Anniversary Card

I'm back in the land of blogging after almost 12 months of truancy!

 

My friend Liz and her husband Alan were celebrating their 42nd Wedding Anniversary. I used this opportunity to get back into crafting. I used the Memory Box Dies called Grand Heart and La Rue Heart. I just had enough of the gold card left to cut a rectangle to use on the front of the card and the ornate heart topping. The greeting is computer generated and the surround to the card has a gold border of peel offs . 

 

 

I would like to join in the following challenges:

 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 247 - Used Snippets

 

HLS September Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

 

Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Anything Goes With Die Cuts

 

 

 

 

Frosty Fairies

I needed some general use notelets, so with my DH working all weekend, it was time to get crafting. I love using the ink duster brushes, so got out my stamps for a productive afternoon. The fairy stamps were bought for me for Christmas and I hadn't got round to using them - a good opportunity to 'christen' them.

When I look at this card, I feel quite cold! I must use warmer colour next time!

I would like to enter this card for the following challenge:

NBUS Challenge #6 ~ Day Nine!

 Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Create Your Own Background

Valentine's Day Cards

I belong to a ladies barbershop chorus. Funds are currently low and rather than increase our subscriptions we are fundraising. We are only a small chorus - only 20 members. I offered to make some Valentine's Day cards with the money going into chorus funds. A selection of the cards are below. I enjoyed using the flamingo die. By sheer luck, I found that if you put two facing each other, their heads and necks form a heart <3 . The greetings on these cards were computer generated.



 

 

      

 

 

   

 

The butterfly cards were an excellent way of using up lots of scraps :)

 

I would like to enter the butterfly card for the following challenge:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 217

 

AWOL :(

Five months to the day! Goodness, in some ways it seems much longer, in others much shorter. Five months ago I started coughing and became quite unwell. Initially, the Drs told me it was a clot on the lung, but no, it was pneumonia. Five long months of coughing, CT scans, Xrays, antibiotics and I'm still coughing, but thankfully much better than I was.

My mojo had sadly left me, but my daughter-in-law shared a rather lovely quote on her Facebook page. I knew I had to do something for her incorporating the quote. Baby is due today, but she is still safely tucked away. This is the quote she posted :

Below is the canvas I made for her. Anyone who knows me will understand the amount of effort that went into creating it. I do not do messy. Two pairs of gloves were required to paint the canvas.

September Celebrations

September is one of the busy months for me with friends and family celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries. Two friends are celebrating their anniversaries this month. After the Art Journaling Day, I was more than happy to go back to the clean and simple style I love. My husband calls it 'simple and effective'. I decided to try an all white card and embossed a piece of card to give it some texture. I used the Stampin' Up bird punch and used some small pearls for eyes. I used foam pads to give the bird components lift. The greeting is computer generated.

 

To see the card the recipient made for her husband, click on the link below.

Wedding Anniversary Pop-Up Box Card

 

The second card is for a friend of the family. I thought I would add a splash of colour to the card and added a red heart.

 

I would like to enter this card for the following challenge:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 194

Art Journaling

Saturday, saw me Art Journaling for the first time. This technique is so far out of my comfort zone.

I arrived ready to start with two pairs of gloves. The day began and I found myself struggling to cope with the technique. I had so many words of encouragement and so much support from friends I completed the day and had three pieces of art journaling to show for it. My attempts are pictured below.

 

 

I'm so pleased I completed the pieces of work but I know Art Journaling is not for me.

Notelets

I have lots of strips of card left over from the stationery I made. I've been wondering what I could do with it, and then it occurred to me! I needed 24 thank you cards ~ problem solved :)

I trimmed the card so it measured 4"x8" and folded it in half. Using my ink dusters I used Adirondack Meadow to colour the bottom of the card and Adirondack Sunshine Yellow to colour the top of the card. I stamped the sunflower using Versafine Onyx.

All the notelets are now written and ready for the recipients. (The card below isn't creased, it's the shadow from my camera).

 

I would like to enter the notelets for the following challenge

 

Penny Black and more August challenge - Summer Flowers        

               Retro Rubber Challenge 22 - Anything goes