Flutter By Wednesday # 130 - aperture card

I made this while my car was being serviced this morning and wow was it quick (the car service). I dropped it off at the garage at 9am and he sent his Mum to fetch me to pick it up at 10.50am, must be some sort of a record!

Of course that has nothing to do with why I am posting so I will get on with it :o)

This is my entry for Flutter By Wednesday 130 which asks for an aperture card.

Materials/equipment used;

Plain white card cut and folded to 6x6

Striped glittercard discovered in stash

Green glittercard also found in stash

Tapestry stamps unloved and unused for years

Martha Stewart butterfly punches

Nellie Snellen dies

My brand new EK Success swirly edge punch

It was good to use so much from stash that I have had for a long time and forgot about :o)

Jackie xx

A apology, an award and new stash

Good afternoon Bloggers. First the apology to the lovely Sally who gave me this fantastic award 2 months ago, and I was so busy at the time I totally forgot to pick it up and upload it. I have given myself a slapped wrist Sally and thank you so much for allowing me to come by and pick it up so long after the event!

I have to write 7 things about myself to accept it and I am supposed to give it to 7 bloggers too, but I am finding it so difficult to choose out of the many lovely blogging friends I have made, so I am going to be cowardly and say that if you are a follower of mine then take the award if you wish to :o)

Now for 7 things about me, not sure you will find them very interesting though :o)

1)     I love all things archaelogical and Time Team is my fave TV programme
2)     I have researched my mother's family history on the male line right back to a 
        wedding in 1625
3)     I am off work for a whole week starting today YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
4)     I love designing papers and toppers from my own photographs
5)     I have more than 20,000 of my own photographs on my external hard drive
6)     I sold one of my cards to a crafter, how cool is that?
7)     I love picking up my cameras and binoculars and getting in the car and driving just 
        anywhere on a whim :o)
   

And now onto retail therapy :o)

I went to PDA at Langley Mill this morning for their sale and these are the goodies I bought. I spent a king's ransome but there was 15% off everything so I am well chuffed. I'm going upstairs in a few minutes for a play  :o)

Jackie xx

CFM 23 - animals

Good morning all, I hope you have a good weekend. I have to work this evening then I have a whole week off Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :o)

And now, onto my card which is my entry for CFM 23 Animals

This fab moose is a another digi image from Karen's Doodles, isn't he just brilliant!

I do love black and white with a touch of red. He is coloured with promarkers, then cut out and matted onto nestie die cuts, as is the stamped greeting. Red band punched with SU punch and corners of the J&P Pictures DP with Martha Stewart cornerpunch. Base card is white hammer card from PMS, cut and folded by me to 7x5 :o)

Jackie xx

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