50th Birthday

It is my eldest son's 50th birthday today.  I don't know which of one us is feeling our age more today - him or me.

He is a mad keen golfer. Tis a family thing as I was a very keen golfer - in my day - and his father also used to play.

So I made this card using one of my Card Hut CD's

I had to apologise to him about the age of the golfer but there weren't any other physiques that I could use.

Never mind - he liked the enclosed.

Hugs
xx

I have been revamping

some cards that I made quite a while ago. At the time I had either not finished them properly or not as well as I thought I should have done. So they had gone into my go-to box where they have stayed.

I decided that I should sort them out and either dispose or reinvent.

Here are some:

This was made at a Judith Maslen workshop many moons ago.
 I redid some of the embossing and generally tidied up the edges
of the butterflies and chose a new backing card and sentiment.

A Karen Shaw pattern.
 Done when I was going to do the PCA exam course.

A Sarah Kaye design from Mettemusen.
Hand-painted on parchment. Just remounted.

A Susan McGuirk parchment border.
I broke the beads so had to redo them.
I used different beads and remounted.

This Pierrot I haven't shown before.  It was one of the earliest parchment cards that I attempted.  I believe the pattern came from a Pergamano box set for children.  I have pulled it all to pieces because I had been careless when I fixed the image to the backing card and you could see the glue.   So I have rematted - using my new dies and refixed the image. This time I used the tiniest little bit of Perga Glue around the edge.

All this is because I thought it a waste to have these cards just sitting in a box.  I need about 150 birthday etc cards a year as well as all the Christmas cards so it seemed silly to always make new ones all the time when I have these I can use.

Quick wedding card

I haven't had to make a 'wedding' card for such a long time that I haven't really got anything suitable.  Especially for someone, I do not know intimately, as a friend.  I searched my CDs but couldn't find anything I liked and then I spied my small stack of USB sticks from My Craft Studios.  I bought these a little while ago when, I believe, they were on offer.
I found some very beautiful watercolour effect images of flowers - especially some pink roses.  I decided to use one of those images.  I used my ACDSee graphics programme to add a border and some words and here is the result:

I am sorry you can see my arms in the Mirri card.  I used my Pretty Shabby die set from Carnation Crafts for the mirror card and then added some very new gem type embellishments - delivered by a slow boat from China. (Joking aside they are beautiful 'gems'.  Mostly they look like drops of enamel).
The USB stick is called  'Everything Essential/Fabulous Foundations' and includes the Elite Software in case you don't already have it on your computer.
The card is for my lovely Dentist. She rang me the other day to make an appt for me and she let it slip that it had to be soon as she was going off on honeymoon.  I then had to make sure that she was coming back afterwards and she assured me that she was. Phew!  Good dentists are hard to find.

p.s.  I saw her yesterday and am pleased to say she loved her card. It all got very confusing because she was already married but had delayed the honeymoon.  As she had mentioned a honeymoon I made the assumption - as one does - that it would follow straight after the wedding. Anyway, I was pleased I made it.

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #27 - Anything Goes.

This Challenge is hosted by Wynn,  so she will be choosing the Top 3 in due course.
On a personal note, I am so pleased to see our team member Pamela joining in with us when she can.

My contribution to the team samples comes from La Pashe - - Big One CD - Vol 2 - Sports and Pastimes.

This is a clear and unfussy decoupaged image - so suitable for the 'go too' box for those men in your life.  I don't have to send many 'male cards' but it is always useful to have a couple to hand.

I have used my new favourite set of dies for the mats.  These are from Carnation Crafts and are called 'Pretty Shabby'.

I look forward to some more blog hopping, and if you have hopped this way, I would love to hear from you.
Hugs
Carol

A card for my sister

whose birthday is today.

She loves all things Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Art Deco and Art Nouveau - so I have sent her a stitched card depicting one of Mackintosh's roses.

This is to go with the table lamp I bought her for Christmas (and birthday) which depicts the same rose in stained glass.

Birthday cards for the young ones.

My Great Nephews birthdays are coming around again. The dates are very close together - one in January and the other in February.

Here is the card for Arlo - the January one:

Sadly the red mirror card I used shows black because of the scanner.  The real black is a fine glitter card and I am pleased that the coloured threads did show up.

I really didn't like the above image so this morning - as soon as it was light - I took a photo out in the garden. Much more betterer:

The February birthday boy will be 5 and - according to his Grandmother, he is mad about dinosaurs -  so I have given him dinosaurs.

Quite a while ago I purchased some sheets of 'puffy' animal embellishments and have been dying to use them.  So here I have finally managed -  one.

The stitch patterns came from here and here.
Hugs
Carol
xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #26 - Anything Goes - hosted by Jane

A very Happy New Year to everyone.  I hope a good holiday break has been enjoyed and that 2020 is going to be a great crafting year for us all.

For our first challenge of the New Year, I went to my new favourite CD maker - The Card Hut.
The CD is called  'The Great Outdoors'  and I have called my card the 'Bird Table Robbery'.

I had fun making it and I think the story is self-explanatory.

I hope to see many entries to our challenge and I look forward to much blog hopping - admiring your projects and learning about new skills and crafting goodies.

Hugs
Carol
xx