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Waterfall Card

This is my second attempt at waterfall card much better than my first one which ended up upside down. I made use of an old calendar for the pictures and I used the template here

Flower Arranging

Here are a few arrangements we did at our craft group this month

Card using peel-off stickers and vellum

I made this card using peel-off stickers on vellum paper and coloured with sakura pens

You can see the tutorial on youtube here and here

Gift Cards

I made these gift cards for a friend who sells jewellery to sell at her home parties
Check our her site

Cards for Charity

I am selling cards to raise funds for Action for ME if you would like to buy any go this link

RECYCLED CARD

I made this card for a swap on the theme recycled I took the quote from an old calendar and used some bits on the inside too and a scroll I stamped and embossed

Craft Stall

The craft sale went well around 12 people turned up and sold 21 cards!

Here is a picture of my stall

Oriental Lady ATC

Here is an atc I did a swap the theme was oriental I used my lady stamp which I love with gold embossing powder and dab of stickles glitter glue - I just love embossing!

If you have not tried it why not have a go you will need a heat gun and embossing powder though, it is a bit tricky at first but there are things on the net to show you how to do it, I did it first time in a craft store when they had a demo, I used shrink plastic too which was fun.

Toppers and more toppers

I have been busy making some toppers to use in card kits I am making up for my friend who is selling them at the summer fair at Newlands Primary school, Morley on Saturday (hopefully!)

Here are some I made earlier .....

Craft Event this Saturday

Some of my cards and kits will be on sale at an event on 13th of June at Newlands Primary School from 12-3pm. My friend who sells jewellery will be there.
Hope you can make it if you live local to Morley that is

Golden Anniversary card

I got an order for this golden anniversary card I had to get a friend to restore the photo so it was nice enough to use as the one the lady gave me was a proof and I had to use A3 card to fit it on so it was the biggest card I've made ever! It was complicated to do the insert and I thought I'd messed it up but as you know us crafters are skilled at covering over our mistakes so in the end it was good I just hope the lady thinks so too!

Cards for Charity

I am selling my cards to help to raise some money for AFME so if you want to help this worthy cause go my site
Thanks so much !

Card Sale

I am busy making cards for Friday when I have a card sale.
I hope it goes well and many turn up on the day as I've put a lot of work into it!

Cards with Quicklets

Have you tried quicklets - hammerless eyelets?

If not what are you missing? I highly recommend them and I sell them via My Site or via My etsy shop

Here are some cards I have used quicklets on for some ideas and inspiration

Cards For Charity

I have been busy making cards for the docraft marie curie cancer care campaign which I do every year, I need to get my cards posted today as closing date is tomorrow!!! I did 34 cards, I got too many bags so figured I best fill them.

Flower Arranging

Last craft group we did flower arranging, one of the ladies did a course in past so she taught us all to do it. The lady in the fire station said they looked good enough to sell, we gave her one as a thank you gift.

Craft Group

Had my second craft group on Friday and some of us did cards others jewellery, others bun icing, the buns did not last long though! Next time we are doing flower arranging as one of the ladies did a course and is quite an expert.

Medallion Card

I made this card using a free printable from Beci's site

Here are some more project ideas for medallion cards

http://www.craftcreations.co.uk/pages/magazines/issues/pdf/issue46/medallionmoments.pdf

http://www.blog.onestopcardcrafts.co.uk/2008/10/gold-medallion-project.html

Free Downloadable Sites

Great papers here Beci's site

http://timeforcrafting.co.uk/

http://www.card-making-world.com/index.html

Heather's tea-bag folding site http://madeinniagarafallsca.com/

http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/

Free Downloads

I have made my card inserts, backing papers and decoupage sheets available to download via this site I will be adding more as I have time to design them!
http://janescardz.fotopic.net/c1628152.html
Please note these for personal use only not for resale or distribution by any means

Stacker card

This is my own design of stacker decoupage which I created using the brilliant cd 3d Card Builder 2 I can highly recommend it you can make your own backing papers and tiles and decoupage with your own pictures.

I used a picture of my gran for this card, I printed the backing directly onto the card first.

I highly recommend Alan & Barry's Crafts where you can buy this cd and many more card supplies

Craft Group

Well despite the cold virus I have atm I managed to get to the craft group yesterday and there were 13 of us in all from ages 5 months to 70! I took some tea bag folding sheets for people to try I made my first one other day to make sure I knew how to do them and then helped people have a go so 3 made them 2 of them it was their first ever card so they were pleased. Some brought knitting and someone sewing and other painting it was a great laugh and we plan to have it monthly. Here is one of the cards made by Rosie aged 10

I got the sheets from this site http://teabagtiles.co.uk

Great Art Site

I just found this site check it out it's great for inspiration art tips etc
I dared to upload some pictures some of the art on there is breath-taking and very inspiring
http://community.how-to-draw-and-paint.com

Site for Artists

I found this great site for artists I dared upload some of my art work amongst all that talent!

Check it out http://community.how-to-draw-and-paint.com

Flowers in Vase Pastels

I did this last night it's pastel pencils, it was supposed to be a copy from a card but I did not have the right colours so it's totally different, I don't like the black foilage but I had no brown, so it's off to shops Saturday for more pencils! I love pastels and they don't stink like the paints and so far I am hopeless with watercolour paints.

Painting Tips

I have been browsing youtube for painting demos and found this one how great is this!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H6MITivrQ20

Painting Tips

I have been browsing youtube for painting demos and found this one how great is this!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H6MITivrQ20
and this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wmwhqWONMGk WOW!
So inspiring and certainly does not look difficult

Earning some cash!

I would like to find a way of making either a dvd or cd for crafters in the hope of earning a bit of cash, due to illness I am unable to work outside the home but this could be an ideal way as I am building myself back up to working again after years of not working, though I have my card supplies business it has not done very well and I found it hard to buy stock in due to lack of funds plus the storage problem so a dvd/cd would solve that problem too. I have found this cd http://alanandbarryscrafts.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=3655

which I think might be good as I could use my own pictures so no copyright problem and then I could either sell themn as sheets or on a cd perhaps.

If anyone has any ideas or advice please get in touch thanks.