tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36141393712414203462024-03-14T00:26:00.408+00:00Carole's Crafty CreationsMostly my hand-made cards but bits of other work...plus a bit of chat...mainly crafty!Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.comBlogger720125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-64445182364197877092015-12-23T09:19:00.002+00:002015-12-23T09:20:22.183+00:00Merry Christmas Wishes - Thursday 23rd December 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember me?? Well my month or so 'sabbatical' from blogging, has lasted a whole lot longer. I have missed you all and sorry for not stopping by your blogs from time to time, but I did make the decision to make a complete break, which meant staying away completely. In fact except for sending a few birthday messages, I also did the same with Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have to say that the time I 'got back' from not blogging or posting on social media (and bearing in mind I have never been a daily blogger or avid FB contributor) was amazing and I have felt a lot more relaxed. I have spent more time out in the countryside helping to preserve habitat for owls, than I have in the craft room and we had a super time decorating our new garden room. The hens love it and are always hanging around the door because they know I will give in to them and give them blueberries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't make many of my Christmas cards again, so have felt less stressed about that as well...most of the ones I did make were made using a stamp designer I discovered a few months ago online and I will share one of the less 'Christmassy' designs in the New Year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's time to share a few photos of the new room, which we love...I'm going to save posting details of my makes and makeovers until the New Year, but suffice to say fabric stamping and a lot of Annie Sloaning were involved!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before I finish this short post, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..thank you to those of you who have stayed in touch and to those with whom I have shared Christmas cards, all your cards are amazing. Cards are such a major part of the Holidays, I love to look at them, they always make me smile and are so cheering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will be back in the New Year, I will be cutting down my posting, but I'll be back...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first group of photos are of the room just after we had finished decorating in October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These are of the room decorated for Christmas..there are so many twinkling lights it looks like a fairy grotto! Quite a few of them weren't even lit in these photos...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hoping that you are all well...I can't believe it's our last Bank Holiday before Christmas already....and it's raining!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently I have posted infrequently - you must be fed up with my apologies for lack of posts and visits to you all! After a lot of thought over the past few weeks, I've decided that I need to take a proper break from blogging, only for the next month, but I need it, in order to come back with renewed enthusiasm and energy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have been blogging for 4 years, but this year for some reason I have found it increasingly difficult. There's no <b>one</b> reason - it has been a busy year outside the craft room indeed and we have a busy few weeks ahead...they start to build the conservatory this week and in two weeks time we have our holiday - we aren't going away, we will be busy painting, choosing tiles for the floor and pieces of furniture - I have 2 '<i>Annie Sloan' </i>furniture projects to get on with - and amongst that some day trips to places we love (actually we have some exhibitions of art etc lined up to see).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have also also found that in the last few weeks, whilst I decided to put blogging to the back of my mind, my craft time has improved and been more relaxed. It's crazy really, when I was prolifically designing for Sam Poole's Team last year I had no problem in coming up with ideas and meeting deadlines. Over the past month or so, I hadn't <i>lost</i> Mr Mojo, he just knew I had been getting a bit 'anxious' about so many things to get done, so he had decided to shut down for a while - as soon as I relaxed a little, he bounced back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is very hard to say, as I really do love visiting your blogs, seeing all your wonderful work and leaving a comment - as I love it when you visit me, but I think that a break will regenerate my enthusiasm and I will hopefully come back with lots of cards and crafts made, so that I won't be frustrated about 'making' to blog. It's not just been blogging either...I've barely visited Facebook or twitter, except for work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been out with the Owl group a few times now and have really enjoyed getting out in the open and learning so much about Birds of Prey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over the next month, I hope to drop by you all from time to time, but I won't be here again until October...so here is my last card for the time being...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I am sharing a card I made for a cousin of Tom's <i>(well his dad and Tom are first cousins, you know what I mean)</i> who has got into Oxford University to study law....whoopee! Everyone is of course so proud of him, they are a lovely, close family and he himself is an amazing young man. His sister also just got straight A's and A*'s in her GCSEs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The card is 7x7: I used a base layer of black card and added a layer of script/map card, the edges of which I inked slightly with Vintage Photo distress ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I then die cut the arrows using Tim Holz 'Artful Arrows' for Sizzix, penning 'Oxford' on one of them. I stamped the Bird Crazy, (which looks like a wise owl to me) and used the die cuts to make it 3D. I coloured it with promarkers. I made the mortar board myself, just drew it and cut out and then added an 'A Level' certificate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's it for now, take care all and I look forward to connecting with you again in October,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you all had a great weekend and the sun shone where you are, as it did here! I had every intention to hop on my computer and write a post on Saturday, but it was so lovely outside, that by the time we got back from our shopping 'must do's' Saturday lunchtime, we just went outside and got stuck into some gardening....I have been trying to sketch a revamp of a rather untidy little corner where we have a tiny pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be honest, I agreed with Tom's thinking that the whole thing should be drained and gotten rid of, the plastic is now exposed and it looks bad - <b> just one problem</b> - it's a really thriving wildlife area and the little pond is home to a heck of a lot of frogs and other little creatures, so at the moment at least Tom's preference wasn't an option really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made these sketches for ideas to at least pretty it up and encourage even more butterflies and insects and set to work on it....the hens of course were not a great help! Tilda especially!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At one point I turned my back, she suddenly squealed and just managed to take off across the water instead of landing in it (thank goodness - a green weed coloured chicken would not have been a pretty sight!) and ran around the garden clucking. Cara was in the nest box laying her egg and I have noticed has learnt to stay put when Tilda gets agitated about something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The problem? She had stuck her beak into one of the pots that we leave there as frog and toad 'hotels' and had met a rather large toad holed up in the dark! Once she had calmed down and felt brave, she went straight back and kept tapping on the pot with her beak, so I was telling her off all afternoon. On a more serious note, I think she did actually eat a couple of very tiny frogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday we treated a family member to a trip to </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Highgrove gardens</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">; the third time for Tom and I, but a first for Sandra and the rest of Tom's family. There were 6 of us, we had lunch after and the weather was perfect. No photos I'm afraid, security there does not permit cameras or phones in the grounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a super craft evening last week: some of the ladies had asked for CAS cards. I made the four projects below, with the hope that they would finish 3 of them...well I'm thrilled to say, two of the ladies finished all 4, two finished 3 and one finished almost 3, so not bad going. I deliberately made them as CAS as possible and they said they really enjoyed it. I was pleased, I really love CAS! I didn't get any photos, will try to remember this week...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made a lot of CAS cards as demos, a lot of them using these two sets of stamps from Woodware and will show them over the next few weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's all for today, thank you so much for taking the time to stop by,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting and thank you for your comments on my <i>Birds of Prey mini albu</i>m: a few of you were impressed I had made an album of photos from a recent event so quickly...well believe me, I have a full size scrapbook for our last holiday in California, with just a few complete pages! Our last trip to Italy is still on the computer! I do prefer to be able to pick up photos and look at them whenever I want, so this year I decided I would make mini albums of events and holidays - they can be quick to complete and are easy to revisit and add more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I hadn't intended that more than a week should pass between posts, but it has! I have got a lot of crafting achieved this week though..no extra time in the office, no volunteering...so more craft time. I also won some sentiment stamps from Sue Wilson's blog, which was brilliant!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first of our August workshops is this week and some of the group asked if they could have a CAS card session....I look around some of my crafty friend's blogs who specialise in CAS and I am always in awe. I really admire CAS, I find it hard to get started...a<i>nd then to stop adding to the card</i>...but I <b>love</b> it and once I get started, I can't stop! That is what I have been doing in my craft time this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However for today I want to share cards I've made for hubby Tom's birthday tomorrow...he loves birthdays (much more than I do), so the family will be over for a birthday tea and hopefully it will be nice enough to sit outside (a big hope I think!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, I did say<i> cards, </i>because of course 'the girls' (our hens) have to give him one too (call us crazy, it's just a bit of fun)...so I made a quick one from them as well....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all here is mine: the 'awesome' is a bit of an in-joke with Tom about the US comedy <b>Modern Family </b>and the character Phil Dunphy, as it's one of his 'phrases' that Tom adopted..but if you haven't seen it, ignore this as it will mean nothing to you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For this one I stamped a Penny Black image and coloured with Promarkers. I then cut around the edge at the top and folded it at the base to make a simple stand up card. I die cut the greeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also made some wrapping paper for their little present: I just used parcel wrap and stamped the chicken all over it. The stamp is from a small company called <a href="http://noolibird.com/">Noolibird</a>, they are designed and handmade in Sussex by textile designer and artist Nula Shearing and are fabulous quality wooden block stamps, I love her designs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the moment we have our youngest hen, Tilda, just coming up to a year old who seems to be trying to decide whether or not she is broody..very odd...we've had a broody hen before, but not one that is showing all the traits but not quite doing it..that's fine with me, I don't want a broody hen to deal with at the moment! Cara, our older gal is in disgrace. We were eating a sandwich in the garden today, when she ran at me (quite comical really) leapt on my lap and made off with it! I managed to get most of it off her as I didn't want her to eat the bread and cheese (the lettuce and tomato I left for her)..naughty girl!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well I must be off now and get the house ready for tomorrow's guests...have a good weekend all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you have all been having a good week...Friday is here and the weekend beckons, yay!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today, (I'm afraid) there's still no escaping from owls or a photo heavy post! I decided to make a mini album of my photos from our recent few days away, when we visited one of my favourite places, <i>The Cotswold Falconry Centre.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This month's challenge from <b>Eileen Hul</b>l over at <a href="http://www.eileenhull.com/2015/07/july-art-with-heart-challenge-make-it-3-d.html">Art with Heart</a> is to create something with a 3D element....now<b> you know</b> one of my favourite ways with craft is 3D, pop up cards, decor objects...but I couldn't really use my window box for this as I made one last month...however, I think this little book counts as 3D and has some touchy-feely textures that stand out from the book...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made the book using <b>Eileen's mini album die for Sizzix </b>(love this die, <i>the best</i> for mini albums!) and embossed the cover with a leafy embossing folder. I then rubbed copper relief paste into the embossing to bring out the texture and give it shine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The owl (Sam Poole design) was stamped on to a <b>fabric-paper</b> with a <b>furr</b>y texture - <i>yes I know owls have feathers,</i> but the point is it is very tactile, feels soft to the touch. I adhered the owl to the cover with 3D pads to raise him and then stamped him again on paper and added the eyes and beak with foam pads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I drew the branch freehand and die cut the leaves, the letters are a <b>Tim Holz</b> alterations die for Sizzix.</span><br />
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com14United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188302499999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-20280025999063140582015-07-21T07:41:00.001+01:002015-07-21T07:41:24.193+01:00Window Box card (2) - Tuesday 21st July 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you all had a good weekend, ours was very busy but so enjoyable...Saturday Tom and I worked from 1pm to 9pm making the holes in the ground for the pergola. We had a special tool but we kept hitting large stones and had to dig 8 holes, each 20 inches! Sunday Tom's dad and brother helped him put it up, the weather was just right and his Mum and I were on lunch duty and there to help if needed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They started at 10am and finished at 7pm (with aa half hour lunch), so an hour later we were treating them to a pub meal for their help. We are really pleased with it now, we have to start adding the plants, but in time I am sure it will look like it's been there forever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did promise a hen story, so here it is...the weekend before we had to prepare the area for the pergola and this involved moving a little bush that the hens used as a little hideaway. When we started to dig it up, Tilda was in laying her egg but Cara got quite visibly 'annoyed' with us and actually sat herself under the bush and would not move! Every time I picked her up, she went straight back! By the time Tilda emerged from the nest box, we had removed and replanted it but she was looking all over for it. Needless to say they have ignored it where it's planted and found another favourite spot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Above is Cara after we had trimmed away at the bush before digging it up, wondering what had happened to it and below is Tilda the next day, still looking for it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago I made a window box card for my friend, using the Sizzix die by Eileen Hull...Lynda loved it, so I made one with a different colour palette for my Mum in Law's birthday earlier this month....</span></div>
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com11United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188302499999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-11603601785066730322015-07-18T09:02:00.002+01:002015-07-18T09:02:30.902+01:00What a Hoot! - Saturday 18th July 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finally caught up with all your posts yesterday, I don't think there has been a time I have blogged less since I arrived here about 4 years ago...the only reasons are just so little time at the moment -and- I really need to learn to write shorter posts with less waffle....hmmm!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before anything else I would like to welcome my new follower<b> Helen R</b>, thank you so much for following along Helen...I'm really sorry, but when I click on my followers list at the moment I just get a weird box pop up, so please let me know if you have a blog too. I've also noticed I have a few more <i>bloglovin</i> followers, so welcome to you too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I've been outside a lot lately: the weather has been mostly lovely, too nice to spend time at my computer! We have been doing a lot of work in the garden and this weekend are enlisting the help of some of Tom's family to help erect a new and pretty large pergola...<i>gosh it will be like a barn raising :</i>) We've been so busy, I haven't even had much time to spend in my little garden craft retreat this year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next month we are having a conservatory fitted(<span style="font-size: x-small;">so no holiday last year because of the new kitchen and none again this year,ah well will be worth it...</span>) and as I'm home more than Tom - and live close to work, it will be mostly me 'project managing' it, lol...it's quite a big space, so will add a good sized extra room to the house. I"m looking forward to it, but they have said that from start to finish it will be about a month and then we have walls to paint and have to wait another month before we can have the floor laid...and of course it has to be furnished...so it will be October before it's complete. It's been fun though, because as it's going to be large enough for a comfy seating area <i>and</i> our dining table, I've been making a mood board on Pinterest and am looking forward to the 'interior design' part of it, including plenty of Annie Sloaning :)...I just hate using blogger on the iPad but I can sit in front of the TV and Pin to my heart's content!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week and next week I'm in the office more than usual: we have a 17 year old IT student volunteering with us for a couple of weeks and he's been doing some excellent work and also this week I had my first outing with the <a href="http://hawkandowl.org/groups/south-gloucestershire-group/">Hawk and Owl Trust</a> and it was great!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was also another 'newbie' volunteer, who we had actually placed through the Volunteer Centre I manage, so it was nice to see Joanne and she had a good time too. We went out with a group of 6 experienced volunteers and visited 3 farms where they have barn and tawny owl boxes sited. The aim was to check each box to see if it had been or was being used. As we approached one box, a barn owl flew out. Apparently it is very unusual to actually see a bird, so we were extra lucky on our first day. When the guy inspected the box, there was one owl chick inside and one egg. The chick was quite an advance age, so although owls do hatch their eggs in stages it was unlikely the last egg would hatch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is me being taught how to use a nest box cover. When inspecting boxes, a couple of group members approach and cover the entry hole with this instrument. This stops any bird inside from flying out. It's really heavy and quite tricky to place and you hold it there whilst one of the others climbs the ladder to check the box, no owls in this one though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were out about 4 hours and when I got home I'd intended to craft, but instead I went out in the garden and pottered with the hens, it was such a gorgeous day and after a morning of walking around farms I just wanted to stay outdoors!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm sticking to owls for this post..this was my project for our craft group a last week...we made a hanger but I made this one so that it could easily be turned into a card, which is what I have done and shown below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've seen quite a lot of this type of artwork about lately, not stamped as these are, but having a similar printed effect. I deliberately left the tree plain and coloured the flowers with promarkers using a simple block colouring method, so it looks printed. The owl is the Mr Owl stamp by Sam Poole and is paper pieced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the hanging decoration the group made: they all seemed to enjoy it, some hadn't done any paper piecing before or masking stamped images, which created the background, so it was fun for them to try these techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the tree I used a grand deckled oval Spellbinder die on white card, which I backed with blue card. I used the same Stampendous floral stamp set as for the bookmark in my previous post, using the masking technique to overlay the images. I then inked the edges with salty ocean distress ink. For the tree, I simply drew it freehand and cut out in brown card. I've made a few cards, which will be in future posts, where I added markings to the trunk, but I wanted to leave this one 'clean' .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Well that's it (if you're still here...sorry it's so long and I still have quite a comical and poignant hen story to share, but we'll leave that for another day, I have a pergola to help put up!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for stopping by and for leaving a comment! I will catch up with you all tonight after a day in the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well another week has passed and I hope you are still enjoying the fine weather (most of the time) too?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most of Saturday was spe</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">nt in the garden, working hard! We were 'helped, by the hens and it was lovely, Sunday we spent with our friends whose daughter's wedding we were at a few weeks ago, catching up on all the post wedding news.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because I only get certain times for crafting during the week (<i>my choice mostly</i>, I've come to realise there are so many more things to enjoy as well), at least not blogging so much means I have a nice little back log of creations to keep me going for a while!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today, I want to share a small project, ahead of a few bigger ones on the same theme, which I'll share over the next few posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We only have one craft workshop in July, so Amy and I decided to have a change and get the group to make something other than a card, such as a wall hanging. Tomorrow I will show you my project for them, but for today a little bookmark I made with some left over card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've been using the cute owl stamp by Sam Poole this month and I have made quite a few projects with it for ideas, so you will be seeing a lot of him...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I placed the bookmark in this book for a reason - o<i>ther than I'm reading it for the second time - </i>in my last post, I mentioned that I had joined a local volunteer group?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My job is to help people volunteer, I used to volunteer a lot and apart from the occasional one off 'event',<i> always </i>with animals. When I lived close to the centre of Bristol, there was no shortage of animal based volunteering and I spent about 10 years helping at the <i>Riding for the Disabled school</i>, as horses are my big love. Now I live in a small town, surrounded by rural countryside, surprisingly animal groups are virtually zilch. But for a while now I have been thinking about the local <i>Hawk and Owl Trust</i>, goodness knows we've passed quite a few people to them as volunteers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So last week I put my name down and I'm now waiting for my first trip out... they survey local farmland, working with farmers and local Councils to preserve habitats for mostly kestrels and barn owls. They also take part in local community events, which eventually I'd like to help with. I am so in awe of these beautiful birds and am always reading about them, so I am really looking forward to finding out more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the projects I made using the Mr Owl stamp, also features the photos I took at the falconry centre a few weeks ago, I'll be posting that soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope you are all well and those of you in the UK didn't get over-heated on Wednesday, I was supposed to be at a work event and then I had the chance to take part in a working morning with a volunteer group I've joined....the event got cancelled and by then it was too late to go out with the group. I'll tell you more about the group in a future post...but it is nothing to do with craft...it's <i>conservation and a <b>certain type</b> of wildlife.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the end I was quite pleased to be home....I shared my time between a few hours in the craft room and several more out in the 'craft shed'...by the afternoon the hens were panting, especially the youngest one. I put extra water all over the place in shady spots and gave them cucumber and melon, which cooled them down a bit, otherwise they found shady areas under trees in the garden and led down. By the evening they were fine. I've not seen them get that hot before, there is lots of shade so plenty of places to hide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It occurred to me that I haven't shared the project my group of ladies did at our last workshop. This was our annual special one for the local Chipping Sodbury Festival and the theme this year was 'Musicals', so we decided to use some <b>Visible Image </b>stamps and make a card with a<b> Wizard of Oz</b> theme..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was the card my group made...an easel card featuring the Dorothy, red shoes and sentiment stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used a polka dot mask on the top layer, ran through the embossing machine, inked it with Vintage Photo distress ink and then used Promarkers to colour the dots as a 'nod' to the rainbow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stamped the image, dusted with clear embossing powder and heat embossed and they drew a cloud shape, cut out and inked with salty ocean distress ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I don't own a brick road stamp, I decided to use to brick wall mask: I inked it through with a mix of wild honey and mustard seed distress inks, cut into a winding road shape and inked the edges with vintage photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I coloured Dorothy using my Intense pencils and cut her out. For the flowers I used a punch. I stamped the shoes on to matt metallic silver card using versamark ink and heat embossed with red glitter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think the next one is may favourite except for the road....I couldn't get the mask to look right with the scene, so I used a path from my Lavinia Stamps collection (it is yellower in reality than the photo) and it's okay, but not really what we associate with the movie. I used Promarkers to colour Dorothy on this one and made the little 'hills' in the grass using masks made from paper. The grass stamp is by Stampscapes and the tree with hearts is by Dreamees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It wasn't until I had put it all together and looked at it that I realised I'd forgotten the rainbow! Then I painted one in using the watercolour pencils, but the card wouldn't take the water, so it looked messy...I had no choice but to take a scrap of watercolour card, paint the rainbow on that and fix it over my splodgy mess!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before I finish today, I want to say that I had a lovely surprise when I logged on yesterday...one of my long time and lovely blog friends, <b>Sandee Sentiff</b> has decided to do a weekly shout out for those followers who leave regular comments and I was her first choice. Sandee is an artist, with a big heart and great inspiration, do pop over and have a look at her beautiful creations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you very much for stopping by, I always appreciate your visits!</span></div>
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-82295103105575677012015-06-29T18:00:00.000+01:002015-06-29T18:00:00.576+01:00Crazy Birds #3 - Monday 29th June;;<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hoping you all had a good weekend! Today has been a hot one again here - we have a really small office and even with the window and door open it got hot except when we caught the breeze!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for all your lovely comments about my window box card - my friend Lynda was thrilled with it, it was her birthday yesterday and we and a good 'cross Country' phone chat. Look out for another of these cards in the next week or so, I decided to make one for my Mum-in-law's birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today's card is another one of those Tim Holz Crazy Birds stamps.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This time more of a guy card. I mat and layered white and black card on to a 7x7 blank, but I rubbed metallic gold Decoart paint into the white layers using a sponge, leaving some of the white to show through for a more grungy effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stamped the image, coloured it with my Inktense pencils and then cut it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the background I used gold Cosmic Shimmer Vintage Mist spray and once I had finished, I adhered the cut out bird on to the card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whilst rummaging through my boxes of craft stuff I came across a few of those self adhesive greetings that I'd had for years, so as it was gold I thought 'what the heck!' and used it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whilst on the subject of birds, a couple more photos from our little holiday..this time <b>Birdland,</b> at <b>Bourton on the Water.</b>..I hadn't been in a good few years and it has changed a lot: I took loads of photos as you can image, but I thought I would just post these penguins, because everyone loves penguins, don't they? We arrived really early so they were all preening to make themselves beautiful for the visitors...the ones in the photo below were standing under running water, taking a shower :)</span><br />
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com20United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188302499999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-35545107261033019282015-06-25T23:00:00.001+01:002015-06-25T23:00:28.653+01:00Summer Window Box - June 25th 2015<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello Friends,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for your comments about my stencilled bench yesterday...it was nice to get home from being away, the weather was still beautiful and to get outside and paint! I was dying to use those stencils. The tiny shop, which is called the Applestore and is on the same land as the arboretum and falconry was a real vintage/shabby chic treasure. I had a lovely chat with the owner, who has found some beautiful furniture and household items to give the Annie Sloan treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you saw my post yesterday you'll know I was in hiding (lol)...well the fence guys hadn't completely finished our neighbour's fence by the time they left at 4.30, but one of the men knocked on the back door to say that they would put a temporary panel in so the hens could come out...I had managed to fool them <b>(the hens</b>) into thinking I was out all day and they had been very quiet, but they heard me talking to him and started getting excited and clucking, thank goodness I could let them out...cheeky girls! But I did feel sorry for them to be in their run on such a nice day, when I was at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today's post is a 3D card that I made for my bestie from school days, Lynda, who now lives in Cumbria and is a horticulturalist. She opened her garden under the "Ulverston in Bloom' scheme last weekend and sent me some beautiful photos, it's been a while since we last got up there to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I always try and make some sort of floral card, but this time I got slightly carried away, so it had to be posted in a box with her present!