When I'm 65

Good evening, I'm a little earlier with my posting today as I've just finished making a card for a 65th birthday.
When my youngest son visited for his dinner on Wednesday evening, his flatmate had asked him to request a card for a work colleague called Ted, who was going to be 65. As usual there were no real ideas of what was wanted but she thought that a '50's pinup would be good (she had seen a couple of my other cards with these on) and could I make it A4 so that everyone could sign it?
Well the answer was "yes", the image wasn't a problem, but what sentiment to put on? Well after racking my brains for a while I've come up with this one, now I just hope he has a sense of humour!

Commission for 2 Christening cards

I've never made a Christening card, but last week I received an order for not one, but two. They were for 2 different baby boys but were ordered from the same person, who has her grandson and her (soon to be) godson being christened at the end of this month. Because the same families would be at both events I wanted to make the cards very different from each other and these are the 2 cards I've come up with. I hope you like them, they are both A4 in size and made from Joanna Sheen's beautiful tapestry cardstock (which doesn't scan well) and both sentiments were done on the PC.
If you have never paid a visit to Joanna Sheen's lovely shop before you are in for a real treat. I can honestly say that everything I have ever ordered is of the best quality, add to that the order usually arrives the following day and it has free p&p and who could ask for anything more



The first card is an image from a PC Crafter kit called 'Bunny Rhymes' which has been simply mounted onto an oval nestability, the ribbon effect border along the top of the card is from the same kit. I have added a baby pram charm and hung it from some K & Co blue gingham ribbon.



The second one uses an image from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Companion CD mounted onto co-ordinated backing paper from the same CD. I have coloured some K & Co lace paper with chalks to match the paper and used it to trim the top of the card and hung a rocking horse charm from some ivory chiffon ribbon.

The final card for Mum

Well, I've finished making the third card for my mum's birthday and I think this one probably took the longest time of all of them. Most of the time was spent in trying to decide what to do, as I didn't want them all to look the same.
Most of the items used on this card were from my stash, the image was a gift card that I cut down slightly, the beautiful sparkly lilac paper was from Joanna Sheen and the little lilac corners were from K & Co.
Now that I've finished these birthday cards I can move onto the next project on my ever growing list!

This is another card for my Mum's birthday. Whenever there is a family occasion I end up making my card plus one from each of the kids and usually one from my mum too, at least I haven't got to make one from mum on this occasion LOL
The colours on the card are not as bright as my scanner has made them look, the ribbon is a very pretty pink and the cuttlebug card is a pale banana colour in real life and was part of a wad sent to me by my crafting friend Jenny to tide me over until I get my own cuttlebug.
The little flowers are a free download from a site called Fred, She Said which I came across yesterday and are designed by Tracey Lynn Miller. She has designed some more lovely flowers as digital download kits and I think I may be very tempted to buy some after seeing how pretty the little freebies look. The other bits and bobs on the card came from my stash.
I don't know who will choose to send this card, I'll let my lovely DIL choose which one she likes and my younger son will have the one that's left....once I've made the other card that is!

Mum's Birthday Card

It feels like simply ages since I made a card, but with Mum's 83rd birthday coming up on the 5th of August I knew I needed to make a start on things, as I expect I'll be making cards for her from my eldest DS and DIL and my youngest DS too!
As she's been through so much recently I wanted to make this a special card and so decided to use a Harrison Fisher image as they are her favourites. This one is from Joanna Sheen's fabulous Fashion Boutique CD and is just so feminine.
I have used some of the beautiful white tapestry card (from Joanna Sheen) to make this 8x8 card and mounted the image onto some miri card then onto some lace paper (again from Joanna Sheen), apart from the trimmings this could almost be a complete Joanna Sheen one stop shop card. Does anything give you the impression that I love the quality Joanna provides in all her products? The card was finished off with bits and bobs from my stash.
My scanner hasn't done a great job with this card and it has also cut off the corners a bit, but you get the idea.

Cards for my Mum

I haven't been about much lately due to the fact that my mum had a very nasty fall last week and is still in hospital, so I haven't really had either the time or the inclination for cardmaking. Today though I've got a "day off" from visiting so I'm trying to catch up with birthdays and card challenges etc. I made a couple of "get well" cards for Mum, one from me and the other from my sons and DIL.
I took mine into her last night and she loved it, these vintage ladies are her favourite images.

My Best Friend's Birthday

Well, that title is not exactly like the film but...
This is my latest card, and as the posting says is for my best friend's birthday at the end of this month. We don't get to see each other too often as she lives in Lincolnshire and I'm in Hampshire, but I'm always making bits and bobs to send to her.
This is another of those very large cards (about 9" x 10") and I used some gorgeous Stardream card from Joanna Sheen's shop for the base of this card (you can tell she must be special, just from this!). The edges were scored and stuck down to make the book spine effect again and then covered with some really "girly" scented drawer liners that I got ages ago and that smell divine! The main images are from a Daisie Company download kit that I've had for some time called "Ooh La La", the main one has been mounted onto pink glitter card and the little shoe tag was finished off with some Dior black chiffon ribbon. The card was completed by adding some strips of that gorgeous pink glitter card to the edges (again from the JS shop). I also used some more of the images, (a bubble bath and a bottle of perfume) inside the card.