Sympathy cards - Wednesday 4th March 2015

Hello Friends,

Thank you for all you welcome back messages, they were all very welcome indeed. I went back to work yesterday, feeling much better, no longer sneezing, just still coughing, but everyone else in the library seemed to be as well, so I was in good company. 

I also had some sad news Monday evening, because the Mother of one of my office volunteers passed away suddenly at the weekend. She was in her 90's but still very independent and sprightly so it was still a shock.

Today I've got two sympathy cards to show you, one I made to send from me and the other from the other volunteers.      

For the first card I used a leaf Spellbinders M-Bossability as the base white layer. The flower die cut isn't from one of my dies, I did a die-cut swap with my blog friend Carole, recently and this was one of the lovely die cuts she sent to me. I typed and printed the sentiment.

                                                                       

 I had the idea for the second card from the Stampscape   stamps I've been playing with since having them for Christmas: the tiny trees are part of a Stampscape stamp and the larger tree is by Claritystamps.

I used Adirondack inks: Purple Twilght, Butterscotch,Denim, Sail Boat Blue, Black, Shell Pink and Ripe Persimmon distress ink. The image is simply matted and layered on to black card, with a white base.

The sentiment is a stamp by Creative Expressions.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

Love and Hugs,

Carole X

On the Buses! Saturday 16th March

Good Morning Blog Friends,

The weekend is here! This is one of the guy cards I made a few weeks ago, which turned out to be fortuitous  as a lady bought it from me last Saturday, to give to someone who owns his own London Bus and uses it for private hire!

The stamp is a Pilkington from Stamps Away and I used the Kickin' Rubber tyre tread M-Bossability again, this time on matt/silk gold mirror card. I found the old London bus tickets and newspaper cuttings on the internet.

The card is matted and layered on black card and finished off with bakers twine. The greeting is a Creative Expressions stamp, which is stamped with versa mark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

I didn't get any crafting done yesterday, but we did have a fabulous lunch at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls new River Cottage Canteen in Bristol, followed by a rather wet stroll around the local shops!

Hugs,
Carole X

Message Magnified - Saturday 16th February

Good Morning Friends,

I was up blogging late last night, just wasn't sleepy and Tom was watching a TV show that I wasn't interested in...so I think at 10:30pm, that was my first late night post!

On my day off last Wednesday, I decided it was time to make some guy cards...I always put it off! But actually once I got into it, I was actually enjoying a day of male cards very much and I'll share them on here over the next week or so, starting off with this one using this Sherlock Holmes stamp set by Sam Poole.

The actual idea for using the book, I got from a card posted on Sam's blog, but I adapted the actual card to my own ideas otherwise.

I matted and layered a 6x6 card blank with black and then white card and then stamped this newsprint stamp (also by Sam Poole) and added that as the next layer. I cut out a little open book shape in black card and then used a script stamp (from Vintage Labels, Creative Expressions) on two pieces of white paper, cut to represent pages.

The magnifying glass is from the Holmes set - I cut out the centre and added a piece of acetate. The sentiment and 'for you' are from another Sam Poole stamp set, Your My Type.

This was a quick card, a bit of fun!

Have a great Saturday!

Carole X