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Alicante, Spain
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, 13 September 2020

Happy Sunday Challenge

 Good Morning All

This weeks challenge is a Tic Tac To

And this is my cutie cute card using Oval Dog Ribbon


The chart to follow, up, down or diagonal


No gifts to show this week as I used leftovers from previous weeks.

I am running low on them now as I usually stock up on stuff when I am in UK but I have not been since January.


Cards from the ladies for last weeks challenge which was a sketch.


My card

Dawn

Eve

Nancy 1

Claire

Denise

Nancy 2


                                                   The name drawn out was Dawn, thanks to all-

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                                                                              Wendy L





Saturday, 12 September 2020

I Love ................ for Allsorts & Belated Birthday

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge time again and as we had our Birthday during lockdown Brenda thought it wise to delay our Birthday celebrations until a more suitable time.
Brenda has a wonderful prize of an Arteza Pen set
Plus there will be more on some of the DT's blogs too.

The theme is I Love........
Well where do I start.
I Love crafting
I Love Lace
I Love Junk Journals
I Love Notebooks
I just love making stuff.
I made this Notebook using pretty papers and lacy doilies and lots of pretty stuff.
This is the front using JND Poinsettias and Gerbera flowers.

The back

Inside and the cute dress paperclip is a tutorial by Gi Kerr.




We have a new sponsor joining us, Pinksy Doodles,  and she sent us some lovely digi papers to work with.

Here is a card I made using two of them.
I used a circle paper punch to make the sort of windmill and now I am wondering if it needs a gem in the centre????
The lovely spotty ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons and I found this strange button in my button box.
It had long gaps instead of holes so I threaded some of the ribbon through it and added it to hide a smudge on my homemade sentiment.
A fairly CAS card but I quite like it.

I hope you will join us in our Birthday celebrations and visit the other design team members too to see prizes on offer.
I will give a prize ---- This  folio which is quite large, more like a lapbook
Plus I shall add some homemade embellishments too which I shall add into the parcel.


I will draw a winner next Saturday  on My Allsorts post .
Xxxxxxxx

Thursday, 10 September 2020

AG for Crafty Ribbons

 Good Morning All


Wow the weather has changed here in Spain over the last week or two, from the 1st actually.

The day time is still hot but in the mornings it is very Autumnal, usually I dont think September is too much cooler than August.


Here are a couple of pics I took on Sunday morning while walking Rico, very sureal.

The bands of mist going round the mountain behind where we live.


Although last year we did have the Gota Fria on Sept 12th.  WOW what a day that was.

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Anyway, onto my card for today.

Crafty Ribbons challenge over on Facebook is Anything Goes.

At my Craft club each Friday I have a raffle.

Well now as well as a prize of craft goodies, I buy two vouchers from the shop, just 5 euros each, and I put them in a little homemade envelope like these.


This is a great way of using all your smaller lengths of ribbon and I decorate with homemade flowers.

A good way of giving the shop more business too.

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DT call ftom Crafty Ribbons


xxxxx

Wendy L

Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Dangles & Paperclips for Junk Journals

Good Morning All


I have been showing the ladies at my Craft Club how to put together Junk Journals and they are loving it.

I get as much pleasure from making embellishments as making the journals.

So I have been making Dangles and Paperclips  to show them and for them to use too.

These are Shabby Chic paperclips with a bulb pin on the side to add a tassle.

I used the Grateful one in my Owl Folio shown on my new You Tube Video

A great way of using bits & bobs too.


These are some dangles made from scraps of material and attached to a bulb pin so they can be pinned to a page or tag.
Gi Kerr has a great tutorial for making these HERE



I would love you to subscribe to my You Tube Channel and hope to do more videos soon.
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Chocolate Baroque challenge blog have giveaways throughout September.

xxxx
Wendy L


Sunday, 6 September 2020

Challenge a Sketch

 Good Morning All

My card for my Sketch challenge at Craft Club.

Here is the sketch


Last week at Craft club we were making Junk Journals with some of the ladies so I challenged those ladies to sew a signature in at home so here they are.

Eve, MAggie and Claire did a great job and next week they are going to decorate inside the pages.




And for the other ladies the challenge was to make a card using more than one circle.


Denise

Eve

Jen made 3



Julie made 2


Nancy made 2


Val C made 2


Maggie



I drew two names out Julie and Denise.

Thanks to all.

xxxx
Wendy L




Saturday, 5 September 2020

Hand Coloured Image for Allsorts

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge this week is hosted by Ellie in USA and her theme is

Hand Colour an Image

I chose this cutie from JMC Designs  called Bibbles available HERE

Free papers in a magazine and buttons from Crafty Ribbons (Link in sidebar)
I coloured him with my Polychromos and printed the sentiment.
I love this image, great for any occasion, Valentines, birthday baby, get well.


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It is Birthday Time at Allsorts next week

I have just started a You Tube Channel. 
It is a flip through of a folio I made afew weeks ago.
I was very nervous but we all have to start somewhere.!!!
I would love you to view and subscribe as I hope to do more.

XXXX
Wendy L

Thursday, 3 September 2020

Another Folio

 Good Morning All


Here is another Folio I have made using papers from a digi kit by Janey B Journals

This one is a Bicycle theme.

Front cover, dont the  name plates look real, they are paper.


Inside front cover, made an envelope for journal cards.

All the embellishments are included in the kit.


There are two signatures in the folio.

                                                 And this is the inside of the back cover.

I am really pleased with this and I have decided to send it to someone as a RAK, so someone will be getting a surprise in the post!!!!
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Also Crafty Ribbons have released their September Selection Box, great value.


Thanks for visiting.

xxxxx
Wendy L


Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Create a Scene for MAWTT

 Good Morning All


Moving Along With The Times Challenge this month is

Create A Scene

So I created a Christmas one using a Penny Black stamp PB3911K called Christmas Friends.

Frames made with CE Pierced square die and all matted onto green glitter card and red card.

Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and I made the sentiment tag and tied with red twine.

Just to  let you know, Rico us much better. 
His tail has healed nicely after a visit to the vets to get it sorted.
xxxx
Wendy L


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