Unknown flower, open card for any occasion

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world...hugs

On Thursday afternoon, as usual, I set off to do my food shopping and before I got to the supermarket I had bought a new reclining sofa!!! I only went into the store to look and there, right in front of me, was the exact sofa that I wanted, at a very good price,  so I bought it LOL. Delivery is on the 5th Feb. so I am looking forward to being able to relax and ease the pain a bit more than my old sofa allows. I know when I sit on my friend's reclining sofa I am more comfortable that than  on any other :o)

Anyhow, enough waffling from me and on to my card for today!

Not sure whether you would call it sunburst or starburst but I like it whatever it's called LOL.

I'm afraid I don't know what the flower is, but I took the photograph in 2011 at Barnsdale Gardens and I love the colour of it.

I opened it in PSE5 and used the cookie cutter tool to get the effect, one of my favourites.

I cut it, and the mat out with Spellbinders.

Corners cut twice with a very old Provocraft die then I cut it in half (the diecut, not the die).

Basecard is white linencard and the orange card is Papermania textured card.

I really do love this effect and I hope you do too :o)

Jackie xx

Poppy window card

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all well or getting there...hugs

The cold sores are finally clearing up, and not a moment too soon, they've been driving me mad with itching!

How slow everything is today, must be all those folks shopping online at the last minute!!!

Did you notice that I didn't mention any bits in the title? But there are still some bits on my card for today LOL.

I had to take the photograph in artificial light so the colour is bad. The card is really white on white but it looks more like ivory or cream here!

All but the poppy photograph inside is from the bits boxes on this one, even the base card with the window cut out! Window die is from Cheery Lynn, had it a couple of years or more and totally forgot about it. Other diecuts are from Memory Box.

This is the original of my photograph inside the card, taken at Barnsdale Gardens in the summer of 2011 and as you can see, the sun was shining :o)

Jackie xx

Good morning all.....

..... Grab a cuppa and put your feet up because it's a long post ;o)

Here are a few photographs I took on Thursday when my daughter and I went off to Barnsdale Gardens.  Even at this time of the year there is plenty of colour :o)

There will be nothing else from me for a few days now although I will try and keep up with your posts. I have to get all my Christmas cards written and posted, and next weekend I am hosting a crafting get together so I have to prepare for that - I have to rearrange the furnitur e to get them all in. On top of that, I am in dispute with the taxman who tells me that I owe hime £704.65 so I am going through the last 4 1/2 years of payslips to see where he got that idea from! I think he just plucked that figure from the air. 

Aint life great when you are having fun!

Of course that blue sky didn't last very long!

From Barnsdale we went to Hambleton Bakery where we were greeted with the wonderful smells of old fashined breadmaking. Of course we bought bread and teacakes and foccaccio and..... then we went and parked up at Rutland water for our picnic. By now the sun had gone and the wind was not only blowing very strongly, it had gone very cold, so we sat in the car with our picnic and guess what, we had forgotten the teabags grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Never mind, we had pop :o) I hope I haven't bored you all to tears

Jackie xx

A few photographs.....

.....that I took ar Barnsdale Gardens last Sunday

I think that by now you all know that I don't like hot weather, and "by the goodnight" it was hot, but there is plenty of shade and lots of seats to rest a while :o)

This cheeky chappie was helping himself to the leftover crumbs

If these cherries had been riper then I wouldn't have been able to account for my actions :o)

I loved this clematis rooguchi, so unusual

What about these poppies? They were so gorgeous and about 4" across

These rose looked so beautiful against the Mediterranean blue sky. I took well over 100 photographs but these few are my favourites :o)

Jackie xx