Good Friends

Morning crafters, hope this finds you all safe and well. Thank you for coming and visiting me today, I love to have you here and to read all your lovely comments. 

Well its only six more weeks to Christmas and I say ...HELP!!! No problems with cards, got all those done but presents, well that's another problem. What to buy for people? Last year it was easy this year No!  I shall just have to keep thinking and looking, I keep telling myself only two more pay checks till Christmas lol!

Anyhow, enough of that, todays post focuses all around the bow! Yes you did read that right the BOW! I recently bought the Bow maker as I am hopeless at making complete bows and I love the double bows though this is not one lol! When it arrived I had to try just a basic bow, it came with two reels of organza ribbon in White and Pink so I did both colours together, seeing as I was so pleased with the result I had to use it on a card! This is the card I have sent to my friend whose Birthday is today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROS!

I had already done the stenciled coloured background so I used that along with some paper I had found printed off from Tattered Lace papers CD Rom.

The base card I made using two sheets of Blush card, layered it up with the paper and background and attached the bow in the top left corner. I only wanted to add a sentiment so I stamped my sentiment onto some waste card with Victorian Velvet to keep the Pink theme, unusual for me I know as I don't like Pink but remember it was all about the bow lol! I die cut it using the Die-Lectables Baroque Oval and inked through the die, then decided to add another oval behind it so that one I die cut out of the spare paper and placed it behind the sentiment one as a shadow. I attached both of these using foam pads.

Adding some pearls in two corners and a large pearl on the bow, along with a couple of hat pins the card was complete. Dimensions are 7.5" X 7.5".

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Blush

Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmers (several colours mixed)

Creative Expressions Unmounted stamps Kind Thoughts

Creative Expressions Large Fancy Pearls

Creative Expressions Pearl Hat Pins

Tattered Lace CD Rom Papers

Clarity Stamps Stencil

Create and Craft Die-Lectables Baroque Oval

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Victorian Velvet

Hobby House Self Adhesive Pearls
Foam pads

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

We wish you a Merry christmas...

Morning my crafting friends, I do hope this finds you all safe and well, plenty of hugs being sent your way if not.  We have had some pretty good weather over the weekend, it would be nice if we could have it for just one more week but who knows!!!

Anyhow, I have a little quick Christmas card for you today, I am afraid I did not stamp it too well but I was not going to try and over stamp otherwise you would be seeing double vision lol!

I started with my Basic White 6" X 6" card and matted and layered up with Burgundy and more White card.
For the topper I put a thin double sided adhesive tape around the edge and covered with gilding flakes. I thin stamped on the music stamp, I obviously did not press hard enough as it is a little patchy in places so I do apologize for that.

I placed some red poinsettias on the card as seen with a couple of leaves. I had put some Cosmic Shimmer Gold PVA in the center of the poinsettias.

There you have the finished card, like I said  quick one!

Items Used:

Basic White Card
Sheena Douglass White Stamping card
Creative Expressions Foundation Card Burgundy, Red & Rich Green 
Creative Expressions Olympic Gold PVA Glue
Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia
Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes Persian Dawn
Clarity Stamps We Wish You A Merry Christmas Stamp
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Black Soot


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Christmas Window

 Morning crafters, hope today finds you all well, another card using the same stamp as Thursday.


Having a wonderful time in France, managing to avoid the rain so far lol! Sorry have not had time to comment on peoples posts, but then its not letting me either but I can view them so I do have a quick look before we call it a night, loved all your creations so far. I will catch up with everyone on my return.

I matted some Spring Green Card onto my basic White card then using some Kraft card I stamped my image in the center and cut round three sides to form a window. It was only then I decided to emboss the card  to make it look like the outside wall of a window, I had not got a brick pattern folder so used the snowfall one instead to look like pebble dash!!!



In the opening of the window  on the Green card I stamped the German version of O Christmas Tree.





On the inside I die cut some ovals out of Kraft card and Green card to stamp the English version of O Christmas Tree.

These cards are for the Language Teachers at our school so I thought they might appreciate something different!





Items Used:



Basic White 6x6 card
Kraft card
Creative Expressions Foundation Card Spring Green
Clarity Stamps O Christmas tree German & English & Robin & Tree
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Black Soot & Vintage Photo
Promarkers
Spellbinders Grand Decorative Ovals
Sheena Douglass Embossing Folder Snowfall



Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

O Christmas Tree & Robin

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well. Thank you for your visit today it is much appreciated.

I am making the next few scheduled posts quite short so I do apologize. I matted and layered the blush card onto the White card. On the Coconut card I stamped my image and coloured it in then matted this on top of the Blush card.

I die cut one of Spellbinders Postage stamp dies in Blush to place inside for a verse or sentiment.

Items used on this card were;

Basic White 6X6 card
Creative Expressions Foundations Card Blush & Coconut White
Clarity Stamps O Christmas Tree & Robin Stamp
Promarkers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot
Spellbinders Nestability Postage Stamp Dies

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

O' Tannenbaum

Morning my crafting friends, my oh my August already, just don't know where the time goes, is it me or do the years seem to go quicker? Perhaps its like they do as we get older!!!

I may be off for a while as I am going away soon, taking my son with me to my sisters in France, he has had a rough two years so the break will do him good. Leaving hubby at home to look after all the animals lol! Bless him hes got his parents house to look after too as they go away the same time! I think this will be one time he will be glad to see me back lol! Will try and get some posts scheduled but can't promise, I will check back with you all on my return if I can't get on Big Sis computer lol!

I have always liked the O' Christmas Tree hymn, especially in German, so when I saw Clarity Stamps had it in English and German I just had to get the stamps! There's me saying no more spending! I had already ordered the Tree die from Crafters Companion (would have liked them all but that would be greedy lol!) so how fitting I thought to put the two together! Well I was hoping the verse would fit inside the Tree cut out but sadly not quite! Still, I tried, I am usually used to either putting a insert inside for the verse or covering the inside with paper or card however, you can't do it with these as obviously you would cover the die cuts on the front, you could just cover the back. Anyhow, this was my second attempt, the first I did in White and tried to rub Distress ink over the top of the embossing but made a nice mess, ( the little tree on the front is from that card! )the embossing is not as deep as I had hoped so next time I will try spritzing it with water first. For this one I just sanded the embossing on the front so you got some detail then added a little glitter to the snowflakes.

The verse I put onto Vellum and heat embossed with White embossing powder, was not sure whether you would be able to read the verse but its not too bad. I chose a Red Rust coloured vellum to set off the Green card, these cards are nice that you get the little die cut from the middle so the little tree can sit on the front or be used on another card, great  with a  few of them with Reindeer's in front, like a forest!! They make nice quick cards.

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Rich Green Card
Crafters Companion Des'ire Create A Card Christmas Tree
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Bundled Sage
Creative Expressions Glitter Jewels Diamond Snow
Coloured Vellum
Clarity Stamps O Christmas Tree German Verse


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Holly Wreath & Reindeer

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well? We are having some glorious weather down here in the South East at present so lets hope we all have a good summer.

Thank you all for your kind remarks about my back, its getting a little better, unfortunately I do have a lot of spinal problems for life which I wont bore you with but this is the first time its played me up since my op last year, I think it was through doing some filing at work on Friday, the bending & twisting must have put it out! I have been resting it as much as possible so it is feeling better, thank you all again. I will be resting plenty over the next six weeks of school holidays lol!

Another Christmas card for you today, this set was from Clarity Stamps which consisted of the Holly Stencil and the Reindeer Stamp, I stamped the reindeer image using TH Vintage Photo then painted in the reindeers roughly, painting between the antlers with TH Forest Moss.

For the Holly Stencil I used Luminarte Radiant Rain, this dried to give a lovely sheen on the leaves, then I die cut out all the Berries and Holly leaves for the corners and put all these into place. I added some Red Gems for the Reindeer's noses and for the Berries in each corner before matting it onto hand made 7" X 7" Card.

Items Used:

Clarity Stamps Holly Wreath & Reindeer
Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Green
Creative Expressions Card Ruby & Coconut White
Spellbinders Holly Twigs & Leaves
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Vintage Photo & Forest Moss
Red Gems (Own stash)


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx