A card + new goodies

Good morning everyone. What a beautiful morning it is with wall to wall blue sky and sunshine. I am keeping my eyes averted from my car sitting outside covered in thick frost, which I have to scrape off to go to Long Eaton soon brrrrrrrrrr.

I actually made two cards on my craft day with friends, but I can't show the other one yet as the recipient to be will see it! This one has an LOTV image, a band punched with MS edge punch, and a nestie mat. I borrowed the Elzybells sentiment stamp.

Of course, we never have a craft day without retail therapy and this is what I bought. The little pot is Cosmic Shimmer embossing powder and it looks fantastic on a card :o)

I have to do my card  orders before I get cracking on the challenge cards again!

Jackie xx

No cards yet so a scrapbook page to be going on with

I created this page in 2006 when Granddaughter Sian was 15. She was 19 last week and it reminded me that I still haven't finished her scrapbook which I started all that time ago! T

In those days she was very Goth, but she has now become a very feminine young lady :o)

Tomorrow I am off to Macclesfield for a fab crafting day with my friend Viv, not sure who else is going to be there but it will be a lovely surprise :o)

Jackie xx

Commissioned animal + humourous

Good morning bloggers, here's a few more made using my own photographs. The customer wanted animals and a bit of humour so I hope one of these will fit the bill! I made 4 to give her a choice, the rest can go into my box :o)

All of the photographs I took at Twycross Zoo at various times of the year.

Jackie xx

Commissioned cards

The first is for a lady who likes to garden, likes to sit in her garden having a drink and loves to shop so I have tried incorporating something for each :o)

Paper and ribbon from stash, own photograph, I stamped the image at a friend's crafting get together and I think it's Sugar Nellie Shopaholic, coloured with a mixture of copics and promarkers. Computer generated sentiments.

For this one I have used a topper from J&P man CD (topper created from my own photograph) and added a Funstamps image, also coloured with copics/promarkers.

Both cards are A5 and I do hope the recipients like them:o)

Jackie xx

Rainbow Lady's - Something new

Good morning Bloggers :o)

This is my first blog challenge card of 2011 and it is for Rainbow Lady's - something new.

The new here is the deckle edged nesties and the Martha Stewart Doily Lace Trim punch.

Everything else is from stash.

Bazzill Bling base card

PB stamp colourd with copics

MME card

SU sentiment stamp

Jackie xx

I finally made a couple of cards

Good morning all you lovely people and thank you so much for your well wishes. I am feeling so much better this morning. It turns out that it's a viral infection I have, not a chest infection after all!

Anyway, these are my very first cards made this year.

This is a first outing for my new Hero Arts stamp bought some time in December and I thought it would make a nice 'thinking of you' card. Methinks it is a very versatile stamp and could be used for many and varied occasions. I chose this time to heat emboss it and I think it's quite effective.

Ooops! Nearly forgot to say that this is also a first airing for this set of Nellie Snellen dies so this is a card of firsts :o)

This one is a commissioned new baby card for one of our band members who is about to become a Greatgranny for the first time. She liked those other baby cards I made (scroll down to see them) but she didn't want "those cartoon things" (that's what she calls stamped images) for the main image so I used my own photograph of my Greatgrandson's feet. Background stamps are from Woodware. I hope she likes it!

I have covered the text inside for privacy.

First use of the Martha Stewart edge punch I bought last week :o)

Jackie xx

Still no cards...

... so here's a couple of winter visitors to my garden to be going on with :o)

Bless you all and thank you for your good wishes, I am feeling a tad better this morning but it is slow going. I am a bad patient, not used to being ill, so I appreciate a bit more how awful it is for those of you who are not in the best of health :o)

Jackie xx

No cards yet so a bit of retail therapy

Good morning everyone :o)

Sorry I've not been up to crafting with this infernal chest infection but hopefully I'll get to use my new stash bought at Craft Central last Thursday!

I don't think I've ever gone so long using new stuff before and it's bugging me :o(

I got 40 sheets of the A4 white card.It's fairly smooth and feels like about 300 gsm so it will be great for card blanks. The little pot is silver embossing powder, the rest needs no explanation :o)

Jackie xx

FAO Leliza1

Hi Laura, I cannot access your blog so I cannot give you the information you want any other way so I hope you see this :o)

The rubber stamp you asked about is from Papermania and it is called

PMA 9082901 Bauble Decoration - K

It is a very large woodmounted stamp but I don't know if it is still available now that Christmas is gone!

Jackie xx

First Christmas card order of 2011

Yes, you read that right. My friend asked me to design a simple flat card for next Christmas! These are the samples I have made for her to choose from :o)

As you can see with the above cards, I have made a silver/white one and a gold/cream one of each as she couldn't make up her mind which she would prefer. All are heat embossed directly onto the card base :o)

These two are one offs in silver/white.

The first being the only one which is matted and layered.

I hope you haven't nodded off yet because I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your wonderful comments and support over the last year, and wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year :o)

Now I am going to dose myself up and try and get rid of this nasty cough and cold I seem to have developed since getting home from work yesterday!

Jackie xx