Back with a vengeance......

Hi everyone, well it's been nearly a month since I last blogged but we've been on a couple of "jollies"!
We had 3 lovely days with Charlie and Co in the IOW which included things mainly to do with transport!! The steam train journeys were a delight and we had a fabulous day at Robin Hill country park where there was a tractor train and lots of large wooden diggers etc to play on.

We were back a few days and then we headed off to Brixham to stay with some old friends which was slightly more restful than the IOW but definitely more alcoholic!!! Lovely weather, fab food and too much wine!

Lunch overlooking Brixham harbour and a visit to Sharpham Vineyard

                                

 Catching up with old friends.

Back to crafting and this is a frame that I made for my friends daughter Maya. I couldn't get a good pic because of the reflection. I created the centre in craft artist and decoupaged the flowers and added a couple of flourishes. The elephants are a tattered lace die.

I have 2 friends with birthdays this week and here they are:

I've had 2 more commisions for pop up box cards one obviously for a lady and the other for a 13 year old boy mad on guitars and rock bands!

Finally Charlie is moving into a new bedroom and has requested signs for his wall including one of our local buses! I think more may be in the pipeline :0)

I hope to make a card for Less is More this week as it's Chrissie's birthday and I will be back with a wedding card and more birthday cards.

Hello........

Hi everyone, sorry to have been missing for a while but it's been a bit busy and then there was CRETE!!! Lovely restful holiday in a beautiful villa with good food, wine and a fabulous view!



I have been crafting since I got back as July and August are very busy birthday wise! Too add to it my DH has decided to insulate my craft room and re configure it.It is basically the cupboard under our front steps (victorian town house ) and can be cold in the winter and hot in the summer. The amount of craft stuff that came out of a space 7' x 3' is amazing.I am now crafting on the end of my dining table and we have utilised old bookcases that we were chucking out to hold some of the stuff!

oh dear!

behind sitting room door!

Dining room/ craft room stuffed to the gills!

                                                      Back to my latest cards:

                      This is for my friends daughter who has just given birth to baby Maya

We had a great college reunion on Saturday to celebrate the retirement of the most amazing reprographics man, Eddie. It was great to see so many old friends and colleagues from the last 25 years! I made this card in craft artist using a photo of Eddie and added a little decoupage.

Another craft artist card for a betting man!

Another male card using SU Wetlands stamp and SU Hardwood stamp

Finally a flower pot card for my friend Angela in Brixham with whom we are going to stay in a couple of weeks

Once again sorry for my lack of commenting, we are off to Portsmouth and the IOW with Charlie and co tomorrow and hope this lovely weather continues!

Fun with Charlie and a few more cards........

Hi everyone well it's been a quiet weekend finishing a couple more commisions and recovering from Charlie! He came last Saturday and went home Thursday morning and we had such fun! Riding on London buses and the highlight being a trip to the London Transport museum and a ride on the underground. He was so full of the buses that he'd driven that he struggled to get to sleep that evening clutching his model tube train! The journey to Covent Garden was spent with him pretending to drive the train much to the amusement of the rest of the passengers, check out my photos:

We are having a few days in the IOW with him next month when we get back from Crete.

Now to my cards.....

this was a birthday card for my friend's daughter, Eleanor, a mix of dies, stamps and punches.

This was a new home card for Eleanor as well which I created with Craft Artist

using a photo of her new home.

The following are all commisions:

Thanks to Loli for the inspiration for the card below!

Picture heavy again but no more crafting for a while as I need to get ready for our trip to Crete in a weeks time,can't wait :0) 

Up cycling....

Evening all, just a quick post to show you what I've been busy with this week, along with three more commissions.
We've had the builders in recently and have changed the use of two rooms and the new decor of the spare bedroom did not suit the orange pine furniture that we had so.........

                    Before

After

DIY knob holder!

I've also completed the bed, shoe cabinet and mirrors.

I used Annie Sloan paint which covers brilliantly and I've still got a quarter of my original 1 litre tin left! 

Finally I created a scrapbook page of Charlie that I'm going to frame:

Hopefully I'll have some cards to show you soon :0)

Birthdays galore!! Picture heavy........

Hi everyone sorry for not being around for a couple of weeks I don't know where the time goes! I've got a few cards to show you as there have been so many birthdays lately. The most important was my sister, Karen's, which was on the bank holiday weekend and we went down to Somerset to celebrate. The card I made her was a CASE of one that she had put a tutorial for on her blog, come and see:

Next on my list was a tealight card for my friend Mandy who had a special big birthday!

Mandy had commisioned me to make two pop up cards for her daughter and her friend and these are they!

It had also been my hairdresser, Tracey's 40th, and here is her card:

The last birthday was my great nephew,Oliver, and he works part time for Apple whilst at University and I thought this was appropriate!

Finally a very good friend, Mike, has had a major op for a very rare type of cancer and his wife asked me to make a card with a particular sentiment as she hadn't been able to find anything suitable and here it is, created on Craft Artist:

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and this card was from me

We spent a couple of days in Portsmouth and had a fab day at Stansted House with Charlie on bank holiday Monday which was a beautiful day:

Hope you managed to stay awake until the end! 

Time flies.......

Hi everyone, wow I can't believe how the weeks fly by! I have been crafting but can't show you everything as the birthdays haven't happened yet :o)
I was lucky to achieve Santa Supreme with my last card for CASing Christmas but haven't managed to make one this week. We had a lovely weekend in Bristol catching up with some old friends who we haven't seen for about 18 years!! Fabulous food and too much wine! It was Carol's birthday while we were down there and this is the card I made for her:

The same day it was my nephews 50th and his wife asked me to make a pop up card

 with family photos and hobbies and this is it:

There were a lot of photos and Paula found it difficult to choose her favourites so I made a mini album with the rest, come and see:

Finally a small acceptance card for a wedding invitation, only 2 to go to this year!

We have the builders back with us so chaos reigns again for a couple of weeks but at least the weather is lovely!

Apologies if I haven't commented on your posts but I always check them out, I've had a  couple of commisions with fairly short notice and it's been a bit hectic :o)

Easter catch up

Hi everyone I hope you all had a lovely Easter and didn't over indulge! I had a busy week leading up to the weekend with front row seats at our local theatre on Tuesday to see Pasha from Strictly which was amazing! It was a present for my friend Jean for her birthday and we had a nice meal beforehand. The next day Jean and I went to see Made in Dagenham, brilliant, followed by a fab Japanese meal and Thursday caught up with friends over a very nice Indian meal!!
Charlie had a great weekend the highlight being a ride on a big red bus,upstairs in the front seat! He was amazed that it talked and repeated all the stops :o)

I've been busy making some special birthday cards that can't be shown yet and I was sorry to miss last week's CASE-ing Christmas challenge! I needed to put that right and so here is this weeks card that I cased from DT Rocky's card:

I chose to go with the bauble and red. I used SU Christmas baubles stamp and punch and some glitter paste through a flourish stencil. Rocky's card is below, fabulous eh?

No choir for another couple of weeks so my Wednesday evenings are free, more time to catch up with friends :o) 

It's the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking fair this weekend at Ally Pally so I may just have to go along for a little look! Anyone else going it would be nice to catch up!

Hope you're all enjoying this fab spring weather, long may it continue :o)