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the window box, I wanted to make it look like a weathered wooden panel by scoring the card and then rubbing grey ink over it, I used Memento: London Fog. I should have made the panels longer as it looks more like bricks, but I didn't notice until I had taken the photo, which was odd and too late! I'll know next time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'd like to enter this in the June <a href="http://www.eileenhull.com/2015/06/art-with-heart-june-challenge-summer-fun-with-sizzix.html">'Art with Heart Challenge' </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The theme is <b>Summer Fun</b> and I had a lot of fun making this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by, I'll be back tomorrow with more photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't have to go to work today, but decided that instead of craft I would get up to date on the computer...so I have now (hopefully) caught up with all your blogs as well as downloaded all my photos from last week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weather outside is beautiful and I would like to be out in the craft barn - <b>but</b> - (bear with me here!) I have to 'hide' inside from the hens! <i>I haven't gone crazy</i>..one of the neighbours is having a fence replaced and it's a very long area, so I have to keep the hens in their run until they're done. If the girls know I'm home, they'll want to come out and will get quite persistent. <i>Drat that they had to do it the one day this week I'm home!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Anyway..</b>...when we were away last week we had a nice time visiting a couple of little 'vintage/shabby chic' shops that specialise in selling <b>Annie Sloan</b> paint (<i>you probably know my now that it's my favourite!</i>),...well in short it was everything AS: paint, restored furniture,workshops....! I knew the shops were there, so I'd waited to get my hands on a couple of her new stencils and when I came home I set to work on a few paint projects....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I picked this storage box up really cheaply last week and should have got a couple of them. </span><br />
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com15United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188302499999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-75796504112818526742015-06-21T09:28:00.000+01:002015-06-21T09:28:31.258+01:00Father's Day - June 21st 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well didn't we just pick the best week of weather to have a holiday in this Country!!!!! We had the best time..we are so lucky to live right on the edge of the Cotswolds..my favourite part of England and we don't have to go far to be right in it's heart, enjoying it's beauty. We have had such a 'full' week that I haven't even downloaded my photos yet, but I will share a few later in the week....<i>Christine, if you read this...I did look out for you when we were in Stow :)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I haven't looked at a computer or iPad screen for more than a few moments for a week and it's been great, so relaxing...but I had to pop on here to share my Father's Day makes and to let you know that I will be catching up with your current posts later on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for your comments on my <a href="http://8thwonderart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/wedding-musical-box-sunday-14th-june.html">Wedding project</a> for Fran and Alex...last week I had a few messages via Facebook from friends of theirs asking me to make one, but I had to say no. It just took so long.... once I had started it I <i>almost</i> regretted it as it was fiddly and ever evolving, so it was truly a 'one off'....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so to my <b>Father's Day</b> card and gift box: sadly I lost my own dear Dad many years ago, when I was barely out of my 20's and there were still so many chats to have and questions to ask, but luckily I have a wonderful Father-n-Law. Toni is a typical Italian, likes cars, football and good food and wine! He also enjoys DIY and gardening, so today usually means a suitable gift card and some Prosecco for a toast. I made the card when we did our Father's Day craft workshop, but I also made a gift box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made the box using black heavy card and the <b><i>Sizzix mini bag die by Eileen Hull</i></b> and I also made a carrying handle for the back, with some extra card and die cut a circle in the centre using <b><i>Spellbinders Classic Circles.</i></b> Before putting the box together I ran through the die-cutting machine with an M-Bossabilities folder. I then rubbed it all over with silver gilding wax for an industrial look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for stopping by, I will catch up with you all later and back to work tomorrow so will probably not be posting again until Wednesday!</span></div>
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com10United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188302499999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-11775613137991988262015-06-14T09:47:00.003+01:002015-06-14T09:47:51.607+01:00Wedding Musical Box - Sunday 14th June<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello Friends,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday was our friends' daughter Francesca's wedding and it's time to share a project I made a few weeks ago for Fran and her now husband, Alex. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I mentioned this project I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago...it took me about 10 crafting hours at various times to complete, if not more, but they loved it so it was worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It started off as a simple exploding box with a musical element, but turned into a much larger project...a case of getting carried away! I apologise in advance for a very photo-heavy post...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all, the complete closed box. I used a lot of dies, so I'm not going to list them but if any of you would like to know about any specific die, please let me know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The square top box is made using <i>Eileen Hull's Scoreboards ATB die, </i>but I made the smaller box myself, together with the lid. Once I had made the boxes, but before constructing them, I used an <i>MBossability folder</i> with a <i>heart pattern for texture</i>. I die cut shapes for each side and added floral and sentiment details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also die cut the same shapes, cut them in half and made a decorative lid, embossed with roses and decorated with die cut roses. The one</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">part I seem to have not photographed is the top of the lid - the couple is placed in a bed of roses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ATB part of the project opens into an exploding box. I added another die cut of the couple in the centre, surrounded by roses. The wedding cake sentiment stamp, I got some years ago when I went to a <i>Stampin' Up </i>party and apart from the 'bride and groom' die cut, the words on the other sides are my own, computer generated.</span></div>
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Below is a photo of it in its gift box at the wedding yesterday, I think if they had taken it out it would have been handled a lot, Alex (the groom) told me that some people thought it had been bought in a shop...nice complement.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a beautiful day, it rained but didn't spoil a thing - even though the service was partially in the open. The venue, Matara, near Tetbury was beautiful, truly idyllic. The couple smiled and laughed all day long - they met on a school bus when they were 14 and now eleven years on are husband and wife. Francesca's parents are two of our best friends, the first time we met Fran she was a premature baby and now a beautiful young woman in all ways. Her sister, who was her Maid of Honour is equally as beautiful and is our God-daughter...here are a few photos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for stopping by, I am going to be 'missing' for most of this week, Tom and I have booked into an hotel at Stow on the Wold and we are going to spend the time just chilling in the Country-side, visiting some 'bird' reserves and walking, plus a table is booked in one of our favourite restaurants in Stow. The 'girls' are in their 'holiday home' at the bird farm and we are back on Thursday. I'm dipping out of social media altogether over the next few days.</span></div>
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<br />Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com15United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188302499999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-24684563388120084612015-06-09T10:00:00.000+01:002015-06-13T08:31:40.672+01:00New Arrival - Tuesday 9th June 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A quick and scheduled post today...we have an event at work so hopefully everyone will turn up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We recently had a new addition to some of my family in San Francisco...a little boy named Linus!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I knew they were expecting a boy, so made the cards well in advance, I had to make one for the parents, Grandparents and Great Grandma...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first one is for the parents, Matt and Megan...the colour of the pram isn't as bright as the photo seems to suggest! I made a hanging frame card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am being such a <b>bad blogger</b> at the moment...well.... crafting time is limited and should be <b>fun</b>, <i>that's why most of us do it</i> - <b>right?</b> It's my relaxation time and at the moment in the time I have available to me, I feel the need to craft <b>more</b> than blog ...does that make sense? I'm a pretty slow crafter anyway, I could never post every day like some of you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Blogging means getting on the computer and tapping away and I'm doing a lot of that at work at the moment - we have events to plan and posters and leaflets to design, so I hope you understand my reluctance to get back on the computer at home? It's the same if I am on Facebook with you...that and twitter take a back seat at the moment, because myself and a volunteer have really up'd the organisation's social media prescence, hence I've had enough by the end of the day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now for a confession: having said all of the above, I <b>have</b> had the computer, iPad and iphone to hand <b>all weekend</b>..<i>.lol</i>...I got quite 'hooked' on<b> #fledgewatch</b> yesterday! You may by now be wondering what I'm talking about, especially if <b>you a) live outside the UK and b)don't watch the TV show 'Springwatch" </b><i>(for those of you who don't live here, it's seasonal wildlife programme that is shown live on BBC for 3 weeks, Spring, Autumn & Winter)</i>.....well.... news on twitter was that the blue tits in their nest box were about to fledge yesterday morning, so the dedicated nest box cam was all <b>atwitter</b>:). When I had the iPad on all through breakfast and kept checking my phone <i>(website & twitter)</i> when we were out...well Tom first of all thought I'd gone mad and then he got hooked too...lol..well the ten little lovelies finally left the nest this morning and we <b>did</b> see eight of them make their way into the big wide world, the last two waited another 2 hours!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've been in the garden all day, both here and at Tom's parents... I came inside to watch <i>Countryfile </i>only to find it had been shifted to an earlier slot by the flipping Grand Prix, groan groan and thrice groan!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway...back to craft...of course if I didn't waffle on so much when I do get on here it would help!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope you all have a good week ahead...I am really hoping the good weather lasts a while...we have a wedding to go to on Saturday and then we have a week off work, spending Saturday to Wednesday, not too far away from us in the Cotswolds, just for some R & R ...later this week I will share the wedding musical box I made for the couple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope you've all had a good week! Thank you for all your comments on the sewing card...my volunteer loved it and was sure her friend would too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I'm sharing another card made with Tim Holz Crazy Bird stamps and I'm going to make this my contribution to this week's <b>Sunday Stamper Challenge (week #357)</b> from <b>Hels Sheridan - deets <a href="http://pinkleart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sunday-stamper-week-357-all-kinds-of.html">here</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I haven't had a chance to take part for a while because I've been so busy, but this week's theme is '<b>anything goes'</b> so no excuses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have managed to get some crafting done this week...there are a lot of birthdays amongst family and friends coming up, plus one of my American family is about to have a baby (fortunately I know the sex so could get on with the cards!), so I've wanted to get everything made in plenty of time, especially as we have a week's holiday coming up soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for stopping by and have a lovely weekend y'all!</span></div>
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com12United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188248999999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-39987383416805924042015-05-24T08:30:00.000+01:002015-05-24T08:30:01.015+01:00Birthday Wishes - All Sewn Up! - Sunday 24th May 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you are all having a lovely weekend...the weather here yesterday was beautiful and we spent the afternoon in the garden with the hens..I took a few photos and have posted them at the end.....I even put in a bit of time in the Craft shed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You may remember that I said I had decided to stop taking commissions - I've been doing them for a long time and was getting a lot of requests - but - they all take so much time! I did decide however, that I would still make them for a few long time special customers as long as they give me a lot of notice and they have been very good about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This one was a request from one of my office volunteers, for her friend who loves sewing and has just bought a new machine.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The card is 7x7, with a blue base layer. The blue papers are by </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pink Petticoat</i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> and the little floral piece was taken from my bits box, so I'm afraid I can't remember where it originated.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> I pierced around the edges of each piece and then stitched by hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had some embossed card (<i>Spellbinders hearts MBossability</i>) left from another project, so I decided to use this to die cut the sewing machine, which is a <i>Sizzix</i> die..as are the cotton reels. I wound string around one cotton reel and some tape measure ribbon that was in my ribbon box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To finish I tied crushed ribbon around the bottom half of the card and added a button, twine and two pins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I really enjoyed making this card...it was a really enjoyable 'theme' as I enjoy craft sewing too.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>"I'm getting a good view from up here Cara"</i></span></td></tr>
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com20United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188248999999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-1975219973152750342015-05-21T14:37:00.000+01:002015-05-21T14:37:11.933+01:00Secret Garden - Thursday 21st May 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm sharing a project today, that I made with the latest Eileen Hull <a href="http://www.eileenhull.com/2015/05/art-with-heart-may-challenge-mixed-media-may-hem-with-decoart-media.html">Art with Heart Challenge</a> in mind...this month the topic is mixed media art. I decided to make a plaque, but one that stands rather than hangs, so I started with a square piece of wood, which I coated with white gesso as a primer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next I used a Stamps Away honeycomb stencil and stencilled a background using green paint and a sponge. I wanted this to be really light, barely visible, so I made sure the paint was almost dry before stencilling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I then used a leaf stamp from Lavinia stamps and stamped a border across the top and either side, I used Versafine ink in Spanish Moss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stamped the sentiment (from a Jofy stamp set by Paperartsy) and gave it a raised effect by heat embossing using clear powder. I also stamped flowers across the bottom, which I also heat embossed and then coloured with Promarkers. This stamp was a free stamp from Crafty Individuals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for all your comments on my blog on Saturday, they really did mean a lot to me....hope you all had a good weekend? We made the most of some nice weather..Saturday we went to Tetbury to shop, drink coffee and get some plants from a market plantsman we've used regularly over many years...lovely guy. Tom's parents have gone off to Italy to see the family, so we had Tom's brother over yesterday afternoon and Tom made his gorgeous pizzas for our meal. Aside from that we spent a good deal of time coaxing the 'girls' to use a new feeder, cage mounted, closable, all mod cons (!)...tey don't like change but accepted it in the end!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I'm sharing the card I designed for my group of ladies to make at last week's <b>Out of the Blue </b>craft class, plus the cards they made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were using a classic sports car stamp, background stamps and sentiment stamps from <b>Visible Image</b>...we have made some more 'involved' cards lately and some had struggled to finish, so I wanted to create something that I thought they would like and that I knew they could finish comfortably in the time...they all said they loved it and were so pleased to have finished, especially a couple of ladies who haven't been crafting so long, plus it was a nice change to make a guy card!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made two versions of my card, one for Father's Day and one Birthday, for those who didn't want to make a Father's Day card (all but one!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The card is 7x7 and mat and layered in silver and black. I then took a white layer and chequered background die, which I stamped using <i>London Fog Versafine ink</i>. The stamp is a lot smaller than the card, so repeat stamping was needed, but easy to match up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the top white layer I created a splattered background by mixing some brushed pewter distress paint, with a little silver-black ink, spritzed with water and then picked up on a toothbrush...those little brushes you get on a plane do have their uses! All you do is run your finger across the bristles to create the splatter. I love this effect, none of the ladies had tried it before and really enjoyed it and loved the effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The sentiment was then stamped across the bottom. The car was stamped separately and then cut out. I coloured it with Promarkers and then gave it a coat of watered down mica powder for a sheen. On the Father's Day card, I picked up a mica with a gold tint by mistake, but in reality it doesn't have such a colour tint as the photo would have you believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To finish off, I stamped a tyre mark along a strip of card using the grey ink, again the design is repeated stamping. I mat and layers on black card and added screw effect brads and die cut cogs, tied with black twine. The metal brads were copper in colour, so I coated them with brushed pewter distress paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also decided on a pop of colour by making the seats red.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made some more cards using these stamps and will share them later. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a happy Monday...I'm in work today and it looks like a wet walk there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Carole X</i></span>Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com14United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188248999999999 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-20641504222867055382015-05-16T23:28:00.001+01:002015-05-16T23:47:35.449+01:00Nicecrane DT - Stationery set - Saturday 16th May 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't believe that once again it's been well over a week since I last wrote a post or visited any of your blogs! What can I say? There just seems to be so much going on at the moment that although I've managed to craft, I'm afraid blogging is having to take a bit of a back seat. We've had a busy time at work. Charities and community groups are always reliant on funding and grants and April sees the start of a new year (or a new three year contract as far as the charity I work for is concerned) and with a new government and local Councils there will be new faces and policies to get used to and it is time to start planning again and looking around for more grants to apply for...but it's all good 'busy', I enjoy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did manage to get around your blogs tonight - if my iPad didn't freeze every time I go on blogger I could keep up with all your blogs in the evenings, but I'm afraid anything to do with blogger on my iPad drives me to the verge of madness - every time I make a mistake and try to go back it freezes...aaargh! I think my iPad is just getting old (like me, lol!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the time we get home, cook, eat and spent any daylight left having some relaxing time with the hens, all I want to do is relax by the TV with Tom. I can't just watch TV, so I surf Pinterest to my heart's content - the iPad is great for that, just not blogger! To those of you I'm friends on Facebook with, I've been missing from there too...the truth is, I do quite a bit of social media at work, I'm on the computer all day and it's the last place I want to be at home...at the moment anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, I am waffling too much...and I will be making sure I blog more often from now - back to crafts! Today I'm sharing a stationery set I made for <a href="http://nicecranedesigns.com/">Nicecrane Designs </a>as my Design Team project this month. For this set, I used the<b><i> 'So Fun & Cute Dogs' </i></b>set of digital images as shown below</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The set consists of a 7x7 base card with a selection of mini note cards, envelopes and tags. I made the stationery holder using a card blank. I took some ivory heavier weight linen effect card and used a 'Stamps Away' stencil and bundled sage distress ink to create the same background on 4 pieces of A4, which I then cut to size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all I die cut four squares to cover the front, insides and back of the card. I then took some green card from my stash, used a Martha Stewart edger punch along one edge and placed across the front. I die cut the printed image using another square die (I used Spellbinders Classic Squares), added some twine and adhered to the front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for stopping by! I'm was so pleased with your comments for the Sneakers card, which was a <b>really</b> fun card to make. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think I finally got around all your blogs yesterday....I'm sorry my visits are sporadic with quick comments lately, my valued (but too little!) craft time seems to be increasingly spent on time-consuming projects at the moment...and it be honest, I'm loving it. I just really enjoy taking a lot of time over something. The projects I made for the Eileen Hull post recently really brought that home to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This week I have made just one 'card' in <b>three </b>craft sessions, one of which was almost a whole day! <i>Yes you did read that correctly.</i>.. in truth it's not <i>exactly a card</i> - more a<i> <b>musical </b>exploding box card, </i>made<i> </i>for a wedding we are going to next month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bride is the eldest daughter of very good friends and they are a lovely couple, so I wanted to create something extra special...we are seeing her parents today and as it is virtually impossible to post, I wanted to hand it over to them. I will share it with you soon....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've also been working on a couple of cards for other people; I still keep getting asked for commissions, but I made the decision last year to not accept any more: I've been doing them for so many years and they take a lot of time, when I would rather be making projects that I really <i>want</i> to make. I used to tell myself that they were good for me because I was designing cards that were, well not exactly out of my comfort zone, but not what I would otherwise have made, but in truth I was finding that I was making so many cards for other people, that my own cards for birthdays etc ended up being very rushed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I do have a couple of 'customers' who have always given me a list of cards for the year and I agreed to carry on making for them, otherwise I have </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">strangely found it very empowering to be true to myself and say sorry, but I can't do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last weekend I received a belated birthday present: <i>Tim Holz's Crazy Birds stamps</i> - and before I started on the wedding project I made some craft time to play with them, so I made a card with each of the stamps in the set and here is the first one...they are so quirky and funny, I love them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I coloured the bird with a mixture of <i>Chameleon pens</i> and <i>Promarkers </i>and decorated the envelope to match. To finish I die-cut 'Hello' with a <i>Spellbinders D-Lite die.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> That's all for today, I hope you are all having a super Bank Holiday weekend(if you are in UK of course, but a super weekend to all!)...we had Friday off so spent the day in Cirencester, yesterday we had a mooch around Tetbury...the fields around here are all carpeted in yellow from the rapeseed plants, absolutely beautiful! Today we are seeing our friends and tomorrow, may be a trip to Bath, I am still looking for something to wear to the wedding!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for your comments on my last two posts, especially the wreath, which was something I really enjoyed making - glad you liked it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I'm sharing a recent card I made for a 12 year old boy cousin. I made it using a digital stamp. I usually keep a note of where I find the digis to give the site credit here, but this time I didn't and I've searched but can't find it again! I'll keep looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The image is coloured using Chameleon pens. I tore the card around the image in to rectangle shape and then added detailing using the following Sizzix dies:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stamped the arrow on a left over piece from the embossed card, and once I had die cut the star and clip, I sanded the card to give it a rough texture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am scheduling this post Friday night as Saturday we will be in Bristol for the classic Italian Car Show, to be honest cars do absolutely nothing for me and Tom isn't that interested, but his Dad his dad is Italian and loves his cars and so does Tom's brother, so they always put their classic cars in the show and we go down to support and usually have some lunch. So many people go and it's very noisy, but it's pretty good as long as the weather is good - and the forecast isn't that great!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway as promised here are some photos from Thursday's craft group: we used a Stampendous pop up card die and co-ordinating stamp set. I usually encourage the ladies to use my design as a base, but do what they like using the techniques. This time though because of what we were using and it being something quite new, they all seemed to follow my card...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Below os my original card: the die set is very resourceful because it includes the pop up mechanism, all the different edger dies I've used on the card, plus oval and rectangle label dies in various sizes. The stamp set includes these hydrangeas, leaves, daisies, roses and a butterfly. Got to say I wasn't too take with the rose stamp, but that was just 'me', I have used both that and the lovely daisies in some other cards, which I will share later in the week. Of course the die set can be used with any other suitable stamps, I also made a few using House Mouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before I go today..... you are probably fed up with photos of our 'girls this week, but I had to share these that I took one afternoon this week. For their supper they each have one of these plastic balls into which I have put some corn. The push them around the grass to release the corn and they seem to love it! Our Speckledy, Lacey used to manage to lift it in her beak and toss it in the air, none of the others have ever mastered that move!</span></div>
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Carole Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912488332066758486noreply@blogger.com15United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.199699000000003 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614139371241420346.post-57741937162859088712015-04-24T15:15:00.000+01:002015-04-24T15:15:00.264+01:00Spring Wreath - Friday 24th April 2015<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wow time flies! I can't believe it's been a <b>week</b> since my last post...I want to thank you all for your lovely comments on my Eileen Hull post last week and to those of you who hopped over and left a comment on Eileen's blog too...all your comments were much appreciated and I did reply with a 'thank you' to every one of them, but I'm never sure if that's very visible or obvious with blogger, so I'm saying it again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also want to offer a big welcome to my new follower <b>Jean Bullock</b>. Thank you so much for deciding to join my blog friends Jean and please let me know if you also have a blog, so I can visit you too! I hope you'll keep dropping by here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been a busy week: work has been fairly quiet, although I have been back and forth to the office quite a lot, so it's been a bit 'disjointed'. I did get in quite a bit of crafting though...mainly making some <b>pop up cards</b> using a new die from <i>Stampendous,</i> which we used in our craft workshops this month. It was a 'different' type of card for the group and seemed to go down well. I will share some of the photos of our ladies' finished cards tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I want to share something else I've been working on this week...my project to enter into this months <a href="http://www.eileenhull.com/2015/04/art-with-heart-challenge-april-spring-break.html">Art with Heart Challenge</a> from Eileen. As I was creating the projects for last week's post, I did wonder if I would get a project made this month, but I had this bit of Spring crafting at the back of my mind to make so just had to find time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The theme is Spring Break, I did think of another mini album with a holiday theme, but instead decided on a Spring wreath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those of you who have been following me for a long will know that I always have a seasonal wreath hanging on our front door. I also hang one on the interior door to our lounge. It's something I've always done...many of you will also know that a lot of my family are American, spread across California and times spent staying with my auntie in San Francisco really influenced me in my decor and craft tastes. There was always an abundance of door decor in her neighbourhood and I loved seeing it so much that when I got married and we had our own house, I decided to carry on the tradition ...of course many years later I'm still the only one in the street doing it, except for Christmas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I haven't posted any wreaths for a while because the new ones I made and posted here a few years ago and still doing well and getting hung on the front door!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is an interior door wreath, which I made by first of all covering a plain white coloured vine circle with burlap:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I then die cut 15 flowers from felt, using <b>Eileen's Flower Layers With Heart Petals die </b>(Sizzix) and leaves using <b>Sizzix Bigz Arbor die. </b>Once I had cut the leaves, I inked the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink, but I left the flowers untouched.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Love and Hugs,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Carole X</i></span></div>
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