Sentiment in Focus for Allsorts

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge time again hosted by  Helene this week.

She wants to see  a Sentiment as the main focal point on your creation.

I used LOTV papers.

CE 'Just For You' Sentiment die

Satin ribbon

My pearl pin

Sponsors
Marianne

and
Baker Ross

Have Fun

xxxx

Wendy L

Pins

Good Morning All

Just to let you know I still have Bead Pins for sale.

If you purchase you will receive similar to the ones shown in  pics.

12 x 5cm for 5 GBP  plus 6 x 3.5cm free

I will  have to charge 1GBP towards postage costs.

 I have afew left,  similar to these with a charm attached.
These are a pound extra.

xxxx

Wendy L

Another Vals Birthday

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This is the card I made for the other Val that attends our craft meets and her Birthday was on 14th Feb too.

I thought I had already shown this but couldn't see it, so forgive me if I,m having another senior moment.

Lots of flowers cut from patterned vellum.

Marriane corner dies.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Foxglove

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I found this card in my file (trying to get it all sorted so there will be some oldies on here ).

The digi is from Delicious Doodles, mounted onto S/B Labels 6 and this was mounted onto a Marriane die cut.

I distressed the CoreDinations card after embossing it in a Swiss Dots folder.

I added a couple of charms onto the ribbon.

I printed the sentiment and stuck onto a smaller one of the Labels dies.

Have a good week.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Birthday Wishes for Allsorts

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Allsorts Challenge  this week is hosted by Kevin

I wanted to make something abit different.

I have made this shape of card in the past but a good while ago.

A diamond Easel card.

The Balloon decoupage has been in my box for ages but I thought it would make an ideal Birthday card.

As it was only quite small I had to sort of spread things out abit, if you know what I mean.

Sponsor 

Sissix

     

And we also have another pair of tickets to the NEC Spring Hobbycraft show 17th - 20th March

xxxx

Wendy L

CHALLENGES
House of Cards - Shaped Card

Mothers Day

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Sorry this post is abit late for Craft Rocket Challenge.

I thought I had scheduled it but I must have forgotten, senior moment me thinks!!!!

Anyway here it is, my Mothers Day creation.

LOTV topper

Joanna Sheen Banner die

CE Striplet 'Quilted Blocks'

CE Poinsettia  die cut painted with Mica Paints

xxxxx

Wendy L

Only Words at MAWTT

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Moving Along With The Times Challenge this week is hosted by Christine.  She only wants words, no images.

I need two new members to join Team A if anyone is interested.

I made this card for my crafty Friend, Lyn, her birthday was way back in November, same day as Noahs actually.

I was really pleased how this one turned out.

I cut 3 of Sue Wilsons 'Hollywood' dies.  Lots of parchment flowers, stamped the centre sentiment and the round one is from Scrappers Delight.

There are some gorgeous creations form the rest of the DT so pop over and take a peek.

xxx

Wendy L

Friends Birthday

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As I mentioned on Friday, my friends both named Val and  have Birthdays on 14th Feb.

So here is one card I made for Val Craft ( that is my name for her, to distinguish between the two).

I had to make an envelobox for it as it, obviously, wouldn't fold flat.

I thought these bright colours woud cheer her up.

Whenever I use coloured paper for an insert, any off cuts go into my quilling box, then, when I am in the  mood, I sit and make  a load of quilled flowers.

The shaped card is some leftovers from a Hunkydory set.

I still love making this style of  card.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Circles no Squares for Allsorts

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Allsorts Challenge is hosted by Kath.

Kath joined us last year and this is her first host and she wants circles.

As I dont have any big, big dies I used a bought card base, a rectangle, not a square, and used lots of circle dies, S/B scalloped Circles and S/B Butterfly Circles. 

 Circle sentiment and doilies too.

When I made this I had been practising my quilling and this is some of it, mounted onto a scalloped black circle to make it stand out

Two types of ribbon as we are sponsored by Crafty Ribbons

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And we also have a pair of tickets to the NEC Spring Hobbycraft show 17th - 20th March to give away.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Girly for Crafty Friends

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Crafty Friends Challenge is 'Girly'

Well, what is more 'Girly' than Pink, Glitter, Ribbons and Gems?

I used -
Image called Skylar and Friends and ' Bee Happy'from Oddball Art
S/B Fleur de Lis Squares
Sentiment from 'Tilly Daydreams' paper pad from Docrafts
My bead pins
Organza ribbon, two widths to make bow

Sponsors

Oddball Art

and

Angies Cards & Digis

xxxxx
Wendy L

Another clear out

Good Morning All

Aswell as clearing out my scrappy box, I have been looking through my photograph files too.

These 3 pics have been in my files for ages and I mean ages, like afew years probably.

I don't colour much anymore as I feel I,m not very good at it.  

I did these when I first got my Promarkers and I do still use these pens when I do colour images.

I think this is a bugaboo image.

I,m sure the border is EK Success border punch. 

The one above looks abit dated, don't you think?

I do like the quilled flowers on this one.

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Have a good weekend.

Happy Valentines for Sunday too.

I think we will be going out for a meal tonight but we dont really celebrate St Valentines anymore.

Gone are the days when I used to get 24 red roses !!!!!

