First January birthday

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

I don't know about you, but I am not at all comfortable with these unseasonable temperatures, it was 13c when I went to work yesterday afternoon, and they have promised 14c today!!!

My card for today is for a friend whose birthday is at the beginning of January, I cannot believe it is so nearly 2016!

Quite a simple card. 

8x8 basecard from Papermania.

White pearlised card embossed with 8x8 Embosslicious Distressed folder.

Sentiment cut with Die'sire dies.

Flower cut with Sue Wilson dies.

Foliage cut with Memory Box dies.

Red pearlised card from PDA

Pins and pearl flower centre from stash and coloured with Copic marker.

I think this is my favourite embossing folder ever, and it is suitable for many occasions :o)

Jackie xx

Daisy birthday

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

I am very late this morning, my internet went down about 6.45am and didn't come back until about half an hour ago which means I will have to be very quick, then come back later to visit your blogs Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

So, without more ado, here is my card for today.

Base card is my usual white linencard from The Range, folded into A5 size.
Die-namics stitched fishtail dies cut from peasrlised white card.
Sue Wilson daisy cut from Papermania textured card.
Memory Box vine cut from a scrap.
Die'sire Happy Birthday cut from striped paper from stash.
Sticky flat pearls coloured with Copic pen.
Not really anything else I can say about it :o)
Jackie xx

8x8 CAS wedding card

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

Not much happening here at the moment but it's nice to have an un-busy day for a change LOL. I am at work as usual this evening but  going to have a lazy day first doing what I want, how I want and if I want!

My card today is for friends but they don't blog so it's safe to show :o)

The base card is a cream (looks ivory here) 8x8 one from who knows where, had them a long time. 

I used an 8x8 Die'sire embossing folder.

Hearts cut with the Cricut and the cream one was then embossed with Cuttlebug embossing folder then attached to the gold heart. 

Mr and Mrs is a Papermania image stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Stampendous detail gold powder, then cut with nestie and attached with foam pads to give a bit of dimension.  The topper was also attached with foam pads and yes, it is deliberately wonky LOL. The personalisation will be inside for privacy :o)

Jackie xx

8x8 Christmas 29

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

It's a bit dull and grey here but very warm. I am off to Long Eaton to get money then to George's Tradition for lunch, then hopefully I may get into the craftroom to play for a little while :o)

Here's another 8x8 card today and my 29th Christmas card for the year, long way to go yet!

Paper and topper are from J&P Pictures.  Both are printed on to Papermania textured card. backing panel put through GC in Die'sire 8x8 folder then sanded, topper layered onto gold textured card from stash then popped on foam pads. Ribbon from stash :o)

Jackie xx

Made this one just because.....

..... I wanted to play, it will go into the box until I am ready to use it.

I hope you are all well or getting there :o)

I am off to Atherstone in Warwickshire today to meet up with adopted family who I haven't seen for 8 years. They live in West Sussex, which is a tad too far to pop out for the day, but they are holidaying in Warwickshire this week so we are meeting halfway (about 37 miles for me). It will be so lovely to see them again :o)

Anyhow, on to my card for today.

I cut two pieces of plain white card to 8x8, scored one about an inch in from the edge and attached it at the back of the other.

The backing panel is DCWV put through an 8x8 Die'sire embossing folder then sanded. White centre panel is pearl card with a tiny hint of gold put through a 6x6 Die'sire embossing folder then rounded the corners.

Dies used are Marianne and Memory Box. 

I added flat backed sticky pearls from stash.

I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it :o)

Jackie xx

Out of my comfort zone

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

In case you are wondering about my title for this post, I see such beautiful vintage cards on other folks's blogs and I cannot seem to do them as well but HeyHO, you have to try don't you LOL. 

I was lucky enough to be offered a digi image of my choice from Nicecrane Designs recently and I chose one, but when it dropped into my inbox there were actually 3 images. Thank you so much to Nicecrane, I hope you don't mind that I changed your beautiful images to sepia as I love old sepia photographs. 

Here are the first two cards I made using them.

I folded and cut buff card from PDA to 7x5.

I printed both images onto Kodak everyday photo paper which is something in between glossy and matte. The first image was cut out using my new Die'sire dies and the second one with Nesties. 

Other dies used are Marianne and Memory Box.

If I remember rightly the sentiment is from Stamps and Smiles :o)

Jackie xx