CHRISTMAS CARD WITH WINTER SPARKLE

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Posts 2 days running, and tomorrow there will be another post as it's the MAWTT Challenge again.

Just wanted to join in the Allsorts Challenge with this Christmas card with Winter Sparkle.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

Sorry the inside didn't photograph very well as I used Hunkydory card with an ombre effect.

The image is from the Crafters Companion Paint Poppets Winter Collection CD.

Just added some stickles glitter glue to the image, and a star die cut behind the image.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/02/week-506-winter-sparkle.html 

 

BUTTERFLY CHALLENGE NO 116.... SPIN THE WHEEL FOR THE LETTER K

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Thank you so much for all your wonderful comments on my recent posts.

I very much appreciate every visit, and comment.

Well another sleepless night yet again so I manged to make a card just in time for the Butterfly Challenge.

I think I have manged to use all the items on the wheel this time around especially as I haven't been able to join in this challenge for a long time.

Here is the wheel with all the elements.

My card is a 7"x5" tent style.

Sorry I didn't manage to decorate the inside, as I used lots of snippets to make this, and there wasn't enough for the inside. 

I used kraft card, some Kelly Green card, Kobi for the Kite, and ribbon for the knot, some Kobe,dark red paper, in the corner, and of course my Butterflies.

Some of the items used are items I won on one of my Butterfly Challenge wins a long time ago. 

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

https://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/01/116-spin-butterfly-wheel-with-letter-k.html 

NEW HOME STAMPED CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

While out at the supermarket on Wednesday night I decided to pick up a craft magazine that I saw Christina Griffiths demo on UTube.

It had lots of bird stamps as your freebie item.

Couldn't wait to use them as my Granddaughter has just moved house, and I needed to make her a card.

This card is one when it's finished you do a Happy Dance at how it turned out.

Made most of it in the middle of night when my dreaded RLS was plaguing me.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

I started by blending DOI in Worn Lipstick, Cracked Pistachio, and Fossilized Amber on 3 of my base layer cards, and then spritzed them with water.

I then cut an aperture in my top layer, and stamped it all over with one of the stamps, and the DOI Worn Lipstick.

I then put the circle that came out of the aperture, and cut another aperture so I could use the edge left round the aperture.

Mounted it all on foam tape.

I then stamped my Bird House in Potting Soil archival, and the Blue Tits in Black Archival Ink.

Coloured them in with Derwent Water Colour Pencils.

Stamped some flowers, and coloured them in with DOI W/L.

The Birds, Bird House, and the Flowers were stamped onto snippets of card so I will be off to the snippets playground with this.

I finally added  some ribbon green leaves, and stones to the eyes of the Birds. 

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2019/02/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge-345.html 
http://intaas.blogspot.com/2019/02/ch-51-make-your-own-background.html 
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/02/february-all-things-bright-and-beautiful.html 

HUNKYDORY WINDOWS TO THE HEART CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Sorry I am still absent from my blog a lot.

I am still trying to get my craft room back in ship shape, and still unpacking lots of boxes which is taking me ages as my back will only allow me short periods of work.

I can't believe how much craft items I have still to put away.

My old desk was rather large and had lots of drawer space.

This has had to go to make way for the new heater that was installed, which I must say is keeping me lovely and warm, but my new desk is lot smaller and only has 2 drawers so I have had to buy some plastic drawers to use instead.

Will try, and show you photos or video of the old, and then the new when it's all done.

I have also been labelling everything so I know exactly where everything is.

In the meantime I have a card to enter into the Allsorts Challenge which I made a while ago , and haven't shown yet.

This came as a kit card, and there were 6 different ones which I made all at the same time before I forgot how to make them.

As stated this is from a Hunkydory kit called Windows to the Heart.

I just added a ribbon bow to this.

This design folds flat and fits into C5 Envelope.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

I really appreciate your patience with my hap-hazard blogging at the moment.  

Lots of crafty love. JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/02/week-505-love.html 

THANK YOU MISS DI SURPRISE BLOG HOP

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Darnell that lives over the pond is holding a surprise Blog Hop so that we all may Congratulate Miss Di on 7 Years of running the
PIXIES SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND CHALLENGE 

I first encountered this challenge from visiting my Dear Friend

 Sue J.

She was posting some great creations made with lots of left over elements from other cards.

 So I popped over to the
 PIXIES SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND CHALLENGE where our lovely Miss Di encourages you to use up your snippets making a creation so you don't waste anything.

It can be anything you want to create not just a card as long as it made with at least one snippet item or more if you would like.

Miss Di and her lovely helper Parsnip have been running the challenge for 7 years after taking it over from the lovely Jules.
We have freat fun, and games just like being back at school in the playground

So DARNELL has organised this Blog Hop for us to say Thank You for all your hard work involved with this great challenge.
I haven't managed to enter this wonderful challenge lately as my husbands health issues, and house renovations have made crafting a bit hit and miss lately.
Another reason was getting ready for alterations to the house I had to put all my craft items away in boxes, and be very strong, and throw away my boxes, and boxes of snippets I had collected over the years, but happily I found a small box I had missed so I made this card.
Everything on the front of the card is a snippet even the lace, and flowers the only new item is the card base which I made, and the paper inside.

  

This is a 5"x7" tent style card I made.
The main card image is a snippet of Hunkydory card.
The lovely gold rainbow mirri card is also a snippet.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

I am entering this into the following blog hop and challenges.
https://www.djkardkreations.com/2019/01/thank-you-di-blog-hop.html  
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2019/01/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge-344.html 

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCMENT ABOUT THE RUDOLF CHALLENGE.

Hi to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

I thought I would just pop on to mention to anyone that doesn't know that there will be no.

RUDOLF CHALLENGE

this month because Maureen is having a knee replacement surgery.

The RUDOLF CHALLENGE will be back on the 25th of February 2019.

I am having my new heaters put in on Friday so it's all go getting everything ready for the work to be done.

Couldn't be worse weather too for turning off your heating as we have to turn them off 2 days before hand to let them cool down ready for installation of new ones.

Hoping all gets back to normal next week.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.   

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT...........HAVE A HEART

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

It's time for the start of another challenge over at 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES 

Donna is our lovely host for this fortnight, and she would like to see a heart on your creations please.

The challenge runs from today till the 30th of January and closes at 6PM GMT.

Please go over to the challenge blog to see my lovely Team B friends, and there wonderful creations, and  we also have the lovely Christine on Team B now as she has changed teams.

Christine ,and I started our blogs the same week encouraged by a good blog friend of ours that no longer blogs.

So here is my card which I made for my Son's Anniversary in March.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The card stock used is Hunkydory, and also the paper inside.

This card has a lovely gloss to it.

I die cut the heart aperture, and then added a die cut that looks like lace all around the inside of the Heart, this is a straight die cut, which I cut to fit the Heart.

The flower I made out of the same card and inked the edges.

The butterfly was up-cycled from a card given to me.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

I really appreciate every ones visit, and wonderful comments. 

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

40th BIRTHDAY CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

I am trying to get back to blogging ,and crafting, but with all my craft items in boxes waiting for my new heaters to be installed it's quite difficult.

I have managed to make a few Birthday cards for my family who have Birthdays this month with Hunkydory items that I could find.

Also a card for my DT on Thursday, but guess what I can't find the camera lead to the computer, after looking in I don't know how many boxes.

I remember putting it away safely, but where............... LOL.

I noticed the Allsorts challenge this week is Milestones with Numbers so as I have a card I made for my Daughter's work colleague back last year, and haven't shown yet I thought I would join in.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The card stock, images, and the papers used are Hunkydory.

I put lots of post cards in the pockets inside for their individual greetings, and signing.

Cut out lots of die cuts of Happy Birthday, and 40th, and glued them together to make them stand out more.

The lovely little Butterflies are made by Wendy L our Team Leader at Moving Along With The Times challenge bog.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/

 

SORRY YOU ARE LEAVING CARD AND BOX

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

I would like to welcome my latest followers that have pressed the button to join my blog, and thank you for following me.
I'm not sure if you have a blog, so if you have let me know so I can follow you too.

I have had to go back to my old computer as I could not get on with the any of the other photo editing programs.

So it's back with Picassa 3, and I can't understand why Google has done away with it as it was so easy to use, all the others are so complicated compared to that one as I'm not good with measurements.

Also some had very small writing which I couldn't enlarge, and I couldn't read the program with my eye problems.

Back in September my daughter asked me to make a leaving card, and box for a colleague that was leaving.

So here is what I came up with as the person loves shoes, and handbags.

This is a 8"x8" size card, and box I made to match.

They wanted lots of little cards inside to write their individual greetings on, so the cards inside are 4"x4" in size.

The boots, and handbag are a

 CraftsUPrint download.

Decoupaged the the handbag, boots and the flowers.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Thank you so much for your visits throughout 2018 especially this last couple of months when I couldn't visit you.

I really appreciate your support, and your lovely comments, and also get well wishes for hubby.

The kitchen is all finished now, and I have managed to just about get everything back into cupboards.

My craft room is still in boxes waiting for the New Heater to be fitted in the New Year.

I have had to get rid of my old very big desk, and buy a smaller one to accommodate the new heater.

It has been a good thing as my craft room needed a over haul, and tidy up, but it's been a lot of hard work, and being ruthless with crafting items I have had for many moons.

I can't wait to get crafting again, and blogging as it seems so long now since I have had chance to visit you all.

Mind you when it's all back together again do you think I will find anything???????

So I digress my main aim today is to wish everyone  A very Happy, Health, New Year.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Hi , and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

May I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy, and Health New Year.

Thank you so much for all your visits, and wonderful comments that you all make on my work.

My bungalow is still  all upside down from my kitchen refurb, and my craft room is all in boxes waiting for the heating to be done in the New Year. 

I am getting lots of with drawl symptoms from not being able to craft.

Hubby has recently had another fit which has left him very unsteady again. 

I have had to have a smaller desk in my craft room to accommodate the new heater, and so I have changed computers with hubby, and lost my photo editing program of Picassa 3 as they no longer do that one,

So if anyone knows of a good, and easy one to use please let me know.

Thank you for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT................ANYTHING BUT A CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

We have a new challenge that starts today, for over the Christmas period at

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES 

The challenge involves both Teams A and B this time around, and the lovely Wendy our Team Leader is your host.
Wendy's theme is 
ANYTHING BUT A CARD
The challenge runs from today till Wednesday 2nd of January 2019 and closes at 6PM.
There is also a prize from

  
and some little prizes donated by some of our lovely DT Team too.
So it could be well worth entering if you have the time as I know we are all very busy this time of year. 

Here is what I made for my DT a wreath.

  
I got the idea for this last year from watching One Happy Bird on U Tube.
I just made mine larger to go on a door by cutting out cardboard rings, and then hot gluing  the bead inter twined pipe cleaners, and then I added a felt Christmas Tree decoration to the centre, and some lovely Ribbon.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT.............ANYTHING CHRISTMAS

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Well I'm nearly about 24 hours late posting my DT post as I couldn't get to my computer till tonight as my craft room was full of kitchen appliances.

It's time for another challenge over at

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES 

It is the B Teams turn again, and the lovely Caz is our host for this challenge, and she would like to see 

Anything Christmas on your entries.

The challenge runs from Thursday the 6th of December to Wednesday the 19th of December, and closes at 6PM.

Please pop along to the challenge to see my wonderful team mates creations.

So here is a card I made weeks ago especially for this challenge as I knew things would be hectic now.

This is a 7"x6" tent style card I made.

I used an embossing folder given to me by a friend with this lovely image of the Robin, and Holly on.

I used white Hunkydory plain card to emboss this on, and then I sprayed it with Crafters Companion Pearl Diamond Sparkle Spray to give it the pearlised sheen.

Then I added some waxes which I have had for many a year in various colours to the different areas, and then finally adding some red pearls for the berries, and a little black stone to the Robins eye.

The greeting sentiment was a buy from The Works.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

I really appreciate every visit , and wonderful comment.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

ANOTHER QUICK CHRISTMAS CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Firstly I must apologise for not visiting you, but on top of my Hubbies health problems the housing association in our sheltered housing scheme are modernising the kitchens, and the storage heating system.

Good news this maybe, but it's causing me such a lot of extra work at a time I don't need it.

They start work on the kitchen on the 26th of November so everything has been pulled out of cupboards, and such.

They are also fitting in new storage heaters, and I am getting one in my craft room which I haven't had before only an expensive one to run at the mo, this means a big move around of my craft room to accommodate the work.

I can't believe how much stuff I have thrown out so far. LOL.

Well I have been making cards for over 20 years now so you do accumulate quite a lot in that time.

Not sure when things will be back to normal, but you will know when I start posting more regularly.

In the meantime here is quick Christmas card I made before all the upheaval.

This is a DL size card.

The image if the door is a Hunkydory one just added some snow, and the die cut wreath from their Moonstones Die, and some gems to make it glitter.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

I really appreciate every visit.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES........WINTER ANIMALS

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Hubby still quite weak, and still getting very tired, but I think he is improving very slowly thank goodness.

Thank you so much for all your well wishes, and prayers for him.

Another fortnight, and time for a new challenge over at
MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES 
It's the B Teams turn again and the lovely Jackie is your host, and she would like to see 
WINTER ANIMALS.
on you creations please.
The challenge runs from today, and finishes at 6PM on the 21st of November 2018.
Please pop along to see what my lovely team friends have created.

This is my effort a quickie card, and very similar to the last one only the fox is an Artic one.

This is a 4"x4" size card.
The snowy paper is Hunkydory again.
I stamped my Christmas sentiment on the Misti.
The fox stamp I heat embossed with Sea Foam White embossing powder, and added a few dark shading with Memento London Fog Ink, and then used a sharpie pen for the eyes, snout, ears, and feet
I used some faux snow glued to the card, and wallah another quickie card made.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.
I really appreciate every visit especially as I am not able to visit you all for a while.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.
 

  

A QUICK CHRISTMAS CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Hubby is still quite weak, but has lots more colour in his cheeks now.

He is on his last week of injections, and hopefully will improve from then on.

We may have to try,  and get some physio for his right arm and leg as they are still very weak, and he has to think carefully when using them as it doesn't seem to come naturally to him any more.

This week he has had a heart monitor on for a week too so they can look at what's going on there.

Things are very hectic with Hospital appointments, and as he always helped me so much around the house I am having to do it all which is quite exhausting.

As I don't sleep too well with my RLS I quite often can be crafting at night.

Here is a quick card I made.

This is a 4"x4" size card.

The paper with the forest scene is Hunkydory, and the fox is a freebie stamp which I stamped with Izink Ink, and water coloured with the the Izink Inks, and then added some black sharpie for the eyes, snout, and the edge of the paws.

I also added some white gel pen to his tail, ears, and his neck.

Then I created a shadow under his body with Memento London Fog Ink.

Forgot to say I fussy cut him out and adhered him to the scene.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT....HALLOWEEN..... AND RUDOLF DAYS DT

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE RUDOLF DAYS CHALLENGE

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN PAST THE MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT THANK YOU.

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented. and craft loving friends.

Today starts a new challenge over at 
MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES.

It's not my usual fortnight to make a DT, but I stepped in for someone else on the A Team this time around.
The lovely Amy is your host and she would like to see Halloween on your creations please.
The challenge runs from today to the 
6pm on the 7th of November.
So here is what I made for my DT.

This is a 8"x6" size tent style card I made.
The papers are Graphic 45 from the Children's Hour 12x12 pad, and matted onto black, and orange card.
Looking forward to seeing your lovely Halloween creations.
Just pop along to the challenge blog, and see the lovely A Teams DT Creations.

RUDOLF DAYS CHALLENGE.

