MORE BROOCHES

Hi and welcome.
Thank you for all your get well wishes.
Still in a great deal of pain and resting as much as I can.
I find when I am typing I am in a great deal of pain.
So here are some more brooches I have made,
before I got ill.

Thank you for your visit.
Lots of crafty love. JENNY.

TUTORIAL ON A BROOCH

Hi and welcome to my bog all my craft loving
friends and visitors.
I am still in quite a great deal of pain, but managed
to put this tutorial together while the pain killers do their work.
I sent one of these similar brooches to a blog 
friend and she asked about a tutorial.
So hear we go.

THIS IS THE BROOCH.

This is what you need.

INGREDIENTS.

2" circle of card and felt
Brooch catch.
8 two inch strips of ribbon about and inch wide.
Some lace.
Some string of beads.
Hot glue gun.

GLUE YOUR RIBBON IN HALF

GLUE TO YOUR CIRCLE OF CARD.

LIKE THIS.

GLUE STRIPS OF PEARLS OR GOLD

You now have your brooch.

I used some snippets card for the circles of this

brooch and some snippets ribbon too. 

Thank you for your visit.
Lots of crafty love. JENNY. 

I would like to enter this into the following
challenges.
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/pixies-snippets-playground-week-120.html 

BUTTERFLY CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
Thank you for all your  wonderful comments on
my last creation.

I have a trapped nerve in the top of my spine, and it is extremely painful.
I am currently on strong painkillers and find it
very hard to craft or blog.
I have lost the proper use of my right arm as well.
Waiting for an MRI scan now, and getting very 
bored not being able to craft.
So I popped in my craft room for small occasions
to make this card for the butterfly challnege.
This took me 5 days to make instead of hours.

Thank you for your visit.
Not sure when I will be able to blog properly 
again.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

I would like to enter the following challenges
http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
No : 5

ENGAGEMENT CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving 
friends, and visitors.
This will be a quick post as I can't look at the 
computer screen for too long without being in
a lot of pain.

My daughter and her partner got engaged yesterday, so I made this card.
I can craft for small periods.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

Ingredients.
A3 card made into an 8"x8" size card.
I made the flowers from some bridal petals I 
found in my stash, and coloured them with 
Wild Honey Distress Ink.
I did the same to the lovely pearlecent card, and
then embossed it with the Sue Wilson embossing
folder Art Deco Fanfare.
I used some snippets from my snippets box for
some of the die cuts.

Thank you again for your visit and time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

I would like to enter this into the following
challenges. 
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/pixies-snippets-playground-week-119.html 

GET WELL CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
As most of you know I went to Wales to see my 
sister recently, well after I left she took quite ill, 
and is in hospital at this moment.
Nothing too major but, enough to put her there
for a few days at least.
So I made this card for her.
I thought I would go with yellow again as that
colour is bright and cheerful, to cheer her up.

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 Now I wrote on it before I photographed it so
hence the odd position of the inside.

Ingredients for this card.

A3 white card made into a 8"x8" size card.
I used my Cupcakecrafting Floral Delights CD
for the papers.
While at the NEC my sister bought me a little
card kit so I used some of the items to decorate
this card.
Ribbon flowers made out of the card kit.
The butterfly is a peel off and put onto the 
snippets of paper left over from my exploding
box.

Thank you again for your visit and your 
precious time spent visiting my blog.
Thank you also for all your wonderful comments
on my work.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following
challenges.
http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
No 4
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/pixies-snippets-playground-week-118.html 

BIRTHDAY LOTV VOUCHER WINNER

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
It was my Birthday on the 9th of March, and as I
stated I was going to buy a £20 LOTV voucher
to offer you as my Birthday present to one of you.
Well I gave it some thought, and the best way I 
thought was to go back to my post for that day.
Now I had 27 comments on my post for that day.
So I gave everyone a No and then put the Nos in
a hat for my DH to draw out the winner.

Trala drum roll and the winner of the £20 LOTV
voucher is   RITA she was the ninth person to
comment so as No 9 was pulled out of the hat
she is the winner. 
If you would like to e mail me your address Rita
I will send your voucher to you.
Thank you to all of you that commented and left
me some wonderful Birthday wishes.

Now I have a little brooch I made from some
wonderful metal mesh ribbon I bought at the 
NEC.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

 
Thank you again for your visit and time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

EXPLODING BOX

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving
friends, and visitors. 
Well I'm back form my sisters in Wales.
I had a wonderful time at the NEC and bought lots
of craft goodies that I especially wanted.
I was limited to what I could bring back though
as I have to travel back form Wales by coach, so 
I couldn't bring any of the lovely card they had.
As it was my suitcase weighed a ton.

Today I have an exploding box I made for Mrs A
butterfly challenge, I also used snippets from my
snippets box for the die cuts so I can join the 
playground too.

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I used the Cupcakecrafting CD Floral Delights
by Andrew Hull, for the template and flowered
print on the card.
I used a lovely yellow silk flower on top and in
the center. 
The leaves are what I bought at the NEC on a 
ribbon.

I am sorry if I have missed visiting any of you
since coming home, but my top of my spine is
playing up and I am limited to how much typing
I can do till I am in a lot of pain.

Thank you again for your time and visit.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

I would like to enter the following challenges.
http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
No 4
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/pixies-snippets-playground-week-118.html 

RUDOLF DAY MARCH 2014

Hi and welcome to my blog, all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
Now if all goes well I have scheduled this post,
today for the start of the March Rudolf Day.
You will find the Rudolf Challenge over at 
Sarn's blog HERE    and it runs every month from
the 25th of the month to 28th of each month.
You need to make 2 Christmas cards to enter.
So here is my 2 entries, and I will link up when I get home as my sister does not have the internet.

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 Now it is the first time for me making this style
card.

Now the inside.

Ingredients for cards.
The first one I made on my Hougie Board.
The papers used on both cards were freebies
from a magazine.
I used a combination of stamped and digi images.
Di-mamics Dizzy Doily Die.
Sticky backed ribbon from my stash.
Forgot to mention that the green mirri doily 
was made with bits from my snippets box.

Thank you for your visit and sparing your 
precious time to visit me and make such wonderful comments.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
http://stampingforpleasure.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/pixies-snippets-playground-week-117.html 

OWL CAKE AND GRANDSON'S BIRTHDAY CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
 Sorry I haven't been around visiting you for a 
while, I have been busy getting ready to go to my
sisters tomorrow, so this will be my last post till 
I get back on the 26th.
She doesn't have the internet either so I can't even
have a look at what you will be posting, Boo Hoo
I shall miss all my blog friends, but be sooooooo
glad to see my sister, even if there is no internet. lol.

Today I have a picture to show you of my 
wonderful owl cake my daughter in law made 
for my Birthday recently.
I think she did a wonderful job of it and it tasted
lovely too.

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Now my grandson's Birthday card as he was 17
yesterday, and was bought a car for his Birthday.

Now the inside.

Ingredients.
A3 card made into an 8"x8" size card.
Papers from the Robert Addams CD Vintage 
Transport.
Picture of car off the internet.
X cut Letters Die.
Spellbinders Grand Scolloped Square Die.
Spellbinders Grand Square Die.

Thank you for sparing your precious time to
visit my blog and for making your wonderful
comments on my work.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

ENGLAND RUBY CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog, all my very talented
friends, and visitors.
My it's Sunday again, and it won't be long till I 
go to Wales to see my sister, Yahoo can't wait, as 
I haven't seen her for a year.
Trying to get all my cards for Birthdays done, and
also everything else so my DH won't need to do much.
I still have to make 2 Christmas cards ready for Rudolf Day later this month, as that starts the day
before  I return, so I will schedule my post for them.

Today I have a card I made for my daughter's 
partners birthday which is later this month.
I can show it as he doesn't look at my blog.
Now he loves the rugby and when England and
Wales are matched together, my daughter and
he are both shouting for different teams, as my
daughter was born in Wales.
So this is what I came up with for his card, and
I'm extremely pleased how it turned out.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

The ingredients.
A3 white card made into a 8"x8" size card.
Paper created with 3D2 Card Builder CD.
Image created form the internet.
Rugby ball and boots Give it a Squeeze CD.
Snippets Red Holographic card for the letters,
and cut out of a Xcut Die.
Di-namics Corner Die used on red snippets card.
Spellbinders Grand Square Die.

Thank you again for sparing your precious time
to visit me and leave such really great comments.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following 
challenges.
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/ 
Week 116.

CROCHET BUTTERFLY CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog, to all my talented 
craft friends, and visitors.
Well that's another crafty week, that has flown by, and it's Friday again.
I won't mention the C word as it made peeps want
a bar when they read my post last Friday.

Yesterday I spent the day looking after my little great granddaughter Ellie, so no crafting or,
blogging done.
She is a little treasure, and so very good to look
after.
We went to her local shop as I mind her in my
granddaughter's house, and she was walking round the shop with a little trolly they provide for children. 
She did look so very cute.

Today I have a card I made for 2 reasons, one 
to say thank you, and the other is to enter this fortnights Butterfly challenge.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

Now Mrs A who runs the Butterfly Challenge
wanted to see obviously a butterfly on your card,
or project, and also some stitching be it faux or proper stitching, so I combined the both, as you can see from the inside butterflies.

