No posts for a while...

Hello my crafting friends, just to let you know I won't have any posts for a while as I woke up Saturday morning and my back has gone. To cut a long story short I suffer with disintegrating  discs amongst other problems with my spine and I have had two more going for a while, I am hoping I have not lost another but the signs say otherwise, I am hoping to get to see a doctor tomorrow to be referred to a back specialist again, we all know how long these things can take, however, because of the amount of pain etc I am unable to craft, I have tried but just can't at the moment, it takes me a while to just come on here and view your wonderful creations and comment, which is why my comments have been quite short of late lol! So I apologize for the absence, I am sure I have a couple of cards that have not been put up yet so I will schedule them asap. My LPoCF DT card is scheduled already. I am spending most of my time in bed resting, its the only way I can get comfortable at the moment, sorry to be the bearer of more bad news but I look forward to viewing your beautiful creations whenever possible.

Until then keep crafting,

Love & Hugs

Jacquie xxx

Thank you for being my Friend

Hello my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well, BIG HUGS to those who are not. I do appreciate you popping by today and I hope you like what you see. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to e-mail me.

I am pleased to say I am back after a rather hectic week, thankfully we were on half term so I did not have to go to work as well!!! Thank you all so very much for the lovely comments, I do appreciate them. The funeral went well, was quite a nice service and my friend is recovering in hospital although she is in quite a bit of pain but is staying strong, she is worried about becoming depressed as she is always on the go, never sits down, always active and now she cant move so she is worried she will never be the same again but things look positive, I have told her to keep the exercises up to get her leg moving lol! Her wonderful Daughter takes her mobile with her so we can have a 5 minute chat every night when she visits which has been lovely, I am hoping to visit her again in the next few weeks.
I would like to wish Ang a speedy recovery too, hope you are feeling better my friend.

I started todays card by using up a scrap piece of Spring Green card I had left over from another project, it was big enough to fold in half to make a small card. I also found a piece of White card that had been embossed so I added that as a second layer.

Using more Spring Green Card I die cut the Dainty Oval frame and cut the center piece out of White card to which I stamped my sentiment. 

Out of more White card I die cut the Elegant Laced Edger and Corner twice and attached these to the top of my card then attached the oval frame on top of these (The corners I trimmed and attached to the oval frame on each end).

I made a bow out of some floral ribbon and attached this in the bottom corner of the frame, on top I added two Camellia petals to make a flower, I added a sparkly gem in the center then placed this on top of the bow. Two beautiful stick pins made by http://spanishcrafter.blogspot.co.uk/ were placed under the bow and there you have the finished card.

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Spring Green

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Embossing Folder Eternity

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Configurations Elegant lace Edger

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Camellia Complete Petals

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Frames & Tags Dainty Oval Frame

Creative Expressions John Lockwood Element Stamps Daisy Chain Element

Kaisercraft Sparklet Gems Fern

Floral Ribbon (own stash)

Wendy http://spanishcrafter.blogspot.co.uk/ Stick pins 

White card

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Amber Camellia

Hello my crafting friends, good to have you visit me again, I hope its a Happy Thursday for you all, if not BIG HUGS are sent your way.

This is a scheduled post but i am adding this...I apologize for the lack of comments on peoples blogs, with my MIL funeral and now a very close friend of mine, who has always been like a second mother to me, has fallen and broken her hip, she has just had a hip replacement so I have been up Norfolk visiting her, its all happening this week!!! Take care everyone. xxx

I am hoping we will have some decent weather this week, this May has got to be one of the worse Mays  for weather, I am convinced the seasons are changing and getting later lol!

Remember my card from the other Monday when I did two quick cards? Well this is the second one.

I painted the background using Aquatints again but this time using the Pastel colours, I used the Blue and Purple blending them together then spraying with water and dabbing dry.

I matted this up onto a White Base card that I had previously stamped with my sentiment.

I die cut some Complete Petals from the Camellia dies and inked them with Fossilized Amber, beautiful colour, I quite liked how I got the two toned look by using less or more of the ink. I glued three layers  together to form a substantial flower, pinched the ends of the petals together and added a pearl in the center of each finished flower.

In the center of the card I placed a couple of Faux Quilled Leaves and added the flowers on top. There you have the finished card. Dimension 6"X4".

Items Used:

White Card

Sheena Douglass Spectrum Noir Aquatints Pastels

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Faux Quilled Leaves

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Camellia Complete Petals

Creative Expressions John Lockwood Elements Stamps Daisy Chain Elements

Creative Expressions Self Adhesive Pearls

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Fossilized Amber

I would like to enter this intovhttp://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-16/
http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/challenge-86-keep-it-simple.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Picket Fence

Hello my friends, hope today finds you all safe and well, hugs to those who need them today.

I wanted to do another mixed media card so started by putting papers together, I distressed the edges and wrapped some scalloped lace round before attaching the first layer to my base card, on top of this I added half a doily to the top right corner.

With my second layer I distressed the edges and inked them with Vintage Photo. I inked up some Funky Floral stamps with my versamark ink pad and heat embossed the leaves with Bronze embossing powder and the flowers with Artic lake Lustre followed by Tropic Yellow Lustre, these are a Pale Lilac and Yellow but together they look Green!!!

I made the picket fence out of an alteration tag and painted it with White Gesso, I attached this to the bottom of the card then stamped over the top with a grass stamp using Forest Moss.

On a piece of White card I stamped the Bird using my versamark pad again and heat embossed it with Black embossing powder, I  fussy cut it out ad attached it to my card as seen.

I felt the fence looked too plain so I added a Blue Butterfly that I had stamped and cut onto one of the posts then for the sentiment I die cut a tag, inked with Fossilized Amber and tied some twine through the hole to hand it over another post. I hand wrote the sentiment on the tag as I did not have any sentiment stamps small enough!

I do keep looking at it and thinking I should add something else but as I am not sure what I have decided to leave it be lol!

Items Used:

Crafters Companion Pearlescent Card Chocolate Brown

12 X 12 papers, sorry cannot remember the name of these

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Funky Floral

Creative Expressions Layered Scalloped  Lace

Creative Expressions John Lockwood Elements Clear Stamps-Daffodil Elements (Grass)

Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powders Artic Lake Lustre & Tropic Yellow Lustre

Artemio Clear Stamps-Bird

Stix Alteration Tags-Fence

Ranger Dina Wakely Gesso White

Spellbinders basic Tags

Kanban Clear Stamps-Oriental Butterfly

Papermania Embossing Powder Black & Copper

Dovecraft Paper Lace Doily

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Vintage Photo, Peacock Feathers & Fossilized Amber

Versamark Ink Pad 

Twine

Foam Pads

I would like to enter this into http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2015/05/challenge-1-may-vintage-garden.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Roar with Pride

Morning my crafting friends, hope you are having an enjoyable weekend, there are plenty of hugs going round to those who need them right now.

I decided to have a play yesterday and do a sort of CAS card, one layer. I have a few stamps I bought a while back that I have not used yet, this being one of them, and I thought they would do as a male card.

I got my card base ready and cut to size then measured a piece of White card to the size I wanted.

Using distress inks I started blending them together to form the background then stamped the grasses from John Lockwood's Daffodil  Elements stamps, these are so handy! Next I inked up my Lion stamp with my versamark ink pad and heat embossed it with Black embossing powder.

I got my Aquatints water colours and mixed the Orange and Browns together until I got a colour I was happy with and painted him in as seen. 

I stamped my sentiment at the bottom of the base card, attached my image with foam tape and there you have the finished card.

Items Used:

White card

Printable Heaven Leather card Cream

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Bundled Sage, Brushed Cordroy, Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers & Forest Moss

Spectrum Noir Aquatints 33, 35, 39 & 42

Sheena Douglass Little Bit Sketchy Stamps-Roar

Papermania Embossing Powder Black

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Friends Sentiments

Creative Expressions John Lockwood Element Stamp Daffodil Elements ( Grass)

Ranger Archival Ink Black

I would like to enter this intohttp://addictedtocas.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/challenge-64-animal.html
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/week-312-happy-6th-birthday-allsorts.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx