Olivia The Sheep

Olivia starred in her school Nativity yesterday, as a sheep.

And didn't she do well!

I'm Back - Must Try Harder

It's time to get back to blogland, been neglecting it forever. Thought I'd start with a few cards from craftsuprint and designer Amanda Mcgee. Her latest trend is long DL word cards which are fab. This first one is a pretty lilacy pink one with angels and poinsettias. I added a metal charm to the letter A, a bargain pack of 6 for £1 from the Works.

Next another lovely pastel card with snowmen decorating the word Noel. Added flower cup sequins to this one.

A lovely card for children, who believe that snowmen are real, (well aren't they?) Amanda named it "I'm sure I saw him move".

This is a more grown up card. Very sophisticated on black mirri card, and I've embellished the "o" with a pearl topped pin and organza ribbon.

This is absolutely gorgeous in shades of purple, Santa flies over a snowy landscape. Lots of glitter on this one including the purple glitter background card, part of a pack I bought from good old Woolies way back when.

Finally another for the children. Little elves pop out of parcels in very bright colours. This time I embellished with punched funky foam snowflakes and some ribbon knots.

Graduation Day!!

Graduation day for 4yr olds?!!

Pretty in Pink Creative Cottage Challenge 14

This week's challenge at The Creative Cottage is Going Pink, so thought this would fit the bill.
A gorgeous summer flower wreath in a pyramid style decoupage. Would make a lovely wedding card, but on this occasion it is an Anniversry card made to order.


                                                      
 Challenge 14- The Creative Cottage Challenge

Anniversary Cards

A few of the Anniversary cards I've made recently.

First a card made from a sheet of decoupage from Craft Creations, with paper flowers and crystal sprays added. I first made this as Mum's Mother's Day card last year.
Another decoupage design from Craft Creations is this one with 2 mice drinking Champagne.

The others are from my favourite place craftsuprint.

A beautiful floral image in blue, lemon and cream.

Pretty design with swans and pink roses.

A gorgeous vintage image in shades of gold, silver and cream.

And a doyley effect pyramage in purple and yellow.

More Craftsuprint Cards

Have been making more craftsuprint cards, this time from the lovely designer Janet Briggs.This first one is an easel card with a little footballer.  Was delighted to see that Janet chose this as her card of the week on her gallery.

Next is a little card featuring a duck in a pretty garden. Janet has used artwork from nitwitcollections,

another of my favourite download sites. Caption on this card

"Does my bum look big in this?"

Finally another easel card with these very pretty bunnies, absolutely love the colours on this design.

All in shades of coffee, peach and plum. I added some gold to accent.

Cornish Wedding

Had an interesting request for a Cornish wedding card. After much pondering this is what I came up with.
First an A5 card with some coastal photos as the background and a beautiful topper bought from gingersnapz at ebay.Finished off with some Cornish tartan ribbon.

Secondly this one, a picture of a tin mine with a bride in the foreground. Also finished with some tartan ribbon. The bride was a download purchased from craftsuprint.

Craftsuprint Cards

Have been sadly neglecting my blog again. Anyway, have been very busy joining in with the promotion over at craftsuprint. Rob Jackson is giving everyone the chance to make a bit of pocket money from the cards you make using downloads bought from the site.

I instantly fell in love with these beautiful hand fans and bought several different ones. This one with a rose bouquet on it screamed wedding to me. So added a 3d bride and some lace paper.

This one I thought was quite oriental. I used some oriental style paper on a black pearl

background and added a little kimono.

Next an orange Hibiscus, which I just put on to a gold card

and added some black lace. Would make an unusual Golden Wedding card.

Also on the subject of Golden wedding cards, I made a few to choose from for a request I received.

Again a download from http://www.craftsuprint.com/ , this was simply added to a white card base to which some gold mirri board was matted. Then the step by step was layered on top.

Finally an unusual fan shaped card.

Another very simple card to make. Again a download, printed on to card, and a tassle added for effect.

New Challenge Blog

A new challenge blog is starting over at the creative cottage. The Challenge will start on Wednesday 10th March.

In the meantime the team are giving away candy, 4 fab kits, in

order to spread the word.

I already own the "Bags of Style" kit and have made some fantastic cards

from it, all of which fly out the door as soon as they are finished!

Recent cards.

First an order I received for a 1yr old boy. Decided to use Winnie and friends, a number 1 and his name.

Also been trying to get some Mother's day cards made up.

Couldn't resist these Forever Friends images, though haven't made them specifically for Mother's day.

Also can't resist the Art Deco ladies that are everywhere.

This one is very pretty and pink.

Again not specific to Mother's day. Lovely pink and lilac pansies.

The big 50!

Well my birthday's been and gone and the big 50 that I have dreaded has caught up with me. The day it self (a fortnight ago) was spent at home, with family visiting throughout the day. My house has resembled a flower shop ever since. Above is a beautiful bouquet from hubby, cream roses and cream and burgundy carnations. Then Olivia and Molly arrived with their gifts.Olivia gave the pink and white bouquet and Molly gave the pot of daffodils. Then a couple of days after my b'day I was sent this beautiful bunch of roses,
from my sister-in-law and brother-in-law.
The following day, another bunch of mixed carnations and red roses.

This time from Dad and Doreen.
Today they all surprised me with a family party at Lanhydrck Golf Club.
All had a good time, wasn't expecting to see all of them today, especially as I haven't been too well this week. Some bug has laid me low for several days.
Anyway yet another bunch of flowers from my brother and family!

Anyone would think I like my flowers!

Snow

Today at last there seems to be a thaw in the air, though snow is forecast again later on. Hopefully they've got it wrong. This is the front garden at the end of last week. About 3" of snow, and solid with ice.

And this is the view of the drive.

January Order

My next project was a card for a 2nd birthday, for a little boy who likes trains.

Luckily QVC had a TSV straight after Christmas which fitted the brief to a tee.

Another Patchwork Pals kit which included train scenes.
Firstly this card is A4 with a train pulling into a station with a carriage full of children and their toys.
The carriage opens up to look inside.

Next a little train waiting at the station.

Finally,a train steaming through a bridge, which also has a backside view.

New Year Cards

Straight after Christmas I had an order for 10 new year cards, another new venture. The brief was fireworks, snowmen, and snow. Had to search for fireworks and found these on craftsuprint.


The little snowman is a freebie image from cuddlybuddly, coloured with my new promarkers.

The skating snowmen also from cuddlybuddly, 2 Dufex images and another download from craftsuprint.

Big Cards for Ladies

At last here's the big cards I made for ladies. Firstly a beatiful card from Kanban in black, silver and fuschia.

This next one I am not so keen on. I covered the card with gold linen, printed "merry christmas" from Cute Companions and added a Forever Friends image.

Finally I used some gorgeous downloads fron nitwit collections. A background of snowflakes and a little bear peeping through a frame.