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