Thursday, 10 June 2010

And yet another anniversary card

Another anniversary card made for my sister and brother in law. I'm in a bit of a pink mood at the moment... don'y know why as I don't normally do pink!
The card is a 5x7 plain whicte card. The backing papers were from my stash.. I have run the pink papers through the cuttlebug using the heart embossing folder. The papers were edged using Martha Stewart punch which I purchased in the States along with 1 or 2 others..
The rose paper was from the Forever Friends kit that I have used previously. The greeting was printed on the lap top and then cut using a nestie. I have them just added some pink pearl gems and a flower..

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Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Another Anniversary...

Here is another card that I made this afternoon. It's an anniversary card for my niece.
It's another Forever Friends image which has been decoupaged. I have stamped the greeting staright onto the image. The card stock is a pre embossed card. I have just added some pearls.


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Anniversary card for a friend

I made this card for my oldest friend's 1st wedding anniversary which is on Friday.
The card is an A5 card. The papers and the decoupage image was from a Forever Friends kit that I bought.
The image is decoupaged and placed on a nestie (wish I had cuttlebugged the nesties mount first but never mind). The backing papers are from the kit.
The greeting was printed from the laptop and then cut with a nestie and put through the cuttlebug using the swiss dots folder. I have then added some coloured pearls.

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Sunday, 6 June 2010

Ghostbuster or not.....

A bit of a story.... now those of you that know me, know that hubby is a police inspector for the BTP and his office is up at Brighton Railway Station. The building where he works is very old as is the Railway Station and people have often joked about there being a ghost in the office. One of the officers was doing a late shift in the office and saw the ghost and to say it put the wind up him is is an understatement. As you can imagine, all the other officers ribbed him, although the majority of them are scared as well! They named the ghost 'Geoff' and is now a constant conversation topic.

Well the office in question is now leaving for another job (not due to Geoff!!) and my hubby and friend asked me to design a card on the ghost theme! I decided I would go the Ghostbuster route. I googled GhostBusters and came up with the costume they wore and I interchanged the head of the model with Ahmet's (the office leaving) and printed this directly onto the card. I then downloded a ghosty font and used that to say 'Sorry you are leaving'. The font is RMGhost4. I then added a couple of ghostbuster emblems. The result is as follows.


I then wanted to come up with a little ditty for the inside of the card. I wanted to include Geoff. Not being a poet or very good at this, this is what I came up with. Not bad I thought. For those of you that can't read it it says ' Without you the in the office, it will be quiet and bare, And poor old Geoff will have no one to scare'

I do hope that he likes it!!!

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Fantastic Blog Candy....

.... over on Toni's blog . Lots of papers, embellishments, a couple of stamping sets and lots more..
Ends 4th July so pop over and have a look..
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Saturday, 5 June 2010

Some new cards-

All the following cards have been made from backing papers and images which came from Creative Cardmaking Magazine. I saw the images on the front cover and knew I had to have them and make the cards. The images are all from Debbie Moore.
The card below is a DL card. All I have done is added gems and sparkles glitter. The image has been placed using 3d foam to give it a raised appearance, as has the greeting.

The card below is a gatefold card. The image and greeting have been matted onto black card. I have added gems and sparkles glitter.


The card below is an A5 card. apart from gems and sparkles I have added daisy flower punches with gem centers. The image again is placed on 3d foam pads to raise it up.


This was mt first easel card. The card size is A5. I have added black card to mount the panels, black gems and flowers cut from a punch with gem centers. Black spotty dotty ribbon has also been added.

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Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Well what a funny few days....

Well what a funny few days I have had. Hubby had a long weekend off - Friday to Sunday, but was ill over that time. Started off feeling very achy and with a headache, we thought it was exhaustion and maybe a touch of flu... on Saturday I went and got him some over the counter medication and gave this to him which he reacted to badly and we had a awful Saturday night with him.
Sunday he seemed a little better when he stopped taking the medication and went back to good old paracetomol. Monday he was feeling bad again, really tired, achy, headache, so off to bed he was sent... now those of you that don't know me should know that I don't do illness. I hate being ill and I have no sympathy with any one that is ill either. You should just get on with it...Bless him I just abut had enough Monday evening and I was a bit hormonal too so I shouted at him and then immediately burst into tears. he had another bad night Monday night so I made an emergency doctors appointment for him as we are dur to go on holiday on Thursday. The doctor was very thourough and asked lots of questions. The outcome... he had a chest infection... (he had no cough !!). Doctor gave him antibiotics and advised against flying... (not bloody likely - been waiting for this holiday too long!) We went and got him his antibiotics and got him started on them as soon as possible.
By Tuesday evening he was feeling a lot better. Horray!!!!
Today Wednesday we have taken our cases up to Gatwick.. booked them in and we are all ready to fly off tomorrow to Florida.... that is as long as the dust cloud stays away...
Well I'm going now.. will update you all of my holiday when I return on 21st May.

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