Peace At Christmas

Morning my crafting friends, so nice of you to join me today. If you have a blog of your own then please do leave a comment with a link back to your blog and I shall return the favour.

For those of you who may be interested I think Sue Wilson's dies are on Create and Craft this Saturday at 9am onwards, its a special weekender so lots of shows.

Today's card is the rescued Stags Head from the other week. You can still see the spots of ink but I just coloured it in more around the head to try and hide it a little. Once finished I applied a piece of Double Adhesive sheet and covered it with Micro beads, I am afraid the photo does not do it justice. I then matted it onto some Brown foiled card.

I matted some White card with some Gold Miri card and Christmas paper I had found with a tree scene that I have had for a number of years, cutting it down just to show the row of trees in the background. I attached my image to the left of the trees.

I stamped my sentiment from two different stamps onto White card using Forest Moss Ink and die cut with Imperial Gold Four. I placed this into the bottom right corner to finish the card.

Dimensions are 7.5" X 7.5".

Items used:

Basic White Textured card

Create and Craft  Gold Miri Card

Dovecraft Victorian Christmas 12" X 12" Paper Pack

Hunkydory Foiled card Brown

Sweet Poppy Stencil Stags Head

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo & Forest Moss

Creative Expressions Micro Beads

Spellbinders Imperial Gold Gold Lables Four

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Winter Greetings

Crafty Impressions Clear Stamps

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Figgy Pudding Lane Three

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all well? Thank you for visiting me today I do hope you come and visit again, please do leave a comment as its always nice to know what people think of my creations.

I would love to welcome my latest followers Marie-Louise, (Marie has a beautiful blog you can find here http://myworld-marie-louise.blogspot.co.uk/), Doreen (Doreen's beautiful blog is here http://doreensdream.blogspot.co.uk/,  & Pamellia, welcome Ladies and welcome to any others I may have forgotten, so sorry if I have.

I promised you my other Figgy Lane card today, I promise this is the last you will see of it for a while as I know it can be quite boring seeing the same card even if there is a slight difference. Today's is still an aperture one but I have heat embossed the outline only this time and coloured the rest, its a combination of the last two if you like?

I inked the folder up with my Versamark Ink pad and heat embossed the outline with White embossing powder. Coloured the rest in with Distress Inks and again, overlaid some snow acetate over the top.

I put it into an aperture card but with a wider edge so I could decorate it with two boarders and some ribbon, then coloured in the sentiment to match the card. The most fiddly bit of this, believe it or not was doing the boarders. I used Satin card, something I have used many times but for some reason this would not cut, five times it went through the machine and even then the  Satin film was starting to come off the card whilst taking it out of the die, luckily it only came off the back so the front was okay to use. I added the ribbon, not to hide anything but because I felt it needed it rather than just two boarders back to back.

Items Used:

Sheena Douglass Festive Embossing Folder Figgy Lane

Creative Expressions Cobalt Blue Card

Spellbinders Venetian Accents

Craft Ribbon Blue Check

Create and craft Gold Satin Card

Tim Holtz Distress Inks-Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo, Squeezed Lemonade, Fired Brick, Chipped Sapphire & Black Soot.

Papermania Embossing Powder Seafoam White

Hunkydory Snowy Acetate

Kanban Christmas Kit Sentiment

Versamark Ink Pad

Out of the three I think I prefer the inked one, no embossing powder just coloured.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Figgy Pudding Lane Two

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all well? I do appreciate you visiting my blog and its especially great to see how many viewers I have around the world not just in the UK so Thank you.

Remember the other Wednesday when I showed you Figgy Pudding Lane  well here is another take on it, the last one will be on Sunday! Where I heat embossed the whole image last time this time I have just inked all the outline with Black Soot and coloured in with Distress Inks then adding some Polar White Flower-soft as snow (sorry Ang) and covered in the snow acetate again.

I put this into an aperture frame like the last one just adding a sentiment at the top. This was quick to do and I know more could be done with it if I had the time, I would love to add an old lamp post and carol singers, or Santa & Sleigh in the sky, even an embossed, wider frame would look good. I am sure many of you could think of more to add to it.

Items used:

Basic White card

Sheena Douglass Festive Embossing Folder Figgy Lane

Tim Holtz Distress Inks-Black Soot, Pumice Stone,Vintage Photo, Squeezed                
Lemonade,Rusty Hinge, Chipped Sapphire.

Flower soft Polar White

Hunkydory Snow Acetate

Kanban Christmas Kit Sentiment

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

Thomas Kinkade Lighthouse

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all well? Well its back to work for me tomorrow, where has this Summer gone, countdown to Christmas now lol! You can tell I don't like my job can't you lol!?

Well I think I have got most of the jobs on my list done that I wanted to get done over the summer, I was hoping to get most of my Christmas cards done too but just not had the time, cannot believe how quickly the time has gone. 

I am hoping to keep on top of my cards so apologies if I lack behind some, gotta get in a routine again now, with the dark nights drawing in I shall have to start taking the dog out for a walk as soon as I get home from work which will leave me very little craft time, it will be a case of do I do dinner/housework or craft Mmmm... I know which I would prefer lol! Many a time hubby has come home around 6.30pm and found me crafting with no dinner done, not that he expects it on the table as soon as he gets in lol! I have now been told no more late dinners please (usually get it around 8!) so gotta find a new routine lol!

Anyhow, today is my Father-in-Laws birthday so we will be round there for a Chinese!!! My poor Son will have to fend for himself tonight!!! Here is the card I have made for FIL.

 

My base card was using a sheet of Blue card folded in half Landscape. I embossed a strip of darker Blue card and attached it across the middle to add some interest.

Out of White card I die cut SB Labels Twenty-Five and SW Vienna. I cut a piece of Teal card so the die cut frame would fit then added the Vienna die cut in the center. I chose an image from Thomas Kinkade CD Rom and die cut it with SB Lables Twenty-Five and attached it over the top of SW Vienna die. To add interest I attached the Teal card at an angle on the center strip. Mind you looking at it it fits well as it looks like the sea is running that way onto the rocks lol!

To finish the card I added a sentiment from an old card kit that matched the colours!

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Foundation card Blue, Cobalt Blue, Teal & Coconut White.

Spellbinders Lables Twenty-Five

Sue Wilson Austrian Collection Vienna

Joanna Sheen Thomas Kinkade CD Rom

Hunkydory card kit-Sentiment

Embossing Folder-

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx