Wedding time

A simple but effective card for our friend’s son that recently married.

Friends

My friend (a colleague of DH), has got a new job.  We’re so pleased for her and of course I wanted to make her a card.
I went with an unusual design for a new job card but nonetheless, I think it works quite well.
It’s based on Art Nouveau, with a parchment letter, mounted on a Swiss dot embossed card blank and some wonderful black loopy adhesive tape, to complete the design.

Birthday Poppies

I love poppies, have a garden full of them and even have a cat named Poppy!

I needed to make a card for my favourite aunty for her birthday and was delighted to see in the October issue of Parchment craft, a card with a poppy design.

I really enjoyed making this card and thought the little 3d butterfly was soo cute.  I added the happy birthday ribbon, I don’t usually use black for this, but I thought it would bring out the middles of the poppies.

Birthday time

Time for DH to celebrate his birthday.

As a budding sax player, his first card was was easy.  A clip art sax image, coloured with Promarkers

Another Zentangle, this time using the word “Dad”

Silver Card

My card for DH – another pop-up box, but this time for our silver anniversary.

21

DS was 21 recently.  Mind you, I don’t feel old enough to be the mum of a 21 year old!!

The first card was a “pop-up”box card.  Three of the flaps were decorated with pics of DS at various ages,  and the front flap was covered in sheet music washi tape with a nice big 21.  Using a 2 and a 1 paper clip for the greeting part, 2 keys and a stamped quote, the card soon came together.  Please note: the personal greeting has been erased using paint shop as I forgot to photograph it before I wrote on it (duh!)

The second card is simply the outline for a number 21 printed on card, then using my Rotring pens, zentangled.  I had great fun doing the zentangles and was pleased with the result.  Mounted onto a gold card (embossed with my gear embossing folder & swiped with a gold ink pad) – a simple but effective result.

48 cupcakes

I needed to make a celebration cake for the anniversary party but I wanted something a bit different.  With a bit of planning, 2 silver trays (from the charity shop) and 48 cupcakes, I ended up with something different!

Silver Roses

This year, I decided to teach my self to crochet.  It was something that I had been unable to master, despite my Mum trying to teach me, yet, she did teach me how to knit.
With much perseverance,  a bit of cussing and a lot of time on the web, I finally managed to make a shawl.  I was so proud of myself.  Two more shawls later, I decide to have a go at crocheting roses – silver roses to be precise.
 


Not bad for a beginner.

A silver bride & groom

A bride and groom figurine, glued to a small cake stand

Silver beads glued around the base (what a job!)

“25” added using paperclips

Based “blinged up”  using small & large gem stones and my gem heat applicator

Project 25

We decided to have a party for our silver anniversary.  Of course, I made the invites.

The 25 was cut using a Sizzix Christmas die (Sizzlits Decorative Strip – stacked words Christmas 658257).  I embossed a white postcard (Textured Impressions Embossing & Stamp Set – Flourish 658280) and I used a silver ink pad to highlight the embossing.  I edged a plain white card with silver dotty washi tape, added some ribbon and hearts with our names – I was pleased with the final result.