I hope you enjoy your visit to my blog, mainly card making but I now have six Grand children, five girls and a boy. As I love these kids so much I can't help showing an odd picture of them now and again. I really need to get into Scrapbooking too, loads of pics to use. I do some knitting and crocheting too. I also have a page on Facebook - Wendy's Crafty Crafts where I have a fun challenge most weeks.
Hi.
I live
in Spain
with my partner. I am retired and LOVE it. I love life here but I do miss my family back in the UK, two sons and three sisters and my Mum.
Crafting is my life, I do something every single day. In the past it has helped me get through some bad times in my life. One such bad time was when my first grandson died aged just 14 months. He had been born 8 weeks prem but was very healthy and was growing into a beautiful, bonny boy. It was such a shock when the call came. A day never passes when I dont think of him.
I am now Nanna again to grand daughter, Hollie, born July 2012, and Tess born March 2016. This is my younger son and his partner. I now have another Grandson, Noah, born Nov 2013 to my elder Son and they have 3 daughters Aurora, born March 2015 and Arabella, born August 2017 and Arianna born 2019.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy my makes. Please leave a comment so that I know you have visited me. I love reading them all. xxxx
Afew more from the files today using the Poppets collection from Clarity.
I do love these images but its a pity Clarity only sell them as a pack with outline images too and I prefer just to have the pre coloured ones like these.
I think the background papers on the first two are from Clarity too.
And I hope you all have a wonderful time. We are going to Altea for afew days, not sure what it will be like, quiet I suspect but the hotel is nice as we have been there before.
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Onto a few more cards from the files.
A couple of Decoupage flowers bowls, this one on Oxide inked background.
Sentiment as focal point and afew bits from my desk.
I really must get it all cleared and used before the New Year.
I made myself a Travel Journal to record our cruise around the Mediterranean in Oct this year.
I used pieces from a World Atlas that referred to some of the places we docked - France. Italy and or course. Spain although we called at Portugal too.
This is inside the front cover with a lacey envelope to keep tickets etc.
Near the middle I added a brown paper bag and paperclip to store more bits in.
I added some pockets and tuck spots or course.
And this is inside the back cover. I did treat myself to a HP Sprocket mini printer so will be printing photos taken during the cruise to add to the journal too.
I think this is a great way of recording memories of holidays or special events.
A couple of Pink cards today and using Scraps too.
This one I used a doodle on a tag with abit of watercolour paint.
This one has 2 butterflies I punched out with an EK punch and added pearls for the body.
I made them into Sympathy cards as I needed some for the charity boxes. Sadly when you get to our age, we do need sympathy cards and most of the Expat community here in Spain are a wee bit on the older side!!!