Fly High

Hello my crafting friends, I am back with a card I made for Sara at Crafters Companion for some shows she was doing in the USA, this was quite a few months back and I don't think I have posted it before so here we go...

I first took a piece of card roughly to the size of 7x7" and inked it up with Tim Holtz Distress Inks Tumbled Glass and Squeezed Lemonade making sure I blended well where the two colours meet.

I lay over the top Sheena Douglass Decorative Stencil Shady Meadow and inked through the bottom half using Tim Holtz Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy and the top half with Forest Moss, omitting the tree leaves in the top right corner where possible, I then went over the top again lightly with the Brushed Corduroy. I removed this stencil and then took another stencil, this time the Floral Canopy and used just the Wisteria part of the stencil inking it all along the top with Tim Holtz D.I. Shaded Lilac then going over that again with Seedless Preserve to add depth. I then went round the edge of the card again with Brushed Corduroy D.I. to draw the eye to the center.

For the Butterfly and Dragon fly, even though Sheena has done both of these as a stamp and die the ones I have used were just the smaller stamp set that came with Crafters Companion Inspiration Magazine, I think it may have been No 9. I stamped both of these onto some Sheena White Stamping Card, coloured them in with Spectrum Noir Pens and cut them both out. 

I took a little baby peg and attached this to the Butterfly as its body for interest and painted over both the Butterfly and Dragonfly with a Clear Sparkle Pen, unfortunately it does not show up in these photographs. Once dry I attached them to the card as seen. To finish I stamped the sentiment just under the Dragonfly.

I matted and layered it up on Black card then a White base card to complete the finished card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Vintage 50th Card

Hello my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well? Today I am showing the third card I made for colleagues at work, this one was for someones 50th Birthday. For a special birthday I never put the age on as I know some people can get really sensitive about a 'special age'.

For the background I matted some pretty patterned paper, these may have came with the Flights of Fantasy CD ROM from Crafters Companion, I say 'may' as I am not sure as I have had them so long but I love this pretty rose one and I wanted it to have the vintage look about it which I thought this had.

I cut a piece of White card to size and inked it up with Tim Holtz Distress Inks Antique Linen and Victorian Velvet I then stamped Sheena Douglass Little Bit Festive Christmas Stamp Set Vintage Postcard at an angle on the piece of card using Tim Holtz Brushed Cordroy Distress Ink and stamped the rose from Sheena Douglass Little Bit Festive Christmas Set Christmas Child underneath it. I then stamped the rose three more times on pieces of card, cut it out and coloured in with Spectrum Noir Aquablend Pencils then decoupaged the layers. I rubbed Pebeo Gold Gilding Wax round the edge of the card then placed it at an angle on top of the pretty paper.

I stamped my sentiment from Justright Large Fancy Sentiments onto a piece of card I had coloured the same way as before, backed it with a piece of the patterned paper then attached this to the card as seen.

To finish the card I made a bow out of Pink Organza Ribbon and placed that in the top left corner and added some Pink gems in two of the opposite corners.

I am glad to say the recipient loved the card and was the only one who thanked me for the card out of the four I made!!!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Victorian Wedding Card

Hello my crafting friends, good to have you back today, I really do appreciate your visit. Today I am showing the second card of the four I have made for work colleagues, this is the second wedding card for one who is getting married at the end of August.

I used Sheena Douglass new Christmas stamps A little Bit Festive Christmas for this I used the Victorian Gentleman & Victorian Lady. I stamped the Lady first and painted over the top with Pebeo Drawing Gum, once dry I then stamped the Gentleman next to her. I coloured them both in using Spectrum Noir Aquablend Pencils, the Lady was painted in using a Cream colour but for some reason it turned Grey looking I guess she wanted to match her man lol! I added some Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle pen over the top of the Lady's coat and hand muff, the picture does not show this up at all!!!

I then die cut it out with the frame from Sue Wilson Italian Collection Calabria and cut the frame part out again and layered over the top then put to one side.

I inked up a piece of card with Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink, cut to size a piece of paper from the Crafters Companion Downton Abbey Paper Pad and ran it through the Ebosser in the Crafters Companion Downton Abbey Embossing folder Fleur De Lis then attached this to the inked card.

I cut a piece of White Satin Edged Organza Ribbon and wrapped it round both card pieces then attached it to my 8 X 8 base card and placed my framed couple on top. I made a small bow out of the same ribbon and placed this at the top of the frame.

Using a piece of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl card I die cut the  Motor Vehicle from the Crafters Companion Downton Abbey range of dies and placed this on the bottom right corner of the card, I felt this kept with the Victorian look.

To finish the card I stamped a sentiment from Crafters Companion Downton Abbey Clear Stamps Sentiments 2 on top of some inked card and paper to match the card and placed this in the top left corner of the card to balance it out.

Its a bit unusual for a wedding card but that is why I did it to be different from the normal ones they may receive.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Birthday Wishes to You

Hello my crafting friends good to have you visit me again today, I know I have been very absent I just dont know where the time goes so to stop myself stressing trying to get cards on here 2 or 3 times a week (as I used to!) I am now resulting in getting a card on here whenever I can so I really apologize for the inconvenience and lack of commenting on others posts but unfortunately, for the moment, this is a decision I have had to make, I do not in any way wish to give up my blog, its one of the few things that keep me connected to all you wonderful crafters out there and even though I may not comment I still look in to see what you have created. There will be times when I have loads on here usually when Sheena has something new out lol! Summer hols are coming up so hopefully I will be able to make some more creations then. I thank you all for your friendship and understanding at this time.

Now todays card is one I made for a work colleague who recently turned 50, I really did not wish to make it but was asked by other colleagues, however the recipient is still to thank us for her gifts let alone the card so I definitely wont be doing one again for her!!! 

I matted the base card up with some Lilac card and then matted that up with some of Sara Davies (Crafters Companion) patterned Silver foiled card. I wrapped some Purple Butterfly ribbon around the center then sorted some die cuts out, the center rectangle is one of Tonics Classic Quatrefoil Patterned Panels, the two outer doily ones are Desire Create-a-Card Garden Party, I trimmed these down slightly to fit on the card and under the edge of the other panel. In the center I stamped my sentiment from Tonic Live Laugh Love Single Banner die and matted it onto Lilac card. I die cut tow Butterflies from the Crafters Companion Kimono Range and placed these on the card as seen, there you have the finished card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Happy 60th Birthday

Hello my crafting friends, I'm a little bit late with this post but better late than never right?! 

Today's card I have made for a work Colleague and friend who will be 60 next week, I love the vintage look so went for that kind of theme.

I started with my base card, I found some patterned papers that I had in my stash for quite some time which lead me to the colours Blue & Pink, I cut the papers to size and distressed the edges with some scissors then inked round the edge with relevant colours to the papers Tim Holtz Distress Inks Victorian Velvet & Peacock Feathers. On the Pink paper I stamped the sentiment from Crafters Companion Kimono range in two corners using Black Stazon Ink and matted the Blue paper on top at an angle so you could see the sentiments.

On another piece of patterned paper, this had a lovely wild rose on one edge which I kept and inked round the edge again with Victorian Velvet. I had two sheets of this one so I cut out the leaves from the other sheet and placed them on top of the leaves on this sheet for a bit of dimension.

I had the Tattered Lace Alphabet Bunting Die so I cut out the letters for her name and glued these on top of a thin strip of Blue Ribbon I had in my stash, I then glued this on top of some Rose Blue Ribbon that had that vintage look about it, I bought this ribbon from The Range. I liked the darker ribbon underneath as it showed up the letters of her name better. I placed this diagonally over the top piece of paper and glued it down on the back.

I curled the corner in the top left so I could fit a tag behind and stuck this down with Foam Tape, leaving a gap for the tag. I made a bow out of two pieces of ribbon, one Blue & one Pink and attached this at the bottom right corner above the rose image, on top of this I added three paper roses, one of White, Pink & Blue. I also cut out a Butterfly from one of the papers, added a tiny craft peg as its body and stuck this above the flowers.

 I made a tag out of White card, stamped it with Sheena Douglass Script Stamp then on top of that with one of the bird stamps from Crafters Companion Kimono range, I coloured the bird in with Spectrum Noir Pens Pink & Blue and inked round the edge with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink. Underneath the bird I added the words 'Happy 60th Birthday', these I had typed up on my PC and cut out and stuck them onto the tag (sorry forgot to take a picture of this!) Through the hole in the top of the tag I added more of the thin blue ribbon and then placed the tag in the slot behind the curled corner of the card.

I painted the peg, edge of Butterfly wings  and edge of the flowers with Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen Clear to add a tiny bit of bling and there you have the finished card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Little Bird

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well.

I have been having a little play again with a Perfect Partner set of Sheena Douglass Little Bird that I had never got round to using, believe me there are still stamps I have never used as yet lol! I am sure I am not alone in this. Anyway I am showing you the Little Birdy, he has become one of my favourites and I am sure I will use him again especially in a mixed media card.

I started by choosing a patterned paper, I chose this neutral coloured on with leaves on, I cannot remember what pad I got it from as I have had it in my stash for some time and no longer have the cover. I know I bought it from The Range, one of their 12 X 12 paper pads!

I matted this onto some Black Card then onto my base card. With a piece of Sheena White Stamping Card I painted it with Aquatints Bright & Beautiful using just the Green and Blue blending them together with a bit of water, I heat dried it then put it through Crafters Companion Textures Embossing Folder Wind, sorry I know you cannot see this as it is hidden in the layers, I should have taken a photo of it before layering lol!

On another piece of White Card I inked it up using the Joanna Sheen Stencil Plaid pattern with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire and Forest Moss, I then placed another Joanna Sheen Stencil Decorative Trellis over the top and in places spread Galleria Modelling Paste and left to dry. Once dry I inked over the raised areas with Forest Moss.

I stamped Sheena Douglass Perfect Partners Birds of a Feather with Ground Espresso Distress Ink and coloured him in by painting with Distress Inks Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemonade to make him appear as a Blue Tit ( watch it Ang lol!), then die cut with Little Bird, I painted over the nest with Brushed Corduroy to add a different tone of colour between the branches and cut this out by hand, the die is only the little bird. 

I die cut  my flourish Sizzix Thinlits Graceful Flourish and coloured that in, I got a smaller flourish I had in my stash out of Black card and a little branch I had from my Spellbinders Cherry Blossom, I placed these at the bottom of my card so the bird and nest had something to sit on! Using Heartfelt Creations Regal Boarder & Pocket dies I cut the larger one out and placed it at the top of the card then added my little bird.

To finish I added some words that I had typed up on my PC and cut out, inking round the edge with Forest Moss Distress Ink.

I hope you like my bit of mixed media, I apologize for the layout, blogger is not playing nicely today and will not wrap the text round my images for some reason lol!

I would like to enter this into http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/challenge-12-april-earth-day.html  as I think the world would be a worse place without our little feather friends and http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/april-challenge-spring.html as Spring is the time when many birds are busy making their nests and homes in our gardens, I have three pairs of birds nesting in my conifers at the moment so I have told hubby he cannot trim them till Summer now lol!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Crafters Comapnion Aquablend One Day Special Hochanda 8pm

Hello my crafting friends so happy you have come to visit me today.  Crafters Companion have a One Day Special today starting at 8pm on Hochanda, tomorrow (Saturday) shows will be on at 7am, 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm showcasing their beautiful Aquablend Pencils,these really are lovely to work wit hand you don't need to put a lot on either. So if you love water colours but don't find it easy to paint with paints then these may be right up your street!

I was happy to be asked to do a couple of cards for their show so here are the cards I made, they were all coloured in with Aquablend pencils with just the added bit of Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle on the Hummingbird. I hope you like them?

The stamps were Sheena Douglass Little Bit Sketchy Tropical Nectar. Aquablend Pencils Primaries & Essentials

Stamps used: Sheena Douglass Little Bit Floral 'Floral Corners'. Aquablend Pencils Florals & Primaries

Stamps used: Sheena Douglass Little Bit Sketchy Laguna Surf & Endless Summer. Aquablend Pencils Naturals & Primaries

Do look in and see the wonderful demos from lovely Fiona and cards from the Design Team 

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Friends like you are a Blessing

Morning my crafting friends, thank you for visiting me today it is much appreciated, please do leave a comment so I know you have been.

Now today is a Birthday of a Special Friend, none other than Sheena Douglass so HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHEENA!

