tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29432853859194784262024-03-13T12:08:22.903+00:00CraftyWeeMeeCraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-82428836947066176862018-07-09T19:27:00.001+01:002018-07-09T19:52:07.899+01:00Baby, Baby<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's still sunny here in Scotland, so looks like summer is going to last a little longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had some papers with a diagonal lace pattern which came with a Joanna Sheen papercraft kit so decided to use that as a guide for the design. The embellishment is a rose die which came from The Works. I ran the die twice, once in lilac card stock and the second in white which had been coloured with Distress Inks. When I cut out the white card stock I used a folded sheet of kitchen towel behind it and that gave an embossed, slightly puffy look to the cut out. I took some Mod Podge and sealed the kitchen towel on the back to keep it all together and once it was dry I used a satin varnish used for decopatch over the top.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been working on some baby cards for my friend's card collection, I had a couple of things stamped out waiting for a card to go on so I decided to use the FMS sketch to make one of them. This one for a baby girl uses the Woodware "Huge Baby" word stamp set along with the tiny crown stamp from another of the Woodware baby sets "Cutie Pie Vest". I had been going to add "Little Princess" to the sentiments on the card but decided against it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did, however, use the "Little Prince" on the "Cutie Pie Vest" baby boy card that made. I made a Distress Ink background and then used more Distress Ink to colour the vest to help lift it up from the background. The "Congratulations" die comes from a small Dovecraft set, I used a clear embossing powder to give it a glossy finish.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last Friday, while hubby was been sitting out in the garden topping up his tan, my teenage son and I went out in the car for a run along to Portmoak Church to take flowers, it's been a wee while since we were there as I've not been feeling able for the hill. I had phoned ahead to the local farm cafe near Loch Leven and booked one of their garden "pods" so that afterwards we could have an hour or so of bonding time over a cream tea. <br /><br />There is an island on Loch Leven which <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">has a small castle on it, it is where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">after her surrender at Carberry Hill on 15 June 1567. She escaped on her second attempt </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on 2 May 1568 https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/mary-queen-of-scots-great-escape/.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />I cannot believe the amount of bird food I am going through at the moment, in the last 24 hours one feeder has been fully loaded three times and the seed feeder filled twice. I swear as I walk back into the house you can hear the volume of tweets increase as they tell their pals that the wifey at No 3 has just put more food out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have some more cards to make for my friend's collection, it's her brother's birthday soon so I thought I would use this weeks <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/2018/06/freshly-made-sketches-342-sketch-by-amy.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge</a> as inspiration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I chose the motorcycle as her brother was a keen motorcyclist. </span><br />
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CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-86379330620627641122018-06-18T19:53:00.002+01:002018-06-18T22:12:34.865+01:00Cog Wheels<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots of frantic activity in the garden with birds queuing up to get to the feeder, so much so that in between the squabbles, fisty-cuffs kept breaking out. It got so bad I went out and bought a second feeder to try and keep the peace! I honestly don't know how they can get off the ground at the rate they are going through suet balls, meal worms and seed mixes!<br /><br />I was struggling a bit trying to work out what to make for this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/2018/06/freshly-made-sketches-341-sketch-by.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.</a> There were a few false starts as nothing seemed to work the way I wanted it to.<br /><br />Over the weekend I was working on some new boxes for my son's supply of cards. He had handed me one of the originals I'd made for him which was looking the worse for wear and asked me if I could make him another. I ended up repairing that one, which was a favourite of his, and a couple of others. While I had embossed some of the cardstock for the boxes with a effect cog wheel embossing folder and had cut out some cogs for decoration from the Tim Holtz set I had. It was when I saw the cut out corner pieces that I realised I might have what I needed for this week's sketch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While having a clear out I found the head of large artificial thistle and it reminded me that I had a couple of stamp sets that I could use in a card to put it to good use in some photos.<br /><br />The tag was made using the Woodware "Thistle" and Crafty Impressions "Bonny Scotland" set. I used a section of white ribbon which I partially unravelled to make the fringed pull coloured with the same markers as the image to give the appearance of a thistle. Another piece of ribbon was unravelled to make a fringed bow.<br /><br />It was only after I posted my entry into this week's challenge and was looking over what I'd written the following day that I realised what a numpty I had been - I hadn't coloured the thistle properly, too much purple! This is what happens when you do things when you really ought to be in bed asleep!<br /><br />This is what it should look like<br /><br /><br /> </span><br />
