Bird House

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well, thank you for visiting me today, its much appreciated, I do read all your lovely comments and view your blogs if you have one, please leave a link to your blog if you do have one then I can return the favour.

This was another little mixed media card I did, the base card is using the 'leather' card, this is matted and layered using designer paper and Peacock papers, in-between those I have placed a doily. I have added two corners on top of the Peacock paper.

The top layer is designer paper again that has been embossed with the Lattice mask then inked with Vintage Photo through a Brick work Stencil before being painted over with a thick layer of Crackle Glaze, this does not crackle as much as I would like it too and I do not think it shows up on these images too well either, sorry.

The Bird house stamp was a free gift along with some Art products I ordered from Paper Artsy, I stamped it with Vintage Photo then heat embossed with Copper embossing powder then inked over with Rusty Hinge, cut it out a stuck to the front of the card with foam pads.

I stamped the Bird from Anne Marie Birdcage set on top of the bird house then added two dragonflies from DM Flutterby stamps using Black Archival Ink.

A little card which did not take too long to make, I have left the sentiment off until I decied a use for it lol!

Items Used:

Printable Heaven Leather Card Cream

Anne Marie Floral Bird Cage Stamps 

Debbie Moore Flutterby Stamps- Dragonflies (free with magazine)

Theresa Collins Designer Paper Pad

Heartfelt Creations Peacock 12 X 12 Paper Pad

Do Crafts Paper Doilies

Sue Wilson Configurations Dainty Lace Edger

White Card

Ranger Dina Wakley Mixed Media Stencil

Creative Expressions That Special Touch Mask Lattice

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo & Rusty Hinge

Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint

Paper Artsy Bird House Stamp

Papermania Embossing Powder Copper

Archival Ink Black

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Bird Cage & Winners of Draw

Morning crafters, so good to have you here with me today, I hope you are all well? Sending lots of hugs to those who need them right now.

Well we are in our Eleventh month already, where has this year gone? 

I will announce the winners of my Prize draw at the end of this post, just to keep you in anticipation a little longer lol! Now don't go skipping to the end will you?

Today's card is one I made for a work colleague who was 60 last month, I am glad to say she loved the card. Sorry for the bad photograph, I had forgotten to take a photo of it so had to use my mobile phone!!!

I used a basic White card, matted it up with some Pink card, I then wrapped some scalloped lace ribbon around the bottom half of some pretty paper, unfortunately I cannot remember where I got this from, and matted this onto of the card.

I had some shaped die cuts from a card kit so I chose a Pink one and stamped it up with a Bird Cage and flowers. I coloured in the flowers with Promarkers and stamped the two larger flowers again to place on top of the stamped ones. I stamped the two birds, cut them out and added them on the branches. I attached this onto the card at an angle.

I made some flowers out of Blue card and placed a pearl in the center and attached these as seen along with some leaves. The sentiment came from the same card kit as the shaped die cut.

There you have the finished card. Dimensions are 7" X 7".

Items Used:

White Card

Crafters Companion Pink card

Pretty Paper

Hunkydory card Kit (shaped die cut & sentiment)

Anne Marie Designs Stamps Floral Bird Cage

Promarkers

Creative Expressions Blue Card

Creative Expressions Self Adhesive Pearls

Creative Expressions Scalloped Lace

Spellbinders Delicate Asters

Tattered Lace Blooms & Leaves
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Black Soot & Vintage Photo

Now for the winners...names drawn from the box...

First prize of the two Carolers goes to...

PAULINE ( Crafting with Cotnob)                

Second prize of The Snowman goes to...

JANICE (Created by Jan)

Congratulations Ladies, please e-mail me your address and I will get them in the post to you asap.
I think I still have your address Pauline so Janice you just need to send me yours.

Thank you to all who took part, sorry if you did not win this time but I am sure there will be others in the future.

My next post will be on Tuesday for someones very special Birthday!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie

Victorian Christmas Carol Singers

Morning crafters, hope you are having a great weekend, thank you for joining me here today its lovely to have your presence.

About a month ago I ordered some dies from C&C and they finally arrived this week after much complaining from me about the courier service seeing as they had stated on their tracking service it was out for delivery two days after I had ordered, they had hung onto my order for almost a month before delivering it, I must say I have had trouble with this same company for years, I have complained to C&C about them, it took them 4 months to return a parcel back to them once!!! It makes me very susceptible about ordering anything from there because of it but hey ho! My rant over now for todays card...

These were the dies I had been waiting for, I knew the look I wanted but failed to get it lol! I am going to try again but in a different way, I wont show that one till a much later date lol! I was trying to get the look of a few carolers around the lamppost in the background but made a right mess of it! Still it turned out to be quite an atmospheric card, ghost like as my son told me lol!

Items used:

Create and Craft Female Caroler

Create and Craft Male Caroler

Create and Craft Silver Miri card

Create and Craft White Textured card

Anne Marie Designs Victorian Christmas Stamps (Lamppost)

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Pumice Stone & Black Soot

Promarkers

Spellbinders Captivating Squares

Sentiment Computer Generated

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx