Purple Poinsettias

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all well? Thank you for looking in on me today its very much appreciated and please feel free to post a comment I would love to hear what you think of my creations.

Good luck to all those up in Scotland today, I hope you get the vote you want.

For todays post I got the old faithful Christmas bauble dies out again, I wanted to use my Purple Pearlescent card but only had one sheet left which meant not much matting & layering, I got round it by adding the one and only embossed Purple card I had with the swirly pattern on, I had three sheets of this Satin Gold Miri card left so I used that as the base card followed by the swirl embossed card, more Gold card, which I edged round with double sided tape and added glitter, this made it look like another layer!Then the sheet of Purple Pearlescent on top of this. I die cut the Christmas Ornaments 2011 out of the Gold & Purple card so you see the card behind and die cut the smaller one in Gold for the sentiment.

From the off cuts of the Gold, Purple & Purple Swirl card I die cut the Poinsettias and leaves, adding some glitter on the vines of the leaves and inking the flowers with Shaded Lilac. To finish the flowers I added a sparkly brad in the center of each flower, Gold for the Purple and Purple for the Gold. I placed these round the edge of the die cut Bauble, leaving just one for the other side. I stamped my sentiment onto the small Bauble with Versamark then heat embossed with Purple embossing powder, attaching this to the center finished the card. Dimensions are 8"X8".

Items Used:

Create and Craft Satin Gold Miri card

Hunkydory Swirl Embossed Card Purple

Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Card Pastel-Purple

Double Sided Adhesive

Purple Glitter 

SB Layered Poinsettias

SB 2011 Heirloom Ornaments

Crafty Impressions Clear Stamps

Papermania Embossing Powder Purple

Papermania Large Glitter Brads

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Shaded Lilac

I will show you the card I made from the offcuts on Saturday.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Periwinkle & White!

Morning my friends, so good to have you visit today. Hope you are all safe and well?

For todays post I wanted just a simple looking Christmas card but one that looked elegant at the same time, so needless to say out cam Sue Wilson's dies. They always look very elegant don't you think?

I die cut twice, the Sue Wilson die from the Austrian Collection Vienna, once in White and once in Periwinkle. I simply matted and layered up the card as seen showing a different size of the die cut each time until we got to the White bit in the middle, this I stamped my sentiment on with Chipped Sapphire before attaching it to the card.

I added a bow out of White Satin Edged Ribbon in the bottom corner of the card, I die cut the smallest poinsettia, inked it up whilst still in the die with Chipped Sapphire, added a Black pearl in the center than attached this to the middle of the bow. There you have the finished card.

It sounds quite a simple card to make but it was rather fiddly working out and measuring where exactly to die cut so they all matched up lol! 

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Periwinkle and Coconut White

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Austrian Collection Vienna

SB Layered Poinsettias

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Chipped Sapphire

Do Crafts Satin Edged White Ribbon

Crafty Impressions Clear Stamps

Kanban Self Adhesive Pearls

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Hobbycutz Challenge 65 Gold & or Silver

Morning my crafting friends, today sees the start of the latest challenge from Hobbycutz chosen by Marylee Gold & or Silver. Our sponsors this week are Sami Stamps who do some lovely images. Do pop over to the Hobbycutz Challenge Blog and view the excellent designs by the Design Team, it would be lovely if you could enter the Challenge too.

Just a quick not to my friends out there a Big Thank You for your comments yesterday in view of my question;

Patricia, you made me laugh, don't wish too much else you might find us on your doorstep lol!
Suzie, Thank you so very much for the link, most useful and much appreciated.

Here is my card for Challenge 65 Gold & or Silver:

I started with my base card, matted it up with some Satin Gold miri card.

Using the That Special Touch Mask 'Funky' I inked it with my versamark ink pad, placed it onto some White card and ran it through the E Bosser, coated it with embossing powder then heat embossed it in Silver. Once cooled I inked  over it with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink, I know it looks Blue by the photograph, sorry tried photographing it several times and they all looked Blue!

Using the beautiful image 'My Sister is a Princess' from our lovely sponsors Sami Stamps I coloured it in with Promarkers, then with a second image I cut it from the Princess Shoulder, inked it with my versamark Ink pad and heat embossed with Enchanted Gold embossing Powder, this is a lovely light, sparkly Gold, then layered this over the top of the other image so it stood out a fraction. I went over the ribbon on the dress iwth a Gold marker pen then I die cut it with Grand Decorative Ovals and inked in the die with  Antique Linen. 

Out of Silver Miri Card I die cut the Oval Frame, cut it in half and attached it behind the image so the sides were just peeking out of the Grand Oval, I then attached this to my base card.

I die cut some Cherry Blossom flowers out of Gold Miri card, this is Satin one side and Glossy the other so I cut equal amounts to go together, I added these round the frame on top of the Faux Quilled Leaves I had also cut with Gold Miri Card.

I have left the sentiment off until I need it. There you have the finished card.

Items Used:

Creative Expressions 'That Special Touch Mask' Funky.

White card

Create and Craft Satin Gold Miri Card & Silver Miri Card

Papermania Embossing Powder Silver & Enchanted Gold

SB Grand Decorative Ovals

Wild Rose Studio Oval Frame

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Shaded Lilac & Antique Linen

Staedller Metallic Gold Marker Pen

Promarkers

SB Cherry Blossom

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Faux Quilled Leaves

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Holly Wreath

Morning my crafting friends, thank you for visiting me today, I love having you visit and reading any comments you may make. If I can give just a little inspiration to one person then it has all been worthwhile.

Now I want to ask if any of you have ever been, or know of anyone who has been to the Faulty Towers experience in London? I am sure you all know the TV programme and the experience in London is you are the diners whilst the impersonators come round and play their roles. It is of course a comedy and I am asking as I was going to take hubby to see a musical for his 50th next year but after seeing this thought he might like it better so was wondering if any of you have been or know of any reviews as I cannot find any lol! It has apparently been going for 16 years!!!  Please do let me know. Hubby does not look at my blog so there is no fear of him finding out lol!

Now today's card...

 

I used the Stencil Wreath straight onto some White card, I wanted a quick and simple card and my intentions were to use just chalk  and a quick sentiment at the bottom, however, when I had finished chalking through the stencil I did not like it so rather than waste the card I die cut the holly leaves and berries out to stick over the top. Now as you can imagine with one die for each size leaf and berry it took the whole afternoon to die cut these out and attach to the card, bearing in mind to start with I needed 18 sets of berries which meant the die going through the machine 36 times!!! In the end I added extra large Holly leaves to cover up some of the berries lol!

I embossed the bottom of the card but then did not like the blank space between the wreath and embossed bit so added a curved boarder!

I die cut my sentiment ( I typed this up on the PC) using Delightful Circles and die cut again using the same die but with Rich Green card and off set it slightly, I placed this in the center of the wreath.

Adding a strip of ribbon to the side of the card finished it off. Dimensions are 5"X7". 

What was planned to be a simple and quick card turned out to take one of the longest times for me to complete a card!!!

Items Used:

Basic White/Cream card

SB Holly Leaves & Branches

SB Curved Boarders 

SB Delightful Circles

Clarity Stencil Holly Wreath

Creative Expressions Foundation card Rich Green

Joanna Sheen Red Satin Card

Green Organza Ribbon 

Gold Marker Pen 

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Flower Blossom

Morning my crafting friends, thank you for visiting me today I hope this finds you all safe and well?

I decided to look through my CD Roms the other day and realised I had not yet used this one, Dolly Daydream goes East, shame on me!

I got my basic White card, printed the papers from the CD Rom and matted one onto the card, the other onto Silver Miri card.

I printed the pagoda image and Dolly with the peacock onto thin White card stock, cut them out and attached to the card, I then printed another Dolly out and decoupaged her and the peacock, not very good decoupage but it raised her up from the card a little.

I die cut the sentiment out (Also from the CD) inked whilst still in the die and attached it to the card as seen.

A very easy card to make once you decide on what papers and image to use lol!

Items used:

Polka Doodles CD Rom Dolly Daydream Goes East

Create and Craft Silver Miri card

SB Standard Circles Large

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Shaded Lilac

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx