Extra special birthday cards

I've had a really productive morning so far. I've completely finished two birthday cards for my Grandma, one from my parents and one from my brother and I. I think they're two of my favourite cards! And they just sort of happened, without loads of time thinking about what to use or planning a design. Sometimes I think cards that are made this way are the best. Anyway, here is how they turned out:

I feel so proud of these haha! My parents love them and I know my Grandma will just adore them. You can't really tell in these photos, but the Grandma card has "generations of love" and "hugs and kisses" written on it, and on the Mam card it has the definition of 'cherish'.

I love it when I have a lot of nice things to use that match so well! It makes life much easier =)

xx

Christmas Craft Fair!

I spent today over at Emmanuel College with my Mam running my Purrfect Papercraft stall. It was nice spending the day with my Mam and I got loads of sales. 2 of the girls from teacher training came over with family and friends especially to see me, I felt so honored!

I've been waiting ages for this stall ( I was actually very lucky to get a stall, it's such a popular fair) and it was really worth the wait. We took it in turns to go around and look at the other stalls, there was loads of great things for sale and lucky for me there weren't many other stalls with cards. It was a great day x

Craft-a-thon

I was on a roll yesterday! I'd left my craft table out and decided the night before last to get up and spend as much time as possible making cards and anything else that took my fancy. And boy, did I get crafty! I decided to throw in the towel at 6pm when I was stiff from sitting and had a big mess to clean!! I made 12 of my small cards and one large card. I used up a lot of pieces I'd had hanging around and I felt great =)

I had a lot of fun putting these together and felt so proud when I looked across and saw them all standing on the desk looking all colourful and nice =) Planning on another day like yesterday in the VERY near future!

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Saturday = crafty day

After lunch I decided to get my craft stuff out since I haven't made anything in ages! I knew I wanted to make a couple of cards with my Dovecraft "Tea House" goodies and then just generally mess about a bit. For some reason I seemed to be struggling with ideas (maybe because I'm tired?) so only made 1 additional card. I have discovered I need more practice with stamps though, so that's something I will work on next time =)

Tea themed card

Cupcake themed card

And a cute little lamb card made with my Kanban stamps.

As well as realising I need more stamping practice, I realised something about brads and my crop-a-dile = You can only punch so far into the card! I had to pierce the card with a pair of scissors so now it looks a little messy on the inside =( Hey, it's a learning curve!!

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Craft time =)

Yesterday I got all my craft stuff out and set to making some bookmarks and cards. When my parents were away I spent FAR too much time on Ebay looking at crafty things to purchase and looking for new ideas to try out. I bought heaps of charms and little phone charm straps (and didn't really spend a lot of money - chuffed!) and decided to use them instead of, or even as well as, the ribbon on my bookmarks. I'll attach them to cards as well as I love cards with wee charms on. So, here are the fruits of my labour;

A thank you card with one of my newest stamps

A cute giraffe card with another new stamp I couldn't resist from Hobbycraft. (Bought the paper a few weeks ago on Ebay - perfect match!!)

And a "hugs n fishes" card I made with some stamps I received with Papercraft magazine!

Handbag bookmarks with little handbag charms attached.

A custom made, 2-sided bookmark with a little teapot charm, made for one of my Mam's friends

A little woodland bookmark with an Owl charm

And another custom order for my Mam's best friend. This also has an owl on it!

What do you think? It felt good to have a bit of a creative streak again =)

Christening boxed card

Today I went to a Christening in Seaham with my parents and it was great. The weather was really hot and sunny and baby Ollie was SO cute! My Mam asked me to make an extra special card and this was the result;

The parents loved it, so I am delighted =) Aww I love babies! xx

NEW BLOG!!!!

Hey everyone!!

I have been thinking about this for a long time, and have finally decided to merge my personal blog with this business blog right here on Blogger! I love Livejournal and have been using it since March 2009!! I feel quite sad to be leaving it, but I need to be making these changes in order for my blog to grow, and also my wee business, Purrfect Papercraft.

SO .... From here on in you will be able to find me over on my brand new blog RIGHT HERE! I will leave my other blogs open so they can be linked back to, and to ensure my few readers know exactly where to find me =)

It's been a blast, but I am really excited to be starting my new adventure!! (Hopefully it will be much easier just updating one blog for everything, rather than 2 separate blogs!!)

xx

******* EDIT *******

After a year of having my personal and business blogs combined I have come up against a barrier and so have decided to reactivate my Purrfect Papercraft blog and keep all of my crafty ventures here :) I have just sat and updated my blog so the last thing to do was to edit this entry to keep everyone up to date. Happy days! :)

Baby baby

In preparation for the fair I thought it would be a good idea to make some "New Baby" cards. I bought some cute embellishments a while back in the sale at Hobbycraft and thought it was high time I got them out and used them!

These cards are the smaller A5 size and they cost £1.50. They feature some of the Hobbycraft embellishments. (I love that gingham paper!)




These cards are the larger cards that cost £2.50. I bought these kitty toppers in a pack from Ebay. I just knew I had to but them! theyre great because they covered a host of occasions. I backed them onto patterned paper and then again onto white card. I made the bows myself.



As you can see they're all wrapped in their cello bags ready for the stall =) This next card was a custom order. One of my Mam's bosses has just had a little girl, and everyone put in for a collection for her. So this card isn't a new baby card as such, more like a gift card that she can keep forever.

(Sorry about the pretty appalling light!)

xx