Set of 6 commissioned notecards

Good morning Bloggers, I hope all is well with you and that you are warming up now that the intense cold is gone.

On to my notecards, which had to be flat for posting. I had intended an animal theme so not too sure why I did the hang gliding one this time :o)

As you can see, they are all very simple. I cut and folded white linen card to 5x7 then added my own photographs matted onto various colours of card.  The elephant, one of the swans, cattle and horse photographs are as they were taken. The other two were manipulated in PSE5 and PSP11. I hope you like them :o)

Jackie xx

Two sympathy cards made from negatives

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well with you and you are managing to keep warm.

My cards for today were made using the scrap from a previous upload and although I have made them as sympathy cards, I have had an order for two of the first one for birthday!

Materials:

White linen card cut and folded to A6 and 5x7.

Deep red matt coated card.

SU sentiment stamp.

What could be more simple :o)

Jackie xx

Birthday card for a friend

Good morning everyone, I hope the snow has cleared in your area and that you are all warm and well. I still have snow in my garden because I live on the shady side of the street!

On to my card, which is for my very good friend PatEssex on DC. I know she has received it so it's safe to show it LOL.

Of course, it's my own photograph which I took in Bonsall village, Derbyshire, 

about 4 years ago.

I cut and folded brown Bazzil to 5x7, my favourite card size.

Photograph is matted onto ivory pearl card.

Flutterbies are SU Emboslits in the same ivory pearl card, as is the Memory Box corner.

Very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

Another digi scrapbook page

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all warm and well after all the snow over the weekend!

This is my second attempt at digi scrapbooking, still haven't made up my mind about it but at least I am not wasting any papers while I am trying LOL.

This photograph of me was taken by my Granddaughter Sian (she was only 15 at the time) using my camera. I created the stamp image in PSE5. The dragonfly, flutterby and rose photograps were taken by me and tubed by my friend Pat.  Page was created in PSP11 :o)

Jackie xx

I came out of work to this last night

8.30 last night, came out of work to find this! Took me nearly 20 minutes to get it cleared, because the snow kept covering it as fast I was clearing it.  I had to drive nearly 7 miles at 12 to 15 mph but at least I got home safely. There had been no gritting at all! Why?

My very first ever.....

.....digital scrapbook pages!

Good morning everyone, I hope the snow hasn't reached you yet.  It's not arrived here yet, but it's still very white with the thick frost overnight Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

On to my digi pages then, never tried them before but as so many folks are doing them I thought I would have a go :o)

Not too sure of them but as they are my first I am reasonably happy.

My Great Grandson Ryan during the summer of 2007.

I used my own sunflower photograph, tubed by my very good friend Pat, to build up a field of them fronted by Pat's fence, and added Pat's scroll. I opened the photographs in PSE5 to frame them and created the pages, including the text,  in PSP11 :o)

Jackie xx 

Two from Sunday

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you are all well or nearly there :o)

These are the two cards I made on Sunday at out craft get together.

For the first one I cut and folded linen card to 6x6. 

I used my new embossing folder with white pearl card for the backing then inked the edge with Brilliance inkpad.

Image is SU stamp coloured with copics and matted onto lavender card, both cut with Nesties.

Borrowed sentiment stamp and cut tiny flutterby from new Marianne set of dies.

For the second card I cut and folded linen card to 5x7.

Marianne cut and emboss folder on white pearl card for the main panel, matted onto a kind of mat mirri card, which I also used for the Marianne die cut foliage.

SU sentiment stamp to finish.

Jackie xx

Poppies and flutterbies + a wonderful day

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

I had the most fabulous day yesterday.  Seven of us got together and had a fabbytastic crafting day hosted by our lovely friend Pauline, who is a wonderful cook.

We started off with the usual bacon butties then off we all went to Breedon on the Hill for some retail therapy, where I bought a few Marianne dies and a couple of Big & Juicky inkpads, then it was back to Pauline's for a cuppa and Indian/Mexican snacks before we started making cards. I managed to make two, which I will upload when I have taken their pics later. We had a wonderful pork and apple casserole for dinner followed by lemon meringue and/or strawberry and rhubarb steamed pudding and custard ( I had both LOL, as did most of us)

For the time being the poppies are will have to suffice :o)

I cannot believe that I haven't used my copics since August, I nearly forgot how LOL.

Materials:

White linen card cut and folded to 7x5

Red pearlised card

Martha Stewart flutterby punches (two of them)

Memory Box corner die

Copics

Have a great day :o)

Jackie xx

Tulip card and a fab day to look forward to

Good morning everyone. I hope you haven't got the dreaded snow yet. It seems hell bent on disrupting our crafting get together tomorrow, as two of our number have to travel from the Peak District, but I'm keeping everything crossed that can be crossed! There will be 7 of us all gathering at our friend Pauline's and there will hopefully be the obligatory bacon butties followed by some retail therapy before we settle down to an afternoon of crafting, much chinwagging and lots of laughter, followed by dinner (Pauline is a wonderful cook) before we all go our separate ways  :o)

Anyhow, onto my card which is very simple indeed.

The tulip photograph is one I took many moons ago and I just happened to find, in my stash, the perfect colour pearlised paper to go with it. Tulip and mat cut with Nellie Snellen die, Foliage band is from a Memory Box die and the sentiment is from an SU set, Brilliance inkpad, finished off with three gems from stash. 

I will be back in the week to let you know how our get together went :o)

Jackie xx

Snowdrops

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

I have two cards to show you today, both made using my own snowdrop photographs. So appropriate at this time of year. Yes, I know that flutterbies and snowdrops would not be seen together IRL, but we can call it cardmaker's licence :o)

Materials;

White linen card cut and folded to 7x5

White pearlised card embossed with Creative Expressions and Marianne embossing folders

Flutterbies from Martha Stewart punch

Foliage from Marianne dies

Main image and mats cut with Nesties

Plain green card for mats

I hope you like them :o)

Jackie xx