Wedding Day order

My very good friend Sam asked me a while back if I would be able to make her two wedding cards for friends of hers who are getting married, one this month and one in March. I was thrilled, I love taking orders!

She pointed out the cards she particularly liked on my Facebook Page and asked if i could make it in a box. A box! It's been a while since I made one of those. So I took out all my supplies and papers and set to work and this is what I produced:

It's simple and elegant and Sam was pleased with the result. Just about everything on this card was bought in my local Hobbycraft. (I am slightly obsessed with that shop!)

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! :)