Special birthday celebrations.

Time passes so quickly.  When I was young the summer holidays seemed to last forever and I remember older relatives saying how quickly time passed. Now that I am older time just seems to whizz by.  My eldest granddaughter came into the world nearly 10 years ago now and it seems like yesterday that I was buying Thomas the Tank pyjamas for my youngest son who now it the proud father to this gorgeous little girl.  The single years are now gone and she is starting double figures. I wonder what life will be like when she hits my age. I will no longer be in this world. In my lifetime man landed on the moon, in 45 years time will we be inhabiting other planets?  Who knows! All I know is that life is precious and I try to live each day to the full. 

So with my first of 6 grandchildren approaching the magic double figure 10 a special card was in order.

She is a blonde haired beauty who loves owls and dancing, started with ballet and now street dancing but is still a beautiful girly girl who loves pink.  This card has all the elements of her with a big fat 10 on it.

Like always if there is a special person in your life that you want a card made for then just get in touch.

Butterflies and lace

Well it is a horrid pouring down with rain kind of day, but ideal for crafting. So I pulled together some old and newer punches and stamps and picked some colour ways which I love and came up with these two cards.

The lace border punch makes a gorgeous border and for a change I put it on the diagonal to separate the card and stamped using my favourite background stamp gorgeous grunge. Pleased with the results.

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Cheers birthday card

It was my eldest sons birthday yesterday so I made him a birthday card full of cheers.  He is an amazing man married with three lovely children my grandchildren and a gorgeous wife.  I went ground to give him his pressies and stopped for supper . The weather was lovely so stopped in the garden and had a bbq.  Today it has been pouring with rain and really rather chilly so it was lovely to have spent an evening outside yesterday.

I recently bought some spectrum noir aqua paints which give a really bright background.  I used the cling film technique so painted the aquatints with lots of water, added some cosmic shimmer in spray bottle and then co reed with cling film which I wrinkled. The results are stunning and give a gorgeous background to a card 

 This second photo gives an idea of the depth of colour and shimmer but it is very difficult with a camera to get the vibrancy and depth of colour.

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Summer flowers birthday card

The weather has been glorious for the last few days and the garden and allotment have been growing madly. Flowers and veggies and the bluebells have been glorious.

I had to do a birthday card for a customer so though I would make a summer flower picture

Each one of the flower centres I embellished with co-ordinating liquid pearls. The background I made using some aquatints and glycerine to give a lovely washy background.

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Embossed flowers over a blended background

Well after a few days over really stormy windy weather, today the sun is out and it is a lovely sunny day. The stamps are out and have made a bright pastel card with silver and white embossed flowers over the top.

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Day Dream Medallions Happy Card using Stampin Up products.

It is always a sad time when stamp sets retire but it is always lovely to keep those sets and use them as they become more unique and there isn't a flood of those cards about to buy. So here is a card which is just that

It has a fab sentiment. You can never have too much happy, and that is exactly how I feel whenever I start to craft it makes me happy.

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Gorgeous grunge backgrounds

Was playing around with the gorgeous grunge stamp set and started to make what I thought was going to end up a bit of a mess as I used too many bright colours. Than I had an idea to mute it down with some white sponged over the whole area and the effect was lovely. So I decided to use it on a card embossing the sentiment in white. The result is lovely and really pleased with the overall effect.

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