Snowed In!!

With all the lovely snow we had on Friday I got snowed in and couldn't go to work. Well what a shame!

Obviously I had to find something to occupy my time so out came the bits and bobs box and made a few cards to put away for the emergency birthdays etc. 

This one I made using a butterfly background stamped onto a patterned paper. I then cut a border strip from a different paper and glued to the edge. The butterflies were printed from a Chocolate Baroque cd and glittered. Then I put some lovely beads down the centres for the bodies.  I have left a plain strip across the centre ready to place a sentiment when I need the card.

The Blue Butterfly is made using the same products as the green and orange above

This is a brayered background on clarity coated card. I used the mountain meadow big & juicy ink pad. The main stamps are from Lavinia stamp and the smaller trees foreground stamps are from Chocolate Baroque. 

It is a fairly simple card but looks quite effective and once again I can add a sentiment of my choice at a later date depending on the recipient and the occassion. 

 

Unfortunately I had to make a get well card for one of my ladies at work and found this lovely image of a sunflower that I had stored in my box after borrowing a friends stamp.  It is quite a large image and this is mounted onto an 8" x 8" card as we had a lot of people who wanted to write a short message. 

The centre of the ribbon is an old clip on earring with the back cut off and I think it works very well.

 

Hot tip - scavenge any old jewellery and cut up as it works very well, its unique and doesn't cost much.

The Wedding Card

 It started with a box !!!  I found and old box that had been used as a gift box for cosmetics and thought that it looked ' Interesting '!!!  I loved the colours and thought that it would make a lovely vintage wedding card.

I found a beautiful background paper from the K & Co Classic paper pad which I decided went very well. 

Out came the new magestic square nesties as they were a recent purchase and just had to be played with, and a floral bouquet stamp from Chocolate baroque Pretty Posies A4 stamp plate. 

I decided to decoupage the bouquet to add some depth to the card. The border was made using a tonic studio punch.  To age the card I used tea dye distress ink pad and added some lovely heart embellishments which I only had in ivory but managed to colour using pro markers. 

The insert was made by printing a verse from a cd and co-ordinated using the same paper as on the front 

Well about time I posted - what a busy busy year I have just had - mainly due to daughters wedding on Dec 16th 2012. I have been tied up with all the usual bits and pieces involved with wedding planning. Invites, flowers, cake etc. Thought I really should get to grips with blog now and therefore have made myself a new years resolution to post at least once a week from now on. Fingers crossed it works out. I have lots of crafty works to post so have decided that little and often is the way to go! Thought I should start with the wedding invites.
After much messing about with ideas these are the final version. My daughter Sarah helped with stamping and embossing. The main stamp used is a flourish from a small set from papermania. The wording was done on the computer and then cut using a nestibility die.

Of course we had to make a batch lol!!

Then there were the favours and what else could we make at christmas but crackers!!!! Well they were wedding crackers really!!!

We made the blanks with the houghie board and added some lovely ribbon and raffia.

Then there was the table plan

We found some lovely serviettes for the background and a small heart stamp which we embossed in white on red card. Each table was die cut using nesties again and then hot glued with the glue gun. A small decorative button was used to add some interest.

Then the really big one - the cake!!!

Having got the cake decorated and balanced !!!! We then had to take it apart and transport it 120 miles up the motorway to the venue. Crossing fingers that it would a) survive the journey and b) not fall over once it was assembled.
On the day it was placed in situ by the hotel and we could breathe a hugh sigh of relief.
I must admit that when I saw it assembled and where it was I was a touch pleased with my efforts!!!!

And finally a picture of my beautiful daughter Sarah and her new husband Aaron