A Special Christmas Easel Card

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How are you all doing? We have been busy. Last week we had a few days in Liverpool with our friends. We attended a Bootleg Beatles concert that had been postponed from last year. The other brilliant thing we did was to do a taxi Beatle Tour with Mad Day Out Beatles Taxi Tours. We ended up at Strawberry Fields which now has a Visitors Centre where you can get a cup of tea. 

Here is the card that I made for John and Sam. I used an image our daughter had drawn. I have asked her to draw a few of our friends usually in costumes of characters that they like. We have quite a few drawings of us in Star Trek uniforms.  John and Sam have received this card so it is okay to share it. 

I used papers and dies that came with the Christmas Box kit. I do like making wreaths. 

The characters are Dr Who David Tennant style and Captain Jack. Our daughter colours the images for me. 

They were both very pleased with their card. I have a few more special cards to share. All the rest of the cards are going in the post today. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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A Bit More Time to Craft - Winter Robin Christmas Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your weekend going? We had a catching up day yesterday. What with being away on holiday and being out quite a bit lately not much has been getting done.

The new challenge starts at the A More Time to Craft Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes and there are some fantastic digital papers on offer as prizes. I just love using these papers myself.

Here is a Christmas card I made with the Gothic Flakes digital papers.

I printed the papers in two sizes. The larger one was for the outside layer. I chose a paper with a paler centre so that the robin would show up. I cut one of the John Next Door bauble dies in gold and I used and foliage die to make a wreath around the bauble. I think the bow came with the robin die. 

Why not join in with the challenge the papers are well worth winning. Click on the logo and you will be taken straight to the challenge blog. 

The branch is a Spellbinders die the robin die came free with a magazine (I can't remember which one now). 

This is a Crafter's Companion die. I love the the dot is attache to the i. 

I did enjoy making this card and using the papers. Hopefully I have made enough Christmas cards this year. I really need the time I have next week to catch up with some other makes. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 468 at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Home for Christmas

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Somehow my afternoons are becoming very busy and not much crafting is happening that isn't what I expected to happen. Tomorrow we are off to see Mamma Mia at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton I am very excited.

I was thrilled when I received the free gift with Simply Cards and Papercraft this month. There is an embossing folder, some dies and some stamps. Here is the card I made.

The brick paper is some textured white paper from my stash that was inked with Distress Ink. The door and the frame were created with the embossing folder. I embossed it  in white and cut out the whole frame and then I embossed it in black and cut out the door. I did a black door as our daughter's new house has a black door. The knocker and the letter box were stamped with Perfect Medium and heat embossed with a silver powder. 

The wreath was made with the dies that came with the set. I did have a lot of fun sticking the berries on. 

The lamp was stamped with Perfect Medium and heat embossed with a copper powder.

The urn and the foliage were stamped and cut out by hand. 

Here you can see me and my husband on the front row of the audience watching Sue Wilson at Ally Pally last weekend. Yes we were on telly again. It was wonderful watching Sue demonstrate. 

I was rather pleased with how this card turned out. All I added apart from card was a sentiment cut with some Britannia dies. 

I would like to enter Challenge 72 at Creative Craft Cottage and Challenge 29 at A Snowflakes Promise. 

I hope enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Christmas cards numbers 35 - 40

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

Just a quick post from me today. I am now working towards us going on holiday and fitting a bit of crafting in as well. I had a lovely time yesterday with my friend at Gun Wharf Quays in Portsmouth. We did lots of shopping and we had a very civilised lunch in Loch Fyne.

After putting on two lots of washing. I decided to make some Christmas cards. I am much more familiar with the bits in my Christmas stash now and I remembered a box of Kanban toppers. I had a look in the box and found this sheet of toppers to make 6 cards.

I made some 5" x 5" card blanks and added an insert. I went through my scraps to find bits of black and gold card I could use for the mats. For the backing paper I used  two 12" x 12" matching sheets. The sentiments came from  another sheet in my stash, 

Here are all six cards together. 

Here is the detail on one of the toppers. 

This came from a sheet of sentiments. 

I am hoping to have made 50 Christmas cards before I go on holiday. If I have another look in the box I am sure there will be things I can use. I do like to set myself challenges. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. 

Happy Crafting. 

Hugs Jackie

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