Happy Birthday, Audrey

Hi everyone,

This is a card that I made for my next door neighbour's birthday using the Touch of Elegance CD Rom from Cupcakecrafting.

First, I took an A4 piece of white card, scored it at halfway and then scored one of the halves in half again to make an easel card. I matted and layered the bottom of the card, where the verse would be with black card and then a piece of the backing paper from the Cd. I did the same with the easel part that was facing me.

I took one of the toppers and matted and layered this onto black card and then onto a piece of the backing paper placed on black card. I then placed this in a portrait position on the easel part of the card.

For the stopper, I used a box that I made with card that I had printed the backing paper from the Cd and filled this with tealights. I used the Hougie Board to score the lines for the candle box. I used 3 vanilla scented tealights and 2 red berry scented tealights, all from Wilkinsons. The  berry ones complimented the red flower on the bottom corner of the card and also the red in the image. The centres of the flowers which I had, didn't match the card, so I cut out 3 circles, the same size as the centres that came with the flowers. I put 'Dries Clear' adhesive on the circles and covered this with Pee Wee glitter (red/black from Happy Holidays).I then placed the flowers on the box, one at the left hand side and the other two on the right hand side.

I put a verse inside to finish it off.

I hope she likes it.

The Touch of Elegance CD Rom is on the 4 day deal on Create and Craft from Monday 14th January.
     Monday 8am, 10am, 4pm
     Tuesday 9am, 4pm
     Wednesday 10am, 2pm, 7pm
     Thursday 11am, 5pm

See you later.

Wendy
xx

A new baby

Hi everyone,

I have had a request from one of my Feline Playful team members to show the cherub cot that I made a couple of days ago.  Some of the team are from overseas and hadn't heard of a 'Cherub Cot.' I confused Donna when I mentioned it and she went away to look it up on the internet so here it is.

The Cherub Cot was for my son's friend and his partner. Sam gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday 8th January and they are calling her Grace Louise. It made a change from the 21st birthday cards that I have been making for him recently but they take much longer to put together.

Although, the cot was for a baby girl, I decided to make it in a cream colour for a change. I used the template from Arty Farty to make the cot and the presentation box and used double sided A3 card. To stick the card together, I used red liner tape and also Collall glue where the use of wet glue was needed.  I decorated the box with small cream daisy braid around the acetate aperture. The aperture in the headboard of the cot has a cream organza fabric to add effect and above it, I used gold coloured peel offs to put the word 'BABY',

Inside the cot, I made a quilt cover using the same cream organza material that I used in the headboard and edged it with cream lace. The mobile was made using cream card and six cream teddy motifs attached to white thread and a white flower bead. The tag is made from the same cream card, has some ribbon threaded through and the words 'Congratulations Sam and Simon' on one side using gold peel offs to match the wording on the cot headboard, on the other side of the tag, I put the baby's name, date she was born, time and weight again in gold peel offs so that they could hopefully keep it as a keepsake.

I had a deadline in which to make the cot as my son was seeing Simon, the father, at 7.30 on the Thursday to play football. We received a text later that night to say 'Thank you' and that Sam had cried when she saw the cot!!

I'm glad she liked it.

I made a pink one for my friend who became a grandmother for the first time at the end of November, and also one for my hubby's secretary in October. The link is http://wendyhsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/a-new-arrival.html
I also made a white one for a competition in November, which I am pleased to say I won. This one was in white. The link is http://wendyhsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/white-on-white.html

I apologise for the poor quality of the photographs but I was running out of time and had to get the cot there for 7.30!! It was all done in a bit of a rush.

I hope you and my Feline Playful friends like it and thank you for stopping by.

Have a great weekend.

Wendy xx

Cupcakecrafting 4 day deal

Hi everyone,

 Cupcakecrafting have a 4 Day Deal featuring the brand new CD ROM - 'A Touch Of Elegance' on Create and Craft Starting Monday 14th January @ 8:00am with the lovely Lynda Chapman demonstrating.

 

 You can watch this on the following channels:

Sky 671 | Freeview 36 | Freesat 813

There will be a number of shows over the 4 days and to make sure you don't miss a thing, here is a list of all the show dates and times:

Monday 14th January @ 08:00, 10:00 & 16:00
Tuesday 15th January @ 09:00 & 16:00
Wednesday 16t January @ 10:00, 14:00 & 19:00
Thursday 17th January @ 11:00 & 17:00


This 4 Day Deal comprises of our brand new CD ROM - A Touch Of Elegance, 15 Sheets of Elegant Black Card and a multipack of our Elegant Frame Cards - and all for just £19.99!

Hope you can be there.

Wendy xx

 

Allsorts prize

Hi All,

I hope you are all well.

Today I received my prize from the Allsorts Challenge that I won at the weekend. It was a great surprise. There was also a beautiful card from Brenda, one of the coordinators. Here is a photograph of the prize.

 I will have some fun with these. The only problem is, I'm reluctant to use them as they are beautiful and I want to keep them!!

Here is aphotograph of the card. I think it's fab. It was a nice gesture to send with the prize.
Thank you Brenda and Allsorts Challenge.

This week's challenge is CAS - clean and simple. Here is their address - http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/week-188-cas.html

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy crafting and see you soon.

Wendy
xx

Programmes to come on Create and Craft next week

Hi all.

I hope you are all well.

Well yesterday, I finished off my samples for Cupcakecrafting and sent them off to Lynda Chapman for the 4 day deal starting on Create and Craft on Monday 14th January. I've had an e mail to say that she has received them, so that's one worry off my list!! Also can she use some of my ideas, so I feel quite flattered!! Here's a photgraph of the front of the new Cd Rom that she will be showing. It's a great Cd, something different, I think. I have enjoyed working with it. Hopefully you may see some of my samples next week on TV. I will also show some on here after they have been shown on television.

Today I finished my tax return and sent that off. Another tick off my list. I also received my order from Crafters Companion - my Spectrum Noir pens. So I'm going to have a play later. I've caught up on everyone's blog (I think) on All Things Crafty, done my postings for Feline Playful, made a hair appointment and done part of my ironing. I couldn't finish it because my back gave way and the medication wouldn't make it any easier. Not to worry, tomorrow is another day. I'll finish it off then, together with my hand washing, which is another killer for my back, so may not be up to much tomorrow afternoon.

All that done and I'm awaiting my parcel from Kraftyhands so that I can start my DT work with them. Their challenge for this month is 'New Beginnings', so why not head over to their site and enter. http://kraftyhandschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/january-new-beginnings.html There's a great prize up for grabs - £20 voucher to spend on the Kraftyhands website.

Mike and Ian (Kraftyhands) are also on Create and Craft on 17th January launching their new Cd Rom - Miranda and Mo. As I'm a newbie on Kraftyhands, I haven't received my copy yet, but can't wait until I do, it looks really cutsie, don't you agree.

Anyway, I will go and tidy up my craft room and have a play with my Spectrum Noirs.

See you soon. Happy crafting.

Wendy
xx

A 21st and my news!

Hi there,

Yesterday I thought I would have a change to my blog so I changed the design. Out with the old and in with the new and all that! The truth is, I wasn't sure whether my last blog design was a bit too busy so I've gone for a more plain one this time and its blue - one of my favourite colours.

I also have some news to share with you. My first bit of news is that I was a winner over on the Allsorts Challenge for my pinwheel exploding box this week. My other bit of news is that I have been invited to join the design team over on Kraftyhands which I'm very excited about but feel sick with anxiousness. I felt the same when I joined the DT on Cupcakecrafting so hopefully it will pass.

Today, I have been making some more samples for the Touch of Elegance CD Rom which is to be the 4 day deal over on Create and Craft starting Monday 14th January, so it's all systems go. I will share these with you later.

First today though, I had to make a 21st birthday card for another of my son's pals who is turning of age. That's six this week alone!!

For Alex's card (my son's pal), I used Docrafts Wellington Bear - Past times CD Rom. I haven't used this before as I had problems loading it when I first tried using it but I must say I quite like it.

I used an 8x8 white card to start with. The only topper that suited Alex was Wellington with a pint of beer, not because he's an alcoholic, but because he's into photography and cycling and there weren't any of these toppers on the Cd. I matted and layered the topper onto black card from my stash. I used a beigy brown backing paper from the Cd and also matted and layered that onto black card. I fixed it all onto the card. I used the letters and numbers on the Cd to make the sentiment- '21 Today' and made a similar one with his name on to make it more personal. I then attached a bottle top to the bottom right hand corner of the topper. Inside as well as writing a verse, I added - Other beers are available! (Perhaps I have been watching too much Create and Craft!, the presenters usually say that when they advertise/name drop.)

I would like to enter the card into the following challenges:-
Cards Galore - Anything Goes - http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk
Glitternsparkle - Anything goes - http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.
Forever Friends Monthly Challenge - Birthdays - (Docrafts - Wellington Past times Cd used) http://foreverfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk
Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - Anything Goes - (Docrafts - Wellington Past times Cd used) http://foreverfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Wendy xx

Links gone awol!

Hi crafters,

Today I have prepared a post with some of my news and also a 21st card that I have made. Unfortunately, the links aren't working and I'm unable to upload my photos, so it will have to wait until tomorrow.

See you then.

Wendy
xx