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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 29 May 2022

Happy Sunday Challenge

 Good Morning All

Well it was my Birthday on Friday and I had a wonderful day.

Craft club where I bought cake for everyone and then a night out with our good friends Helen & Paul.

I received lots of homemade cards too which will all be recycled at some point, so thanks to all.

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Onto the challenge I set the ladies on Friday - A Sketch

My card with the sentiment, which I have had for years, as the focal point.


Sketch to follow

I gave out Penguin biscuits in group this week as my gifts to the ladies.



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Onto the last challenge which was two weeks ago.
Bingo chart.

My card - Either Emboss Gems Butterfly or Emboss Leaves Square

Claire

Dawn made 3



Denise

Val C

Val J

The name drawn was Val J.
Thanks for joining me today and see you soon
XXX
Wendy L










Wednesday 25 May 2022

Home

 Good Morning All

We are on our way home today after a wonderful visit to Porto in Portugal.


This is the card I have made for my Mums birthday, although its not until November, I made this in a Zoom class.

It used the small alphabet plates I purchased from Clarity, a bargain too good to miss, all half price plus a free folder to store them all in.



xxxxx
Wendy L


Sunday 22 May 2022

Cute

Good Morning All 

No challenge today as we are still in Porto in Portugal.

As you know I love to crochet and most of it is given to charity.

Well next door to the Craft Shop in Quesada, there is a cafe and it is a collection point for a Helping Hands Charity. The lady helps families that have no income / no job and she helps the homeless too.  Now she is helping people that are coming over from The Ukraine.

So I give most of my things to her.

This cute Crochet dress was using the left over yarn from my cardigan I showed you on the 4th.

It's a very easy pattern to follow on You Tube by Marjovel.  She is Spanish but there are English versions.

I have done quite afew of these


                                                                          XXXXX

Wendy L

Wednesday 18 May 2022

Up and Away

 Good Morning All

We are off on our travels today to Portugal, so I have scheduled afew posts.  We are staying in Porto as we cant get a direct fight to the Algarve so it was either Porto or Lisbon and Porto looked more appealing.

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Today card is another Groovi one without a sentiment until I need it.

A grid border with a Poppet image.  I just love doing this style and so pretty.


There will not be a post on Sunday as I will not be at  Craft on Friday, obviously, so last weeks challenge will run for 2 weeks.

Take care.

xxxxx
Wendy L


Sunday 15 May 2022

Happy Sunday Challenge

 Good Morning All

Here is my Craft Club challenge which is running for two weeks as we are going to Portugal, to Porto. Believe it or not, we cannot get a direct flight to  The Algarve from Alicante so we decided to go there instead.

I am so looking forward to it as it looks very much like Seville, which was wonderful when we went afew years ago.


Anyway, back to the challenge which is a Bingo chart and here is my card.

I used Emboss Gems Butterfly

or

Emboss Leaves Square



The gifts I gave out were more choccy, which I need to get rid of before it gets way too hot here for chocolate!!

These are some bugs I bought in Aldi and of course, I had to make little boxes for them!


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Onto last weeks challenge which was a sketch.

Sketch



                                                My card

Dawn

Denise

Eve

Claire

The name drawn was Claire.
Thank you
xxxx
Wendy L








Friday 13 May 2022

Another Groovi Christmas

 Good Morning All

Oh dear Friday 13th, hope you are not supersticious!!!

Here is another of my Groovi Chrstmas cards.

I do like using this plate and doing abit of snipping


Challenges - 


I am still making alot of quick cards for charity so will try to remember to take some pics.
xxxx
Wendy L


Wednesday 11 May 2022

Groovi week

 Good Morning All

My, how the time is flying by, already nearly half way through May and soon will be my Birthday!!

I have a couple of Groovi Christmas cards to show this week. I said earlier in  the year that I was going to try to make 10 Christmas cards per month but that hasn't happened!!

Anyway, here is one.

I used elements from afew different plates which is the beauty of the Groovi system.


XXXXX

Wendy L

Sunday 8 May 2022

Happy Sunday Challenge

 Good Morning All

My Challenge for the craft club on Friday was another sketch and here is my card.

I used a Poppet image from Clarity, Butterfly EF from Creative Exression, Happy Birthday Charm and some fabric net I was gifted.


Challenges I am entering - 
Crafty Calender AG Ends end of May
Can You Handle The Pressure  -  Must use EF  Ends 11th May
Craft Rocket Challenge - Ends 27th May
Elliebelles Corner --AG  Ends 30th May

Sketch to follow.

Here are the gifts I gave out - Wagon wheels which have shrunk massively since I was a child!!

Onto Last weeks challenge

My card


Claire

Dawn

Denise

Eve

Val J


Val C

The name drawn was Val J

xxx
Wendy L









Friday 6 May 2022

Mans Card

Good Morning All

Todays card is using another dig image from KristieArtDesign.

I bought this sheet as I thought they would make cards suitable for men.


Thank you for visiting

xxxx
Wendy L


Wednesday 4 May 2022

Crochet Cardigan

Good Morning All 

As you know I cant just sit here watching TV, 

I usually crochet and here is a cardi I have done.

It is quite a loose stitch and the yarn is very soft and  lovely peach and fawn colours.


The sleeves are a little long but they will do.  I have since undone the sleeve seam and made the sleeves shorter as they were annoying, so now it fits much better. 


xxxxxx

Wendy L

Sunday 1 May 2022

Birthday for MAWTT & Animals Birds for Crafty Friends & Challenge

 Good Morning All

Today is Moving Along With The Times Challenge and I am looking after this one and I chose the theme of

Birthday

because it is my Birthday this month.

I made this card a while ago but loved it and I am keeping it for a crafty friend.

I used the Groovi  Henry Grid from Clarity and used one of their Poppets too backed onto sparkly gold card.


I would like to enter the following challenges  --  


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Crafty Friends  challenge Theme this month is 

Animals / Birds
I bought a couple of pop out decoupage sheets from the craft shop  as they were some lovely animal ones.
This Lioness is one of them.
I mounted onto embossed card coloured with Mica Magics.
I typed the sentiment out and added to yellow card to match the oval shape.


I hope you will pop over to both challenge blogs to see what all the other DT's  have made.

Challenges Entered  - 
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I used the Lion card as my sketch card for my Craft Club challenge on Friday so here is the sketch.


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Onto last weeks challenge.

My two cards using Oxides and John Lockwoods stamps


Eve

Claire

Dawn

Denise
 

Val J

2 from Val C


The name drawn was Claire


The gifts I gave out were these bags I bought at an auction.  I thought they were handy for taking stuff to Craft club to keep flat and clean.
I use mine alot. They are  great for A4 size papers.


I rolled each one and tied with a  pipe cleaner.



Thanks for visiting and see you  soon.

xxxx
Wendy L





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