Big Sister Day

Hello again.  Well yesterday my daughter had her 23rd birthday, but she spent most of it with the midwife having a check up and needles :(

We did get together for cake and presents last night, but we are going out for a family meal to a tapas restaurant on Saturday.

As her younger brother isn't able to sort cards etc on his own, I always do something for him.  This understated little card was lovely to make.

I used a couple of matching papers from my scrap stash with some shimmery cream card.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's scripty sentiments (again).

The sister was cut twice and layered to give some substance.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

The Happy Couple

This is another card I made for Cat and Jamie's Wedding last Saturday.

This fun image is Flapper Couple from Tiddly Inks.

I used several vintage style papers to try and match the feel.

  

I also added some extra shaped layers between the papers.

The LOVE sentiment was cut out of a larger piece.

I echoed this on the liner page.

This is another angle.

I added another LOTV sentiment.

We used this card to hold some Euros for their holiday, which were their wedding gift from the family.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Happy Birthday Cat

Good morning. Today is my niece's 22nd birthday, so this is the card I have made from Alan and I. 

Hope you have a brilliant day Cat, happy birthday love. 

It's a Time for Tea Designs digi image. Coloured with Promarkers and then stitched on to some Coredinations card. 

I teamed it with purple paper and some grey embossed card from the stash, and then made a flower from grey fabric and card. This is cut with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, all held together with a big brad.

I added some more ready made flowers and a couple of curly vines cut from the same grey card.

The little rope flower is one that I received as a gift all the way from Thailand.

I added a ready made sentiment and then used a Tim Holtz on the edge die to cut the butterflies for the top. I cut these in a double strip so that it goes all the way inside the card. Then I inked it all up with Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserve Distress Inks. 

I inked all of the rest of edges with Dusty Concord and then finished the card with a couple of little stick on butterflies.

Hope you like it, I know Cat does.

See you soon.

xxx

Wedding jewellery

Good morning all and happy Thursday. Hope you are all having a good crafty week. It's my last day at work today, so a little sad. I knew it was only temporary when I took the job last year, but I've been there just over 9 months and I will miss it and all the people. But I'm looking for something else so hopefully it won't be too long. 

Anyway on to today's post. No card today but some jewellery that I have made as a couple of samples.

My niece is getting married later this year so I have made two pearl bracelets for her to look at. One is meant for the bride and the other for her adult bridesmaid. 

They are very simple styles but I know they really like them. Hope you do too.

See you soon, take care. 

xxx

Pretty Muddy Update and some more Christmas Cards

Good morning all, hope you are all having a great weekend. Well we went along to laugh at, erm I mean support Jude, K and Cat yesterday while they did the Pretty Muddy for Race For Life. I can tell you it was definitely muddy but not all that pretty ;o)) lol. But they did it, and we are all extremely proud of them.

 

Here are a couple of pics of the day.

 

Nice and clean and ready to start.....

 

 

and not so clean at the end lol.

 

I have also been making a few Christmas Cards this week. All out of one topper sheet.

 

This is part of the Traditional Christmas kit from Crafters Companion. I don't normally bother with the kits, but this one caught my eye (it was on offer!) so I thought I would give it a go.

 

 

 

 

There are some lovely papers and toppers in the kit and I can see me making a whole lot more cards with this before Christmas.

 

Like I said all of these were made with one sheet of toppers, a bit of backing paper and card and some added ribbon. All really simple, but still pretty and effective. I must admit I particularly like the ones with the background embossing. This was done with the Embossalicious Snowflake embossing folder.

 

Hope you like them too.

 

See you soon

 

xxx

 

 

 

Pretty Muddy

Morning folks.  Yes Jude again.  I may not be in any fit state to blog tomorrow as I'm off to do a 5km obstacle course to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.

 

You may remember back in June my niece Kayleigh and I did the Race for Life 5k in Clumber Park.  This is another of the RfL events but with obstacles and MUD!!  My daughter Catherine is also joining in the fun.

 

Find out more here - http://raceforlife.cancerresearchuk.org/pretty-muddy/index.html

 

I'm sure Jen will take pictures to share with you tomorrow as she and the rest of the family are coming along to laugh cheer us on.  Can I do it?  I don't know, but I'm definitely going to "give it a try".

 

Hopefully I'll be back to tell you all about it on Monday.

 

TTFN Jude xx