Mrs. & Mrs!

Today my friend from teacher training Louise got married to her fiancee Kelly! I am currently getting ready to go to the Reception but thought I would quickly stop by and share with you the card I have made for them. Their wedding theme is vintage with lace, cream and dusty pink so I tried my best to make a card that would match.

What do you think? I bought the dresses from Ebay but everything else I already had in my stash :) I had an idea of how it wanted to turn out and I think this exceeds my own expectations! The butterflies definitely finish it off, it looked a bit plain without them. I hope the girls like it! Well, I'd better finish getting ready and have something to eat. See you later!! x

My Latest Designs

I have made good use of some of my time off and finally got my crafting table back out. It felt so good :) I got out all of my goodies that I haven't really used yet and set to work. I made quite a few cards and am planning another craft-a-thon in the next few days.

First, I used my 'Woodland Folk' papers and brads and I used a sentiment from a Popcorn the Bear stamp set. Then I moved onto my 'Bazoo' papers and flower embellishments. I wanted to match them up with my Kanban zoo animals stamps, I think I will do that on my next craft day! Finally I got out my rather plentiful supply of Tea House papers, stickers, brads and embellishments. I absolutely love this range! I've been keeping it for best which seems a bit silly now. Last but not least, I bought some toppers from Hobbycraft a while ago as they realy caught my eye and best of all - they were on offer!! This is such a sweet range. I used a topper of a woam in a bath full of bubbles on a card for my Mam as she is always in the bath!

I'm planning a special project at the moment too. It's hard for me to keep it under wraps I just want to talk about it all the time! I really hope it works out :)

Bee Happy :)

Yesterday I went to my old, old office to deliver a custom card for an ex-collegue. It was so strange being back in the office but it was nice to see everyone and catch up with them. The card I was asked to make was for Lisa to give to her friend to cheer her up a bit and let her know she's being thought about. The brief was a cute buble bee and the phrase "bee happy", so here is what I came up with;

Once I found the perfect bee I knew I wanted to use pastel blue and yellow. I sat for a while with my craft supplies and remembered I had the Bazoo flowers, so I tipped them all out onto the table and found the perfect combination to add to the bottom of my card. I used a black promarker to make the dotty trail for the bee and to add a little extra to the inside I stamped a flower in the bottom right corner and used my promarkers to colour it in. I was pleased with how this card turned out but Lisa was delighted!!! A job well done I'd say :)

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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