Back to my photographs...

...which I have sadly neglected of late!

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, here's a few hugs {{{{{hugs}}}}} if you want or need them.

After cutting out some of my own mats, I had several of these squares left so what should I do, throw them in the recycle bin or use them? I had an idea to use two of them so I may have a go at playing  with more of them because I am quite pleased with this effect :o)

Anyhow, on to my card for today.

Basecard is 8x8 ready folded from a Papermania pack.

Striped glittercard layer is from my stash, found it in several colours at the bottom of my glittercard box. Had it so many years I have forgotten where from!

Own thistle photograph taken at Mercia Marine a few weeks ago. I have never seen such large thistles, they were about 10 foot tall and I am not exaggerating, the flowers were huge and perfectly formed. I feathered it in PSP7 then opened it in MS Word and added the sentiment, then printed onto my usual white linencard from The Range before cutting it with an Xcut large circle die.

I intertwined the squares and attached them to the circle before adding them to the card.

It's not very often I say it of my own work but I really like this one :o)

Jackie xx

 

Not a photograph in sight!

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

Much as I love using my photographs, I decided on a bit of a change with this one. It's been a long time since I made a rocker card and I quite enjoyed making it. 

I love brown and cream together, reminds my of a lovely mug of coffee, which I have sitting beside me as I type LOL.

Doesn't seem 5 minutes since I was saying "I can't believe it's nearly April already" and now it's nearly May already!

Oh well, enough spouting on, here is my card for today.

It is 7" round.

Cream card is lovely textured card from my stash, I've had it for aeons so not sure where I got it but it might be PDA. Brown linencard also from stash, no idea where that is from!

I used Spellbinders Grand Nesties for the basecard and mats and the foliage was cut with one of my two new Memory Box dies.

I made the tiny flowers using gold punched bits from my bits box. 

Punches used are Woodware and Xcut. 

Penny Black sentiment stamped with Versamak and embossed with Stampendous Detail Gold powder. 

Tiny white peasrls coloured with Copic marker pen :o)

Jackie xx

Purple birthday

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

Are you ready for the big day? I have now done all my shopping and anything that hasn't been got will just have to be left LOL.

My card for today is another one using bits, those boxes are bottomless :o)

 

 

Unfortunately I had to use flash as the day was so dull, hence the glare!

The only thing new on this card is the SU greeting, cut with Spellbinders, even the base card was folded and cut a while ago LOL.

Pearlised paper flowers punched with Woodware, Xcut and EK Success.

Leaves cut with my one and only  Sue Wilson die set a while ago.

MME card backing cut With Cricut.

Pearls from stash and coloured with Copic pen.

The very pink gragonfly has been removed since I took the pic, the colour was too far out of place :o)

Jackie xx

 

And now for something different, second attempt!

Good sunny Tuesday morning Bloggers, I hope all is well where you are...hugs

I have already done this once, then pressed the wrong button and lost it all, with a lot of blue air over Borrowash!!!

I have gone back to one of the styles I used to do many moons ago for this one.

I have 4 x A4  boxes, each with 17 little boxes in them full of leaves, flowers, balloons, stars and so on ad infinitum. All of them were punched and diecut from scraps probably 5 years ago, and then forgotten. I came across them and decided they had been inloved for lopng enough so I have brought them out of exile!

This is the first card made using some of them, and I will be making more over the coming weeks/months.

As Usual, the base card is linencard folded and cut to my favourite 7x5.

Next up is the pearlised panel embossed with Couture Creations Chainlink fence,

Thern comes the frame, which is the negative from a Spellbinders diecut.

The leaves are are, if I remember correctly, a combination from Spellbinders, Leone Em, maybe Xcut and ?

Flower cut with Tim Holtz Tattered Flower die.

Shading was rubbed in lightly using gilding wax.

I am fairly pleased with it even though my faves are CAS cards.

Beacuse of the faffing about getting this onto my blog, it may take me a day or two to catch up with your usually wonderful uploads, please bear with me :o)

Jackie xx

Christmas 60, another jolly Santa

What a lovely sunny Saturday morning it is, without being uncomfortably hot :o)

I hope all is well with everyone...hugs

This is #2 of my old Craft Uk Santa stamps, I really enjoyed colouring them both in.

I made the base card 7x7 because I have quite a few of that size envelopes!

I embossed plain white card with Embossalicious 8x8 folder, cut it to size and inked the edges with Memento inkpad.

Image coloured with Copics and cut it with Xcut plain round large die and the red mat with Spellbinders Grand Nestie. Glamour Dust added to give it a bit of sparkle. 

