Boofle and Donkey

Well only 29 days until Christmas and I finally made a start on the presents :)  I've contributed to a few which were purchased a while ago but this weekend saw my first proper shopping trip.  I've not got much to get this year and it doesn't feel right.  My son usually needs to buy for school, after school club, his respite centre and his carers.  This year he has left all that behind so I only need to buy for the staff at his house!  I'm sure I'll end up buying more than I need lol.

For my card today I have returned to the stash left over from last year.  In among that was the Boofle decoupage (the proper stuff you have to cut out with scissors and everything) lmao.  This is what I made.

I made up the donkey decoupage and layered it with some paper from the Boofle pack.

I don't use peel offs very often and we have loads left over from different goody bags we've acquired, so I thought I'd try them here.  Surprisingly they worked quite well.

There were also some Boofle stickers in the Christmas stash so I used some of these to complete my card.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Boofle

Morning again.  Hope you are having a lovely weekend.  It is still cold and wet here, but it hasn't stopped the firework parties every night this week.  It sounds like we live near a war zone!

 

Today's card is one of my favourite characters, Boofle.  He is a cuddly doggy made from Grandad's old jumper, and he has lots of fun getting into mischief with his friends.

 I started with my usual 6x6 card blank and layered holly paper over gold textured card.  I used a coordinating piece of paper on some glossy gold card as an accent, then added Boofle on 2 layers of green card (one matt, one glossy)

 The Boofle topper is made of 5 layers of decoupage.  Not your modern ready cut stuff either.  Oh no, this was cut with my own fair hand lol :)  Here's a close up so you can see the layers.  I used sticky pads for the top layers but silicone for the base.

Once I was happy with the placement I added a sentiment and ribbon bow.

 

 Isn't he a sweetie?  TTFN Jude xx

 

Carolling by moonlight

Hello again everyone.  Hope you are warmer than I'm feeling at present.  The cold seems to be seeping into the old bones and I take ages to thaw out.  Oh well only 5 months until Spring lol. 

Today marks two momentous occasions on this little blog - my 150th post and our first Bloggerversary!! Who would have thought it?  I think we've done quite well to blog every single day since day one - it's quite a feat. 

Today I was going to bring you something fitting of the occasion, however we have had a stressful few weeks with a serious family illness and crafting has been low on our priorities. Instead all I managed was another card featuring those Forever Friends bears. We have lots of papers and toppers left over from last year and I am trying to use some of them up.  Unfortunately it is just so tempting to buy some of the lovely new ones, so I will probably have the same issue next year ;)

I took two co-ordinating papers from a Boofle pack and layered them on a 6x6 blank, with a piece of stripy ribbon sandwiched between.  The topper was matted on some green cardstock and added to the right hand side of the blank.

I found a sentiment in a matching colour and a ribbon bow to bring out more of the green in the background. 

 

The buttons were an after thought but the corner needed something so they are what I found out.

What do you think?  TTFN Jude xx

TGI Friday

It's been quite a week for us with Joe leaving home, two birthdays, a wedding and a party, then Father's Day to finish it off.  I'll be glad to go back to work for a rest lol.

As Jen said yesterday Mum celebrated her 65th birthday.  I managed to get some time from work to take her out for lunch and pick some plants from a garden centre that has a great restaurant and home made cakes.  We had a lovely lunch then at tea time we did presents, cards and more cake!!

We also had cards and presents for my great niece, Lily May, who is 5 today! She loved her presents but in particular the roller skates and a bike she received from us all.  I can't share her cards as she hasn't seen them yet, so these are what I made for Mum.

The first is from Joe and uses the Docrafts Vintage note collection.

The second is from me and is more of my Hunkydory stash.  I'm actually starting to make a dent in it lol!

I also did cards for my daughter and grandaughter to give her.  

Mum loved them all and I hope you do too.

TTFN Jude x

Better late than never!

Good morning, hope you are all well today. I finally have pics of Dad's birthday cards from last week so I can share them with you. They are all very simple but different too. Dad liked them all so hope you do too.

 

This one is made with Kanban Toppers and borders.

 

 

 

This one is an old favourite Wellington...

 

 

...and the inside.

 

 

I still love Boofle, he really is great for men's cards.

 

 

This one is Hot Diggity, all of these 3 ranges are made by Docrafts.

 

 

 

And finally a Kanban postcard and topper with a small clock face charm.

 

 

 

Like I said, all really simple cards, but sometimes I think that's the best way lol.

 

Thanks for stopping by today, see you soon.

 

xxx