Crafts Galore Encore - April Challenge - Anything Goes.

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

Here I am back with another post. This time it is for the new challenge at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog where the theme is Anything Goes. The sponsor is the fantastic Vera Lane Studio. The prize on offer this time is two sets of images of the winners choice.

Our daughter just loves cactus's so when I saw these images I just had to have them.

Sometime ago I used my Gelli Plate to make some backgrounds. This was the time to use one of them. I also used some Spellbinders dies to make the black die cuts. 

There are so many fabulous images in the store. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

This set of images is called Succulents and it is available HERE. I was rather pleased with myself I managed to cut the sentiment so it fitted inside the die cut. 

All of the Succulents were printed onto Neenah card stock and were coloured with Promarkers. 

Once each one was coloured I cut them all out. 

I did choose the Succulents that would be easier to cut out. 

Then they were arranged around the sentiment. 

Sometimes at a jaunty angel. 

I did rather like the way this card turned out. I know our daughter is going to love it. 

I had been  wondering on cutting down on my Design Team commitments but right now I am very glad that I didn't.

I would like to enter the following challenges:
Challenge 407 at the I ❤ Promarkers Challenge blog

Stay safe and well. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artiste - Wedding Gift

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been? It is nearly the weekend not long to go now. Like on Tuesday this is the first of two posts for me today, again the start of two challenges has coincided.

This post is for the new challenge that starts on the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog. The theme is "Anything Goes" with a twist of using chipboard. The sponsor is Scrapmatts.  I have just come back after having a two month break the team were very understanding when my husband had his accident and things just got a bit too much for me. Things have improved greatly at home and I am in a much better place.

I am sharing a gift I have made for the couple that I have been  making the wedding stationery for.

I wanted to make something like this after we went to their house and discovered that they had fridge Scrabble. I used an 8" x 8" shadow box frame.  The background was made to match the wedding invitations. I used my Gelli plate to mix and print three shades of Distress ink. Once it was dry I used a mask to ink through with silver to make the netting pattern.  

I bought two lots of letter tiles so that we had lots to play with. We had fun planning out the words my husband helped me. You could make something like this for any occasion just by changing the words and the colours. 

This shows the detail of the background a bit more clearly. 

The wedding is on Easter Saturday. I still have a few things to make. We are having one last meeting to go over what I need to do. 

I hope you have a great weekend. We are off to Reading for one night. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Tiger, Tiger

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week been so far? I have been busy with this and that but I have been a bit unfocused. We did have a meeting with one of the happy couples I am making the invites for. This means these should be able to finish these soon.

I wanted to make something today and I took a look at the Cardz 4 Guyz blog and they have a new challenge and this one is World Wildlife. I remembered some Kanban  wildlife stamps that I bought a few weeks ago so I thought I would have a go.  I would also like to enter Pixie's Snippets Playground week 177  as I used lots of snippets to make this card.

I chose to use the cute little tiger stamp. The background I had made with Distress Ink on my Gelli Plate  I used a mask to get the pattern.

I stamped the tiger with Sepia Archival ink and heat embossed it with a clear powder. Then the tiger was coloured with my Promarkers.  I used my Spellbinders matting dies to cut out the tiger and the mats.

I used the Happy Birthday stamp again I do like how it works with the dies. 

The other patterned papers were from my snippets box. Did you spot that I used buttons again? Maybe I am getting better.

I hope the rest of the week is kind to you.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Revised Wedding Invitation Design

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good weekend. I am nearly completely better so I am fit enough to go back to work.

Well I have managed to catch up on a few jobs this week, even though at the start of the week it looked like I wouldn't be able to. My husband helped me hugely on Saturday.

I thought you might like to see the revised Wedding Invitation design. We have spoken to the happy couple and they are happy for me to go ahead with this design.

The colours are a bit more muted and I have used dies to cut some of the mats so I can do a bit of gutting to save a bit of money. 

