In the garden

Hi

I hope you all had a great Christmas and that Santa brought you all that you wanted. For those of you who don't celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a great day doing whatever you were doing.

Today, my hubby and son have gone off to play snooker so I am catching up on my blog and doing some crafting. It is good to make some cards other than Christmas cards!!

Today I thought I would share with you a card that I made using the Garden Delights CD Rom from Cupcakecrafting.

I used a white A5 card in landscape.The topper was decoupaged and then matted and layered onto silver mirri. I used a coordinating pink dotty backing paper from the Cd and matted and layered this onto silver mirri. On the left hand side, I wound some baker's twine in a pastel pink around the backing paper  before fixing it onto the card blank. To finish, I fixed a pink rosebud where the twine crossed.

I love the colours on this one, it is so fresh looking after all the traditional Christmas colours that are around at the moment.

Thank you for calling by.

Happy crafting.

Wendy xx

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't been around for the last week but I've been ill. I'm better now and trying to catch up.
As it is Christmas Day tomorrow, I would just like to wish everybody a 'Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year' and I hope to be back in a couple of days.

Thank you for taking the time to pop across and have a good holiday.

For those of you who do not celebrate Christmas, have a happy and peaceful few days.

Thank you and Happy Crafting

Wendy
XX

Just a sentiment

Hi all,

Thank you for stopping by.

Today's card is my entry for Sheila's challenge over on My Craft Creations and also for Shopping our Stash.

The sentiment used is one from last years Kanban Christmas kit. I fixed this onto an A6 foiled card blank using 3D foam tape. The card blank was matted and layered onto some silver mirri card which was in turn matted and layered onto some foiled snowflake card from the same kit. This was then layered onto some more silver mirri. To the top left of the image I secured a silver ribbon from my stash, using silicone glue and to the bottom right I fixed 5 gems also from my stash. The sentiment reads 'May the blessings of Christmas be with you today and always'.

The challenges I would like to enter this card for are:

My Craft Creations - Just Sentiment - http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.co.uk/p/just-sentiment.html

Shopping our Stash - Sentimentally Yours - http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.co.uk/p/just-sentiment.html

Thank you for calling by.

Happy crafting

Wendy xx

For a crafty friend

Hi everyone,

Today's card is one which I made for a crafty friend. I hope she doesn't look at my blog until I give her the card!!

I used a scalloped 8x8 card as the base. I used an image from Docrafts Forever Friends - Timeless CD Rom and decoupaged this. I then fixed it on to a rosette which I made from a backing paper from the CD. I used my Hougie Board to make the rosette. This was matted onto a scalloped circle which I cut out on my Cricut machine using the Lacy Labels cartridge and a textured gold mirri card.

Using some white A4 cardstock, I printed two coordinating backing papers, one on the front and one on the reverse. I then cut two pieces, each measuring 11 inces by 5 and a half inches and scored these to make two 5 and a half inch card blanks. On the first one, I cut from the top of the centre score line diagonally to the bottom left hand outer edge; on the second, I cut from the top of the centre score line to the bottom of the right hand outer edge.I then fixed the two backs together and folded the fronts over each other and fixed these at the bottom edge with red liner tape. This made the wallet for my tag/message.I matted the wallet onto the textured gold mirri and placed this using 3D foam tape onto the same backing paper that I used for the rosette, but this time matted and layered this onto the textured gold mirri. I took some wide burgundy ribbon and some narrower burgundy and gold ribbon. I fixed the narrower ribbon onto the wider ribbon using red liner tape and then wrapped this around the backing paper and mirri and wallet before fixing it onto the base card. I tied a bow using both ribbons and fixed this to the ribbon  to the bottom right of the card using silicone glue.

I fixed the rosette onto the wallet over the ribbon. In the wallet, I placed a large tag which read:- "Dear Santa,
As my 'Crafty Friend' has been very good this year, please would you let her have....
Love Wendy xxx"
I attached a gold peg to the right hand corner which mirrored the peg on the image. On the left corner, I secured some red berries and a green leaf.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Papercraftjunkies - No. 5 - Embellish it - (Rosette, ribbon, bow, peg, berries and leaf) http://papercraftjunkieschallenges.blogspot.co.uk
Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Label/Tag Big or Small - (Tag in wallet behind rosette and image) - http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.co.uk
Crafty for all seasons - No 42 - Green and Red plus glitter/sparkle - (Glitter/sparkle in ribbon) - http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk
Crafts and me - no 14 - No blues allowed - http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.co.uk
Divas by Design - Red - http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes - http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.co.uk
Make It Mondays - Anything Goes - http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk
Glitter n Sparkle - No. 10 - Use some meatal (charms etc) - (Metal peg, top right hand corner) - http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk

Thank you for calling by.

Happy crafting

Wendy xx

Rudolph and his mate

Hi All,

I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while. I've been bogged down with Christmas etc.  as you all probably have. Also my hubby was ill so that took up a lot of my time. Anyway, I'm back now so off we go.

Today I thought I would share with you one of my Kanban creations from a kit which was featured as Pick of the Week on Create and Craft last year. It is a simple creation but I quite like it with the gold on white, I think it looks clean and fresh looking.

I took two of the reindeer and mounted these onto 3D foam pads and then fixed these onto some white card. This was matted and layered onto gold mirri and then attached to an 8x8 white card. I attached a gold gem to each reindeer just below the antlers. I added a sentiment and three snowflakes down the sides.

I would like to enter my card for the following challenges:
Hybrid Chick - Holiday Card - http://www.thehybridchick.com/2012/12/card-caravan-33-holiday-card/
Christmas Card Challenges - Week #2 - http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/2013-christmas-card-challenge-week-2.html
Here come the boys - Anything Goes - http://herecometheboysblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/challenge-42-anything-goes-xmas-candy.html
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything Goes - Challenge #9 http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/challenge-9-anything-goes.html

Thank you for taking the time to pop over.

Happy crafting.

Wendy xx

Cupcakecrafting's 12 days of Christmas

Hi everyone,

Over on Cupcakecrafting they are having a '12 days of Christmas' with some super deals. Here is Day 5's offering.

12 Days Of Christmas

 Day Five

Hi Cupcakecrafters,


The 12 Days of Christmas Offers Day 5

We've been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Christmas here at the Cupcakecrafting bakery and there's not long to wait now and to help you with your Christmas crafting we have 12 fantastic offers for you, many of which will save you up to 50% on the RRP, more on our CD ROMs.

The offer for Day Five is the Collection Of Forest Friends Papercrafting CD ROMs featuring original artwork by Betty Davies and her lovingly drawn characters from the woodland world. The characters will appeal to all ages

The RRP for the each individual CD ROM is £12.99. During the 12 Days of Christmas offer we have the each individual CD ROM on sale for just £5.00. The club members' price is £4.50. We also have the complete triple collection of Forest Friends CD ROMs on offer for just £12.00. The club members' price is £10.80!!!

The Forest Friends Papercrafting CD ROMs are beautiful collection of designs featuring the original artwork of Betty Davies put together with more than a little touch of magic by Sharon Duncan.
Rabbits, mice, badgers foxes and squirrels all happily live together in their little forest created by our very own talented artist Betty Davies. She has painted 30 beautiful designs which have been cleverly crafted in to 3 delightful CD ROMs by Sharon Duncan.

There are 4 CD ROM options to choose from:
Forest Friends CD ROM 1
Forest Friends CD ROM 2
Forest Friends CD ROM 3
Forest Friends Collection of all 3 CD ROMs

Don't forget our previous 4 Days of Christmas Offers

Lynda's Bit on the End

There's something for everybody on the forest Friends CD ROMs and they cover all occasions new baby, new home birthdays, Christmas and many other special days. betty has drawn some beautiful pictures here which will amuse you as well as a recipient of one of the many cards you will make. The prices for these fantastic CD ROMs are unbelievable so don't dither about this offer.Happy crafting,

Cupcakecrafting

Their website address is www.cupcakecrafting.co.uk

See you there

Wendy

xx

My news

Hi folks,

Just to let you know that I have been invited to join the Feline Playful team over on their blog, see yesterday's blog. I wasn't aware of this blog until recently and wondered how all you crafters had time to surf the net to find all these blogs. I only found the challenges by visiting your blogs and noting down the challenge and the theme. Using Feline Playful is a lot easier!!! So if you're like me, and you weren't aware of their good work, pop along to their blog and find out what challenges are available. Here is their address http://felineplayful.blogspot.co.uk/

Also ..... I won first place in the Kraftyhands November Challenge blog. I can't believe it.Thank you everyone over at Kraftyhands for choosing my card.

Happy days.

Wendy xx