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CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-81831266523610595892018-05-27T23:18:00.001+01:002018-05-28T15:21:32.563+01:00Pandamonium!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Big Birthday has been looming large this last week or so and today's the day! Out for lunch this afternoon with hubby and son joined by a few sisters-in-law and brother-in-law. I had been dreading this birthday but once I got to the restaurant and was looking round our tables I realised that, apart from our son, I was actually the youngest one there! I felt a bit better after that. <br /><br /><br />I recently acquired a set of Dyan Reavely's "Shut up and colour" stamps and as the dark forboding clouds of Big Birthday approached I found myself drawn to using a few of them . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Auld age disnae come itsel'!" was one of my Gran's favourites. She was right, in these parts it also comes with a bus pass! I already had one due to some health and mobility issues so that may have been why I was drawn to the words of this stamp . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> This next one was inspired by this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/freshly-made-sketches-338-sketch-by-kim.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches challenge</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What lovely weather we have been having over the last few days and the garden is beginning to get it's colour back. The sun came out on Friday just in time for "The Wedding" and has stayed for a couple of more days. As the TV began the build up to the event, there was one song from "Calamity Jane" that kept going through my head. It made me wonder if there was someone else humming it as she was getting ready </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for her big day - "Tis Harry, I'm Planning to Marry".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, it has been a bit of a naughty week eating wise, and after having that plus a Chinese take out that evening I got a bit of a shock standing on the scales yesterday morning - it's back on plan starting tomorrow!<br /><br />I've had some peace and quiet today as hubby is out with his brother while son is out with some friends so the time was good to sit down and have a proper look at this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I remembered a Darice embossing folder that I bought a few years ago which embossed a lacy oval but hadn't quite decided as to what else to do with it. We have some family members moving house and I had been working on cards for them so while looking at my stamps I decided that I would use the Woodware Love Birds stamp to go with it.<br /><br />It was actually warm and sunny enough to go & take photos outside, just a slight breeze to keep knocking the cards over but I got there in the end!<br /><br /> </span><br />
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<br />CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-41572896822447397102018-04-16T16:27:00.002+01:002018-04-16T21:58:25.728+01:00Alfie and The Aliens<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, still waiting for spring in these parts. I can remember bringing our son home 19 years ago and the cherry blossom being out on the trees in front of our house. Today the branches look bare. When we got married 21 years ago (give or take a couple of days) all the daffodils that were out in bloom across the town in the grounds of the church but in our garden today our daffies are only in bud (maybe they'll make an effort for Thursday!).<br /><br /><br />I'm still working on putting together a selection of cards for my friend who is unable to get out and about since her stroke. Her Great-Nephew has a birthday coming up so I decided to use the sketch at this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/freshly-made-sketches-332-sketch-by.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches challenge</a> to make a card for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Among my latest stamp acquisitions has been "The Blimps" by Woodware so felt that one of the little aliens would go well with some card stock I have had lying around for quite a while. I've not used either of them before so </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I suppose for Alfie's card I'm going to be venturing into alien territory! </span></span><br />
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<br />CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-36817417123911243872018-04-09T03:54:00.000+01:002018-04-09T13:01:28.054+01:00Metallic Monochrome<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had a play with some washi tape and some paper strips but just couldn't seem to get past the planning stage with them. Then yesterday I saw something on a Facebook group I belong to and thought I would give it a try - elastic band stamping. Just take an acrylic block, wrap some elastic bands around it, add some ink (or in this case I used a watermark pad) and use it to stamp your design. I used a copper coloured embossing powder and was quite pleased with the result it gave.</span></div>
