Easter 2

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all warm and well...hugs

I am soooooooooo looking forward to my new sofa being delivered tomorrow, my old one left home on Sunday to go and stay with friends and I know it is well appreciated, but I am so tired because I can't get my afternoon toes up! I did try going upstairs and laying on my bed but its too painful to stay there long. Roll on tomorrow PDQ :o)

Anyhow, I digress, so here is my card for today.

 This is a photograph I took in Spring 2011 at Calke Abbey.

Base card is my usual white linencard, folded and cut to 6x6.

Photograph and sentiment (Dauphin font) printed onto the same linencard then cut with that new die. The other stitched dies I ordered have now arrived from the US and I intend using them today.

The cross is Spellbinders and I have lifted it with sticky foam pads.

Another very simple card :o)

Jackie xx

Red Admiral

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world...hugs.

I have a very simple card for you today, but then, most of my cards are simple LOL. This will go into my box for use later.

Base card is white line folded and cut to my favourite 7x5.

Own photograph, taken at one of the NT places I visited a couple of years ago, it may have been Calke Abbey but not sure. Feathered in Paint Shop Pro then printed onto linen card and cut with Spellbinder's Nestie, as is the orange mat.  Martha Stewart punched flutterbies. Orange and browncard from scrap box :o)

Jackie xx

A page for a change

Good morning Bloggers, I hope you are all well and if not then I hope you soon will be...hugs

Thank you for all your good wishes for my return to work. It was a bit of a bodyshock but I am into my second week back and doing fine :o)

I have a scrapbook page to share with you today, a reminder of my lovely trip to Calke Abbey last week.

I created the image in PSP7 (Paint Shop Pro) from photographs taken on the day, then printed it edge to edge on Papermania textured card. Sadly I only have an A4 printer and I like my pages to be 12x12 so I cropped it to 8x8 and attached it to a sheet of Bazzill.  I cut the embellishment out from a 12x12 sheet in my stash, I think it might MME but not sure. It was much harder work cutting that out than creating the main image!!! I was always in danger of cutting the branches off cuz they were so fine :o)

Jackie xx

Brilliant day at Calke Abbey

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world. What a dramatic change in the weather from Tuesday, when I used my new National Trust membership for the first time. I had a wonderful day out at Calke Abbey, which is just 10 miles from home. I had a wander round - had to be slow stroll due to not being able to walk well - and took lots of photographs - 262 in all - in the church, the stunning walled garden, the magnificent kitchen garden, then had a wander through the house before having an excellent lunch in the restaurant. Methinks another visit in the Spring may be on the cards :o)

These are just a few of the photographs I took, I warn you, it is picture heavy :o)

Just as I was about to get in the card to come home, I spotted the deer so had to take a few more pics! I hope that you have enjoyed this little tour of Calke Abbey in pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them :o)

Jackie xx