Sympathy

Side opening A5

My son and DIL asked me to make a card for their friend who tragically lost his wife at the weekend.
I love lilies, on cards and for real, but think the white tulips perhaps more suitable for a younger person.



Now I've finished it I think the sentiment is too clumsy but I so wanted to use my new nestie labels. The image is matted with silver mirri and the larger label cut from it also. I hope it will be accepted as it is.

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Grandaughter's 13th

A5

This is for my beautiful Grandaughter who will be 13 on Friday. A family friend has a photography business and often uses M as a model for her portfolio and flyers. She can look very sophisticated for her age but is still the typical teenager, thank goodness! although my DD will not agree with that statement!!!


The photo I used is one of some taken recently, and I altered it to sepia because I thought it suited what I had in mind for the card. I have CB numbers but as I tend to do things the hard way, I cut the 13 by hand because I wanted a bigger, skinnier font and used a stretched Black Chancery in Word Art. I rubbed on some sparkly powder that I've had for years and recently found at the back of a drawer.



A close up of the little embellishment I made for the bottom of the card.
* I have added a pink organza bow to the top RH corner because I thought it lacking something!!

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Sketch Saturday - 33

150mm Square

Aren't I lucky!! I won the Galleria set by Laura Ashley in the Trimcraft draw, so of course I had to use some of it for Sketch Saturday - 33 challenge.






The circley? paper, big brad and fibres are from my winnings and the base BP is a freebie from Scrapbook Flair. For a change I've used my other Maggie stamp. I must improve my colouring!!!

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Very Red!

150mm Square

I thought it a shame to cover up some of the designs of the lovely Laura Ashley paper I had for Christmas, so did this.


I cut out one extra flower (sacrilege!) to make an extra layer. The ribbon and the brad is from the same collection as the paper. This is flock paper from the Conemarra collection.



Finished with a black bow (off a present), stamped sentiment, a small piece of red 'fluff' (from a decoration of DD's) and sequins (off a card) with diamontes (new!)

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Sugar Bowl Challenge 1

150mm Square

I couldn't resist making a card for the Sugar Bowl Challenge. The sketch is by Tiets and had to include a Sugar Nellie stamp. Luckily I have two stamps but my favourite is this Dressing up Maggie.



The pic a a bit blurred so here is a close up of the delighful Maggie.



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Two Challenges in one

A5
Hopefully this fits two challenges, a first for me!!



Sketch and Stamp challenge No:1. The stash here is Laura Ashley paper received as a Christmas pressie from my DD, and also Dressing Up Maggie stamp. I have practiced colouring this stamp but never used it on a card before. I have turned the sketch round.

I hope it also qualifies for the One Stop Challenge 10. I've added a button to the centre of the flowers.

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60th Birthday Card

8inch square

I've made this for a friend's 60th birthday on Friday and I am quite pleased how it turned out.



The papers are Spring Romantic from Daisie and Loreta Labarca Nearly White and inked all edges with Wisteria ColorBox fluid chalk inkpad. The no: 60 and my favourite die of the moment, the flourish, were cut on my CB. I cut the leaves from a piece of green paper and 'painted' them with G99 copic. Finished with a large eggplant coloured FD (how generous!) from Joanna Sheen, pearls, lace, bling and a pinky lilac organza ribbon.

The box



A wrap made from silver mirri type card following Suzanne's tutorial Thanks Suzanne!!
Computer generated greeting, inked edges in the Wisteria. Another flourish, this time in the same silver 'mirri', AND another, though smaller FD. Think I need to lie down!! A couple of leaves and tied with the same ribbon as on the card.
I have added a little 'shelf' at the bottom of the back of the wrap so the card won't fall through. I felt quite chuffed with myself for thinking of this, lol.
Tis a shame I couldn't get a better pic of this, but you know how difficult it is to take a photo of mirri card.

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Sketch Saturday - 32

150mm Square

This is the sketch for this week



This is my card.



I had hoped to use this for the cuttlebug challenge as well (sanded embossing) but the paper I used didn't have a white core and couldn't be sanded.

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Card for a friend

150mm square

This is for friend J who worked with me in another life.
It also fits the January challenge on Joanna Sheen's forum.
The challenge this month is to use a stamped background and this is the first time I have attempted masking. I used the script from the Hydrangea stamp from Joanna Sheen. Elusive Images, I think, but please someone put me right if I am wrong.
Other stamps used were a butterfly, an initial, my 'pretty lady' and a clear corner stamp and a flower.
I roughly cut a flower out of the original BP, inked edges and lightly painted it with copics. My favourite piece on this is the flourish cut with my brand new Sissix die, a Christmas pressie to myself. I added some dots of pearly Appli-glue that I have had for years and finished with a greeting tag, a bow, and pink gems that are actually for a mobile phone.





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On this first day..........

....... of 2009 I wish you a very

Happy New Year

Thanks to everyone who has paid a visit during 2008 and I hope that the friendships made will continue in 2009

My best wishes to you all and I look forward to seeing all the amazing creations to come

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Golden Wedding

A5 size

We are invited to the Golden Wedding celebration of a chap who hubby used to work with. It will be a nice change to see them at this special occasion as usually we only see them at funerals
So, on Saturday night it's on with the slap and the glad rags. I guess hubby will be busy recalling old times and I'm sure I'll find someone to chat with.

I spent most of yesterday evening making this card. Gone over the top a bit with the flowers lol. The one in the middle is a Syntego flower bought from Joanna Sheen some time ago.

The sentiment on the front is gold embossed on pearly card and that and the BP are edged with gold pen. The BP is Laura Ashley (another piece from my Christmas pressie) and the main cardstock is a a nice soft gold. Added a bit of bling and organza ribbon.



This is the box and it took me nearly as long to make this as it did the card.
I kept getting the measurements wrong and it took me 3 goes to get the base right.
Never mind I got there in the end. I kept it simple because of the acetate aperture.



A close up of the bouquet!



Thank you for dropping by today, Your comments are really appreciated
Wishing you all a
Happy, Healthy and Peaceful 2009


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Card for DIL's sister

My DIL asked for two cards for her sister's birthday on New Years eve. She chose the one I made for Sketch Saturday challenge and I personalised it for her by adding a tag.

This one is for my grandson to give to her. I was a bit stumped so resorted to using a photo of him.



I used my new round nesties recently bought from Joanna Sheen. The greeting was printed directly on to the BP and I chose the colours with the help of the Palette Generator to match the photo which is mounted with foam pads. Finished with silver grey ribbon and a flower fixed with a gold brad. A nice simple card really, that only took a few minutes rather than the usual hours I spend deciding what to do.

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Sketch Saturday - Your Choice

This is the first time I've submitted a card for Sketch Saturday.
I like using sketches and I promised myself that I would try to join in more challenges so this is it.
The brief is to choose any of the previous sketches so I chose No: 29.



The image is one of some kindly sent to me by Chrissie. Thank you Chrissie, I am learning to colour them nicely :-)
My dear daughter bought me two Laura Ashley 12x12 paper packs and I have used just a little bit of one of the papers in the Love Song pack. She also gave me 3 tubes of matching ribbons (18 rolls) and a pack of embroidered brads. Chuffed to bits I am!!

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Happy Christmas Everyone

After a busy day I've just remembered that I hadn't posted
any Christmas Greetings!!!
I have been such a bad blogger recently.
My best wishes to you all for a wonderful Christmas
and I hope Santa treats you all well.


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Award

I have felt a bit out of sorts lately and this award from Sheena certainly cheered me up.
Thank you so very much Sheena :-)

The rules are:
Link to whoever gave you the award and pass it on and link to 5 others.
You also have to write down 5 things you are addicted to!

1. Cardmaking!!
2. Crafty blog trawling
3. Wine gums
4. Buying craft stash
5. My family who always come first, yes, even before crafting

And now I have to pass the award on to 5 others. As Sheena said, this is a difficult task. Every one my blogging buddies deserve it. All fabulous blogs.


My five are
Ann, Beryl, Sandie, , Cynthia & Suzanne

Thank you all for all your encouragement, inspiration and giving me the chance to see your wonderful work.

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Two cards today

Every other Wednesday I pick up my widowed friend and we go to the local club. This week it is the birthday of our local Country & Western singer who plays there and there will be a bit of a party. He has backed some famous names both here and in the US and is quite a character
I hope he will like this.




My daughter requested a card to send to the little boy one of her customers.
This is the 4th Christmas card so far this year. I still have cards to do for my son and DIL and daughter and SIL and 3 to for my grandchildren. That will be it for this year. I confess that everyone else will be sent a bought one. I just don't have the time to do many hand-made ones. Anyway I'd rather do any card other than Christmas.



They are both decoupaged so will fit the Joanna Sheen weekly challenge.

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13th Birthday

A different number for a change. I do enjoy making the number templates so this made a change from the no:40.
It is for my husband's, cousin's granddaughter, phew!
We will be going to her party on Saturday. It will be good to meet up with the family and we'll have a lot of catching up to do. A few quiet drinks could well end up being a lot of noisy ones!!



I didn't make this template. It is one from Sara at Time for Crafting.
Mine are usually tent fold templates but I thought this side opening one would make a change.




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The Butterfly Award

This lovely award was kindly sent to me by Beryl. Thank you so much, Beryl.



I have to pass this on to ten bloggers.
My list, without looking to see if they already have been given this


1.Chrissie 2. Kerry 3. Sandie 4. Leann 5. Kirsten

6.Calv 7. Kym 8. Ann 9. Lavender-Jo 10.Starcyl -Jenny

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1. Wendy; 2. Irene; 3. Sandie; 4. Suzanne; 5. Carol;

6. Beryl; 7. Edna; 8. Anne; 9. Cynthia; 10. Jak

Rainbow Lady's Challenge 40

My first card for December and Snowmen is the subject of the challenge this week and you wouldn't believe how long it took me to come up with this. I have to confess it is only the third Christmas card I've made this year. I decided to only make a few specials this year and as time is running out it looks as though it really will be only a few.
I have to make about 80 cards for my daughter's customers each year so I find I don't get much joy in making Christmas cards.



The snowmen were printed directly on to an A6 card. The tree is a freebie from Kerry Steptoe (thank you Kerry) and cut from card and coloured with my limited collection of copics. There are some sparkly dots on the tree and it is topped with a bow. It is fixed with foam pads





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