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<br />CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-58214445206511556352018-03-31T22:57:00.000+01:002018-04-09T04:05:14.025+01:00Vintage Car<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next week sees my teenage son reach 19, where have all those years gone? He's been lucky in that here in Fife, regardless of when Easter actually is, the School/College Easter holidays tend to fall around his birthday - in fact he was born Easter weekend in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit so I suppose he could be the Easter Bunny! <br /><br />The 3rd of April is an important date in this household, as well as it being our son's Birthday it is also the 36th anniversary of the Battle of Grytviken (King Edward's Point) at the start of the Falklands War. My husband was one of the 22 Royal Marines from HMS Endurance and NP8901 who were defending</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> South Georgia against an Argentine invasion. Unfortunately he won't make it to the reunion next Saturday but no doubt we will have a few catch up phone calls to make up for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With it being our son's Birthday I, obviously, definitely needed to make a card and, due to the fact that he is learning to drive, had already decided to try and incorporate one of my car dies into it. When I saw this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/freshly-made-sketches-330-sketch-by-jen.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge</a> I had a wee smile to myself as it fitted perfectly with what i had in mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The car is paper pieced from a Sweet Dixie die called "Vintage Car", some irridescent sequins have been used as the headlights. The scarlet red card is a gorgeous Craft Perfect Satin (matte) metallic - very stroke-able!!! The embossing folder is Darice's "Diagonal Stripe" & Happy Birthday stamp is from Penny Black's "You're Retro" stamp set.</span><br />
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<br />CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-722857540674414192018-03-31T21:25:00.000+01:002018-03-31T21:52:29.008+01:00Products of Insomnia!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a long time now I have been having problems sleeping. Often when I'm using my stamps I'll stamp off a couple of extras and put them away to colour up on those nights when I can't sleep. I also make up some backgrounds using Distress Inks and put them away in a folder for future use. My friend is housebound so I thought I would start putting a few cards together for her so that instead of her spending a fortune on buying from online stores she could have some at home for when she needs them. <br /><br />I have accumulated a few now so thought I would haul them out and get some photos taken. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Woodware Clear Magic "Jacqui's Garden" coloured using Promarkers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last few days have been a pain - quite literally! The injection I get for my TMJ has been wearing off for the last couple of weeks and so the long wait until the next one (end of April) begins. Headaches, earache and the worst toothache (pressure from the over-tightened jaw muscles) I have had in goodness knows how long. I was taking muscle relaxants and strong painkillers and still the toothache persisted, then I remembered clove oil - only I didn't have any and it was the middle of the night so off to the kitchen and flinging things around the baking cupboard until I found the long lost jar of cloves. Within about half an hour of sucking on a couple of cloves (tastes awful) the pain was gone! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's amazing how the simplest of natural things can be more effective than mighty pharmaceuticals!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I kind of got a little carried away this week making cards, well the weather was lousy and I wasn't going anywhere. I had three attempts at making something for this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/freshly-made-sketches-328-sketch-by.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first two attempts were fine but just felt that they were, perhaps, just a wee bit too dark. I had a couple of sets of stamps which I recently acquired and wanted to have a bit of a play with those, I thought that the Woodware "</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's The Little Things" sentiment stamp "Nothing says Happy Birthday like a piece of folded card!" was quite amusing and decided to use that for the first one. I had some matt copper metalic cardstock and went for a verdigris colour ing using distress inks for the front panels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still using the verdigris look, slightly darker this time, I played about with some dies I had bought from "The Works" earlier this year, they have only started selling dies in the last 12 months, some branded names & some of their own. The ornate & square dies in this card are from their own collection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over the weekend it was St Patrick's Day with Ireland playing England in the Six-Nations Rugby Championship. An Irish win on St Patrick's Day would see them with the Triple Crown and the Grand Slam. I didn't have anything with a shamrock on it but I did have the Lawn Fawn set with the lucky four-leaf clover on it so decided to use that. I was making the card while the game was on in the background, it must have done the trick as they beat England 24-15 and won the Triple Crown (they beat Scotland, Wales & England), the Grand Slam (as the Triple Crown plus France & Italy) and ,of course, the Championship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Yesterday, Sunday, it was Mother's Day here in the UK. </span></span></span><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">However, hubby plans were to go to see his pals to watch the Old Firm game and teenage son was going away to Largs with his pals. It was just going to be me and the dog at home! When I mentioned this fact to aforementioned teenage son, he said "Just think about it, you'll have the house to yourself and plenty of peace and quiet!". </span></span></span></span><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />Late on Saturday night I had an unexpected email from Amazon telling me that the Tim Holtz Mixed Media #5 die set (the one with the roses) that I had ordered ages ago was finally being dispatched out and would arrive the next day. So with both boys away doing other things I would have a few hours to myself to play with my new dies.