Phoenix Inspirations

Good morning all - it's Monday and a brand new theme launch at  Make My Monday . Caz - my lovely team mate has chosen a theme of MEN AND BOYS with the first challenge to be WHEELS . We are also sponsored again this month by the fabulous Marianne Designs - all the details are on the blog. For my card I chose a CAS style - I stamped the truck from Strampin' Up Loads of Love and coloured it with Promarkers. I then cut it out, mounted it onto a die cut label and attached it to my card over a background of trees My design team have made some super samples for you to view so please do hop over to take a look - bye for now - Jacqueline xx

As promised here are some instructions on how to make the slider card. This card has again been made using Stampin' Up - Loads of Love and Accessories . 1) choose your image, colour it and then carefully cut it out. I used Promarkers to colour this image . 2) Cut a piece of plain card stock and create a background for your image. I used a brayer, post it notes and the trees from Lovely as a Tree. 3) Cut a small slot in your background carefully removing the piece of card whole. Now cut a piece of card stock a little larger than your background. Line up the background on the larger card (but do not stick) Replace the card back into the slot and stick this to the larger card. This means that the background remains the same when the truck moves.  4) Now take the truck, turn it upside down on your mat. Take the background and turn this upside down also - place over the truck and add some 3D foam pads . 5) Remove the backing paper and stick on two pennies . 6) Now cover thi...

Hello everyone - happy March to you all. Well it's been a week since I last posted - as you know I've been away visiting my Dad as he was having some top-up chemo treatment. Whilst I was there I managed to take this picture of Mum and Dad's cat eating Dad's head! Hee hee - I thought this was very funny. So - I came home and went straight round to my friend Bev's house for some emergency crafting. I did do a bit while I was away but not much. We decided that this week we would use the Loads of Love stamp set and also the accessories set that go with it. Bev made a fab little pull card with a tab and I made a 'Penny Slider' card. Here it is The truck starts and the right, and drives along I will try and put some instructions up together for this - it's not that hard a card to make and - it's for a Man! I have to go now as I also came home to meetings and paper work which is all very boring but needs to be done :(  See you soon - Jacqueline xx.

Good morning - my goodness it's cold this morning and wet and windy and did I mention cold? I can't believe it's November next week can you? Ok so today's card is one I have made for my husband to give to a friend of his. He has some health issues at the moment and has to have a big opperation soon - so what better stamp set to use than the Loads of Love? I have stamped the truck onto blue card and cut it out. Then I stamped the driver and the dogs on to the background so that it looked like they were in the truck. The background has been sponged to give some perspective and then stamped with the trees. Hope this makes him smile. Bye for now - Jacqueline xx.

Now if you have been to my other blog you may recognise the title of this post - this I suppose is part two. Same stamp set (Stampin' Up - Loads of  Love) but a different design. This card is for the Die Cut Dreams  challenge blog where the theme is 'Gingham' . The main image is stamped onto S'U Very Vanilla card stock in Rose Red ink and then coloured with a water brush and distress inks (Brushed Corduroy and Fired Brick) The backing papers are all from a set I had off QVC soooooo many years ago I forget what it is called!!! and the flowers are 7 Gypsies. I cut the little florishes on my Cuttlebug. Have been playing all day so I must really go and do some housework now! - so long - Jacqueline xx.

This is a cheeky little card I made for my Christmas workshop next week. It uses the Stampin' Up set 'Loads of Love' and DSP from the Simply Scrappin' 'I Wish' set. My friend Bev very kindly lent me the set to play with a little while ago along with the accessories set so I may make a couple more. Unfortunately you can't see the glitter on the trees to give it a bit of sparkle and I also inked the edges with Always Artichoke. This is another card I made for my workshop. The theme is 'Quick & Easy Christmas Cards' and it will take place at my home on Thursday August 12th at 7.30pm. Hope to see you there - Jacqueline xx.