Thinking of You Butterfly

Hello my crafting friends, sorry I am a bit late posting, I hope this finds you all well, lots of hugs to those who need them.

Now I decided to play again today, get a bit messy like we crafters do and whilst I had some colours on my glass mat I came across an old stamp of a Butterfly so I painted the colours onto the butterfly and stamped it onto water colour card and this was the result, a bit wishy-washy but I liked it.

I was playing with some Lumin Art mica powders, not brilliant but I got an image and rather than waste it I turned it into a card adding the sentiment at the bottom with Peacock Feathers DI.

A few self adhesive pearls in each corner finished the card.

Items Used:

White Hammered card
White Water Colour Card
Creative Expressions Butterfly Stamp
Lumin Art Mica Powders Various colours
Creative Expressions Friendship Stamps
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Peacock Feathers

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Christmas Ivy

Morning my crafting friends, so good to have you come and visit me today, I really do appreciate it.

On Tuesday I showed you a card I had made with some sprayed backgrounds, this is another one today, quite similar in fact so I hope you don't mind?

I used the White Stamping card as my base and this time I used Water-colour card for the center sprayed panel. I used just Yellow & Blue to spray this one as I knew it would give lovely shades of Green. The top photo is the true colour, the smaller close up image is showing a little darker!

I attached my panel at the top of the card using Foam Tape then die cut some Ivy using more of the Water-colour Card and placed it across the top. of the panel.

I stamped my sentiment onto White card and cut it into a ribbon banner and placed this at the bottom of the card as seen.

Another quick and easy card, I thought it would make an unusual Christmas card.

Items Used;

Sheena Douglass White Stamping Card

Sheena Douglass Perfect Partners Festive Ivy Die

Sheena Douglass Perfect Partners Festive Fancies Festive Ivy Stamps

Aquatints

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Forest Moss

Water Colour Card White

I am away for next few days in Cornwall so see you next week!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Rose Garden

Morning my crafting friends, so nice to be here and I look forward to your visits even though mine seem few and far between lately!!!

So sorry for the absence on some of your posts I have been trying to catch up we were so busy at the weekend I don't even know where the time went! We have had a lot to sort out down the allotment as we have a committee member who wants us off purely because he gave permission for other plot holders to help themselves to our belongings when we were not there saying we had left, by getting rid of us hes covering his own back, one thing led to another which resulted in him threatening to burn our shed down so sadly the police have had to get involved, it all happens down allotments I can tell you lol!  At least its being dealt with, he has admitted it to the police but did not want the rest of the committee to know so we have let them know now we are just waiting to see whether they let him stay or not! Watch this space lol! Gosh this IS  supposed to be a craft site what am I doing rambling on about allotments, my apologies.

Sincere thanks to Suzie & Ang for wondering why I had gone quite lol! I spend so much time rambling on I never get time to craft to get more cards on here lol!!! I do appreciate your concerns so thank you but I am fine just trying to cut back on all the waffle lol! Here I am posting an essay ha ha!!! As for my pets well, I think I mentioned I lost another rabbit a couple of weeks ago bless her but the dog is fine spreading tufts of her fur coat around the place I am sure I could make a few jumpers out of all the hair lol! The cats are still not sure of her, its ok if she doesn't move lol! My female cat will walk past her now but only if she can give the dog a little snarl along the way just to let her know whose boss!!!

Well that's enough rabble now for my card...

Items used are:

Basic 6X6 White card
Lidls Cream Card
Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Pastel Blue Card
Justrite Secret Garden Background Stamp
Papermania Embossing Powder Seafoam White
Tattered Lace Free Rose Die with Magazine
Spellbinders Curved Boarders Two
Spellbinders Splendid Circles
Creative Expressions Adhesive Pearls
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tumbled Glass

I was going to colour the Rose die but then decided to leave it Cream as it may have been too much!

If anyone wants any further information on how I made the card please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Friends...

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well?  Thank you for visiting my post today I do appreciate it, I love to read all your comments whatever they may be lol!

Today is my 9th Wedding Anniversary so Happy Anniversary to my Hubby Ian, this is not his card as at time of scheduling this I had not even made one whoops! Better get a move on!

I am still playing with Sheena Douglass Taste of India at the moment as you can tell lol! I loved this stamp SD Taste of India Henna Mango the first time I saw it, there is so much you can do with it but I just wanted to keep it simple for now. I inked some card up with Tim Holtz Distress Inks Squeezed Lemonade, Fired Brick and Peacock Feathers then stamped the Henna mango with my Versamark Ink Pad and heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Black Sparkle, I rubbed round the edge of the card with TH Black Soot and painted the design in with TH Fired Brick and Crushed Olives, I could have gone further but did not want to ruin it. I matted this onto Creative Expressions Foundation Card Burgundy then onto CC Kraft card. I added the sentiment from CE Unmounted Stamps Classic Sentiments using TH Black Soot.

Using more Burgundy card I stamped the boarder from SD T of I Mandala stamp set with Versamark Ink Pad then heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Gold, I cut these out and attached them to the edge of the card as seen. It wasn't until I stuck them down I realized that I should have stamped a longer piece of card so I could have line up the two sides so they matched, next time...!

There you have your finished card, dimensions 5" X 7"

Thank you for looking, now I had better go and make Hubby a card, Jacquie xxx

Life Without Friendship...

Hi there crafters, hope this finds you all well.

November already...cannot believe how quickly this year is going.

Anyhow, I have dug up an old, very old card for you today, its one I did oh, maybe well over a year ago if not more lol!!!

I started with a sheet of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl White Card folded in half to make a 5x7 card.

Now The next layer was of some Yellow textured card, I think it was from Kanban but I cannot be sure on this one sorry. I cut a piece of it out and matted it onto my card, with some White card I inked it up with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade then stamped Woodware Clear Magic stamps-Grasses once then stamped half of it again to fill across the bottom of the card using Tim Holtz  Distress Ink Vintage Photo, above this I stamped the sentiment from Woodware Clear Magic Stamps BD23 2DE (had no name on these) again with Vintage Photo.

Using Spellbinders Cherry Blossom I die cut a flower out of C.Companion Centura Pearl White and inked it with T.H. Squeezed Lemonade, the smaller flower in the center was of the Yellow card using the same die set. I attached this in the top right corner.

Using more White card I stamped a sentiment using Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Kind Thoughts and die cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Thirteen, whist still in the die I inked with T.H. Squeezed Lemonade, I attached this to the bottom of the card as seen then with Spellbinders Asian Accents I die cut some of the little flowers inked these up with Squeezed Lemonade and attached them to the bottom of the card. There you have the finished card.

A quick and easy card to make, I know its unusual to have two sentiments on the card but I remember at the time I could not decide between each so put both on! Its nothing fancy but I feel the sentiment says it all.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx