Happy Sunday & Happy New Year

Good Morning All

I will wish you all

A Happy New Year

as we are going to Sella tomorrow morning with friends for a couple of nights.

Rico is going to the kennels this afternoon, which he thoroughly enjoys, I'm sure.

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My card for this weeks challenge for my Craft Club and any more that would like to join in.

I gave all the ladies that wished to play along, a page from this topper pad I got from Joanna Sheen.

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Last weeks was a sketch

Mine

Eve

Sharon

Val C

Val J ( drawn name for a little prize)

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Xxx Xx

Wendy L

Happy Christmas

Good Morning All

I know you will all be busy getting the final preparations done for tomorrow.

We have decided we are staying in for lunch and having nibbles, so all I am making is sausage rolls and we have bought  a prawn platter for John, his passion!!!

And I will bake warm bread and make a salad and I have cooked a gammon joint too.

Here is the card I made for one of my sisters.

It is very similar to the one I made for my other sister where I made a spelling mistake and had to add a bow to cover it.

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At my craft club on Friday I gave all the ladies a selection of gifts and I used the bags I made a while ago for a Crafty Ribbon design team post.

I filled them with different gifts for all of them but I did give them each one of these little pouches containing some stick pins

                      I made these pouches from bought cards that I have received in the past and I stick a                                                  piece of material in to jab the pins into.

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 And finally, another Groovi card using an offcut and a decoupage, similar to one I showed last week

Once again, I wish you all a 

Happy Christmas

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Happy Sunday

Good Morning All

Here is my card for my little Sketch Challenge.

The papers are from a 2nd hand paper pad I bought which had some cut offs in, too pretty to waste.

LOTV Topper

I added a little'Just for You' charm to the sentiment tag.

A couple of my homemade satin ribbon bows with gems.

Here is the sketch, one we have had before.

Lets see you interpretation of it.

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The gifts this week was a small triangle box containing a pen, always handy.

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Last week I asked the ladies to use Gingham or Checks

Mine

Jen

Dawn

Jen

Val C

Val J

And the name drawn was Jen.

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We had a lovely Christmas lunch on Friday after we had crafted for a couple of hours.
Everyone enjoyed the food and those of us that had Sticky Toffee pudding for dessert, wow, the toffee sauce was to die for and probably  had a million calories, but it was well worth it.
The ladies all very kindly, gave me a voucher for Clarity which will get spent in the new year when they have a members sale on, I have my eye on afew of the new border grid plates.
All my other gifts are waiting to be opened on Christmas morning with my John, after I have walked Rico.

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Well I wish you all a
Merry Christmas
whatever you are doing, and those that are going through sad or bad times, a special hug to you.

xxxxx
Wendy L

Thanks A Bunch for Allsorts

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge this week is

Thanks A Bunch

A thank you to all our entrants over the years and those to come.

I used

Bunch of flowers decoupage

 CE Wild Roses EF

JND Sentiment Elements  stamp

Clarity Pico Ovals Dies

My stick pin

I used one of the ovals inside to write on.

Sponsor is Stamp Addicts

xxxxx

Wendy L

Not A Card for MAWTT

Good Morning All

Moving Along With The Times Challenge is for both teams this time and will run until 2nd Jan.

The theme is

  Anything But A Card

I made a wreath from  torn pieces of a quilt cover.

The strips are about 1" wide

I tore them so that the edges would be crinkly and shabby

I bought this polystyrene base from the China store.

I had this gorgeous ribbon from Crafty Ribbon HERE and it is about 3" wide so not really suitable for cards.

But I wanted a good way to show it off.

This is how it looked with the strips tied around.

Then I tied the ribbon into big bows with white satin ribbon around the middle

Added a couple of wooden Christmas decorations

Voila

Added a cracker made with JND die

and I am thinking I may add some little bells I have in my stash too.

Some of us are giving a prize for this challenge so why not pop over and have a go.

What do you think??

Crafty Ribbons are sponsoring this one for us and will give a bundle of ribbons for a randomly chosen winner.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Paper Scraps

Good Morning All

When I was in the UK I bought some bits from a Declutter site on Facebook.

One was some paper packs and odd pages had been cut so this is how I used them.

I made card bases with toning colours and added a strip of ribbon to hide the join.

This last one, I used these thin strips of paper which I thought was very pretty, so I matted it onto strips of card.

I think they look OK and are ready to have some toppers added to make a quick and easy card.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Rich Red

Good Morning All

My Mum asked me to make a Christmas card for her to give to my sister.

I think it looks very opulent and rich.

Matted onto red glitter card.

Poinsettias have 4 layers with pearl centres.

I,m sure Mum will have given her the card now so it is safe to show it.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Happy Sunday

Good Morning All

There s no sketch this week but my challenge is to use Gingham on your creations please.

Here are mine.

I really need to make more children's cards so here is a couple.

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I gave each of the ladies one of these

               Each box contained a hand sanitizer perfect for keeping in a handbag.

I bought these when I was in the UK as you might have guessed, as they are from Wilkos

Last weeks sketch see Here

This was my card

Eve

Gail

Val J

Gail 2

Val C

Gail was the name drawn so she received a little gift.

xxxxx

Wendy L