Vintage floral

Hello my crafting friends, so good to have you join me today, I hope this finds you all safe and well?

Today's post shows a card that was very simple to make...

I folded an A4 piece of card in half and cut it in two making two A6 size cards.

I chose  one of the papers from Hunkydory Little Pad Vintage Lace then die cut Tattered Lace The Ultimate Die out of White card and trimmed that into two pieces, I attached one half at the top of the card and the other at the bottom. 

I stamped my sentiment with Black Stazon onto White card then die cut it out with Spellbinders Oval Majestic. I placed this on the card as seen there you have the finished card. Quick and simple but affective.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and Dazzle Snowflake

Hello my crafting friends, I do hope you are all safe and well and ready for the big day. I have decided to make this my last post of 2015 so I can concentrate on last minute preparations before we go to my Daughters for Christmas so may I take this opportunity to WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a  HAPPY NEW YEAR.

I hope to be more organized next year and my new year resolution will be to start making my Christmas cards all year, that way by next Christmas they may be all done lol! Watch this space!!!

Today's post is of one of the few Christmas cards I have managed to make, this one was for my dear friend, I liked it so much I have made a few more like it for my Family members!!!

This was inspired by Sue Wilson's design which you can view HERE, it is very similar but not exact but I loved the design so I went with it.

I matted up my base card with some Blue hammer card. Using the shaving foam technique, which you can find HERE  I made the background, I used two different Blues from my Aquatints paints ( I also made some using two Purples) in my shaving foam, I cut to size and stuck a piece of Double Sided Adhesive sheet over the top and coated it with Micro beads then matted this onto my card. I matted up a small rectangle of Blue card onto a piece of White card and placed this in the centre of the card.

I die cut  some snowflakes out of White card and some Dazzle miri card, mounted them together and attached it in the center of the card. In the middle of the snowflake I added a Blue crystal gem. This finished the card.

Items Used:

White Base card

Blue Hammer Card

Aquatints Bright & Beautiful & Pastel sets

Shaving Foam

Spellbinders Create a Flake die

Spellbinders Snowflakes die

Hunkydory Dazzle Miri Card

White card

HobbyHouse Blue Ocean Gem 

Double Sided Adhesive Sheet

Creative Expressions Micro Beads

Purple Poinsettias

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all well? Thank you for looking in on me today its very much appreciated and please feel free to post a comment I would love to hear what you think of my creations.

Good luck to all those up in Scotland today, I hope you get the vote you want.

For todays post I got the old faithful Christmas bauble dies out again, I wanted to use my Purple Pearlescent card but only had one sheet left which meant not much matting & layering, I got round it by adding the one and only embossed Purple card I had with the swirly pattern on, I had three sheets of this Satin Gold Miri card left so I used that as the base card followed by the swirl embossed card, more Gold card, which I edged round with double sided tape and added glitter, this made it look like another layer!Then the sheet of Purple Pearlescent on top of this. I die cut the Christmas Ornaments 2011 out of the Gold & Purple card so you see the card behind and die cut the smaller one in Gold for the sentiment.

From the off cuts of the Gold, Purple & Purple Swirl card I die cut the Poinsettias and leaves, adding some glitter on the vines of the leaves and inking the flowers with Shaded Lilac. To finish the flowers I added a sparkly brad in the center of each flower, Gold for the Purple and Purple for the Gold. I placed these round the edge of the die cut Bauble, leaving just one for the other side. I stamped my sentiment onto the small Bauble with Versamark then heat embossed with Purple embossing powder, attaching this to the center finished the card. Dimensions are 8"X8".

Items Used:

Create and Craft Satin Gold Miri card

Hunkydory Swirl Embossed Card Purple

Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Card Pastel-Purple

Double Sided Adhesive

Purple Glitter 

SB Layered Poinsettias

SB 2011 Heirloom Ornaments

Crafty Impressions Clear Stamps

Papermania Embossing Powder Purple

Papermania Large Glitter Brads

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Shaded Lilac

I will show you the card I made from the offcuts on Saturday.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Autumn Fall

Hi my crafting friends, bit of a late post today but never mind. I have had quite a boring day at work today, a lot of what we have to listen to is irrelevant to us LSA's and more towards the Teachers but we have to stay and listen before we have our meeting in the afternoon. Children are back on Friday so that should be fun!!!

Anyhow, I thought I would give you a break from Winter/Christmas cards and do an Autumn one instead lol!

I recently purchased some beautiful papers from Bearly-Mine and I used one in the background here, the papers are called Fall Fancy, all lovely Autumn design in different colours, this one is one of my favourites.

I found a sheet of brown card in my stash so I used that for the base card, I took the paper and matted it onto Gold Miri card then attached it to my base card. I found an 'Autumn' strip of card in my stash so I matted this along the bottom. In my box of Hunkydory cards I found this lovely image of a Field mouse so attached this onto the card just off center.

Also in my box were these flowers so I put them together and cut some leaves out of Brown & Green card and placed them to the left of the image. 

My sentiment was from a CD Rom which I die cut using Exquisite circles and inked whilst in the die with Dried Marmalade and Fired Brick.I placed this on the card just above the flowers. There you have the finished card. Dimensions 7"X5".

Items used:

Brown Card ( Own stash)

Hunkydory Autumn card set (Last years)

Bearly-Mine Papers Fall Fancy

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Dried marmalade & Fired Brick

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Petite Vinery & Faux Quilled Leaves

Create and C raft Gold Miri Card

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:

http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/september-2014-challenge-autumnal.html

http://houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/september-challenge-photocolor.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Babies Christening

Morning Crafters, hope this finds you all safe and well.

I am glad to report that the new addition Keala is settling in well and my two cats are still looking worried! The female has got a little closer to the door but the Male wont come out of the front room lol! 

Today's card is one of two Christening cards I have been asked to make for a woman at work whose two Grandsons are being Christened next week, they will both be personalized on the front.

I started with two sheets of Creative Expressions Foundation card Light Blue, folded each in half then glued two sides together to form the base.

On the two fronts I matted up with some Crafters Companion White Centura Pearl Card that had been embossed with Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Garden Lattice Embossing Folder, followed by some Blue checked card I had from Hunkydory a while back. I added a little Creative Expressions Scalloped Edge Lace over the check card before matting it onto the White card.

I found some baby images on the net to use on the card, (I just wanted hands and feet), using more CE Blue Card with SB Twisted Metal and Tags to frame the image and add the embellishments on the corners and under the second image on the inside.

Seeing as the card opened like a book I wanted to add something in the middle but not another image so I decided to Emboss some CC Centura Pearl Card with Sheena Douglass Embossing Folder Ancient Arches and attached this to the inside of the card, I printed out a verse and attached that to the back of the second opening of the card, hope this all makes sense? Sorry if you are unable to clearly see the embossed Arches on the inside, its not a very good photo!

Apart from adding the names on the front the card was complete.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Peaceful Pink Christmas

Morning my friends, hope this finds you all well? 

Today's card is another I did for the Pink Christmas Challenge I could not decide which one I liked best so entered both!

This is another easel card, I started with some old Hunkydory foiled Christmas card I had in my stash, this was a deep Pink though it looks Red in the picture! I folded the card to make the easel then added the left over Create and Craft Pink Glitter card on the inside of the base.  I had first wrapped a piece of Pink dotted Ribbon round before I stuck it down. I cut two boarders from SB Venetian Accents out of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Card Pastel Pink and attached one to the bottom of the easel card. 

Onto some White card I stamped another image from Do Crafts Papermania Enchanted Christmas with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot and coloured it in with Promarkers before die cutting with SB Grand Decorative Circles, whilst in the die I inked up with TH Tumbled Glass to act as a sky then embossed some Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Card Pastel Pink using the same die, cut round the edge and fixed the image in place.

I attached my second boarder onto the front fold of the easel card and attached the image in the center over the top as seen.

I die cut some SB Shapeabilities Die-lites Holly Twigs and Leaves and painted the leaves with Acrylic Paints-Crimson and Titanium White then rubbed a bit of Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Wax Spring Green over the top to show up the embossed stems, I placed three medium size leaves onto my image with the Berries. 

On more White card I stamped my sentiment from Crafty Impressions Clear Stamps Christmas Snowflake Sentiments with TH Black Soot and die cut it with SB  Shapeabilities Die-lites Petite Lables One, I inked in the die with TH Victorian Velvet, attached this onto the base of the easel and added more of the smaller SB Holly Leaves and Berries on the edge.

There you have the finished card.

I would like to enter this for Winter Wonderland
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/im-dreaming-of-pink-christmas.html 
and Fab n Funky Challenge
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/challenge-211-pink.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Happy Birthday!

Morning crafters, hope you are all safe and well? If not lots of love & hugs sent your way.

I would just like to thank you all for the lovely Birthday comments on Monday, had a wonderful time, got loads of money so some will be spent on crafty stuff, I have a long list lol! I got a new mobile phone and a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my kids and hubby gave me money and bought tickets for us to see Chris Packham (Spring/Autumn Watch)talk about his life, photography and wildlife which we went to see last night, unfortunately the show was cancelled as Chris was stuck in none moving traffic in Chelmsford! They are going to reschedule later in the year. We also went out Monday night bowling which was good fun, so a good birthday was had.

Today's card is one I made for my Nephews birthday last week (6th), I never got round to posting it up then so thought I would show it to you today. It was a very quick and easy card to do.

I used a sheet of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Pastel Card and folded it in half Portrait. Using a piece of patterned paper from the Tattered Lace Magazine, I ran this through Sheena Douglass Embossing Folder Distress Splatter and matted this onto the base card. Now I wish I had matted it up on White card first, then attached it to the base card as this would have looked better with an extra layer.

Using Debbie Moore's Cd Rom Cards For Men Vintage Transport Volume 4 I printed off the Pyramid Airplane onto Photo paper, cut out and glued each layer together and placed it in the center of my card.

The sentiment came from an old card kit of Hunkydory's, I attached this under the image on the card.

There you have the finished card, I did say it was a quick and easy one.

Next post Friday.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx