Friends make everyday...

Morning crafters, hope today finds you safe and well. I do appreciate you coming and visiting my blog today and I hope you will visit again. I would love for you to leave a comment and let me know what you think of today's card or any other previous ones.

I have had a very busy week so far, the days are flying by. After a wonderful long weekend with family I had a sad day Tuesday as one of my rabbits had to be put to sleep, she was having difficulty breathing which turned out to be tumors, she was almost 9 years old and I had had her for 8 years, I shall miss her darting out of her hutch each morning for a carrot, she was a rescue rabbit, as you probably can tell by now most of my pets are rescue apart from my 14 year old male cat who I have had since 8 weeks old bless him.

Wednesday I went to the cinema with my son to see X Men, that was very good and it was nice to spend some time with my son, even though he lives with me we don't see each other much as either one of us are working and in the evenings my hubby always has the soaps on and my son hates soaps so he tends to stay in the front room on his computer lol!

Anyway todays card is another quick one for you, I wanted to see what papers I had that would mix together, I eventually chose these colours, they are all from Tattered Lace Magazines. 

I matted and layered them onto my basic White card putting White card between two of the layers, with the top layer I die cut the center out with SB Nestabilities Decorative Labels Twenty Two so it showed the White card through it, I raised this up on foam pads. I then die cut the SB Die-lites Medallion Eight out of the same paper and attached that in the center of the White card.

Onto more White card I stamped my sentiment from Creative Expression Unmounted Stamps Classic Sentiments with TH Black Soot, die cut it out with SB Standard Circles Large, inked through the die with TH Peacock Feathers and matted it up in the center of the Medallion die cut.

Out of CE Teal Card I die cut SB Blossoms Four attached together to make a flower and added this onto the corner of the card along with some Sue Wilson Faux Quilled Leaves either side. With a Hobby House Rhinestone Sparklers Ocean Crystal in the center of the flower the card was complete.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Henna

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all well and I say a special thank you for coming and having a look at my blog today.

This post is another from the SD Taste of India Collection, sorry Ang lol!

  

I started with a sheet of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Purple Pastel card and folded it in half, on top of this I matted some CC Centura Pearl Taupe Pastel Card.

On the Sheena Douglass Taste of India CD Rom there are some beautiful papers and this next layer is one of them, it is a Purple sheet with the Henna design all over it. I cut this to size and matted it up onto the Taupe card.

Using Sue Wilson Spanish Collection Boarders, Corners & Tags I  die cut two corners and one boarder out of CC Centura Pearl White card and attached these to the card as seen.

Using TH Distress Ink Vintage Photo I stamped the SD T of I Henna stamp onto White card and coloured it in with Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Mica Pigments, cut it out and attached it to the corner of the card.

I die cut some of the Taupe card using SB Lables Thirteen, stamped my sentiment from Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments onto CC Centura Pearl White card with TH Black Soot and die cut it using the Tag die from Sue Wilson Spanish Collection Boarders, Corners and Tags. I inked through the die with TH Vintage Photo, stuck this onto the Taupe Labels Thirteen than attached it to the center of the card.

There you have the finished card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Best Wishes

Morning Crafters, sorry I have been off for a few days I had my Brother & Sister-in-Law staying with us, we don't get to see them often enough as they live in Birmingham, although that is not too far away work makes it awkward at times.

I hope everyone has had a wonderful bank holiday weekend? I will get round to looking at all your posts over the last few days as soon as possible.

I would like to give a warm welcome to Janice and Lauren Hatwell, thank you for looking I do hope you come back. Janice has a blog of her own its http://createdbyjan.blogspot.co.uk/ so do take a look.

Today's card is a fairly simple one, I started with a sheet of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl White card, folded it in half, die cut one half with Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Spanish Collection Cordoba then embossed it with Embossalicious Regency Swirls Embossing Folder.

On the inside of the card I added some Creative Expressions Spring Green Card so it shows through the die cut. On each of the four corners I have added SB Gold Corners Set One die cuts using CE Spring Green card, using more of the CE Spring Green card I die cut SB Nestabilities Hexagon to use as a background for my Image which I printed from Crafters Companion Diary of an Edwardian Lady CD Rom.

I stamped my sentiment  from CE Unmounted Stamps Treasured Memories with TH Distress Ink Pumice Stone, cut this as seen and mounted it onto CE Spring Green card which was also cut as seen, attached it across the center of the card, then attached the focal image in the center over the sentiment.

There you have the finished card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Shades of Purple

Morning crafters, so good of you to come and view my blog today, I do hope you will leave a comment and if you have a blog please do leave a link and I can return the favour.

As you can see by the title of today's post my card is all shades of Purple, Purple is one of my favourite colours and I don't think you can go wrong much with Purple.

I am entering this into the Hobbycutz 3 Shades of same colour Challenge and the Allsorts Purple Passion Challenge.

I started with my base 6" X 6" card, all the papers I have used are from the Tattered Lace Magazines and CD Rom, I chose two different papers both in the shade of Purple, on the second layer I wrapped some Lilac Ribbon from Fantastic Ribbons round the center.

Using some Create and Craft Pearlescent Purple card I die cut the Oval Frame from Wild Rose Studio and matted this onto the center of the card.

I printed the image from My Craft Studio Flawless  Florals & Sentiment Toppers, cut it out and attached it to the center of the oval.

By adding a bow out of the same Lilac Ribbon at the top of the oval and some Creative Expressions Self Adhesive Pearls the card was complete.

I  would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

http://hobbycutzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/challenge-48-3-shades-of-same-colour.html

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/week-259-purple-passion.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

House Mouse and Leaf

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well, the weather has been lovely here of late, I am not going to complain about the heat we have waited long enough for a bit of sun lol!

Well todays card I am entering into the Hobbycutz Challenge, in fact I think this is my first ever Black and White card that I have ever made, I have had a Black & White card from a kit and have made a Black & White card with a Green Peacock but this is a first 'just' Black & White!!! I am quite pleased with how it turned out, no die cutting, no ribbon and no embellishments, just stamping and embossing!

I folded my White sheet of card in half to form the base card, with some Black card I cut to size and stamped all round the edge using my Versamark Ink Pad and Joanna Sheen House Mouse Fall Float stamp using just the leaf bit then heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Black Sparkle. I then matted this onto my base card.

I cut some White & Black card to form alternate squares, matting the Black onto the White and embossing it with Couture Creations Embossing Folder Endless and attaching it to the card in the top left corner.

With the other piece of White card I stamped the Joanna Sheen House Mouse Fall Float stamp with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot in the center and put it aside to dry for a few minutes, I got a paint brush and some water then painted in the stamp with the ink already on it so it was a light shade of Grey, I used more of the Black Soot to add the darker shades to the leaf and the tail of the mouse. I matted this onto the Black card then attached it in the bottom right corner of the card so it was slightly over the other square.

There you have the finished card. Quick and easy. I hope you like it?

I would like to enter this in:

http://hobbycutzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/challenge-48-3-shades-of-same-colour.html

http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/splish-splash-challenge-hmfmc170.html


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Indian Arches - Happy Birthday Nephew

Morning crafters, one more week to go lol! Thank you for coming by and taking a look at my blog I really do appreciate you taking the time out of your day to view what I have done. 

Today is my Nephews 34th birthday so I sent him this card, I had done a bit of experimenting with Sheena Douglass Taste of India Embossing Folder Indian Ornamental, Papermania Gold Embossing Powder and Tim Holtz Distress Inks Dried Marmalade and Fired Brick to try and make some bands to go across a card. I was using SD tip of Glycerine instead of my Versamark pad, this is so the embossing powder just goes on the parts you want it too, though I have not got it to work correctly yet, you brush the glycerine onto a brayer and roll this over your embossing folder, run it through the machine and heat emboss with embossing powder, however, I never seem to get the whole folder inked up as the glycerine retreats too quick in order to get it all covered if you know what I mean lol! Anyhow, I have managed to get a few strips done. Once you have embossed it through your machine, you heat emboss with your choice of colour, mine was Papermania Gold Embossing Powder, then you ink all over again with your choice of colour, for this strip I had used TH Dried Marmalade followed by Fired Brick.  I had done two more in Red and Pink!

For the main image I used SD Taste of India Embossing Folder Indian Arches, I used White card and ran this through my machine then inked it up with TH Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marmalade, Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo, once happy I matted it up onto CC Centura Pearl Ivory card.

I took a sheet of CC Centura Pearl Ivory card and folded it in half to form my base card, matted it up with CC Centura Pearl Pastel Taupe card, added the strip to the left side of the card and the image across the middle as seen. 

