Amy's Amazing BlogCandy

Would you like to win the most amazing Blog Candy - if so follow my link to AThousand Sheets Of Paper.    Amy is keeping this open until 3rd September so you've got plenty of time left to enter.She's giving away 1000, yes you read correctly, 1000 sheets of 6 x 6 paper and some stamps too.  Here's the pic of the paper and I've put a link on my lefty side bar if you need it.

Be sure to pop over to her blog and enter.

Good Luck

Jaqui x

Would You Believe It - I Made A Card!!

Hello again.

First of all can I say hello to my new followers, thank you for stopping by.

Well as usual I kinda left this one to the last minute.  It's my wee dad's 89th birthday tomorrow and I just couldn't think what kind of card to make.  I get my crafty gene from my dad and I remember spending many an hour with him and a pile of art stuff having great fun and when I found this image on the Internet, that is exactly what it reminded me of.  I photoshopped the Teddies' noses to match the backing paper I picked (cheating a wee bit here) and added some red glitter to the paint brush.  I've never tried embossing a card blank before and I quite liked the way it turned out.  I embossed the image after I cut it out using my Nestie and an embossing tool (a tip from an MSE friend) and matted it onto blue card.  I'm not too happy with the ribbon cos it doesn't stick very well (I didn't have any glue dots - added to my every growing shopping list).

Anyhoo enough of the boring stuff, this is my wee dad's card - I hope he likes it (and you do too)

Thanks again for visiting.

Jaqui x

Apologies and Cherries!

Hi guys,

I hope you haven't all deserted me.  To say life got in the way was an understatement - I didn't realise it had been soooooooo long since I posted anything.  Ooops.

OH and I have been decorating the house with a view to selling so it's been a bit manic (that and the fact that my craft stuff was deemed clutter and boxed and put away - got it back now. YAY!)

Now for the fun stuff - look what I've got....

I would like to say a big Thank You to Sue from Crafting With Sue for giving this to me.  I feel very honoured to say the least.

Here are the rules of this award....

1. Thank the person who gave you this award.  Thanks again Sue

2. Copy the award and put it on your blog. Tick.

3. List three things which you love about yourself.

          I have a nutty sense of humour that only my OH truly gets.

          I'm really tall and have very long legs

          I can draw (which I get from my dad - thanks pops)

4. Post a picture you love.

I know this is a bit of a strange one and it looks like some random picture of a bench in a park but it'll make sense in a minute.  The bench is in the park grounds of Stirling University, which is where Chris and I met and we sat on this bench and watched the sun come up, it was very romantic.  So exactly a year later Chris decided that we should take a day trip back to OUR bench except this time it was even more romantic because he proposed.  This picture was taken about 30 minutes later.  I could have showed you one of me with tears running down my face or him with a silly grin on his face (or heaven forbid one of us kissing) but I chose this one. 

5. Tag five people you wish to pass this award on to.

In no particular order I would like to pass this award onto:

Marg

Melissa

Jenny

Sarah

Claire

Phil and Nic Look Away NOW!

Hi there.

I've decided to take a chance in posting this.  My OH's brother and his wife have just moved into a new house (in Brisbane, Australia) and I'm hoping that one of the last things they do is to set up their pc and connect it to the net.  If I'm right then they won't see this card before they get it.  If I'm wrong - DON'T LOOK!!!!!!

I couldn't think what to use on this and then had a flash of inspiration - they sent us the Estate Agents blurb for the house complete with pictures so I downloaded the main one onto PaintShop Pro and changed it to black and white (it's supposed to be Sepia but it doesn't look like it)  I found the sentiment and followed a sketch for the layout.

OK - they should have stopped reading by now..... here's the card....

Recipe

Card and buttons - stash

BG papers - Pollycraft Printable Papers (Dusty Roses and Cloudy Pearls sets)

Sentiment - Freebie from Create With TLC

Image - From Estate Agents blurb

Challenges

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 103 (3 designer papers and 3 buttons)

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 51 Amanda's Sketch

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Challenge 90 Buttons

Thanks again for stopping by.  I really appreciate it.

Jaqui x

Thankyou Card

Hi again,

I hope you all had a great holiday weekend.  I decided to do a challenge card - which I would have posted last night but my ****** computer threw a wobbly. 

I'm not sure if it shows up properly here but the wings on the fairy and the butterflies are all raised.  I quite liked the idea of trying to make it look as if the fairy was sitting on the edge strip.  I hope you like it.

Recipe
Card Blank and Brads - Stash
Blue BG paper - The Sum Of All Crafts
Border Strip and Green BG paper (Punched with Nesties Labels 12)- Canon Creative Park
Fairy - Colouring Pages from the net (coloured with felt tips)
Butterflies - The Lilac Garden
Sentiment - Bird's Cards recoloured to match on PaintShop

Challenges
The ABC Challenge - T is for
Color Throwdown #91
Cooking It Up With Katie Challenge #16
Crafty Creations Challenge #66 Magical
Flutter By Wednesday #108
Tellen's Place Challenge #16 - Dragonflies and Butterflies
Diva Coffee Break Design Sketch 175

Thanks for stopping by. 

Jaqui x

Happy Birthday Marg!

This is a card made for the lovely Marg on MSE who spent a lot of time and effort creating a birthday and address list for us all.  It was her birthday this week and this is the card I made for her.

I hope she liked it.

Recipe
Card - stash
BG papers - Canon Creative Park
Digistamp - Motivet
Sentiment - handmade by me

Musician - Not me!

Hi again, thanks for taking the time to look at my blog and I hope you've all had a great holiday weekend.

Chris reminded me that it's his Dad's birthday this week so I thought I'd better get my skates on and get his card made.  His dad has many talents - the main one being painting but I thought I'd try to be a bit different and remembered that he used to love playing the guitar.  He hasn't played for a while so hopefully this might give him the notion. 

Before I show you the card I have to point out to the musicians amongst you that I can't play a note nor can I read music which will explain why I managed to stick the music notes border onto my card upside down - you would have thought the numbers would have given me a clue wouldn't you LOL.  Why is it you only notice these details after you've firmly stuck it down?  "D'oh" to quote Homer Simpson!

Recipe

Card blank - stash

White card embossed with D'vine swirls folder

Music notes and treble clef - google

Sentiment - Birds Cards matted onto card coloured with a black marker

Challenges

Cards For Men Challenge No 9 - Monochrome (ends 9th May 2010)

365 Cards Day 63 Super Sketchy Sunday

Thanks for looking.

Jaqui x