I'm back folks!

First of all may I just say thank you to everyone who has contacted me either by phone or email to check that I am well.  

I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have contacted me, concerned for my well being,

Well I am in fine fettle, if a little tired after a very hectic month, the culmination of which was my Ladies Evening last Friday.  I will post more pictures over the coming week and you'll see what's kept me busy.

I am now hoping to settle back into the normal routine and happy to continue blogging!!

So - here's photos of the prototype - version 1 of my flowers for the table decorations.

(You can see by the pictures taken here it was a beautiful sunny day when I

made the first version!)

View from above

Side view

And with the mask added

This is the first attempt of the completed table decoration with the mask added.

The theme for the tables was masquerade if you hadn't guessed!

I'll post more piccies tomorrow.

Nice to be back!

Happy Anniversary Maggie and Ger

Today is my Sister Maggie and Husband Gerald's Wedding Anniversary,

so I wanted to do something a little special for them.

Wish I could take good photos - the colours look so flat here.

Colour combo is Very Vanilla and Gold.

I used the beautiful Fancy Foil Designer Vellum matted onto Gold Foil Sheet.

I used the beautiful new Gold ribbon and added gold hearts,

 punched with the Itty Bitty Accents punch .

"Love" is cut using the retired (but I believe still available in Clearance Rack)

Expressions Thinlits dies.

Happy Anniversary!!

Carol's folded Circle Christmas card.

At last month's Saturday morning workshop, Carol wanted to make a card that she had seen

that was just three Christmas trees made from punched circles of patterned paper.

I showed her how to fold the circles - and here's the result.

The papers are from the Trim the tree DSP stack.

Another quick and easy Christmas card to add to the reasonable sized pile I now have!

Paper pieced Christmas tree.

Something a little different today - a paper pieced Christmas tree.

The papers are from the Trim the Tree DSP stack.

The tree is punched out of the Crumb Cake card, then embossed using the 

Lucky Stars Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

Snowflake stamped in Craft White ink and sentiment in Cherry Cobbler.

( both from Endless Wishes stamp set) 

This was cased from a Training swap that Carol brought to show me,

can't remember whose it was, but let me know and I'll link this to your blog!

Jackie's Birthday

Just for a change from Christmas cards, 

here is the card  that I made for my very good friend Jackie,

whose birthday is today.

Happy Birthday Jackie - have a great day - see you soon!!

All is Calm - washi tape!

I have really taken to this washi tape lark.

First of all, I hadn't a clue what to do with it!

Now I am quite happy too use it in the place of patterned paper

as you can see on this card that I have cased from Pinterest.

Colour combo is Smoky Slate, Pear Pizzazz, Silver and White.

Gorgeous Grunge, Festival of Trees and Petite Pairs stamp sets are used on this card

All is Calm Washi Tape

A Silver Glimmer paper punched star and a couple pf silver sequins and Rhinestones

embellish this design.

Bright and Beautiful

A very CAS card today for you.

Colour Combo is Island Indigo, Pool Party and White

Stamp set Bright and Beautiful and the stars were cut out

using the Stars Framelits dies.

The sentiment is stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with White Embossing powder.

Don't know whether you can see the dazzling Diamonds Glitter

that is the only embellishment used here.

Cased Endless Wishes card

Here's a card that I have cased from my fellow Julie's Jem team member - Allie.

The panel of colour is stamped using just an acrylic block inked with Blackberry Bliss ink.

Really luxurious.  

The snowflakes are stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with

 Gold and Silver embossing powder.

The Polymer stamp set used is Endless Wishes.

The only added embellishment is 3 gold sequins from the sequin trim.

I really love this card and have done it in different colours - I'll show you some of them later. 

Northern Flurry with punched trees

Here's a card that I made with Chris the other week using the Tree punch

with paper from the Trim the Tree DSP stack and 

Northern Flurry Embossing Folder, 

Colour combo is Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, White and Gold.

the stars were cut using the Itty Bitty Accents star punch,

The sentiment is from the White Christmas Polymer stamp set-

can you see that I have curved the sentiment?

You can do this with the polymer stamps - very versatile!

The only embellishment was a spot of Gold Glitz Dazzling Diamonds

in the centres of the embossed snowflakes.

White Christmas

I really love this cute little stamp set - White Christmas,

it's good for those cutie cards that I like to send out to kids and friends alike.

Really quick and easy - even the snow is stamped!!

I used one of the Crumb Cake notecards for this card and stamped the trees using 

Black Memento ink, then coloured the trees and banner with a blender pen and ink pads.

The snow was stamped in white Craft ink and this was also used to sponge the snow on the ground.

CAS but so cute!

Still on a roll!

Yes I am still on a roll with the Christmas card making - 

at this rate I will have finished before Christmas Eve!! Lol!

It's another card using the fabulous Festival of trees stamp set and Tree punch.

You can really make quick and easy cards using these,

but they don't look quick and easy do they?

The colour combo for this cards is

Silver, White and Pool Party,

The matted white layer was debossed using the Polka Dot Embossing Folder

then I flattened out the section where the stamped sentiment was, using a bone folder.

The stamped trees were stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder,

the third tree is punched out of Silver Glimmer paper - as are the stars.

The sentiment is from Bright and Beautiful.

All products are Stampin' Up and available from the current catalogues -

let me know if you would like to order anything.

Glynis's birthday

Today is my good friend and golfing partner Glynis's birthday

and here's the card I have made her.

Another CAS, but really elegant card I think.

I stamped the flourish From the retired stamp set Everything Eleanor) in Mossy Meadow.

Stamped and punched the flowers from Petite Petals in Crisp Cantaloupe,

Crimped the corners, then added the sentiment from Petite Pairs

 and the Rhinestones for the flowers centres.

Voila!!

Happy Birthday Glynis.

Tree Punch and Embossing Folder

I am really going great guns with my Christmas cards this year -

that makes a change, so when you stop seeing them on here I will have finished them all!!

Colour combo is Garden Green,Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake and White.

Trees stamped in garden Green on Crumb Cake using the Festival of trees stamp set.

Punched out with the matching Tree Punch.

Green card embossed using the On Point Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

Papers are from the Trim the Tree DSP stack.

Sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

I think this looks a little Nordic.

Leo's Birthday card

When Chris came over on Wednesday, we had a great day crafting together 

and made a few cards.

We both made birthday cards for her grandson (my great-nephew) ,

Leo - who will be two next month.

Here's the card I made him.

The stamp set used is Zoo Babies, and I think it is extremely suitable for young children.

Colours used : Tangelo Twist, Pool Party, So Saffron, Old Olive and Baked Brown Sugar.

I am really pleased with this card and will use this design again.

Another "Cheerful Christmas" card

I am really on a roll with my Christmas card production, and I am really

fond of the Cheerful Christmas stamp set ( as you may have noticed!!)

Here's another quick and easy design using this stamp set.

Colour Combo is Real Red, Old Olive and Very Vanilla - very traditional.

The imaged was inked with Stampin' Write markers, and the die cut shape is 

made using the Apothecary Accents Framelits.

Another shed card.

You may recall that a couple of weeks ago we made shed cards,

a couple of ladies took their cards home to finish off and I asked them to bring 

the finished cards for me to see.

Here is Janet's shed.

Shed door closed

Shed door open

Close up of inside shed

Didn't she do well!!

Great work Janet!

More Christmas Cheer - from Ann

My friend Ann came to my Saturday morning workshop last month and she

cased one of my cards - changing the colour combo.

Here it is 

Ann changed the colours on this as she didn't like the writing in green -

so she used Lost Lagoon instead, with Real Red and Mossy Meadow.

Textured Impressions Filgree Frame is the embossing folder used again,

it really sets off the greeting - I think it's really classy!

Great job Ann!

Festival of Trees - again!

Yes it's Festival of Trees stamp set again!

The stamp set and matching punch make it quite easy to make very CAS

but still effective cards quickly - and I have to make a few quick cards

because of the number that I send out.  

I cased this card from Pinterest, but have changed the colours totally.

Really simple colour combo - but quite classy I think - Gold and Very Vanilla

(even though in the photo it looks to be a white base card and background!)

I used Watercolour Wonder Washi tape,

The sentiment and the tree were stamped in Versamark and embossed with Gold EP.

(Sentiment from Petite pairs)

Itty Bitty Accents star punch used with Gold Glimmer paper.

Gorgeous Grunge stamp set with Gold Encore ink for the splats

and the finishing touch was 3 gold sequins from the Gold Sequin Trim.

More Endless Wishes

I really am now getting to grips seriously with my Christmas card challenge to myself!

I resolved that I would not be caught out again this year,  making masses of  

Christmas cards in the first two weeks in December.

That said .... here's the latest one in the Endless Wishes series.

The colour combo is Night of Navy, White, Silver and Iridescent Ice.

The snowflakes are from the Endless Wishes stamp set and the sentiment

is from Petite Pairs, stamped in Versamark and embossed in Silver EP, 

along with one of the Four Frames stamps, which was then punched out

with the Decorative Label punch.

All the snowflakes were stamped with Versamark, then

the large ones were embossed with White EP,

the medioum ones were embossed with Silver EP

and the small snowflakes were embossed with Iridescent Ice EP

The only embellishment is the White satin ribbon - I didn't think it need anything else.

I'm very pleased with tyhis little number too!!

Festival of trees

Chris is back from holiday now so we have spent the day together crafting.

Here's what we have made.

The photo really does not do justice to this card. The gold Season's Greeting

sentiment doesn't show up on this very much at all.

The colour combo is Blackberry Bliss, Gold and White.

The stamp set is Festival of Trees and the sentiment is from

Bright and Beautiful.

I really love this card!!