Phoenix Inspirations

Today over on the  Craft Your Days Away  challenge blog the theme is Bingo. The idea being to pick a line - straight or diagonal and create a card - here's the Bingo card Here is my card I have taken the diagonal line that includes - Flowers, Ribbon / Lace and Gems. My flowers are from the Stampin' Up Charming set, my black ribbon is cut from the shoulders of my cardigan (!) and my gems (down the side of the punched lace border) are tiny red ones. My white panel has been embossed using my scoring board but again my photography has let me down and it hardly shows up. The colours I have used are also S'U - Poppy Parade, Basic Black and Whisper White. Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend - bye for now - Jacqueline xx

This week at  Simply Stampin'  there is a fabulous sketch for us to follow - take a look I still have some some of the gorgeous Everyday Enchantment SAB DSP left over so I thought I would use some on this card For my 3 panels I have used my new set - Charming coloured with Lucky Limeade, Poppy Parade and Pool Party markers - the sentiment is from Bird on a Branch. It has taken literally days to get this post up. My poor lap top is not feeling it's self at the moment. I seem to be having a problem leaving comments - every time I click on a link to leave a comment my computer crashes and then has huge problems restarting. Any way - going to have another go now so hopefully I will be popping by soon - bye for now - Jacqueline xx

Today I have made a card using the  Mojo Monday  sketch and the  Stampin' Royalty  colour combo Here is the card I made So - everything except the purple rhinestones on this card is Stampin' Up. Concord Crush, Peach Parfait and Whisper White card stock. Peach Parfait, Blushing Bride and Concord Crush inks. Also used my scallop edge punch and a sentiment from My Friend and a circle flourish from Charming and a butterfly from Precious Butterflies. That's it for today - see you soon - Jacqueline xx

I have had a lovely afternoon today. My beautiful daughter Briony took me out for coffee and cake and I even managed to sneak into my favourite craft shop and stock up on a few supplies! This did however prevent me from getting all my work done so I guess I'm going to have a busy day tomorrow! I have a scrapbook page for you to see today - I started it last week at a workshop and finished it off tonight. It is inspired by a sketch by Maria Burke and taken from a magazine called 'Scrapbook Trends' The papers and 12" x 12" page were supplied at the workshop but the pale blue is my own - Pool Party. The photo's are of my wedding and the group is my side of the family. I don't have a decent photo of the friends on my husband's side as they all disappeared to the pub! I used a couple of stamped images on my page - the journaling medallion from Everything Eleanor and a little round flourish from Charming - here is a close up My little flowers ha...

Hello all, I'm back home now and having a play. After four days of no crafting what so ever I am back in my craft room - creating. I thought I would start with this week's sketch over  Simply Stampin' Here is my card I started off with some Everyday Enchantment SAB DSP and cut it to fit my card blank - 5" x 5" Whisper White. I then used Pumpkin Pie, Pool Party and more Whisper White for matting and layering. My images are from my new Charming set and are stamped in Pool Party and Peach Parfait ink. I punched a few tiny flowers to pretty up the border a bit and also added a few pearls. Lucky me - I'm off out tonight to a scrapbook workshop, see you soon - Jacqueline xx

I found the time today to follow the sketch from this week's  Mojo Monday  challenge. I am going away at the end of the week and I have been frantically crafting and getting all my DT pieces made and scheduled. I also have a meeting tonight so have been typing minutes and compiling agendas. The thing was though - Louise dropped round and brought with her my new Stampin' Up set - Charming so I just had to have a play! Here is the sketch I followed   and here is my card My card stock colours are Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade and Whisper White, I also used a little of my precious S-A-B DSP. My inks are Poppy Parade and Lucky Limeade. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look - see you soon - Jacqueline xx