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Something new

I love learning new techniques.  Over the last week or so I have been trying to improve my rubber stamping.  More to the point, I have been trying to improve the colouring of my stamped image. I have tried coloured pencils, paints & pens but have had limited success . . . . then I came across Copic markers – all I can say is wow (and why didn’t I try them before??).

I love the way that you can blend the colours (though this took a bit of practice!!)



I am pleased with the results that I have got so far and I am looking forward to practicing a bit more with these markers.

A handbag

As regular readers know, my MIL keeps all the cards that I make for her and my FIL in a handbag.  Occasionally, I try to get a handbag somewhere into the theme of the cards that I make for her. (Mother’s Day 2010)

This year, I made a handbag to use as the gift wrap for her present.

Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to those celebrating today (our Mother’s day isn’t until May here).

Here is the card that I made for my MIL

I made each rose – time consuming but well worth the effort.

Dinner gift

It is customary here to take flowers or a nice pot plant when going to friends for dinner.

We had been invited to dinner by our newly married friends and we decided to do something a little different to the norm – but it still involved a pot plant.

1 year on

It is a year today since we said goodbye to our MLC Winnie. 

21

This weekend, my cousin’s son celebrated his 21st birthday – where have the years gone??

The design for the card was based around the Chinese symbol for “good luck”.

Valentine’s card

Hope you all had a lovely day yesterday.  DH bought me a lovely Valentine’s card and we had Chinese takeaway for dinner – yum!

In true Krafted Keepsakes style, I made DH’s Valentines card.  DH loved his card and I quote “it has the wow factor”.  Nice to know I can still surprise him after all these years!

 

Happy Valentine’s day

Happy Valentine’s day – have a wonderful time with your “someone special”

Snorlax update

Here is the latest picture of Snorlax, taken on the 1st February. As you can see, he continues to thrive and seems to be growing daily.  We think he is about 2 months old now (best guess).

Birthday & Ruby Anniversary

Yesterday our friends, Paul & Hazel celebrated their Ruby Wedding anniversary and Hazel celebrated her birthday too.





Apologies for the lack of blog posts recently – I am just getting over a nasty bout of flu.

paul said...

we loved them and will be special in our collection of cards, thank you so much

8 February 2011 20:17

So special

Last week I celebrated my birthday.  I had a wonderful time – pampered and spoilt by DH & DS (thank you boys x x ).   I had lots of lovely cards and presents and I received a beautiful handmade card from my dear friends, Paul and Hazel.  As you may already know from previous posts, Paul and Hazel have taken up card making together and their creations are wonderful.

This is the card I was lucky enough to receive last week and I think it is the first card that I have ever had with my name on it. It is a joint effort (I made sure that I checked this out with Paul so that credit could be given correctly). I love the fact it has cats on it, especially one grey and one ginger (just like my terrible twosome!!).  I love the unusual background and have asked Paul where he found it.  All in all, a stunning card – thanks to you both x x

First birthday of 2011

My MIL and I both have birthdays in the first couple of weeks in January.
As usual, I have made MIL’s cards – one for Mum and one for Nan.  I have used a variety of techniques and I am pleased with the results.  Hope Mum likes them too, especially as she keeps all her handmade cards  (see here).  It is largely due to the comments from Mum, my dear aunt and my dear friend Paul that Krafted Keepsakes came to be (thank you x x ).

Happy birthday Mum! x x

Mastered!

As you will know from an earlier post, DH made 3 large florist bows for me as I couldn’t seem to manage it myself.  I was thrilled with his creations and very surprised as DH is not at all crafty.  However, I refused to be beaten. 

Having watched DH making the bows, I decided to have another go myself.

Result!! Florist bow mastered!!

Snorlax

Finally, a picture of my baby plec!

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a very

happy & healthy 2011!!

Message from me: I am not sitting at my 'puter 1 minute into the New Year - this is a scheduled post and as this is posting I will be seeing in the New Year with a drink in hand!!

Fishy news. . . .

My two bristlenose plecs have been busy making babies – well, they have been practicing a lot and the eggs have failed to survive. (See here)

On Tuesday evening, I was sitting at the computer and I happened to glance over to the fish tank where I saw something unexpected. On top of the “beehive” was a tiny fish!  On closer inspection, I discovered, to my amazement, that it was a bristlenose plec.  Obviously, “Daddy” plec has mastered the care of his eggs and one has survived.  Baby plec has been (temporarily) named Snorlax by DS.

Further investigation revealed another batch of eggs underneath the bog wood, being well guarded by “Daddy” plec.  I wonder if Snorlax will soon be joined by other baby plecs.

As soon as I can get a picture of Snorlax, I will post it on here for you all to see.  He is currently 1cm long and very camera shy!!  I hope (fingers crossed) that he survives.

Happy Birthday

Today is my FIL’s birthday.  He is a fan of jazz, which I used as a theme for his birthday cards.

Season’s Greetings

Merry Christmas

and a

Happy New Year!!

A Christmas Wedding

Friends of ours are getting married today.  How lovely – a Christmas wedding, but not in all this snow and cold but in warmer climes in South America!!

Using one of my wedding themed rubber stamps, I stamped the image onto parchment.  I then spent hours (well, it felt like it!) carefully embossing on the reverse to raise the image. I then added the colour.  The parchment piece was then mounted on the silver frame and the whole thing was glued to a self-cut aperture card blank.