Sweet Seventeen

Here is the card I made for  my granddaughter. For the background I used Woodware   Graffiti stamped with versafine and embossed. Using distress inks I watercoloured the background and the words. I drew some 17s  in the odd spaces. For the topper I used another Woodware stamp  Just for u. I coloured the letters  in to match the background. Drew some squiggly lines round the outside, some dots around the letters. Mounted on black card.        

Rotten year so far.

This year didn't get off to a very good start as my elder brother was ill for the whole of January. I cannot ever remember him being that bad before. The worse I'd seen him was when he had food poisoning. He was poorly for three days, if he gets a cold he shrugs it off in a few days. Never has a flu jab, never goes to doctors and this time he couldn't have got to the doctors if he tried. Well pleased he has fully recovered, back to eating and his old self. Then on 20th February my other son-in-law died from brain cancer, just like my other son-in-law who died last September.
Yesterday this was how my son ended up, in the trauma unit at St. Marys, Paddington after a three car rta. Phillip being in the middle got the worst of it ending side on down a ditch. Air bags didn't explode so hit his head on side window. Thank God no broken bones. Severe concussion, badly shaken up and in terrible pain from all the jarring. Phillip hates hospital after bad experiences when younger and wanted to come home. Once his memory returned and his ops were ok he was allowed home with instructions to rest both body and mind. They said his brain had been badly shaken and needed rest, no computers,etc. Car write off! - company car. Thank goodness he has a lovely wife who will ensure he does just that! Love you both.

Two for one

I made these two cards using a Magnolia die - rocking horse. I first cut the image out from white card. For the first card I cut a heart from the centre then using a Crafts 2 embossing folder of baby feet ran half of the card through the Cuttlebug. I selected a nice dark pink paper with stars on from my stash which I stuck to the inside of the card. I slightly distressed the image with Spun Sugar distress ink and affixed to the centre of the aperture.
For the second card I used the 'waste' after cutting the horse and mounted it onto plain pink card which I then cut out using a 'blossom' shape nestie. I lightly distressed with spun sugar and stuck the tiny hearts, eye and the centre of bottom of the rocker. Again I picked paper from my stash to mount it on. I haven't put any sentiment on either as they can be used for new baby or for my gt. Granddaughters first birthday.

Resist with a twist

One of the classes we did recently at Davina's was 'resist with a twist' and as I have been laid up, so to speak, with a bad back I occupied my time with putting to use the samples that I made (of which there were many!) lol. So I have quite a few to share with you. All images are stamped with versamark and embossed using clear powder. The card on the right is a Woodware Sketchy Buddlia I  cut an oval template from scrap paper using a spellbinders die, taped it over the image then sponged with distress ink spun sugar. The background was preprinted script paper. I mounted it onto black card. The paper the whole thing is on is Bargello themed made up from scraps of paper from my stash.
The card on the left uses the same technique but the poppies were much more open, as you can see, and these I painted using distress inks barn door and peeled paint. I lightly sponged the paper with tea dye. I added a thin red ribbon and some card candi. Sentiment by Woodware. This I sent to my friend for her birthday, she was delighted!

Thank goodness for toppers

What a saviour LOTV toppers have been while my home has been all upside down. They came to the rescue once more on this card for my youngest gt.granddaughter who, as you can see, will be one on Wednesday. I have used a spellbinder nestie to cut it out and sponged it with distress ink Spun Sugar while still in the die. This I have then mounted onto pink card cut out using a decorative die again by Spellbinder. I have used a ready decorated card by Woodware to mount the panels on. Added the sentiment and her name also the number one onto the balloon to which I then added Glossy Accents. These were all cut using All Occasion dies. A couple of pink faux pearls top and bottom to finish

Back in business

At the end of January it was my eldest gt.grandson's birthday and thank goodness for LOTV toppers! I grabbed some bits and pieces and assembled this on the coffee table while squatting on the floor in my living room with the builders coming and going. The background papers are also LOTV and the sentiment is Woodware.

The number 9 and his name are All Occasion dies 

A few faux pearls to finish.

Worth the wait!

i am very pleased to say my new shower room is finished and my flat is now all back to normal.

   

This how it looks now and I am delighted with it, unfortunately the photos do not do it justice.

Also I have my craft room back!

Work In Progress

Hello folks, had a very quiet Christmas and New Year clearing things out of the bathroom and shifting round my craft room in preparation for the equipment to be delivered for my new bathroom. Well goods arrived on schedule and work commenced on schedule. We have now completed the second day and this is the status of my 'craft' room.

 So as a consequence I cannot do any crafting, but when the builders have finished, which should be by Friday, I then have to redecorate. I suppose in an indirect way that's crafting lol. Be nice when it's finished. I will post more pics then. Bye for now and a Happy New Year.

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.