 This is the original design it hasn't changed that much really. I will be using distress ink on the Gelli plate and not acrylic paint.  I think that will be easier to make multiple copies this way.

A close up of the background I used two netting masks stuck together to give me a larger mask  so that I could  create the netting effect on the background without having to move the mask. 

This is the Save the Date cards all finished my husband sorted all the printing for me which was a huge help. They were collected earlier and they will be sent out soon. 

So this is what I will be working on next. I think I will have to have a day making backgrounds and so forth. I don't want to leave it all till the last minute. I will be designing much smaller evening invitations soon they will be the same size as the Save the Date cards. 

I hope you have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Wedding Invitation Samples

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a good weekend and are ready for the week ahead. I am still coughing so I think I will have to give in and go to the doctors. At least it is the Half Term holiday and I can get some rest.

I have mentioned the wedding invitations I will be making a few times and I thought the time has come to show you what I have been working on.

These are the samples I took to show the happy couple. This was after initial discussions on their wants. The wedding is having a naval theme as it will take place at Explosion: the museum of naval firepower in Gosport

This is the design that was chosen but there will be some changes the background was made with a Gelli plate.  I need to make another sample to incorporate the changes we discussed. 

This is me set up to make the Save the Date cards. They need to go out in March so I need to get a move  on. The ship die is a Signature die it cuts beautifully.

Well tomorrow is my first Blog Anniversary. I can't believe I have been blogging for a whole year. I want to thank all of my followers and all those that leave comments for making this journey such a pleasure.

I hope you have a great week.

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

Where has all the time gone?

Hi my Blog Friends

I can't believe we have already got to January 7th. I haven't had much time to craft during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Hopefully things can start getting back to normal now we are all back to work in our house.

We had some very happy news just after Christmas, two of our close friends announced their engagement. Of course I wanted to make a card for them.

 

This tent card started with  a Kraft card  8" x 8" card  blank.  I  made the pink mat at a friend's house using Distress ink on a Gelli plate one day when we were having a play. I thought it went well with the turquoise paper I had in my stash.

The hearts were cut with a Spellbinders die. I cut and inked two hearts for the background from a patterned  paper which was then covered with a double sided sticky sheet and sprinkled with Cosmic Shimmer Micro Beads.

This is the inside I inked through a mask I had a mat in the middle while I inked  to give an area to write in. All the wording I used was cut with Britannia word dies.

I do hope that your new year has started well and continues as such.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie 

Nautical Just for You with a matching tag.

Hi Bloggers

I hope you are having a fun filled weekend. I was lucky enough to see Singing in the Rain at our local theatre last night and it really did rain on the stage, twice. The people in the front rows got very wet. Today we are having a bit of a quiet day and my husband is taking the opportunity to set up our new computer. So I will have to get used to the pleasures of Windows 8.

Today I am sharing with you a card and matching tag that I made with Sam Poole's nautical range of stamps.

The card and tag both started with the background which was made at a friend's house when she invited me round to have a play with a Gelli plate. It was something I had never tried before and I was very impressed with the results, especially how well the Special touch netting mask worked with this technique. 

I stamped the Just for you stamp onto white card and I coloured it with Promarkers. It was cut out with a Spellbinders rectangle die which meant I was able to ink through the die.I cut a frame for this uses some of the larger dies from this set. The embossing folder I used for one of the other layers was the Quilted Flowers A4 embossing folder and once embossed I inked round the edges to bring out the detail.

This shows the detail of the stamp. I did stamp it twice and cut the anchor from one so I could mount on foam in the middle.

For some added detail I added an Antique Button and some Bakers Twine I did want the card to have a masculine feel.

I was able to make a matching tag as we had used a piece of card to mask the centre of the Gelli plate but of course it got printed too, waste not want not. I do like things that match. I think, in the future,  I might get my own Gelli plate. At the moment I don't really have enough time to experiment so I am hoping to be invited round to have another play at my friend's house sometime she is a very good teacher.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie