New Home

Hello blog friends. Sorry about the confusion yesterday if you were trying to see this  post. As I scheduled it I had a senior moment and clicked on the wrong date and it published immediately. Ouch!  I'm sure there must be a way to rectify it but I couldn't find it, so in the end I just deleted  it and started again. Maybe one of you cleverer people knows the answer?

This is a card for my nephew who has just moved into his new home.

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Linda (Lindyloo) did a similar layout to this a few months ago on her blog Creative Harmony, which is where I remembered it from.  However, Linda's was beautifully feminine.  I used browns and blues and straight lines to maintain the masculine theme, and added a blue butterfly for a touch of whimsy.  Okay, I know the blue bow isn't so masculine but it's only a small one so I think I can be forgiven.  I computer generated the sentiment then used Spellbinders classic ovals to diecut the sentiment and co-ordinating mat.

Well that's it for me today. Hope you all have a good day and manage to find some time to craft.

With love from Christine xx

The Happy Couple

As I said, I have been so busy and not much time to craft  - sob! sob!  I made this card a couple of months ago but haven't shown it so I thought this was a good opportunity.

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It is actually a stepper card but unfortunately I had to scan it rather than photograph it so you cannot see the step effect. I used white card stock to cut the stepper base using my hougie board, and matted it with pink pearlescent paper. The pink backing papers are from a  wedding scrapbook pad, which I think might be Hot Off The Press. There are some very pretty green papers in it which I will be using at some stage because they don't look like wedding papers. The image is an LOTV topper with some glitter added to the flowers and the brides gown, although not visible, Spellbinders lacy circle and two layers of pink pearlescent card using Martha Stewart  double loop punch. The flowers, pearls and ribbon are from my stash.

My new printer came yesterday so it is all set up and ready to go. Here's hoping that it serves me as well as my last one which I had for eleven years with no problems at all. Mind you, nothing is made to last these days so it's doubtful!

Well have a good day everyone.  Christine xx

Flower and Swirls

Good morning. I've been pretty busy and not had much time to craft. I did manage to make a very simple card which I thought I would show, made mostly from my bits box.

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I stamped a swirls stamp in versamark onto  a scrap of pink pearlescent paper and embossed it with white powder and mounted it onto silver mirri. The flower is just a couple of punched flowers and two punched maple leaves in green vellum.  I mounted it onto pink pearlescent cardstock and then used liquid pearls.  Very simple indeed.

Well I hope you all have a good day.

Love from Christine xx

Baby Girl

Good morning friends.   I've just heard that my niece has had a baby girl so this card is for her. I had to keep it quite flat because it is going in the post. I'm a little later with my post because unfortunately I didn't get chance to take a picture yesterday and so I had to wait until this morning.

                                                         

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I used a Cuddly Buddly digi stamp, coloured with Promarkers and die cut  with Spellbinders Resplendant Rectangles.  The LOTV stamp was diecut with Spellbinders lacy circles and the flourishes are from Marianne Creatables. I finished it off with some adhesive pearl gems  from Hobbycrafts and the little pearly hearts are from my stash..

Well that's all for today. Hope you all have a good day.

Love from Christine xx

Birds On A Swing

Good morning blog friends

Todays card is using the  Bird Swing stamp which is one of the Wee Stamps by Sylvia Zet. She does some fabulous stamps. I stamped this onto lilac card to marry in with the striped backing paper, but in the picture it looks more like grey. The paper reminds me of men's pyjamas. LOL!

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The little ribbon, flower and pearl spray were in my stash and I've had them for quite a while. I wish I could remember where I got them because this was the last one. I do have some more in cream though.

Short and sweet post today. Won't be able to post on Monday because we are having friends coming for lunch and so won't have time to make a card. Hope you all have a great day.

Love from Christine xx

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My First Tag

Morning everybody.  Hopefully this will go out at the right time. I always schedule my post the day before, but this is the first time I have done it two days ahead. Friday will be a very long day and I don't want to mess around when I get home.

I decided that it was time to make a tag - so here it is.

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The size is 15.5 x 9 cms. My initial thought was to make a tag for a man which is why I chose this colour. I stamped a music background stamp in Versamark and heat embossed with clear powder. You cannot actually see that unless you enlarge it. Somewhere along the way - and I really have no idea how - it developed into a  lady's tag. It is double sided cardstock so I used the reverse to add a strip to the bottom and to diecut the butterflies. I used a  Martha Stewart punch for the bottom. Then it was just a little ribbon and lace, some silk flowers held together with a gemstone brad, and a few gems.  Maybe next time I'll manage a man's tag.

Well, have a great weekend everybody.

Love from Christine xx

 

All The presents

Good morning fellow bloggers. Well, I can't believe it but today we have no fog!!! First time for about a  week. It was very cold but I have been wanting to clean my windows so I now feel very virtuous - and flipping cold too!

Christmas is creeping ever nearer so I'm afraid you might be seeing quite a few Christmas cards finding their way onto my blog. Every year I say I'm going to cut   back - but I never do! Still, I enjoy making them and sending them, so that's the main thing.



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Today's card uses an LOTV diecut topper with just a little glitter added to the puppy's Santa hat. The backing papers and labels are from Hot Off The Press "Forever Christmas" which was a free pad  in a magazine. Then I just added some gems to lighten it a bit because the papers are a bit dark.

Well I hope you all have a good day. We will be having a busy day! By the time most of you read this we will be driving up to Lancashire to collect something for John, so we thought we might pop into a National Trust property on the way home and make the trip worthwhile for me too.

Love from Christine xx

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