Sentiment stamp from?

Jackie xx

3 new Darice folders

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

For the first time this week, we have woken up to wall to wall blue skies and sunshine :o)

Over the past few weeks I have bought 3 more Darice embossing folders and these are the cards made using them for the first time, I hope you like.

I love these Darice folders despite their small size, they are so clearly defined and well suited to being the main subject of the card.

All card used is from stash, folded and cut to 7x5.

It is fairly self explanatory how they were made so I won't go into detail.

Punches used are from SU, Martha Stewart, Woodware and Leone Em and Xcut.

Sentiment stamps used are from Stamps and Smiles, My Creative Time and ?

Jackie xx

Belated birthday present.....

.....from a dear friend.

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world. Here's some hugs for those who want or need them {{{{{hugs}}}}}

Not a card for today, but a wonderful gift. 

I loved the concertina wallet so much that I decided to have a go myself. I measured all the bits on this one and here is the result!

Everything used in the making of it was from stash.

The red card was a 12x12 sheet from who knows where!

The striped card is MME from a 12x12 pad I bought about 4 years ago in a sale at PDA.

Flower and leaves made using McGill and Xcut punches.

Fastener from small round punches. I am quite pleased with the result :o)
Jackie xx

Aquilegia (columbine)

Good morning everyone, and it IS good because I am now on holiday from work for a whole week :o)

I hope all is well in your world, and here's a few hugs if if you need or want them {{{{{hugs}}}}}

For my card today, I have used a photograph that I took way back in May 2006. As I can't just go off for the day on a photo shoot like I used to before Stephen had his stroke, I am digging deep into my stock of approx. 20,000 photographs on one of my external hard drives and I am coming across lots that I had totally forgotten about!

This one was taken in the garden belonging to a friend's mother at Little Eaton and this is it's very first showing after all these years.

I wanted it to be CAS and I do love white space on cards, so I didn't add any leaves this time.

Photograph feathered in PSP then printed onto the card, then cut with Xcut dies. 

Corners cut with old Provocraft die. I am loving that I have found so many things I had forgotten about during my craftroom move.

All white card used is Papermill Direct Linen and the pink is Papermania textured.

I am quite please with how it turned out and I am still raiding my photograph stock for more forgotten pics, both flowers and animals/things with wings :o)

Jackie xx

Two for you today, own photographs

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

I took Stephen for his physio and neuro therapy yesterday and they were really impressed with his progress :o)

I have two cards for you this morning as I didn't manage to do my usual Tuesday upload this week so without more ado, here they are.

For this one I used PMS white hammered card folded and cut to my favourite 7x5. 

I embossed white pearlised card with A4 Embossalicious folder then layered it onto red Papermania card, the same as that backing my lily photograph which is printed onto white PM textured card, then cut with Nesties. I coloured white pearls with copic pen.

For this one I used plain white card. I had previously cut a 5" template with my Cricut and I drew round this on the folded card then cut with Xcut Guillotine. I then embossed the front with Crafts Too bamboo folder and I think the little edge folder is from Cuttlebug.

Printed my dahlia photograph onto PM textured card then cut it and the red PM backing with Nesties :o)

Jackie xx

Card for a market trader

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

Another simple card this morning for my cousin's youngest son who is a market trader. No, not the stock market, the kind of market where we all love to shop for bargains LOL.

I used an old postcard for this. I added the caption because the original was in white and very faint. The church in the background was Mount Tabor and it's where my cousins and I went to Sunday school in the 1940s. I cut the mat with Grand Nestie and layered onto ivory textured card from goodness knows where, I've had it that long! Sentiment is computer generated and cut with an Xcut label die :o)

Jackie xx

Purple bits and bobs, nothing new

Good morning Bloggers, no doubt most of you are basking in the sun but for me it is too much. Anything over 20 and I am like a limp rag! 

I, for one will be glued to the TV screen this afternoon watching our boys in the Tour de France. Did anyone see how Froome and Porte completely took over yesterday? Not a tennis fan but hope that Murray will do well.

Here is another card made before my shoulder decided not to play. Thank goodness I am finally managing to get some crafting in now and will hopefully soon have new ones to show you LOL.

Anyhow, without more ado, here is my card made with bits from the scrap box apart from the base card.

Base card is hammered card from PMS way before the Mansfield shop closed. I found a matching piece in my scrap box just big enough for the Marianne cut and emboss folder, then  layered it onto a piece of mirri card which was just big enough too, then onto the base card.  Flower punched with EK Success and Xcut, spiky leaves punched with McGill and the other leaves are Memory Box die cuts. That's all there is to it, very cheap and very simple :o)

Jackie xx 

New job cards

Good morning everyone, very damp, grey and windy here this morning, I haven't looked at the forecast!

I hope all is well in your world.

My title this morning is nearly right but not quite LOL. They are both going to be doing the same jobs but relocating to another store down south!

For the first one, I have used a vase of sunflowers created by my good friend PatEssex on DC. She used her own photographs. Printed onto Papermania textured card and cut with Nestie. Sentiment is computer generated and cut with Xcut label die.

For Stewart, I couldn't resist using this photograph which I took at Twycross Zoo about 4 years ago,  because he is so skinny and this orang utan is totally the opposite. He did laugh out loud at it :o)

Jackie xx

GC card for the box.....

.....and I sold it almost immediately :o)

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you are all well and happy, and if not then I hope you soon will be.....hugs

This is another one of those 'just becaue I wanted to' cards and I really enjoyed making it. We have just received our bonus from work, and I am breaking up tonight for a week, so I will be off to Byrkley Park to buy some more Grand Nesties, then I can make more shaped cards. Anyhow, on to my card for today :o)

It is A5 size, cut on the GC.

Basecard is Bazzill, backing paper is from stash, sorry no name on it. Same with the paper used for the flutterby and flowers!

Dies and punches used are Grand Nesties, Cheery Lyn, Marianne, Woodware and Xcut. It really is a very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

With and without ribbon

Good morning everyone, I hope you have the same lovely sunshine and wall to wall blue sky that we have here :o)

On to my cards for today, Yes I have made two variations of the same card.

Fairly simple cards in that they are not covered with embellishments. 

Materials and equipment used:

Brown Bazzill cut and folded to 6x6. 

Paper is from stash so I don't have a name for it.

Stampendous agapanthus cluster stamped onto inked paper. For the inking I used Colorbox liquid chalk pads that I found in the bottom of a box from years ago.

Xcut die, Marianne dies, ribbon scrap.

I hope you like them :o)

Jackie xx

A wonderful day.....

.....was had by all :o)

We set off at 8am yesterday in the rain, it's rained all the way to Macclesfield, all day while we were there, and all the way home until we got back to Derby where the ground was dry. We had a wonderful day of laughter, chinwagging and retail therapy with a little bit of crafting thrown in for good measure. Despite all that I only made 1 4x4 minicard but we were all busy making flowers for future use :o)

Here is the little card I made

I cut the card shape with an Xcut nestie then embossed it with an FF folder. I borrowed our hostess's punches (sorry, don't know the make) to cut and emboss the poisettias and another friend's Marianne leaf dies, and a tiny star punch for the centres. Sorry I can't remember what stamp set the sentiment came from. it really was very simple to make :o)

Jackie xx

Back to own photographs and a welcome.....

.....to a new follower Cheryl, thank you for joining me Cheryl :o)
Okay it was only a short break from my photographs LOL. These two photographs are from the ones I took at St Chad's Lake and I didn't get around to making the cards until now.

As you can see, they are extremely simple. I am not one for lots of embellishments as you may well have noticed, but I did add a Cricut cut swirl to the top one LOL. Sentiments are SU stamps and the mat for the honesty is mirri card cut with an Xcut die :o)

Jackie xx

One I made earlier and forgot to post

Good morning everyone, the sun is shining and it's wall to wall blue skies at the moment, but thankfully not hot. I don't know what happened to the downpour we were supposed to get yesterday!

Anyway, on to my card, which I made a couple of weeks ago and promptly forgot about it (another senior moment)!

It's another basically quite simple card.

Cut and folded white card to 6x6

Green card from old HOTP Christmas stack

Stamped at a friend's house so don't know the make. Coloured with copics then cut with Xcut nestie, then sponged edges.

Ribbon scrap from stash

Woodware sentiment, bent onto the block,  with tiny hand drawn flower, and that's all there is to it apart from the copic coloured string of pearls :o)

Jackie xx

Violets

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well with you. 

It's looking a bit dull here so far but still very warm!

I stamped this beatiful image up at a friend's house so I don't know where it's from. 

Such a beautiful, delicate looking stamp.

I coloured it with copics, of course, cut it out with Xcut nestie then sponged the edges with Brilliance inkpad. 

Punched flowers with Woodware punches from pearlised paper, same as the mat. 

Leaves are from McGill or Leone Em punch, sorry can't remember which! I cut and folded linen card to 5x7 :o)  

Jackie xx
Thank you very much to Viv  who tells me that this is a Hampton Arts stamp, 
thank you Viv :o)