Vintage Wedding Card

Boxed Card

 Here is a beautiful 6x6 inch boxed wedding card.  I used KaiserCraft - These Days paper pad, I inked the edges with Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo and used the Tim Holtz distress tool too. Stitched around the edges with my sewing machine (this machine sees alot more paper and lace than it sees material)!!  I used a Hero Arts swirl stamp and embossed with silver WOW! embossing powder for the background and added some pearls on the ends of the swirls. I added lace, pearls, cheesecloth and feathers to build it up. I then cut out some white card with Stampin Up! Framelits labels collection, Inked again with Ranger Vintage Photo and used my black gel pen to add faux stitching, I sprayed the labels with Rangers Perfect Pearls Mists - Heirloom Gold.  I found a fab Vintage Bird on Graphics Fairy and fussy cut it out, inked it also and sprayed with the Perfect Pearls and added stickles to the neck of the bird and on the rose. Added the ribbon and twine with tags and some stickles.  On the box I added a metal leaf attached to the ribbon. On the box I used Versamark Ink to stamp some hearts from the Potpourri Stampin Up! stamps. I put some Stampn Up! heat n stick on and then added glitter. Took some photos and packed it up nice n snug to be posted!! Please Mr. Postie be gentle with it!! :D

The Journey........

Life is a journey with all its ups and downs for us all.  This card I made this week was for a special friend who has helped me lots recently.  She seems to know what to say and when to say it, I just hope I can be half as good as her when someone needs me......or else I can point them in the right direction!!

Journey of Life!

Add bling to your Journey - makes life a bit more sparkly!! :)

These are her favourite colours and thats her age on the tag!! Ha ha...  Hope your week is going well, thanks for stopping by. Xx

Don't Go!! Missing Ye Already...............

We are very sad that our lovely friends are leaving to set up home way away across the water..........how could they do this to us!! Well we had some tricks up our sleeves - didn't we girls.  We thought if we threw them this fabulous party they would just see how much we all love them and they just wouldn't have the heart to leave us all behind. Did it work..................

The 8x8 inch card for our friends

A close up of the card I made for them.

We will miss them but we hope that all will work out for them in their new home.  Here is the wonderful cake the Brownie Lady made aka Veronica!! 

My very first CAKE Banner!!

Some handmade flowers with glitter as Bev is fond of her sparkles!!

Veronica's amazing CAKE!!

Love is in the air................

Well it was a very "Happy Anniversary" recently to a wonderful couple.  So I decided to get one of their wedding pics and make a card with memories to surprise them in the post!! I was told they were thrilled with it, so job done!  Here's some pics of the card hope you like it too. :)

Hippos................

Good morning all, the sun is shining here cheering us up a bit, but the weather forecast is keeping it real for us!! More storms on the way, so enjoy the sun while you can, I suppose that depends on where you are!! Whats it like where you are?

Here's a project I did a while ago for a good friend of mine.  Can you guess her favourite animal I wonder?? I thought of it as it had yellow like Sunshine and the happy dance I was doing this morning when I saw the sun. Its a Journal I made her as a little gift when she came to visit. I wonder how she is getting on with it, maybe she'll let us know!! Here it is gift wrapped.....

Gift Wrapped!!

And here it is unwrapped!! :)

Sarah's Journal

Of course her favourite animal is a Hippo, I totally forgot I told you with the heading!!  Hope your having a good day. TTFN xx

I have some pre-made Journals for sale if you'd like to take a look, I'm uploading photos as we speak to the Shop tab at the top, thanks for stopping by!! ;)

Ski in..........Ski out!!

Well the brownies are well and truly gone and I've been to Italy and back since I blogged last!! Hope your all coping with the lovely weather we've been having here - we have floods all around!!

We had a lovely meal out for our Anniversary to McCleary's Restaurant in Waterford, they really look after you there - food was delicious!! My husband made me a card and you know what I LOVE IT!! He's so funny! Tell me what ye think yerselves.

Aw he really does love me after all these years!! I gave him his card when we went out for our meal and he stood it up on a ledge by our table, ha ha.......reminded me of Mr. Bean on his birthday!!

Strooby Baby

See......I've been way too busy to Blog!  Hee hee

Working from home...........

Hey all, happy Thursday............working from home has its perks but as I was just saying to a friend its nice to get out of the house sometimes! Its a happy day for me (doin me happy dance here) as I have finally got the end of year accounts done for our business. My happy dance is not long lived as I see that accounts have to start again for 2014...........WHY Oh WHY?? ............... Well just because, thats life and thats how I can keep crafting! Heh heh.   Lots of pics for you today.

Here is some of that crafty craftiness in a Box Frame I did a short while ago..........

Working out what goodies I'm going to use.

Ribbons, paper and mount.

Paper cut to size and inked.  Adding lace and ribbon.

More ribbon and crinkle ribbon embellished with a metal leaf.

Close up of my work so far!

Working on the centre piece.

Placing everything to see how it looks!

Looking good glue it down!!

Piece Framed

Framed piece with printed card to match!! All finished. :)

you are truly amazing

CFC85
Round of Applause- CAS cards that celebrates an accomplishment, and feature at least one circle.

 A simple black and white card with a dash of colour, some washi tape, gems and of course a Circle!! Plenty of circles on the washi tape anyway.  Hopefully you'll find this "truly amazing"!! Lol

I'm submitting this card into CFC85 CAS-ual Fridays challenge this week.  Check it out below.

 CAS-ual Fridays 
   

I've been making up some Diaries!!!

This diary was a special request from Crossfit Waterford - it had to be rough n tough and very manly - I hope it lives up to that!! I made the silver choppy waves with silver embossing powder and did a few layers and stamped in it and cut it out. Some colouring with copic markers and glossy accents on the Viking Logo to make it stand out. I was really happy with how it turned out. :)

Happy Anniversary