Monochrome mens' birthday card

Here's an old favourite card for a man with a monochrome colour combo - just for a change - you know how much I like my black and white!

Owl Bag Charm

Here's another little Owl project - once again taken from Julie's Owl Class - what would I do without her!! I don't think it needs any explanation - its just the Owl Punch and the Fancy Flower extra large punch, layered up and after punching the hole, coated with a thick layer of Crystal Effects and left to dry overnight.

Tree owls

Hi everyone - well I am still playing with these lovely little owls. My grand-daughter visited yesterday and she loves them too. She made 3 cards, and I did mean to photograph them before she went home, but we left it too late. You will just have to view my efforts.
Here is the card that Julie (my SU Mummy) did for her Owl Class. I wasn't able to attend this, so Christine and I had a go at making this on Wednesday, and I didn't finish mine until last night (after Lexie had gone home!).

Lynda and Julie's Birthday

Today it is two of Julies' Jems birthdays, Lynda and Julie.
I made both of them the same card in two different colourways.
Here is Lynda's card stamped with and matted onto Poppy Parade, with Whisper White and basic Black. - once again I have used the Fast and fabulous Hostess Set and it is the same design as I used the other day. Julie's card is done in Bashful Blue (I won't bore you with a piccie of this as it is the same as the one I have already posted, but has the letter J with rhinestones on instead of the letter B.

Another card for Ethan

Here is the card that I have made to send to Great-Nephew Ethan - using the Pirate ship stamp from Beware Pirates and Play Date DSP for the background. I matted this onto Pear Pizzazz cardstock

Fast and fabulous

Once again I've had a few birthdays this week, and for this card I have used the Fast and Fabulous level two Hostess Gift. Colour combo is Bashful Blue, Basic Black and Whisper white with a few rhinestones just to add a bit of bling to it.

Builder Wheel Birthday Card

I promised to post another card using the builder wheels - well here it is.
It is my great-nephew's 7th birthday on the 15th so I thought I would try making a background using the wheels. I am quite pleased with the effect and of course I couldn't resist putting an owl on! I have used the Party This Way stampset to stamp the banner, threaded the pennants onto linen thread and used rub-ons for the 7 today greeting. For Ethan's name i used the Varsity Alphabet for the capital E and Schoolbook Serif Alphabet for the lower case letters. Colour combo is Marina Mist and Cherry Cobbler on Whisper White.

Japan Tsunami Appeal - Charity Event

Hi everyone.
Yuki, one of the Japanese ladies who attends my Tuesday Class at Gilroyd Community Centre, has, along with some of her Japanese friends, organised a Fundraising Charity Event in Barnsley, next Wednesday 18th May, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Alhambra Centre.
If you have an hour or so to spare next Wednesday, it would be nice if you could go along and support these ladies to raise funds for the Tsunami Appeal. It sounds like a really good day out.
Yuki writes:-
"Being in England, we recently hardly hear about the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan which happened two months ago, but there are still huge number of people who are suffering from the damage.
There are still many aftershocks every day.
Poeple who have lost everything -literally everything- are struggling to live.
As Japanese we want to do something to help them, support them.
So we set up a charity event.
We are going to stand for donation and sell some hand-made bookmarks, accessories,cards and so on...
One of our members is going to show how to do Japanese calligraphy"

Here is a mini poster with details. If you need further information, please go to
Yuki's Blog here
and I am sure she will be able to answer any queries you might have.

Baby Blossoms One sheet wonder

My Tuesday class have played with the Baby Blossoms stampset today and here is the before picture (Eileen's).
They will bring their completed cards to class in a fortnight and I will post the pictures of the finished articles.

Blushing Bride Bag

Until I spotted SJ's mini bag here I had forgotten all about this little bag, which I thought was great for holding tiny bits and bobs. I needed a gift bag today to put a present of a tiny necklace in, so here is my Blushing Bride version.
Like SJ, I received a swap at Convention and did mean to spend some time measuring and making a template to reproduce it. SJ has saved me the time - thank you ever so much SJ - you are a star! I have used the Blushing Bride DSP from the Hostess Gift DSP 6" x 6" stack, plus a 3/4" punched circle and small Boho Blosson in Blushing Bride cardstock. The ribbon for the handle is 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Pretty in Pink - which actually co-ordinates very well.
Once again - thanks ever so much Sarah Jane!

The holidays over!!

Apologies for the lack of postings this week. Got back from our holiday in the early hours of Tuesday morning and its been a frantic time since.
Came home with a sore throat, hacking cough and runny nose and feeling dreadful.
Nonetheless -Tuesday I had my class at Gilroyd Community Centre in the morning then my afternoon Craft Class.
Wednesday Chris (Sis-in-law)and I went up to Leeds to my SU mummy's - Julie's and had a great time making projects using the Big Shot. Then there was my Wednesday evening Craft Class.
Yesterday I met up with my friend Ashley for our monthly walk, then we had a gfreat Lunch at Owston Park Grange.
Went home to make Barry his dinner and then it was my Thursday evening craft class.
Today I have actually managed to get 3 loads of holiday wasking done - just need to get them ironed, then I can get on with some serious crtafting of my own.
Its good to be back home!!

Four Frames thank you

Here's a quick Thank you card that I made using the Polka Dot embossing folder on Pretty in Pink Card, then I used the Four Frames stampset and coloured it in using marker pens to match, then punched out the frame using the matching Decorative Label Punch. Beautiful seam binding ribbon in Old Olive finishes it off.
What would I have done without the new Mini Catalogue??

Springtime Vintage Vogue

I do believe that this is the most used stampset that I own. All my Card Class ladies love it too! Here is another Springtime colour card using Daffodil delight and that great old faithful, Old Olive cardstock, finished off with Old Olive grosgrain ribbon tied in a simple knot - love it!!

Manhatton Flower

Here's another of the "quickie" cards that I made the other day. This time I used the Manhatton Flower Textured Impressions Embossing Folder with the Shimmery White cardstock - don't know if the piccie shows up the Shimmer effect?). I chalked on top of the embossing with Regal Rose chalk and then mounted this on a square of Regal Rose Cardstock. Finished off with the not-so-Basic Pearls, and voila - pretty classy I thought.

Another gerbera card

Here's the second version of the Gerbera card that I made - this time in White, Pretty in Pink and black. This tiome I tried it without the background and I'm not sure whether it works or not. I suppose that if you just want a quick card then this is fine, but if you wanted a stunning card you would use an embossing folder to make a background.

Builder Wheels

Have you seen the builder wheels in the mini catalogue. I bought these straight away, but still have not had time to play with them, other than this card which we made at our all day Regional Training in Leeds. I will come up with another design and post it when completed.

A bunny bookmark

Here's another of Janets bookmarks- I found this on the floor after she had gone home on Tuesday. Heather from Thursday class wanted to make this with her neice and nephew at the weekend, so we punched her all the bits so that she (sorry -they!) can have a play!!

Daisies#2 - Gerbera

This is the first time that I have used this Die. I needed to make quite a few birthday cards quickly before I go away on my holidays and this was just what I needed. I made a few in different colourways, but I think this is my favourite. The die for the gerbera is the Flower, Daisies#2, cardstock is Daffodil Delight and Tangerine Tango with Pear Pizzazz leaves and a centre covered in Champagne Glitter Glass using Crystal Effects. The background is made using the Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Perfect Polka Dots. God bless the bigshot!! How did we ever manage without it?
I think this card looks delicious - good enough to eat - Yummy!!

Chris B's Fish

At Thursday Craft class Chris B brought along this card that she had cased - using the Build a blossom punchand stampset, and the stems off the flowers in the Just Believe Stampset - isn't it great!

Janet's Bookmarks

Janet is a Tuesday Class Lady, she does fundraising for her Church and has been on various blogs to collect ideas for bookmarks. This week she brought us a selection to look at and very kindly allowed me to photograph them for you.
Aren't they super!!