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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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Sunday 27 February 2022

Happy Sunday Challenge

Good Morning All

I chose another sketch the the challenge at Craft Club on Friday .

This is my card using n LOTV Topper and papers from a Making Cards Magazine.


Sketch

I forgot to take pics of the gifts I gave out but they were quite fancy shaped boxes like this with a choc in each one.


Onto last weeks challenge which was a chart to use.

My card using Blue Square Twine

Now onto the others.

Christine 

Eve 

Maggie

Val C - 

Val J

Dawn

Denise

Name drawn was Val J
Thanks for Visiting

xxx
Wendy L










Thursday 24 February 2022

-Odds

 Good Morning All

I have found afew bits and bobs that need to be used and as I need to fill the boxes of cards that go to charities I am making quick cards.


I must have cut the decoupage out a long time ago as these two toppers were in the box waiting to be used.

I like the first one but not too sure about the second but I have found in the pat that very often when I dont like  a card, others do, so it went in the box.

The two pale strips on here are the reverse of the gingham paper, waste not want not.!!!


This backing is quite thin parchment or vellum but I was able to work a Groovi grid plate on it.  It is abit shiny gold on the front.  I did think the backing would match the Hugs blue but not to sure, but its made now and in the box.


Tell me what you think..
xxxxx
Wendy L


Tuesday 22 February 2022

Make afew small cards from a big one

 Good Morning All

Liz at the Craft Shop gave me a beautiful Heart plate for Christmas last year and it is about 8x8 so I worked it all and did abit of snipping.



I decided to make smaller cards with it instead of one big one (better in the charity box).

So here are afew that I made.

This one I kept four squares together.


And these two, I used just one of the squares



There are more like these two but didn't photo them all.
I often just add 'Congratulations' then they can be used as Wedding or Engagement cards. or even Anniversary.
Thanks for looking.

xxxx
Wendy L


Sunday 20 February 2022

Happy Sunday Challenge

 Good Morning All

I hope you are all OK after the storms hit the UK on Friday.

Weather here in spain hs changed for the better, it has got slot warmer, hitting the mid 20's during the day.

My challenge at Craft Club on Friday for the ladies was a  chart. I used Blue Square Twine for this Mans card. The motorbike is an old topper I found in a box.

I found the pieces of embossed card in my scrap tray, gems from a Chrystal Art kit.


Chart to follow

The gifts I gave out were cutting tools, always handy for a crafter.

Last weeks challenge was a sketch.

My card

Christine

Dawn

Denise

Eve made two


Val J

Maggie

Val C

Val C was the name drawn out.
Thanks for visiting.

xxx
Wendy L






Friday 18 February 2022

'I Love'

 Good Morning All


This  post would normally have been for Allsorts Challenge tomorrow but I have decided  to step away from the Design Team after spending last weekend worrying because I had cocked up the winners post on Friday

Then I had a good talk to myself and thought WHY, it's a blog for goodness sake and I had got myself really upset about it.  Then I told myself to get over it and move on so here we are.  I'm a worrier, always have been and always will be I suppose, I wish I could change but I cant.

So this is the remainder of what would have been my post for Allsorts.


There are many things in the crafting world I love but I think the one one I love most is Groovi grid work and here are two cards doing just that.

The image is from Clarity  and I didn't colour it , just a little bit of white embossing on her hair and the petals.

I use all my left over bits of parchment to punch flowers and butterflies.


Using the grids do take some work and I made a couple of mistakes on this one, hence the flowers in two corners!!


I save these cards for my family and crafters as they take so much time but give me so much pleasure.



xxxx
Wendy L






Wednesday 16 February 2022

Occasions for Crafty Ribbons

 Good Afternoon All

It is my time to showcase the Occasions Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.

There are loads of Grosgrain ribbon HERE and I have use the sentiment Happy Birthday as I wanted to make Auroras Birthday card. -she will be 7 this time.

The background is all offcuts of card from making boxes for my Craft Club ladies.

I printed sentiments and names of all the Grandkids a while ago then I would have then ready.


xxxx
Wendy L


Sunday 13 February 2022

Happy Sunday Challenge

 Good Morning All

The challenge at Craft Club was another sketch and on my card I used my Mask / Stencil set from Clarity Stamp.


Sketch to follow


I gave them all a box with a choccy biscuit in.

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Now onto last weeks challenge and the ladies cards.
My card and The sketch


Christine

Dawn

Denise


Eve

Val C

Val J

The name drawn was Christine.

Thanks for visiting
xxx
Wendy L







Saturday 12 February 2022

Cas for Allsorts

Good Morning All 

Allsorts Challenge this week is   hosted by Ellie  with a theme of

CAS with Elegance

I made this Groovi card .  I used pink parcchment so I did not need to colour it.

It was quick and simple to make,


I made another card too

I made a very simple card with tones of Pink card scraps and added a sentiment with ribbon from Crafty Ribbons (link in sidebar).

And my Elegance bit is the Gems!!

All matted onto pin card.


Prizes on offer

AALL and Create stencil


And a 

WOWVOW Voucher

Have fun
xxxx
Wendy L




Thursday 10 February 2022

Junk Journal Snippets

 Good Morning All

Today is my monthly Junk Journal class at the Craft shop and we will be making Snippets like these.

It is a great way of using lots of little bits of scraps, glue them onto a piece of Amazon packaging then stitching with a zigzag stitch on the sewing machine.


Last week one of the designers I follow on Facebook set a challenge to make a 5 tag  book and here is my offering.
Tracie provided us all with freebie tags and some ephemera.


I created a side pocket with journal cards.









Thank you for visiting.


xxxx

Wendy L

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