Christmas x 5

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

I am very late this morning so I will get on with it!

I have 5 cards for you today, all digi images merged onto my own photographs.

My photographs taken at Elvaston Castle about 5 years ago. All printed onto white linencard. Photographs and digi images merged in PSP7.

All digi images from Karen's Doodles and coloured with Copics and Sakura Pens.

All cards started off as A4 sheets of white linencard from The Range, which I folded and cut to 7x5 and just under 6x6.

Various card colours/types from stash used for layers, mostly from PDA.

A mix of sentiments, some computer generated and some stamped. Computer generated ones punched with SU.

Not really much else that I can say about them :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

 

A break in the rain

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, sending hugs for those who need or want them {{{{{hugs}}}}}

Today is the last day of my week off work, and yesterday we had a break in the rain for a short while so I managed to take my camera for  walkies, but not for long before the rain came back!!!

St. Chad's Water is only about 3 miles from where I live so off I went like a shot out of a canon!

This is just a few of the 30+ photographs thast I took :o)

 This splash of red was quite something, there were berries aplenty, said to be a sign of a bad winter!

 I couldn't believe how clear the water was, didn't see any fish though!

 It was blowing a howling gale but it was quite mild.

15 minutes after I took these photographs it was raining yet again, I had managed to blow the cobwebs off for a few minutes though :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

The last of my animal sunset cards

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

We have wall to wall blue skies here at the moment, but it is deliciously chilly!

I have made 8 of these animal sunset cards and these are the last two to share with you. I have had enormous pleasure making them :o)

All my own photographs and artwork of course.

All of them are photographs taken some years ago, the horse being one of my favourites.

Both basecards are white linencard folded and cut to nearly 6x6.

Artwork printed onto Kodak Everyday photopaper, and matted with Papermania black textured card.

Group of horses cut from the same black card with my Cricut, using the 

Animal Kingdom cart.

Foliage cut with Memory Box die.

Sentiment printed in MS Word and punched with SU punch.

I really do not want to part with them :o)

Jackie xx

 

A couple more of my merged sunsets

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

I have two more sunset cards to share with you today, only two more to go LOL.

The sunset and owl photographs were taken by me some years ago, but the giraffes photograph was taken by my good friend PatEssex (Docrafts). 

Merged in the same way as my previous ones and printed onto Kodak Everyday photocard 160gsm (ideal for decoupage).

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

Artwork cropped to size and layered onto black mat.

Owl and giraffe silhouettes cut with the Cricut using Animal Kingdom cart and Papermania black textured card.

I have really enjoyed making this set :o)

Jackie xx

New home cards.....

.....for two of my very good friends Viv and Pam, who recently moved into bungalows, one at the seaside and one in beautiful North Derbyshire.

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

I cannot believe how quickly my week off work is going and I haven't made many cards, but I have been playng with SCAL. Had my car serviced Monday morning so I could have a fresh start for the week! I've also been out a couple of time with my new camera, which I am really loving, and even pulled in a delicious pub lunch with my cousin yesterday. Oh, and last but not least, I visited The Range and Hobbycraft, just for essentials like the Xcut 13" guillotine which I use in my craftroom, and my old but still good 12" Xcut I use downstairs LOL!

Onto my cards!

I took this photograph of one of my daughter's ornaments many years ago and it finally came in handy LOL. I merged it with country garden photograph I took at Bonsall, near Matlock Bath, also many years ago.

Base cards are both white linencard from The Range, folded and cut to 7x5 and just

 under 6x6.

Artwork printed onto the same card and the first one cut with Die-namics plain rectangle die and the second with Spellbinders square pierced die.

Foliage cut with Memory Box dies.

White pearls coloured with Copic markers :o)
Jackie xx

A couple more sunsets

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

As you all probably know by now, I love taking photographs, lots of them, and I love playing with them in PSP. In fact I often play and then forget to use them LOL.

I played with some of my sunset photographs recently and you have already seen two of them. I have made 8 cards altogether using them and you have seen two, and I am now sharing another two.

The difference this time is that the elephant photograph isn't mine, it was taken by my very good friend PatEssex(Docrafts). 

The sunsets are mine though, as are the silhouettes and the artwork.

Both basecards began life as A4 sheets of white linencard from The Range, I folded and cut them to 7x5.

I do hope I am not boring you with them :o)
Jackie xx

 

Photographs

Good evening everyone, I hope you are all well and safe after the almighty stormwe had...hugs

I am very late today, although I don't usually post on Mondays and I am usually at work, but I have a whole week off Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeee. 

My car went in for service this morning and was returned to me by lunchtime :o)

Anyhow, I digress! I went for a little shuffle round St Chad's Water, Wilne, on Friday afternoon and I was lucky enough to get some shots of damsel flies with my new camera. Oh how I love that camera :o) They are so difficult to take pics of because they dart about like lightening!

 These are the best two pics that I managed to get, the rest were very blurry!

What a wonderful colour they are, especially when the sun is shining on them.

 

 This is St Chad's Water, it is a small nature reserve and so peaceful and tranquil :o)

Jackie xx

Been playing again

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

Sorry to be a party pooper, but I am not enjoying all this heat, bring back lower temperatures say I.....

I've been playing with some of my sunset photographs from a while ago and my cards for today are the result. I am in the process of making a set of 6, these are the first 2. I realise they may not be to everyone's taste, but I am pleased with them :o)

If I remember correctly, the cat and the elephant are from my very old CorelDraw software (bought about 20 years ago) and I converted them in PSP7 (also bought around 20 years ago) to png then in SCAL so I could cut them out on my very old little Cricut.

I opened my sunset photographs in PSP7, then added the animal images and 

shadowed them.

I printed the pics onto Kodak Everyday Picture Paper which is 160 gsm and semigloss.

Black mats are Papermania textured card and the silhouetts are cut from the same card.

Computer generated sentiments cut with SU punches.

I hope you enjoy them as I really enjoyed playing :o)

Jackie xx

Pics from my new camera

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

Despite the rainy start to yesterday it dried up later and I was able to get out to Trent Lock to play with my new camera,  a Fujifilm S9900W bridge camera, and oh boy was 

I impressed :o)

I took a few pics through my windows on Saturday and then the ones taken at 

Trent Lock follow. 

Warning! Picture heavy.

 Ths first one was taken through my dirty kitchen window and I am so impressed with the detail on the feathers.

 This one was taken through my living room window and is of the flower on my Australian false palm.

This one, also taken thorugh my living room window, is the top od a tree in my next door but one's garden, I thought these two might make nice background images.

This is what the day started out like yesterday, but it did clear later, thank goodness!

 The heron and the horses were way across the river and I took these photographs with the zoom only halfway. I am really impressed with the detail. Not looking for the content at this stage, just the quality of the main image.

You can see where the heron was in relation to the horses on the first horsey pic. I am so pleased with the feather detail.

I love the reflections in this one taken from just by the side of the lock.

I hope you have enjoyed my little outing, I did very much :o)

Jackie xx

Commissioned set of flower notecards

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

It's a lovely sunny start to the day here in the East Midlands :o)

My cousin asked me to make her a few notecards as she only has one left from the last lot. She loves my flower photographs and CAS, so these are what I made. You have only seen one of these flowers before and that is the first one, a dangly white clematis. All the others I took a couple of weeks ago at at Derby and Byrkly Park garden centres, except for the gerbera ones, which I took at my cousin's house on my previous visit. She always has beautiful flowers in her kitchen window.

I printed them all onto white linencard then folded and cut to 7x5.

I used various fonts for the computer generated sentiments.

Not much else I can say about them :o)

Jackie xx