What a lovely weekend, nice meal out with friends on Friday night, a friend and her 2 children came to visit on Saturday and Sunday afternoon relaxing and making cards.

I love the craftwork cards range of paper, i think its a beautiful range.

I used the pink and white spotty paper to back the card and distressed the white edges of card with Tim Holtz spun sugar distress ink

I used my dotty embossing folder on some plain white card and distressed the dots and edges with the same distress ink

Using Nikki's technique with the ribbon, i used the strands of ribbon over the embossed card and attached the sentiment

I made a flower out of the same pink dotty paper and attached some pink card candy

Oh i do like pink

Enjoy

Shel,x

happy birthday sophie

Tia had a party today, so decided to make the birthday card last week.

I used the Forever Friends Pink Parfait paper, i think this pack of paper is going to be really useful for making cards for little girls

I'm quite happy with the finished effect, i took it into work and got asked to make another one exactly the same for them to give a little girl

Enjoy

Shel,x

craft club

tonight at craft club, we had packs from the craftwork card range, i do like these papers, very girly.

I made 2 cards tonight and I'm very happy with both of them



Lovely evening tonight as always and enjoyed the huge slab of cake as well

Enjoy

Shel,x

birdsong

I love this range of papers

I covered the card with the birdsong paper  and using the big shot machine cut a scalloped circle out.

using the birdsong filigree paper, i found a section i liked and placed it on the back of the cut out circle, then placed a happy birthday sentiment on some contrasting paper

Very plain and simple but i love this card

Enjoy

Shel,x

Well, i spent all of yesterday afternoon crafting, Tia was at her dads so no disruptions or calls of 'can you help me' or 'can i try that'

I had been looking on the docrafts web site for ideas and thought i would try out this technique (i think it was called teabag folding)

The backing flowered paper came free with a magazine and i used the same paper for the tea bag folding

I decided to try the flower that Nicki demonstrated at the demonstration day, so using my new toy i cut 6 of the scalloped circles and distressed them with spun sugar

the ribbon and card were from my collection of things

I'm quite pleased with the finished effect although the bow would have looked better in a slightly different colour and wider ribbon

Enjoy

Shel,x

Another attempt at a birthday card for my aunties birthday as i wasn't happy with the last attempt.

I love this V&A Hanoverian range, its so me.

Using my Christmas present (big shot machine), i cut a scalloped circle in the V&A Hanoverian range of paper to back the happy birthday sentiment and placed a bow of brown ribbon behind it for extra effect after seen it done by Nicki at Crafty Bunch demonstration day

I had seen many of Carries card with flowers on that i liked, so asked how she did them, she told m to use crackles accent, how come mine don't look the same as hrs then, obviously not doing the right thing, i think i need to speak to you again Carrie, but i do quite like the finished effect.

I do like the finished effect of this card, fairly plain and simple, just how i like them, how my Aunty likes it too, I'm sure she will

Enjoy

Shel,x

Quilling

Happy New Year to all

I needed to make a birthday card  but for a very special aunty and wanted to try out a few different techniques

It started with some iris folding using V&A hanoverian papers

I then decided i should have a play with my new toy that i had for Christmas, i had some x cut quilling dies so decided to make some flowers using the same paper

The flowers were much harder to do than i thought they would be but I'm quite happy with the end result

I like both techniques but not sure they both go together on the same card but i really enjoyed trying both

Enjoy

Shel x