Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas to all my followers and visitors - I truly appreciate the time you take to read my blog and leave all your lovely comments ! I am sorry for lack of postings of late - I have had a total hip replacement op and will be in recovery for quite a while ! However, I feel great and very blessed that all has gone well and I so look forward to celebrating Christmas with my dear family and friends!

Wishing you all a peaceful and happy Christmas and and blessings for the NewYear ! 

Much love Jane xxxx

Ornament Keepsakes Card !

Good Morning ! 
Hope your Christmas preparations are going well ? I seem better organised this year and am looking forward to getting the tree up at the weekend ! I have been having a play with a lovely stamp set which was carried over from last years Seasonal catalogue and is still available called Ornament Keepsakes . Like every crafter I am influenced and inspired by other designers work but I usually design 99% of what I do from scratch ! However , this card , which you will have seen so many times as it has been made over and over, really caught my eye so I wanted to make my own version ! Apologies - I have seen so many versions I can't acknowledge the original designer ! 

I double stamped and used dimensionals to give a shadow effect to the baubles and added lots of sparkle and bling ! I sketched in the string using a gold and silver gel pen ! The branches were stamped using the pine tree from Lovely as a Tree ! My baubles are stamped in summer starfruit , soft sky , pool party and marina mist all on whisper white card and mounted on soft sky car stock . 

I'm planning to make a star and snowflake twinkly garland today - lots of die cutting !!! 

Happy crafting - hugs Jane xx

Festive Flurry Christmas !

Good Morning ! 
Iv'e been making special Family cards and can show you this one because I know my lovely daughter doesn't read my blog !!! I have based the design on the Festive Flurry stamp set and used both the stamp and matching dies - these are so essential because no matter how much you like fussy cutting believe me there are better things in life to devote your time to !!!
I based the card on soft sky card stock with whisper white - the card is a whole sheet of A4 folded to show the lovely DSP on the inside .

I used the large snowflake and layered two together one heat embossed in white on vellum and the other stamped in clear and then enhanced with dazzling diamonds using heat and stick powder ! I love how they turned out ! It's a simple card because Rosie doesn't go for my usual shabby style - I do hope she likes it ! 

Happy Christmas crafting and thanks for stopping by !

Hugs Jane x 

This and That Season of Style !

Good Morning ! Another beautiful Autumn day - though rather chilly - perfect crafting weather ! Actually , whilst I do plan to craft today I also hope to get my Christmas cards written out and envelopes addressed because it's a job that if left nearer the time it just won't get done !!
I have the front cover of my Season of Style This and That journal to share with you today !! No decorating inside yet but a very comprehensive Christmas card list written out !! I made the front cover look like a forest snow scene - a bit tricky heat embossing on the the textured cover but achieved the look I wanted with copious amounts of dazzling diamonds !!

I used quite a lot of whisper white ink to whiten the cover - it absorbs a lot so you need to do this 3 or 4 times and let it dry well in between. Then I used the versamark refill bottle to dropper 'snowflakes' onto the card and then heat embossed with white powder and added dazzling diamonds !! My favourite Santa was stamped onto a postcard and I included that all important date !!

Hope you have enjoyed this little fun project - I'm without doubt feeling very Christmassy now !!! 

Happy crafting and thanks for stopping by ! 

Hugs Jane x

Twelve Tags of Christmas - Final Instalment !

Good Morning !!! As promised - here are the final three tags ! I have really enjoyed making these and thanks for all your lovely comments ! These three are my personal favs especially the forest of trees one which was inspired by a tag I saw on Pinterest ages ago ( apologies for not knowing the original designer ) I tried to emulate the effect by running the white ink pad over the whole tag and then stamping layers of trees in shades of green and then adding more white when it had dried. After that I stamped the trees again - I love the way it turned out but the photo doesn't really show it at it's best ! The snow is made with white embossing powder and a layer of heat and stick powder topped with dazzling diamonds ! It looks real and so twinkly !!! 

The little dove was heat embossed in pewter - it's gorgeous - it comes from the set Calm Christmas which also includes two beautiful sentiments ! By the way - when you trim out this dove and just at the last moment the foliage drops off - don't fret - just replace it with a piece punched from the bird builder punch - no one will notice !!! 

Happy crafting ! 

Hugs Jane xxx