paul said...
paul said...
Isn’t this a stunning card – made by Hazel (Thank you!)
Lesley @ Krafted Keepsakes said...
This is from our dear friends, Paul & Hazel and is one of Hazel’s lovely creations (or maybe Paul made it??). Hazel recently got some new “toys” to create with. See here for more of her (their??) creations. I’m not sure who has been card making and therefore, who the credit should go to – I know it is Hazel’s hobby but also know, from reading Paul’s blog, that he couldn’t resist having a go too! Anonymous said...It seems that my two plecs have been getting down & dirty. When I turned the tank light off tonight I saw something strange in the tank – further investigation revealed a cluster of eggs!
The eggs can be seen in the picture, just next to the plant pot and with “daddy” plec keeping a watchful eye over his babies to be. Isn’t nature wonderful?
For my regular readers, you will remember that back in February we had a chimney fire. (For those of you that aren’t, the story is here)
Six months, one week and one day later, I am relieved and pleased to say that the chimney has finally been fixed. Back in February we were issued with a prohibition notice – we were banned from using our fireplace. Well, we were banned but that didn’t mean to say we couldn’t. If we carried on using our fireplace and something else happened then a) we weren’t covered by the insurance and b) we would have to pay all the fire brigades costs. Needless to say – we didn’t use the fireplace! All we are waiting for now is a visit from the fire brigade’s safety officer to check that everything is in order and the ban is lifted.
The repair of the chimney took less than one day – the other six months and one week has been spent “communicating” with the insurance company, waiting for everyone and his mate to inspect the damage, make their reports and then decide whether to pay out or not. We even had one “inspector” come to see if we actually had a chimney – he must have been one of the worst people we have ever had to deal with. He spent just 10 minutes in the house, looked at a previous inspection report (which he then made his own) and barely spoke to us. How nice!! We seem to have spent the last six months dealing with people who say one thing and then do the complete opposite (my favourite sort of person, preferably on toast!).
So at long last, the saga of the chimney, that reached nightmare proportions at times, is finally over.
Roll on the winter (well, not too quickly , as it would be nice to have a bit of summer) and cosy Sunday afternoons in front of the fire.
Happy Father’s Day! (Sorry it’s a day late!!)
DH had the Father’s Day he wanted – nice & quiet, doing what he pleased with a healthy dose of football watching thrown in for good measure!
As usual, I made cards for DH and my FIL. I didn’t get around to photographing the card I made for DH but I did manage to get a picture of the other one.
Well, best get on . . .lots to do today before the football starts!
A friend (and colleague of DH) is retiring. DH asked me to make a retirement card and I was stunned when he told me who it was for as I didn’t believe that he was anywhere near retiring!
I used some pretty butterfly paper as a background and used the dictionary definitions for “happy” and “retirement” as the basis for the design.
I find that I make a lot of anniversary cards between May and September. It becomes increasingly difficult to come up with ideas, especially as I like to make the cards unique.
For this one, I made a woven raffia heart, added some white paper daisies with button centres. Only using nice, fresh summer colours made the design stand out (and I did hear that the recipients like it too!)
What do you think??
Well, it’s another year on and another card was required (where does the time go?).
Deciding on a cat theme (what a surprise!!), I came up with this – 2 cats side by side with their tails entwined.
Friends of ours celebrated their 50th birthdays this weekend.
I decided to use the 1960’s as a starting point for their cards.
I found pictures of the two of them and using a nifty little program that I found on the net, gave then the “Warhol” treatment. I then cut the numbers from white card, mounted them on 3d foam stickers and their cards were done. On the inside I added a heart decorated pocket (colours to suit the individual card) for the gift.
I hope they like them and that they enjoyed their birthday celebrations.
It wouldn’t have been right to have made a card for the grandparents-to-be and not for the parents-to-be would it? And of course, I couldn’t miss out on making another card, could I?
I’ve always wanted to make a card with the “baby on board” sign, so I did.
Using my lovely Swiss Dots folder for the embossing and some pale yellow gingham ribbon, it all seemed to come together rather well.
I used the theme of time (as in countdown to the happy event)and my grandfather clock Sizzix die and marking the clock face 3, 6 and 9 (for the months).
I actually managed to get some work done whilst the cats were sleeping – miracles do happen!
To ease my self back into “creativity” mode I trawled the internet for inspiration. I saw this and decided to give it a go.
I made two (as you can see), one for a birthday and one for a thinking of you/get well soon
