Thinking of you

This is a card made a few days ago for my youngest daughter to give to one of the clients in the salon she works in as she had lost her husband. Kanban rose to the challenge again. If 
I'm not quite sure what to do or am in a hurry to make a card I always reach for my Kanban stash (and boy do I need to use some...I still have loads!)

I added an acetate cover to the card and the acetate butterfly was attached with ultra sticky red ds tape. The butterflies and image were both supplied by Kanban. Just in case you haven't heard the news, Kanban has been taken over by Aspire Crafts and there are lots of old favourite as well as a brand new kit available from the web site.

Thanks for looking. x

Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

....has a great sketch this month and I've used it this time for the opening page of a bespoke album I'm making. I think it works really well!

Pink Petticoat papers are left over from the easel card I made (see below), the lace is from Wild Orchid Crafts and the charm is from my stash.

And finally, two more thank you cards for a couple who got married in July

and a sympathy card for DH to send to a friend of his mum's who lost her husband last week.

Thanks again for looking and for all your lovely comments, they really do mean a lot to me. :)

Rosie-Dee's

Here is my DT baby card from last week.

Sizzix clothing
Qk Rev swirls
Nesties circles
Charm - Crafts By Carolyn
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

This week Deanne says "We are still on our Occasions theme and this week we are setting the very hard task of creating a sympathy/thinking of you creation. I say hard task as well it can be one of the hardest cards we ever have to make".

This is the fourth sympathy card I've made this week as we had Cec's funeral on Tuesday and I made one each for his three kids. It's just a sneaky peek for now, if you want to see the fab DT cards in full you'll have to hop on over to Rosie-Dee's blog and take a look (and hopefully join in too :)).

Sunday, Sunday

It's been a really good today. I've made two cards, a box for one of them and also been out for lunch with all my family (parents, sister and brother etc). The weather was nice for us and the food was gorgeous.

Unfortunately one of the cards was a sympathy card. One of my friends husband lost his mum on Thursday evening so it was for them. She was ninety last August and until she went into hospital about five weeks ago she lived alone in her own house and looked after herself. Here is the card I made. I do try to stay away from black for sympathy cards unless it is specifically asked for.

The next card I made for a friend to give to a friend of hers. She will be 60 soon!!

It's difficult to show but it is actually an acetate card. If anyone has any tips on photographing acetate I will definately welcome them. I made the actual card from Crate Twirl collection (which I love)! I then fastened the card inside an acetate sleeve with Papermania pearl brads. The flowers are Prima, Papermania and the large one is from Dunelm. The front tucks into the flap at the bottom of the card. I cheated with the box............I put together a bought one and decorated it!I have two birthday club cards to make and 30 wedding invitations tomorrow so not too strenuous. Also tomorrow we are going for an all you can eat Chinese buffet. It is absolutely superb and at £4.99 a head it would be rude not to! LOL DD2 is cooking at school tomorrow, she is making a meat pie (Tuesday's tea) which means I don't have the dreaded task of thinking what to have for tea until Wednesday................I could get used to this!!!

Bye for now. xx