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Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Charity Cards

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here are a few cards I have ready for my local charity shop

I don't know whether its my area but I find handmade cards so hard to sell here, so I decided to donate them to charity.

My mother had bowel cancer about 14 years ago and thankfully it was caught in time and she didn't need any treatment. We didn't need these lovely nurses, but you never know, and as they are not government funded they need all the donations they can get. Also my aunt but she wasn't so lucky and palliative care was needed.

These will be dropped into my local shop and hopefully when they put them out they have a higher success rate than myself.

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Karen Xxx

Friday, 30 October 2015

Gone But Never Forgotton

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

I must admit this layout was very difficult to do and believe it or not took me well over 3 weeks, lifting it to do it and then just looking at the photo and putting it aside again.

This is a layout of A Special Lady my Aunt Minnie. She passed away about 5 weeks ago and it broke my heart. She was a right old age of 92 and if she had've lived till the end of next month she would have seen her 93rd birthday,

This woman has touched so many families hearts. She lost her husband over 18 years ago and they were self sufficient couple they grew there own vegetable and fruits and anyone one who knew her, knew her for her knitting, crocheting, jam making, her love for flowers and gardening, sewing and baking. This lady was so good to me as a child and an adult and I always said she was my second mum, She didn't have any girls just a son but she had a great granddaugther, So this layout is going into a box frame so I can put it up on my wall.

Under the main photo I have put a journalling spot trimmed with paper lace trim using a spellbinder die.

The bling is a champagne colour swirl gems from Zva, the pattern paper was from a Recollections paper pad.

The flowers and leaves are from Wild Orchard Crafts. The dates were created using my little Sizzix side kick using the plates from the Sapphire. The dies were again from Quickutz alphabet and

I used Sizzix alphabet to do her name. I went round the age of the cream card with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to tone down the colour of the cream card.

I am hoping to do a 8 x 8 version of this only using a photo of my mum and Minnie together and put it into a box frame for my mum. My mum was devastated when she passed away and my way of thinking is that she can look and treasure this till the day she will meet her again. Right sorry folks this post has got a little bit morbid,

List of items used -

Wild Orchard Crafts - Opens Roses 25/15mm, Rose leaves, Cherry Blossoms and Sweetheart Blossoms

Bead Spray

Recollections Paper Pad - Graceful

Spellbinders Dies - Labels One and Vintage Lace Border

Distress Inks - Vintage Photo

Sizzix Cute Girlie Alphabets

Quickutz Script Alphabet

Lace from my stash

Green and Cream cardstock

Self adhesive crystals from Zvacreative.com

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Double sided tape

Collall 3D glue

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Karen Xxx

Thursday, 8 October 2015

The Golden Year

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

My apologies I had this layout completed well over a week and a half ago but due to a family bereavement I didn't get it posted on my blog.

This scrapbook layout of a couple that is very dear to me. Can I introduce to you my lovely parents. They are always there for me no matter when I ring them for help they drop everything and come over. These two people were and still are my role models in my life growing up and still to this day, they had a hard working life, so myself, my brothers and sister so that we could have what we needed, which we all appreciated very much and still do.

This started off at as a plain white 12 x 12 card stock and I painted it with gold Tonic Nuvo paint with a kitchen scourer to give it a little texture.

I'm not sure if you can see, but in the background I have used a corner stamp with the same paint and I also stamped the opposite corner. I also stamped Happy 50th Anniversary with versamark ink pad and used gold embossing powder over the top. Before I stamp it I rubbed the card with an anti static card so that the powder only adhered to the ink and not my mucky painty paw prints, lol. I also done mum and dad this way. The little birds are cut from the die which you will see in the last photo.

In behind the photo I have made a journal card and used a Spellbinder border on the edge, trimmed with a very fine strip of gold card. Inked with Vintage Photo along the edge.

Its have to believe that my dad is 76 years young in this photo and my mum is 71 years young.

I have took a piece of white lace and again used the paint on it to change the colour and placed this right across the page and attached the number of 50 cut out of gold card. This photo of my parents was took on there wedding day, as you can see they have changed much over the years.

I cut these balloons out of chipboard using a sizzix die putting it through my big shot. I covered it in glue and put some gilding flakes over the top. Again putting another number 50 on the top and a little gold heart below. Using some bakers twine from creative expressions from the vintage selection, as I thought it looked a little golden for the strings. I was trying to make the balloons look as if they were floating.

Now in this last photo it shows you the year, I had a little problem when it came to this part of my layout as I didn't have number stamps let alone stamps of this size. I cut these numbers out of funky foam to create my stamps, they are about an inch high. I adhered them with some stick and spray a repositional glue onto a acrylic block and place the numbers onto it. It took a few tries on scrap paper to get it right on the block, but I must admit it came together rather well. I stamp the images with the versamark ink pad and used again gold embossing powder over the top and used my heat gun to seal the powder. The little heart die was a freebie from a craft magazine I bought at my local supermarket and cut it out of gold mirri card stock.