My First Easel Card

I know that I've gone into blog posting overdrive today as it's my 3rd post of the day but I couldn't help but share my very first easel card. I've seen lots of lovely looking easel cards and I always thought they were complicated to make but as I was looking over some videos on You Tube I came across a few tutorials and decided it was about time I knew how to make them.

I was so surprised when the tutorials made it look really easy and I just had to go into my craft room and give one a go myself. It's not the finished article as I still need to add some more decoration to it but I wanted to share it anyway.






















That's it for me tonight, I'm off for a shower and am going to settle down and get an early night.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Running out of......Glue!!!!

As the title of this post suggests I ran out of glue today, right before I was going to concentrate on doing a couple of challenge cards my glue stick came to the end and wouldn't you know it I hadn't got another. With it being 4pm on a Sunday there was nowhere open to buy another so I've had an easy night tonight and watched a couple of films instead, before I head off to bed I thought I should at least post the things I have made before I ran out.

Hopefully I haven't got many more Forever Friends Christmas cards to make now, my pile of decoupage is slowly going down, plus I am running out of ideas for designs. After these were finished I started work on a mini book as I need some for the fair.

I'll post about the mini book separately as this is going to get very long

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Happy It's Friday

I'm really happy that it's now Friday, even if I still have to go to bed and go to work later it just means the weekend is that much closer. When I posted on Wednesday I said I was going to make more cards, and I did but by the time I finished up it was 1am and I went to bed without posting. I thought I would post them now and then post pictures of cards I made tonight.

















As in my last post all of my cards today are for Christmas and they are all Forever Friends. I'm really enjoying making these as it's a welcome break from my card sets which I'm going to try and finish this weekend
















As for me I'm now off to bed.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

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

Slow Weekend

I've just finished my first and only challenge card of the weekend, I decided to take a break from making Christmas cards and entered the Sketch Saturday challenge. The card I made is going to be for my sisters birthday in October, that's if she doesn't read this.






















I used paper from 'Forever Friends - Party Time' and the cat is a decoupage image from the 'NitWit Collections - Mee Wow' sheet, as my sister loves cats I thought this was purrrfect!!!

I now have to get back to making Christmas cards, I have another 13 to do on the current Christmas Pudding design that I posted earlier in the week and then I'm onto the next.

Happy Crafting

Michelle