Son's Birthday

Good afternoon on this sunny but cold Monday. Hope you are all well. 

The card I have to show you today is one that I made for my oldest son who turned 33 last week!! For the card I used Hunkydory kit from the Gentleman's Journey range. I used 'He shoots, he scores'. The greeting was from their book of sentiments.

Thanks for reading

Cally

2 More Cards from Linda's Workshop

I have 2 cards to show you today, both were made at Linda's workshop back in November. Both were made again using 'Lovely as a tree'.

The first card is a simple but effective male card. A bit of matting and layering, patterned backing paper, some ribbon and a button.  The tree was stamped in 2 different colours. 

We made the background on this card bit for the life of me I can't remember how we did it..opps! I know we used ink and a mask. However we did it it was a lovely effect :-) 

Makes a nice simple card. The tree was stamped over the background and a sentiment added.

Thanks for reading

Cally

Workshop Card from Linda's last Class

The card I have to show you today is one that was made at Linda's workshop last November. We made a couple which I will post over the next couple of days but I never got round to posting them.

This card was done using the Lovely as a Tree stamp set from Stampin Up and then heat embossing it. Now me and heat embossing do not always get along so please don't look too closely. I do like the white on the dark blue though.

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Thanks for reading

Cally

A Birthday Card

I did have a little time this morning up in my craft room as I was suffering withdrawals and I also had to make a couple of cards for family that I didn't have in my stock. Watch this space for them.

The card that I have to show you today is one that I made for a friend of mine from her husband. The image is from a hunkydory little book.

Thanks for reading

Cally

Another Catch up!!

Ok so today is 4th February and I am sitting here wondering where the time has gone since Christmas!! 

Last time I blogged I was on my way to the States for 17 nights. Well I got there and the first 4 days were fab all bar cold - yest it was 2 degrees one day!!! In Florida!!!! We arrived on the Tuesday but by the Saturday I started to feel not right, achy and a tickle cough, but Monday I had a full blown cough cold and felt decidedly crap. That's how I continues to feel and for the first time in the 11 years that I have been going there I just wanted to come home!. We arrived home on 19th Jan and it's only been in the last couple of days that I have been feeling better and my cough has gone.

Because of this I have done no crafting at all this year, I couldn't even go to the 3 workshops that I had planned for January. It doesn't look like I will be doing much over the next few weeks as I have to empty my craft room as hubby needs to sort the floor out as I have a hole in it. This will give me a chance to sort out my craft stuff and get rid of what I don't need/use anymore.

I do have some crafty bits to share with you though and the first bit is a frame that I made for my Nephew and niece for their new baby girl who was born in September ( 3 weeks early).  (The tag gives her date & time of birth together with her weight. 

This is piece was for my brother in law and sister in law for Christmas. The wooden heart was covered in backing paper and then added buttons, sequins and ribbon and twine to make a bow.

Thanks for reading 

Cally

Handmade Pressies

Well when you read this I will be up the airport waiting for my plane to take me to the States so have scheduled this.

This year for christmas I decided to try something new for pressies. I had seen a lot of scrabble frames on Pintrest and decided to have a go myself and here is what I made. 

Top 2 frames are 8 x 8 inches squares. 

This one was a 12 x 12 inch square frame for my mother in law to include all her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and their partners.

Think I may be making more :-) 

Thanks for reading

 Cally

Commissioned Christmas Card

First of all I would like to wish you all a very new year and hope 2018 will bring health, wealth and happiness to you all.

The card I have to show you today is a commissioned card I have done for a friend of mine whose wife is also a crafter and a good friend. 

For the card I have used an image from the Twiggy & Toots festive fun cd. I designed this in craftartist and then I decoupaged the owl and the holly leaves.

Thanks for reading

Cally