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)

Week 12 of CASE-ing Christmas

Evening all it's time for my latest card for CASE-ing Christmas. I loved the turquoise colour used on Pat's DT card and along with a circular topper that was my inspiration, come and see:

The topper was one that I made ages ago in an SU extravaganza day and it has plenty of bling appeal! I added a strip of turquoise card as a central panel and using a quickie glue pen and some WOW glitter added some interest to the edges. The sentiment is an SU one embossed in silver and is in place of the bow.

This is Pat's DT card that I cased:

Last Saturday was Lara's SiL's birthday and this is the card I made for her, the photo is not good but it didn't matter what I did I couldn't get it looking as nice as IRL!!

The papers are from a Prima pad and the flower was cut with a Sue Wilson die and the foliage from an SU punch. I could not get rid of the pink tinge!!

This is a card for a friend who has just had her 2nd knee replacement and I used Tonic dies to create it.

I hope to be back later in the week with my LIM card:)

Easter cards

Morning all wow, 2 posts in 2 days! I needed to make a card for Less is More and this weeks challenge is as follows:

Would you believe it's 

One Layer Week

once again!

For the subject of your card this week, we would like you to 

INCLUDE AN ANIMAL!

I made two cards using the freebie stamps from Creative Stamping magazine incorporating masking and colouring.

Gorgeous spring day here today, let's hope it continues :)

A wreath for Christmas

Hi everyone I've just popped in to post my card for this weeks CASE-ing Christmas challenge and the card we have to case is from DT Anita, come and see:

                            

I chose the wreath as my focal point and kept it simple with just a green and white colour theme:

The wreath and sentiment were freebies from Creative Stamping magazine and the mat and frame are Tonic dies.

One of Charlie's birthday presents was a beautiful wooden London bus and he was trying to use his Peppa Pig figures in it which don't bend so I thought I'd make him some! So off to The Range to buy some pipe cleaners and wooden beads and using some felt and wool this is the outcome :)

I don't think I will be setting up a cottage industry!!