Just a few more....

I actually went to a friend's house a few weeks ago and the theory was that we were going to do some crafting. By the time we chatted, and then went to three different scrapping related shops and then messed around I didn't get too many cards made, but these are what I did get done.

The first one is similar to the 50th birthday card that I made last month but just in a different colour. Only problem with this one is that I don't really like the Happy Birthday stamp that I have, and it doesn't always stamp cleanly, and it didn't this time. Given that this was the last thing that I did on this card, it will have to do. Oh well, I could always say that I did it deliberately....




For some reason I had a large amount of punched out purple flowers of all different sizes. Whilst my friend was chat, chat, chatting away, I was just playing around putting all of them on a piece of paper. In the end, I thought "why not" and went ahead and stuck them down. Some were stuck down using magic mount to give an additional bit of dimension.




This one was another, just messing around with pieces of paper card that didn't take very long to put together. Another friend has just had a baby girl so I bought this into work. One of my colleagues at work was really impressed with it, which kind of surprised me because this literally took minutes to put together. She is even talking about starting to make some of her own cards, but we'll see whether she really does or not. The tiny ribbon was stuck on using a sticker maker. I have seen the refills in the shops, but can't seem to find the actually maker in any of those same shops. It will turn up eventually I suppose, when I am not really looking for it. The other thing my friend had was this cool tool for making holes for brads, but I haven't been able to find those where she said she got it from either!

Moving House

I made this for someone I work with who is moving house this weekend. Normally I wouldn't have even bought a card for this but I thought I would make one! Guess that means I am getting the bug.

I am not really that happy with it. This was made before I got the trimmer so the paper isn't quite cut straight and it probably needs something to tie it all together between the squares. I do like the different papers though. Maybe it would have been better with a different colour card....but I don't have any other colour card yet!

Birthday Card

It's my grandmother's birthday this week. She has always had a thing for purple.

At the card making night I went to last night I very generously gave my sister the purple stuff that I was going to use, so then when I went to make my own card I had to think of something a little different to do. That is, of course, code for go and buy more things and spend more money! So I bought the paper. I pretty much like the way it turned out, although I am not sure that that is the right flower for the card. To tie it in, I put a flower inside the card as well. Now I just have to remember to post it!

I need to get some invisible tape or something if I am going to continue to use this kind of paper. I think it shows up more in the photo than it does in the flesh but still.

Paper Piecing

First attempt at Paper Piecing

Had to go and buy paper specifically to do this one! I ended up sending it to a friend when I lent her a book! Actually, I was pretty pleased with the way that this looked on the outside. I didn't do anything on the inside other than write a short message.

As you can see, I hadn't quite figured out the whole taking a photo thing yet. In fact, I'm not exactly sure I have yet, but I'm sure I will figure it out eventually!