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last week we had "The Beast From The East" weather front that brought lots of snow and wind & this week they are talking about "The Pest From The West"! Fortunately this time around it looks as though it is going to miss us over here in the Kingdom of Fife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The snow from last week is almost gone, just the remnants of where it was piled up from path and road clearing & we can see the snowdrops and crocus in the garden again.<br /><br />I've been staying warm indoors & been trying some crafty things I've been meaning to for a while now - been ages since I experimented with something messy! I've had Brusho colour powders for ages but not really done much with them so I dug them out and had a play - should have worn latex gloves! Got some backgrounds done and then decided to have a try at doing some resist techniques with them, faux bleach effect. Out came the embossing kit and some new stamps to try. Put the new stamp on to the stamp platform and started applying the Ranger Perfect Medium that I've had for a while but not used in ages - what a mess! As I am applying it the Perfect Medium sponge (or whatever it is) decided that it was now chewing gum and left lumps all over the stamp - not impressed and not the kind of messy crafting I had in mind when I started! Fortunately I had a different embossing pad and could use that instead. I ended up trying the faux bleach effect with the Brusho colours and also using my Distress Inks as watercolours with two of my new Woodware floral stamps; "Wiggly Stems" and "Tall Flowers". I used one of these efforts as the background to this weeks <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/freshly-made-sketches-327-sketch-by-jen.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This background with the faux bleach effect was made using the Woodware "Wiggly Stems" and Distress Inks. I originally had the Crazy Bird stamp also with the faux bleach effect but it just look weird - sort of had that "You're not really going to make me wear that!" look my son gave me as a toddler when I bought him a hat with teddy ears on! I soon changed it to a normally stamped image instead. The bird was coloured with Promarkers, which I then went over with the blender pen to give the appearance of watercolour and to try and tone to match the Distress Ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Sunshine? You're having a laugh aren't you!" were the words of my darling husband as he saw the card I had made for this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/freshly-made-sketches-326-sketch-by-jen.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teenage son's comment "Oh, the irony of it!" I suppose sums it up!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It's supposed to be Spring but we have been in the midst of the worst weather we've had in Scotland for years! They have been calling it the "Beast from the East" - a weather front consisting of lots of snow and strong winds. <br /><br />My sister was snowed in for three days as she lives in a small village that the snow ploughs never quite seem to get to, the snow drifting up to chest height. We've not been quite so bad, the only drift we have is where the snow has blown up about 2ft against the shed door. Our wee Jack Russell has been loving it - hates to get wet but loves the snow! I opened the patio doors and the snow fell in so I started making snow balls and, to the delight of Jack, threw them into the garden for him to "catch". Our next door neighbour's teenage daughter and two of her friends have built an igloo in their back garden - it took a couple of days but the three of them managed to get in it. It was really nice to see it finished off with fairy lights!<br /><br />I'm pleased to say that the thaw now seems to be setting in and we can get out and about again - we even got mail today, hooray!!!<br /><br />I had recently bought a Tim Holtz Mixed Media set from Amazon Warehouse that I had been wanted, it that said it had damaged packaging - there was a couple of quid off it and free delivery so I thought why not. It turned out one of the dies had a slight kink in it but this didn't affect it. The die I was looking at was a mosaic effect & I was wanting to use it but not sure how but on a look through my stash I found a Sizzix set "Rainy Days and Sunshine" which had, funnily enough, sun dies and a pair of sunglasses. The light bulb went off when it occured to me that the mosaic could be the bottom of a swimming pool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nice to see the days getting longer & soon the clocks will be springing forward but today it is a bit on the chilly side. It has been trying to snow and apparently it is going to be rather a cold week, it looks as though my heated throw will be staying out storage for a bit longer!</span><br />
