One foxglove photograph, four cards

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all as well as you can be...

A very warm welcome to new follower Sallysbitz2

Methinks I will just skip over the changeable weather today except to say that I can at least function more comfortably now the intense heat has gone for the time being :o)

My cards for today all use the same image, but in different ways.

The first two are A5 and the other two are DL, a size that I have not made for several years, but of course the flower spike lends itself very well to this shape of card.

I took the photograph at Elvaston Castle a couple of weeks ago. 

I feathered it in PSP and printed it onto my favourite Papermania textured card. I love the canvas effect that it creates. For the first two I made them into toppers, and then straight onto the card for the other two.

The words are my own, created in Word using Papyrus font for the top two and Vinerhand font for the others. The leaf vine is a Memory Box die cut.

Jackie xx

Pages for a change

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world, and if not then I hope it soon will be...hugs

Oh wow, what  storm last night just as I was coming out of work. Thunder, lightening, the rain coming down like stair rods, I got drenched getting the 50 yards to the car, then again in the 5 yards from car into house, but it felt wonderful!

On to my offering for today, a DLO from my trip to Trent Lock a couple of weeks ago :o)

Not much to say about them really, you've seen the photographs, now here are the pages.

I used white DCWV 12x12 card for the background.

Printed the photographs on my favourite Papermania textured card and cut with Nesties and Grand Nesties.

I cut the title with the Cricut but sorry, I can't remember which font I used :o)

Jackie xx

Just a simple card

Good morning bloggers, I hope all is well in your world.

Just a quickie this morning, I am off to spend the day with my cousin, including a pub lunch of course, then the evening with my daughter :o)

My card for today is very simple so without more ado, here it is!

My own photograph of course, taken  a few years ago. Printed onto Papermania textured card, sentiment added using Vivaldi font, then cut out with Nesties as is the mat. Both layered onto more PM card folded and cut to 5x7. Pearls from stash :o)

Jackie xx

Chalked card

Good morning everyone, what spectacular storms we've had since last night and still here! Thank goodness for the much needed rain and at least it's a tad cooler!

I hope all is well in your world and if not, I hope it soon will be...hugs

May card for today is another simple one.

I folded and cut plain white card to 6x6.

Paper and brown mat from stash.

Stampendous agapanthus stamped with Versamark then chalked, then cut with nesties then a smidgin of gold Glamour Dust added. 

Ribbon from stash, in fact everything is from stash :o)

Jackie xx

Vive la Froome

Victory in France for Chris 

and the boys from Team Sky

What a magnificent win. Who will it be next year, maybe Richie Porte :o)

We've had rain overnight!

Doesn't look like we had much but better than none. We do so desperately need a good downpour.

Trouble is it doesn't feel much cooler! I have to go back to work tomorrow after having 3.5 weeks off so I am not looking forward to it in this heat :o(

It's the last day of the Tour de France today and our boy has done good, I will be watching this evening :o)

My card for today is one a made a few weeks ago. I was given the image, which the customer had commissioned from an artist friend of hers, and asked to make a no frills card with it. This is what I came up with and the customer was delighted, thank goodness.

White linen card folded and cut to 7x5.

Image printed onto my favourite Papermania textured card and cut with Nestie, as is the red mat.  Sentiment is computer generated and cut with a labels die from who know's where! It might be Xcut but not sure :o)

Jackie xx

It's those roses again

Good morning everyone, I am not even going to mention the weather!

I hope all is as well as it can be with you...hugs

Busy day for me today. I am off out to lunch somewhere in Duffield with two dear (non crafting) friends. When I get back I will be glued to the Tour de France and when that is done I will be off to my daughter's for a good old tea and chinwagging session. By the time I get back it will be getting on for bedtime LOL.

Anyhow, enough of my chatter, my card for today is another very simple one.

White linen card folded and cut to 7x5.

Own photograph printed onto Papermania textured card, sentiment added using Vivaldi font, then cut with nesties labels 29 (out for their first airing) as is the pink Papermania card mat. Pearls from stash :o)

Jackie xx

Same image, two cards

Good morning everyone, I hope that all is well in your world :o)

I know I've said it before, but this heat is laying me low. I am going out for a stroll very early in the mornings to get a bit of air and exercise before the temperature soars yet again then staying in for the rest of the day. At least I have got the Tour de France to watch! Good job I'm on holiday this week as it's awful on the checkouts when it's hot :o(

Anyway, I'm sure you didn't come on here to see me moaning. When the rest of you are moaning cuz it's not warm enough, I am loving it LOL!

Here are my cards for today, I hope you like them :o)

Made both of these just because I wanted to.

For a change, I have used Papermania 5" Kraft card blanks instead of making my own.

I stamped the Stampendous images onto what looks like kraft card but in fact it is cut from foolscap filefolders. My friend gave me a pack of 200, which makes 400 sheets so I think they will last me a little while LOL.

Stamped with Versamark then heat embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Tropic Pearl Lustre and Stampendous detail white respectively. Sentiments are from a set by Creative Time.

Jackie xx

Va Va Froome

Well done to Chris Froome and Team Sky

Froome won todays stage, Mont Ventoux, retained the yellow jersey, and won King of the Mountain too. Sending positive vibes for him to win the Tour de France :o)

Christmas in July.

Well I have to do something to try and feel cooler, this heatwave is really taking it out of me!

Good morning everyone, I hope all is as well as it can be in your world...hugs.

Yesterday I was out before 8am, before the heat of the day, having a little hobble round a fairly local lake that I haven't seen before. I keep going out to try my new camera on different settings so I can get used to it :o) After 5pm I went out and found another lake that I had never seen before to do the same. I can't believe there were fairly two local (within about 6 miles) nature reserves that I didn't know were there!

These are Christmas card Nos. 36 and 37 for my own use, but in fact I have also made 52 for orders as well!

Both are white linen card folded and cut to 5x7.

Trees were hand cut from MME Card which I've had for several years.

Sentiment stamp is Penny Black, an old one.

Pearls from stash. Can't make up my mind  whether I prefer it with or without the pearls.

Both are very quick and simple if you want to make batches of the same card :o)

Jackie xx