Today also starts the Rudolf Days Challenge, and runs to the end of the month as always.
The challenge is anything goes as long as it's Christmas.
ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.
over at
SCRAPPYMO'S BLOG 
Maureen always has a lovely prize on offer to the winner too, and it all adds to your Christmas card stash as well.
So here is my DT card, this is my last DT for this year as it's the other DT turn next month.
I have really enjoyed my last 2 years on the DT, and thank you so much Maureen for asking me to join the other wonderful DT members.
I felt very privileged to join such talented DT members.

This is a 6"x6" size card.
The scene in the circle aperture is made up from a Hunkydory Christmas scene paper pad, and then I added a die cut Christmas image to the front coloured with Promarkers.
Then I added some stickles glitter glue for the snow.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.
Sorry this was a long post.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.
    

CHRISTMAS CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Update on Hubby we have now found out by phoning the Doctor, and saying he was still very tired, and just walking to the bathroom was exhausting him, that he is Anaemic, very low in Vitamin B12, and Folic Acid.

This showed up on his bloods they took at the Hospital when in AE, but nothing was done about it.

Gives you real confidence in the health system doesn't it.

He is now having B12 injections twice a week, and taking iron tablets, and folic acid ones.

Hopefully we will see some improvement soon.

While looking after him I have sneaked a few odd hours in the evening when I am not exhausted myself to catch up on some Christmas cards.

So I was delighted to see the Allsorts Challenge this week was Christmas.

So here is one of my makes.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The paper on the front is Hunkydory I just added some snow bought from Mrs Duck's craft shop which you will find a link to on the right side of my blog if you are interested.

The VW car with the Christmas Tree is a freebie stamp from Creative Stamping  Magazine.

I stamped it with my Misti, and Versafine Ink and then heat embossed it with black embossing powder.

Coloured it with Promarkers, and then cut it out and glued it to the scene.

I used Memento London Fog to create the tyre marks in the snow.

Just remembered I forgot the snow on the car, and tree. LOL.

The sentiment was also a freebie stamp, and the inside verse was one too.

The lovely stitched squares inside were a buy from my winnings at the Allsorts Challenge, and are from Swedish House Crafts. 

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.
I really appreciate your visits especially as I haven't had time to reciprocate.
Lots of crafty love.   JENNY. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/week-489-christmas.html

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT.............FOR A MAN

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Hubby is making slow progress with his fitness after his small stroke so thank you for all your well wishes for him.

Today starts another new challenge over at 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES 

It's the B Teams turn again and Beckie is our lovely host for this challenge, and she would like to see your lovely creations 

For A Man

Now I know lots of us hate making these, but I'm sure you will come up with some brilliant designs.

The challenge runs from today to Wednesday 24th of October, and closes at 6PM on that day.

So here is what I made.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

The paper is Graphic 45.

The image is I think from Kanban as my good friend Ang Mrs Duck gave it to me with a few other Men's images.

So thank you Ang for your generosity.

Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with.

Please pop over to the challenge blog to see the lovely creations made by my Team mates.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

 

THANK YOU CARD

Hi, and welcome to all my very talented, and craft loving friends.

Thank you so much for your well wishes on my hubbies health probs.

The outcome is that he did have another stroke back a month ago, and we weren't told till he visited the TIA Clinic on a follow up consultation last Tuesday he was then prescribed a fit medicine for the problem caused on the Saturday night when we spent so many hours at AE.

This caused him more symptoms just like he was having another stroke.

He currently can't use his right arm properly or his right leg and has to walk with a walking frame for small amounts as he gets very worn out.

So I won't be about much as I have look after him quite a lot.

In the meantime here is a Thank You card I made to say thank you to you all.

I won the stamps I used on a good blog friends posts where she often offers a card or stamps to her peeps that comment so if you are interested in visiting her, and I must say it is well worth a visit here is her blog.
http://www.poppyfieldcardcrafts.com/ 

This is a 6"x6" size card.
The background is created DOInks.
Then I used Versafine Ink for the stamped design.
Butterflies from Wendy our Team Leader at MAWTT.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate each visit.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.