Hi Crafty Friends

Here's a card I made ages ago, but I've just found the photo and realised I don't think I ever blogged it. I made it for a competition in a magazine, and amazingly, I won! My prize was to make some more cards for the magazine. They gave me the papers etc to make the cards with and even paid me, so for the briefest of times, I was an actual professional card maker. 

Apologies to those who have seen this, but I thought it was a shame my 'piece de resistance' was never on my here.

happy crafting

Christmas Cards

Hi Crafty Friends
I guess we're all pretty much into the Christmas card making marathon by now. I love it, Christmas cards are my favourites - all that bling I don't use the rest of the year.
Here are some of the cards I've been making recently

I used Ornamental pine by Stampin Up and I think the sentiment is Magenta

I'm really enjoying using overlapping die cuts and have made lots of these in various colours, so apologies for some repetition. Here I've used Marianne bells, Leanne foliage and I'm not sure who the embossing folder is by, but I love it.

Same basic idea here, still using Marianne baubles with Marianne pine branches. Love the pearlised copper card

 And here it is in white

 I've used Spellbinders borderabilities for this one, with an Art Kure stamp and Tattered Poinsettia die

 More Borderabilities

Yet more Borderabilities with the fabulous Spellbinders Heirloom Reflections bauble. The Merry Christmas embossing folder was lent to me by Glyn (thanks Glyn) and the embossed strip was a free folder with a magazine

 Here are some more of the Heirloom ornaments

 And in purple

 And red

 And finally a stepper card

Im currently addicted to making pyramid, or tree shaped cards, a small forest of which is growing along the shelf. I'll be back soon with some of them. In the mean time

Happy Crafting

x

Die Cut Christmas Cards

Hi Crafty Friends

Just thought I'd show you a couple of Christmas cards I made recently. 

This one uses a fabulous Memory Box die, lent to me by Trish (thanks Trish). I think I might have to buy it myself now.

I can't remember what make the tree die is, I'm afraid

This one uses my new Spellbinders Heirloom ornament dies and some Spellbinders ovals. I love the sentiment stamp, Just Rite Grand Christmas Sentiments  - a massive bargain at a craft show last year. The paper is also last year's, by Bazzill

Hope you like them, thanks for looking

Happy crafting

xx

Scallops a go-go

Hi Crafty Friends

I am delighted and honoured to be asked to do classes in box making for RWS. Here are the two I taught today. OK, so one is a basket, buy hey it's only a box without a lid. This month's class had a scallop theme

This was inspired by the box I keep my Christmas tree decs in. It uses one sheet of A4 and a bit of fancy partial die cutting on the top. I used a Go Kreate die for the top and an X Cut border die for the scalloped decoration.

I was pleased with how this pentagon shaped basket worked out. I'm thinking it would be good done in Christmas colours and filled with bags of home made sweets (fudge for preference). 

It was a lot of fun, just hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did.

happy crafting

j xx

Tickling the ivories

Hi Craft Friends

I enjoyed working with the ivory palette for the card I did for RWS, so I made a variation on it. This is for a friend's milestone birthday.

The frames etc are as before, but I've used a memory box flower die. I've made it slightly bigger, as I found some lovely paper for the backing layer. It hasn't photographed very well though.

Happy crafting

xx

back to die cuts

Hi Crafty Friends

After a quick foray into stamping, I'm back to die cuts. here's a card I did for RWS 

I used two Spellbinders frames (Radiant Rectangles and Elegant Labels 4) , a memory box heart and Go Kreate butterflies. I think the sentiment tag is Cheery Lynn. The scrunched up background is tissue paper.

Happy crafting

xx

Stamping

Hi Crafty Friends

I've been trying to get into stamping a bit more have have gone for a different look from my usual for this post. I've bought quite a few background stamps, and most of them are piled on here!

I embossed the compass and whacked on the Glossy Accents which took forever to dry. I managed not to touch it before it was dry (a first!)

I thought I'd make a congratulations on passing your exams card, and people as old as me will remember Hilda Ogden (she of the wall 'muriel') saying 'The world is your lobster' I may rethink the text as everyone I know who is taking exams is too young for this. But what to choose? 'Your dream ticket', 'your ticket to ride', any suggestions welcome

happy crafting

xx