All Our Best Wishes

Morning crafters, hope this finds you all safe and well and thank you for visiting my post today, its much appreciated.

This is the second card I managed to get done on Monday. I started with a sheet of Cream Textured card (own stash) for the base card, I matted and layered this up with Creative Expressions Foundation Card Burgundy followed by more of the cream card.

Using more of the Burgundy card I stamped on either end with Justrite background Stamp Elegant Fronds with my Versamark Ink Pad and heat embossed with Papermania Embossing Powder Red Tinsel, this does leave a slight glitter effect but it does not show up on the photograph. I rounded the corners before attaching it to the card.

With more Cream card I die cut SB Nestabilities Decorative Elements Splendid Circles, whilst it was still in the die I inked round the edge with TH Distress Ink Fired Brick and stamped the sentiment from Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Treasured Memories again using Fired Brick. I then attached it to the center of the card.

Out of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Ivory card I die cut using Tonic Emily and layered this over the top of the circle to form a decorative frame.

There you have the finished card, I hope you like it? I apologize for the couple of glue spots on the card, the Emily die is so thin there are not too many places to glue it down so the glue spread when it was pressed onto the card, so annoying lol!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

FRIEND

Morning my crafting friends, so nice of you to join me today, I hope this finds you all safe and well? I managed to get a little play time in on Monday so this is one of the cards I made.

I started with a sheet of Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Card Pastel Yellow and folded it half to make a 7X5 Landscape card, on top of this I matted and layered some White card. With more of the CC Centura Yellow card I stamped it twice with Justrite Background Stamp Secret Garden using my Versamark Ink Pad then heat embossed it with Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder Tropic Yellow Lustre to give a tone on tone look, I must say I did like the look of this when it was finished, its hard to see its full potential by the photograph. Before attaching this to my card I wrapped a piece of Fantastic Ribbons Yellow Satin Ribbon round the middle and stuck it round the back.

With Crafters Companion Centura Pearl White Card I die cut the outer frame from Spellbinders Nestabilities Majestic Elements Majestic Labels Twenty-Five and the Oval Frame and Tag from Wild Rose, I attached the Oval Frame onto my card in the center of the Labels Twenty-Five Frame then with the tag I stamped on 'Friends' using Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Heartfelt Sentiments and Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot, I inked round the edge of this with TH Squeezed Lemonade and attached it to the center of the Oval with Foam Pads to raise it up slightly.

I made a bow with more Yellow Ribbon attached to the top of the card and added a Creative Expressions Small Pearl Embellishment in the center along with CE Self Adhesive Pearls on each corner.

There you have the finished card. I was quite happy with how it turned out and I love the background.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Butterfly & Roses

Morning  crafters, hope this finds you all safe and well and that you all had a good weekend? I managed to find time to make one card, yes just one and that's todays post lol! I just don't know where the time goes lately, I have intentions of spending a whole afternoon crafting then find I only manage a couple of hours if I'm lucky, yet nothing seems to get done! Is your day like that?

I wish to give a very warm welcome to my newest follower John Lockwood, I am honored to have John as a follower his cards are amazing, for those of you who have not visited Johns website you are missing out, its http://johnnextdoor.blogspot.co.uk/  do go and take a look you wont be disappointed. Thank you John for joining me and feel free to nick any ideas, we crafters like to share.

Well, after Saturdays post when I did the tail of roses from the bow, I thought it looked like a butterfly so that is what I have done on todays card.

 

My base card is Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Pastel card in Purple folded in half to make a basic 7X5 card, I cut a piece of CC Centura Pearl White card to size then embossed it with the Regency Swirls Embossing Folder again. I matted this onto my base card.

With a piece of the CC Centura Purple card I embossed the Tattered Lace Butterfly die and hand cut this out then die cut with the same TL Butterfly die but with White Centura card, I glued the center of the White butterfly onto the body of the Purple butterfly so the wings were loose. I attached this to my card then added the Papermania Satin Buds onto the body and down as a trail.

Onto some more CC Centura Purple card I stamped Phil Martin Butterfly Dance Background Stamp with my Versamark Ink Pad and heat embossed with Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder Tropical Pearl Lustre then die cut with SB Labels Eighteen.

I looked for a verse to do with Butterflies off the net, found an appropriate one and printed that out, I die cut again with SB Lables Eighteen and inked round the edge with Promarker Lilac, I did have the author printed at the bottom of the verse but the die cut it off! It was by Heinrich Heine, 'New Spring'. I attached this onto the the Butterfly background Stamped card and attached it to the top right corner of the card. I added a Purple Gem in each corner and there you have the finished card.
I am not sure whether I should have put another one or two layers on the card, perhaps it would have looked better with another layer of White & Purple before the embossed card? I never do seem to put enough layers on my cards, I only think about them when I have finished then its too late lol! Anyhow, do let me know what you think.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Happy Easter

Morning crafters, sorry I have not been on lately just not had the time to do any crafting but hopefully that will change now I am on holiday. I have tried to keep up with all of your posts, if I have missed anyone then I apologize.
I would love to give a very warm Welcome to two new followers Diane from Charmingly Creative and Flora from Craft Lark, they both have beautiful cards on their blogs so do go and take a look, welcome ladies.

Had a great evening last night, went to see Showaddywaddy at our local Town Hall, brilliant, brilliant show, great guys, met them all afterwards. Well worth seeing if you like Rock 'n' Roll and want a very entertaining night.

I have made this card for my Daughter & her partner for Easter, we are going up to see them Easter weekend so I will take it then, cheaper what with the cost of postage now. I chose this image for my card as my Daughter does a lot of sewing in her spare time making Surf Board Socks for Billabong and now she has an order for Wetsuit bags to go around USA, so her spare time is limited what with her day job as a Solicitor, I am so proud of what she has achieved all by herself.

On the back of some Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Card  I stamped my image from Joanna Sheen House Mouse Designs Rubber Stamp with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot, coloured it in with Promarkers and die cut with SB Lables Twenty. Whilst in the die I inked round the edge with TH Bundled Sage. It was the fact I had chosen the Green ink for the edge and Purple for the Lambs hat & scarf that made me decide to keep to these two colours throughout the whole card.

I used the Creative Expressions Spring Green card for the base followed by some Lidls Purple card which I embossed using the Regency Swirls Embossing Folder(cannot remember who this is by), I placed a strip of paper from Hideaway Premium Paper Pad 6X6 vertically across the card as seen and attached the image in the center of this towards the bottom. 

I made a messy bow out of a piece of Green Satin Ribbon from Fantastic Ribbons and attached it to the top left corner, I did at first place a sparklet gem in the center but felt the card looked too bare so I took it off and attached some Papermania little Satin Rose Buds in the center of the bow and trailed them down to the image, I then decided to carry up from the image to the sentiment that I printed on the PC, die cut again with SB Lables Twenty and inked again with Bundled Sage. Adding one more Satin Rose in the corner, the other side of the sentiment, finished the card. I could have added more satin Roses round the bottom of the image but did not want to over kill on the roses!

The finished dimensions are 7X5

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Blue Wedding

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well, I hope you Mothers out there had a fabulous Mother's day and was spoilt rotten, my son made me a beautiful card which I will show at the end of this post, and cooked dinner for us as well as mowing the lawns for me. My daughter lives in Cornwall so it was hard for her to spoil her Mom other than by some beautiful flowers. 

Thank you all for the fabulous comments you have made of late on my posts, Ang I am sure you would have laughed if you had read my post earlier, perhaps I should have left it lol! Reading it you would have thought I was drunk rather than tired and I can assure you it was the latter lol! We did have a most enjoyable evening.

Remember I mentioned that other Wedding card I was doing for one of the gals at work whose dress is Sliver & Royal Blue with some feathers well here is my card to go with that! She does not know about my blog so there is no fear of her seeing it on here.

I started with my base card joining two sheets of Silver Miri card together to make roughly an 8X8 card, I matted and layered some Lidls Blue card followed by more of the Silver card. I inked up the Craftwell Embossing Folder, that I had with my E Bosser, with my Versamark Pad and placed inside a different shade of Lidls Blue card, I ran it through the E Bosser then sprinkled some Papermania Sliver Embossing Powder over it and heat embossed, as you will see not all the areas were covered but that is how I wanted it otherwise I felt it would be too much. I cut this to size and matted it onto my card.

Using the Silver card and some Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Ivory card I die cut the Tonic Emily die two times and embossed it once with the Lidls Dark Blue card, cutting it around the edge. I attached the Ivory outer piece onto my card then after layering the silver piece onto the embossed Blue card I matted this over the top, turning it round so it was at a different angle as seen. With the inner piece of the Ivory die cut I stamped my sentiment from Creative Expressions Un-mounted Stamps Kind Thoughts and attached this into the center of the Silver frame so it slotted into place perfectly, I feel the card needed this Ivory to break it up a bit as the Blue and Silver was a tiny bit overwhelming on its own. I chose three White Feathers (The Range) and arranged them in the bottom right corner and attached a Hobby House Embellishment Ocean Aurora on the bottom of the feathers to hide where they all joined. I was quite pleased with the finished results and it makes an unusual Wedding card!

 There you have the finished card, dimensions are 7.5 X 7.5

Here is the card my Son made for me, I wish I had been a fly on the wall as he had to keep trying to hide from me and find where certain  items were as well as work out how to use the E Bosser lol! He said he did start it one night when I was in bed then realized how noisy the E Bosser was so stopped!!! Bless him, it had a beautiful verse inside too.

Sorry for not getting round to looking at your posts yesterday I hope to catch up today when I finish work.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx