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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

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Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Junk Journal and photo overload!!

 Good Morning All

I have completed my latest Junk Journal of a Nature / Botanical theme.

I have made a You Tube video showing a flip through.


Anyway, here are a couple of pics showing the cover and spine.  The dangle on the spine is made from a piece of jewellery I bought in Charity shop for 1 euro.





These are some mini envelopes I made by Mod Podging a napkin onto an A3 piece of paper.
I put the smaller ones inside the biggest one and then added to a page under a snippet Belly Band.
Watch the video if you dont understand these terms !!!!


Here are some more Napkin Envelopes


More tags




I may have shown some of these before but these were all used in this chunky Journal





















Please leave a comment and subscribe on the video if you enjoy it.
Thank you
xxxxx
Wendy L


Sunday, 8 November 2020

Happy Sunday Challenge

 Good Morning All


My challenge for my Craft Club and you if you would like to join in is

Use more than one butterfly

I used a new Groovi wrap plate which is very pretty done on a lavender coloured parchment.

I used different plate to add the sentiment and then added 5 of the little vellum butterflies that I make.


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I forgot to photograph the goodies inside but these are the gift boxes  I gave out to the ladies. I filled them with Halloween chocs,  they should have had them  last Friday but the craft shop was closed so we didn't have  club meeting. 



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Last weeks challenge was a sketch


My card

Dawn

Denise

Nancy
Val C

And the name drawn out was Nancy
Well done to all
xxxx
Wendy L




Saturday, 7 November 2020

Add Lace for Allsorts

 Good Morning All


Allsorts Challenge time again and out theme is

Add Lace.

Another Groovi card from me using one of the Wrap plates and LOTV Antebellum paper.

I added Lace on the corner for the sentiment and some pearls






xxxxx
Wendy L


Friday, 6 November 2020

AG for Crafty Ribbons

 Good Morning All

Crafty Ribbons time again and it is my turn to post.

I made this TN (Travellers Notebook) before we went to Alicante for afew days in October.

I like to keep a record of where we go, what was good, what we saw etc. etc.

I thought the bag ribbon was perfect so I used it as a closure and as a bellyband at the back to hold a slim notebook in place.





More pages inside and the papers I coloured with Squishing Distress inks onto a poly bag and spritzing with water and sqhishing the paper onto it.



Crafty Ribbons have their Selection Boxes on sale  for 5GBP too.

xxxxx
Wendy L



Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Pretty Card

Good Morning All


I used this lovely, free image from Scribbles on their site HERE
called Sunny.
This post was meant to be for Crafty Friends DT but Diane has decided to close it down until after New Year.
 I Coloured with Polychromos, Phill Martin papers and a doily.
Then added a homemade sentiment, gems  and my butterflies.

It is my Mums 96th Birthday today and I arranged for some homemade Fudge and cookies to be sent over to the Care Home for her.

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I received a parcel from Clarity last week and there were two large sheets of brown paper in it, so I straightened it out and did abit of stamping and used it for wrapping some Christmas gifts.




I give all my Craft Club ladies a gift bag at Christmas time filled with quite afew small items that I think will be useful for them. So I wrapped them all individually with some of this paper and tissue paper, then piled them all into their gift bags. A little bit of fun and excitement for Christmas morning I hope.

xxxx
Wendy L

Sunday, 1 November 2020

Christmas Flowers for MAWTT & My Challenge

 Good Morning All

Happy Sunday and Moving Along With The Times Challenge this month is

Christmas Flowers

For me it will always be Poinsettias,

SO I used JND Poinsettia die and did my Scrunching technique.

I have a You Tube video on how to make these.

I used A Queen grid plate from Groovi and also a leaf plate, all matted onto gold glitter card.

This is a special card as it took a long time to make so will be going to someone special!!!


I have made a You Tube video showing how I make these Poinsettias.



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Now onto my Craft Club challenge.
We didn't have a Craft class this week as the shop had some problems with their floor and had to cordon an area off so we cancelled.
But the ladies still wanted a challenge so here is the sketch.

And my card which  is Tess' birthday, not till next March but I am working well ahead.

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Last weeks challenge was Spooky / Halloween  or Orange / black colours.

Mine was altered paperclips which I had made for another DT and a swap too.

Dawn went Halloween

Denise

Eve

Nancy

Sharon

Val C


The name drawn was Sharon.

Thank you all.

xxxx
Wendy L












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