Birthday Card for Val

Good morning to all my lovely friends and great followers I hope you have all had a great week. Before I start my post I want to give a special welcome to my latest follower Annie thank you so much for joining my blog and  I hope you continue to enjoy my blog posts.
The card I'm posting today was one I made a little while ago its a 65th birthday card for my friend Val. She celebrated her birthday last Thursday. The card is a bit of a different colour scheme for me but I liked the finished result See what you think.

 

This is the matching box

 

 

 

Card Recipe

Blank 8x8 scalloped card from Craftwork Cards

Navy Card Tim Holtz

Die cut corners from ebay

Spellbinder Floral oval dies

Marianne die

Sentiment computer generated

Flowers WOC and  my stash.

The cream flat flowers are from The Hobby House at GNPE a while ago and the centres are coverd in pink seed beads

Viva pearl pen pink

Pink pearl string from my stash. I wish I could remember were I bought it as its very fine and I love it on cards.

White gesso on flowers

 

 

I cut the bottom floral oval die in half to extend it and make a bigger oval design a technique I saw on the Create and  Craft.

I spoke to my friend on her birthday an know she loved the card I was just relieved it arrived safely and not damaged.

 I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend. I've got some workmen here cleaning all our block paving so hope to do some shopping when they finish. I'm also doing appeals all next week so lots of reading still to do but I'm getting there.

Thank you all for the lovely comments you have left recently I really appreciate them especially on my first design post as its quite a big thing doing your first project. Enjoy whatever you have planned and I hope it involves some crafting If I get any time it will be wedding invites for me.

 

 



 

 

Anything But a Card

Good morning to all my lovely Friends and Followers. Also a very special welcome today to my new follower Jackie thank you for taking the time to follow my blog I hope you enjoy my posts.
 My post today is my first design team post for Crafting By Designs so a special welcome if you are visiting my blog for the first time from Crafting by Designs.
The Challenge this week is Anything But a Card. I'd bought a kraft card heart a while ago at the craft shop in Whitby North Yorkshire so decided to make use of it and make a wall hanging. I hope you all like it.

 

The second photo shows the side of the wall hanging which is not visible from the front and  the photo below shows it hanging on the wall.

 

 



 Wall Hanging Recipe

 

Heart shape from Whitby Crafts

Stamp Nellie Snellen Sweet Elin I won this in my lovely follower Mags Birthday Candy Draw.

Image painted with Distress inks

Sentiment stamp Indigo Blu

Papers Baskets and Bunnies Lili of The Valley

Spellbinder scalloped oval die

Lace, crochet flower and twine from my stash

Blue organza flower ribbon Boyes my local craft store

Flowers Wild Orchid Craft

Card Tim Holtz

Blue wooden hearts Whitby Crafts

Blue resin flower from the Mags Birthday Candy

I also used white gesso to prime the base of the heart before decorating it.

Tim Holtz paper distress tool used on the edges of the papers from Michaels Florida USA

 

 

I hope this inspires you to join in the challenge it can be fun to do something other than a card so why not give it a go and be in with the chance of winning some great prizes. This is the challenge badge and link. The Challenge runs from the 28th May for a week.

 

                                                               Crafting by Designs

Good luck if you do decide to enter and  even if you don't please pop over as the blog is well worth a look.
I'm entering this in Deep Ocean Challenge Wings
Deep Ocean Challenge





 







Wedding Day

Good evening all my lovely friends and followers and an especially warm welcome to my two new followers Kristie and  Jackie. Thanks so much for following my blog and I hope you continue to enjoy my blog posts.
My card today is another Wedding Card I made this as a commission for my friend to give to her Son and new Daughter in Law. She asked for silver and white so here it is.





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There is a matching box but for some reason I forgot to photograph it.

 

 Card Recipe

8x8 white card Craftwork cards

Silver Mirra card GNPE

Mr& Mrs Die from ebay

Marianne swirl and  leaf dies

Memory box bow and heart die

Heart punch do crafts

Sentiment computer generated

Lace and  gems from my stash

Roses WOC

Other Organza Flowers Boyes

White linen card from The Paper Man Washington

 

 

This card and my earlier Wedding Card were for the Wedding we went to at the weekend so cannot finish without a couple of photos. The first is my friend and  I we have been friends since we were 5 so just a couple of years !! she was the Groom's Mum and the second is the lovely Bride and  Groom. Kathey looked so beautiful it was such a pretty dress. These are just family photos I am certain the professional stuff will be amazing.

 

 



 

 

 

We had a fabulous weekend the venue was so special but its Wednesday and I'm sure I'm still recovering from the amount of Champagne I drank.

 I'm so sorry its been a week since I posted anything but I came back from the Wedding straight into doing appeals for the School Admissions so I've finally got round to posting. I've tried to keep up with all my followers and  friends blogs and there have been some fantastic posts recently .Thank you all so much for the amazing comments you all left on my Wedding Card post last week. I entered it in some challenges and got a Top 3 at Crafty Sentiment Designs so I was really pleased with that .

 

I hope you enjoy the rest of the week we have had great weather so hope it lasts till the weekend. Enjoy your crafting.

 



 



 

 

 

Wedding Card

Good afternoon  to all my lovely friends and  followers. I want to give a special welcome to my three new followers, Jim, Wendy and  Darnell I am delighted that you have decided to follow my blog and hope that you continue to enjoy my blog posts.

Before I show you my card I have some exciting news to share. A couple of weeks ago out of the blue I received and amazing email from Doris at Crafting by Designs asking me if I would like to join their design team. You will recall I did a Guest Designer spot for them in March but never in a million years did I expect anything like this to happen. I have accepted and will start my first projects later this month so watch this space. if you are interested in looking at the site this is the link Crafting by Designs

Now for my card I made this awhile ago as we are going to a posh wedding in London on Friday and  this is the card I've made to give to Dave and Kathey for their Wedding Day on Saturday.

 

 

This is the matching Box

 

Card and  Box Recipe

The stamp is LOTV Mr and  Mrs painted with Promarkers and Copic pens

Blue Card Tim Holtz

Papers LOTV Shabby Shack

Sentiment stamp Wedding Day LOTV others from my stash I think from a Docrafts very old set.

Spellbinder Floral ovals and circle dies

Lace from Dainty Crafts Washington

Pearl trim and  organza trim from my stash

Flowers Wild Orchid Craft, Boyes, and  the lace flower from Dainty at Washington

Heart Charm from Ross Paper craft Show

Tim Holtz paper distress tool.

 

I hope you enjoy this post I am looking forward to the Wedding we are staying at the wedding venue in Portman Square W1 a gentleman's club all sounds very grand. I've hired a fab fascinator and got a new posh frock so I'll post some photos next week.

 

Enjoy this rest of the week everyone and  hope you get to do lots of crafting I haven't got so much to post at present as I'm interspersing my own crafting with the wedding things. Thank you for all your fabulous comments on my last card they were so kind.

 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges The Ribbon Girl Lili Challenge Pearls, Crafty Sentiments Designs Flowers, Live and Love Crafts Challenge Collage Inspiration, Bunney Zoe's Challenge Flowers and Charms and Papertake Weekly Challenge Pastels.

 

 



 

 

 



 

 



A Special Birthday Card

Good afternoon to all my lovely friends and  followers. I've finally got round to posting something, had a bit of a week lots of appointments and  things going on. Before I start my post I want to give a big welcome to my latest follower Jim thank you for following my Blog and I hope that you continue to enjoy my posts.
My card today is more my usual style so really enjoyed making this one . The stamp is LOTV that I won last year in the Theme Thursday draw. The stamped strip across the centre is an inspiration I've taken from Becky Hetherington's Blog Attic Crafter. The link is in my Blog List if you want to take a look a great idea and  a fabulous Blog.

 

Card Recipe

7x7 card made from cutting down an 8x8 the image looked lost on the bigger card

Papers Timeless Victorian LOTV distressed with paper distress tool

White card Tim Holtz

Stitched with sewing machine and white topstitch thread

Spellbinder Floral Oval die

La La Land Banner die

Sentiments LOTV

LOTV stamp Cake Glorious Cake painted with distress Inks and  sprinkled with vintage white Frantage. The cake glorious cake sentiment comes with the stamp so excellent value.

Lace is from Dainty Crafts Washington

Organza flower ribbon and pearl trim from my stash

Flowers Wild Orchid Craft, Boyes and my stash.

Glamour Dust on wings and  cake

 

 

I'm plodding along with the Wedding Invites and doing OK currently deciding on the insert wording and font. I've still got loads to do but enjoying making them and they look lovely suppose I would say that !!. The ribbon I ordered arrived yesterday so now have all the materials for the Day Invites Evening Invites and Order of Service over 200 cards.

 

I hope you all enjoy what's left of the week and you all had a great bank holiday weekend. I'm at a governor conference tomorrow so that should be interesting.

I suppose I cannot end my post without mentioning my husbands football team Sunderland who have just saved themselves from relegation in great style. My husband is a life long supporter and goes to all the home matches so he is on cloud nine right now. Is this the time to ask him for the diamonds and designer bags !! The last match of the season is Sunday so a nice crafty afternoon for me.

Thank you to all of you who commented on my last post I had some great comments so lovely.

 

I'm entering this card in the following Challenges LOTV Fairies http://ideastoinspire.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenge.html Crafty Sentiments anything Goeshttp://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/ Whimsy Stamps Use Two Dies http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Topper Card

Good morning all my lovely friends and  followers I hope that you have had a good week . The week just seems to have flown and  I cannot believe that its May already although I have noticed that a lot of the web pages have Christmas stuff on them always a sign we are getting towards the middle of the year. Its so sad when we haven't even had our Summer hols yet!!. Never mind enough from me this is a card I've made as a sample for the lady who runs our craft group its quite a simple design as the group will make this at one of our meetings in June and we have very mixed abilities and some may choose to select a different topper. I used a Hobby House topper first time I've used one although I've had them ages and I'm  quite pleased at how quick they come together. Don't think I'll stop painting my images though but they do make a lovely quick card and  such cute images.

 

 

 

 Card Recipe

6x6 Blank card Craftwork Cards

Green Paper an old Docrafts pad

Embossed background A4 Dottie embossing folder

Spellbinder scalloped circles

Green Bazzill Swiss Dots Card

LOTV Sentiment Tags stamped in Brown Memento Ink

Ribbon and  gems form my stash

Image The Hobby House

Glamour dust on image

 

This is the first time I've used the LOTV sentiment tags they were out of stock for a while but managed to get them recently. I think they will be very useful lots of varied sentiments

 

 

Hope you all have a great bank holiday weekend I've not got a lot planned so hope to catch up on some crafting I have a couple of birthday cards to make and also I'll do some more work on the wedding invites .

 

Thank you all for the fabulous comments on my last post so kind of you all. Love Carole x