80th Birthday Mummu

Good Morning Mo Friends I hope you are all well. The card I have for you today is one I made last year(that sounds so wrong as it was only a couple of weeks ago). I was asked by a cousin if I would make a card for his Nan as it was her 80^th birthday on boxing day.The lady in question is also my Auntie so no pressure lol.

I decided to use a Mummu image as she is the perfect resemblance to how a grandmother should be. I coloured the image with polychrome pencils then inked with oxide inks.

I added die cut bird cage and flowers which I embossed with frontage powder, the papers were freebies from pixel scrapper which I thought went perfect with the image.

To finish I added a sentiment and insert with verse.

Hope you like it and I will see you soon.

Links to find the downloads and all things me and what I have used →

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

http://mosdt.blogspot.com/

http://www.mosdigitalpencil.com/mummus-haukka-boy/

https://rangerink.com/?product=tim-holtz-distress-oxide-ink-pads

Challenges

Happy Crafting

Jacki xx

New Baby for a new Year

Hello and Happy new year to you all Sorry for my absence over the Christmas festivities have got loads to share with you but was off my feet with a spell of vertigo again grrrrrr

Anyway enough about that I am thrilled to be back sharing another card for Mo Manning (links below please join us)

For my card I have an 8x8” card blank and my theme is new baby as my MiL has asked me to make one for a friend’s daughter who is due any day now. I think Mo does the most adorable baby images and this is my first time using this image (baby girl on a blankie again link below)

The papers I used are from Pixel Scrapper these are my 2^nd go to place after polkadoodles for papers you get 8 free and there are hundreds to choose from.

I have distressed them but not inked the edges then added some corrugated card which I painted with starlight paints hot pink and dusty rose. Then I embossed with Wow embossing powder.

As I said the image is by Mo Manning and I have coloured her with a mix of Pablo and polychromo pencils. The inked the edges with spun sugar distress ink I also added this to the edges of the sentiment.

To embellish the card I die cut some flowers they are meant to be chrysanthemums but I decided to leave them flat and added a flat backed gem to the centre. I also added a fussy bow with a pink glass dummy added to the centre.

To finish the card I made the insert in my usual style adding the black and white image to the insert and verse on other side.

I do hope you like it and I will see you very soon with more makes.

Links to find the downloads and all things me and what I have used

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mosdigitalpencil.com/baby-girl-on-blankie

https://www.facebook.com/groups/mosclub/

https://www.facebook.com/MosChallenges/

https://mosdt.blogspot.co.uk/

Challenges

http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.co.uk/ Something New

http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.co.uk/ Flowers

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG


Happy Crafting

Jacki xx

New release Heart on your sleeve January

Squeallllllll So Phil takes me to Doncaster yesterday to the Dame for the Stamp Magic fair. I spent a fortune, had a catch up with the lovely #Tracy Easson, then came home feeling very chuffed with myself about my new goodies but felling very worse for wear on the ear side of things. I’m really struggling again today in so much pain but hey ho I will go to these places x

So when I got home Nikky (#polkadoodlescraft) asked if any of us DT girls were sick of Christmas makes yet I said yes (even though I have hardly started to get any done) so she sent us some images and eeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk I know I say it all the time but OMG they are the best. I do love images with big eyes that you can colour and bring to life they just make the image and January has the biggest soft eyes.

So to me she screamed out Mixed media so after a short gloat of my new stash I started to colour her in.

Then I got to work on the canvas giving a quick coat of gesso and crackle paste.

I added texture paste (homemade) to some of the new stencils I got from Tim Holtz and paperartsy  then added starlight paint distress stains and Brushos (never used before but LOVE them)

I used some scrabble letter tabs to spell the word heart distressed a little the added a painted mdf heart with some threads

I fussy cut the image out and added to the finished canvas  

Hope you like it and I will see you soon with more January makes

Links to find the downloads and all things me and what I have used

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/new-category/?sort=newest&page=1

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polkado

odles/

https://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/

http://www.imaginationcrafts.co.uk/imagination-products/starlights

https://www.colourcraftltd.com/brusho

Challenges

https://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://www.mycreativescoop.com/tag/color-inspiration-monday-link-up/ ATG

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenge-rules-guidelines.html ATG

http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG




Happy Crafting

Jacki xx

Halloween Theme Winnie Wednesday and CANDY!!!!!!

Well Blimey the time flies around here it’s time for a brand new challenge this week at Polkadoodles and as per usual for you it’s anything goes but for us DT gals the theme is Halloween (BOO)

Now I don’t do Halloween cards I just can’t get into it the whole kids knocking on your door (Barr humbug!!!!!! I know I’m evil) so I decided to make it into a Halloween birthday card well people are born on the 31^st October (Pretty special people to I might add well one in particular x)
Any way like I said today I have some great candy for you full details are at the bottom of this post so if you're interested keep reading!!!

So for this card I  made a black 8x8” card blank and have used The Winnie Wednesday Halloween collection she is Adorable the papers are fab too!!!!!! You also get some great sentiments to go with them all

I did use a Clip art bat and the spooky wording from my stash as embellies which I just embossed with some clear embossing powder and added to the card with some acetate.

I coloured the image with polychrome and prisma pencils and made the background for the image using black card stock and distress oxide inks (which is so much fun to do!!!) and there you have it.

Hope you like it and I will see you very soon with another PD make

Right now for the candy the wonderful Nikky is letting me give a £10 gift voucher for her Digi store (only Digis) to one lucky reader so just think of all those Polkadoodle images  you can get with that!!!!!

Now there are some rules and yes we will be checking you have done them and if you haven’t you won’t go into the draw

So the rules are as follows

 ‘1. You must follow my blog and leave a comment saying you want to go into the draw

2. You must signup to the Polkadoodles newsletter here. To be entered into the draw for my blog candy which is a £10 gift voucher for the digi store.

 3. Closing date for entries is: Friday 20^th October  2017

4. Winners will be announced on Friday 27^th October 2017. The draw will be by random.org and is final. Prizes cannot be exchanged....’

Links to find the downloads and all things #polkadoodlescraft  and me

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-wednesday-halloween-bundle-collection-printable-download/

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polkadoodles/

Challenges

http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Birthdays or pink

http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/dlart-october-linky-challenge.html 
HALLOWEEN/THANK YOU

http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://starstampz.blogspot.co.uk/ LOTS OF LAYERS

http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ Stripes

https://craftaholicsrus.blogspot.co.uk/ Halloween

http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Add a bat

http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://cck-digitalstamps-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/ Halloween

Happy Crafting

Jacki xx

Winnie White Christmas last day launch

Good afternoon my lovelies I hope you aere enjoying all the Christmas makes for our DT. Girls you are AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

I have to say it was a rocky start for me this release I honestly didn’t think I would be able take put or I would only be able to do a couple of cards so I was  really pleased to get my 7 yes seven little beauties ready.

I also treated myself to the stamp set (Ssssshhhhhh don’t tell Hubster hehehe)  so I’m having a play these too with my tim holtz/tonic stamp station OMG it’s a dream I love it the images are so crisp LOVE IT!!!

AnyHOOOOOO back to the card I made a Kraft card blank using 2 sheets of A4 kraft card then added Kraft to the back of all my papers I was trying to give it a vintagey feeling but still colourful and pretty.

I distressed the papers tearing in some places  and inked with oxide inks (I love these they’re sooooo blendable.

The image Called Winnie and Pengiun has been coloured with a mix of Pablo and Prisma pencils and then mounted onto Kraft card. I then added iced diamond and snow dust to the floor to give the effect of freshly fallen snow. I also masked off the image and went around it with oxide inks to create the background again in doing this these seem more blendable than the normal distress inks.

For the embellishments I took one of the word arts from the set and added clear embossing powder I did this a couple of times to give a good coverage, then I cut out the flower and leaves from the foliage section again I clear embossed the top sections of these then cut into some of the petal to give a more 3D effect then added a flat backed stone. To finish the look I added frontage and splatters of paint to the card.

The final step was the insert and that was done in my usual way (but a little differently) instead of brightening the inner paper and the fading it I just faded the edges letting it merge into the paper behind  then added the uncoloured image and a verse from the sentiment section.

Hope you like it and I will see you again very soon as I think I now have the Christmas bug lol

Links to find the downloads and all things #polkadoodlescraft  and me

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-white-christmas-big-kahuna-download-kit-digital-printables/

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polkadoodles/

Challenges

https://aurorawingschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

https://aurorawingschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ Christmas

http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.co.uk/ Christmas

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ use Kraft 

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ use flowers foliage

http://ainkymess.blogspot.co.uk/ Atg

Living it up at 90

Hello crafty peeps how are we today good I hope, Well what a change in the weather not for the better for me I guess that’s  our summer gone oh well the joys of living in UK.

So my card for you today is another card I made for my Nan in Law that will be 90 on Monday.

This card has been made to be sent from her daughter (my mom in law) 

 This is my wonderful Nan in law having a cuppa the other day hard to believe she is turning 90 she is a beautifullady inside and out.

As May (nan in law) was a seamstress by trade I wanted to make a card with sewing detailing on  this is what I came up with.

The papers are from pixel scrapper (all links below to where things are from)

I distressed and inked the edges with distress inks and added a doily to add some interest. I also added some polkadot ribbon .

I printed off some clip art cotton reels and embossed them with clear powder then wound thread around them and glued in place.

The image is by Mo Manning love these fairies they’re so sweet and a joy to colour for which I used polychromo and prisma pencils. I then made tiny slits around the needle and feet (where the thread is laid in image ) and added some more embroidery thread to through the eye of needle and along the line.

Finally the inside and yes this is the lady that likes a nice verse lol so always a challenge to find a different meaningful verse for her as I end up making about 3 cards for her on a birthday and Christmas lol 

I decided to added the image (uncoloured) to the bottom corners of the insert this time I haven’t done that for a while as the verse was a little long and went on both pages.

So there it is another card for my Nan in Law hope you like it and I will see you again very soon

http://www.mosdigitalpencil.com/fairy-needle/

https://www.pixelscrapper.com/

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

Challenges

http://crafting-with-friends.blogspot.co.uk/  ATG

http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ BINGO (PATTERENED PAPER DIGI FAV COLOUR PINK OF COURSE LOL) 

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/ MAKE YOUR MARK

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ PATTERENED PAPER

http://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/ USE A SENTIMENT

Happy Crafting

Jacki xx

Colour Crazy with All dressed up

Hello crafty friends I hope you’re all fine and dandy where has the year gone I can’t believe we’re in June already, soon I will be on my holibobs with my hubby sunny ourselves in Spain, can’t wait.

Anyway back today’s post we have a new challenge for you over at Colour Crazy (links below) We are sponsored this week by the wonderful All dressed up these images are so sweet to colour.

So for my card I have made a very clean and simple (ish) A5 card I have used a very narrow piece of striped paper which I distressed and inked the edges.

I then coloured the image called Feeling Spoilt with prisma pencils and cut out to fit most of my card blank but showing the paper. I printed the sentiment off with the image as I wanted it all in one.

To embellish I decided to make my own card candy and had a blast making it (and getting embossing powder EVERYWHERE!!!!)

Anyway there you have my card for this weeks challenge I do hope you will join in. All links are below for you to find us so no excuses!!!!!!!!

https://colourcrazychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ColourCrazy/

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/515651257/feeling-spoilt?ref=shop_home_active_32

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

Challenges

http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.co.uk/  ATG

http://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://www.craftingcircle.com/Bloggit/?cat=2148 ATG

http://alldressedupchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

Happy Crafting