Clearing the decks part 2

This was lurking on my desk last Wednesday but I hadn't wuite finished it.  It's for a friend's stepdaughter who is 6 and likes pink and pink and PINK!

This took me very much out of mcomfort zone but I hope it will be ok

I have one more notepad order to do for her older sister and then I think I'll put them away for a while.  Ithink I may have had enough!

I've got some catching up to do.....

I've been awol!  I was planning a 2 week break from my beloved paper and dst and therefore a 2 week break from the blog but my eyes have consprired against me so I've been unable to see well enough to do much ever since I started my holiday.  Still, I've made the best  of it and decided to carry on making the cards - that's my excuse for some of the distinctly odd placing on some of them.  I'll post all my makes over the next couple of days but here's the start........

This is the super stash I received from Cazarol this aftrnoon (my postie doesn't do mornings!) from the crafty place September stash swap.  It's a very gereous swap and I set to it immediately, making the following card using one of the pieces of 6x6 Carol sent me.  The die cut was from a goodie bag I purchased at the Harrogate papercraft extravaganza.  More on that in the next couple of days.  I used my brand new promarkers to colour the clasp of the bag to make it stand out from the rest of the bag.  I'm very happy with my new pens but "& son" is sulking because I've told him they're off bounds for him. - poor boy!

I've also made this little covered notebok today for the little girl my Mum sponsors in an orphanage in India - 50% of the money I get from the cards I sell at work goes to the orphanage.

Kitty Catrin is nearly 1!

Doesn't time fly - seems like only yesterday that she was pregnant but my best friends little girl is nearly 1. I'm travelling down to Cardiff over bank holiday weekend to attend her Christening and its her birthday the same weekend. I had planned to make 2 cards but I'm feeling a bit jaded and stressed so I've decided to make a birthday card and give her a shop bought Christening one. It's a cop out but I still have to make a card for "&son" before we go away on Friday and I only have 1 evening left to do that - I'm going to see U2 on Thursday!



So here it is.

Shiny card (what is the technical term for that? - its popped out of my head for a while!) and dark pink layer are off-cuts from smirk. Number 1 is cut from a 3 bugs in a rug paper. Card Candy from papercraft cards.
Have a vague idea what I'm going to fo for "&son" but it's not fully formed yet. I'm thinking pocket card.... but what to put in the pocket. hmmmmmm.......

Baby Girl Card

One for the box at work.

Main Paper from sweet inspirations pack - Papermania. Remainder left overs from stash. Embellishments from Paperchase.

Nearly belated........

Bimey 0 just when I thought I was getting on top of this card to-do list I realised that its one of my bestest friends Birthday tomorrow. Phew - I'd have been so cross with mysaelf if I'd missed it.

"&son" and I have spent a lovely evening in our nowhere near complete craft room having a chatter and a "make". Once again, I'm banned from posting his creation as he wants to do it himself. That boy is going to have a lot of blogging to do when he gets around to it.

Mines here - it's very bright and, rather unusually for me, I love it!

Papers are all by 3 bugs in a rug, paper flowers from Calico craft. Bling from poundland.

Glückwünsche!

My sis called me from Germany this lunchtime to tell me that her interview was a success and she'll be starting a new job teaching over there next January.

She's back home tomoz so I had to get work quickly on a congratulations card. She'll have to get going learning German so I thought I'd give her a head start. My german is v limited - I only remember 2 songs from my German gcse! One about having an auntie in Morocco and one about about the hat with corners. Had to go to google translate to find the German word for 'congratulations' .

~Edit - just realised I'd forgotten the umlauts (sp?) - they're on now.

The flowery paper is one of my faves - I only have half a sheet left now (sob!). ITs from Cosmo Cricket's jitterbug range.

Help! I've gone all girly!

2 girly cards in one night. Thanks again to OAP's stash swap, I seem to have got a bit carried away with the pink.

The first card is my entry to the MSE 'sketch challenge' - thanks Flourgirl!.

I've used some pearlescent pink paper and paper lace from OAP's stash and some of the Crate Paper that I nought from 3 Jolly crafters in their Bank Holiday sale. I've never used crate paper before but am very impressed with the quality. The floral paper is called 'Rain'. The dotty one 'cloud' They're both from the blue hill collection - wish I'd bought more!

The second card is similar to the fathers day one I made but I though I'd try and see whether it worked hinged the other way - and it does. This one's going to go in the craft box at work.

Mum's on the Mend

Mum's out of hospital.

They kept her in overnight because they were worried because she couldn't remember anyhing about her fall - she fell of a wall in the garden - about 3ft tall - cut her head open and cracked some ribs.

I couldn't visit her as the hospital has a rule that no children are allowed on the wards- I can see their point in some ways but really what's a single Mum to do when she needs to visit someone!

This is the 'Get Well' card that I made for her in lieu of a visit. I made it using stash from the Crafty place stash swap - Thanks Toni!

You can't really tell but its decoupage - I love the card blank - its pearlescent pink.

More Birthday cards

Made a few more cards for the box at work from scraps of paper I had hanging around. The black and pink one was made using a DCWV card blank I bought when they were on special offer a while back, a little tag with a brad and a strip from some 3 bugs in a rug paper I bought during my Easter weekend stash splurge.

I literally made the other 2 from scraps of paper and they should look like birthday cakes. I made the pink one first and then had a go at the second to see if I could make it work with more masculine colours. I think I nearly did it but it will have to do!

Engagement Card using glass templates. Thanks Marg!

I posted an engagement card that I made for a work colleague a few weeks ago - well this is the card I was planning to make but just couldn't find a champagne glass template anywhere.

Marg from the MSE forum very kindly sent me some word art style images (now why didn't I think of that - genius!) and I used one of them as a template.

I doing to place it in the card box at work. I wanted to make it though as a thanks to Marg and because I never like to let a card beat me!

Craft Den Crop April 09

Whilst the cats away..........

Tom's off on holiday and has left me behind so I made the most of it and booked myself into a crop at the Craft Den.

It's the fist time I've been to a crop of any kind so I was a little nervous but Lynne and the girls made me feel very welcome and I learned lots of new skills and came away brimming with ideas and lusting after several items in Lynne's lovely shop.

We did 3 layouts on the day. I'm very pleased with all of them - they're way out of my league!

The first was browns and pinks - very girly but I loved it!

The second is so elegant. I used one of my fave pics of my grandparents and Mum.

The final one was very bright! With flowers and ribbons. I was convinced that one wasn't for me but I think it worked well in the end. Not too girly for a picture of my boy after all


Needless to say I've already booked in for the next one. Can't wait.......