6x6.

Image stamped onto smooth white160gsm card from Staples then I lightly chalked.

I added a mixture of card candi and pearls, some of the said pearls I coloured with 

Copic marker pens.

Layered onto green holographic card.

Corners rounded with Cropodile corner chomper.

Sentiment stamped with unknown stamp and Bob's yer Uncle, job done :o)

Jackie xx

 

More of my teardrop trees

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

I have been playing with my teardrop trees again and my card today features them.

Basecard is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5.

My own SCAL trees cut with my ancient Cricut from MME sparkly card which I have had in my stash for many years, raised with sticky foam pads.

Background lightly chalked.

Sentiment stamped with Stamps and Smiles.

Can't find anything else that needs saying for the very simple card :o)

Jackie xx