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.