Colourful Cowgirl

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. We have had a lovely week with our grandsons here, and are looking forward to a day out with more of the family tomorrow.

Today's card is one I made for mums friend who had her birthday this week. She teaches line dancing classes, so mum asked for a couple of cards for the class members to sign and this is one of them.

I used my Silhouette Studio software for the main design, taking the cowgirl image from a cut file and adapting it so I could print it. I then added text around it and printed it with the laser printer.

I used the Rainbow Decofoil over the print and ran it through my Minc machine before cutting it out with a large scalloped circle die.

I found the paper in a Simon Says Stamp kit, which just worked really well with the image, and then added some embroidery twine with a cowboy boot charm, a little tassel and some initial beads. This can be removed from the card to use on a keyring.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Old coin keyring

Good morning all, hope you are well. Today's post is a bit different, just to show a little key ring gift that I made for a friend at work for her birthday.

It may seem a little odd to add money to a key ring, but she saves 50p pieces, and collects all the unusual ones that are released every so often, here in the UK, so I thought it would appeal. 

I remembered I had a very old 50p from 1978, much before they were made smaller, so I used that one and a more modern one from 2008 for two of the charms. 

To keep them looking nice, I cleaned them with silver cleaner, then I coated the coins with clear gel varnish and heat set it under a UV lamp. This gives them a nice smooth finish and will stop them from marking anything, as coins can be really dirty.

I then added a couple of pretty beads and a scrabble tile with her initial on, to finish it off.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Keyring gifts

Good morning all and happy Tuesday. Well that weekend flew by quicker than I can spend money on craft ;o)) OK not quite but it went pretty quick. As Jude said yesterday Joe has eventually moved in to his new home, so we spent the weekend getting things sorted for the move. I saw Jude for a few mins last night and she assures me she is fine:o). It will be difficult these next few weeks while Joe gets settled and Jude finishes packing the house up to come to ours. But we will look after her and when she gets too mardy I'll pull her back into line as usual. Lol ROFL, I've never been able to do that so don't think it's likely to start now lol. 

Anyway enough waffling, these are the little gifts that Jude asked me to make for Joes school transport driver and escort. 

 

 

This first one was for Margaret, nice and girly,

 

 

and this one is for Bill.

 

 

I also made a couple of little gift boxes to put them in.

 

 

I don't make boxes very often but with the help of my Ultimate Pro they are really easy. So think I'll make a few more for little gifts instead of buying gift bags etc.

 

Anyway that's all from me today. Thanks for stopping by.

 

See you soon.

 

xxx

 

 

 

 

A commission and a new addition

Woo hoo it's Friday!!!! It has been a long week even though I've only worked two days. These bank holidays really throw me out of whack!

I'm still not getting in the craft cave very much.  In fact apart from Izzy's birthday cards I haven't done anything all week.  What I did do was commission a piece from Jen for Joe.

When he moves into his house his car is going with him so I wanted a new key ring.  This is what Jen came up with.

I love it and hope you do too.

The other big news is the arrival of the newest member of the family earlier today.  Please say a big hello to Ronnie.

His pedigree name is Lazy Boy Blue but Ronnie suits him better lol!  The other dogs weren't really sure what to make of him.  Jackson wanted him to play, Rosie stood all over him and Molly kept out of the way after her initial sniff.  The next few weeks are going to be interesting lol.

TTFN Jude xx