My last card for today is for another sister in law. Her birthday is not until december but I got a bit carried away with my new stamp and had to make it for someone.
Once again I`ve scored and added pearls and the background paper is from papermania.
Just going to check what other colours sweetpeas come in lol
This is the second card made with the sweetpea stamp and is for my sister in law. I`m sure that sweetpeas come in this colour but as its her favourite colour ( I think ) who cares.
I did a bit of scoring on the background to give it some texture, the backing paper is from shabby princess and I`ve added some pearls.
One day last week, after visiting Mum in the home and feeling pretty miserable in the rain, I decided to pop into one of the craft shops in town. It`s actually a fabric and dress making shop but they sell quite a bit of craft stuff so I thought I`d cheer myself up a bit. I couldn`t see any stamps in the shop and when I asked I was told that they were all upstairs and were half price so go and have a good rake. Well, rake I did and look what I found. They are by ART-KURE and should have been £9.99. I`ve never heard od art-kure stamps before but believe me they stamp up beautifully. I`d actually had my eye on some gorgeous sweetpea stamps from FLOURISHES.ORG but as they only sell in u.s.a. the postage is more than the stamps. I am so pleased with myself for finding these stamps, I`m almost beside myself
Any way it`s Mums birthday at the end of the month so this is the first card I`ve made. I`m really chuffed with it. Just wish my photographing skills would improve lol
Hi all, I`m back from my bank holiday break, well rested and raring to go. While I was away I made this card for my eldest daughters birthday which is on thursday. She loves poppy`s and the colour red so I`m hoping she likes this card. The poppy`s are a digi stamp from stamping sketchers which I coloured with marvy brush pens. I added some black glitter to the centres to make them pop. The background is done with the cuttlebug swirls and I added some black pearls for effect.
No card again I`m afraid. We have a caravan near York which we get away to whenever we can but usually bank holidays are a no no.They get booked up months in advance so we don`t even bother trying. Anyway, we mentioned it last time we were there and lo and behold... they had a cancellation. So I`m off on my jollies tomorrow til monday. Gonna do nothing but sit on my backside read and make cards.
See you all soon. Have a great bank holiday weekend
In one of my older posts I told you that I had given up my job. Well I thought I`d try to explain my reasons for this, partly because, although I`d given it a lot of thought, I feel a teeny bit guilty.
My Mum was diagnosed with alzhiemers disease 9 years ago and just over a year ago my Dad had to admit defeat and place her in a home.Although Mum is now at the stage where she doesn`t know who she is let alone us, we still visit her regularly. This means that my Dad is on his own now and to be honest he`s doing a sterling job of keeping the house clean and feeding himself. I thought it would be nice to have more time to spend with both of them while I still can.
I also have 3 grandchildren, Ruby, the youngest is just turned a year and I want to spend time with them too. They`re not children long enough as it is. My eldest grandaughter Charlotte is 13 going on 25 already and Nathan my beautiful grandson is growing up fast.
I have a couple of medical issues that are certainly not serious but can be quite painful sometimes ( actually I think I`m going bad from the neck down) and some of them I can`t even pronounce let alone spell.And, normal people get tennis elbow so how on earth did I manage to get GOLFERS ELBOW???
Any way in short I`ve only been left work for 5 weeks and already I don`t know how I found the time to go to work in the first place.
Right I`ve got that off my chest... still feel guilty though!!!
My last card for today is for another sister in law. Her birthday is not until december but I got a bit carried away with my new stamp and had to make it for someone.
