Mother's Day

Hello stamping buddies, I hope you are all keeping warm and cosy!  It is so cold here in the SW of the UK, we actually had snow!  This is rather a rarity, as, normally our temperatures are a little warmer than the rest of the country because we are so close to the sea!  However, these past few days, have seen minus temperatures, snow and frozen roads.

As I have said before, I have no heating in my craft room in the attic, and so, I have kept out of it as much as possible.  So, my Mother's Day card is yet another cheat - in order to minimise my exposure to the cold - I have added a pre-made card from my stash to the front of a larger card blank, which I stencilled glitter roses over and gave it a generous spritz of shimmer spray.  Mum will understand (as mum's do).  So, here it is.

I printed a lengthy verse, suitable for my mother inside and called it done.  Sorry I am taking a while to get back into my stride this year.  I do hope to do better soon!

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.

Still Not Feeling It!

Hi crafty friends!  I think you will probably guess from the title of this post - but in case there is any doubt - I am still in a funk.  The weather is still not being kind, although the sun did show it's face today, however, it's still bitterly cold, so I am hoping it will get better now.  It's been so miserable, and I'm still not happy for other reasons that I won't bring you down with.

I hope you are all well and happy.  I decided that I really ought to try and drag myself out of this awful mire.

Anywho, I did what I usually do when my mojo deserts me.  I got out some pre-made bits and bobs.  I already had the flowers that I had coloured previously, so I started with them.  The next thing I did was punch some vellum leaves.  I found the die cut medallion and arranged my flowers and leaves on one corner of it.  Then I stamped the greeting.

Finally, I dry embossed a floral border, fussy cut it out and adhered it to a vanilla card base, then added the decorated medallion and sprayed with a little shimmer spray.

Here it is.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! 

If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.

My Last Christmas Card

Hello lovely people!  Firstly, I need to apologise for my lack of posts of late, but most of all, for not visiting all of  you, my dear friends!  My mum has been quite poorly again - not as bad as this time last year, thank the Lord - but she caught a cold, which then developed into a nasty chest infection.  

I was so worried it could develop into Pneumonia (as it does so very often with older folk), but she was prescribed more antibiotics - she's allergic to most of them, but, luckily, not these.  So, she is on the mend - still quite a way from being well - but I am praying she will be 100% by Christmas.

So, a big thank you to those of you who kindly sent me Christmas cards (I haven't even had time to thank you in person, so, again, I apologise), but I have appreciated every single one of them!  And I think I have managed to get all of mine done at last.  This card that I am posting today, is the one I made for my mother (she loves bling, so it is quite sparkly, and busy, but it's what she likes).

I'm afraid, I think this will probably be my last post for this year - if I do get a chance, I will post another - but I think it will probably be in the new year now.  So, if I don't get a chance, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support throughout the year and wish you all a very happy Christmas and a healthy and happy new year too.

Sorry for rambling, here is the card.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! 

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Ombre Stencilling

Hi crafty ladies (and gents).  I hope you are all well.  For this card I blended ink through a stencil in an ombre fashion.  This was a quick and simple card to make.  I added a big, bold sentiment, a strip of patterned paper, a strip of glitter card and called it a good 'un.  Here are the pictures.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! 

If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.

Painted Petals

Hi crafty friends, I hope you are all well.  Here for you is another scheduled post.  This card was made with Stampin' Up's 'Painted Petals' stamp set.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! 

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A Fun Fold

Hola from (I hope) sunny Spain!  You didn't think I'd forget to leave you something to look at for a full month, did you my friends!  There will probably be only one a week, it depends how much I can get done before I go, in between sorting things out for Mum while I am away, to ensure everything goes smoothly!

So, I won't babble, this is the card, CASE'd from somewhere on You Tube, sorry, forgot the link!

Made with the legendary 'Eastern Medallion Suite' by Stampin' Up.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! 

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Another Quick & Simple Card . . .

. . . from the Stampin' Up 'Eastern Palace Suite'

Hello crafty peeps!  Of course, this stamp and die set needs no introduction any more, as you have seen it so often here (and everywhere), so I will just go ahead and show you the pictures.

Card-stock and ink was Stampin' Up's 'Dapper Denim'.

Have a great weekend lovely people and thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! 

If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.

A Missed Deadline

Last week I saw the sketch below for a challenge at the blog, 'Just Add Ink' and I wanted to make a card following the sketch.  This is the sketch.

Well, I got busy with one thing and another and missed the deadline by miles!  But I still wanted to use the sketch and this is what I came up with.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know!

If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.