Ingredients.
A3 white card made into an 8"x8" size.
Cupcakecrafting CD Floral Delights for the 
patterned paper, but I print out on card to give 
my cards more stability.
Crochet wool butterfly, I made.
Lace flowers and buttons made from my stash.
Freebie tag die form a magazine.
Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circle Die.
Pinflair butterfly peel off that you can stitch.

Thank you for your visit and time, and all your
wonderful comments.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following
challenges. 
http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
Challenge No 3

A THANK YOU CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog, all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
If you are a visitor, I do hope you can spare the
time to make a comment on my work.

Thank you to all my blog friends for the wonderful comments that you continually  make about my work.

Today I have a card I made to say thank you.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

Ingredients for this card.
6"x6" size card.
The stamped image is aCrafters Companion
freebie stamp with craft magazine.
Coloured in with Promarkers.
Lace from my stash.
Pink Doilies.
Snippets card from my snippets box for some
of the die cuts and backing paper.
Spellbinders Lacy Circle Die.
Flowers from my stash.
Pearls from my stash.

Thank you again for sparing your time to visit
me.
Lots of crafty love. JENNY. 

I would like to enter this into the following
challenges.
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/pixies-crafty-workshop-week-115.html 

FRIENSHIP CARD FOR MY FOLLOWERS

Hi and welcome to my blog, all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.

Well it's Sunday and it's my 65th Birthday officially and old age pensioner today. lol.
I thought I would celebrate the occasion with a
card I have made especially for all my followers,
to say thank you for continuously returning, and
making such lovely comments.
I am off to my sisters on the 19th March to visit
her in Wales, and then we go to the NEC that
weekend.
While I am there I am hoping to buy a £20
LOTV gift voucher for candy for my blog.
 If I can't purchase it there Iwill by it on the internet, to celebrate my Birthday.

Well enough of my waffling here is the card
I made you.

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Now the inside.

Ingredients.
Lidl lovely Gold Paper.
Spellbinders Rose Creations Die.
Creative Expressions Stamped Sentiment.
Spellbinders Square Swatches Die.
Spellbinders Foliage Die.
Paper Bow cut out by hand.
Pearls from my stash.
I used some snippets card for my sentiments and
for the die cuts.
 So you know where this is going. lol

Thank you again for your time and visit.
I do hope you all have a wonderful Sunday.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

I would like to enter this into the following
challenges.
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/ 
Week 115

RAF CARD

Hi and welcome to my bog, all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.

Well thank Crunchie it's Friday as the add used to
say. lol.
Now I've gone and said the C word and I fancy some chocolate. lol.

I do hope you are all keeping well, and looking
forward to a lovely weekend.
Thank you sooooooo! much for all your lovely
comments on my cards.
I am really pleased to read them all, and enjoy
what you have to say, about them.

Now today I have a card I made for my brother
in law, as it's his Birthday 4 days after mine.
He used to be a fireman in the RAF years ago,
and then went on to being a fireman in the 
steel works in Wales, before he retired.
So the old thinking cap went on again, and this
is what I came up with in a hurry as my nephew
is visiting them and is taking the card with him.

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Now the inside.

Ingredients for this card.
A3 White card made into an 8"x8" size.
Debbie Moore CD for the papers and topper.
X Cut A5 Alphabet Die.
Di-namics Corner Die.
Spellbinders Grand Labels1 Die.
Freebie Happy Birthday Die with magazine.

Thank you again for your visit and time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

GRANDSONS BIRTHDAY CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog all my very talented
friends, and visitors.

Thank you for all your wonderful comments, and
for sparing your precious time to visit me.
I love to read each and every one that you make.

Today I have a card I made for my Grandson's 
Birthday yesterday.
Now he loves his Minecraft  Game on his Xbox,
but is only allowed 1 hour a day on it, and 2 on a
weekend, so I thought I would create this card 
for him.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

Ingredients for card.
A3 White card cut to size 8"x8"
Kraft card.
Paper made with 3D 2 card builder.
Happy Birthday Die freebie with craft magazine.
Di-namics Star Die.
Large number Templates.
X Cut Alphabet Die.
Stickles.
 Spellbinders Grand Circle and  Decorative Circle
Die.

Thank you again for your visit.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

MISICAL THEME CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
A big welcome to my newest follower, and thank
you for choosing to follow me.
I do hope to see you visiting me quite often to see
what I am creating.

