More Cards

Just a quickie, a few more cards for a friends birthday and a couple of new people who are joining our department at work (from a different department).

I'm very excited about this as it means some more responsibility for me and also having the opportunity to work with two lovely ladies who I haven't had much chance to get to know yet.  So as a welcome to the department I wanted to make a card for each of them.

I hope tomorrow goes really well, but it has been hard work getting up to speed with the new responsibilities  so I'm afraid with that and the running, I haven't been doing much crafting recently.  I do have some sewing planned for the next couple of weeks.

Cards and knitting

February is a busy birthday month.

 So I have been card making again,

 Two cards for friends at work, 1 for a cat loving auntie

 a special one for daughter

 and not forgetting one for hubby this week.

 It's still absolutely freezing outside and far too icy for running.  So I'm planning to sit down and knit this afternoon whilst the roast is cooking.  I only have about 20 cm of the cardigan to knit and it'll be finished.

I'm already planning my next knit!!  Why are there always far to many projects and never enough time?

Pop-up Birthday Card

 Here's the special pop-up birthday card that I have made for my nan.

 I stamped and coloured the base picture and then cut a circle of card into a spiral.  I attached one end of the spiral to each side of the card and then stuck on some cut out flowers and butterflies.

I cut a smaller circle of card into another spiral and attached one end to the bottom of the card to make a spring.  I attached more stamped and coloured flowers and butterflies to the spring and then a few more to the back of the card.

I've never made a pop-up card before and I'm really pleased with how well it turned out and how easy it was.  

We wish you a merry ......

No I'm not going to use that word, as I think November is way too early.  However I have a lot to fit into the next few weeks and before I know it that  time of year will be upon us.  So I am being organised this year and spent a happy afternoon creating cards form old wrapping paper and cards and some other bits in my card making stash.  There are about 28 in total which is a good start but I'll need a few more. 

Cards Galore

I have so many birthday's coming up in the next month or two that I really had to sit down and have a good card making session.  For quite a few years now I have been making all the cards that I send.  I buy the card blanks and have quite a good stash of stamps and brads.  I also like to keep cards that people have given me and my family and reuse them, along with bits of ribbon and lace from my stash to create some stunning cards.

Here are four cards for my friends, and two cards for aunts

A card for my daughter's friend

and one for my little nephew who will soon be two

and one for my own dear daughter, who is incredibly hard to find cards for as she doesn't like the 'girly' cards that are usual for her age group.

 Finally a valentine for hubby, witha red velvet heart, shiny letter's and gold heart brads.

Pumpkins and presents

Here are the pumkins, and thats not quite all of them. Rain delayed collection of the final few, and I couldn't quite fit them all into this picture (even though I stood on a wall to take it). Most of them will be given away or sold to raise money for the allottments - where some of them were grown.

As usual I eagerly await the next seasonal product and then after a few weeks of eating nothing but it, I'm heartily sick of it. However it's the start of the pumkin season and I eagerly spent my afternoon making the season's first pumpkin pie and stuffed pumpkin (stuffing mix made with lentils and chilli's and tomatoes - we have a glut of the later two items as well).

Enough of pumpkins, now for the presnts.

The slippers for mum are finished and have been completed with a crochet edging and crochet butterflies, I was going to add flowers but daughter said that she thought it should be butterflies. (there are two slippers but could only get the butterfly if I photographed from the side.)


There was pleny of yarn leftover and so I made a pir of fingerless gloves and matching scarf for a birthday present.




and here's the birthday card

Must add a little thank you here to daughter for being a hand and foot model for the gloves and slippers in the above pictures.

Card Making

I've had a terrible head cold for the last few days. It's slowly clearing, but I have been very bunged up and can't breathe properly. I spent the time making a load of cards, I have so many birthday's and thank-you cards to send in the next few weeks, I thought I needed to make a start. I do buy the card blanks mostly due o lack of time to make my own from card. I sometimes buy backing papers to make the cards more 'interesting' and about once a year I buy a new cardmaking magazine to spark a few more ideas and stop me getting stale. I also find a lot of the mag's give freebies which are quite useful and you can cut out pictures to use on cards. Apart from this I recycle old cards and any other bits of 'scrap' paper, fabric, ribon etc. So here they are:

These ones are (from left to right) a thank you card for my son's teacher, a birthday card for my friend, a thank you card for my child-minder and a birthday card for my brother - thats the 'boot' at the front.

and this one's for my daughter's friend, who is eleven (could you guess!!!)

and it's a shame this one has come out so dark because its for my pretty little neice who will soon be four.

It's not bad what you can achieve with a bit of card some glue and scraps and a spare evening!!