Keeping it in the family

Hello folks, hope you're having a lovely weekend.

Its so nice to see some sunshine. Today is a sad day for me and my family, as its a whole year since my Dad passed away from cancer. I still can't believe that a year has passed by so quickly and I'd like to thank all my friends and family for their ongoing support - you're all wonderful!

With this in mind I was pleased to see a "card for a man or boy challenge" over at Allsorts this week....this card is for my Dad...

This cheeky little chappie reminds me of my Dad quite a bit....althought the image has a lot more hair than Dad had!! Dad was a complete handy man....complete with lots of tools! There wasn't anything he wouldn't try and fix himself!

I've spent this morning with my mum and my sister and her hubby at Wisley Gardens, a beautiful place that we visited with Dad when he was well. We wandered around the gardens and bought lots of plants between us.

After this I've had some time to myself, so I did what makes me happiest....I baked some cupcakes and made some cards!! Here is my next card...

I'm pleased with how this card turned out, the LOVT image is really cute and these papers are lovely new ones that I got free with a magazine. I've added a punched flower and a little glitter. I'd like to enter this card in the following challenge:

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Card for Mum

DYSU - use a flower

Lili's Little Fairies - your favourite craft tool (my flower punch)

Finally I've made a card for the medals and monarchs challenge over at Sir Stampalot this month....

I haven't got any olympic or jubliee inspired craft items in my stash......so I decided to go with the colours of the Union Jack....red, white and blue.....these are  colours we're going to see a lot of this summer!! I also decided to add a cup of tea.....after all...what can be more British than a cup of tea??

Pop by all the blogs mentioned to see all the gorgeous DT cards that have been created for us this week!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Soooo sweet!

Hello campers...hope you're having a good week so far!

I have a sweet little card for you this evening that I'm actually quite pleased with....

Isn't it cute?? The layout for this card comes from the fab Arlana at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.....isn't it cool? Although my twine is a tad bit wonky!! And looking at it more carefully so are my squares!!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - fab sketch

Cute Card Thursday - flower power

Simon Says Stamp - tag it - either make a tag or feature one on your card.....mine is tiny (its on the sweet jar)...but I've made it pop a little by attaching it with a 3D sticky pad

Pop by all the blogs above to see some really gorgeous DT cards!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Happy Mother's Day

Hello everyone....hope you're all well.

This has been my first post in a while...its been a bit hectic recently and I've got a wonderful cough that gets worse at night time, so I'm exhausted! This morning is the first time I've crafted in over a week! I suddenly realised that I haven't got a Mother's Day card...yes I know I'm a bad daughter!!

We're taking mum to The Savoy for afternoon tea today, its become our tradition that we take her to London for tea every Mother's Day...to be honest its becoming quite an expensive tradition, but we all love it! We've been to The Savoy once before...in fact it was the first year we took mum to tea and we had such a wonderful time. The hotel reopened last November after their refit and we decided we should try them again! Anyway, here is my card for mum...

This is one of the mini cards which I love! The more I use them the more I realise just how much you can fit on them! I've created quite a simple card here, but I love that flowery paper and so I wanted to make that a focal point. I've also used a pre-cut daisy, which I added a little yellow centre to.

I'd like to enter this card into two challenges this week:

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Flowers for Mum

Allsorts - Blooming Blossoms

Right, I better start getting ready for tea...I've got to put my gladrags on! I'd like to wish all the Mums out there a wonderful day, I hope you're all being spolit rotten!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

A little Glitz!

Ohhhh...I've had such a lovely evening! I've been grumpy all day (not sure why and I really should say to my poor work colleagues who had to put up with me!) and so I decided to come home and make some cards. A couple of people have asked me to make them cards for them and I bought a craft magazine today at lunch....so with lots of inspiration I got to work!

I think thats the thing I love about card making the most.....it's soooo relaxing. I can get lost for hours at a time trying out new techniques, making some old favourites....rumaging through my stash!

I also had time to make a card for some challenges.....

I decided to use the lovely sketch given by Papertake Weekly this week....its nice and simple....I like simple sketches!

The flower is from the craft magazine, made using an accordion-fold on a long strip of coloured paper. You secure it at the back with a little bit of card, which also helps you stick it in place. It was a little fiddly, and you'd need an expanding envelope to send it, but I think it looks great.

You'll note I went down the girlie route for this card! I love that spotty ribbon! I've added glitter around the sentiment and glitter on the centre of the flower. There is also a sequin sewn onto the ribbon. All this glitz is for the latest challenge at My Time to Craft where the theme is Glitter and Glitz! We all know I love a little bit of glitz!

Take a peek at both blogs to see all the gorgeous DT cards!

Anyway, I think I'm going to head back to my craft desk and get a few more cards made...there are lots of Christmas challenges out there at the moment!

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment to let me know you've visited and I'll pop by your blog to say hi!

Wedgie xxx

Time for some crafting!

Evening all - this weather is soooo gorgeous isn't it? I hope you all had a lovely weekend - most of mine was spent outside in the sunshine...so tonight I was determined to come home and make at least one card! So here's my summery delight.......

This card fits in with no less than four different challenges! Yes, I'm impressed with myself!! Ha, ha!

Allsorts - Embossing

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Strawberries & Cream

Magical Crafts - Flower power

Cupcakes Craft Challenge - the gorgeous sketch

This was a fun sketch to use, I love how the circle pokes out from all the rectangular shapes. I used strawberry pink and cream colourings to give a summery feel to the card. I've never embossed before, I used a stencil to create the butterful and I really like how it looks - I'll have to start embossing more! Finally I have my three cute little flowers and flowers on one of my backing papers....I hope that's enough flowers for the ladies at Magical!

Right, its still nice and early so I'm off to make some more cards while I'm in the mood!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Handmade Flower!

Me again! Two posts this evening! I've just thought that I probably won't get a chance to post again until after the bank holiday so I thought I'd post another challenge this evening......

....over at Cute Card Thursday they have a lovely challenge this week where they want to see cards featuring something we've made ourselves. The DT have created all sorts of cards with lovely handmade embellishments, take a peek here to see them.

For my birthday I got a fab craft book that demonstrates all kinds of craft techniques.....one of my favourites is beaded flowers. I've made flowers using seed beads and wire before, but I only managed the outline. This book showed me how to create the actual petals! I've made a really small flower that I thought would look quite cute on a card, so I gave it a bash and came up with this.....

My fab brother-in-law tried to fix my scanner this evening, despite all his efforts its still not right and so I've resorted to my camera again this evening.....hence the funny pink tone to the picture!!

Once I got the hang of the threading, making the flower was quite simple and I think the end result looks quite good. I've used a selection of blue papers for this card and I coloured the image in using my watercolour pencils. The sentiment is a stamped image and I added some sticky gems to the top corner because it looked a bit empty!

I've had a lovely evening - whilst Jim was fixing the computer, Lorna and I iced some cakes that I'd made. I got icing equipment for my birthday so we decided to try it out!

Here are the results....our mum took this photo and it took several attempts and lots of laughing to get this one! Lorna is holding some coffee cupcakes and I've got some lovely vanilla ones in my sticky mitts!

Anyway, I can't believe how late its got.....I'm off to bed now!!

Thanks for stopping by....hope you have a lovely weekend whatever you're up to!

Wedgie xxx

Going round in circles!

Oh my goodness! I have just spent the last 20 minutes trying to leave a comment on the Creative Cottage Blog!! Goodness knows what my computer is up to at the moment, and I don't know how many times I submitted my comment....sorry Tracy!! I was literally going round in circles! This is rather fitting really considering the theme for this week's challenge at Creative Cottage is circles!!! Ha, ha!

The lovely ladies would like to see projects that include circles and the DT have come up with some wonderful creations....you should really go and take a peek! While there you should also hop over to their main blog to see the new kit they've just released...its so cute....it features baby Ellie and family.

Here is my card for the challenge:

I've used a pre-cut flower shaped card, along with a selection of papers from the Creative Cottage, a pink pencil, a pink sticky gem and some pink glitter glue....I should have entered this in a pink challenge really!!

I started by colouring the edges of the card in pencil, I then cut out some pink patterned paper in the shape of the flower and attached it. Next I punched five circles out of another piece of patterned paper (which features more circles!) and stuck them in place before adding my flower centre. I used a sticky pink gem in the middle and dotted the glitter glue around the petals for added sparkle.

I learnt something new today.....I've always wondered what colour bra is best to wear under a white top...black and white bras both seem to show through the top! This morning I tried a grey bra (I bought it grey honest, it wasn't a washing accident!) under my white top and I was amazed that this was perfect! Nothing showed through at all!! Thats my top tip for the day!

I'd also like to recomend something that I've recently discovered...although if you like them as much as I do you might not forgive me for the recomendation.....Cadburys caramel buttons are gorgeous!! Like giant chocolate buttons, but with some gooey caramel in them too!! You might have to give the packet to someone else to look after though as they are very moreish...or maybe thats just me!!

Right, I'd better get going...I'm cooking dinner for my sister and her hubbie tonight....then Lorna and I are going to make cakes! Yummy!

Thanks for stopping by today.
Wedgie Xxx

Ohhhh...pretty dress!!

Evening all! Another late one for me, but its been worth it!

When I Twittered earlier this evening I said that my Christmas cards were calling again...and that I wanted an army of mini penguins tonight...well I'm not too sure what happened, but I haven't got my mini army!!

Instead I made a load of Birthday cards....a bit like this one......I was very pleased with myself as tonight I used up lots of little odds and ends of paper. Its very satisfying...turning something little and cast aside probably destined for the bin (shock horror...anyone who knows me knows that I never through paper out....even the tiny bits!) into a pretty card that will make someone smile!

FABRIC TIME!

After that I decided that I wanted to get a fabric fix as well....so I started looking through a new book I've just bought which shows you how to make mini toys....and I got all excited!!

After a flurry of material, ribbon and glue (yes I used fabric glue for the first time!)...I was left with this little beauty.....

......can you tell that I am a little bit pleased with myself?? This cute little dress has a front and a back (althought the front is much prettier!!), it is stuffed to give the skirt fullness and is embellished with a felt flower and a button belt! I've used fabric glue at the top and the bottom, and I've used a blanket stitch down the sides.

Its not perfect....but not bad for my first go!! Practice makes perfect as the saying goes and I'm going to have great fun making more of these!

Anyway, I just wanted to share my latest makes with you - thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy,

Wedgie xxxx