Some Jewellery too....

Yes you read that right been really on the ball today (fingers crossed this lasts) with being crafty as well as the normal day job (booo but it pays the bills)

My first attempt at a wire wrap ring

My second wire wrap ring which was a request

and finally a bookmark. All of these were really quick makes so should help me get back into the swing of things again

Christmas Already????

While having a tidy up and sort through all my crafting boxes I came across some Christmas stamps that were not used last year I think I must have just bought them and put them into a box to have a play with another day. Unfortunatly with the crafty burnout I seem to have had this was not done so decided to get to it and have a play about with them. Not the best lighting in the world which is a shame. The Christmas doggies were free with a magazine and I believe the snowman with bauble was bought from Handy Hippo. The Christmas pudding one and Let it snow are older stamps but I got into the flow of making.

 

New Year, New Start

Ok well not a new year as such but a new finiancial year so making a fresh start and Im determined to actually start posting more on my card making as Ive been very bad and its taken a back seat what with work, the house (still not sorted and been in it almost a year got very little done) and of course my number one boy (thats the horse).
In other news I did get married on the 17th March I hand made all the invites in Nov which I think caused some crafty burnout and all the Thank You cards aswell. Was a nice simple family only do and was very cheap aswell ceremony, dress, partners suit, meal for 14 of us was for less than £400 nice easy relaxed day.

Ive also dug out/ bought some more Jewellery making bits as decided would like to start doing some more of Jewellery making, glass painting and card making I will be sticking to trying to have some me crafting time at least once a week.

Penny Black Challenge week 176

My latest creation is for the Penny Black Week 176 Challenge. This week it was Snowflakes/Snow and Silver

For my entry I used a standard white card stock for the card base and stamped the Penny black image onto slightly white pearlescent cardstock. I then used silver imbossing powder over the image and heated this.
The Stamp was then mounted onto silver mirricard and attached to the card base.

Ive had the Papermania wax seal Christmas kit for a few years now and Ive never used it. I noticed one of the seals had a snowflake design on it and I thought this wowuld be an ideal oppertunity to finally use it. I melted the wax onto a scrap piece of cardstock and then stamp three wax seals. Once they had set I carefully peeled them from the cardstock and then attached them to the card.

Sketch Saturday #180

Long time no blog been really busy with house, horse, other assorted pet animals and work so unfortunatly card making has taken a back seat (boo hiss) I have managed to get some time and thought I would have a crack at

Sketch Saturday's week 180 challenge

Heres my entry I used some left over card stock from a class I took at the local craft centre and thought this would be a great excuse to use the card up. The cupcake stamp set is from the Personal Impressions Hi Cupcake stamp set.

More of Christmas

Following on from the below post for the Penny Black Challenge here are a few more I had a play round with

Penny Black Saturday Challenge...Week 159

The challenge this week over on Penny Black is Christmas in July

This has really given my card making a kick start it needed, Ive been so busy with decorating our new house, we've just got a dog from a rescue centre and Ive still got my horse to look after ontop of working full time (Ive been doing overtime the last few weekends so Ive gotten a little side tracked.

My entry for this week is:



Card Recipe:

Anita's red card blank
Penny Black Merry Christmas Stamp
Penny Black Christmas tree stamp
White ink pad for sentiment
Glue pad for Tree stamp
White glitterfor tree stamp

As I will be doing large batches of cards as I always hand make ours I have decided to try and keep the designs very simple and basic so they are able to be made in a shorter amount of time