MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES.....DT ADD A NUMBER

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

Today starts a new challenge over at the 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES 

 and it's the turn of the B Team this fortnight, and the lovely Judith is our host.

She would like you to add a number to your entries.

The challenge runs from 31/8/17 to Wednesday 13/9/17 and closes at 6PM.

Please take a look at my lovely team mates wonderful interpretation of this theme.

So here is my card I made for my little Great Granddaughter Laila she goes to ballet classes, and has done since she was quite a lot younger.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The ballet dancer I found on the Internet, and I enhanced her colour with Copic pens, and  decoupaged her skirt.

The papers are a Cuddly Buddly download. 

Lace and daisies from The Works.

Here is a picture of Laila in her ballet outfit.

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

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

CHRISTMAS CARD YET AGAIN

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

A little info about the cards I made for my Daughter's works they have nearly all been sold, and when the last one is sold they will have made nearly £100 so that was a big success, and I am so chuffed that people like them so much.

A few years ago I was struggling with my mojo as far as Christmas cards were concerned I just couldn't think of designs.

Currently I seem to be on a roll as far as designing my Christmas cards and ideas are flowing fast and furiously thank goodness.

So sorry this is yet another Christmas card made yesterday for the Allsorts Challenge.

Now apologies if this tree design is any ones, as I thought of it, and am not sure if it just came to me or I have seen it somewhere before. 

The challenge is to use ribbon in a different way so here is my interpretation of the challenge.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The holly paper is a download from the C&C club .

The ribbon with the holly is a TL one.

The holly corners are TL die.

Pierced the edges of the white card with TH ruler.

Sentiment from the Internet.

Thank you so much for your visit.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/week-430-ribbons-more-than-just-bow.html 

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS CARD

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

I do hope you are enjoying your weekend, and the weather is being kind to you.

When I made my Rudolf card I also made 2 other Christmas cards at the same time.

Here is one of the other ones I made.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

The base paper is from the 12x12 DCWV Butterfly pad.

The next layer paper is from the First Edition Gilded Winter 6x6 pad.

Material was given to me by my wonderful blog friend Sue P.

Wooden Glittery trees I have had for some years, also the wooden snowflakes I bought a couple of years ago.

Painted the edge of my bought roses with gold starlight paint.

Die cuts cheap Chinese dies.
Sentiment embosed with gold embossing powder.

Thank you so much for your visit, and the wonderful comments you make they really make my day.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

RUDOLF DAYS AUGUST 2017

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

Well you don't see me for a few days, and then I am like buses posting 2 post in the space of twenty four hours.

Today starts the 

RUDOLF DAYS CHALLENGE 

This challenge runs from the 25th of the month to the end of the month, and is anything goes as long as it's Christmas.

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.

I do hope you can all join in this wonderful challenge as Maureen always has a wonderful prize on offer to the winner.

So on to my entry for the challenge this month as I am not a guest designer this month.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

The paper I used is a snippet of paper from a Debbie Moore magazine I bought many years ago, and used some of it years ago.

Flowers from Wild Orchid crafts I bought years ago too.

The fir branches are a TL die.

The ribbon is a snippet also .

Rudolf was a tree decoration from the works a few years ago which I bought in the sale.

Finally I stamped my sentiment with a prize I won at the Snippets playground, and heat embossed with silver pearl embossing powder.

Thank you so much for your visit.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

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

  http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/pixies-snippets-playground-week-295-and.html

CHRISTMAS CARD IN AUGUST

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

I can't believe how time flies so quickly lately.

I have been missing again as I had a few things to do, and I had to make a rush wedding card and box for a neighbour.

Don't forget it's Rudolf Days Challenge starts tomorrow.

So I am just about going to make the Allsorts Challenge with this card.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The image is a TL die now I don't own this die I just bought some die cuts from EBay as I wanted this die, but couldn't afford it at the time.

I coloured it in with Pro- markers, and white gel pen, and then put some glitter on it.

Made a mistake putting the pearl on the rabbits tail I think.

My colouring isn't too brill these days because of my eyes. 

The paper is from the MCS Wonderful in White CD.

Sentiment from the Internet.

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

I really do appreciate every visit.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/week-429-forest-friends.html 

BABY BOY CARD

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

Sorry I was not about yesterday, but I was dog sitting for my Son as they were away camping for one night.

Looking after my Grandchildren tomorrow as well as their parents are back to work tomorrow after their hols this is my elder Son's family.

Really proud of my Granddaughter Jess Bonfield as she got so many A/s in her A Levels, and is going to Southampton  University, and was offered a place in Oxford too, but prefers Southampton.
Considering she had a very bad throat infetction while taking these exams she did so well I think.
Here she is with my Son on the right, her Mum on the left, and my Grandson next to her.
This is my youngest Son, and his family.

More of the cards I made to sell at my Daughter's fete this one is a Baby Boy one.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

The papers, and the image are from the Joanna Sheen Baby Love CD.

Computer generated sentiment, and verse.

Baby die cut items cheap Chinese dies.

Doily die also a cheap Chinese die cut.

 Oval stitched dies Gummiapan dies.

Thank you so much for your visit, and time.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 

BOX FOR THE 60th BIRTHDAY CARD

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

Sorry I didn't get around to commenting on everyone yesterday, but the old RLS kicked in while I was doing it, and that aggravates my knees and hips too, so I had to stop, and walk around to try and stop it.

Not a great deal of success either especially if I'm overtired.

Still that's enough of my complaining I am sure there are more people with more troubling health probs than me.

I am going to try and catch up today though.

As stated in my earlier post I had to make a box for the 60th Birthday card so here it is.

This is the box I make for an 8"x8" size card.

Luckily I had the same Graphic 45 papers in a 12x12 pad to use for the box.

Computer generated sentiment.

I made the pattern inside the circle with a 1" circle punch chopped in half.

I rather like how this looks, and will use it again sometime stuck a button and some twine where it didn't quite fit.

Thank you so much for your visit and the wonderful comments you make, they are really appreciated.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

BABY GIRL CARD

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

I have so many cards to post after making so many cards for my Daughter's works so the last lot I didn't bother to photograph.

I may regret that decision one day when I am stuck for a idea or Mr Mojo decides to go walk about.

 This is one of the cards I made for the fete, and left for them to sell in the reception.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

The papers are from the Joanna Sheen's Baby Love CD which is no longer available.

I inked the edges with Worn Lipstick DOI.

The pram is a TL die.

The baby items are a cheap China die from E Bay.

If anyone is considering buying these dies they cut perfectly, and are brilliant value for money, you just have to wait 2 or 3 weeks for delivery.

The outside of the doily is a Chinese die, and the plain matt is a stitched Gummiapan die I bought with my winnings at Allsorts Challenge, and are from Swedish House Crafts.

Thank you so much for your visit and your precious time as I know time is precious to all of us.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

 

60th BIRTHDAY CARD

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

Well I have been batch making cards for my Daughter's works as they sold out of the others, so sorry if I have not been about much.

My Daughter also asked me to make her a card for this weekend for her fiance's good friend so as it tied in with the Allsorts Challenge I have my entry this week. 

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The paper is Graphic 45.

The image is from the Internet.

Cut out the name, and the age with Gold Rainbow Mirri card.

Still have to make a box for this one.

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.co.uk/2017/08/week-428-name-andor-number.html 

HUSBAND'S 57th ANNIVERSARY CARD

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

A neighbour popped in the other day quite late in the afternoon to ask if I had any Anniversary cards as it was her 57th Wedding Anniversary the next day, and she needed a card for her hubby.

Now I only make Anniversary cards when asked , and don't keep any stock of them which I must rectify.

So I made her this card specially in about an hour. 

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The papers are Graphic 45.

The numbers are wooden which I painted with Starlight paint Agean

to try and match the papers.

This paint dries in mins so it's perfect.

The heart die is a Tonic one.

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

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

RED,WHITE, AND BLUE SEASIDE CARD

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

This morning I managed to make my entry into the Allsorts Challenge this week.

The challenge theme is the colours of your countries flag so as mine is Red, White, and Blue this is what I made.

I was tempted to use the colours of the Welsh flag where I was born, but was not so sure if I was able to use that.

I went with a seaside image as that lends itself to the colours.

Made a boob,boob, and had to redo the image after photoing the first one as the sea horizon was lopsided didn't notice it till I had it in photo editing program good job I had another image I could use as you get 2 sheets of the same images.

Think maybe it's still slightly lopsided not good with straight lines due to my bad eyesight.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

The papers are from B&M.

The image is a Joanna Sheen's book of Faye Whittaker lovely drawings.

I wanted it to look like you were looking through a telescope.

Cut the bunting by hand. 

Thank you so much for your visit, and the wonderful comments you make they really make my day.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/week-427-colours-of-your-flag.html 

CAMPER VAN BIRTHDAY CARD

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

Not been feeling to well lately, and my RLS has been playing me up, this keeps me up a lot at night, and sometimes when I'm sitting at the computer so sorry if I have been missing for a few days.

All went well with the fete on the weekend at my Daughter's works.

She is a manager for a charity that looks after people with learning difficulties, and they hold a fete every year to raise awareness of peoples learning problems, and to fund raise to help with costs of things their clients like to do.

This could be like last year an outside Gym or, Outings to Concerts, or Theatre, and maybe items for their communal lounge.

I always donate my takings to them, and it's wonderful to see them every year enjoying the fete. 

Didn't do so well this year as it was just one day, and the weather was very showery off, and on, but I left a box of cards for staff, and visitors to perhaps buy over the next few months so they can get more funds.

So at long last my card for today, it is one I made for one of my  Daughter's  colleagues that buys a few cards throughout the year for special occasions.

This is a 8"x8" size card, and bag I decorated to match.

I was asked to include a Camper Van as she loves them, and a photo of her also.

I originally thought of putting her photo inside the camper van, but the photo of head was too big to do that, and as that was sent to me with the request that is how I had to use it.

I used lots of Snippets for the decoupaged flowers, and the corners

that I had left from another card I made, as the paper was 12x12.
The butterflies are also made from snippets by my good blog friend Wendy L.

The bag has a different paper on it as I ran out of the Snippets, but the paper was very similar.

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

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter the following challenges. 
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/pixies-snippets-playground-week-293-and.html 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT CARD.................THINGS THAT FLY

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

Well it's time for the 

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES 
challenge and it's the B Teams turn this fortnight, and the lovely Jessie is your host, and she has chosen Things That Fly as our theme.
The challenge runs from the 3/8/17 to Wednesday 16/8/17 and closes at 6PM.
Now as most of my team mates were going with Bird or Butterflies I thought I would be different, and choose Kites.
Now this posed me a problem as I had nothing in my very great arsenal that had kites on so the good old Internet to the rescue.
Please take a look at my wonderful team mates creations that they have created for this challenge.

This is a 7.5"x6.5" size tent style card I made.
I inked my layering card with DOI Broken China for my coloured layer.
I went with this image off the Internet as I like the poem.
Just decoupaged the boy flying on the kite, and couple more kites.
For any Children looking do not try flying on the kite this is dangerous.
All in all a very quick card to make.

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

POPPIES BIRTHDAY CARD

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

I forgot my Daughter's place of work is having a summer fete on Saturday, and she asked me to have a stall.

So it's rush, and get cards made for the stall.

I have few already but I want to make new ones too.

So while creating I managed to make this card for the Allsorts Challenge which is a photo inspiration this week.

So here is my card I made.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

I started on Sunday spraying white watercolour card with my Tattered Angels misting sprays in Yellow, Red,

and Green to get the shades I was after for the challenge.

I have had these for some time, and they give a lovely mica glitz when dry, but unfortunately it doesn't show on camera. 

Today I put the card together with some poppies I cut out with scissors, but before that I used a sharpie pen in red to give them more colour.

I drew the stems with another green sharpie pen, and added some small black bits to the stems to make it look like the furry bits on the stems.

Cut out my grass by hand with scissors.

Lastly I added some of the lovely Wendy's Butterflies she gave me so I can join the Butterfly Challenge as well.

Photo inspiration for the Allsort Challenge.

Thank you so much for your visit.

Mawtt Challenge tomorrow.

Lots of crafty love. JENNY.

I would like to enter this in the following challenge. 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/week-426-photo-inspiration.html 
http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/83-butterflies-j-is-for-jagged-edge.html 

CAMERA CARD

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

I would like to say a big welcome to my newest follower, and thank you so much for your interest in my work.

I do hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and the weather was kind to you.

Today I have a card I have been wanting to make for ages.

I have had the idea wandering around in my head for ages since I bought these new stamps, but for one reason or another never got the time to create it till yesterday.

It was my first time using masking fluid too.

I thought I would try that as I am not very good with cutting out a mask perfectly with my bad eyesight.

I think maybe it left the camera image looking a bit dull.

Perhaps I should have heat embossed it first, and can anyone tell me if I can use masking fluid on top of a heat embossed stamped image, as I'm not sure.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

I started with a white card for my matt and layering, and inked round the edges with DOI in Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, Worn Lipstick, and Broken China.

Then on my top layer I stamped my camera with Versafine Black Onyx Ink, and masked it, and then stamped my splats with the same colour DOIs.

Thank you so much for your visit and precious time it is much appreciated.

Lots of crafty love. JENNY.

PIXIES SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.......GD CARD

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

I quite enjoy joining my friends at the

PIXIES SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND 

This is a challenge run by the lovely Di and her helper Parsnip.

The aim is to use up your mounting snippets of paper, and card amounted by creating your creations.

So when Di asked for people who would like to be a GD I put my name to the list of lovely playground friends who were interested.

So this week she kindly asked me if I would like to be her GD.

Of course I said yes, so thank you so much Di for inviting me to be your GD this time around, and thank you for all your hard work involved in this super challenge.

So here is the card I made out of my Snippets for my GD.

This card is a 5"x4" in size.

I started by cutting the shape of the card out of a 6"x6" card blank with my Couture Enchanted Escapes Die.

I used the next to largest die for the shape as there are 4 sizes to choose from.

Then I cut an aperture from my snippets with the smaller die.

I glued some more snippets left over from another project to the inside of the aperture. 

Mounted the whole shape on foam pads for depth.

Cut out some small foliage that came with the die from more snippets, and added some gems, and butterflies given to me by Wendy a good blog friend, and I'm sure she makes these out of snippets too.

Finally I stamped my sentiment with London Fog Ink, and inked around the edges with Milled Lavender Ink.

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

I very much appreciate your visit, and comments.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

SISTER'S ANNIVERSARY CARD

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

I would like to welcome my newest followers, and thank you so much for pressing the button to follow me.

I am not sure if some of you have blogs as I can't seem to find you so I can follow you also.

If you read this please let me know your  blogs if you have one.

Well it's nearly the weekend again, and where oh where has another week gone to.

We have had a bit of a mad week this week, and wanted to get some food shopping done, and it was one of those weeks when everything happened first of all I had my Grand Children Monday and Tuesday.

Then our immersion water heater broke down, but we weren't sure if it was the thermostat or the heater unit.

So it was like the there's a hole in my bucket song.

First the electrician, then the plumber to drain the water tank, and now we have to wait for the electrician tomorrow again, but did manage to shop this lunchtime thank goodness as supplies were getting to a desperate situation, as I hadn't done a big shop for a couple of weeks. 

In between we were asked to perhaps bring our Daughter's fiance home from hospital too.

So here is the Anniversary card I made for my sister, and her husband which was on the 15th of this month.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

The lovely coloured card is Hunkydory pearlised card.

I cut a circle aperture out of white card, and then added my lace die cuts glued to the inside of the aperture.

Finally I added some die cut filigree leaves to the outside edges that came with the Tattered Lace Shabby Offset Oval Die that I used for the lace.

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

I really do appreciate every visit , and wonderful comment.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

RUDOLF DAYS GD ...................JULY 2017

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

Today starts the

 RUDOLF DAYS CHALLENGE

over at Scrappymo's blog.

The challenge runs from the 25th of the month till the end of the month.

As always it is anything goes as long as it's Christmas.

Only one entry per person.

Maureen always offer a lovely prize to the winner.

As I am GD this month here is my card.

   

This is the largest size Spellbinders Grand Circle die I used to make this round easel card.

The papers came from My Craft Studio CD Wonderful in White.

The die used is Tattered Lace Glisten in the Snow, and Christmas Flora.

I cut it out twice and glued it together to make it more sturdy, and then sprayed it with aerosol glue and then glittered it.

I also decoupaged the bow, and the bow tails.

I added a Snippet of yellow card behind the windows to make it look like the lights are on in the church.

The sentiment is a stamp I won on the Snippets playground.
I used both pearls and gems on this card as I do love to use them both for finishing touches.

Thank you so much for your visit, and the wonderful comments you make.

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/do-you-prefer-pearls-or-gems-and-why.html 
http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/challenge-199-christmas-in-july.html 

 

ANOTHER TISSUE BOX

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

I do hope you are having a good weekend, and the weather is being kind to you.

Spent most of yesterday making my little Great Granddaughter's Birthday cards as she is going on holiday before her Birthday on the 29th.

I usually have to make 3 cards one for me, one for my Daughter, and one for my Granddaughter too. 

I noticed the Allsorts Challenge this time around is for Fancy Folds, and had a tissue box I made a while ago, and hadn't shown yet.

   

Anyone who would like to know how to make one of these, there is a tutorial on the top of my blog.

I used a few Cream Snippets for the die cuts so I will be joining my playgrounds friends also.

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

Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/week-425-fancy-folds.html 
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/pixies-snippets-playground-week-291-and.html 

THINKING OF YOU CARD

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

Sorry I have been missing for so long.

Hubbies extension to his  shed is up and running wonderfully now, and family has gone home.

I have also had some child minding to do with my Grandchildren as they are now on their summer hols. 

Will be doing this on Monday and Tuesday next week also.

Then I have a break as Mum and Dad will be off with them separately for a few weeks.

Today I have a card I made a couple of days ago for the Allsorts Challenge, but haven't had time to post it.

This is a 8"x8" size tent style card.
I have used pearls and gems on this card as I do love using them both or individually as they both can just finish a project  perfectly.

The papers are a Cuddly Buddly download.

The lace insert in the circle is Snippets left over from another card I made.

So I will be joining my playground friends with this.

Used Glamour Dust around the edges, and glittered another piece of Snippets in the circle under the lace edges.

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.co.uk/2017/07/week-424-lavender-and-lace.html 
http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/pixies-snippets-playground-week-289-and.html 
http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/do-you-prefer-pearls-or-gems-and-why.html