Stress Relief !!!

I've had such a stressful day at work so I was so happy to get home relax and make some cards, I have managed to make 2 tonight and after this I am heading back to my craft room to make more. I've been concentrating on making my sets of Christmas cards which is getting a little monotonous so I decided to have a change tonight.

Staying on the Christmas theme I've been working on using up of my Forever Friends decoupage that I have accumulated over the last 2 years, for reason I've ended up with 4 packs just Christmas related so I'm going to use it all up to make some space for new things.





















Both cards are brown Kraft cards which I have to get more of because I really love the look of them, I used papers from the Forever Friends Christmas paper pack and just kept is as simple as possible. Hopefully I'll have another 2 to post later before I head to bed.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Back To Work

It's Sunday evening and I'm back to work tomorrow, it doesn't seem 5 minutes ago since I started my 2 week holiday. I'm trying not to think about the fact that I have no holiday left now until next year as it makes me feel really sad.

I've been so busy in the last 2 weeks, firstly with sorting the house and doing some redecorating with the hubby and secondly trying desperately to make cards for the fair. I still have tons to do and am going to have to fit it in after work and the weekends. I know in my last post I said I was going to hopefully enter a challenge, well that never happened.

I do however have a picture of a card I made tonight for my brother in laws son, Ben who is 13 next week. I'm not that great with boys/mens cards but I found a cute stamp set at my local craft shop yesterday with a football theme and knew that it would be perfect. The set was made by Stamp-IT and has 3 images and 2 sentiments on the sheet. The backing paper I used was from a Forever Friends paper pad and I used red card for the layering as Ben is a Liverpool FC supporter. I used Pro Markers to color the image in and a glitter gel pen for the stars.

















So now I have my post done I'm heading to bed, I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a long day, especially since I'm working right through until 6pm.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

New Christmas Cards

I thought I would grab 5 minutes quickly to post as it's been a week since I last did. I've only left my craft room to sleep in the last 7 days and I still have so much to do in the next 8 or so weeks before the fair. I made a set of lovely Christmas cards yesterday which I'm really happy with, the picture below doesn't do them justice.

















Each card measures around 9cm square and has a different Christmas image which has been hand coloured by me using Pro Markers and decoupaged into 3 layers. I put a lot of work into them and now have to repeat it as I would like a few sets to sell.

As it's Thursday in the morning I think I'm going to take some time out and try and enter at least 1 challenge, right now I'm off to bed.

Happy crafting

Michelle

Tweet and a Flutter!!!

Back for my third post of today, my second of tonight, I have another challenge card which I am entering into the Cute Card Thursday Challenge Blog. The theme this week is birds or butterflies.

















I wanted to keep my card simple and chose my favourite color scheme of pink and brown. I started with a die cut bird from my Spellbinder Wizard in pink and worked my design around that. You can't tell from the photo but the scalloped circle is raised off the card so it looks like the bird is set back within the card. This is one of the few cards I make where I haven't used a stamped image which is strange for me as I love to stamp.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Colours of Autumn

The first challenge card I have made tonight is for the Colors Of Autumn challenge over at Allsorts Challenge Blog. I took my inspiration from my back garden which is looking rather bare at the moment, although I still have leaves on the tree's which are green it won't be long now before I have a carpet of brown and red on the ground.

















I used a stamp from C.C. Designs, it hasn't got a lot to do with autumn I know but I started coloring the image in weeks ago but only got as far as her hair. I was going through a faze of using burnt orange and coral colours which I thought was perfect. The flower is a Spellbinders die which pieces together, before I took the pieces out I inked it in brown.

Onto my second post.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Very Quick Update

I thought I better post something as I have been offline for almost a week. I have just got my wireless connection working again after spending the last 3 days sprint cleaning the whole house.

I managed to get to some crafting done this morning and now I have the internet I'm going to try and get some challenges entered. I'm off to make lunch first though.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

My Birthday Cupcakes

I was hoping to do some cards tonight but instead I spent the whole evening baking, I've not long finished up and thought that I would share some pictures of my efforts.

And what has all the effort been for.....well it's my birthday today (Friday) and It's customary to take cakes into the office (Personally I think other people should buy me cakes but I can't argue with tradition)












In all I baked 60 cup cakes but I only decorated around 50 of them. unfortunately trying to bake when you can only half focus you end up with a few over cooked cakes, and no I wasn't enjoying a birthday drink, the frames on my glasses broke. The ones above I am taking to work and the rest are for the hubby to take to his work.















Fingers crossed I can get my glasses fixed before I start work so when i get home I can see to make some cards.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

First Video Tutorial

I spent the whole of yesterday making Christmas cards and then today i wanted to put together a video of how I'm making them. I don't have a really good camera at the moment so I decided to make a slide show type video and use on screen instructions rather me trying to narrate it.

I hope that it's ok and worth watching, as it's my first one I'm unsure if the instructions are to long or not.




Please leave comments and let me know if the video was any good, I hope to find time to make more soon.

Happy Crafting

Michelle