Some of my favourite makes from 2021

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope that you all had a good Christmas. We did get to stay with our Daughter and Son-in-law. We had a lovely meal together and plenty of walks with the dog. I am sharing our special family news: in June we will become Grandparents. I still can't quite believe it. As a family we feel very blessed. There is still a long way to go but the signs are looking good. 

My back has continued to be a problem. I have taken to use the laptop standing up in the kitchen, 

I thought I would share some of my favourite makes from the year.  Some of these bring back special memories. 

I have made a few Box cards this year. This is the one I made for our daughter's 30th birthday. I drew the paper myself. This reminds me of not only our lovely daughter but also of my love of doodling. 

This is another favourite design of card. It is a Diamond Point card and there are lots of instructions on YouTube for how to make them. On my blog this has been the most looked at card of the year. 

Here is the Christmas card I gave to my in-laws this year. They are both in their 90s and just recently they have started to need care. It is always nice to give them something special. The card was made entirely with John Next Door dies. 

This twisted easel card was my Father-in-Laws birthday card. He still gets out in his garden every day. 

I have been on the Beccy's Place design team for a long time. I do like using her images. The background was made with Snippets which I like doing a lot. There always seem to be more Snippets. 

Here is a special birthday card I made again all with John Next Door dies. I am very thrilled to be one of his Angels. 

I also love reusing old cards. This image worked so well with the paper. 

Here is the Christmas card I made for our Daughter and Son-in-law. Our daughter has always loved penguins. These are Two Jays penguins. I had fun colouring them and cutting them our. 

This is one of the cards that I made for the John Next Door Christmas box kit. I wrote two articles for the magazine, It is so lovely to get opportunities like this.  

Here is one of my favourite cards I made for Beccy's Place. I do love sunflowers. 

Lastly this is the Christmas card I made for our very good friends (the ones we go on Beatles trips with). Our Daughter drew them for us. I also drew the wreath. I know they were thrilled with this card. I am hoping to do more with our Daughter's images in the future. 

I won't be making so many cards going forward. I have decided to stay on the Beccy's Place Design team and on John's Team of Angels. I will only be making special cards for people in between. I expect I will be blogging a lot less. This was the first year for ages we sent bought Christmas Cards. 

Happy New Year to you all. I do hope that 2022 is kinder to all of us. 

Happy Crafting

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A Special Card for our Special Friends

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How are all your plans coming together? We are still on track to stay with our Daughter and Son-in-law. Unfortunately I have hurt my back so some of the things we were going to do have put on hold. It could be a lot worse so I am not complaining too much. 

Here is the card I made for our special friends. 

The paper I used has been in my stash for a while. The corners were cut with the Snowflake Corner dies from the John Next Door range. I have love using those corner dies they have appeared on a lot of my Christmas cards this year. 

The drawing of our friends was drawn by our Daughter. I drew the wreath. The two images work very well together. 

Our friends received this card yesterday. We had lunch together at our local garden centre. Needless to say they were thrilled. 

I will take this opportunity to wish you all a very 

 

Merry Christmas 

and a 

Happy New Year. 

Thank you for all your support this year. I will be back next year. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie xxx

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Penguin Card Pop-Up Stepper Card

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How has your week been? We are just so busy at the moment I bet lots of you are too. I  haven't made much this month. I am hoping things will calm down a bit soon. 

Here is the card I made for our Daughter and Son-in-law. Our daughter has always loved penguins. 

The paper has been in my stash for a while. 

I love the Pop-Up Stepper Card die set from the John Next Door range. The Stencil Sentiment dies are brilliant too. You can make up all sorts of phrases.

This is the centre section. The penguins are the Small Penguins from the Two Jays stamp range. They were coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. The trees were made with the Finley's Trees die set from the John Next Door range. 

I put a panel on the back of the card for a greeting. 

They did like their card a lot. Have a good Christmas. I hope we all have a Happy New Year. 

Happy Crafting

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A Special Christmas Easel Card

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How are you all doing? We have been busy. Last week we had a few days in Liverpool with our friends. We attended a Bootleg Beatles concert that had been postponed from last year. The other brilliant thing we did was to do a taxi Beatle Tour with Mad Day Out Beatles Taxi Tours. We ended up at Strawberry Fields which now has a Visitors Centre where you can get a cup of tea. 

Here is the card that I made for John and Sam. I used an image our daughter had drawn. I have asked her to draw a few of our friends usually in costumes of characters that they like. We have quite a few drawings of us in Star Trek uniforms.  John and Sam have received this card so it is okay to share it. 

I used papers and dies that came with the Christmas Box kit. I do like making wreaths. 

The characters are Dr Who David Tennant style and Captain Jack. Our daughter colours the images for me. 

They were both very pleased with their card. I have a few more special cards to share. All the rest of the cards are going in the post today. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas Cheers with Beccy's Place

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How was your weekend? We celebrated our Son-in-law's birthday on Saturday. He is a very good cook. Then on Sunday we went to a quiz with our friends. We didn't do very well we are rather out of practice. 

