New Home

Today I have a card to share with you the I made for my sister and her gorgeous little family, who are moving into a new house today.  It's been a very long wait for them...they thought they'd be moving at the end of May but there have been lots of hold ups.  But today they'll be in, so I thought I'd send them a card to say "Yippee"!

Sorry the photo isn't great, I played around to try and get a better picture but alas I gave up.  Hopefully you can see in the close up that behind the cut out of the house is a map, which is of where they are moving to.  I got the idea of using maps in projects last summer when I was looking for ideas of what to give my husband for our second wedding anniversary.  I found framed cut outs of a heart with a map as the backing which could be personalised...the cost - £55! I decided I could do it myself quite easily and all in all did it for about £15 which even included buying an OS map to make sure the quality of the map was as good as could be. 

The map in this card I printed from the OS website "getamap", which is why the print is a bit pale.  The house I cut using my craft knife after drawing freehand, and the sentiment I printed onto card. I have raised up the kraft card on foam pads, as well as the sentiment to add some dimension.

I have the day off work today as I had a tummy bug over the weekend.  As I work in a hospital I'm not allowed to go back until Wednesday...I'm still feeling weak so going to make the most of sitting around and use the time to do some more crafting!

Jacqui x

CAS(E) this Sketch #37

Hi All! I have been a busy bee this weekend.  It was my PhD graduation ceremony on Friday which I got to celebrate with my lovely family and friends, it was a gorgeous day all round!

I just got time to make an entry for this weeks CTS challenge.  I bought a hexagon die a few weeks ago and I absolutely love it.  The hexagons are smaller than the ones in the sketch so to balance out the card I had to change it slightly.

Here's the sketch:

And Here's my card:

Supplies:
Paper - Garden Party by Dovecraft
Hexagon Die - Clearly Besotted Stamps
Sentiment - Everyday Words Happy Birthday by Personal Impressions
Pearls - Vivi Gade Designs
Card Base - White 5 x 7 by Craft UK

That's all from me today!

Jacqui x

Welcome Baby Boy

Hi all, I hope you are all enjoying the heat wave here in the UK! Not too fun having to work in an office where we have no air conditioning or windows, but it looks like it'll be staying nice over the weekend, whoop.  It's also my PhD graduation on Friday so it'll be nice to be able to be outside.

The card I have to share with you today is one I made a little while ago but I never got round to sharing.  It's similar in design to a card I previously posted...Clearly besotted challenge #1.  The central panel is raised up on foam pads which allowed me to wrap the twine around. The feet I stamped and then embossed with clear embossing powder to give them a smooth sheen.

Supplies:

Sentiment - "Baby" set by Kaisercraft
Feet - Personal Impressions
Ink - Tuxedo black from Memento and "Baby Blue" from Versa Color
Embossing powder - Papermania, Clear 
Card base - Boofle

Jacqui x

Graduation

One of my best friend's graduated this week as a doctor, much deserved after years of hard work and dedication, and she's having a party this evening to celebrate...so of course a card was required!

I searched the internet to try and get some inspiration for a doctor-themed graduation card but got absolutely nowhere.  I drew myself a sketch to include elements of "doctor" (stethoscope) and "graduation" (mortarboard), I also quite liked the idea of putting the year in there too.

I am not entirely happy with the card, I think its a bit boring...but it is what it is and I think she'll still like it.

The stethoscope and mortarboard I printed directly onto the card (my stamp collection doesn't stretch that far!).  I added enamel dots both the images to try add some detail, I also added glossy accents to the stethoscope to try and make it more interesting.

The 2013 I cut using numbers from Memory Box and the orange paper I embossed using Swiss Dots EF. I raised up the sentiment on foam pads to again try and make the card a bit more interesting which definitely helped.

That's all from me today. Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Jacqui x

Seeing Spots

Sorry for going quiet for a little while, it has been a busy week or so in our house! Had my in-laws staying with us at the weekend which was lovely but meant there was no time for blogging.

It is my sister-in-laws birthday next week so I wanted to make her a card.  I have also just bought the "You Are" stamp set from CBS, so I couldn't wait to use them.  I saw this weeks sketch on CAS(E) this sketch and instantly came up with the idea of what I wanted to do. 

Here is the sketch:

And here is my card:

I used what is meant to be the middle of the flowers to stamp the circles, following the same layout as the sketch.  I then added a glossy accents to a few of the circles to make them pop, I then couldn't resist adding a couple of pink enamel dots to finish it off. The sentiment I printed onto card, I am really lacking stamps for sentiments so I think this will have to be my next investment, I've also seen some gorgeous digi stamps at Pink Petticoat which I'm really tempted by too.

I'd like to enter this card into both the CTS #35 challenge but also the Clearly Besotted Challenge #2. 

Supplies:
Stamps - CBS "You Are"
Ink - Versa Color 34 Orchid and Memento Lilac Posies
Enamel Dot - My Mind's Eye "Cambridge Court"
Glossy Accents, Dovecraft pink twine

Thanks for visiting, please do leave a comment as I love reading them and getting some feedback.

Jacqui x

Freshly Made Sketches #92

It's my Mother-in-law's birthday next week so I wanted to make a card to give to her.  I was massively lacking any ideas but I stumbled across the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge Blog.  I'd not seen the blog before but as soon as I saw this weeks sketch I knew what I wanted to do, and the card below is the result!  It's a really lovely sketch.

Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I drew the wave shape of the flowery paper freehand and cut it out, then used the piece I'd cut off as a template to cut the thin strip (it's dark aubergine, although it looks almost black int he photo).  The sentiment I tried writing by hand and embossing but it looked awful so I resorted to printing it out and it looks much better.

Supplies:

Gemstones - from stash

Flowery Paper - Boofle

Pink paper - from stash and embossed using "Simple Flowers" from Cuttlebug

Card - From stash

It's a beautiful day here so I'm heading outside while there's still some sun.  Thanks for visiting!

Jacqui x



Fairy Jasmine

A few months ago I was lucky enough to win some Clearly Besotted Stamps via their facebook page.  I hadn't used them yet so thought it was about time to ink them up! They were all of very cute characters like the one I've used (Fairy Jasmine), sadly they are now discontinued.  I am going to enter this into the CBS challenge as entries are still open for a few more hours. 

I inked the image using momento ink in tuxedo black and then coloured in the image (admittedly I think I need more practice!).  The "3" I cut using  "Large Typewriter Number Set" from memory box on my Cuttlebug and finished using some Glossy Accents.  The paper is from the 6 x 6 Boofle stack, the stars are glittery but it's hard to tell from the photo.  I assembled it all using some foam pads.  The ribbon was from my stash (I think it was from a box of chocolates I got for my birthday!).

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend.  Mine was lovely but very busy, I'll definitely sleep well tonight!

Jacqui x