THANK YOU

Well all my Christmas cards have been posted or given out and all the birthdays, until the latter end of January, have been made, and where needs be, sent. My son and granddaughters are coming for a sleepover on Monday, which will be nice, then the spare bed that is in my craft room will have to be taken up. The first week in January, weather permitting and the workmen can get here, I am having my bathroom pulled out and a shower cubicle and new bathroom fittings installed. All the new equipment, fittings etc are being delivered on 3rd January, hopefully, and will need to be stored in my craft/spare room. So no more crafting until that's finished :-(
So I would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has visited by blog and to those who have taken the trouble to leave the lovely comments. They are much appreciated, finally to wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR xx

Finger on the button

This is for my granddaughter's birthday which is the end of this month when she will become a teenager. Lovely!

As the young people of today are forever texting or whatever on their phones I thought this LOTV stamp fit the bill perfectly. I stamped and embossed the image then coloured with copics and cut out using a spellbinders die.

I took a selection of LOTV papers which I cut to various sizes and mounted each one onto brown card. I used the same card and a larger die to cut the mount for the image. Using my Robert Addams alphabet and numeric dies I cut the words and the thirteen in the same brown card. A brown faux pearl in three corners just adds a bit of decoration. A grown up card for a grown up girl.

Birthday boy

I quickly rustled up this card for my friend Kim's eldest grandson who was twelve on Tuesday. The skateboarder is a topper from my stash. I used a selection of papers, again from my stash.
The sentiment is LOTV. I just added a few small peel off stars to the markers.

Snowstorm

Here is the snowstorm card I promised my granddaughter. I have done one of my favourite backgrounds, as before distressing in iced spruce and stormy sky. Then stamping with the fir trees, second generation stamping. The large snow laden tree in the foreground was edged with Stickles glitter glue. I cannot remember the names of any of the stamps used but the image was embossed then coloured with copics. I stuck it onto an empty tape reel then fixed it to the card and filled with white glitter. Stuck acetate over the top then fixed a decorative top to hide the reel. The top and greeting was cut from the same background which was from my stash. I cut out some glitter snowflakes which I fixed to the decorative top and over the snowflakes on the greeting. She loved it!

When Santa got stuck in the chimney.........

This card is for my very good friend's gt.grand children. I thought Woodware's Santa stamp On the chimney top was ideal for two toddlers under the age of four! I covered a card with spotty paper from stash which I distressed with stormy sky. Stamped and embossed the image then coloured with copics and cut out. Mounted this onto the card then got some white sparkly card which I tore along the top and stuck at the bottom of the card, covering the chimney so it looks like a snowy roof. The footprints were a freebie stamp. I stamped the 'stop here' sign and stuck just under the 'snow'. I have added some Stickles glitter glue to the top of the chimney, the roof and the sign. For Santa's fur on his outfit I used white Liquid Appliqué which I then heated. Lastly I stamped and embossed the 'Ho,Ho,Ho' in the sky.

Spotlight Card

It is my big brother's 75th birthday on New Years  eve so I always send his birthday with his Christmas card and then I know he has it in time for his birthday.  As he is ship mad, especially tall ships I thought this Stampendous Navigateur stamp fit the bill. I stamped and embossed the     Image twice. One of them I distressed with a variety of colours, yellow, blue, green and beige by just using squares of 'cut'n'dry and just randomly dabbed onto card. The second card was left uncoloured and I selected an area to punch out. This was edged in blue ink and matched precisely to cover the corresponding area on the coloured card. Thus this then becomes a 'spotlight' card, and, of course, you have the scrap from the punched one that you could make another card from - nothing wasted. The background was from a decoupage sheet of a map of the world which I cut selected pieces out, and lightly distressed edges with stormy sky distress ink. The embellishments are wooden shapes that I have coloured with Versafine and embossed. The 75th and Happy Birthday are All Occasion dies by Robert Addams.    

Christmas Angels

I decided to do an easel card for my best friend. I used this cute LOTV stamp of angels paying homage to the Holy child. I embossed the image then coloured with copics, adding a little glitter to the Angels wings and the stars. I had the blue Craft Creations Christmas paper in my stash which I used for the whole card. I cut the image and the darker blue mount using spellbinders nestie. Out of the same dark blue card I cut the snowflake border and the large snowflake using Joy dies. I also cut a holly swirl from the same card using a Cheery Lynn die. The snowflake border acted as the raised edge for the easel to rest against. I then cut another large snowflake, the holly swirl and the Merry Christmas, also by Cheery Lynn, from white glitter card. One I placed at the top left corner of the image and the other, plus the swirls, I overlaid with the blue ones and mounted on the front of the card. Merry Christmas mounted on the blue placed at the bottom. I added Christmas sentiments inside.

Christmas Date

Here I have used the lovely background stamp by Stampendous Christmas sentiments which I have embossed in gold, then distress lightly with scattered straw.
I found some red poinsettia paper in my stash which I mounted onto card. The Christmas sentiments I mounted onto dark green card.
On the main image I used the striking Woodware stamp Christmas Date which I embossed then distressed in the scattered straw. I used copics to colour the 25 and the holly. For the berries I used Gloss-Gel. I cut around the edges then mounted onto the same dark green card as before.

Hopping by.....

I thought this cute stamp would be perfect as a get well card. It is  Woodware Hoppy frog and he has such a happy grin on his face he would cheer anyone up.
I stamped and embossed him then coloured with copic pens
Mounted onto dark brown then beige card. Fixed a pair of wiggly eyes for fun. This is for my lovely daughter in law who had a freak accident nearly two weeks ago. A piece of broken wine glass flew up and sliced her ankle, hospital tried to steristrip it, then stapled it but each time it just flew open again. After five days it was unbearably painful, swollen and infected.  Hospital gave her an ex ray and lo and behold there is a piece of glass embedded in her foot. Painkillers and antibiotics later she is now awaiting surgery. Poor love laughingly said she wouldn't now be able to wear her Louboutin shoes for Christmas she will be wearing flip-flops instead. Have to see if we can get her a sparkly pair!

White embossing

This is a card I made when at a class at Davina's, taught by our talented Kim. Firstly I stamped and white embossed the trees in the foreground. I punched a circle from a post-it note and placed in the sky for the moon. Next I sponged the sky in iced spruce and stormy sky distress inks, removed the 'moon' and very lightly stroked the sponge across to take out some of the brightness. I tore up some pieces of scrap paper and laid them randomly across the bottom half of the card and lightly sponged from the edge of the scrap paper outwards in the iced spruce. This gave the impression of snow drifts. I next took a stamp of pine trees, inked up with same colour and after first stamping on scrap paper, placed on card at various levels along the 'drifts'. A clear sparkle gelly roll pen along the branches and on the edges of the 'drifts' adds the effect of frost. A peel off greeting to finish.

No apologises

I make no apologises for using my favourite stamp from Stampendous Snowbird it is lovely. In this case I stamped and painted with distress inks barn door and rusty hinge. Once dried I then cut it out. I dry embossed a crafts too folder onto white card blanking a section part way up from the bottom. I dabbed over the snowflakes with a little silver metallic paste. I then scored a line each side of the area left blank. Here I stamped a greeting before fixing the Robin in place using Woodware silicone glue which I swear by.

Birthday girl

This is a very hastily card made for my lovely daughter-in-law's youngest daughter. 

The ever faithful LOTV topper with a bit of added glitter given to the edge of the mirror, bows on the shoes and spots on the dress just give a bit of sparkle. Papers from stash added to one of the lovely patterned Woodware cards. Lace trim, faux pearls and sentiment to finish.

Rudolph

This is another of the cards I made for my friend to give to her friend!

First I must apologise to Kim for borrowing her inspiration on making a shaker card. I hope she forgives me because my granddaughter now wants one! Typical! 

For this card I used Hobby Art's Santa's Reindeer 

I stamped out the reindeers, Robin  and log and after colouring cut them out. I tore some scrap paper to use for 'drifts', positioned them on 8 x 8 card and sponged with distress ink iced spruce enhancing the sky with a touch of stormy sky. The snow laden fir tree I inked with the iced spruce and using second generation stamping stamped at various heights to give the illusion of distance. Aged white Frantage was used on the front of the card. I cut a piece of circular white card to fit an empty double sided tape reel. On this I stamped the trees and fence from the stamp set and added white glitter to the top of the fence and in the foreground. Next I stuck the log with the Robin perched on in front of the fence. I glued the reel to the front of the card and cut a piece of blue snowflake paper large enough to cover a piece of acetate. White glitter was sprinkled over the little scene and the acetate stuck over the top. This was left to dry overnight. 'Rudolph' was fixed to the edge of the 'window', the other reindeer to the side. Message edged with the iced spruce and snowflake embellishments plus a touch of glossy accents to the red nose to finish. When shaken it makes a lovely little 'snowstorm'.

They all come at once

I hardly made any cards in October as I was sorting out my craft room. It's amazing just how long it takes as you don't realise how much you have accumulated till you start. However it is now done so I'm making up for lost time. Just four days after my granddaughters birthday it's my grandsons birthday (her brother in law). For this card I used Kim's Coppice from Woodware. I first stamped the image twice using second generation stamping. I then stamped again, slightly off centre of the first images and added the sentiment in the corner. I then embossed the entire panel. The background card onto which I mounted the image has been stamped with leaves and the sentiment using Versamark and blasted with a heat gun. I then sponged the card using distress inks. After a few moments I buffed the card so the images would show clearly. I then re-stamped the leaves and sentiment again using darker distress ink.
I originally started this post in November, it is now December. I have been that busy, like fellow crafter, with Christmas cards, I also have six birthdays in December. Just as well I enjoy it😉

Girl from Brazil

1. The girl from Brazil is my lovely granddaughter in law whose birthday it is on Wednesday. The card is a pre-embossed card from my stash which I have sponged in distress ink crushed velvet. The panel is made by using one of Anna's stencils which has been spread with Imagination Crafts Sparkle Gel using a palette knife. After carefully peeling off the stencil the panel was left overnight to dry. 
2. When it was dry I sponged the entire panel with distress inks Milled Lavender and Pumice Stone. While still wet it was flicked with water. Using a wild grass stamp which had been inked up with the Milled Lavender I stamped at random on bottom of panel. With copics I then coloured the stencilled image leaving the tips of the flower buds white. I then mixed some white mica powder with a small amount of water and painted the tips of the buds.

Cutie Robin

I just love this stamp Robin by Stampendous
It's one of my all time favourites, he's so cute
This Christmas card is for my friend, the same one who I made the birthday card for. I stamped two of the images and reversed another one. All were coloured with distress inks barn door and weathered wood. Two of them I cut out. The background papers are from LOTV. I cut out icicle, fir branches and poinsettia dies. The icicles and fir branches I embossed with white sparkling embossing powder which gives a beautiful frosty look. The red poinsettia flowers I edged with glitter glue. The fence and log that the extra robins are sitting on come from a Hobby Art set Reindeer. Painted with weathered wood mixed with barn door, the snow was liquid appliqué in White which was heated and sprinkled with glitter. Sentiment typed out on my computer finishes it off. Hope she likes it.

Friend of a friend

My friend in Cornwall asked me to make a birthday card for her very good friend so this is what I came up with.
I've used the spellbinders lattice die for the background in pale pink pearlised card and backed it with a dark red paper. The butterfly corner is also a spellbinder die cut from Ivory pearlised card. I mounted this in the bottom right hand corner then cut my favourite Marianne vintage swirl die out of the same card. I fixed the swirl to the card with a generous amount of silicone glue to which I added a pink bow, handmade flowers, two pearl stickpins and a couple of leaves to which I added a few dabs of glossy accents to look like dew drops. I stamped the sentiment 'for a special friend' onto a strip of card, added a sparkly gem and inserted this into the pocket created by the butterfly die. I also just added three gems to the body of the 'butterfly'.
I also made a box for the card and decorated the lid by sponging spun sugar distress ink through the outline left from cutting out the swirl. I think you'll agree it makes a good 'stencil'.

Dragonfly

This is a card that I made for my grandson-in-law's birthday. He lives in Cyprus and his birthday was last week. The background was done at one of my friend Kim's classes at Davina's using a gelli plate which was covered in distress inks and impressions were made using a dragonfly stamp. Card was then placed over the Plate to make a 'print'. A second print makes a more subtle image. On a piece of pearlised cream card I stamped the lovely Dragonfly Vine stamp by Stampendous. Mounted this onto medium brown card from stash. Added peel off greeting mounted to match. Faux pearls in adjacent corners to finish. Hope he got it in time!

Colourful card to bring cheer

 Next week is my eldest granddaughter's birthday. In June she gave birth to a beautiful daughter, another addition to the family and last week we said farewell to a member - her father! So I made this card to bring a little colour to her. I used a peel off by Woodware Francoise's Mums Round and laid the smaller ones at random on white card then sponged over with Brilliance ink pads. I then gently removed the peel offs.
                                  

I followed the same procedure with the large circular 'mum' but didn't remove the peel off, then cut it out using a nestie.  Using  blue card I next cut a scalloped circle onto which I mounted the  large one. With a strip of white card I punched a border using a Tonic punch, edged with the pale blue ink pad then mounted this onto the front of the card. Over the  centre of this I glued the main image. At the bottom I added a black peel off sentiment from stash. Out of the blue card I cut small rectangular shapes which I stuck in the corners. I think I will enter this into the Woodware challenge for September Woodware sketch 38

      

Alcohol Inks

Last Saturday at Kim's class at Davina's we played with alcohol inks and had great fun. Davina had held her Macmillan coffee day on the Friday but carried it over and it was my 70th birthday yesterday and Davina had decorated her conservatory with pennants and banners to go with the Macmillan balloons. Then during the afternoon I was presented with a chocolate cake adorned with candles. We all indulged in some cake - it was scrumptious! Thank you ladies for a lovely afternoon.

Anyway just to prove to our tutor, I do use the bits that I make and here is the proof........

I must say the panels look good when mounted onto white card.

They make ideal men's cards.

Well I'm very sorry to say that my friend Kim met with an accident yesterday when returning from visiting her daughter in Birmingham and has broken her elbow in a fall. She must have been in terrible pain as she still had the journey to complete, fortunately she didn't have too much luggage.

Here's wishing you a speedy recovery Kim xx

My Wonderful son-in-law

There was so much happiness in the weeks leading up to the wedding of my son then the morning before their big day my wonderful son-in-law of  32 years sadly lost his battle against brain cancer. So there I was frantically making sympathy cards for his mother, family and my daughter and families.      

      

I then posted them on my way to having my hair done. My darling Stephen was  buried yesterday in the churchyard in Sowerby amid the North Yorks Moors overlooking the lovely beck where he spent many hours watching kingfishers and sand martins. I loved him dearly and we had a wonderful relationship. Rest in peace, your suffering is over.  

                                                    

  

Happiness and Love

This is the card that I sent to the newly weds. It is quite plain. White card mounted with Ivory pearlised paper repeated twice and mounted onto an 8x8 white card. The top piece has been embossed using the diamond

 pattern then using Spellbinder fancy-heart die I cut two out at an

angle half way down. I pushed out the fancy centres and positioned them half way over the apertures. I added white faux pearls at the inter-sections of each diamond. Out of the ivory paper I cut the word LOVE, wedding rings and champagne glasses using various dies. On the right is the box I made for the card to go in. Below is a photo of the happy couple.

Love

Saturday was my son's wedding. So now I can share the wedding cards with you. It is his second marriage and her first and this is the card I made for his two daughters to give to the happy couple.
The background is wax paper run through an embossing folder of roses. The Love stamp I have coloured with pearlised paints and cut out. I have curled it slightly and mounted it onto the card with silicone glue. The LOTV stamp I have coloured the bride's dress with the same paint but the rest is coloured using copics. Sentiments are also LOTV.

Spotlight

Making spotlight cards was the subject of my friend Kim's class at Davina's two weeks ago. I made a few toppers of different designs of which I was particularly pleased. For this one we used distress inks and sponges which we put down at random onto white card. On this one I stamped this lovely Stampendous Carnation and then stamped the image on white card. I selected a punch and punched out part of the second image. This was then stuck over the relevant section on the main image matching up exactly.
The card was going to be added to my box for future use. It has come in useful sooner than I thought.
My lovely son-in-law is gravely ill and will not last the weekend, the last thing on my daughter's mind is her brother's wedding on Saturday and our good friend's birthday on Tuesday so I told her I would take care of everything down here (they live in Yorkshire) and then I will be with her a.s.a.p. So I mounted the image onto dark red card then onto an embossed card, added some leaves and tiny flowers, LOTV sentiment and finally 70 peel off.

Rumble in the Jungle

It is my youngest granddaughters birthday on Friday, she will be 9 and she is absolutely mad about all animals, especially wild ones. She has even been saying she would like to work with them when she gets older - time will tell!
However I thought her card just screamed out for this fabulous stamp set by Woodware Jungle Pals

The background is a Darice embossing folder of animal tracks and I have distressed it using tea dye and vintage photo, two favourites. I stamped each of the stamps twice and decoupaged each one just with the animal. I stamped lots of bananas and leaves and put one in the monkey's paw and the remaining ones to resemble a large bunch in the centre. A few extra leaves added on the crocodile, giraffe and monkey, sentiments cheeky monkey, smile crocodile, have fun and rumble in the jungle placed at random. 

I think she will like, I know I do! lol                                            

For the Bride

My son asked me to make a card for him to give to his bride on their big day in a few weeks time. It is to go with a beautiful present he has bought for her.. I let him choose from my catalogue of stamps and he chose this lovely Kanban stamp. He wanted it fairly plain but still with a bit of bling so this is what I came up with!

The fan of the dress I havedone in white very fine glitter. 

The body is done in very fine black glitter. The hat is black and white. I have added a diamanté at the top of the fan and at the nape of the hat. It was mounted onto black card to which I have also added a small diamanté heart in alternate corners. A LOTV sentiment 'On your Wedding Day' mounted onto black added underneath. Both were mounted onto cream card which has a pearlised flower swirl pattern on it. He has written his own tribute to her which I have still to type out and insert.     

Wedding Bells

This card is for my granddaughters to give to their father on his wedding day in three weeks time.
I used Woodware stamp Bubble Bells which I have decorated with card candi in grey and white.

 

Mounted onto white embossed card which in turn is mounted onto pale grey and again onto cream card which has been cut using grand nestie decorative circle.
On the grey card I have used peel offs stating date of the wedding, bride and groom's names and two wine glasses.        

Back To Normal

Well, holidays are almost over. I spent a week with family in Yorkshire a few weeks back. It was for my latest gt.granddaughter's christening. Then last week I took my two youngest granddaughters on a caravan holiday to Rye. They love caravanning, thinking it a great adventure. We had a wonderful time, full of fun and laughter, that's the beauty of being 70 (well almost) you don't mind making a fool of yourself when playing with children.
However, one of my best friends is 70 just six days before me and this the card I have just made for her.

She loves knitting and doing cross-stitch.
So what could be more appropriate than these house mouse
stamps by  stampendous  Knit Gift.
The second stamp was from an old set by Joanna Sheen
The numbers I have added to embroidery thread bobbins and stuck a sample of the thread inside a wrapper.
I included a wrapper from a ball of baby wool to compliment the sample of knitting on the wooden needles.
All these were mounted onto a spellbinder decorative circle grand nestie die.
This I ran through my ebosser with the purl one A4 embossing folder. This give a perfect likeness of plain and purl knitting. I then coloured it with Spun Sugar distress
ink.
I used 8x8 card onto which I stamped ' birthdays are sew special' and 'enjoy your special day'  also in the Spun Sugar ink.

Card for a brave boy

This birthday card is for my friends grandson who will reach double figures next week. Over the past three years he has undergone three brain operations, a brave boy indeed!
I have used a LOTV topper which I have enhanced slightly on the stars and the hat band with a Sakura gelly roll pen in clear sparkle. This I mounted onto LOTV paper and card that I brayered. I added his name and age in self coloured peel offs along with a LOTV sentiment.
The lasso was made out of very fine twine and just to finish a silver star was added to the top right corner.

Sympathy for a friend

I just had to quickly make a card for my friend of long standing Jeannie. The poor woman found out that her brother had died SEVEN days previously, and HOW she found out!! She was visiting her sister in Brighton who just so happens to follow Facebook and she had got into one of her nieces Facebook pages where she saw, to her horror, R.I.P messages to her brother! My friends sister, not one to mess about, phoned her niece demanding to know what was going on, only to be told that her sister-in-law only wanted immediate family to know and to attend the funeral. What are Jeannie and her sister for Gods sake if not immediate family, he was their only remaining sibling. We could understand it if there had been a falling out but there hadn't been. Jeannie went to an anniversary party at their house last year. Sorry, but I am just SO angry on her behalf. I said to our other close friend I've just got to make a card from us to show someone cares.

              

                                                        I wanted to keep it clean and simple so I decided to use the

Dreamweaver long stem calla lily stencil  and coloured it with colour box liquid chalks and Sakura glitter pen. I mounted it onto matching card and finished off with a very narrow black ribbon and bow. I kept the message inside simple using sentiments from Stampendous Sincere sentiments set. 

The other card

This is the second card I've made for the birthday boy who is footie mad although too young to support any team yet! So I thought it called for a LOTV topper which I cut out using a nestie and distressed all round with stormy sky whilst the die was still in place. The background is made up of scraps of paper cut with a Stampin Up hexagon punch. These are then stuck onto double sided adhesive sheet which was then cut with a large nestie.           The lettering is using a X Cut die and just fits nicely into the shapes. The grass die is from Joy Crafts, sentiment from LOTV with rosette from scraps.
This card will be from my son and my granddaughters.

For a lovely 4 year old

In two weeks time it will be my youngest gt.grandson's fourth birthday but as I will be in Yorkshire all next week with the family I thought I would take his cards with me. This first one is from me and my brother. My friend Kim lent me these two wonderful Molly Bloom stamps which I coloured with my ever faithful copic pens. The 'bridge' is fashioned out of paper from my stash which I have distress all round the 'tunnel' with black soot distress ink, very appropriate! I stamped extra puffs of steam which I coloured and cut out and stuck on the front of the tunnel. Some silver peel off cogs in the corner and under the LOTV sentiment. A nice red number 4 to finish.

Daisy Panel

I had a wonderful time with my friends down in Cornwall recently, nothing is too much trouble for them and they really go out of their way to make sure you enjoy your visit so I felt a 'thank you' card was in order. I used kraftcard for the background which I stamped with the beautiful stamp Cling Seed by Stampendous using Versamark and Frantage in Aged pink and aged gold. For the panel I used Daisy Panel by Woodware. The colouring was done using copics and I used distress ink Antique Linen to slightly shade the background. The panel was then mounted onto brown card then orange card. Yellow circle with 'thank you' sentiment mounted the same way as the panel to finish. As I have been unable to enter their challenge for a while,I think I will enter this in the
Woodware sketch challenge.                  

Get Well Soon

My friend's son John down in Cornwall had an accident at work last week and is in hospital with a crushed leg so I just had to make him a card.

The image and sentiments are from Kanban stamps and coloured with copics. The background papers  are from LOTV. Wishing you a speedy recovery John x

Another Christening Card

Here is another card for my gt. granddaughter's christening. I have used one of lovely LOTV toppers from their 'Babies' notepad. Highlighted certain areas with Sakura sparkle pens and used a decorated oval nestie to cut out the lovely shape. Mounted this onto various papers from my stash, added sentiment and remainder of pink 'christening' ribbon used on the first christening card, little cut out baby elephants decorate bottom right corner of card and envelope. Pink faux pearls finish the card.

Christening

This is the first of the christening cards I have to make and it is for my granddaughters Abbie and Jessica to send to their new cousin Chloe. I have used the Woodware Hugh Baby stamp which is perfect for paper piecing.

I cut it out using a nestie and sponged around the nestie with Spun Sugar distress ink. With another shaped nestie I drew around the inside of it onto some baby paper and cut it out. Using the same nestie I then cut some pearlised baby pink card and pasted the colourful baby paper cut out onto it. I then mounted this onto a white card. I added some of the pink christening ribbon, a teddie and three baby buttons threaded with pink thread.

Wanderer's Return

I have returned from a wonderful weeks holiday at my friend' s in Cornwall and a fantastic time at the  Armed Forces Day at Plymouth Ho. So now it's back to catch up starting with this box. It's my gt. Granddaughters christening at the end of July and my friends bought her a little present. Obviously I can't put a photo of it here but it needed a box so I set to work yesterday and made this little box from pearlised baby pink card. I had some christening ribbon which I tied round it. My friends wrote their good wishes on a piece of paper which I stuck inside a small card I made and attached to the ribbon. I sent them a copy of this photo and they were delighted.                

Open Book

This is another of my personalised cards for the lady who I made the soccer shirt card for. This one is for her mother who will be the wonderful aged of 83. Her nickname is 'silk cut Lil' for obvious reasons, she loves cakes, tea and strawberries.

I have made the card like an open book the title being Silk Cut Lil. Pages are graduating made of vellum, faux writing on one side, on the other a cup and saucer and a verse. The main pages have cupcakes on one side and I've drawn strawberries on the other along with 'keep calm' quotes. Down the 'spine'i have put some dark green ribbon, leaves and have made some 'strawberries' and strawberry flowers.

Septuagenarian

Here is a card I have just finished for one of our ladies who attends classes at Davina's. It seems that I know a lot of ladies who reach that milestone this year. The card has been mounted with cream pearlised card which I have pricked all round the edge. The panel has been cut with a spellbinder nestie which has then had the centre cut out with a spellbinder trellis die. The panel has been embossed using a Crafts Too folder and mounted onto baby pink pearlised card. Next I cut three decorative shapes in alternating colours and different sizes and mounted these onto the centre of the trellis.              

                                               To this I have added a sentiment from a set by Stampin Up and also added a '70' peel off. It looked a bit bland so with faux pearls in each corner and on the centres of each cross on the background, pink swirl using a Joycraft die, flowers from stash, organza bow which I heated to give shrivelled look and pearl pins finish the card.

Let's Party!

I have made this card for my best friend's granddaughter whose birthday is just after I return from holiday. The stamp was a freebie which came with one of the craft magazines and, I think, is just perfect for a 15 year old. It barely needs any colouring just a touch here and there which I have done with glitter pens. The background papers are LOTV as is the sentiment. Added numbers from stash and we're ready to party!