I am not crafting very much at the moment. I have been helping at Felting Workshops ( I am making myself a set of Christmas Pudding decorations for our tree). What free time I have seems to be spent on the phone sorting out things for my parents. As time goes on things are getting harder. I am sure some of you know what we are going through. I will not be blogging as much as usual. I am sure no one will mind. 

Here is a card that I made with one of the images from the Christmas Cheers Digital Image set from Beccy's Place. 

When I make cards for Beccy I always print more images than I need. I have found colouring very relaxing so these extra images have been very useful. All the papers were in my stash. 

The image was coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. 

This is the Christmas Cheers Digital Image set and it is available HERE. 

This card will be winging it's way to a new recipient very soon. 

Happy Crafting

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Blue Floral Birthday Card

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How is your week going?  Here we are at the beginning of December. We are still very busy and I am not finding much time to craft. All the Christmas cards I have made lately are for special people and I don't want to share them until they have been received. You know what it is like. 

Here is a little floral birthday card I made earlier in the year. 

I found the paper with the flowers in my stash. 

This is a Creative Expression die. 

I have a few birthday cards to send this month I think this will be one of them. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas with Beccy's Place and Mr Snowflake

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How has your weekend been. We had a meal with our friends on Saturday evening. Sunday was a quiet day we just had to pick up my friend's artwork from an Art Show. This meant that they were able to visit relatives on the Isle of Wight. My lovely Mother-in-law is back in hospital for more blood transfusions. It is such a worrying time for us all. We were able to visit last Thursday. 

This is Encore Week at Beccy's Place. I was given the older Mr Snowflake digital Stamp set to use.

Here are the cards that I made. 

For this slimline card I used the pre-coloured snowman. The sentiment was foiled with my Kaleido. 

For this card I use the wreath and one to the sentiments. The wreath was coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils and then fussy cut. The paper were from my stash and I used the John Next Door Snowflake Corners again. 

This is the Mr Snowflake Digital Stamp Set and it is available HERE. 

I had great fun making these cards. I love how it is so easy to flip and resize digital images. The colouring is very relaxing too. 

Don't forget it is the last day of Beccy's Christmas Challenge too. 

Happy Crafting

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Sweet Angel Christmas Card

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I have never been away from my blog for so long. I know not many people are blogging now and I am now doing this mostly for myself. It is lovely to have a record of what I have made. Life has been rather hectic and we have been on a 12 night cruise. Today I spent over an hour trying to get next day delivery on diabetic slippers for my dad. Until today I  had no idea they existed. My life is so glamourous. I won't tell you about the incontinence pants. 

This is one of the cards I made before we went away. I am hoping to do some crafting at the weekend. 

So there are the snowflake corners from the John Next Door Range. 

I think this image is by Sherry West. I have been making the images I have been colouring into cards. I do find colouring very relaxing. 

Here is another card for my stash. I still need a few more special cards. 

Have a good weekend. 

Take care. 

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Making Merry, Christmas Elves from Beccy's Place

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I hope you are all well. We aren't around for a while. I will catching up with things we are around again. 

Beccy from Beccy's Place has created some fantastic elf images that are great fun to use. My first thought was to make some Christmas tags. I ended up making three slimline cards. I was using the Making Merry Digital Image set. 

I do love those Snowflake Corners. 

Aren't those images fun. 

I was able to use some lovely papers. 

This is a lovely set of cards just right for posting, 

This is the Making Merry Digital Image Set and it is available HERE. 

Here is my bonus project. I decorated a gift bag. I coloured the image and I drew the background. This is the sort of thing that I find very relaxing. 

Here are all of my makes together. They are lots of fun. 

Don't forget Beccy's Christmas Challenge that is taking place on her blog Here. 

Happy Crafting

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Car and Christmas Trees for Christmas

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How is your week going? We have both been busy invigilating. From now on I am going to be away from the computer for a while. I will catch up with everyone eventually when things have calmed down a bit. 

Here is a card I made from an old card. You know how much I like doing this. 

I have had that Christmas Tree paper in my stash for so long. It was just right for this card. 

The image is from an old card. 

I know just who to send this one too. 

Take care and stay safe. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas Cheers from Beccy's Place

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How has your weekend been? Today we have been to visit my in-laws. My lovely Mother-in-law is really very poorly. She is still very with it and a pleasure to visit. We always do a test before we go. After this we won't be able to visit for a while. 

Beccy from Beccy's Place has done it again she had produced some gorgeous Christmas images. Who doesn't love those speciality Christmas drinks you can get at this time of year. Here are the cards that I made with the Christmas Cheers  Digital image set. 

I fancied colouring in blues and mauves and I found some papers that matched. The snowflake corners are from the John Next Door Range. 

More traditional greens and reds this time. The papers I had in my stash and those snowflake corners are there again.  

This time I made a collage on the computer of all the pre-coloured images and some of the sentiments. Those snowflake corners are there again. I might just be obsessed. 

This is the Christmas Cheers Digital Image set which is available HERE. You get line art that you can colour too. 

Here are all three cards together. I will think carefully about who to send these cards to. It will have to be someone who is into their hot drinks as much as we are. 

Don't forget Beccy's Christmas Challenge which runs for the whole of November right here on her blog. 

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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