Die Challenge Day 11 & Journal page 5

Good Morning All

Another Journal page today for my challenge with John Next Door.

To be honest, I am not too keen on this page but there is a pretty paperclip on the die cut which I was gifted in a swap.

The die is one that John gave me before he left Spain, it seems whoever he ordered from sent the wrong one so I am not sure if the name given at bottom of page is correct, but it is on the box it was in.  It is Spellbinders.

I stuck the die cut down at top and bottom to make a tuck spot and tucked an envelope in the space  made from book pages and embellished with a butterfly and lace.

The paperclip has a little tuck too.

Dies Used  ------

20.   S/B Belly Band One

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Die Challenge Day 10 - Birthday Card in Pink

Good Morning All

I am enjoying this Die Challenge that John Next Door set me back in November when I was with him.

It is making me have a good sort of of my craft stash, getting rid of quite afew too.
It also takes alot of organising, as I like to make stuff well ahead and get posts ready, I keep getting myself in abit of a mess.!!!!!

Today is another card using bits that were on my desk too.

Three dies sets used on this one and you will be seeing the Pierced Circles alot more because, along with the Squares and Ovals, they are kept at my side as they are used alot.

The sentiment is the focal point for this one.

Dies Used -----

17.   Creative Expressions  CED5513 Pierced Circles

18.   Creative Expressions  CED5409  Happy Birthday

19.   Nellie Snellen  MFD022 Heart

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Wendy L

Dies Challenge Day 9 & JND Heart Box

Good Morning All

John Next Door die today and it is his Heart box,

I initially bought this because you can make any shaped box with it as that is the way John designed it.
I cut it in Black and then a floral patterned piece for the top.
I must admit, it is a little bit fiddly but I am going to watch Johns Tutorial again and try making it a different shape too as I make lots of boxes for my Craft Club ladies.

The leafy swirl is one I got in a swap I think and then added some Spellbinder flowers, some twine and a sentiment tag.

Here is a link to Johns Craftalong on Hochanda when he demoed this die along with others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHL4kjpq6NY&fbclid=IwAR3Ws7hTnxtt9V6BLvE4Bx5F3smUiFH68hrm-CWH1k5wBzUTJ44TcPEQH8M&app=desktop

Dies Used  -----

15.  JND  Heart Collection JND063

16. S/B Bitty Blossoms

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Wendy L

Dies Challenge Day 8 & Journal page 4

Good Morning All

Another Journal page for my Dies Challenge today.

I used another old Spellbinders die set and decorated 3 pages.

I used a stencil and Distress inks to add abit of decoration

The flowers were cut by hand and were lying around on my desk so I used the largest one to make a tuck spot for a journal card.

I folded the die cut in half to make tuck spots on both sides of a page.

This is the 3rd page and I made the tuck spot with ribbon  going around a page and tied at the top with  another ribbon.

Die Used  -----

14.  S/B Decorative Labels Twenty two

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Wendy L

Dies Challenge Day 7 & Say it With Flowers for Allsorts

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge this week is

Say it With Flowers

so I,m sure this will be very busy.

I used a Creative Expressions Emboss Folder which I am also numbering and cataloging.

I cut 2 doilies from pale blue papers and  the mini Peonies I cut from offcuts of Clarity designer paper and the top ones from Kraft card and added blue pearls to the centres.

This weeks prize comes from Bev and the Bee Crafty family, it's one of their lovely BEAUtanicals flowers and sentiment.

Bee Crafty.

They have a good website and very reasonable postage too.

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Dies Used   -------

12.   CED1451 - Petite Peony Cluster

13.   Cut & Make Dies - NIAMH

Emboss Folder Used  ---- 

2.   CE Leafy Montage

xxxxx

Wendy L

Dies Challenge Day 6 - Journal page 3

Good Morning All

Okay, this is the 6th Dies Challenge post and it is Journal page No. 3

This features one of my older Spellbinder dies - Butterflies Circle.

I added the  butterflies that fell out of the die cut to the top of the page.

I have a stock of tuck  pockets made from book pages and added some journal cards.

I do love doing journal pages as I can use lots of bits and bobs in my stash.
I added a triple tuck pocket made from book pages and tucked in journal cards.

Dies Used  -----

11.   S/B Butterflies Circles

Jo from The Crafting Corner  Blog is joining me in my dies challenge, so good fun.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Die Challenge Day 5 - Sympathy Card

Good Morning All

I have made a pretty Sympathy card using a Mini Striplet die backed onto pretty pastel card.

I cut it from card I had coloured with dried up Gilding Polish.
 See my post HERE about doing this.

It is a pretty die and reminds me of a Church window.

I punched each corner and added a pearl.

I put a strip of pink organza ribbon on top of white satin ribbon
to tie the sentiment and feather charm to.

Die Used  -----

10.    Creative Expressions Lattice Window

 (dont know the number as I dont have the box)

xxxx

Wendy L

Die Challenge Day 4 & Journal Page 2

Good Morning All

As our local Craft Shop is closed there is nothing to show from there, ie. Gifts etc but there is an ongoing challenge HERE

On going with my Dies Challenge I am showing you  Journal page No. 2 today.

It features more of the corner dies from Cheery Lynn that I used on my 1st Journal page but I backed these onto scraps of papers.

The library cards were free from Vectoria designs.

I have linked to her You Tube channel as she links to freebies on there.

I used Mica Magics to colour the corners and tucked an envelope in.

I have lots of these already made along with tags and flowers for my journals.

Dies Used  -----

9.     X Cut  -  XCU503147  Vintage Notes Doily

2.    Cheery Lynn  -   B175 Lace Corner Deco J (used on Day 1)

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Wendy L

Soft Pastels for Allsorts

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge this week is chosen by Helene and the theme is 

Soft Pastels 

A Groovi card I made to keep in my stock for family of friends.

It is mounted onto soft rainbow coloured pastel card.

The butterfly is picot cut and stuck on to give the card depth.

All coloured on the back of the parchment so it gives it a softer look.

Brenda is giving this Stabilo set as the prize.

xxxx

Wendy L

Die Challenge Day 3.- SIL Birthday

Good Morning All

This card is for my Sister in Law or rather, ex sister in law (my first husbands sister).

We still keep in touch and she is living on Gibraltar at present, her hubby is in the Marines.

Anyway, her birthday's on Sunday and I used a cute topper from LOTV as she has a dog abit like Rico.

I used S/B Scalloped Hexagons for the image and the sentiment and the Chrysanthemum die again.

All the rest is scraps of paper from Clarity designer pads with 2 strips of satin grey ribbon to split the stripy paper from the other.

Dies Used - 

3.   Cheery Lyn B311 Chrysanthemum Strip (used on day 1)

8.  S/B Scalloped Hexagons

xxxx

Wendy L

Dies Challenge Day 2 - Butterflies

Good Morning All

This card shows the first die I ever bought - Mariannes Large Butterfly and the  small butterflies are also Marianne.

I am also sorting my Emboss Folders out so I am listing those too.

I added two types of ribbon onto the Groovi Parchment work and a sentiment tag and a charm.

I make my own sentiment tags using XCut tag dies and these will be seen alot on my cards.

Dies Used  ------

5.  Marianne Craftables CR1205

6.  Marianne Creatables LR0158

7.  X Cut  XCU503066vDecorative Dies

Emboss folder used  ------

1. Crafters Companion 

Signature Collection -Scattered Dots-

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Happy New Year & the Challenge Begins John Lockwood, & Something New for MAWTT

Good Morning All
Any sore heads around today !!!!

Firstly I would like to wish you all a  

Happy New Year.

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My challenge from John Next Door starts this week so I will be using  my dies, or a die from a set on every post  or nearly every post from today until I have used every set that I own.

John challenged me to use them on a Journal page  but when thinking about it, that would be quite difficult so I will be mixing Cards with Journal pages.

If anyone wants to join me, both John and I will give a prize.

It is a great way of having a clear out too, I have got rid of quite afew of my dies and Emboss Folders already!!!!!

Here are some of the dies I either have or am, getting rid of.

This is just SOME.

I started prepping for this when I got back from Johns at end of November.

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I am combining this with Moving Along With the Times challenge this month which is

Something New

So a NEW Journal, a NEW year and a NEW Challenge

So here is the first Journal page I have decorated using afew different die sets -Marianne, Cheery Lynn and JND

 (listed at bottom of post)

I have a stock of coffee dyed papers and Tucks and Tags ready, I just love making them and have a box full ready to go.

 I used a scrap of Clarity designer paper, punched a pretty corner to make a tuck spot for a tag.

Die cut the Cheery Lynn Chrysanthemum die  and used JND Poinsettia die as leaves (they were already cut and on my desk)`The corner die set has 3 different designs in so no doubt they will feature again.

I am entering Jo's Craftroom Challenge with this layout.

Her theme is Something New.

Pop over to the challenge blog to see all the other DT's work.

Diane has chosen to go to a monthly challenge from now on.

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I am showing this pic, you have seen it before but it shows off the Poinsettia die better and also another of Johns dies, The Proper Cracker die.

I made about 30 of these before Christmas, to give out to my Craft Club ladies, neighbours and friends, so I wont be making anymore anytime soon!!!

Dies used - 

1.  JND CC017 - Poinsettia

2.  Cheery Lynn - B175 Lace Corner Deco J

3.  Cheery Lynn - B311 Chrysanthemum Strip

4. JND CC016 Proper Large Cracker die

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Wendy L

Crafty Ribbons DT

Good Morning All

It is my turn to post for Crafty Ribbons today and I'm going Birthday with two gorgeous, yummy  Grosgrain Ribbons.

I made two cards with some toppers I received in swap parcel, all Tea cups and Cakes themed and I thought this lovely Macaroon ribbon would fit perfectly.

I added this gorgeous pale pink Sentiment ribbon across the top.

Then decided to add some gems in the corners.

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Wendy L

Ladies wanted a challenge

Good Morning All

When my Craft Club ladies last met on 20th Dec, I was not going to set them a challenge as it is quite a while until we meet up again on 24th Jan, but they said they wanted one.

It is a nice easy one   ---

Flowers & Butterflies & Charms

It is NOT either / or, it is all three items

If you want to play along you can email me a pic and I do give a little prize to a randomly chosen winner.

xxxx

Wendy L

Groovi Seals

Good Morning All

I made a large card with one of my Christmas Groovi plates, to be honest I am not keen on it so may give the plate away to one of my class ladies.

It's matted onto Clarity designer paper and then onto 7x7 scalloped card blank

I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas and now getting back to normal.

No Allsorts today as the current challenge, Anything Goes,  runs for 2 weeks.

xxxx

Wendy L

Two Jays Stamps

Good Morning All

First I would like to wish you all 

Merry Christmas.

When I was at my Sons in November I ordered these two stamps from Hochanda when John was demoing them.

I thought one  would be good for Sympathy cards and one for mens cards.

This one is made using lots of scraps on my desk for the backing,which I think looks really good.

I didn't colour the images but I am going to have a go, like John did, by using the ink on his stamp to wash over the image.

I hope you all have a great day tomorrow, not sure what we are doing, probably just go to local  bar for afew scoops.

We did go to Iceland last week and bought afew nibbles that can be shoved in the oven.

We were thinking of going to our local Indian restaurant but we had a terrible meal there afew weeks ago.

xxxx

Wendy L

Happy Sunday until January

Good Morning All

I did not set my Craft Club ladies a challenge on Friday as the craft shop is now closed until 20th January so I thought that was abit long to carry it on for, but they decided they wanted one so I will have to have a think now as I have not prepared anything.
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Here are the gifts I gave out on Friday, a little nibble to keep them going as we went out for our Christmas  meal, so we only crafted for a short while then piled off to a restaurant for Christmas lunch (for some anyway)

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I gave them all their gift bags last week and added one of the crackers I made a while ago, using Johns cracker die from last year.

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I still did the card prize and the raffle-

Here is the sketch 

My card

Val C

Denise

Dawn

Claire

Eve

The name drawn was Denise

I put up three raffle prizes as it was the last one before Christmas.

A usual prize plus 2 x 10euro voucher to spend in the craft shop.

Denise

Sharon and Claire

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Dont forget I am starting my Die Challenge on 1st Jan.

While I was with John Next Door he set me a challenge  ---

  to use a die from every set I own and use it on a Journal page.

I thought there were too many for all to be used on journal pages so I will intersperse with cards too.

I am doing an online course for Journal Therapy so this is why he set this.

I passed the 1st two modules with distinction by the way!!!.

I would love someone to join me on their blog and both John and I will give a prize.

I have starting  doing the makes for it and have already got rid of some dies I have not used and will not use in the future, so a great way of having a clear out too.

If you want to join in just tell me and I will visit all your posts.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

AG for Allsorts

Good Morning All

Lynn is hosting the Allsorts Challenge and it runs for 2 weeks over the Christmas period, the theme is

Anything Goes.

Now you may think this card is abit odd - a golfer on a Christmas card.

Well, the reason being is it is for my Johns son, who is an avid golfer and he has just moved to Melbourne in Australia for at least 6 months.It will be hot when he got there as he went afew weeks ago to get himself sorted and travel abit before he starts the job in mid January.

£15 Stamp Addicts voucher for a prize this week.

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Wendy L

Not A Card for MAWTT

Good Morning All

Well the Big Day is nearly here.

I dont know what we are doing, last year we just went to the local bar and had afew Tapas with Andrew & Mandy.  We will see what happens.

Moving Along With The Times challenge  is the last one for this year and the theme is 

Anything but a Card 

and afew of the DT are giving prizes so worth a go.

I painted this wine bottle at my One Stroke Painting class afew weeks ago.

Far from perfect but I'm happy with it.

I am giving some homemade embellishments and a stencil as my prize.

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Wendy L

Groovi Deer

Good Morning All

I have been busy getting stuff ready for my challenge by John Next Door, which starts in the New Year, so I have pulled this one from my files.

I have used this Groovi plate many times, I love it.

Mounted onto Gold Mirri card which I cut with a Picot die.

See you Thursday for MAWTT Challenge.

xxxx

Wendy L