Anniversary Wishes.

It's our wedding anniversary today

and this is the card I made for The Doc.

The digi is from Bugaboo  and is called

'Make it Snappy - Congratulations.'

As soon as Isaw it I knew I had to get it 

for The Doc's card.

Remember the good old days when a camera had film

in it which  you had to take all the photos on and 

then send away to be developed?

The doc had a mate who when ever he offered to take a photo

would inevitably cut the heads off the people in the snap shot.

Course you wouldn't find this out till long after the event when the 

film cam back  from being developed!

I thought this image would bring back happy memories.

Needless to say we had a professional photographer

for our WeddingDay!! 

I have chosen to make another Easel card

mainly because it won't then  fall off the shelf it will be standing on!

Image is coloured with Promarkers and 

Pearlescent chalks.

Sentiment is a black plastic peel off and yes the 3 dots

were part of the sticker. I peeled them off and stuck them

down using a lot of  choice vocabulary and tip of a pin!

Side view of the easel section.

The black plastic  peel off edging on the placard holding 

the easel in place I decided to ADD after I had stuck everything 

else down. will I ever learn!! 

And no I won't be telling you what the GP stands for either.

Curiosity killed the cat you know!

The doc and I will be going out to a very nice 

Fish Restaurant later  for lunch.

We went there last year only to find it was closed on Thursdays

so  hoping being as it is a Friday this yr we will be in luck.

Cheers.

Butterfly Ephemera

We have another challenge for you

this week at Crafting From The Heart.

The sponsor this time is

Lunagirl

I was over the moon (excuse the pun)

when I saw the selection of images we had been given 

to choose from.

I was in Butterfly Paradise!!

I was flying by the seat of my pants 

to get this card made in time and literally

anything that was not already glued down 

on my desk went onto the card.

The backing paper was a sheet of Prima Botancial Collection

still lying on my desk from another project.

The base card was coloured round the edges 

using Forest Green distress ink.

I trimmed the images down  and distressed 

the edges with Vintage Photo and then distressed

further with  my distressing gadget.

(darn clever these little gadgets are too).

I then layered these up and added bits and bobs of

lace, string,ribbon, rope, button and an odd

Fly Sticker Butterfly that I trimmed down.

As always the challenge is Anything Goes. 

Please pop over and see what my

Team mates have created just for you.

You have a week to enter and we would be

delighted to see you. 

In Memory of Julie

I thought long and hard 

about whether to post this card 

as it cannot now be for the intended occasion

but I have  decided to do so as a tribute to our 

lovely friend and Godmother to Fluff

who sadly lost her life to Motor Neuron Disease on

18th July 2015.

This was to have been Julie  and Brian's

40th Wedding Anniversary today and though

we had given the card to them early Julie never saw it.

A life so cruelly taken.

For you Julie.

XX

Best Buddie

As soon as I saw this 'Bugaboo' image 

I knew I had to get it.

This is so me and my best  blogging buddie  Miss Di.

I wanted to make and send a card to Di to say Thankyou 

 as she helped me through

some very dark moments a few weeks ago

 and was a cyber shoulder to cry on and cry buckets I did.

Card has been received so I can show. 

It is a twisted easel card. I love making these .

The image is called  'Make it Snappy - Friends'

which I have coloured with my promarkers 

and a gold gel  pen.

The design paper is by Sally Moret.

I had a little piece over which I was able to fussy cut

out some of the flowers to adhere to the front of the card.

I have layered up using pink and yellow cardstock.

The sentiments were printed off in word 

Of course we both had to be wearing pink 

as it is our favourite colour.

Summer Flip Flops.

It's  a new challenge over at my

#36 Butterflies + W is for Washi Tape.

My first thought was Washi Tape Flip Flops

as one does!

First  I needed to gather some stash together and 

this is just some of what I eventually used.

I drew a rough shape out  on paper until  I was happy 

that it resembled a flip flop base and then cut 

a left /right out from corrugated card

to give the appearance of a sole.

I stuck two strips of washi tape back to back on a sheet of paper

for the straps.

I embossed a sheet of white card with 

SU's Decorative dots folder to represent the base and

coloured with distressed ink to make them look worn.

I puched holes in the bases and threaded the 

washi  tape straps through and then 

decorated with embellishments in  my stash.

Butterflies were cut from a satin strip.

I also cut out  more white card to make the

bottoms and used distress ink to age.

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers #144 Anything but a card.

Fantastic Tuesday #96 Anything goes/make it feminine.

Tuesday Throwdown #255 Summer fun

Deep Ocean Challenge #109 Summer fun.

Fussy and Fancy #144 Things with wings.

All Sorts Challenge #321 Add a butterfly

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #187 Use up your snippets (cardboard, flowers)

Rhedd's Creative Spirit. A/goes altered art.

Recycle,Repurpose, Re-invent # Anyhing goes but must recycle. (corrugated card)

Natalie and Amy's Challenge #34 Summertime.

Lets Craft and Create #103 Butterflies or birds.

Let It Snow.

Time once again for the girls to show

their makes for the Christmas Card Club.

The theme this time set by Christine is

'Let It Snow'

Another delve into my used Christmas cards stack

produced this card front.

Loads of the white stuff on here.

To me this was just begging to be made  into a

Shaker Card.

At this point I should really tell you that me and

'Micro beads' do not get along!!

So,  many remakes later here is the card I made.

I used an EF by Crafts -Too called 'Spots' 

on a sheet of white card and then used my new 

Xcut Shape Cutter System  for

Rectangle and Square Tracks which

I found quite easy to use once I had mastered 

the technique of turning corners. 

I cut the card down to fit behind the frame

and used 3D oblong pads cut into strips to make 

the casing to contain the micro beads.

(Those little perishers have a mind of their own).

I used a piece of acetate for the window and pearls

from my stash.

The sentiment was cut from another card front.

A blank card base was covered in coloured card stock

to match the Fawn and the whole of the shaker element

was attached to the front.

Entering into the following challenges:

Rudolph Day # Make a Christmas related item.

Crafty Boots #Christmas in July.

Tuesday Throwdown #254 Christmas in July.

Scrap-Creations # Christmas in July.

Papertake Weekly # Build it up.

Penny's Paper-Crafty #237  Christmas in July.

Wags and Whiskers  #159 Recycle.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop. #187 Use up your snippets (acetate, Christmas card front).

Crafty Hazelnuts Extra # Anything goes Christmas.

Deep Ocean Challenge #108 Christmas in July.

Christmas In July

It has been total Mayhem in our house all week

Everybody has been roped into help!

True we did actually know we had this job

to do back in January but then only 3 were needed.

Now it's 6 eek!

I will let the photo's do most of the talking.

Sammy is in charge.

Right boys lets get started.

I have all the pieces worked out and written down.

Are you sure you've worked it all out correctly Sammy?

Yes.

My teacher says we have a bright one here.

(Erm I don't think there was a 'B' on the report I saw from school!!)

Careful Norm, those sissors are very sharp.

Right that's all the cutting out done.

Lets get started.

Ok. when I hit it

 you

 Sew like mad!!

1 Elf down

5 more to go.

In case your left wondering. 

The exact body parts needed for 6 elves was 144.

(ask me how I know!)

 After all that hard work, entering into the following challenges:

The Crafter's Cafe #126 Christmas in July.

Crimbo Cracker's #85 Something Cute.

Pile It On #78 Christmas /winter in July.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #186 Use up your snippets. (bits of fur fabric for the wigs.)

Live and Love Crafts #37 Christmas in July.

CreativeLadybirds Creations  #5 Anything goes.

2 Creative Chicks #28 Anything goes (no cards).