5 cards made with my new Hunkydory kits

This week I bought the Hunkydory Touch of Class kit which features 'Champagne Bubbles' for wedding anniversaries, Handbag Heaven (along with cupcake designs - not used them yet).
I made 3 anniversary cards using the Champagne Bubbles printed cardstock, foiled toppers and sentiments, paper ribbons and just added a little extra foiled backing paper and glitter card and matt pearl cardstock to matt and layer the designs onto.

 

I also made a birthday card using the Handbag Heaven cardstock, foiled topper and foiled sentiment and an A4 sheet of black glitter card folded in half to make an A5 card base.

 This last card combines 2 Hunkydory kits, the topper and gold foiled sentiment came in a goodybag swap on DOcrafts and feature 'The First Dance', I trimmed down the topper so it would fit an A5 cardbase, made from my new Hunkydory Antique Flourish 'The Manor House' mini kit, and a co-ordinating foiled sentiment.

 

 

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busy week crafting anniversary cards, christmas cards, birthday cards and a sympathy card (11 in total)

I have had several late night crafting sessions this week and made a total of 11 cards. the first 3 are anniversary cards.

they feature Flutterby Wishes and other decoupage, Papermania Vintage notes die-cut hearts, peel-offs and patterned papers and mirror card all from my stash.

the next 2 cards are birthday cards for docraft friends, the housemouse decoupage card was for Emma (Trenouth) whose birthday was on 14th august and the Create and Craft oriental floral decoupage card was for Angie's birthday (JustAng) which is today (16th August), happy birthday ladies x

this next card is a  Flutterby wishes sympathy card for Joy a Docrafts friend who lost her husband recently.

These last 3 cards are all Christmas decoupage cards. They feature Carley's Christmas mirror card (from Create and Craft, not really mirror, more like foiled card, but none the less gorgeous) in their backgrounds. for this first card I used a Chrsitmas tree peel-off, backed it with green pearl card, cut it out and added lots of tiny adhesive gems for the baubles.

 

I also made 2 other cards but cannot get them on the right orientation, sorry. they are a House Mouse decoupage birthday card and an 8" x 8" Christmas decoupage card.

 

 

A weekend of crafting (mainly Hunkydory)

I really enjoyed starting to craft with my free Hunkydory Flutterby wishes kit, I uploaded the first 2 cards last weekend. My hubby Andy went off to watch truckracing at Thruxton Race Circuit all last weekend, so that left me at home crafting to my hearts content, I made 7 cards in total last Sunday, and still have tons of the kit to use.

these are the 5 cards I made from the kit, 2 birthday cards, 2 anniversary cards and 1 thankyou card.

I also enjoy cutting out decoupage and made these 2 butterfly decoupage cards.

 

Been a bit of a month!! and first attempts using promarkers

As many of my friends already know on Wednesday 29th August I had a mild TIA (mini stroke) won't bore you with details, but got wonderful hubby and great support from family, friends and neighbours, excellent paramedics, fab new GP and superb pain consultant and slowly taking it a day at a time, I will recover. Still waiting for ressults of CT scan ths week from my ENT consultant. For now Carrie is living with her dad and other grandma as I'm not well enough to have her home yet.

Been left quite weak but hubby Andy and my mum gave me craft stash funds, so I bought tons of craft mags with fab cover gifts and also subscribed to Quick cards, purely because the subscription gift was 20 promarkers, which I've wanted for ages but couldn't afford til now. the other night, when unable to sleep, coloured my very first topper with promarkers and today made it into a quick card for a dear friend Sylvia on Do Crafts.

 Blogger won't let me upload the card, but this donated PB hedgie image was my 1st attempt at promarker colouring a topper, enjoyed it and it relaxed me, tho know I've a LONG way to go and so much to learn and more promarkers to add to my collection of around 30 so far!

I also received some die-cut embossed images from another DC friend and coloured 2 of them in this afternoon, making one into Andy's anniversary card, sorry don't know brand of stamps.(poor quality of images is down to scanner, and marks are on scanner, not toppers. Andy accidentally left our camera in our car and took it to work today, thats my excuse).

top image hasn't been made into a card yet, bottom image 'together forever' has been made into my anniversary card to Andy for our 28th wedding anniversary on 22nd September,when our daughter has booked a restaurant for 9 of us to go out and celebrate his 52nd birthday and its a double celebration as we got married on his 24th birthday! I've coloured the topper as close to our hair colours and the clothes in our fave colours too.

Promarker colours used:
Satin
Dusky Pink
Blush
Coral
Cinnamon
Cocoa
Pastel blue
Duck Egg
Amethyst
Aubergine
Poppy.

As Andy doesn't like anything too fancy I just added distress inks and put the topper on a pre-printed card

Tim Holtz distress inks used:
Shabby shutters
Tattered Rose

Happy anniversary and birthday Andy for this Saturday, you are my rock and so good to me, love you more each day and hope we have many more happy healthy years together, no matter what life throws at us!!
Fi xxx

A birthday card and an anniversary card

this week I've made a decoupage & gems birthday card for a friend's 40th birthday, I chose to use all elements from my stash within the lilac/purple spectrum.

I also made an anniversary card

this card is also decoupage, inspired by the bright, cheery flowers I chose warm tones to complement them, a pearl shaped & embossed card in cream, a bright greeting and mint green pearls to finish the card off, all elements from my stash.

TODAY IS OUR 27th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY & ANDY's 50th BIRTHDAY!

On a blustery September 22nd 1984 at 2.30pm, at St John the Baptist Church in Alresford, Hampshire I married my husband Andy, on his 24th birthday. I have made a double layout of the day, I made it last year before I had my blog but on this our 27th wedding anniversary & his 51st birthday I'd like to share these layouts with you.

               An unashamedly ornate and romantic layout of our wedding day in 1984

12 x 12 PM gold foiled cardstock, layered photos, Making memories mottos, heart gems, heart brad and red adhesive pearls.

`Our Going Away OutFits`, an unashamedly romantic LO

backing paper is 12 x 12 chocolate coloured engineering design
photo and journalling matted and layered on blue and red paper
2 red gems are the circles, on Anita`s silver peel-off flourishes
3 tiny PM red flower brads attach 2 Posies sentiment tags to the LO
2 red PM heart brads and a 3D embellishment on another layered matt.
a donated blue flourish over the photo
LO also embellished with silver flowers from Anita`s peel-offs, adhesive heart gems and felt hearts.

Here are the cards I made for Andy for today

A Country Companions  anniversary card embellished with red heart gems & glittered paper ribbon.

Andy is mad on bike's and has a Honda VFR750 red sports bike, so I thought this decoupage would be perfect, I embellished the card with blue holographic card, printed sentiments & peel-off letters. The backing paper is from the Forever Friends 'The Good Life' Retro Paper Collection.

Happy 27th anniversary and happy 51st Andy, you are the love of my life, so supportive and hard-working and I hope we have many, many more happy years of marriage to look forward to, Fi xx

First stamped card for ages - A5 Autumn leaves anniversary card

My comfort zone in card making is decoupage, but I decided today to have another go at stamping. I started with a white A5 card blank and matted onto it  pearlescent card and papers. Inspired by this wonderful season of autumn I've made an anniversary card featuring a horsechestnut leaf. I stamped the image onto VersaMark and added heat embossing powders & inked the other images. I stamped onto a combination of patterned card and pearlescent paper before cutting out the leaves, then adhering them with Wacky Tac Adhesive sheet. I finished the card with gold peel-off letters.

Stamp used - Personal Impressions 377F - Horse chestnut leaf

Inks used - VersaMark watermark ink
                - VersaMagic  'Mango Madness' Archival chalk ink
                - Tim Holtz 'Fired Brick' distress ink

Heat embossing powders used - Dark green glitter, gold, yellow (make unknown)

My SIL's wedding card, and 4 other cards made this week

Today my dear sister-in-law Rachel marries Tony at 2pm, I am her witness as they sign the wedding register. The sun is shining for them both today and I hope it stays that way  and that they have a lifetime of love, happiness and their dreams coming true, as htey start their new life together as husband and wife. I wish them nothing but the best that life has to offer.

I made them a HouseMouse decoupage card and a matching envelope.

The decoupage is layered on pink and silver foiled paper,  onto a Kanban pink & silver A4 sheet.
Then mounted onto a silver A5 foil card. the card is embellished with silver heart ribbon and peel-offs to personalise the card. the insert (unseen) is printed off from the Crafters copanion Rose Fairy CDRom, this same CDRom was used to decorate the envelope, along pink and silver Kanban backing paper, to co-ordinate with the card.

This Thursday Carrie's frined Jasmine was 16, she is mad on dogs, this is her card

I used PM 'Verde' Capsule Collection gems, all other elements were from my stash

Here are 4 anniversary cards made for DC craft forum friends.

the first 2 cards both use PM 'Verde' Capsule Collection gems, all other elemtns are from my stash.

This next card includes Poundland bargains - the large gem and glittered paper flower

this final card for this week card was made from elements from my stash

3 Anniversary cards, 2 thankyou card and a get well card

I love making anniversary cards for friends on the DOcrafts forum, here are 3 recent cards, all decoupage. One is housemouse decoupage, I love the cute mice and they are such fun cards to make.

                 The gems I used are from Papermania Capsule Collections, all other  elements

are from my stash.

I made these next 2 cards as end of School term thankyou cards on behalf of Carrie. they are both decoupage and feature the Zinnia flower fairy from the Crafters Companion CD rom set.

This last card is a house mouse decouage get well card, made  for the mother of a DOcraft forum friend, who is in hospital.