Thank you

A good crafting friend of mine sent me a RAK which arrived in the post yesterday....a huge envelope full of crafting bits and bobs. I had such fun opening it and going through all the goodies inside, it was like having a birthday!!!!!!!

I decided it warrented a 'thank you' card, so I used some of the bits she sent to make the card, together with two flowery flourishes I bought recently which I inked in green and orange (Tim Holtz distress inks) then used the orange ink pad to colour round the edges to tie it all together. I added some gold paper to mount the image on.

My son's cake

It was my baby's birthday last month (he was 30!!) as he is still single I thought I should make him a cake....not brilliant at 'special' cakes so looked through a cutting I had years ago (from which I made my grand daughter's cat cake) and came up with an elephant!!! I was meant to use one of those posh fan wafers you have with ice cream for the ear but as I only needed one I made an ear out from concertina-ing some gold coloured paper.

Ok not brilliant, but the thought was there ha ha ha

Cute Card

I've been a bit naughty here, but I recently took part in a 'card swap' where you made three cards to swap. I received some wonderful cards back which are a true inspiration to wake up my own creativity, and I have used the idea from one card to make one of my own. It's not quite as good as the one I received, but it is something quite different for me to make.

Lady's cards

I used some Penny Black stamps to do these cards, it's such a cute image and the wording is nice too.

Men's cards

Well what a month June is for cards, lots of birthdays and anniversaries both family, friends and forum friends, so as Saturday was a washout because of the weather it was a good excuse to tuck myself in my little room and get crafting.

I bought this Clarity stamp at the Farnborough Craft Show in January (or was it February this year?) and it has recently been demonstrated on Ideal World, so I decided to try it for the Men's cards I needed for this month.

I used my brayer to do the background, a mask to do the moon, another stamp with black ink for the foliage, and inked and brayered the fisherman, then rolled the brayer onto the background to get the image, and used the actual stamp to do the reflection. I feel quite chuffed with myself that the brayering was actually successful.

(I used a gloss card to brayer and found it worked so much better that ordinary card which I haven't had much success with on previous attempts)

I heat embossed some foliage and Happy Birthday in black ink on the main card just to finish it off

The bride

Last week we went along to my Sister in Law's wedding. We had a great time, and the sun shone all day on the happy couple. The venue was formerly a farm, and the meal was served in the pig stys!!!!! (all clean of course) which was great fun, then there was barn dancing..... in the barn of all places, ha ha ha. Of course we had to join in but boy I did suffer the next day with a few aches and pains from bits of me that haven't been skipping etc for quite a little while.

Anyway I thought you might like to see a couple of pics of the bride....the colour scheme of sage green was very subtle, and the 'flowers' were made from hessian leaves, sage green and white feathers and some jewels on wires threaded through, very unusual and very pretty.