Cobblestone Mill In Autumn

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

Thank you to Christine, Hazel & Suzie for your lovely comments yesterday on the Remembrance image, I would love to visit some battlefields, though my sister did take me to the ones in France near where she lives and I love to see a field of poppies, nothing so beautiful. 

I thought today I would post this card as Autumn is definitely coming to an end so before it does I wanted to show one of my favorite images of Thomas Kinkade.

I took my base card, matted it up with some White card then embossed Burgundy card that had first been wrapped with some beautiful Autumn Leaves Ribbon.

I printed the image, cut it out and matted and layered it onto Burgundy card then White card. I placed this on top of the ribbon on the left side of the card.

I stamped my sentiment onto some White card, die cut, inked through die and matted it onto some Burgundy card also die cut with the a larger die from same set, I attached this to the ribbon with Foam Pads and added a bow out of the same Autumn Leaves Ribbon and placed this on top of the ribbon at edge of the sentiment.

There you have the finished card.

Items Used:


Joanna Sheen-Thomas Kinkade Papercraft CD
Crafters Comapnion-Centura Pearl Gold card
Creative Expressions-Foundations Card Burgundy
Own Stash-White Card
E-Bay-Autumn Leaves Ribbon
Spellbinders-Die-lites Petite Lables One
Tim Holtz Distress Inks-Fired Brick
Sheena Douglass-Little Bit Oriental Embossing Folder Maple Leaf

I am trying to shorten the 'essays' on my post explaining how I make my cards as they seem rather long at times and I am sure by looking at the image you could tell what I have done, so please do let me know if it sounds rather abrupt or whether its not enough information or even too much! I may change the format again as I am still not happy with it but I welcome any advice/comment. You will notice the post for the next few days will be of the old way that's because I posted those before this one lol! Last minute decision to put an Autumn card in first, that's me!!! So sorry for any confusion there may be with tomorrows post and next few days!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Victorian Christmas

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

Another little Christmas card for you today.

I started with my 6x6 White card and matted it up with more White card.

 With more White card I stamped with Heartfelt Creations Peaceful Night Pre cut set and Papermania Clear stamps-Sleigh using Tim Holtz Distress Inks Peacock Feathers and Dried Marigold then ran it through Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Garden Lattice Embossing Folder and inked round the edge with more Dried Marigold. I rounded the corners then matted it onto the card.

I chose a Christmas image from Joanne Sheen Thomas Kinkade CD Rom, printed it off and die cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Decorative Elements Imperial Gold-Gold Ivy, I die cut a piece of Gold card using a larger die from the Gold Ivy set and matted and layered the two together before placing on the front of the card as seen.

Using a piece of White card I die cut Spellbinders Shapeabilities Layered Poinsettia using the two smallest dies and inked through these with T.H. Peacock Feathers, I placed these onto my card as seen, then using Cosmic Shimmer Olympic Gold PVA I added faux Pearls round the edge of the card and one in the center of the Poinsettia.

There you have the finished card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Down at the Farm

Morning crafters, HAPPY HALLOWEEN  to everyone and I hope you are all well, my this week is going fast!

Sorry no Halloween card but one of the beautiful images from Thomas Kinkade.

I started with my basic White 8x8 card and matted this up with Create and Craft card-Green.  With more White card I ran it through the Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Embossing Folder-Sea Garden and matted and layered up onto my card.

I chose an image of a Farm from Joanna Sheen Thomas Kinkade CD Rom ( I always hoped there would be a second CD Rom of his work available), after printing the image onto Photo Paper I die cut it with Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles. Using more of the Green card I embossed with the same die from Radiant Rectangles and attached the image to this so the embossed parts of the Green card came through the areas cut out of the image. I then attached this onto my card at an angle.

I used a sentiment from a sheet of sentiments I had typed up and die cut it with Spellbinders Shapeabilities Die-lites Petite Lables One, I inked through the die with a little Tim Holtz Distress Ink Dried Marigold, with a bit of Green card I embossed using the same die from Petite Lables One, this left a little ridge for the sentiment to lay on. I attached this to the bottom right corner of the card and attached three little Green gems from Create and Craft Iridescent Gems to the top left corner to balance the card out.

There you have the finished card.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx