White Floral

Morning my crafting friends, good of you all to come and visit me again, I hope you are all well?

My cleaning of the house is going extremely slowly, in fact its at a stand still as I keep playing lol! Must get myself going as over a week has gone by already tut! tut! I blame the weather lol!

I would like to say Hello to my visitor Julieanne thank you for your nice comment on my post. Julieanne has a couple of nice blogs so go and take a visit, they are: http://pinkjools.blogspot.co.uk/   and http://thegloryofchristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/   Please do go and take a look they are well worth a visit.

Today I have posted a floral card for you, I hope you like it? I did intend to cut a lace panel boarder out of the card but the panel isn't long enough for this size card so I cut it twice, trimmed it and stuck it on. I will have to try with a 6X6 card sometime! Can you see the join?

Items Used:

Teresa Collins 8X8 Paper Pad
Creative Expressions Coconut White Card
Textured White Card
Tattered Lace Floral Panel (Free with Magazine)
Tattered Lace Lavish Blooms Poppy
Tattered Lace lavish Blooms Leaves
Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Kind Thoughts
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Bundled Sage
Spellbinders Grand Decorative Ovals
Kaisercraft Sparklets Fern


Finished dimensions 7 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches. 

I would like to enter this into http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-6/   and http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.ca/2014/07/challenge-106-anything-goes.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Feliz Navidad

Morning my crafting friends, good of you to pop by and visit me once again, it is much appreciated and I love for you to leave a comment, good or bad.

Well yesterday it was a bit cooler so I started work on clearing hubby's office, no mean feat I can tell you, that will take a few days I think! He came home and told me to leave all his papers until he does his books ha! ha!. I don't think so I said, I intend to do the whole house this summer not wait till Sept/Oct for him to do his books! I am actually going to change it all round and swop the desks round, his desk and the computer desk so everything has got to come out! Why do I get the feeling I may regret this?

Needless to say there may be times when I won't post anything, depends whether I have time to play lol! Never fear I shall find time to check your posts even if its every other day! At least I have done the next two posts for Hobbycutz!

Now today's post is similar to yesterdays as I used the same die but with Cobalt Blue card rather than Red, this is one of the cards I have done for one of the Teachers at work, she teaches Spanish and has friends in Spain and America.

I have tried to keep it fairly simple as I think the die says it all, just adding the snowflake stamps and die onto the bow.

I love this colour Blue with White, it really sets the die cut off.

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Coconut White & Cobalt Blue
Justrite Large Fancy Holiday Stamps
Sue Wilson California Collection Background Die
Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles
Spellbinders Snowflakes
Creative Expressions American Seam Binding Ribbon Blue
Creative Expressions Self Adhesive Pearls
Papermania Ink Royal Blue


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Poinsettia Merry Christmas

Morning my crafting friends, I'm a bit late with my post so sorry but yesterday afternoon was the first chance I have had to play!

I am sticking with the Christmas theme for the moment, gotta get these cards done lol!

May I thank each and everyone of you for all the wonderful comments I have been receiving, they are very much appreciated. May I welcome my latest follower Desire Fourie she has a lovely blog showing her beautiful creations so please do go and have a look http://desiref.blogspot.co.uk/

Boy hasn't it been hot, not complaining as we have waited long enough for it but I wish we had a lovely breeze with it, I have had to move the dog & cats to the front of the house as its cooler there, our living room is our conservatory so you can imagine how hot it is in there especially South facing! Too hot to sit in that's for sure.

 

I had some beautiful Red Velvet card that I had bought from Joanna Sheen and I wanted to use that for some Poinsettias but I also wanted to use the Sue Wilson California Background Die as I had not used it yet lol! Its a fantastic die but my its fiddly, need your pokey tool for this one!

Rather than leave the Red card plain in the background I stamped on some poinsettias using my Versamark ink pad, this made the matte part of the card look like miri card so it gave it some affect but its not a very good photo as I was in a rush to get it posted!

Items used:

Joanna Sheen Red Velvet Card

White Textured card (own stash)

Creative Expressions Coconut White & Green card 

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson California Collection Background

Spellbinders Imperial Gold Gold Labels Four

Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia

Sheena Douglas Little Bit Scenic Pinescape Sentiment

Papermania Dew Drops Gold

Sam Poole Silhouette Poinsettia

Versamark Ink Pad

I would like to enter this for CraftyCatz Challenge Anything Goes http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-241-anything-goes.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Christmas Baubles CAS card today!

Morning crafters, hope this finds you all safe and well? Thank you for visiting me today, its gonna be  a quick post today I'm afraid as got to catch a train!

A very simple card to make, I got a basic slimline card and stamped several baubles on to it with my Versamark pad then heat embossed  with Silver embossing powder and coloured them in as seen. 

I stamped my sentiment then drew in the lines for the baubles so they were not floating in mid air. There you have the finished card!

Items Used:

Basic White Card

Stamps to Die For...Sue Wilson Mini Floral, Mini Lattice & Beaded Bauble

Papermania Embossing Powder Silver

Spectrum Noir Pens

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot

Justrite Large Fancy Holiday Sentiment Stamps

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Leaving card & Clay Head!

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe & well, the weather is scorching hot down here so I do feel for those of you who have had floods recently. We constantly moan about the weather don't we but we don't realise how lucky we are compared to some countries.

Now today's post is a little different, the first item is a card I made for the class of Children at my school for their form teacher from them. Being as the front contains a photo of the whole class I have had to cut it out for safeguarding reasons so I hope you don't mind, it was a photo of them all sitting on the stairs, they wanted it put into a card so this is what I did for their Male Teacher Mr Chung, he is a lovely young man who is moving on to another school so he will be missed by us all.

I used Kraft card, embossed it with Sheena Douglass Trailing Ivy Embossing Folder and rubbed over the embossing with Creative Expressions Gilding Wax Green. I added the leaves from Tattered Lace (part of my prize from Lydia a short time back) as the photo they gave me had a couple of bright areas so I covered them up with leaves! Now I did not want to put a flower on to hide the stems of the leaves so I added these Metal Victorian Corners I had in my stash. Adding a label & sentiment at the bottom finished the card. I did line it with copy paper so they could all sign it, glad to say they were all pleased with it. There will be a few tearful farewells today as we say goodbye to a lot of Teachers and staff, some retiring and some moving on, then our holidays begin!

Now my other bit of craft is not a card but a clay model I made at school in the Art lessons lol! Occasionally when they do use clay we are asked if we want to join in so on this occasion I did. They were making clay model heads of famous artists so I chose Van Gogh! You make the head with newspaper first to get the shape then once that has set (a week later) you add the clay on top forming it into shape to represent your chosen artist, all the children had pictures to copy from. Its at this stage you have to add the features like the hair, nose etc, you have to leave a hole at the bottom, this is then left to dry before finally being put into the kiln, ( second week) it is whilst in the kiln the newspaper burns away leaving just the clay head, which is why you need a hole at the bottom for the ashes to drop out of. The third week the children are able to paint their heads like the artist.

 

We painted them with water colour paints and being Art you are expected to paint all the skin tones that are in the skin including Blue, Yellow & Green.  I only had two weeks to complete mine so would have liked more time to get the eyes right, I did only put on one ear though lol!

I am quite pleased with my first attempt at a clay head and the teacher thought it was good!

Back to cards on Thursday.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx