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.