Funky Hand

Have you seen the new digi stamps from Funky Hand? They are available from 99p each and as they are downloads they can be used straight away :) I used another download to make my card and I have to say that it is one of my favourites and is very versatile.

 That's right, it's the Rainbow Polkadots download

I printed the 'Thank You' message on top of the spotty paper and coloured some of the elements within the letters in green leaf Promarker just to pop it a bit and the daisy was made with  a new Sizzix die from an off cut of a piece of card from Pressie Time on the Happy Happy Birthday cd from the Papercraft Factory series of cds.

I hope you like my card and thank you for dropping by.

A busy old week ......

on the crafting front again last week so there is plenty to add here! I've got a busy week this week too so will have even more later :)

I'm not sure if I will stay open all day today as we have had yet more snow overnight and it is still snowing so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get many people into the shop!

I updated the Wrap Up A Kiddie page last night if you want to have a nose and see what we have been up to. I have a couple of rather large wool donations to photograph so will upload them this evening.

Papers - Pink Petticoat & Making Cards mag
Assorted images/toppers including Craftwork Cards, Sizzix and Stampendous
Prima flowers, gems and ribbons are from my stock cupboard
Sentiments are generated on the pc.

I am now going to venture out into the rotten weather and have a bowl of porridge round at the shop before I open!

Thanks for looking

By the skin of my teeth

The cover of an album I'm working on at the mo which has been made to the brief of the Secret Crafter's challenge of Buttons and Blooms. Flowers are cut using a large Stampin Up punch and the heart is the old Sizzix #1 die.

I think I'm just on midnight which means I've broken my run of blogging every day....I've been meaning to upload this all day but have been stuck into the album and also spent an hour weeding the garden :(

Kathy's Waffle

Sketch 2009 #11

I made this card the other day for a friend of mine who has just got engaged.

Papers are by Papermania

sentiment is from a Quote Stack and I think it's by DCWV

Sizzix glasses

MS punch

Nestabilities oval

Prima flowers

Wedding cards

Good morning peeps! Another hot and sunny day here in the UK...............not!! Wouldn't it be great if we could flick a switch and turn the c**p weather off and the lovely warm sunshine on? I suppose we should be grateful that it wasn't a repeat of last summer, but you'd think after that we would have earned a scorcher. I would be quite happy for warm sunshine all day and rain during the night...........see, I'm not greedy just cold and fed up of grey sky!!!!

Right, enough of the miseries and on to the reason I came on here :)

I made this card for the couple I've just made the seating plan etc for. They get married on Saturday and the bride is wearing a stunning outfit in the style of riding ladies from the early 1900s similar to these I can't wait to see the photos! Their wedding colours are dark brown, ivory and silver. A friend cut me the bride and groom on the Robo (I'm not clever enough to do it on mine-thanks Pam) in dark brown and I'm really pleased with the way it turned out.

This card was for a rush order which came in on Sunday evening................and the wedding is tomorrow but it had to be posted to Kent. I have found that these little Sizzix figures are still one of my more popular for weddings. I cut the dress in a beautiful tapestry card from PDA and it looked very 'weddingy' :)

To do' list
5 cards for September birthdays 3 done
brother's scrapbook second page done
6 thank you cards for my box
6 baby boy cards for my box

I have a couple of weeks now untill the next wedding and wedding fayre so I'm going to give the list a miss for a while. I have Christmas orders coming in too now so will be able to fit in with some challenges I hope. I also need to make some jewellery as the jewellery party season is upon us and also because I don't have any hand crafted jewellery on my web site at the moment.

I'm now going to make some baby and thank you cards and I might just do another page in the scrapbook..............his birthday is the 10th of October so I really need to get a move on with it!

Thanks for looking, take care.