CFM 20 + A Crafty Little Place

Good morning all. I hope it's better where you are, we have grey, grey and more grey plus a bit of wet!

On to my card which I am entering for

CFM 20 - Autumn

A Crafty little place - Autumn

I have printed my own photograph straight onto the cream linen card, added a Fiskars punched border and and two lots of stamping.

Sentiment stamp and punches are from SU and I stamped the harvest image at a friend's house so don't know where the stamp came from. Coloured with copics and cut out with nesties. It really is a very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

Update: It seems that linking my card to the said blogs won't work for me at the moment so I will have to try again later :o(

Jackie xx

Karen's Doodles + Scrappy Frogs + Saturday challenge

Good afternoon Bloggers. It's a bit later in the day than ususal for me but here goes. I am entering this for 3 challenges;

Karen's Doodles - 7 of something

Scrappy Frog - make your own flowers

Saturday Challenge - Purple and silver

Image is from Karen's Doodles and coloured with copics then cut out with nesties. Just did a quick tot up and I think I've used 9 different punches for the flowers and leaves plus the ever present MS grass punch for the border. All other punches are from McGill, Woodware, EK Success and Xcut. Flowers are punched from purple pearlised thick paper and finished of with a dab of stickles in the middle, leaves punched from silver textured paper, and it's all put together onto mauve hammered card :o)

Jackie xx

Birthday card + Crafty Emma - animal antics

This is for my Great-grandson's 5th birthday on Saturday, I have yet to put the tag on. I am also entering it for the animal antics challenge over at Emma's blog

It's my first 7x5 easel card, not too sure if it works as well as a square one!

Base card is from PMS. I cut the lion on the Cricut then cut an extra mane which I hand cut to give dimension. Backing card I found in my stash whilst having a clearout, same for the tree stamp which unfortunately doesn't have a name on it!

The lion on the sentiment panel is from a photograph by my friend Pat. Lion and sentiment panel are both popped with foam pads :o)

Jackie xx

Allsorts - plain and simple

Good morning all on this very chilly Autumn Day. I love it, can't cope with heat so this is very welcome :o)

This is my entry for the plain and simple challenge over at Allsorts

My good friend Di has become a Granny again for the ? time so this card serves 2 purposes :o)

It's that Martha Stewart grass edge punch again folks, can't resist it! Papers are from FF CD, Koete Cow stamp is from Nellie Snellen, coloured with copics and cut out with nesties.

There are dabs of glossy accents on flower, dummy and flutterby but they don't show up very well on the pic. SU and Woodware sentiment stamps :o)

Jackie xx

OLW card

Good morning all, it's quite cold and windy here but the sun has finally broken through:o)

This is my offering for the Simplicity OLW challenge this week. Inspired by the golds/oranges of Autumn

I must say that I do find it very difficult doing one layer cards but I hope to improve over time! I found the card pad whilst having a clearout, can't even remember where I got it but it is quite thick shiny card and the colours are graduated so the back is getting paler than the front. I also found my unused pine branch stamp which is from Hero Arts. So, it is a marriage of two unused items from my stash. Sentiment is from SU. I used detail gold embossing powder :o)

Jackie xx

Made on my crafting day with friend

Had a fab day on Wednesday when Pauline came over. We both only got two cards made but we laffed a lot chinwagged a lot too :o)

I decided on the CAS style for both of them. I had to make myself a template (three separate bits) for the background on the Art Deco lady :o)

Jackie xx

The promised sepia cards

Good morning everyone, I hope it is less wet and windy where you are although the rain has finally stopped and the sun is peeping through :o)

The details are as for the previous post but I have changed the photographs to sepia which is my favourite.

The photograph with the border at the bottom was taken at Dovedale near the stepping stones but the rest I took at Elvaston Castle. I have been meaning all week to make a couple of challenge cards but being off work for a week I ended up making cards "just because" :o)

Jackie xx

Winter Wonderland - monochromatic + a few others

Good morning Bloggers :o) 

I know I have not been on much lately but I have tried to keep up with your postings. I am still in the throes of thinning the clutter out and taking dozens of books to charity shops etc. I am also on holiday from work this week and trying to take it leisurely, note I DID say leisurely LOL. I've come to the conclusion it not possible to be leisurely although I did manage to read a good book :o)

Anyway, I am babbling on so I must tell you that this is my entry for the

Winter Wonderland monochromatic Christmas card challenge.

I am also using it for a first time entry at Lexi's Creations use a photograph.

I opened my photograph in MS Publisher and added the sentiment with Word Art, then printed it straight onto linen card, cropped and folded it then added the stamped Craft's UK penguin which I coloured with only shades of grey copics.

I made a batch of 12 altogether, 5 in greyscale and 7 sepia. A very simple set of cards. I will put the sepia ones on later as I now have to prepare for my crafting friend Pauline who is coming over for a day of crafting, chinwagging and laffing :o)

Jackie xx

It finally rained...

...on my new lawn YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Wouldn't you just know it? Yesterday morning before work I popped to B&Q to buy a hose and reel for watering the lawn and then it rained, and rained, and rained. Talk about sod's law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, I am now on holiday for the whole week so hoping to get some cardmaking done.  See you later :o)

Jackie xx

A first + OLW card

Good morning Bloggers. Well it's now two days since I have my new lawn laid and not a drop of rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it rained every night before the event and not a drop since :o(

Anyway, I had much difficulty with this one layer card because I am so used to sticking bits on. It is also my first time entering Simplicity's One Layer Wednesday challenge. Not too sure that this qualifies but if it doesn't at least I tried :o)

I first made a template by using two sizes of nestie then stuck it down onto my 7x5 card which I had previously cut and folded. I sponged the three apertures with Tim Holtz distress inks but methinks the base card wasn't smooth enough (must see if I can find any locally). Then  I stamped the SU images and sentiment in sepia. I've had this SU set for many months but this is the first time it's seen the light of day since I bought it. I gave the rabbit and fawn just a tiny dash of gold glamour dust to lift it a bit. The border is stamped using two other SU sets :o)

Jackie xx