Sorry I have been missing for a few days, but I
have been very busy, as it's my Grandson's 10
Birthday on Tuesday, so I have been busy baking,
looking after him, and his sister while their parents
went out Birthday present shopping.
I have also had to make his card which I was 
quite late making, and a card for our keyboard
player in our little singing group.
So I will stop waffling on, and show you the 
quick card I made for our keyboard player.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

This card is 7"x7" in size.
I used an old Hunkydory topper and card to
make this.
I did my usual thing of copying the card to 
create the inside.
I nearly forgot to say I had a happy accident while
making this card. I wanted to use my cosmic shimmer gold glue dots but they were so old they 
wouldn't go into dots, so I just brushed the deges
of the card with it instead, and got that lovely 
gold effect.
I used some of my snippets out of my snippets 
box for the brown die cut underneath the image,
and inside the card.

Thank you again for your time, and visit, and 
also all your wonderful comments.
I will be round to visit your blogs tonight after
my singing practice this afternoon, that's if I'm
not too tired, as I am getting on and will turn
65 later this week. lol.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/pixies-crafty-workshop-week-114.html

BUTTERFLIES, BUTTONS, AND BOWS

Hi and welcome to my blog, all my craft loving 
friends ,and visitors.
A big welcome to my newest follower, and thank
you for choosing to follow me.
I do hope you pop back often to see what I am 
posting.

I was overwhelmed by you wonderful comments
on my last 2 creations.
It was well worth all the hard work creating that
word book.
I forgot to say I didn't use a book template that
you are able to buy, I made mine with some
large Alphabet templates I own, and I did all 
the measurements for this my self, and cut out
the letters by hand, as someone had asked about
it.
I made 7 of these such books in different colours
about 4 years ago for my children for Christmas,
but in my excitement I forgot to photograph them.

Now today I have a card I have made for the  2nd
butterfly challenge  for this fortnight which you
will find  HERE  .
In this fortnights challenge you have to use 3 bs
Butterfly, Button, and a Bow, so here is my attempt.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

This is a 8"x8" size card.
I made the organza flowers with ribbon, and 
added a button to the center.
I added a button to the center of my bow too.

Thank you for your visit and time.
I do hope you are all keeping well.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following
challenges.
http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 

RUDOLF DAY CARDS AND SNIPPETS CARDS.

Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving
friends, and visitors. 
Thank you for all your wonderful comments on my last creation.
I really do appreciate the time you spend visiting
me, as I know time is precious to all of us.
For my few loyal friends who visit nearly every time I post something, Thank You from the bottom of my heart for your very loyal support, because 
your support and visit makes blogging all worth
while.

Now today I have 2 Christmas cards to show
you for a wonderful challenge that starts today,
and on the 25th of every month over at Sarns
blog which you will find HERE
This runs till the 28th of the month, and you 
need to create 2 Christmas creations to enter.
So think this means by the end of the year you
will have at least 24 Christmas cards already
made. YAY this has to be a winner in my book,
as I leave my cards till the last minute every
year. lol.
I can also join in the Snippets Playground as I
have used some snippets in both of these.
Sorry but there are a few photos in this post.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

I decided to make this word book which you
may remember were very popular about 4 or 5
years ago.

Now the inside.

The papers for these were printed onto card, and
from a Debbie Moore CD called The Crackerbox
Mice.
I do love the image of that mouse with the full
tum after eating all that figgy pud. lol.
Now I think we can all relate to this at sometime
over the festive season. lol. 

Thank you again for your visit and time.
I do hope you like my work.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter these into the following
challenges. 
http://stampingforpleasure.blogspot.co.uk/ 
Rudolf Day 
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/pixies-crafty-workshop-week-113.html 

SHABBY CHIC CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog, all my craft loving
friends, and visitors.
Well here we are again it's the weekend, I do 
hope you are all enjoying the Sunshine where
ever you may live.
It is wonderful in my part of Kent, lots of spring
flowers poking their heads out of my pots.
So maybe spring is on it's way, but don't hold 
your breath all could change as it snowed in
late March last year.
Oh no I have said the S word. lol.

Thank you for all your really great comments 
on my box.

Today I have a shabby chic card, now I don't
very often make one of these, but I was watching 
C and C last week, as me and hubby do every
morning while drinking our first cup of tea, and
we saw Nancy demonstrating this lovely CD.
So I was tempted into buying it, and here is
the result.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Now the inside.

This is a 8"x8" size card.
The papers and the image are from the My Craft
Studio Shabby CDs.
I distressed the edges with scissors as Nancy did,
as I haven't a distress tool.
I decoupaged the image and the flowers, then I
added some peach leaves, and some die cut bitty
blossoms made with a contrast printed card.
I then added some string pearls from my stash,
and lastly a stick pin I made last year.
I do hope you like my effort.

Thank you again for sparing your precious 
time to visit me.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.