Valentine's Cards

Well I was away skiing for Valentine's Day but had been asked to make a crad for a friend for her BF.
I made this on the CR.

Its hard to see (because its such a bad photo) but its kind of 3d. The front of the card folds back onto itself and the hearts kind of pop out of it IYKWIM. The red bit on the left hand side is fabric from an old book of samples I got in a shop while I was shopping for curtain material. The 3 hearts have Truly Madly Deeply stamped onto them (from a Heidi Swapp roller stamp)

This is the one I did for my BF. A bit of a quick one really since I only realised I'd be away for Valentine's Day the day before we left and so i had to make one in a bit of a hurry to bring with me.

I like the way it turned out, its kind of rustic or natural or something.

Anyway TFL, Jan

Really Bad Blogger

Ok so i've been a terrible blogger. After all the Christmas cards i made i was kind of allergic to crafting for a while. Did get a few bits done mostly cards though, which were done under pressure and i don't think i photographed any. They were just about done in time to give to people, never mind showing them here. The last few weeks since I've gone back to work have been hectic too.

Christmas went really well, if not too fast. I got a CraftRobo from my BF and his family and i have to say I love it. Still haven't explored half of the drawing/design capability but I'm getting there thanks to the wonderful girls on UKS


Last week the camogie club had a dinner dance/awards ceremony. It was really only an awards night for the U-16's since the Senior team didn't win anything. Anyway, there was a bit of running around done in the lead up to that.

I got an award for Senior Personality of the Year which I was really thrilled with. I did put a lot of effort into the club and training this year and it was really nice that i was noticed and recognised in this way.

I'm also trying to do my room up at the moment. I've picked cream and pine furniture like here. I'm after choosing very plain duck-egg blue/turquoise colour curtains with a subtle pattern and i'm hoping to get some nice bed-clothes in that kind of colour too. A lot of my spare evenings have been spent looking around fabric and carpet shops. I had lookled in loads of fabric shops and had decided on the fabric for the curtains but when i was looking for a carpet I came across another fabric that Iliked better so I changed my mind (I'm very indecisive) SO i'm now driven made looking for a carpet. I was thinking of trying to get something to match the curtains but then I'd be really tied to that colour scheme, then Mum suggested a cream colour but i'm afraid it would be a)to bland with the cream furniture and b)I'd have it ruined within a week because its such a plae colour. Any suggestions on a postcard please!!!My Dad is now trying to get me to pick a colour for the walls which i haven't even begun to think about ARGGGHHHH! I'm beginning to wish I'd just left it as it was.

Ok so I know i said this blog would just be for my crafting stuff but I just thought I'd fill you in so you'd know I do have an excuse for not blogging.

So back to the crafting

Here's a LO I did recently enough using BG Mellow. Its of my dog Minor.
Just this week I made a card for a woman I work with. Her niece won a state science fair in California and she wanted a card that had something to do with that in it. I cut out the California shape and LAcey on my CraftRobo and i design the science flask type things on it and cut them too. I have to say I was happy with how it turned out and thanks to the girls on CraftSupplies for their great ideas which really helped.

Oh and here's a wedding card I did over Christmas

I actually cut up the wedding invite for the gold (there was a spare page at the back of it) and the black was lovely velvet card that was from our Christmas crackers, and the beads too. So it was an almost completely recycled card.

Oh and Dad got a Canon EOS400D as a retirement present in November and as part of the package there was a free training course which I went on today because he didn't think he'd follow it. He sent me in the hopes that I would and now he has no reason to know how to use the camera he'll just have to ask me everytime he wants to take a photo LOL. In fairness to him though he is starting a photography night class soon and hopefully it'll be a good one or else i'd say we'll come to blows over him asking me the same thing over and over and me not showing him properly or going too fast.

So anyway that's really it for now. Hope to be back soon,

TFL, Jan

Craft Fair

So the craft fair was this weeken, both Saturday and Sunday. It went really well. In the end i brought about 180 cards i'd say (around 130 christmas ones) and i only had 50 left. Was thrilled to bits.
Thanks a million to Tigger for popping in to say hello too.
Jan

Santa's Little Extra Helper no 5: Baubles, Bells & Bows

I've had these baubles done for a while. I punched out circles, drew designs with and embossing pen and embossing them with silver EP. I was lacking inspiration with what to do with them though. This weeks DCM Little Extra gave me the push i needed to do something with them and here's what I did.

TFL, Jan

Christmas Cards

Well I've been busy busy busy making Christmas cards. Have done about 70 so far. here are soem of the designs I've come up with. I'm going for quick and easy but still with a handmade look iykwim. Anyway. There's no greetings or sentiments or anything on any of them. It's really obvious on some, but what i'm hoping is to semi-personalise them at the craft fair. I'm going to print out loads of greeting (To a Special Friend, To a wonderful Aunt etc etc) and put them on as people buy the cards. If anyone does buy them...

The dove in this is mounted on to silver cardstock where it looks kind of black.

And here is my DCM card for this weeks challenge 'Golden Highlights'

So this week I'd like you to make a card for any season or occasion but must include gold somewhere. It could be a brad, metallic card, heat embossing, ribbon, anything at all as long as it's gold

TFL, Jan.

DCM Corrugated Card Challenge

This weeks DCM challenge is ...


My dare this week is to use some corrugated card on your card - it could be corrugated craft card or an old box etc. taken to pieces :) You could make the card blank from it or die cut shapes etc...

So here's what I did. Nothing too fancy as i'm trying to make in bulk for a Christmas fair i'm doing soon. Made about 10 of these.
As per usual pic is terrible - I had to scan it coz i don't know where my camera is. The trees and stars around the edge are sequin type thingies.

Well again it's been a bit of a while since my last post.
I've been to NY, and while I didn't get to vist Michael's i had ordered a lot of stuff from the internet and it was waiting for me when I arrived to the hotel.

So here's some pics of my new stash

Alphabets etc.

Stamps

Cuttlebug dies, embossing folders and punches

Inks and embossing powders

Lots of flowers

Some more stamps, MM paints, Rub ons, Tin for altering, buttons.

Brads and eyelets

Ribbon

AMM Tote-Ally Cool 2

Paper packs

So i suppose i probably didn't need to go to Michael's at all.

I've been busy making Christmas cards too recently. I'm hoping to do a Christmas Fair, but TBH I'm a bit nervous about it. Anyway I'll post pics of teh cards shortly (hopefully)

TFL, Jan