Oh My!

It has been nearly 2 and a half years since I posted to this Blog! Where has the time gone!

I fell out of love with blogging, does anyone still do it? I have no idea if anyone will even see this post!

Oh well, never mind. I just thought I would post some pics of cards made recently. I had stopped crafting for pleasure, more or less. Just making cards as and when I needed to send one, not much fun in that really, just get one done an sent. Since lock down began my neighbour and her friend have been raising money for the local children's hospice as their fund raising has been so terribly hit. They are both sewers. I dabble with sewing, knitting, everything really, but papercrafts are my favourite, so I thought I might be able to help them out. I donated some cards and gift boxes and notepads, and I made some frames too. They seemed to be quite popular, but it also served to get me back into making things for the pleasure of it, not just out of necessity. I have almost forgotten how to post pictures......

Well thats me caught up for the time being.

Stay safe and well!

Soccer Mad....again

Following on from my last post, the football card I made was really well received, which has led to a similar further request. This one is for an older lad, still Saints mad, so I tweaked the idea and came up with this....

Hopefully that one will be equally well received.

My long time friend has a birthday this week too. We met many years ago when our boys started school and have been friends ever since. He is what I made for her...

Hope she likes it too.

That's all for now

Bye...

Football Mad Card

I was asked to make a card for a football mad 8 year old by the name of Riley. My brief was that he was a Saints (Southampton Football Club) fan, was especially interested in the Goalkeeper, and loved football.
He is what I came up with...

I chose a pull up card. Haven't done one of these cards for ages, but it was a really good shape to work with for this design. The goalpost and the footballer etc were files from the Silhouette store. The Pull up card was a template I made a cutting file for ages ago. The |Saints Club Badge came from Google, along with the shirt designs which I resized in Silhouette to fit my little men. Riley's birthday is still a few weeks away, but I hope he will like it. His Gran was thrilled to bits with it, so that's good.
'till next time...

A Long Time No See..

Wow, I didn't realise how long it has been since I blogged anything. I have lost my way with this a bit. Perhaps, although I have still been making things, I didn't think them important enough to share, I don't know. That has changed now.

A couple few weeks ago we had some very good news. My Daughter's Partner of 4 years asked my Husband if he could marry Jenny. Dead old fashioned I know, but really lovely and thoughtful. Of course blessing was given immediately. We both think the world of John and he has felt one of our family for a long time now. We had to keep this secret from my Daughter for 6 WHOLE WEEKS!!!
I got to help John choose a ring, which was lovely, but the engagement was a surprise for Jenny for their fourth anniversary, which just happened to me on  both my Son's and My birthday. Our family is rubbish at spreading celebrations around as not only are our birthdays the same but also my Son's Partner and my Husband share a birthday!

The engaged couple have jumped straight into making plans and the first thing they wanted was cards to ask their intended Bridemaids and Groomsmen if they were up for the task. These are based on ideas they saw on Pinterest.

I also made them this frame to celebrate the day. They love gaming, in the traditional sense, so this seemed appropriate.

I will try to be a more attentive blogger....

A Special Commission

I have been asked to help out with a couple of cards for someone special. This special lady is about to have her 102nd birthday...yes 102nd!!!

Just imagine what changes she has seen in her lifetime!

With the onset of age it is perhaps not at all surprising that her eyesight is not what it once was, so my brief was NO PASTELS, favourite colour blue....

I have enjoyed creating these cards because the brief of NO PASTELS has forced me to use colours that I perhaps wouldn't normally have turned to. I quite like the results and I very much hope that she can see the details well enough to like them too.

                                             

June is so busy....

We seem to have way too many birthdays etc in June for our family....I struggle to keep up really.
This post is for My Husbands Birthday and also his great nephew's birthday.

This is the card for Kevin's birthday. I usually theme the card to match in with the present, but this year he is having a new wedding ring as the original is too small, and a bread-making cookery course. Neither of which lent themselves too readily to a card them...so I hope he will like this one. Made using Stampin Up wood planks embossing folder which gives a really deep impression and also using their Nailed It stamp set and dies.

This card is for Thomas. The dog's face is decoupaged to give dimension. This is really a box card from Hunky Dory. I like the images used for the animals in the kit, but when made as intended the boxes are a bit underwhelming in my opinion, so I adapted it.
See you again soon!

A Birth and a Birthday....

My Daughter's Partner's Brother and his Wife (hope you followed that!) have just had a beautiful baby girl. I have made a book for my Daughter to give them.

Also a card from us to welcome Baby Elsie. This was inspired by a design I saw on Pinterest.

Next week is my Husbands Birthday and also, on the same day, my Son's Partner has a birthday. She likes anything Oriental, so that was obviously my theme, but I wanted it to be modern. The lady on the card is decoupaged to add dimension, which doesn't show very clearly here. The image came from  Crafters Companion Kimono CD.

