Making cards for a Craft Exhibition!

Hi Everyone hope you’re enjoying whatever you’re doing this weekend.  A little glimpse of sunshine would help to lift our spirits here in the UK.  My Mum cant remember rain like we've had the last few weeka in her whole lifetime and she’s 91!  The local area has been flooded out the last two days with power failures and disrupted roads and trains.  We're lucky to live in the UK though!  Lets hope the sun comes out for the Olympic Games.
I’ve been having counselling and support from an organisation called Impact, in Wellington, which provides  support to the families and friends of addicts.  There have been times where I don’t think I’d have got through without them to talk to.  To show my appreciation I decided to have a table at the local Arts and Crafts Fair on the 28th July.  Any money raised will be donated to them.  I have grand ideas one minute then a mental block the next!!!!  I'm paying for the table so I hope I sell a few!
Here’s some of the cards I’ve been working on this week, using stamps from Art Journey and Aspects of Design, machine sewing and wire flowers from rejected watercolour paintings.  I also have some small watercolour paintings which I’ve mounted onto cards. I've made three or four of each design, each slightly different so they're all one off's.

I’m hoping to do some altered art dolls and birds and some Affirmation books and Art Journals too.

Ahhh I only have 2 weeks to fit it all in!!  Wish me luck folks.

New Year - New Start! Simon Saya and Happy Daze Challenges!

Hi everyone well I've spent NY with a 3 day migraine!!
It started well with some card making and journal pages then the pain struck. Ugh. Nothing to do but take the pills and wait it out. I managed a couple of short sessions blog hopping but this is my first real session.
Here's my youngest DGD Daisy on Christmas Eve. You can see the excitement building can't you.

It's Daisy's 8th Birthday next week and I made her birthday card plus a little book to write a story in.  I'm entering them for the Simon Says challenge to use something new and the Happy Daze Challenge which also want something new used.

She loves writing stories about fairies and about horses. I've bought her lots of crafting goodies for her birthday too which I hope she'll enjoy using.

The papers and matching embellies are from a range by Papermania which I picked up in the craft sale last week.
I will probably be doing some crafting with her the next time I go so at least I know she'll have some supplies to use.

Hope you like them and thank you for looking. xx

Been making cards!

Here's a preview of some of the cards I've made with the Papermania Christmas Pack this year. Each year my Mom sends a card with £5 in it, to all her Great Grand Children (19 altogether) and I make the cards for her. I've made 18 so far!! The ages of the GGC range from 15mths - 16 yrs so I have to do a variety.

I've also been making tags and tag cards which I've posted on my other Blog Mixing Media.  I would love a visit and your comments on my work over there too.

I'm helping out in Shropshire, 'til the weekend looking after my DGD Daisy for my hard working DD & DSIL.  Daisy's been busy making her Mum's Christmas Present with me, which I can't reveal yet but it came to me while helping her, what my favourite thing about December is.

 Now I can't wait to get home and scrap about it for the December challenge at Once Upon A Sketch.  Thanks for looking and any sweet words you want to share.  I do love and appreciate them all. xx

Mom's 90th Card

We've had such a busy week this week culminating with Mom's actual birthday yesterday. We had the big party on Saturday which I'm going to scrap some photos of eventually.

I can finally post the card I made in such a rush in the end. Had a mental block for a few days as I wanted to do a special card but ended up with paper,paints,stamps etc covering my table and a bin full of rejects. I had to settle on this one which she said was lovely but I think it's not very good at all.

I used a wooden block fuschia stamp and rollered my brayer over my rainbow stamp pad and lightly rolled it onto the stamp. I used this faint image as my background on a 8x8 scalloped edge card in the top r/h corner. I then cleaned the stamp and applied the stamp to the rainbow pad making sure the leaves were blue/green and the flowers red/yellow. I stamped onto spare card 3 times using my watercolour brush pen to pull colour from the edges into the images, then dried cut these out. I arranged them overlapping the background using foam d/s tape. I had some papermania fairy stamps too and stamped them with the same pad, cut them out and arranged. Oh I nearly forgot the little stars and dust addedto some of them too. I used my broderie anglais punch to cut a bordered strip and stuck the papermania paper ribbon in the centre. The lettering was from my Christmas diecuts and a stamp from an Art Journey set.

Hope you like it and thank you so much for looking and leaving me a your comments. I love having others opinions and then I can go look at your blogs too.xx

Art Journey Challenge 5# 2011

This is No 1.
Hi all this is the card I made with art journey stamps that I should have uploaded before. zzzzzzz Are you still with me?? lol

I used the background and image stamps and my versamark pad to stamp onto white card. After dusting with leaf green embossing powder and setting with my heat gun, I sprayed the background card only with copper shimmer spray, blotting fairly quickly to retain the pattern. I stamped the text "joy" onto the background then stamped the text "you make life sweet" along one edge. I cropped the stamped image and mounted onto a square of the background after rounding the corners and inking the edges with an illuminations pad in copper. I cut a strip of beige card and taped chiffon ribbon in the centre then mounted this onto green patterned and then onto beige papers as shown inking the edges too. After adding the stamped image on top I made a beaded pin which I placed above the image then added small brads in copper to the four corners of the beige card. I made 2 more cards in a similar fashion but I used photo corners on photo 2 instead of brads. I'll post these separately.

Hope you enjoy looking and I'm entering No 1 for the Art Journey challenge no 5#.