birthday name book

here are the promised images of my birthday word book.... created by my sister Thelma

the verses are so appropriate.. especially since it has been a very stressful and sad year since the passing of my lovely mother-in-law Bernice

Iphone cover

today my eight year old niece Grace gave me this lovely iphone cover that she had made for me for my birthday. Grace had made it on her toy sewing machine.

i am always losing my phone or trying to SEE it in my handbagS
now i can find it .. and it stands out from all the other iphone clones

Kirstie Allsopp ... eat your heart out .. handmade is best

love the fabric it is so stylish and what a practical gift

Debbie Moore Cardilious Day

yes.. it is that time of year again, another superb cardilious event with the fab Debbie Moore

Thelma, Heather and myself went along from Amanda's craft class and we were briefly joined by our friend Anna who has been very poorly of late. Get well soon Anna.

We had some excellent demos from Debbie's print magic, enamel magic and metal magic and that was just for starters.

We also had two workshops, featuring a snow globe and a stepper Christmas card.

Tim Holtz flower

I got some paper back books from a local charity store and used my new tattered florals die to cut the flowers below




Some have been coloured using Ranger distressing inks






The die is brilliant as it cuts in a variety of sizes and styles which can be stacked together to form multiple layered florals

Flowers

This week I have been experimenting with paper folding to make simple flower designs










All these have been created using just a stampin up circle punch and are just folded in different ways to achieve different looks

wedding stationary for Alix

Here is my overview page of Alix's wedding stationary

Wedding favour ideas

some ideas from a recent wedding project

using a resist technique

A card using a resist technique

Jumping clay is so much fun and easy to use. It stays flexible which means it does not get broken in the post when attached to cards and has the added advantage of being very light weight.

Eva's birthday card

My little crafty friend Eva has her birthday on Friday .... She is very into crafting at the minute... especially my pro markers and pink gem stamps



I have used promarkers to colour the above images which were stamped using stamps from the Polly and Friends collection from Jayne Nesteransio and the little girl is the Chloe stamp from the set.


Above is a close up of the finished Chloe image for the card

A birthday card for Grace

My niece is having her birthday party here in Northern Ireland this week.









Ever since she has been 'organising' her own parties she has insisted on 'cake' no matter how trivial the occasion ... Therefore I took this for the inspiration for her birthday card for this year, I hope Grace likes it.