Just for anyone who might have missed the announcement on Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog, the blog is taking a break for a while due to Cazzys personal circumstances. Hopefully the blog will start up again in the Autumn, meanwhile I will try to be a good blogger and post regularly.

Quirky Things With Wings

It's Jane's turn to set the challenge them today, and she has chosen Quirky Things With Wings.
We are being sponsored for this challenge by Limited Runs Digital Stamps and Bugaboo Digital Stamps.

My first make is using MiniBirdsCake4 from Limited Runs. I thought this was a great image for cards for young and old, boy and girl. Coloured with Specrum Noir pens.

My second card is made using BirdTrioSummer from Bugaboo Stamps. This is a very Quirky Bird image and I love it! I collected together my chosen pens to colour the image....and realised that the file also comes with a pre coloured image. That used all the colours I had chosen so I used the pre coloured image. I took it into Craft Artist, resized and printed several copies. A bit of cutting and matting later and I think I have a really "happy" card. Would be good for Birthday, Get Well, Thank you...anything really.

If you have an idea for a Quirky Thing With Wings project come to the challenge blog, upload your project, and let us all have a look. You might win some images from our sponsors.

Quirky Crafts Challenge - Mid Month Reminder

The month is flying by, as usual. I just want to remind you of my challenge which is half way through on Quirky Craft Challenge Blog. This means you only have two weeks left to link your creations inspired by a favourite song. Click here to see the original post and challenge and sponsor details.
Using a digi chosen from our second sponsor Delicious Doodles I have made a twist and pop card. I love doing this shape card. As soon as I saw the lovely Iris image on the Delicious Doodles site I was immediately reminded of many a day playing in my Auntie's garden when I was small. Only a small garden, but she always had lots of Iris plants underneath her lounge window. I loved them and have Iris in my garden now because of that memory. Hope you like the card.

Quirky Crafts Challenge 3- Going For A Song

Hello,

I am quite excited because it is my first change to choose the theme for the next challenge since rejoining the Design Team. I wanted to come up with something that would get you all thinking, so I would like you to show us your creations that have been inspired by your favourite songs.

As usual we have some sponsors for the theme...which means there are prizes to be won, so head on over to the Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog to find out what you can win.

Our sponsors are Ike's Art Digital Designs and Delicious Doodles, both of them have some beautiful designs to choose from.

My first record choice was easy for me, it has been one of my favourites for years. When I was expecting my first child Simply Red released a song called "For Your Babies". When my daughter was born, just after the song was released, I used to sing her to sleep with this......I am surprised she turned out so normal come to think of it!
Looking through the designer's websites to choose an image to work with, this lovely image from Ike's Art leapt out at me and reminded me of that song. Hope you like it.

Check out the challenge blog and see what the other design team members chose to work with and why....you could even enter something and win!

Mid month challenge make...

Apologies to anyone who checked in here yesterday when the post should have gone live.....BLOGGER STRIKES AGAIN. I had typed the post and scheduled it, but Blogger just published a blank page! Helpful!

Anyway here is my mid challenge make. Coloured with a trim noir and using a Pink Petticoat paper for background, this is an inmate from the Animals and Insects set from the Cutting Cafe used last time.....love these cute images.

April Quirky Crafts Challenge

It is time for a new challenge over at Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog.
We have The Cutting Café as sponsor this challenge and the theme has been set by Tinz, she has chosen Quirky Pets. There was so much to choose from on The Cutting Café site that I am not sure how she managed to come to a decision choice at all!

From Tinz's choice I have selected some one of the images from the animals and bugs set...they are all so cute. I decided to make a door hanging for a child.

I designed a box frame sized to suit using Silhouette Studio and cut the pieces using my Cameo. I also made the lettering that way.

I took the image I had chosen into Craft Artist, resized it and printed multiple copies which I then cut out using my Scan and Cut.

I coloured the images using LePlume pens and decoupaged them up to give dimension.

Mother's Day

For UK readers it is Mother's day this weekend.

I have done the usual present and card thing, but thought I would do something extra this year. I am into bookfolding (my latest craze) so I thought I would do one for Mum. It is safe to post because she doesn't have any access to the internet at all.

This is not quite finished as I am waiting for some lovely brass book corners to arrive from Ebay. I hope they get here before Sunday. Then I just need to cello-wrap the book and I am done.

We also have a birthday in the family. One of our Great Nephew's

A couple of birthdays...

Just a couple of birthdays cards to show you. The first is for my Sister-in-Law, who is into her sewing so this Lori Whitlock file was perfect.

The second is for a friend who has a birthday very soon. This uses the Bloom With Hope stamp set from Stampin-Up.