Monochrome card and a welcome

Good morning bloggers, I hope you are all well or getting there :o)

I would like to say welcome to Rachael, my latest follower, Hi Rachael.

I see the wind is back and the morning is very grey and dull but at least it is dry so far, not holding my breath though!

Anyhow, on to my card for today, which I have to say I am very happy with :o)

I do love browns, earth colours. I cut and folded white card to 5x7. Brayered another piece of white card with Big and Juicy inkpad Spice then stamped it with Kanban dandelion stamps and  SU greeting for the background using Memento inkpad.

The embossed panel was created with my new Craft Concepts dandelion folder and matted onto corrugated card from PDA. To finish off, I added a couple of Marianne diecuts which I cut from Bazzill. Hope you like it :o)

Jackie xx

Very simple mini notecards

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

These are so simple, I just printed out the digi images and then cut and folded to 4x4. They make very handy little notecards

The mark you may see in the middle are on the camera, I have to take it in to be cleaned!

I have coloured them using Caran D'Ache watercolour pencils, not a copic to be seen anywhere. It's the first time in about 2 years that I have used them so I am a little rusty :o)

Jackie xx

Happy New Year + first card for 2012

Good morning everyone, I hope 2012 is very kind to all of you :o)

I was ill all over the Christmas period,  coughing so much I never went to bed for 10 nights! BUT, I have started 2012 feeling so much better. Anyway, onto my card, which is the second for 2012, can't show the first one yet because I know the recipient pops in here from 

time to time!

This is for my cousin whose birthday is early in February. I cut and folded the basecard from Bazzill. The corrugated card is from PDA and the paper from Kay & Co. Flutterbies cut and embossed with SU embosslits folder, the rest cut with Marianne dies.

Now I am going to try and play catchup on your blogs :o)

Jackie xx

English country garden.....

.....no, not my own garden, I only have a pocket handkerchief front and back!

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well and snowfree.

I took this photograph way back in 2006 in Bonsall, near Matlock Bath. It was next door to the village hall where we used to have a monthly open mike day where anyone who could play an instrument or sing was welcome to come and join us :o)

It's another very simple card but I am pleased with it.

I cut and folded linen card to 5x7. The photograph is backed with gold paper, the same used for the gorgeous corner from Memory Box and the flutterbies from my lost but now found SU Embosslits cut and emboss folder. 

The Memory Box die is one of three that I bought last week and I am delighted with them, I WILL be getting more :o)

Jackie xx

No cards, just a few pics

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well.

No cards from me today, too busy painting in the kitchen!

On Sunday I popped out to St Chad's Water for a breath of fresh air and was lucky enough to see these wonderful Great tits, Blue tits and chaffinches feeding.

 I know they aren't everone's cup of tea but this wood pigeon looked so cuddly all huddled up against the icy wind!

I framed them all in PSE5 :o)

Jackie xx

Birthday card for a dear friend

Good morning everyone, I hope that you have escaped those gales and lashing rain although I fear that not many have, and the forecast is not good for the rest of the week! At least it's a good reason to lock ourselves in craft areas.

This is my first card for 2012 and is for a friend who I know doesn't come on the blogs.

For once, I haven't cut and folded my own card, this is from an 8x8 Papermania pack of Kraft cards. The corrugated and plain card card is from PDA.  Tools used are; Marianne dies, Go Kreate scalloped circle dies, SU stamp and punches, Martha Stewart flutterby punch. All punched and diecuts are pearlised card from stash. Paper inside card is from J&P Pictures. 

I hope you like because I am delighted with it :o)

Jackie xx

Another simple card

Good afternoon everyone. I'm a bit late today but I just had to get stuff done before turning the computer on! Then it was lunch time and I really enjoyed my stew and dumplings and I've got cheese and onion bread in the breadmaker so I will be having that for my tea :o)

 Anyway, on to my card,  for which I have used some of my new Marianne dies again, I love them.  

I used  nesties to frame the main image.  I roughly brayered plain white paper with Big and Juicy inkpad Spice, andthere is just a hint of SU stamps :o)

Jackie xx

Simple card

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all warm and well and not living in the areas that are set for gusts of up to 100 mph!

This is quite a simple card.  

I cut and folded white hammered card to 6x6 and covered with J&P paperwhich has been punched with Martha Stewart trellis punch.  The flower and grasses are from my brand new Marianne dies, and I used a tiny SU greeting stamp. 

That's it, so simple :o)

Jackie xx

A brilliant day anda at last, I made something.....

.....I feel as if I have been in a crafting wilderness this last two weeks, but I am hopefully back amonst friends now :o)

Sunday was a fantastic day when I hosted our crafting get together and we even had a friend and her hubby fly over from Spain to join us. We started the day with our usual bacon butties, then it was off to Byrkley Park for some ratail therapy where I managed to get some Marianne dies that I have been wanting. You will see some of them on my DLO below.  When we got back we had the soup that I had made the previous evening. It was an "allsorts" soup, I just threw anything I had to hand in it and even if I do say so myself it was good ;-)

A great afternoon of crafting, in which I made precisely nothing, was followed with Chicken casserole and veggies and the lovely Pam had made bread and butter pudding and brought it with her.

Did I hear someone snoring there? I had better get the piccies on then :o)

My apologies for the quality of the photographs, I used the wrong camera in low light because I hadn't got time to change the lens on the other one!

All of the photographs were played with in PSE5 and PSP11 and they are matted onto gold paper. The 12x12 backing paper is from stash.  For the title I used Calvin font in SCAL and cut it out on the Cricut. Marianne dies for the embellishments and the journalling was printed in Word, Harrinton font.

Have a wonderful day everyone :o)

Jackie xx

Good morning all.....

..... I can't believe it's a whole week since I last posted, I've had a very busy week with no crafting :o( It is more than a week since I made a card and I am feeling deprived!

At the moment I am preparing for a craft day at my house tomorrow, there will only be 6 of us this time because two can't make it, they will be sorely missed. On a lighter note, one of our group has flown in from Spain to be with us tomorrow. 

I will hopefully be able to catch up with commenting in the next couple of days or so.

Happy crafting everyone :o)

Jackie xx