arlene xmas card

the crochet class Christmas Card for Arlene - made from a crochet snowflake

at last a jumper that fits

Thelma's birthday card

I made this birthday card for my youngest sister.


I used an old photograph from her first week at school that appeared in our local newspaper. The rest of the items were done on a loose pink/purple scheme. I used an old broken necklace to make the pink flower embelishments.



A hand written bespoke sentiment finished the card that was decorated on all six panels ..... It was nice to view from all angles.

Christmas baubles

Here's the latest offerings, individual Christmas baubles with your own photos




And we have added a little festive snow, just in case you don't have enough of the white stuff this week

Yes that is my beautiful nephew in the photo and my dog........ Perfect combo

Personalized options

With your own photo £2.00 Blank bauble £1.50

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Christmas craft fair

Thanks to all the savvy shoppers for buying and browsing our cards handmade gifts and knitted and crocheted goodies tonight

Especially to Cherith who bought that beautiful blue green hand crocheted bag, I had made my mind up to keep that one for myself but my sister sold it while I nipped out for a minute


Agh, so many bags so little time


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Christmas cards

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Christmas pine cones

Check out the bling girls these are a must have for Christmas


















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Trains

What's better than a novelty handmade Xmas train








A novelty Xmas train full of sweets of course


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more Christmas pro marker designs

here is a lovely card done with pro markers, a different colour scheme than the usual green and red

flower soft fluffy duckling

Thelma made this card using flower soft to create the beautiful fluffy downy texture on the duck

 

first communion

Thelma made these ..... so here are some pictures of the first communion cards / gitfs

this is the 3d chapel above

 

and above the first communion cards made by Thelma for Rhys

flower embelishments

tonight we learnt how to make paper flowers.. the first one on the left is made using a five petal flower shape cut out several times and stacked on top of each other and secured with pin flair glue

these two flowers were made using a petal punch each punched flower was made to look more dimensional by folding and rolling the petal edges with the edge of an embossing tool to make them bend easily, as flower 3 had a more open design a used a small pearl bead to decorate the centre for a different look tot he closed inwards version


the smallest crinkled effect flower was made by scrunching paper petals together and securing with a brad

Pro marker night

Tonight was our pro marker class night, we all shared our colours and tested out some different shading techniques...

Here's what we accomplished

friendly plastic

i recently watched a you tube video on this product and thought i would have a go
i tried various colours and then integrated the melted plastic with some other mediums inclsuing wire and fusible fibres. I really liked the results, but need more practice getting the melting temperature correct

here are some of my first examples mounted for use as embelshiments on A5 cards

Stamp challenge

Tonight we took part in a stamp challenge .... We all had to use the same tree stamp and the idea was to see how many different schemes or design ideas we could come up with...... Here's my attempts

embossing techniques

tonight we had a crash course in embossing techniques


who knew there were so many different kinds of embossing powders

manchester sight seeing

FIRST CELL

SECOND CELL

FIRST CELL

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today I went on a day trip to an exhibition to Manchester, I had plenty of time to do a bit of sight seeing as well

Goal line craft day

Today we are asked to run a craft day for the goalline youth group.

There were over 70 kids attending the open day and the sticking and glueing went on for hours. Here are some of the things the kids made, of course everyone wanted a hallowen theme

Hillsborough card class

Joined Amanda's craft workshop tonight. Amanda Paul is one of Debbie Moore's designers and this is her first class in a course of 4.
Tonight's class was focusing on monochromatic cards. we had to use the materials had Amanda had brought along too ie we had to use stamps and one colour of ink.
Here's my attempt .........
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