Easel Card

Good Morning all

The weekend is here again already, I dont know how I ever found time to go to work, life is so busy.

My card today is yet another easel on 5" x 7" blank.  Tilda dipping her toes.  More punched and quilled flowers, pearls, gems ribbon and beads on wire.  Happy Birthday sentiment in the corner.  The cards I make like this I want to keep them all and not give to the charities because I think they are so lovely.
  I have been asked by another animal charity to give them a supply so I am busy getting a load together to send there next week.  There are so many abandoned dogs and cats here it,s awful how some people treat them.
Also, a friend of mine in the UK is doing a bike ride through India later in the year, in aid of womens cancer, so I am going to bring as many cards as I can fit in when we come back in May for her to sell in her cafe to raise funds for this too.

I am entering this into:

Papertake Weekly Challenge # 66 - Sketch
Simply Magnolia - Dies/punches and Ribbon
Crazy Challenge - Add a sentiment
I Love Promarkers # 110 - Bead It
Creative Mondays # 4 - Anything Goes

More Recycling

Good Evening All

Hope you are all feelling good.  Weather in the UK has been very kind to you all I believe, as it has to us, here in Spain too.

I have been making lots of cards and trying to use alot of bits up too.  These are some more using the negatives from die cuts.  The label shape ones do look like they are the real thing matted and layed, especially the green and black  one, but the black is the negative with green underneath it.

I really am on a recycling drive and I am determined to use alot of the bits of paper and card that I have.  I have been asked to supply another charity here aswell, so I am making alot of cards for them too.  All the flowers on the cards shown are punched from off-cuts of white paper and coloured with inks.

Thanks all for looking and visiting.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Flowers and Tilda

Good Afternoon all.
Things are starting to dry out afer all the rain the other day, at least I dont have to water the plants for a while.  The outdoor furniture is still drying out though.

Now for todays card, it,s another Tilda and she is holding a  lovely flower.

Once again it,s an easel card and all the papers are out of my drawer of bits (I,m determined I,m not going to cut into new sheets). The pretty purple and white floral paper, I have had for years and I think this is the last bit of it.  Flowers are homemade and the leaves are die-cuts.  I,ve added gems and buttons, and beads on wire from jewellery stash ( I make afew of these at night while watching TV).  I love the hat-pins that are fashionable at the moment but I think these look nice also and I have all these in my jewellery making box.

I am entering this in -

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge 9 - Fancy Folds
Crafty Anns Challenge # 61- Spring into Spring
Wow I won this one
I Love Promarkers Challenge 109 - 3 Different Papers
Stampin for the Weekend 6 - Anything Goes

Easter

Good afternoon again.

I have been busy - it,s with all the rain the other day - there was nothing else todo except craft.  LOL.
 No, seriously, I made this one this morning for a couple of challenges.  I stamped an image of a rabbit and coloured him with my Promarkers, mounted it onto pink card, then onto lilac card with silver butterflies around it.  Once again,  homemade flowers, both quilled and punched, some with gems in the middle, some with glitter glue.  Peeloff sentiments of Easter and Best Wishes.  And again, an easel card.

I am entering this into -
Cutie Pie Challenge # 14 - Think pink with rabbits

Moving Along With The Times - Easter

Anything Goes Challenge Blog- Getting ready for Easter

Flourishes (and Recycling)

Good Afternoon all.
A gorgeous day here.  We have just got back from a lovely walk down by the river and through the citrus groves.

I think I have mentioned before that I hate to throw anything away and this card I made using the negative from a flourish die cut.  I made it the main focal point and decorated round it with beads and wire from my jewellery stash.  Punched flowers- the green ones are a Martha Stewart punch.  Parchment butterflies (any bits of parchment I have left I use either my flower punches or butterfly punches ).  Peeloff sentiment and gems added.

I am entering this into-

Cropstop challenge # 64 - flourishes

Cute card Thursday: Challenge 209 - Anything goes

More flowers

Hi again

Just wanted to show you this as I am so pleased with it.
The big flowers are made with my Spellbinders die and the smaller ones are using my punches with tiny pearls added to the centre that have been cut off the string added on the wrap.  I do think that keeping to one colour and tones of it makes a card look so classy.  The wrap around undoes to allow the opening of the card or it will just slide off.

Ribbons in different colours - cream and brown (this one was coloured with my Promarkers) I read somewhere just to buy white or cream ribbon and colour it for whatever project you were doing.

I have not added any sentiment as I am now sure what occasion to give it for yet.  One that I may use it for is when my younger  sons partner has the baby.  I know the colours seem unusual for a baby (Girl) card but she wants to do all the cot and pram in beiges so I  thought this be very suitable for her.  Then once she has had the baby I would add the date, weight etc on the inside.

I hope you like it, please let me know.  Thanks

xxxxxx

Rain has Stopped

Morning All

At last the rain has stopped and the sun is shining once more.  My goodness - when it rains here in Spain - it certainly rains.  One of my ceramic pots on the roof is full to the brim of water and it is about 15 inches deep, so that tells us how much rain fell yesterday, no wonder there were floods in some places.

I did get quite abit of crafting done though, so it wasn,t all bad.

This one is another Forever Friends stamp and coloured with my Promarkers.  I only have afew FF stamps so I use this one quite alot.  Once again I have made an easel card and covered the bottom with FF paper.  The top is a green textured card that has been in my stash for years ( and I mean years, I remember buying it in a shop in Liverpool,  A3 sheets  - 1 green and 1 pink) and on top of that more FF paper in a bigger spot design.  Added a peeloff sentiment - Happy Birthday-  and a lovely ribbon with a star brad.  Just behind the image I have added little bits of doily that I could not throw out - I try to use all bits up and not throw anything away.

I am entering this into -

Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - 3D/ Decoupage
Crazy Challenge # 111 - Go green

Boat decoupage

Hi all
My goodness, it is still raining here, thats over 15 hours of solid rain.  There are floods in Torrevieja, pictures show levels upto the doors on caravans.  I am told it is the time of year for these rains and they may go on for afew days. Last year the local council cleared the river banks near us in anticipation of these rains, but they never arrived.




So I will just have to stay in and craft -  Ooooh how will I cope?!!!!!!!!!

So here is another card I,ve put together.  When I am sat watching TV at night, I am always cutting out decoupage or making flowers.  I put all the decoupage that I cut out in a box, and then when I need a particular image I have a look through and see what there is.  I decided I needed to make afew Kiddies cards so this is the first -

Well this is one card I can`t put any flowers on.!!!!!

I am going to enter this in -

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge # 124 - Red White and Blue

Recycling (green) and Tilda

Hi all
Gosh what a horrible day here in Spain, its been raining for about 12 hours and the rivers are running down the roads.  We will not be able to get out for a walk today so I think it will just be a quick visit to the supermarket in the car.  We will have to  empty the recycling bin too as it is full of tins, bottles and cartons and now it,s full of water too.

Today card is another Tilda on a A5.  Backing paper is Hot off the Press `Nostalgia` range that were a freebie with a mag.  Organza spotty ribbon and more home made flowers, both quilled and punched. The punched flowers I always use off cuts, bits of ribbon I always use from anywhere (hanging tabs inside clothes).  Tomorrow I will be posting some cards using the negatives from cutting with my diecuts.  I cant bear to throw anything away.  John calls me  a hoarder.

Hope you like it.

I am entering this into-

Simply Magnolia Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Bingo (ribbon - free- punched shape)

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Butterflies & Flowers

Hi again

I have just finished this card -  a double easel - one half is using the some of the quilled flowers I made last night and a `peel-off``  `Just For You`

and the other half has a die cut butterfly from the wonderful die I won from Joanna Sheen blog candy afew weeks ago, isn,t it gorgeous? (I,ve just had to delete `gorgeous` twice as all my sentence was `gorgeous`)  LOL.

I have tried to photograph it close up to show you in more detail, the flowers and the butterfly.  The bit that took me the longest was sticking all those tiny petal gems on in the corners.

Isn,t it GORGEOUS? Haha.

I have put the letters MUM on the petals of the flowers inside.  As I have already sent my Mothers Day cards I thought I would keep this general so that it could be used as a Birthday card or just to let Mum know I am thinking of her.

I am going to enter this in-

Cropstop Challenge # 63 - Butterflies

Papertake Weekly - One for the Girls or Mum

Moving Along With The Times # 140 - Special Lady