Weddings Galore!

Hello again!

Having had a bit of a hectic weekend last weekend - with my cats developing hayfever and a water leak dripping through the loft hatch! - I still found the time to make a few cards.  Crafting made a very welcome escape! The week since then has involved a night back at college, a night catching up with old colleagues - which was great and well overdue, and finished last night with a trip up to York to visit family.  So today, I just enjoyed the nice weather :-)

However, I did promise a wedding themed post a while back so it is time to fulfill that promise.  I will start with the card I made back then for a family friend, I heard that the colour scheme was pink so I decided to go along with the theme:

Following on from this I was asked to make a couple more wedding cards.  The first uses backing paper from Lili of the Valley Classic Christmas Paper Pad, the sentiment is also from LOTV which I stamped and then heat embossed - which I have to admit was kinda fun! 

The next card was for more of a blue themed wedding, I added platinum liquid pearls to the scalloped edge to add a little extra something.  This card can be personalised later or left as it is I think as it is quite simple. 

I also spent a good while sorting through some boxes of crafty bits that I had obviously been using a while back but not had time to put back in any order and came across some old Warren die cuts from Craftwork Cards.  I had a go at colouring in using my promarkers and then embossed the die cut with the daisy cuttlebug embossing folder to make the below birthday card: 

I love these Warren designs and as I have found a fair few in my collection I can expect that I will be using them more in the coming months :-) 

That's all there is folks...for now at least. 

Thanks for checking out my blog, if you like what you've seen please feel free to share with friends or get in touch.

Jenfie x

LOTV Challenge!

Hello!

It's been a while since I last updated (I went to London for a "musicals and friends" weekend last week!) However, I hope today's post makes up for it a little bit.  I decided today that I was going to make a card to enter into the Lili of the Valley monthly challenge, which this month is "Use a Sentiment" - this will also be my very first challenge entry so fingers crossed!

I have a fair few sentiment stamps from LOTV, most of which are Christmas themed and as it is June I decided it is still a little early for me to be thinking about the C word! So I looked at my most recent purchases which were the For You Circular Sentiments and the All Our Dreams stamps and so a Baby card it was to be.  I also used the LOTV Classic Christmas Paper for the background - obviously the least Christmassy pattern for a Baby card.

Here is my finished result, I hope you like it :-)

As always, thank you for visiting, I will be back to update you all with a few more recent card makes very soon.  Please feel free to leave me a comment below to let me know what you think :-)

Jenfie x

Change of plans!

Hi Everyone,

I had planned to update earlier in the week with a wedding themed post, however, having had a rather busy week at work and the opportunity to make the most of the beautiful weather, my crafting intentions didn't go quite to plan.  Also, I realised that it probably wouldn't be the best idea to show you all a picture of the wedding card I've made this week, since the wedding hasn't actually happened yet and I don't want the Bride & Groom to be to see their card on here before the big day!! 

So, instead I will show you the engagement card I made for my Brother and his Fiancee:

The backing paper and flowers for this card are from the Bohemian Goodybag from Craftwork Cards 

The Vintage Dots Honey Candi just finish the card off perfectly.

Next up, are some more cards I made using the Dolly Mixtures rage, I've left them sentiment free so that they can be personalised later.

And finally, going back to the Birthday theme from last week I just wanted to show you two more.  First up is a card I was asked to make for a friend's sister's 40th - the request was "girly, sparkly, silver", I think I got everything in there!

This card again used the Bohemian goodybag from Craftwork Cards, the Kraft birdcage was finished off with some Stickles glitter glue.

Last but certainly not least is, as promised, the birthday card I made for my sister.  

Sprinkles were created using Covent Garden Candi and a Happy Birthday message.

As always, Thank You for stopping by :-)  I hope you all have had a lovely weekend and fingers crossed the sun will stay with us for a little while longer! 

Jenfie x

Birthday Celebrations

What a gorgeous day it has been today celebrating my sister's Birthday - a day of Sun, Scones and Socialising! :-)

As we were celebrating a birthday I thought I would update with a selection of the various birthday cards I have made over the last year or so.  Maybe you received one of these, or maybe you will see yours here before I decide it is for you (sorry if that happens at any point!)   I haven't got one of the card I made for my sister as I forgot to take a photo of it, but I will include it on a future post once I've got it!  

If you have any questions or have any requests please leave me a comment below.  I have a few orders in for cards at the moment which include a few Wedding Day cards so my next post may be wedding themed I feel...best get crafting! Thanks again for visiting, I will try to post at a more reasonable time of day next time... 

Jenfie x

p.s Apologies if any of these photos seem quite dark, my photography skills aren't all that great!