All posts tagged with "brads"
Dec 2011 Birthdays
I don’t quite know why I’ve only photographed two of the four birthday cards I mailed in December but somehow I must have forgotten! Can’t imagine what it is about December which would make me forget stuff…… A GoldWinging friend of ours turned fifty last month so I sent...
I *have* been crafting..honestly
Wow, it was April when I last posted! I have been a little busy since then though so please forgive me. Firstly, our eldest son moved from here to California so we had to help him pack his belongings, ready his house for rental and bid him a tearful farewell. Then we had to go visit him for a few...
Project Book
We had been asked if we fancied a year-long project at Stamp Club and after everyone agreed they’d like that we were commissioned to make some sort of record of each technique we learned throughout the 11 months of the club year. We could make or buy the book itself so I used an album I’d...
Another Challenge
I think I’ve been bitten by the Challenge Bug! Over at StampTV they had this rather appealing sketch so I decided to give it a go. I swapped the rectangle for a circle and cut out the stamped and embossed image with a nestability – I took the starkness off the white card with a little red ink...
StampTV Challenge
Well, three challenges in one day! I have only ever entered one before, a couple of years ago – don’t know what’s come over me This one is from StampTV, perhaps it was the colour choice that appealed to me – or perhaps it was the need to make a card for my brother-in-law encouraged...
90th Birthday Card
In August of this year it was time to celebrate a 90th birthday. My eldest sister’s mother-in-law reached this milestone and, as I’ve know Wyn for many years, I made her a special card. Stepper Cards are popular at the moment and so that’s what I did (I also showed our stamping...
80th Birthday Star Book
My lovely next-door neighbour, Harry, recently celebrated his 80th birthday so I made him a special card. He really does deserve something a bit special – he is the oldest paper-boy in the district . He always gets our weekend papers for us and we do appreciate that. I’ve made several variations...
Tri-Shutter 60th Birthday
A very good friend of ours, one of our GoldWing buddies, was sixty in December so I decided to make him a special card. It took me hours just looking through all our photographs to find suitable ones to use on the Tri-Shutter Card – partly because I get sidetracked very easily and get involved in...
Stamp Club Challenge
I’m trying something different…… throwing out a challenge to the ladies at my local Stamp Club. We meet once a month and I took a whole bunch of items with me last month and shared them out giving everyone two months to see what they can come up with. The items I took were empty cat...
Unusual Shaped Card
At our Stamp Club last month, we were challenged with making an unusual shaped card for our ‘homework’. So, last week I took along the round card I’d made for the Fresh as a Daisy competition at Happy Stampers Festival plus this flower. I started with some plain, heavy, white watercolour...
Fresh as a Daisy
Last weekend I attended the Happy Stampers Spring Stamp Festival at Port Sunlight. As usual, there was a competition, this year entitled ‘Fresh as a Daisy’. It had a size limitation and the stipulation that it contain mainly stamped images, of course. Over the years I have entered this...
Wine Coasters
We have quite a few parties and unofficial meetings at our house and some visitors like to drink wine! Not me, of course, anyone who knows me will confirm that I never touch a drop!!! One of the problems I find is that people tend to put a glass down somewhere and then can’t remember which...