Eventful week!

After having two lovely days off at the beginning of the week, with the sun shining, I was all set to return to work on the Wednesday. We went for evening meal as a family to our local restaurant (which shall remain nameless in case I get sued for libel!). Suffice to say my little boy was up all night Tuesday with sickness and diarrhoea and myself and my husband felt decidedly dodgy. I therefore had to take Wednesday off sick from work too and could not stray too far from the toilet! Eewww!
Back to work yesterday, I swear I didn't have a fortnight's work to do when I left the office last Thursday! A long conference today with QC and a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to discuss a dodgy knee op on a budding rugby star rounded up a rather varied week!
I did get chance to make the card below whilst my hubby was watching football and I sat at my craft desk merrily crafting away whilst watching 24 on Netflix and Boofle Birthday was born. I hope you like it. One more card to take into the office next week to sell for our charity craft sale to raise funds for our nominated charity of the year, Bobath, whom I hope you will agree is a worthy cause, helping children with Cerebral Palsy.

Have a good week!

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Using up stash!

Like most crafters, I have a craft room/area that is overflowing with 'stuff' that I have bought or been given but am yet to use. This year, I have been on a mission to use up some of the items I have had for ages.

We have been lucky enough to have some beautiful weather and so I booked a day off work today. OK I admit the day off was actually for my son's sports day, but that was all over and done with in less than an hour which left the rest of the day free for me.

I did do some cross stitch this morning (another one of my hobbies!) whilst watching TV, but this afternoon I decided to go into my craft room. iPod on my docking station and and away to go. I hope you like what I have created today. So much stuff, so little time........

 

 

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Christmas!

We have a craft fayre in work for our chosen charity of the year, Bobath, on the 4th July so I thought I would make a few cards to sell, but what do I make, a Christmas card! Now I struggle to make enough to send myself at Christmas so I am definitely not giving them away!
Do you ever just go into your craft room to 'have a play'? That is what I did today, I ended up getting out one of my old magazines and deciding to make one of the the cards with the free gift. Of course I didn't have all the stuff on the 'shopping list' so I had to improvise, but that's all part of the fun! And I suppose we are almost half way through the year already, so I'd better make a start on Christmas cards sooner or later!

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Busy day in the forest

Didn't do any crafting on the weekend - because of the beautiful weather, we decided to go on a picnic at Forest Drive, Cwmcarn. When we got there we were very sad to learn that Forest Drive is closing in November because they have to fell no end of Larch trees because of disease. It is apparently not guaranteed that it will be reopened either because of funding issues. That would be a real shame, it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.

We all had a lovely day!

 

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Making a card for another cardmaker is a nightmare!

I have a good friend with whom I go line dancing twice a week. It is her birthday coming up and I needed to make a card for her. No problem you may think, until you consider that that card will be going to another avid cardmaker! Always a challenge! I was determined to use a flower spray on my friend's card, so I thought the best way forward would be to choose which flowers I had in my stash, choose an image to stamp and then colour the image and pick the papers accordingly. I hope you like my effort - I made the box to match too, just to make it that bit more special (and the fact that with the flowers, the card wouldn't fit in an envelope!)

Entered into the following challenge:

http://www.papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/ - Anything goes

 

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Mother's Day and mum's birthday are very close together!

Determined to use up lots more of my stash, I found myself needing to make the Mother's Day card, and also a birthday card for my elderly mother. Looking through my "sentiments" drawer, and found a perfect Mother's Day sentiment and I managed to work backwards from that to come up with the bunny card below.

I also had the lovely large Boofle greeting which I thought my mum would like (she is young at heart!) And some patterned paper which came free with a magazine, a corner punch which I bought from that well-known auction site, and I came up with the easel card shown below. I hope you like my photos for today.

 

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Wedding card commission

One of the girls I work with was a bridesmaid at a wedding recently. It's only now that I have found the photographs that I took of the card that time. The colour scheme was champagne, or mink as I was told. I therefore had a look through my stash to find something that would look appropriate. I did buy some ribbon, but everything else I had already. I hope you like what I came up with.

 

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