And Happy Birthday to my two friends, both called Val and both have birthdays on 14th Feb and both come to craft meets on Fridays too. 

xxxxx

Wendy L

Tidying and Emptying

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Thank you so much for joining me today, hope you are all well.

As I mentioned last week I have been clearing my scrap box so here is afew pics of cards made with it all.

There is  card here that a friend may recognise, as when I am given a homemade card I cannot throw it but I will recycle it if I can.

My, now nearly empty, scrap box.

Here are afew of the cards I made.

This one is  John Next Doors Daffodil stamp and one of his sentiment stamps.
I coloured this with Mica paints, but you cant see the shine on the pics.

The one below is the last bits of a Hunky Dory kit and my new Sue Wilson Butterfly dies.

The last bits from a Dufex decoupage sheet.

The next one is trying my masking  again with texture paste.

I love this technique.

The strip must have come from craft meeting as it is not one of mine.

Perfect Peony flower again.

I thought this one would make a good 'Good Luck' card.

And finally, the two below are the same, except one used Iced Snow and one Diamond Snow.

Again, one of Johns striplet stamps coloured with Mica paints.

Also, after watching You Tube I decided to try and organise my card and papers abit better.

so I went to the China store and bought some A4 storage stands.

I labelled them too.

They were stood as they are meant to be but as the shelf above did not allow me to get card out very easily from the toop, I decided to lay them on their backs.

And I bought plastic wallets for all the pieces that are smaller than A4 and inside the wallet I put an envelope to put all my die cut labels that I cut out all the time from odd pieces too.

So now I just have to swivel round on my chair and choose the correct coloured wallet, and slide it out, instead of having to stand up and pul the stand out to get the wallet or card out.

As I couldn't buy all the wallets in the correct colour to correspond to my card I used clear ones too.

xxxx
Wendy L

Mask

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Another card today using my scraps.

My crafty friend Val lent me some masks and this one is a lovely butterfly one.

I used blue ink onto  LOTV paper.

I added some gem butterflies stuck onto die cuts and a couple of Dufex butterflies.

xxxx

Wendy L

One Layer for Allsorts

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Allsorts Challenge this week is CAS, chosen by Julie.

I used a new technique for me.
 John Next Door did it on Hochanda a while ago.  stamped an image with glue then used Gilding  flakes. All stamped onto a CE Noble Pierced Rectangle.
The stamp is Alexandra from CE
Sentiment  heat embossed onto a Pierced flag.
Very pleased with how this turned out and will no doubt be using it again.
Pop over to the challenge blog to see all the other wonderful DT creations.

Sponsors are
Sissix


and
Digistamp Boutique

xxxxx
Wendy L

1st Cut & Fold

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I have done my 1st Cut & Fold book.

Once again, I had looked at these and thought they looked too complicated.

But I took the bull by the horns, and found a free pattern on my Book Folding Group on Facebook.

And here it is.

Very pleased with it and it wasn't as hard as I thought.

I,m doing a more complicated one now and will show it when completed.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Things With Wings for MAWTT

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Moving Along With The Times Challenge is hosted by Judith this time.

she would like to see Things With Wings.

I have used these big letters before and  was given them by Linda from Animal Aid.

The pretty backing paper was free in a magazine.  The green butterfly is from a Tonic Die and the gem one is from the local China store which I stick onto acetate and cut out.

Homemade bead pins and Sentiment.

I,m sure this will be  a popular challenge so why not pop over to the blog to peek at what the rest of the DT had made.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Love/Valentine for Craft Rocket

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My first post today is for Craft Rocket Challenge  and they want to see Valentines or Love creations.

I used Sparkly pink glitter paper matted onto a dark maroon textured paper

Different sizes pink hearts

Pink satin flowers

Pink satin bow

Peeloffs on the hearts.

Pop over to see what all the other DT have been up to.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Parchment Border

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I have decided to clear my scrappy box, this is the box I keep by my desk and into it goes allsorts.  Bits of card, paper, die cuts, embellishments etc etc etc.

So this is the first of many cards I made starting last Saturday.

I was determined not to make anything else until this box was empty, totally.

When I buy any new stash I always cut or stamp afew to try it  out and some of these go into my scrap box.

This Sue Wilson striplet is one of those.

As you know, I cant sit watching TV doing nothing so I sometimes do abit of pricking or parchment work and this is one of those too.

Added the two together to make this card, joined with a piece of Satin ribbon.

xxxx

Wendy L

London Underground

Good Morning All

I was asked to make a card for a ladies Grandson, 11 years old.  She sent me a pic of his bedspread, underground network in London and a pair of footy boots on it.

!!!!!!!!!!

Now that was a challenge.

Anyway, I found an old underground map in an old diary, it did have a couple of marks on which I covered with sentiment tags !!!

She always likes them personalised too.

I stuck the shirt and 'Grandson' on a piece of acetate so that he could lift it to see the old map.  This was from 2010, I think, so it had probably changed by now.

She was pleased with it, which I,m glad about as I only made the one.  As you may know I normally make two cards when asked, just to give them a choice.

xxxxx

Wendy L





A Note

[Allsorts Challenge DT Blog] New comment on Blog followers

Found this on another Blog Guys which explains why everyone is losing followers :)

In 2011, we announced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs.

As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other Open Id providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.

We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.

We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.


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