This was the card I made especially for Sheena, I decided not to go the messy root but for a more Vintage one lol!

I had some pretty papers in my stash so I decided to use these, as the three papers I chose were of Pink & Green I kept the these colours.

I cut each sheet to size, distressed the edges of all three papers and inked around each one with coordinating Tim Holtz Distress Inks Victorian Velvet & Bundled Sage. I placed the Green paper onto my base card, this had a lovely script printed on it which is not that noticeable sorry! On top of this I placed the Wild Rose Hip paper with Foam Tape at an angle for interest.

The top Pink paper had a Bird cage with Wild Roses at the bottom so I kept these, as I had two sheets of each paper I cut out the bird cage from the other sheet and attached it on top of this one but slightly bowed. I rolled over the top corner and inked the underside with Victorian Velvet, underneath this I added some lovely Vintage Lace, I had bought from my local craft shop, across the paper and secured it on the back with Red Tape. I put Foam Tape on the back but leaving a little gap where the turned corner was.

I coloured some Cream Organza ribbon with Bundled Sage and left to dry. Once dry I made it into a fussy bow and attached it onto the paper along with three Green Paper Roses.

Above the lace ribbon I stamped a sentiment from Crafters Companion Kimono Lotus Flower and two little birds from Crafters Companion Kimono Butterfly Silk with Black Stazon.

I made a tag by cutting some Kraft Card to a tag shape, I covered it with some of the off cut from the Green paper, I stamped the bird from Crafters Companion Kimono Porcelain with Black Stazon then coloured it using Aquatint markers.

The words I typed up on my PC cut out and inked round the edge with Victorian Velvet and placed them on the tag as seen. I made a hole at the top and put a thin pieced of Pink Ribbon through it. This little tag then fits perfectly in the gap at the top of the card.

I hope you like my Vintage style card and thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Golden Butterflies

Hello my crafting friends, thank you for joining me today, I hope this finds you all well? A second helping from me today!!!

I have had a little play again, once again small scale lol! I took a piece of card and put Galleria Modelling Paste through Sheena Douglass Gaphics Stencil and left to dry. Once dry I spread out Aquatints Bright & Beautiful Blue, Green & Yellow along the top of the card and let the colours run down into the grooves and over each other then spritz with water and left to dry.

Once dry I stamped the fancy frame from Crafters Companion Textures Element Splats and Accessories Set 1 using Black Stazon in the center part of the card. In the middle of the frame I stamped a sentiment from Crafters Companion Kimono Porcelain stamp set, I only used half of the sentiment stamp. 

Over the raised pasted stencil pattern I rubbed some Gold Gilding Wax over and around the edges of the card, I then matted and layered it onto some textured Gold Miri card and a White base card. Using some of the same Gold Miri card I die cut the two Butterflies from the Crafters Companion Kimono Range and attached these onto the card as seen.

A small but rather quick and simple little card that could do for a number of occasions.

I am entering this into http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/51-butterflies-m-is-for-margins-andor.html  and 

http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/challenge-11-crazy-for-colour.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxxx

Happy Silver Anniversary

Hello crafters, so good to have you come and visit me today. Today's post is showcasing the card I made for my Brother-in-law &  Sister-in-law's 25th Wedding Anniversary a few days ago. I decided to make it Silver (Grey) and Pink!

I started by cutting out some Silver Miri card to fit my base card then I cut a piece of card from Sara Davies Signature Collection Together Forever A4 Foiled card pad, this had a lovely Silver swirly leaf pattern on it. I put this through the Desire Embossalicious Embossing Folder Rose Vine and inked up the roses with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tattered Rose. I attached this to the Silver Miri card.

With a piece of Miri card I cut to size to fit a panel of White card,  I stamped the White card with Sheena's Silver Bells stamp and painted Pebeo Drawing Gum over the stamp before placing some Distress Inks on my glass mat, Tumbled Glass, Hickory Smoke and Victorian Velvet spritzed with water then rubbed the card in the inks and put it to one side to dry.

With another piece of White card I stamped the sentiment using two different stamps, Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments and Sheena's Silver Bells, I stamped them using Stazon Black Ink, I inked it up with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tattered Rose and attached it to some Silver Miri card.

With the Bells panel dry I continued to paint the Bells stamp in Hickory Smoke Distress Ink  and the little ringing bits with a Silver Gel Pen, the ribbon I painted in Tattered Rose and the leaves with Crushed Olives. I attached this panel on the left side of the card, attaching the sentiment at the bottom making an arch over to the right of the card. I painted over the bells with a Spectrum Noir Clear Glitter Pen  to add some sparkle.

Three bought paper flowers added in the top right corner in Grey and Pink, to keep to the colour scheme, completed the card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Beautiful!

Hello and welcome to my little bit of craft corner, I hope you like what you see and pop back again.

Today I am showing what I made in my little play time I had yesterday, I was quite pleased with how it turned out. This is only a tiny card, quite unusual for me as I love my 8 X 8's but this is a 6 X 4 so quite small!

I apologize now for all the images, I got a bit carried away lol!

I started with my White base card and measured up two other pieces of card. The first piece of card I inked up with Tim Holtz Distress Inks Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs and Ground Espresso then splashed a little water over the top. I scored some lines to make it look a bit like wood.

I then stamped on top in places with one of the stamps from Crafters Companion Texture Elements Splats & Accessories Set 1 with Ground Espresso.

On the second piece of card I inked it up with Distress Inks Peacock Feathers, Crushed Olive and Forest Moss, I love these colours together. I then proceeded to stamp up the crackle stamp from Crafters Companion Texture Elements Splats & Accessories Set 2 using Black Stazon. It actually reminded me a little of  a spiders web! Really must get some new glasses lol!

Also in Set 2 of these stamps was a long edge stamp of dots and lines so I stamped this using Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink followed by Aquatints essentials in Gold over the top, unfortunately the photos do not show this up much.

Next I ran it through a new embossing folder I had from Spellbinders, part of the Seth Apter the Altered Page called Maze, how exciting it is to have some folders with different patterns and designs just fitting with mixed media.

Once I had ran it through the folder I inked up the embossed areas with Victorian Velvet, Forest Moss and Peacock Feathers. I then inked round the edge with Peacock Feathers.

 Using a little piece of White card I stamped the word Beautiful with Black Stazon from the Crafters Companion Texture Elements Words to Inspire Set 1 then inked over it with Crushed Olive Distress Ink.

I mounted the wood effect background onto my base card using Foam tape, after attaching some Light Blue Crochet Adhesive Ribbon across the bottom half of the embossed card I attached this on top of the wood effect background.

I attached the sentiment to the top of my card then looked through my stash of die cuts to find this small spray of leaves, a partial cut die and some leaves. I also came across some frames I had made out of air dry clay a while back so I inked the edge of this with Ground Espresso and Pebeo Renaissance Gold Gilding Wax. I had some free papers from a magazine and among these was this picture of a Lady so I cut it out and placed it in the frame.

I arranged the leaf spray and die cuts across the card, placed the frame over the ribbon and arranged some little Pink & White flowers either side as seen.

There you have the finished card, I hope you like it.

I have decided to enter this into http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/challenge-11-crazy-for-colour.html

Thank you for looking,  Jacquie xxx

Be Unique, Be Creative

Hello my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well. Well down here in the South East its another beautiful day, full of sunshine, a bit chili but very little wind so quite nice.

I had a bit of play time yesterday so put this together, was not sure how it was going to turn out as I just went along adding things on as I went, I don't think it turned out too bad lol! At least it gives you all a break from Skeletons & Skulls eh Ang? lol! At least for a little while...!!!

I started with a piece of paper stained with a tea bag, yes I did say a tea bag, these old tricks still work lol! I stamped all over with Sheena's Script stamp using Tim Holtz Distress Ink Ground Espresso then ran it through one of the Crafter's Companion Textures Embossing Folders Wind, the embossed areas I inked with Chipped Sapphire.

With a piece of White card and Sheena's Decorative Stencil Sackcloth I spread Galleria Modelling Paste over the top and left to dry. Do wash your stencil straight away to remove all residue of the paste, I just rinsed it under warm water. Once dry I painted over the top with Aquatints Bright & Beautiful Blue then when that was dry painted over the top again with Aquatints landscape Light Brown.

Using some stamps from Crafter's Companion Textures Words To Inspire Set 1 I stamped 'Be Unique' and 'Be Creative' onto White card using Stazon Black Ink then painted over the top with Aquatints Bright & Beautiful Blue, I put these to one side.

In my stash I found some die cuts that I had cut out of White card with Creative Expressions Sue Wilson dies Italian Collection Calabria and French Collection Corner Boarder & Tag, I placed the boarder along the bottom third of the sackcloth card, wrapped it round the back and stuck this down with Foam tape onto the 'wind & script' background. I die cut some Leafy Flourish from Crafter's Companion Sara Davies Signature Collection, I placed these along the bottom of the card and in the top left corner, in my stash I found some flowers that had been cut using Spellbinders Delicate Asters so I placed these on top of the leafy flourishes. I cut the Calabria die cut in half so I could place half on top of the Boarder strip but I did not like it being White so as the center of the flowers had gems from Queen & Co Twinkle Goosebumps Self Adhesive Orange stones on them and one of the flowers was Orange I decided to keep the colour and painted the half circle with Aquatints Bright & Beautiful Orange.

Out of Gold Miri card and Kraft card I die cut the little bird from Crafter's Companion Sara Davies Signature Collection 'Wing of Love'. With this you can use the legs as legs for the bird or as I have done as a little branch for the bird to sit on, I cut the wings out of the Kraft card so they stood out on the miri card. I added a little Black stone on for his eye then placed him as seen on the card.

I inked the edge of the word with Aquatint Essentials Black and placed them on the card as seen. To finish the card I added a little Butterfly that had been painted Orange & Blue with Pebeo Iridescent paints.

I would like to enter this into http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/challenge-11-crazy-for-colour.html

I hope you like this little creation and thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Elegant Reindeer

Hello my crafting friends, I hope this finds you all well? Well here we are now in the second month of the year already, doesn't time fly?

Maureen  it's lovely to hear from you as it is from everyone, you are missed. Don't worry if you missed posts they will still be there lol! I love hearing from everyone, sadly I don't have much time to comment on others posts anymore. So do please keep commenting whenever you can.

I am back with more Christmas cards, I have managed to make more so far this year than I ever did last year lol! 

For this card I actually started by cutting out the Bauble from a piece of card I had painted with Aquatints landscape using the Darkest Blue, I then ran it through the reindeer forest embossing folder.

I already had the reindeer die cut in my stash, I had cut it out with double sided adhesive then coated it in glamour dust.

I cut a piece of card big enough to fit the bauble onto, placed more double sided adhesive on it and ran it through a snowflake embossing folder, I removed the outer sheet and again covered in glamour dust, sadly this lost all the detail of the snowflake embossing. I matted this onto some Dark Blue hammer card and put it to one side.

I made an 8x8 square card out of two sheets of Dark Blue hammer card, cut to size some White card to fit on top then ran this through the Christmas time embossing folder, I attached this on top of the Blue card then placed my reindeer bauble on top in the center. 

To finish the card I made a little sentiment and placed this at the bottom of the card as seen.

Items Used:

Dark Blue Hammer Card

White Card

Cottage Cutz Elegant Reindeer

Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornaments

Aquatints Landscape

Deco Art Glamour Dust

Crafters Companion Nordic Christmas 8X8 Embossing Folder Reindeer Forest

Crafters Companion Nordic Christmas 8X8 Embossing Folder Christmas Time

Double Sided Adhesive Sheets

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Dragons Lair

Hello my crafting friends, well today 28 years ago I gave birth to my beautiful Son, he has always been a joy and I am very proud of him. So Happy Birthday Jonny!

I have always made my children's cards these last few years so this was no exception but what to do was the problem, he loved the series Game of Thrones and has always liked Dragons, therefore, I decided to use Flights of Fantasy CD Rom to make a card. This is what I came up with:

My apologies for the bad images, as I said before my PC has died so have been trying to use the software that is on this old service set up and cannot get what I want, just to crop is a feat in itself lol! Some posts are scheduled so that is why the images are as they have always been, I have posts scheduled through February so I hope to have a working PC by the time they run out lol!

Now on this CD there are loads of fabulous images but very few of Men for the Male cards, these two images were among them and seeing as they were this size I felt they suited a gate-fold card. So I scored and folded a sheet of Black card, found some nice Green papers on the CD, cut these to size and matted up the front, the images did not look right straight onto these so I got an old, and I mean old, paper pad out and found some paper showing negative of leaves, I quite liked this so I cut to size and matted and layered on top of the Green papers, on top of this I mounted the images on either side of the gate folds.

On the inside I matted it up with Gold Linen textured card then on the two sides I matted some more paper from the CD, sorry this is not very visible here but I have to say looking at the image on my laptop freaked me out a bit as it looked just like a ghost like figure of a face in the paper on the right inner fold. The pattern is like folds of material and its between the folds that look like a face lol!

In the center I attached two half doily die cuts from the Downton Abbey range, arranging them in the top & bottom corners.

I printed off an image of this beautiful Red Dragon and attached it in the center using Foam tape.


I shall add a verse to one of the inner gate folds before giving him the card as at the moment I have just die cut 'With Love' & 'Son' out of Red miri card and put these at the bottom of the gate folds on the front.

Items Used:

Sheena Douglass Black Card
Crafters Companion Twin Papercrafting CD Rom Collection  Flights of Fantasy
Crafters Companion Dowton Abbey Metal Die Half Doily
Creative Expressions Foundation Card Rich Green
12 X 12 Paper Pad (own stash)
Create and Craft Gold Linen Textured Miri Card 
Foam Tape
Red Stars Miri card (own stash)
Tattered Lace Die 'With Love'
Joanna Sheen Signature Die 'Son'

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Christmas Wishes for You

Hello my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well. Not long to go and the first month is over my 'o' my!

Now for todays post  I have another Christmas card for you.

I started by folding a sheet of Centura Pearl Pastel Blue card in half to make and A5 size card then cut a piece of White card and Periwinkle Blue card to size for matting and layering. I distressed the edges on both of these using a pair of scissors.

In the middle of the Blue card I die cut a circle out then stamped my Christmas Wishes sentiment using Stazon Jet Black onto the White card underneath so it showed through the aperture.

On the Blue card I stamped a musical melody across the top with my Versamark ink pad then heat embossed with White embossing powder. I then ran the Blue card  through a snowflake embossing folder to give it some texture.

I die cut the Peace sentiment twice out of Silver miri card and cut it down so I trimmed off the 'Peace' word  and placed the decorative edges around the circle aperture. 

In my stash I already had some Poinsettias, snowflakes,  a sleigh and reindeer, the sleigh and reindeer I had inked with my Versamark then covered with Glamour dust to add some sparkle.  All these I placed on to the card as seen.

I had some beads on wire in my stash that were recycled from some old Christmas crackers so I placed them on the card randomly. To finish the card I added some snow writer all around the edges and on the Poinsettias.

There may be a lot going on in this card but I think it works, its different anyhow lol!

Items used:

Inkylicious Clear Polymer Stamps Musical Melody & Christmas Wishes

Spellbinders Snowflakes

Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia

Spellbinders Peace Sentiment

Tattered Lace Embossing Folder Snowflake

Cottage Cutz Elegant Sleigh

Memory Box Leaping Deer

Deco Art Glamour Dust

Deco Art Snow Writer

Papermania Embossing Powder Seafoam White

White Hammer Card

Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Pastel Card Blue

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Periwinkle

Create and Craft Silver Miri Card

Beads - Recycled from Christmas Crackers 

Stazon Jet Black

Versamark Ink Pad

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Musical Songbird

Hello my  crafting friends good to have you visit me today, I hope this finds you all safe and well. Well we have not had any snow here yet but its getting colder so I don't think it will be long.

I have something a little different for you today as I decided to play yesterday putting odd bits together and hoping to create something a little vintage looking.

I have had these papers in my stash for quite some time so thought it was about time I started to used them as they are really pretty, you know how it is you buy something really nice and then you don't want to use it lol! 

The base layer is from the Aster collection and I loved the image of the bird in the bird house down in the bottom corner so I decided to make a feature of him but bringing him in as a songbird! I know he's not but all birds sing right?! Which reminds me, we have had a beautiful Robin coming in our garden the past few weeks and he sings away merrily, so beautiful.

Right back to my card! The other papers I used are from a Winter's theme collection and I chose a very subtle Cream with a hint of White on it, you can't see it now I have altered it but it is pretty. I cut this to size and ripped it diagonally, I placed it in a  musical notes embossing folder then inked the embossed areas and edges with Black Soot to make them stand out a bit more, I placed this up the top corner so my bird image showed in the bottom.

I looked through my many die cuts to see what I could add and found this gate and fence, I thought it would be nice to open the gate to see the bird so I added this across the bottom of my card.

I found a curved flourish die cut so I trimmed this down and placed it along the top right corner.

I had in my stash a brass metal bird on a perch that looked very similar to the bird in my image so I thought it would go well with my card, I tied a piece of Garden twine on it and attached it to my card over the musical notes.

Among my Aster papers there was a sheet with different sentiments, I chose 'Life is Good', I inked round the edge with Brushed Cordroy and put a foam pad either end then placed it over the twine holding the brass bird in the top left corner, I curled this corner over a little just for added interest and it showed the purple on the other side of my paper so it brought out the Purple Aster that is behind the bird box.

I wanted something to go along the edge of the music paper and found some little swirls that I had die cut out of some card I had coloured with different inks, all neutral shades so I placed these along the edge.

I wanted to add some flowers so I added some garden twine that I had made a bow out of then placed three small paper flowers over the top, this finished my card.

Items Used:

Heartfelt Creations Aster Collection 12X12 Paper Pad

Winter Themed 12X12 Paper Pad (The Range)

Crafters Companion Embossilicious Embossing Folder Musical Notes

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Dies Gilded Gate

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Dies Wrought Iron (Fence)

Garden Twine

Craft Paper Flowers

Brass Bird on Perch (bought from a Craft Fair)

Tattered Lace Floral Edge (Free with Magazine)

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Black Soot & Brushed Cordroy

I am entering this into  http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.ca/2016/01/sing-sing-sing.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Secret Santa!

Hello my crafting friends, so sorry for the long absence again, seems to becoming a bit of a habit lol!

I hope this finds you all safe and well and maybe prepared for Christmas, I am nearly there, present wise at least, still have the food side to sort out but hey shops only close on Christmas day so why worry?!!!

I thought I had posted this project but looking back I see I haven't so here it is!!! It was my Secret Santa present to a work colleague.

I started with two wooden frames and pasted through a stencil with modelling paste and left to dry overnight. I then painted the frames Black and left to dry.

Once dry I lay the stencil over the design again and rubbed Gold Gilding Wax over the pasted design to highlight it then rubbed a little more over the edges of each frame and left to dry.

I then set about making the box to fit, I was hoping to fit them both in one box but  with the size of the frames the card was not wide enough to have a deep box, it only just made being wide enough for one box per frame!

I chose my A3 size card, measured it against the frames to make sure I got the right size and cut off the little bit of excess. I then got my score board and made the box to fit.

To add that bit of luxury I placed a sheet of tissue paper inside each box to wrap the frames in, I placed the two boxes together and tied them up with a big White bow. Using the excess card I had cut off earlier I made a gift tag to match.

There you have the finished gift and it was well received, she loved them.

Items Used:

Wooden Frames-any size

Sheena Douglass Stencil Ornate Swirls

Acrylic Paint Black 

Gilding Wax Gold

Blue Tissue Paper

Crafters Companion A3 Double Sided Centura Pearl Christmas Card 

Crafters Companion Score Board

White Organza Ribbon

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

A little Downton Abbey

Hello my crafting friends, so good to have you pop by today and pay me a little visit, I do appreciate it. If you leave a comment with your blog address I can return the favour.

Today's post is a card I made for a friends birthday last week, she is a big Downtown Abbey fan so I put this one together for her.

I loved these coloured papers that are on the Triple CD Rom, the colours are fabulous as well as the designs and I adored this die for the edge, so Lacey so I had to use it.  The images on the CD are fabulous and I feel this image could well be for a wedding as well as any occasions.

As you can see I matted a sheet of paper onto my base card, die cut the edge die four times and placed these round the edge of the inside of the card.  On the CD you have some Companions cards where they have the background to go with the image and other elements to match so I printed this one off to match the papers then raised the image in the center.

I hope this makes sense and if you are a fan of the Downton Abbey range there are some new embellishments coming this week on Create and Craft, in fact I think the shows start on Monday.

 Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx