It's been a while ....

Hi Folks,

It's been a while since my last blog! For a while i hadn't been crafting much, I'd kind of lost heart with it after the company I worked for closed and we had to shut our shop! The Paper Mill Shop will be missed!

Anyway a few weeks ago I met up with my dear friend Sarah and she rekindled my love for card craft once more and inspired me to get back on the horse as they say! I had a lovely and very relaxing day just chatting and crafting away without any interruptions! Just what the doctor ordered! Thank You Sarah!!

So be warned, the sleeves are rolled up and I mean business I've been busy make, make, making and intend on blog, blog, blogging! (If my computer doesn't crash from shock!! lol)

Hope you like what you see and maybe it will inspire you!

Lynda

Cupcakes & Coffee Evening

Hi there,

My GB company (First Antrim Presbyterian Church, Antrim) are having a fundraising event on the 17th November 2010 from 7pm - 9pm to raise funds for our company and charity of choice.

It's a Cupcake and Coffee evening where you can buy cakes, cupcakes, a small selection of crafts and books and have a chat over a cup of tea/coffee. If you are free we'd love to see you there.

The cupcakes will be deliciously tempting!

Cupcake Addiction

Hi folks,

I have a major cupcake addiction and i have been baking non-stop these past few weeks. Watch this space for some of the themed cupcakes i have been attempting.

yummy

Baby Thank Yous

Hi folks,

I had planned to be so organised this time round and have all my thank you cards made before the arrival of the baby! Unfortunately due to not being able to settle on one design ( i kept changing it and changing it and changing it) it took a while to get round to making the final ones - altho i probably could have used all the trial versions, everyone would be different.

This is the final design i settled on inspired by Sarah's beautiful card click on the link to see the inspiring work of a very talented lady:

http://sarahslittlesnippets.blogspot.com/2010/10/baby-girl-card.html

The card is A6 landscape and as always sourced from the Paper Mill @ junction one, the image is a forever friends stamp coloured with pro markers, the circles and scalloped circles are woodware punches and the embossed background is created using the cuttlebug and a sizzix embossing folder. The wording is from a woodware clear stamp collection.

Just a quickie...

Here is the prayer pot I made for our Girls' Brigade prayer requests.

It is very simple as was done in a hurry using a stampendous pail, patterned paper by papermania and cut out shapes from my cricut. Its very simple but quite effective the only problem now is that my seniors and brigaders want to decorate their own pails!! What have i started. lol

Birthday Bodice

Hi Folks,

My aunt asked me to make a 21st birthday card for my cousin at the last minute and this is waht i came up with.

The bodice is a dimension fourth stamp which i stamped in black and added a touch of colour with pro markers and papermania gemstones. The skirt was a rectangle of mulberry paper frayed along one edge and then folded in a concertina fashion. This was then stuck underneath the bodice which was raised with 3d foam squares. The numbers were cut on my cricut (plantin school book cartridge). The 3 gemstones in the corner were papermania also, and i used two different sizes.

The finished card was 140mm square.

Thanks

Lynda

Birthday Candle

Hi Folks,

This was the little present i made for cousin on her 21st birthday.

The base candle was winter berry purple from Asda.

I stamped the verse, i think it was from a stampin up set, using memento tuexdo black onto some lilac mulberry paper and used the heritage happy birthday stamp below it. Then i carefully teased the edges apart to create a frayed rectangle. I repeated this on a piece of whit mulberry paper only slightly larger to allow me to create a layered effect. I then used my promarkers to turn the white mulberry paper into a darker shade of purple. I use my promarkers on anything that sits still long enough to be coloured, lol!

I stuck the two layers together with double sided tape and fastened them directly to the candle using double sided tape also. To add a little bit of sparkle i added four purple self adhesive gem stones by papermania to each corner of the stamped mulberry paper.

I popped it into a large cellophane bag along with some little purple punched daisies and tied it closed with three organza ribbons of various thickness and shades of purple.

Quick and cheap to make.

Lynda