A quick card

Hi Everybody - first of all I wish to say Thank You to the lovely people who e-mailed to ask if I was ok since I had not been around for a while.  I was feeling most unwell.  I had picked up a virus and it left me unable to do very much.  I am feeling much better but still very tired and the awful cough has almost gone.  Today is the first  day that I have ventured into the craft room and I put together this little card for a friend whose birthday is coming up.  I had bought these little Nellie Snellen corner dies  and I do like the effect.  The die on the middle is a Cheery Lynn and the card is of course Centura Pearl.  I am hoping now to get back to commenting on all your lovely cards as I have missed that.  Hope that you all are safe from the dreadful flooding and n0body has sustained any damage to your homes.

                                           

                                       

A commission

Good morning everybody from a dark and wet Northern Ireland.  This card is a commission.  I was asked for something  "special" - so there was no pressure there!!  On the few occasions that I have made up this card it has always been very well received.  I do try not to make it exactly the same every time and this is today's version.  My good friend Jeannie (who has every die known to man) gave me a loan of  the die for the pages and so the rest  made up very quickly.  As I knew the lady very well  who ordered the card and also the recipient I decorated the box a little more than normal.

                                       

                               
The card is made of centura pearl as always but because the light is so poor this morning it does not really show up.   I have to say that I do read all of your comments and appreciate every one of them.  By the way if I have missed commenting on any of your blogs recently it is nothing to do with your cards it is because my husband is not well again - he had another stroke and I have been running back and forth to the hospital.  He is home now so I should  be able to keep up with you all.

Thank you for taking a look.

                                           

In a previous life.

Good evening everybody and I certainly hope that the weather was better where you are.  Today it rained non stop and was so dark that I had the light on all day.

Before I started to make cards I used to do cross stitch and there is only one piece that I ever bothered to put into a frame and hang up.  This picture of the Taj Mahal hangs in my craft room.  I'm afraid the photograph is very poor as it was difficult to  do as the light was so bad today and I kept getting my reflection in the glass.  I visited the Taj Mahal in 1979 and it left a very lasting impression on me and I am very fond of this picture.  Thank you for taking a look.

                                             

                                       

Card stand

Good morning everybody.  Thank you all so much for your very kind comments on yesterday's card.  Some of you have enquired about the little stand that I use.  It is a die from Joy craft.  There are 3 different designs.  My cards are all 6 inches x 6 inches and it holds them with no problem.  It will also hold an A5 landscape but not portrait.  I cut these stands out of Centura Pearl which is 300 gsm - but if your card is heavy then you would need to cut 2 and glue them together.  For these little cards that I am doing  I do not need to cut 2.   I have also made the little stand out of  gold mirror card and it is really lovely.

Mouse update:  No further sounds - so maybe I won't have to move house after all.

                                             

A quick make

Good afternoon everybody.  First of all I want to say Welcome to my new followers and Thank You for adding your name to my blog.  I started too play around with some new dies that I had received and was happlily playing when I heard the unmistakeable sound of a mouse.  Hence the fact that the card was made quickly.  I have since installed three " pest stops" and there has been no more noise - so far.

                                         
I have taken the photo from a side view as otherwise the gold mirror card looked grey and it is also difficult to photograph without getting your own reflection.  Thank you for having a look.

                                                 

Twins

Hi everybody.  It's a beautiful day here and hope that it is the same where you are.  I want to say a very warm welcome to my newest followers and Thank You so much for adding your name to my blog.  The card I have done today is a commission and the request was two images and pink.  I do not know whether I am all that pleased with it but it is difficult when you have been given definite instructions.  Anyway I do hope that the lady likes it.  Thank you all for taking a look.

                                                           

The famous folder

Good morning everyone from a very unsettled looking N. Ireland.  One minute it looks like rain and the next minute there is a glimpse of the sun.  I have two cards today which I made using the Spellbinders Grand M- bossabilities Folder ( the one that would not go through my GC without removing the plate).  It is called Garden Lattice and has two really lovely deep designs and is a full A4 size.  On this first card I used a Marianne Basket Die and the "twigs" in the basket are actually the Memory Box Madera Corner die which I cut twice out of Mirror card.  

                                             

My second card is the reverse side of the embossing folder and again is very pretty.  Like yesterday I did another Mauve/lilac background and used a new Marianne Die that I bought last week.  I cannot make my mind up about this Marianne Die - I cannot decide whether I like it or not.  Anyway - Thank You for taking a look.  Have a lovely week-end.