The Funkie Junkie's tags of Christmas #7, with a Jane's Journal twist

Hi everyone yes I am back with a card post as I don't want to get too behind in Linda's fab challenge. As you know I am making 12 cards based on her 12 tags of Christmas and this is what I made for number 7. If you would like to join in the details are here. The challenge is sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique with some amazing prizes!

Here is Linda's inspiration tag #7 and the themes I wanted to run with were the use of tags, the wonderful snowflakes, the poinsettia and using a monochrome colour scheme. For my colour palette though I wanted to use black not the sepia. So off I went to my garden studio and came up with my card.

I managed to recently buy the great Sizzix tags #2 set which I believe is actually retired so I wanted to use it for my tags. I used my distress inks to create a black monochrome background on the tags and then used my versatile Visible Image Bronte verse stamp to stamp some text onto them and blinged them up with gems and snowflakes. Here is a close up

I used plain black card for the backing card and embossed it using my snowflake embossing folder. I went over the raised surface with metallic gilding wax to give them some depth and then added lots of Frantage to give lots of sparkle, yes I know I just love this stuff! I also added lots of die cut snowflakes.

The poinsettia was die cut in silvers/greys/blacks and even vellum.
Here it is in close up

I would like to enter my card into the following card challenges;

Funkie Junkie's 12 tags for Christmas Tag #7
Country View Challenges Letters - the letters are on my tags
Visible Image Sparkle.
Divas by design Something Snowy
Natalie and Amy For the Boys
Live and Love Crafts Photo Inspiration
Deep Ocean Winter
Papertake Weekly Snow and ice
Sweet stampin Christmas is coming
4 Crafty Chicks Snowflakes
A little Bit Crafty sparkle and shine

I am sure everyone wants to see a few more Daisy photos. These have been sent to me by my darling daughter. They came home from hospital on Tuesday late afternoon and are just fine. They even took her out for her first walk in her little baby sling yesterday. We are going back down to visit tomorrow....I am counting down the hours....
Enjoy these photos and I will be back with a Daisy post at the weekend and will also be able to show you the card I have made....a special one as you can imagine ;0)

Thanks so much for all the wonderful messages and emails you sent congratulating us on the birth of our darling granddaughter. I still keep pinching myself that this darling baby girl has come into our life and I just feel so blessed.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Our darling Grandbaby

Yes I finally have news that at 8.58am yesterday, 11th November 2013 my darling granddaughter came into this world. Words just cannot express how I feel about this bundle of joy. My son in law sent me this photo to my phone whilst I was at work.....

Please meet Daisy Jane....and what a little beauty she is. I just cried as soon as I saw this. She weighed 7lbs 13oz so not the tiny bundle that we were told!

My Hb and I went straight down to the hospital in Southampton after work to meet her and to see my amazingly clever daughter and my wonderful son-in-law. I just gathered her up into my arms...oh my I cannot describe the feeling of love and relief I felt that she had come safely into this world.

I think the following photos just speak for themselves....I still get moist eyed when I look at my precious Daisy Jane

 Note that she is wearing Nana's hand knitted hat ;0)

My darling little girl, so very, very special.
This is a very quick post, as you can imagine life is a little hectic at the moment. We are hopefully going back on Friday to see the family again and have some more cuddles. This time we hope that they will be at back at home.

Now my card today is just coincidental as I made it on Saturday when I did not know that a baby girl was coming our way (as my daughter said, my little crafter-to-be )
It is a pink and white Christmas card which I made as I wanted to enter a few challenges....how apt is this for today's post.

 I used one of the Lili of the Valley pre printed die cut sheets they sell on Ebay which are so pretty, and very reasonable in price. They are so useful when you don't have time to colour an image. Here it is in close up.

I added some Glamour Dust to add some sparkle.

I also added a Marianne tree with lots of stars to sparkle and a pink and white ribbon too. The holly die cut is Cheery Lynn as are the little white snowflakes.  I used a snowflake embossing folder to make the pink background and the frame around the image is actually the "waste" from one of my accordion cards (how useful is that!). The sentiment is also LOTV which I also added glitter to.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;
Lili of the Valley use pink and white
The Ribbon Girl Lovely Lili's challenge add sparkle
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge outdoors
Winter Wonderland for a child
Crafty Little Fairies Christmas in November
Pile it On Show us your tools I have used my Big Shot die cutter for my die shapes and the embossed snowflake background. I also used my distressing tool around the edge of the sentiment.
2 Sisters  Christmas sparkle
Papertake Weekly snow and ice
Bearly Mine Christmas in Pink
The Cutie Pies Little Cuties
Creative Creations Sparkle and shine



I will be back really soon to share some more Daisy photos, in the meantime here is one of my sleeping princess just before we left last night........

Shhh we don't want to wake her.

Can you tell that I am in love..........

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Christmas at Harrods

It's such a wet, dreary Saturday that I thought I would cheer everyone up by sharing my photos from my recent Harrods trip. My regular readers will know that every year my Mum and I make our annual trip to Harrods in London to see the Christmas displays and decorations.
Harrods is my favourite shop in the world!

 Even from the outside it is the most impressive building.

 And inside is just another world. Over the last few years millions of pounds have been spent restoring the interior. The work is nearly complete and there is a feeling of luxury everywhere.
This is just one of  the escalators!

As always the Christmas department never disappoints.

We enjoyed seeing all the different themes and yes I came away with a new decoration for my tree. This year I was really taken by these sweet angels. My dear Mum bought me one.

Harrods still has a wonderful Santa's grotto and I am hoping in a few years time I will be taking my grandbaby there to meet Father Christmas..it's all so exciting that I will be able to go back to seeing Christmas through a young child's eyes.
I had some studio time today decided to do some Design team GD work for Ignacio. I thought my card needed to be a "vintage"Christmas card so I used one of my  Nicecrane designs . Do pop over to the blog there are always lovely projects on show by our Design Team and often freebies too. This image is from the  Happy Christmas sheet by Bowley which is available here. This is such a gorgeous sheet and I have plans for using other images from it. Here is my vintage childhood Christmas card

Just look at this gorgeous image

I had fun adding one of my hand made "word" trees to which I added lots of Cheery Lynn die cut snowflakes and stickles glitter. The fab snowman is a Sizzix fellow. The card base was made using my Go Create frilly die which I bought from the Hobby House with my challenge winnings voucher in the autumn. The snowflake borders are Joy Craft and the sentiment is also Cheery Lynn. I added some distress inks to the papers and the sentiment to give them a vintage feel. The snow under the snowflake is an ancient tub of snowtex I found in my studio and it is still in perfect condition.

As you can see I am not making this for a boy or a girl as I have used pink and blue!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Bunny Zoe Ribbon
Country View Crafts Letters My letters are in my tree (they are actually made from a book page)
Polkadoodles Anything goes at Christmas
Whimsy Stamps Anything goes
Papertake weekly Anything goes
Loves Rubberstamps Anything goes
Bearly Mine Anything goes
Crafty Little Fairies Christmas in November
Creative Corner Sing a song My song is I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake. I love this song and if you don't know it there is a link here to You Tube here
Winter Wonderland For a child
Totally Papercrafts use glitter
Pan Pastels anything goes
A Little Bit Crafty Sparkle and shine
Artistic Inspiration anything goes with spots/stripes I have spots on my ribbon bow
Totally Gorjuss remember I am remembering Christmas' past
Make it Monday Linky Party #165
2 Sisters Christmas sparkle


I hope you are beginning to get your Christmas preparations planned, there are just 46 days to go. I am going Christmas shopping with my best friend Karen on Thursday so I hope to get some of my presents out of the way.

We have a fairly mellow weekend planned so I do hope to get some more studio time too. I am still able to work outside in my garden studio with my little heater on. I also love being out there after work when it's dark..it's so snug and I get an hour or so crafting before my Hb gets in.

Enjoy your weekend and if you watch Strictly, things are hotting up aren't they?

Keeeep dancing  crafting,

Back soon,

No baby news yet, all is well and I know how many of you are so excited for our news, thanks for being such great blogging buddies,

Jane x

































































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