BIg Hello

To all the lovely ladies I met yesterday - the time just flew by and we didn't have time to finish all the cards in my class. :( but I hope the bits you took home made sense! I really enjoyed myself and hope to see some of you back for a more leisurely day of crafting at the end of September - the last Sunday in September is the date for your diaries - Sunday 28th September at An Siopa Bui, Spiddal.
All I can tell you for now is that it will be a bit of everything day as well as cards there will be a clock, jewellry and I bought some grungeboard yesterday, so that will probably find its way into the day as well!
More details when I've had a play.
It's our local "Show" today - so I'll be up to see how my mother in law has fared in the jam sections this year - she always does well and if the jar of blackcurrant in my fridge is anything to go by then I'm sure this year will be no exception.
I'm regretting not entering of the home produce sections now, I just didn't know if I would have had time, as it turned out I could have done some stuff. I enjoy baking, I just don't do it very often - yeast bread is my favourite to make but I can turn out a decent jam sandwich cake now and again. I have entered a couple of the photography and handcrafted sections, so that's my little bit of support for this year - I made this little frame for the decoupage category, only to discover it had been cut this year!lol. So it's going into Aoife's new room - I thought I'd do a series of 4 of 5 them across one wall, they are only small about seven inch and I think you need a group of them to add some impact.

long time no blogging...

I can't believe how quickly the month has gone by - I'm teaching my class at An Siopa Bui in Spiddal tomorrow (make that later today!) and I've spent the evening doing some atamping prep and making some little favour box goodies for the girls in the class.
My craft room has been totally wrecked - Oh put new plumbing in for the central heating, which meant moving the rads and digging up the floors - so it is just unbelievable chaos in there. Add a dd to the mix who got in there and emptied 7 - yes seven boxes of paper out onto the floor and it's no wonder I haven't felt much like making cards recently.
Once I have some decorating started I'm moving the craft stuff into the smallest room in the house (how will it fit?), so that the babies room will hopefully have a little bit more room and Aoife upgrades to a big room of her own! Debating on the colour scheme - just cos I don't like pink doesn't mean she wont be a "pink princess", but I think I'll just have white walls and add lots of pics n posters and maybe, just maybe some pink frou frou on her bed.
Anyhow. here's some of the cards I'll be doing at An Siopa....

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same sketch - different style

I've used the same sketch as in the post below but this time I rotated it 90 degrees. The card is for a black tie wedding, where the bridesmaids are in cerise pink. The tag slides behind the main panel of the card. Patterned paper is all my Scrapworks and the cardstock stickers by Pebbles inc.

2 sketches 4 you challenge

I found a really cool little sketch blog while I was hopping away in the wee hours. I really like the funky style sketches and thought I'd have a go. www.2sketches4you.blogspot.com
Here's my first effort - it's a wallet that I made on my crafters companion board and then ran through the cuttlebug swirls folder - the open end at the top contains a 6 by 4 inch photo but I turned it around for the photo, as I don't want to post other people's children on the net. It is all mounted onto a pearlescent pink square blank and anchored with some lace and ribbon trim. I used my new bella pea stamp yet again and some odds and ends cluttering my desk.
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xxx Enjoy your Friday!

first bellas

I've had nothing to blog lately - been making my cards for my class at the Summer Extravaganza, An Siopa Bui, Spiddal. I'm doing a "cute cards" workshop on Saturday 9th August in the afternoon - using some really sweet crafters companion stamps - so hope to see some new faces there. All details are available from Kerry at www.ansiopabui.ie.
I called out there yesterday and met up with Neasa and her gorgeous daughter - it was only a flying visit, must organise a longer day and a trip to the beach soon. Kerry had stamping bellas that hadn't even made it into the shop, so both Neasa and I had to have some. So these are my first Bella cards - and I think not my last... they are just too cute - I had to mount them onto EZ mount before stamping, for some reason I thought you could use them unmounted but it's a little grumble on my part.

baby boy card

Sometimes it's nice to just make a pretty card - no techniques, nothing time consuming - just patterned papers and rub offs with a few bits n bobs to add to the layered look. I made a box with a diamond shape acetate window using my X Cut shape cutter - I didn't want the ribbon and flowers to end up squashed in an envelope.

More wedding invitations - I have spent the weekend (on and off) doing OH's sister's wedding invitations. Quite happy with how they turned out - they have traditional heart shapes and ivory ribbon but then a modern twist of cream and brown spotty paper and swirly embossed brown card. The colours have been based on the bridesmaids dresses - cappuchino and chocolate, she hasn't seen the finished cards yet, I know she would never complain but I do hope she REALLY likes them and not just because she has to!

The multi talented scrapper and digi goddess Elisa nominated me for this award. I'm delighted that someone actually comes over and reads my waffle!
I'll post when I've had a think as to whose blogs I'm nominating.

scrapping

In a real cardmaking slump this week - I had to pack my stamps away in frustration after several failed projects and dusted off the scrapbook instead. Had 2 late nights of scrapping frenzy and scrapped some photos I have had printed off - one of them for at least 18 months now! I have not added much to dd's album this year, so thought I'd have a go at catching up - I'm delighted to say I managed 7 LO's in 2 nights - I think one a week is my usual speed.
Working on more wedding card samples - not as easy as I might have first thought. Have to keep reminding myself that they have to be workable, cost effective and not too time consuming - of the 18 samples I'm happy with about half, which is ok I guess. Anyway, they are a work in progress.