I felt a sentiment would have ruined the look I was after so instead I stamped  the 'Om' symbol from SD Taste of India Rubber Stamp set Tiger Tiger onto a piece of White card using my Versamark Pad and triple heat embossed it with Papermania Embossing Powder Black Sparkle, then I die cut with SB Standard Circles Large and inked through the die with TH Vintage Photo.  As we all know inking through the die leaves a White edge which my son thought made it look out of place on the card and suggested I coloured it in the same colours as the strip!!! In order to do this I had to die cut a circle (SB Standard Circles Large) out to cover the middle but leave the edge and ink first with TH Dried Marmalade followed by Fired Brick, I have to agree this did look much better as it bought in the colour off the strip. 

There you have the finished card, thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Blue Tits

Morning my crafting friends, hope this fine day finds you all safe and well? What beautiful weather we have had the last few days, I do hope it lasts a while.

I have one week left till half term, even though it's been a very short term I think we are all ready for this break, I know I feel so tired all the time so I am looking forward to a week without having to get up at 6am lol!

I have to say that today's post was inspired by a card that our Mrs Duck did last week, at least the aperture part with the papers was lol! Thank you Ang, my brain has given up at the moment I never think about doing an aperture and I have to say I was pleased with how this turned out.

My choice of colour paper was chosen by the image, its of Blue Tits and comes from CC The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady CD Rom, it had a peach coloured circle round it so I kept to this as much as possible.

I had my White base card 6" X 6". I die cut an aperture out with SB Nestabilities Standard Circles Large. Out of the Hideaway Premium Pad I chose the Orange paper, this design is in Green and Yellow also, view here to see the Green that Mrs Duck used and the inspiration this came from. http://theducksdoodahs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/green-pearls-rise-of-striplet.html.  I cut a larger aperture out of the center with SB Nestabilities Standard Circles Large and used the aperture on the inside as a background to the image. I matted the paper onto the front of the card.

Using a larger die again I cut an aperture out of a Dovecrafts Doily and attached this over the aperture of the card leaving the White base card showing.

On the inside of the card I matted up some Peach colour Lidls card, then the die cut circle out of the paper, followed by the die cut circle from the base card and then the image.

I didn't like how the doily sat on the aperture, I felt it need something more so I die cut another circle from the Peach card using two of the dies so this left me just a ring rather than a circle and I attached this to the card on top of the doily. With the White aperture standing out so prominent I coloured the edge with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Dried Marmalade, this blended in nicely.

There you have the finished card, I have left a sentiment off so it could be used for any occasion.

Thank you for looking and Thank You Ang lol!

Love & hugs Jacquie xxx

Happy Anniversary

Morning crafters, hope this finds you all safe and well, almost the end of another week, don't know where the time goes. Sorry about todays photo, its not a good one!!!

May I give a warm welcome to  Sheila Lampard, its lovely that you came and had a look and I do hope you come back Sheila, hope you had a great Anniversary?

Today's card is a combination of Sheena Douglass Taste of India and Spellbinders! I folded a sheet of White card in half to form my base card and on the front side die cut the center using SB Lables Twenty Five then embossed  with SD Taste of India Embossing Folder Indian Ornamental, I had to repeat the process as its only a 5x7 embossing folder. The photo does not do it justice as its a lovely pattern which would look great heat embossed in Gold!

I stamped my sentiment from Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments using TH Black Soot then die cut with SB Lables Twenty, inked through the die with TH Peacock Feathers and attached this to the center of the card. On the inside I attached a piece of CE Teal card so the colour would show through the die cut. 

Using SB Lables Twenty Five again I die cut the frame with CE Teal card and cut out the four corners and attached these to the corners of the card as seen.

To finish the card I added a Pale Blue Dotted Bow (Fantastic Ribbons), a small CE Self Adhesive Pearl and two CE Pearl Hat Pins as embellishments.

A nice quick and easy card to make.Thank you for all the lovely comments of late, I do appreciate you coming by, taking a look and letting me know what you think of my cards. Please do come again.

Finished dimensions 5" X 7"

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Friends make Every day Special

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well?

Remember the Pink card I used for Sunday's card well I thought I would use it up, at least that sheet, with this card.

With White card I die cut CE Sue Wilson Spanish Collection Cordoba, threaded some Pink dotted Ribbon from Fantastic Ribbons.co.uk  through the center and tied an awful bow at the end, this was my third attempt, it just would not go the way I wanted it to so in the end I left it lol! I attached this to the Pink Lidls card, die cut the center of the Cordoba out in the Pink card, mounted this in the center with Foam Pads. 

I stamped my sentiment with TH Black Soot and die cut with the Tag from CE Sue Wilson Spanish Collection Corner, Boarder & Tag, inked it whilst still in the die with TH Victorian Velvet and attached it on top of the Pink center card.