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<br />CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-6750285070962744502018-01-29T19:26:00.000+00:002018-03-28T10:02:39.392+01:00Good Grief Part 2 - Just for You<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After I had made the two lots of heart cards I was concerned that perhaps they weren't quite following the sketch from the <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/freshly-made-sketches-321-sketch-by-jen.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge, </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I originally used the plain green card to make the outer and inner parts of the flower but felt, that colourwise, it looked a little flat against the background I used left over embossed card for the base part of the flower and the textured patterened card I had used as a mat as the upper part, it has a slight sparkle to it but that doesn't seem to be picked up by the camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>CraftyWeeMeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10433225130350700107noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2943285385919478426.post-22102940422630048512018-01-29T18:59:00.001+00:002018-02-13T15:17:53.338+00:00Good Grief ! Part 1 - Love Hearts<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good grief - two weeks in a row and two more posts!!!<br /> <br />Bit like a bus you wait for ages for one and then they all appear at once I have actually managed to put together a couple of more posts!<br /><br />Not been sleeping too well so these are some insomniac specials. I was having a look at this weeks challenge at <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/freshly-made-sketches-321-sketch-by-jen.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches </a>and hauled out one of my die folders and see what there was that I could use. Valentine's Day is only a couple of weeks away so I had a look for something appropriate that would fit with this week's sketch</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wow, I didn't realise it had been over 5 months since I last posted on my blog!<br /><br />There's been a lot going on, some good but unfortunately a lot that's not been quite so great and I've just not had the enthusiasm I perhaps should have had.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whilst I have still been following the <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenges </a>and have even made a few things I haven't posted anything, mainly due to the time it takes me to remember to take the photos, the link has closed! This weekend the planets have, eventually, aligned and I made not one but two cards and taken photos in plenty of time (with a couple of hours or so to spare) to actually enter something - hooray!!!<br /><br />I actually had a wee laugh when I saw this week's sketch as, as a wee pick me up, I had just treated myself to the Tonic Studios Design Collection Magazine & Kit 4 which had a set of 10 "Hello Beautiful" Layering Hearts dies, 8 stamps, an A6 embossing folder and some papers. Yippee, off to a good start, I had something in the design I could work with!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Couldn't believe my eyes on Thursday when I went into a local shop to see all the summer things being move off the shelves and lots & lots of gift sets taking their place. I said to the assistant, "Please tell me this isn't the Christmas stock coming in already." to which she replied "Sorry, but it is!" For goodness sake the kids just started back at school the previous day & we haven't even had Hallowe'en yet! I totally hate this horrible over commercialisation of Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday was hubby's birthday which meant lunch at the local Chinese buffet restaurant - my downfall is finishing off with my favourite Chinese toffee apples and toffee bananas. Weigh in this morning showed a pound on & I had been so close to getting my next sticker last time. Oh well, back to keeping notes of everything to pass my lips so it doesn't go on my hips!<br /><br /><br />As I had been making cards for hubby's birthday (one was a commission from our son) I thought I should try this week's <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/freshly-made-sketches-301-sketch-by-jen.html" target="_blank">Freshly Made Sketches Challenge</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So much for summer in this corner of the world - I think we've had more rain than sun. We've not been away anywhere but hubby has still managed to get himself a suntan by sitting out back listening to his CDs </span><br />
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This week the weather decided to improve and we have seen the hottest day so far this year. Apparently we ain't seen nothing yet as the long term forecast is for a hot summer - although I will believe it when I experience it. On Saturday just as we were leaving the restaurant after my Birthday lunch the rain started & soon it became a thunderstorm - oh well, I suppose the lawn was needing a good watering! </div>
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This week also saw my son finish the last of his exams and on Wednesday he walked out of school for the last time as a pupil. He's already got an unconditional place at College on the grades that he has and an offer of a conditional place, on a higher qualification course, depending on the results he gets when this years SQA envelope comes through the door. </div>
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I had a rummage through my supplies and found a Lili of The Valley & NitWit Collections "Perfect Pair" paper pad that came as a magazine freebie. I chose the sheet which had a diamond pattern consisting of some of the other designs from the collection and decided to turn it into a patchwork quilt by using my scoreboard to give a quilted texture & adding some faux stitching to the diamond shapes with a black pen. I cut three of the diamond shapes out then created a small embellishment with the addition of a button, some thread and a teeny bit of bling. I also used some strands of coordinating thread to create some detail at the fold of the card.<br />
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