John Next Door Summer Box Kit - Contributor

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your week? Have you anything nice planned for the weekend? The Box Kit that I made samples for back in March has recently been released. 

The brief that I was given was to make Clean and Simple cards using the stamps. I also had to provide instructions for the cards and some top tips for card making. 

This seemed to be the favourite card. I used the nested oval dies from Prescut to make the card blank and the layers. The beautiful stamp is in the kit as are the papers. The papers we got were shiny the ones in the kit are mat. 

So I used most of the stamps to make five cards. 

I did a bit of masking to make this card work. 

I did a little second generation stamping on this card to get the variation in colour. 

For any of the colouring I used my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. 

Here four of the cards in the magazine. You can just see the picture of me. 

The easel card got it's own page it was also one of the cards on the cover. 

I had to share my news with you. 

I hope you are happy for me. 

Have a good weekend. 

Happy crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Happy First Birthday Murph

 Hi My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How has your week been? Yesterday we had our second jab. We were in and out of the vaccination centre so quickly. There was even time for a coffee on the way home. The last time we went there was torrential rain. This time all was sunny. 

Today is the first birthday of our daughter and son-in-law's dog, Murph. He is a rescue dog from Romania. He is a lovely boy and he is very willing to learn. At the moment he is getting used to visitors. Lockdown hasn't helped with this. Today we are meeting them all in an enclosed field near where they live and then Murph can have some time off lead with there being no chance of getting lost or having strange encounters.   

I have had the backing paper in my stash for such a long time. It was lovely to be able to use it. The Stencil Alphabet dies from the John Next Door range are perfect for personalising cards. 

This is a recent photo of Murph. Murph does have his own Instagram page. He is called @megamuttmurph and he can be reached HERE. He does take a good photo. 

This is quite a clean and simple card. I have never made a birthday card for a dog before. 

Have a good weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafty Catz Challenge Blogs - Anything Goes with the optional twist of CAS (Clean and Simple)

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

Can you believe it is Friday again. I hope you have something nice planned for the weekend. Today I will be helping at a Felting workshop. At the weekend we will be looking at cars again with us it is a very long slow process.

Being Friday the new challenge starts on the Crafty Catz Challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of CAS (Clean and Simple). The sponsor this time is A Day for Daisies.

I used the outer dies from the Stitched Lattice die set from Creative Expressions to make the mats and layers. 

There are lots of gorgeous images in the store if you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

This image is called Little Striped Dress and it is available HERE.  I printed onto Neenah card and coloured with Promarkers. 

Before I printed the image out I added the sentiment with the computer. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 369 at the Less is More Challenge blog

The vibrant colours challenge at the Seize the Birthday Challenge blog

The April Challenge at the Always Happy Birthday Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Crafty Catz Challenge Blog - Anything Goes with the optional theme of Clean and Simple (CAS)

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

I am back again this time for the new weekly challenge on the Crafty Catz Challlenge blog I was asked if I would like to stay on and I said yes. This time the sponsor is Sasayaki Glitter Digital Stamps and the optional theme is Clean and Simple. We were given some lovely images to work with.

I went for green layers and for the image because I remembered that I had some patterned paper with green balloons on it in my stash. When I got the paper out it wasn't the right colour. 

There are some beautiful images in the store if you click on the image you should be taken there. 

This image is called Happy Birthday Mia and is available HERE. I printed her onto card and coloured her with my Promarkers. 

This is my Crafter's Companion die I use it a lot it is a good size. You can see the embossing folder in the background. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

I would like to enter challenge 57 at the Scribbles Designs Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog - Clean and Simple

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good week. There is no way round this there will be two posts from me today. Two of the design teams I am on have challenges that both start today.

This is the first card I am sharing with you today. The new  challenge starts on the Unicorn Challenge Blog the theme is CAS/ Clean and Simple. We have a sponsor who has kindly given the Design Team wonderful images to use.

The theme of the challenge is Clean and Simple and this is what I tried to achieve with this design. I matched the mats to the colours I had used to colour the image. I always do the colouring first and match everything after. 

The images are from Morgan's Artworld if you click on the image above you will be taken to the website where you can buy the images. 

This is the "TED" printable stamp sheet. He was coloured with Promarkers. 

The sentiment was cut with one of Joanna Sheen's Signature dies.

He is a very cute bear. I will be back a little later today. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie