Elizabeth's garden

Hi Everybody.  A few days ago my lovely neighbour Elizabeth asked me to make a card for her daughter Louise who lives in Australia.  I thought that since she lives so far away Louise might like a really personal card so I decided to do one of her mum  in her garden at the front of her house and this is the final result.  Elizabeth has "green fingers" and her garden is always a riot of colour with all sorts of beautiful flowers.  Thank you for taking a look.  Marie-Louise

Hi

Hi everybody - I want to say a very warm Welcome to Olga and Sarah.  Again I have been beavering away in the background with commissions but I have also been trying to build up a little stock but that is difficult as these little 6x6 cards have proved very popular.  I wanted to post a  couple but also to say Thank You to the lovely people who leave very kind comments - I really do appreciate every one.  My husband had been most unwell for the last month but he is feeling much better now so I can get back to having a little more time to make cards.  Thank you so much for taking a look.  Marie-Louise

Bits 'n Pieces

Hi everybody.  First of all I want to apologise to Pam who I welcomed in a previous post as Pat - sorry Pam - a senior moment and I want to welcome Rita - and I definitely got that right.  Rita is new to blogland and although she has signed up she has not yet posted any of her lovely cards.  We all know how difficult it is to make the first post - so Rita - come on  there is a whole network of friendly crafters who are ready to say Hi.

I have been working away on little cards and gift boxes.  I have been asked to do a display at a woman's group in November and I wanted to build up quite a few bits 'n pieces.  The little boxes are an idea for the times when you need some small gift to say Thank You or Get Well etc.  They are big enough for 4 scented tea lights or a nice bar of soap or some bath pearls - that sort of thing.  

Hope that none of you have suffered from the flooding.

Marie-Louise

For my daughter-in-law

My daughter-in-law's birthday is on Friday and I had made a card much like this for her but yesterday a lady wanted a few cards and I showed her the card I had done for Maggie (of course she did not know that it was for Maggie) and she immediately said "oh! I'll have that" so I'm afraid business comes first - so she took that and the two pink/white ones that I have just shown plus another that I still had from a little while back - so I was very pleased as I sell all my cards for cancer.  This is the latest edition of the card for Maggie.  The image is a digi stamp which I got from Crafts and Me and the background is a stamp which I have recently bought from Waltzingmouse stamps, the pearls are from Wild Orchid and ribbon from my stash.

Variation on a theme

After seeing the romantic rectangles being used on Amazing Paper Grace by Becca Feeken I just had to try this card.   Becca makes the most beautiful feminine cards and when I saw this on her blog for 6th February I had to try it with the dies that I owned.  Do take a look on her blog  www.amazingpapergrace.com it is a treat.

A card for family

Hi everybody and a very warm welcome to Pat.  I only remembered yesterday that one of my relatives will be 82 tomorrow - so I had to come up with something fairly quickly and this is the card that is winging it's way right now.  The only dies I used were the Anja corner from Marianne and the large floral oval from spellbinders the little black corners were cut off an ironworks motif die cut.  The lovely paper was part of a candy I won and I have to say I really love it.

A quick hello.

Hi everybody.  First of all a huge welcome to Willie, Lynne, Marja, June, Vic and Gerrie.  I have not been posting over the last few weeks but I have been beavering away in the background.  I had a number of cards to do which were special requests but I could not display them as they had personal photographs as the focal point .  This card  was one that I did  just to try out my new floral ovals dies.  These are beautiful dies and I really love them.  Hopefully now I will be able to get some more cards done as I have some more new dies that I am looking forward to trying out - they are the romantic rectangles and they look so pretty.  Marie-Louise