Happy Birthday dear Friend

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Hello friends.
My word!! I've been missing for so long.  Naughty blogger :(


Ingredients
Dies - Memory box grape vine
           Sue Wilson petite arched adornment
Forgotten DP but most probably Far Far Hill
Simple handmade envelope - Martha Stewart punched edge
Greeting made in publisher cut round with fancy scissors
Prima? flower
Lace
Organza ribbon
Pearls

 

I'd like to enter.........
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Sept
Cuttlebug Mania - anything goes
Crafty Calendar - anything goes



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Happy Birthday Dear Daughter

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Ingredients
Memory Box die
Painted recycled flower
Lace
Ribbon
Bling
Twine

Instead of dying the flower with DI  like in my last post, I painted this one with some cheapo gold paint and applied a smidgen of gilding wax....

 

  ....adding some gold glittery flakes to centre.

 

 

 

 

 

I'd like to enter

Crafting Musketeers #25 - use a die cut

Crafts Galore - anything goes for May

Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper - May challenge

Everybody Art  #323 - happy birthday

 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by today :)

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40th Wedding Anniversay

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Dies
  QuickKuts - butterfly
  Memory Box -  branch
  Spellbinder - fleur de lis
Pearls

I'd like to enter.....
CAS on Sunday #57 - white
Crafting When We Can #93 - for a couple
Dies R Us  # 25 - anniversary



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21st Birthday

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This is for my dear Grandson from his Mum and Dad

Ingredients
Sue Wilson Embossing Folder - quilted flowers
Dies  - Memory Box - Tessatina
         - Sue Wilson - San Fransisco
         - Spellbinders - Majestic Elements
Ribbon
Gem brad
Computer generated sentiment

I am pleased how this turned out, though I must confess that it took all day. I had to make the black border by hand cos I don't have plain square nesting dies.

I'd like to enter
Cardz 4 Guyz #54 - anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - for a man
Ruby's Rainbow #96 - masculine birthday
Cut it Up #62 - black and white
Dies R Us #18 - use an embossing folder
Mojo Monday #381 - sketch - rotated so don't know if this qualifies



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21st Anniversary

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 Good morning and Happy 4th of July America

I'm off to EMA later today and flying early hours Sat for a short break in sunny Spain until Tues with DD and SIL. Grandson texts me yesterday morning and asks for a card for his Mum and Dad's anniversary which is on Thursday!
Sooo, instead of packing I spent the afternoon making this.

I'd like to enter...
C.R.A.F.T challenge #266 - anniversary/wedding
Crafty Ribbons #96 -  anything goes with ribbon
Crafting by Designs - month long anything goes
Divas - ribbons and flowers
Papertake - anything goes




Thank you for stopping by today and the lovely comments on previous post :)
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65th Birthday

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For my friend and neighbour over the road.

Dies
Memory box - tessatina
Sue Wilson - faux quilled blooms
Spellbinders - floral ovals
Other stuff
Nancy Watt DP - craft mag freebie
Pearls
Bakers twine
 

I'd like to enter
The Crafters Cafe  #65 - use 3 flowers
The Crazy Challenge #172 - bingo - pearls, flower, die cut
TTT - monochrome
4 Crafty Chicks #196 - anything goes
Allsorts - happy birthday
Crafty Catz #233 - anything goes


Thank you for stopping by today and the much appreciated comments on previous posts :)
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50th Birthday

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I am off for a little break with DD and SIL very early tomorrow and will be closing everything down later today....so...see you again in 8 days.
Take care everyone xxx


Commission for neighbour's mother for her other daughter's 50th.

Supplies
Memory Box lavish branch die
Circle punch
Distress ink
Tattered muslin
Gold thread
Crinoline

Two flowers made from muslin, two with crinoline and one from a die. Big leaf coloured with DI and crackled and three die cuts covered with modelling paste and glittered.

I'd like to enter...
It's All About the Vintage #67 - flower power
Creative Knockouts #35 - flowers galore
Country View #15 - nature's glories
Simply Create Too #60 - stack em up
Sentimental Sundays #205 - shabby chic or use lace/doily
Crafting by Designs - May - anything goes
The Shabby Tea Room #217  - pretty prints
Love to Create #114 - say it with flowers



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16th Birthday

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A quick post - my computer is poorly and Blogger doesn't like me :(

I've had this lovely image for a while and this is the first time I've used it and the first 'colouring in' I've done for ages.

Memory Box lavish branch
Seam binding bow
Pearly button
Colouring medium - copics

Challenges
A Day for Daisies #92 - pretty pastels
4 Crafty Chicks #188 - colour an image
Divas - anything goes & birthday blog hop
Crafty Girls #15 - anything goes
Crafty Ribbons #83 - anything with ribbon



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Mothers Day

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For my dear, lovely, special Aunty, my Mum's sister and a second mum to me since I was a baby and even more since my dear mum passed away 27 yrs ago.

Memory box dies - tessatina border, lavish branch, pipi butterfly
Frame - Spellbinders curved rectangles
New 'Happy' die from Joanna Sheen 
The pearls are dots of appli glue. I've had this for yonks and am just about getting the hang of making reasonable looking 'pearls' since I watered it down. I still need practice though, LOL.

Challenges I'd like to enter
My Time to Craft #240 - special lady/mothers day
CYP #206  - mothers day/for the ladies
A Gem of a Challenge #115- special lady/mothers day
The Crafters Cafe #55 - make a square card



Thank you for stopping by today :)
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Birthday Butterfly

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I tried to get a textured look using this stencil and tried various mediums - acrylic paint for one - but ended up using white embossing powder which looks very unwhite lol.
The result is OK but I have now ordered some proper texture paste :)
I sponged Spun Sugar DI over part of the 'design' and splattered some over the rest using a toothbrush.

I think the finished card is quite pleasing.

The butterfly is embossed with texture EF is also coloured with spun sugar DI,  and then spritzed with glimmer mist.
I added some small pearls to the little flowers on the memory box lavish branch die cut and simply finished with random pink and white pearls and the greeting banner.

Challenges I'd like to enter
Just Keep on Creating #1 - anything goes
The Pink Elephant #239 - use pink
Lexi's Creations #110 - monochromatic
Allsorts #247 - ladies day



Thank you for stopping by today :)
Cheers me dears


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First Anniversary

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A beef.....I have been feeling mardy and put off card making and all because I have fallen out with M&S. I went to use a credit voucher and was told it had expired!!!  I was not aware that they impose a time limit and have lost the best part of £60. Grrr - I think it absolutely wrong that this is the case - a credit voucher should last forever!
Sooo, I've told M&S to stick it, my custom has been transferred elsewhere.
Am I on my own with this thinking......or maybe it best you don't tell me, you might shoot down in flames, lol

A result...I am happy though that I have, at last, after 3 months managed to get my 82 yr old neighbour a  Visa to visit Australia.  The new rules decree that everyone over 75 have a health certificate at a cost of £350!!!!  Thanks to her sister in Oz, after talks with immigration, (the site is so confusing)  it is found she needed a different numbered visa for her trip of under 3 months. What a relief we haven't got to make the trek to Birmingham....yippppeee.

A card....for niece and hubby from her Mum & Dad.
Spellbinders Floral Ovals die - the largest is flat, the other two matted with foam tape.
I printed the sentiment and cut with middle size die then cut around it to fit as another layer.
Memory Box butterfly and Marianne Creatables for the flowers. This is a nice soft gold paper that was left over from the wedding invitations that  I made for the couple last year. The wedding colours were green and gold. Must get myself in gear, gotta make two more.

I rubbed metallic gilding wax on the edges of the die cuts - funny stuff this - using fingers is the only way for me.  I couldn't get a satisfactory result using a cloth as in the instructions cos it was going all bitty.
Nice effect in the end.

I'd like to enter
Fussy & Fancy #100 - celebration
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes...with ribbon
The Paper Shelter #133 - use only 2 colours


Thank you for stopping by today and for a comments if you feel like it and have the time
Cheers me dears :)


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