There you have the finished card, dimensions are 6 1/4" X 4 1/4"

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Never Forget...

Morning crafters, hope this finds you all safe and well and enjoying the weekend despite the weather! We have had a mixture here one minute its nice and sunny the next its absolutely chucking it down with rain lol! At least in between showers I managed to get a load of washing dry.

Sorry folks and Ang, I am still on the Sheena Douglass Taste of India set and I have not got through half of it yet lol! I am trying to spread them out a bit so you don't get too bored with them. Today is one of my favourite animals the gentle giant the Elephant, I have loved Elephants for as long as I can remember and Elephants never forget right lol! So the sentiment that goes with this image is most fitting. I did not want anything else on the card, just the Elephant and sentiment, of course I had to mat and layer the card with a colour that matched his blanket to set the image off so I chose a Fushia Pink card from Lidls, now those of you who know me will know I am not a fan of Pink but I like the Orange and Pink together for the Indian theme and seeing as I have loads of pink card left from the Lidls lot it was an easy choice!

I stamped the Elephant with my Versamark Pad then heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Black Sparkle. I painted the body of the Elephant, toes & tusks with Acrylic paints and the blanket etc with Creative Expression Cosmic Shimmer Mica Pigments.

The sentiment was stamped using Tim Holtz Distress Inks Black Soot.

There you have the finished card, a nice quick and easy one.

Dimensions 6" X 6"

If anyone is interested Andy Pelos, lead vocalist from Showaddywaddy is doing a 10K event on 2nd August to raise funds to save the Elephant family, you can donate on https://www.justgiving.com/andypelos

Thank you for looking, I really do appreciate you taking time out to look at my blog and I love reading your comments, Jacquie xxx

Happy Anniversary

Morning crafters, hope today finds you fit and well, as you can see by today's post I did manage to get a card done for hubby for our Anniversary, not what I would have normally done but it had to be quick lol!

I owe an apology to John, sorry John I failed to welcome you on here as a new member, if I did welcome you then I am going senial! So a very warm welcome to John, you can find his fantastic blog at http://johnnextdoor.blogspot.co.uk/

Also a very warm welcome to Lorraine good to have you both on board, Lorraine herself has a very nice blog which you can find on http://taylormadecardsblog.blogspot.co.uk
I do hope you go and take a look at both these fantastic blogs.  Now for today's card...

I started with a sheet of Creative Expressions Foundation card Teal and folded it in half. With White card I embossed using Sue Wilson Garden Lattice Embossing Folder and attached a piece of CE Copper American Binding Ribbon round the middle then matted this onto the card.

Using SB Lables Twenty Five I die cut the frame with teal card and the decorative middle with White card, I matted all this up onto the card then stamped my sentiment from Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Peacock Feathers, die cut this with  SB Lables Twenty and inked through the die with Peacock Feathers before attaching it to the card in the center.

With more White card I die cut some Creative Expressions by Sue Wilson Faux Quilled Leaves and attached them on opposite corners of the card just under the decorative middle. I added two single leaves onto the sentiment tag. I decided against adding a bow seeing as the card was for hubby!

There you have the finished card, thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Friends...

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well?  Thank you for visiting my post today I do appreciate it, I love to read all your comments whatever they may be lol!

Today is my 9th Wedding Anniversary so Happy Anniversary to my Hubby Ian, this is not his card as at time of scheduling this I had not even made one whoops! Better get a move on!

I am still playing with Sheena Douglass Taste of India at the moment as you can tell lol! I loved this stamp SD Taste of India Henna Mango the first time I saw it, there is so much you can do with it but I just wanted to keep it simple for now. I inked some card up with Tim Holtz Distress Inks Squeezed Lemonade, Fired Brick and Peacock Feathers then stamped the Henna mango with my Versamark Ink Pad and heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Black Sparkle, I rubbed round the edge of the card with TH Black Soot and painted the design in with TH Fired Brick and Crushed Olives, I could have gone further but did not want to ruin it. I matted this onto Creative Expressions Foundation Card Burgundy then onto CC Kraft card. I added the sentiment from CE Unmounted Stamps Classic Sentiments using TH Black Soot.

Using more Burgundy card I stamped the boarder from SD T of I Mandala stamp set with Versamark Ink Pad then heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Gold, I cut these out and attached them to the edge of the card as seen. It wasn't until I stuck them down I realized that I should have stamped a longer piece of card so I could have line up the two sides so they matched, next time...!

