Second post of the day, I love Promarkers 40 - Icy colours

OMG I managed a second post of the day twice in one week!

It doesn't happen very often LOL.

This is my first ever entry for I Love Promarkers because I've only just aquired some of them. They are my ongoing Christmas present to me! The brief is for Icy colours.

To me, icy colours mean blues, greys and sparkle.

I've used Emma Bear from Karen's Doodles, such a sweet image for the season.

I am still limited in my colours for the moment but I used cool grey 1,2 and 4 plus pastel blue, powder blue, china blue and a touch of berry red/sandstone for the little robin. I added a smidgin of glamour dust to add a bit of sparkle and as the day was so dark I had to used flash which shows it up fairly well. Base card is hammered white, cut and folded to 7x5 and covered with J&P paper on which I have stamped See D's snowflakes with silver Brilliance. Added a scrap of ribbon from stash and the cornes are punched with Dovecraft corner punch. Phew! the card was much easier to make than describe :o)

Jackie xx

Karen's Doodles - black and white Christmas

Good morning all, if you can call it that. It's black as night, raining stair rods again and blowing a gale sometimes gusting up to 80 mph! Oh well at least I don't have to go to work today but I am going to George's Traditional in Long Eaton for my usual Thursday lunch :o)

On to my entry for Karen's Doodles black & white Christmas

I have used Karen's Emma Bear coloured with grey promarkers then cut with and mounted onto Nellie Snellen die cuts. Paper is from J&P Pictures, punched with Martha Stewart PATP, McGill punched snowflake, base card is black Bazzill, greeting inked with Brilliance lightning black. Added glamour dust but unfortunately it doesn't show well here :o)

Jackie xx

SCSC 108 red and gold

Good morning crafters, the day dawns rather better than the last 2, at least

it's not raining!

You may need your sunglasses for this one as it's all shiny stuff :o)

It's my entry for SCSC 108 red and gold

I was firkling in my stash, as you do, and came across this textured red shiny card which is very similar to the gold which I use a lot.

The red cardinal is an FSS digi image coloured with a mixture of promarkers and copics, then cut out with and matted onto Nellie Snellen die cuts. Stamped greeting is cut out with and matted onto nesties. Borders punched with Martha Stewart grass edge punch. You may have noticed I love this MS punch :o)

Jackie xx

Lovely award.....

.....from 2 different bloggers, how cool is that :o) It was awarded to me by the lovely Janette and the equally lovely Dianne

Thank you so much ladies, I am indeed honoured to be the recipient of such a

prestigious award :o)

The only problem is that to accept it I have to say 3 things that make me different (how different am I to be?) and pass it on to 5 other bloggers (how difficult is that, having to choose just 5 from all the beautiful bloggers out there?)

Oh well, here goes, I will have try!

1.  I am nearly 70 and still go out to work 4 days a week

2.  I play percussion in an old fogey's folk band

3.  I design topper and papers from my own photographs

I'm not sure that these things make me different but I don't know of anyone in my age group that does anything similar :o)

And now to the most difficult part choosing 5 from dozens;

Doreen, who is a lovely blog friend and leaves lots of fab comments on my blog

Nic, also a lovely blog friend who never fails to visit my blog whenever I post

Lisa, another lovely blog friend who always leaves many fab comments on my blog

Sorry if I am getting boring folks :o)

Donna, who is a fairly new blogger who will go far, and she visits my blog regularly leaving fab comments

Deborah, once again a fairly new blogger who leaves me more lovely comments.

All of these bloggers, and many more too, give me wonderful inspiration and support

To claim a $5 award go here to digis with attitude

Jackie xx

Paper Players 23

Good morning all, I hope you didn't get the incessant heavy rain and gales that we had yesterday! I woke up to the same this morning but it's stopped for now (fingers crossed it stays that way).

Anyhow, I digress!

This is my entry for The Paper Players challenge which has to have a snowman.

Well I have  snow couple instead, matted with brads onto gingham glittercard which was cut with a Nestie. Stamped image is from PB and coloured with promarkers and Sakura stardust pens. Base card is dark blue Bazzill, sentiment is heat embossed with pewter powder and I added a scrap of silver cord I found in my stash :o)

Jackie xx

Second post for today + Flutterby Wednesday 129

Would you believe it, a second post from me today :o)

This one is for Flutterby Wednesday Anything goes as long as there is a flutterby, angel or fairy on it.

Base card is plain white cut and folded by me.

MME Papers, Marianne's Creatables flutterby die, Martha Stewarts 3 flutterby and grass edge punches were used, part of Hero Arts sentiment stamp and a ribbon scrap from stash. All in all, a very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

OLW 27

Good morning everyone, I haven't opened the curtains yet as it's pouring down with rain and I don't want to see it!

This is my entry for OLW 17 Christmas kindness.

I dug out my Caran D'Ache watercolour pencils for this one as I didn't want copics/promarkers showing inside the card.

Base card is plain white cut and folded by me.

Main image is from Elzybells, pine cone from SU and can't remember where the sentiment came from :o)

Jackie xx

Peachy Keen 40 + CFM 22

Good morning everyone, not that it is good out there! It's very wet n wild but mild this morning :o(

I am entering this one for the

PK # 40 sketch callenge and for the

CFM #22 Anything Goes as long as it's for men challenge

All papers are MME, background stamps are Craft UK inked with Brilliance Starlite Black (I think that's what it's called).

The main image is Funstamps Cricket Ted coloured with a mixture of copics and my brand new promarkers (they arrived yesterday), cut out with Nellie Snellen die, inked edges with Tim Holtz distress ink. Ted is decoupages although it doesn't shw on here. Oh and I nearly forgot the faux stitching :o)

Jackie xx

Been playin' and not a Christmas card in sight

Good morning Bloggers :o)

I took inspiration for this from the lovely Sarita  at Little Princess Cards, and from the equally lovely Susan over at Simplicity. If you love CAS cards and you haven't been to see them then you are in for a real treat, they are both masters of the art of simplicity and class :o)

Using Rhonna Farrar's Elegant Florishes clear stamps I laid them on an acrylic block to form a band them inked up with Brilliance lightning black, added SU sentiment and flutterby cut from glittercard with Marianne's Creatables die. That's it folks, it don't come much simpler :o)

Allsorts week 76 + Saturday Challenge 107

Good morning Bloggers, I finally made a challenge card :o)

This is for;

Allsorts week 76 Gold, cream and a hint of red

SEC Saturday challenge 107, anything that flies

I decided to keep it CAS as I am loving making this style of card at the moment :o)

Cream linen cardstock, robin stamp is from Clarity, coloured with copics and cut out with Nesties. Greetings stamp from a poinsettia set whose name escapes me, gold paper and ribbon from stash. I cut the card shape on the Cricut at 5 1/2 inch then used it as a template for the card :o)

Jackie xx