85th Birthday Card

What sort of card do you make for an 85 year old man????? Struggled with this one, then thought, he still loves a good party, still manages to enjoy a little drink, in fact he's famous for his G & T's, 3 parts gin to 1 part tonic! Both my aunt and uncle (whose birthday it is) are still full of fun and manage to get out to party. In fact they have better social life than I do, something wrong there I think. He'll see the fun and irony this card. The image is from Artchix Studio

Great Workshop at Crafty Individuals

Went to a Crafty Individuals Workshop yesterday and made this absolutely fabby memory frame. I adore it and had a brilliant day with all the lovely ladies. Jane is so laid back and she had put out sooooo many goodies and embellishments out for us all to try, I was spoilt for choice. Can't wait for her next worksop, thanks Jean had a fantastic day.

Craft Den is going to stock all the goodies we used, so contact Lynne for more info.

Beeswax

Had to make an anniversary card today, so thought I'd have a go with beeswax.....here's the result.

It's the first time I've used beeswax and I'm not sure whether I've done it properly. It doesn't show up very well on this photo, looks better in the flesh so to speak. The background is distress inks, stamped with various text and T!m Holtz stamps, made the flower out of card and coloured with distress inks, stamp over with text. I stamped 'congratulations' onto the ribbon before attaching it to the card.

Paper Artsy meets Copics....again.....

Just loved these fantastic stamps from Paper Artsy and Lynne at Craft Den asked me if I could do something with them and here's the result. My husband very kindly designed and cut out of greyboard the house shapes, and for once the air wasn't blue when he was doing something! I used Crowns & Castles and Bricks & Mortar stamps, their new set of papers and coloured in with Copics (still practising!) all available from Craft Den. I used some of the Ten Second Studio metal and tools to make some of the roofs and key which I got from LB Crafts, again still practicing, but have booked to go on their weekend in October, getting so excited and still months to go - how ever will I cope until October. I also put in an acetate page and decorated it with some flowers cut out from the papers and black flowers from my stash. Used plenty of Glossy Accents, Crackle Accents and dew drops.

Congratulations Dr Briggs

My daughter-in-law, Donna, works as a GP in Grantham and has just gained an MSc, with distinction, in Sports and Exercise Injury Medicine. We are all extremely proud of her because she has been studying for this in her spare time whilst having to deal with Lupus. The only downside to this is that my son, David, who is also a GP, has decided that he can't have his wife having more qualifications than him, so he starting an MA in September. As you have probably gathered they are very competitive! So much time is spent studying after working long hours that we don't get to see them as much as we would like.

Here is the card I have made for her.

Happy birthday Lynne

It was Lynne's birthday yesterday and the group of us that meet on a Wednesday night arranged to have a surprise meal and drink with her to celebrate and she had no idea. She received some beautiful cards (see them on her blog here). Here was the one I made for her, if you read her blog you will see that mine is totally different from everyone else, I think I'm on a different planet to the rest of the lovely ladies, everyone made such beautiful cards, they are all very talented. We had a brill night in the pub, but once back at our scrap crop (although we don't scrapbook), things went down hill very quickly. No one seemed to know what they were doing, everyone talking and laughing together, not to worry a good time was had by all...why? Because we got to eat cake, yeah.

Congratulations

A friend of mine, Sandy Poppins, husband has just graduated with an MA so I made this card for him and wish him every success in the future. Various elements on it, distress inks, alcohol inks (just for Mo) stamping, distressing, crackle paint, sewing and I made the 'tickets' (attached with the new T!m fastner which I love) from a set of stamps I bought at the Stamp Magic Show in Doncaster on Sunday and a ticket punch I must have had for at least 3 years and never used. In fact I think it was one of the first punches I ever bought. People who know me know that I just have to have everything, so goes to show, everything comes in useful eventually! I just love them, so now everyone will be getting a card with them on.