There you have your finished card, dimensions 5" X 7"

Thank you for looking, now I had better go and make Hubby a card, Jacquie xxx

Peace from Within

Morning crafters, Happy Bank Holiday Monday, hope this finds you all safe and well. many thanks for all your lovely comments for my post on Sunday its much appreciated.

On the Dog v Cats front my Male cat Leo (who is normally the big wimp) has got very brave and now walks past the dog, as long as we are there he knows she's not going to hurt him, not that she would anyway, however, my Female cat Mia is still terrified of her which is surprising as she was the first to come back in with us but no, she will not walk past her even if she's lying down, yesterday I thought I would pick her up and introduce them ha ha! wrong idea, Mia hissed and spat and went for Keala (Dog), she was not happy! Guess it will take her a little longer lol! At least it has stopped her from bullying Leo for a while!

Now today's post I have been playing with Sheena Douglass Taste of India again, I thought I would use some CC Kraft card as I had not used any yet! Onto this I matted some Black card, I wanted to stamp and paint with Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmers Iridescent Mica Pigments so decided on using Black card as it shows the colours up more so kept to two colour scheme as far as card was concerned.

Using more Kraft card I stamped around the edge with SD Taste of India Rubber Stamp-Henna using Tim Holtz Distress Inks Peacock Feathers and Crushed Olives then matted this onto the card.

As I said earlier I wanted to stamp onto the Black card but silly me went and embossed it first instead of after with SD Embossing Folder Taste of India - Henna so I decided to paint the embossed flower and leaves instead. Once painted I rubbed over some Creative Expression Metallic Gilding Wax - Cast Bronze, I had no Gold lol! I embossed a piece of Black card using the same embossing folder just just emboss the flower, painted it again the same as before then added it on top of the main flower raised up.

I tied some Orange Ribbon from Beautiful4crafts.co.uk around the right side of the card and matted this onto my card, I attached a bow out of the same ribbon then stamped my sentiment from SD T.of I - Mandala onto Kraft card, die cut with SB Fancy Framed Tags Two, I inked through the die with TH Dried Marmalade and attached it to the card as seen.

To finish the card off I added some Queen & Co Twinkle Goosebumps Orange 'Twinkle' Gems to the top right corner and a Kaisercraft Sparklets Gem - Saffron on top of the bow.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Tiger & The Temple + Blog Candy Winner

Morning crafters, hope this finds you all well this Bank Holiday weekend? Sorry there have been no posts of late I just do not seem to have been able to find time this week, need to get myself more organized I think lol! Anyway I know you are all waiting to find out who has won those wonderful set of Stamps from Creative Expressions so the winner is...

MRS DUCK!

was pulled out by my Son, he laughed and said 'Ace' when he saw your name lol!

Big Congratulations to you Ang, if you e-mail me your details I will get them in the post to you on Tuesday.
Sorry to everyone else who entered and I would like to say many thanks for entering, maybe next time...

Now todays card is one using Sheena Douglass Taste of India Embossing Folders and stamps. I folded an A4 sheet of card in half to form the base card, matted and layered up with more card. Using the back of some Crafters Companion Centura Pearl card I embossed it with Sheena Douglass Taste of India Indian Arches on the deboss side then inked it with Tim Holtz Distress Inks Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marmalade, Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo then matted this onto my card.

On More CC Centura Pearl Card I stamped the Sheena Douglass Taste of India Tiger Tiger with my Versamark Ink Pad and heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Black Sparkle then inked the Tiger with TH Squeezed Lemonade and Dried Marmalade, I think I over did it a little as the stomach area should have been White! I cut it out and attached it in the front of the arches. I could have left it like this but I wanted to add some leaves to make it look more Jungley! I embossed three sheets of Green card (Creative Expressions and Lidls)with SD Taste of India Embossing Folder Jungle Leaves and cut some of the smaller ones out, I attached these to the card as seen, I could have added more around the bottom but that would have covered too much of the arches up so I left it.

There you have the finished card, I will maybe add a sentiment at a later date.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

BLOG CANDY TO WIN

Morning my crafting friends, sorry there is no card today still in the process of making one but I do have some blog candy for you to win. Quite simply add a comment and I will put your name in the hat. I will draw the winner, or at least I will have hubby or my son to draw a winner on Saturday, hopefully this will give you a chance to have a go.

These are wonderful stamps that I won from Sue Wilson's blog draw, Sue has kindly allowed me to put them up as blog candy as I already have this set.

Once the draw has taken place I shall announce the winner on here and ask that person to email me their address, you know the ropes guys so what are you waiting for...?

The winner will be announced on Sunday.

Thank you for looking and Good Luck, Jacquie xxx