Arabellas Birthday

Good Morning All

Today is my youngest Granddaughters birthday, she is one year old.

I used my monthly gift plate from Groovi Clarity club that I subscribe to.

I used coloured parchment for it and scribed her name.

Here is another Groovi, I love this plate and works great when you add seperate butterflies or Dragonflies.

This has coloured parchment underneath as the backing and I have  added a snipped border.

This is it before I mounted it onto coloured parchment.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Recycling Christmas Cards

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People give me their Christmas cards after the event for me to recycle or cut up or do whatever with.

When I was looking through my Christmas box the other week I came across a bag of them so I pulled afew out and recycled them for the charity box.

I really liked this topper, far too pretty to throw out.

I,m sure you all recycle your cards.

I'm sure the charities will be able to make good use of them. 

xxxx

Wendy L

Happy Sunday

Good Morning All

These are  my cards for the club challenge this week.
I saw this idea on Pinterest, various circles stuck on card , then embossed the card.
Very easy and quite effective I think.

I gave them each a little Glassine bag I had made and inside I added a selection of Circles punched from odd scraps of card.

If any of you would like to play along just email  me a pic of your card using circles, lots of them!!
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Craft Club Gifts for the girls this week.

A mix of all left over  ones so nothing new to show you.
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Last weeks Sketch

My card using Pixie Powder background

Eve

Val C with two cards

Val J

Denise

And Denise was the name drawn out this week so she received a little bag of goodies.

xxxxx

Wendy L

More Get Well

Good Morning All

As Allsorts Challenge is still on a  two weekly schedule I thought I would show you some more Groovi!!!!!

A couple  of Get Well Cards to replenish my stock.

This one is  a homemade background and a couple of butterflies added as toppers.

I love this Groovi plate, very easy to use and great for adding butterflies.

I added a dragonfly to this one.

Practising my borders too.

Both on homemade backgrounds too, really enjoying making these with different techniques.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Add Texture for MAWTT

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Moving Along With The Times Challenge this time is hosted by  Hazel.

She wants to see Texture on your creations.

I added a Hessian backing onto my card.

I used the threads I pulled off the side to tie the charm and the tag.

I used a Football Decoupage image.

The charm say 'Just For You'

xxxxx

Wendy L

New Home Card

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Our friends, Andrew and Amanda moved into a new apartment a couple of week ago and they had a 

House Warming party on Sunday.

This is the card I made for them.

A sweet LOTV topper all matted onto burgundy card with LOTV paper too

Heart ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and a key charm added with twine and one of my dangle charms added to make a length of ribbon look like a bow.

I also made these Wine Bottle Jackets to go on their gifts, to make them a bit more special.
One of my ladies at Craft Cub brought the template for these into club afew years ago, so I fished it out and I already had some glitter foam in my stash.
Now dont be jealous when I tell you how much I spent on the gifts -----
Pink Cava -- 2.49 euro
Rioja -- 3.49 euro
This is why it kills me when I go to UK how  much I have to spend on a bottle of wine.
My fave here,  is a semi sweet white and costs 1.99 euro here.

Note
My Junk Journal has been sold, sooooo happy I can make another one now!!!!!

xxxxx

Wendy L

Happy Sunday

Good Morning All

My card for the sketch below.
I used a Pixie Powder background I made with acetate and kitchen roll and glitter.
The Christmas tree is a Penny Black stamp
I have not added the sentiment yet as I haven't got all my Christmas stuff out yet.
Isn't the Gingerbread man charm cute?
All matted onto Silver mirri card.

This is the Sketch but take no notice of the Sentiment, I could not cross it out in my editing.

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Craft Club gifts this week were just just a little tiny box with a Tealight candle inside, scented, of course.
And I did add a couple of homemade embellishments.

Last Weeks Sketch was this one.

My card

with gorgeous printed ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

Eve

Denise

Val C

Val J

Dawn

Xxxx

Wendy L

Boys to Men for Allsorts

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Allsorts Challenge time again and the theme is 

Boys to Men.

When I made this card the World Cup was on TV and my John is an avid footy fan so I shut myself in my craft room and got way ahead with all my DT work.

I had 3 to make for the same theme for different challenges, so I got a decoupage sheet  out  - footy themed.

The backing paper is a Capsule collection I bought half price when I was in UK in June.

Homemade sentiment tag tied with string.

Sponsor is Marianne Designs

and they are giving two wonderful dies.

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This is what I have to put up with when I am sat at my desk, I daren't move LOL.

He follows me around wherever I go, toilet included.!!!!!

Happy Crafting

xxxx

Wendy L

Get Well

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I have given so many cards to charities in the last couple of weeks that I need to restock my boxes.

I have been making quite afew Get Well Cards and here are a couple.

This is one of the tissue paper backgrounds I made, I thought it toned well with the colours I chose for the parchment.The Get Well and flowers is a narrow panel.
Then I added a butterfly, dragonfly and flower to the remaining part of the background.

This is from another plate and mounted onto plain green card.

I made the corners from the scalloped circle plate.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Junk Journal

Good morning all

My laptop is back from the hospital and all Ok touch wood.

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Now this truly is a JUNK Journal, made from lots of stuff I no longer wanted  to keep or use for any other projects.  This is the front cover

And here are a few of the inside pages.

I made 3 signature, lots of tags and tuck spots from scraps of paper and card.

This lovely page below is using a bag I get at the vets when I buy Rico,s dog chews.

It has a pretty harvest scene on it, far too nice to bin.

I used pages from the book that I had pulled out to make the journal, to make tuck spots.  All the non patterned pages are coffee dyed and other pages are freebies from magazines.

My friend Val is taking this to her daughters shop to try and sell it, raise some funds for charity.

Xxx Xx

Wendy L 

Happy Sunday

Good morning All

Here is my card for my sketch (See below)
The die is Sue Wilson 'Maggie'
Ribbon from Crafty  Ribbons

Sketch to follow 

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These are the gifts I gave out to my Craft Club ladies on Friday.

Each one contains  a Drawer Freshener Sachet.

I have so much fun making all these bags and boxes for the gifts.

And I usually add a handmade embellishment too.

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Now onto last week's sketch

My card

Eve

Val C

Val J

And Val C was the name drawn this week so she received a little gift. 

Happy Sunday

Xxx Xx

Wendy L