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Wednesday 29 August 2018

Still sad but life goes on....

Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you've all been enjoying the recent hot weather, it's freezing in comparison today, in fact it's been on the chilly side all weekend. It makes a pleasant change though, so I'm not really complaining. The cooler temperatures have given me an opportunity to get some crafting done. Our neighbours got married about ten days ago and I made them a gold and black easel card, it was my niece's birthday a couple of weeks ago and my husband's birthday last week so I'll be sharing the cards I made for all three occasions. I'm writing this post on my phone and it won't allow me to add the photos within the text and I can't see in which order the photos come out in until I add the post to the blog (it just has a load of code showing instead of the photos) so the photos will follow the text like the last couple of posts. The wedding card was made using a Sizzix Thinlets die set. The cake was die cut four times out of different card and I added gold details with some thick gold paint, this paint was thinned down to add splatters to the cake and to the black card pieces that make up the easel card and topper layer. The card for my niece was made using a mermaid die set, I diecut the mermaid and coloured it in with Pro-Markers, I gave her red hair because my niece has red hair and I coloured her tail in a variety of Blues as blue is her favourite colour. I coloured the fish in rainbow colours with extra blues to make the fish numbers to nine (she turned nine). The mermaid is mounted on to a circle piece because she actually slides up from the rocks up to the fish using a slider channel. I added a uple of yellow fish to the inside along with a sentiment. The Last card I made was a floating or invisible impossible card featuring a couple of saucy corsets 😉. I made this card using an acetate sheet cut to 5"x7" and scored and folded in the usual way, I was inspired by as recent YouTube tutorial by Sam AKA Mixed Up Craft who made a couple of acetate impossible cards and it reminded me of how much I'd enjoyed making the steampunk one a few months ago. The corsets were diecut out using a couple of dies from my stash, the black layer of the red and black corset has gold speckles on it because I used some of the card I had left from making the wedding card - I try to keep all my scraps of black card no matter how small because it's hard to get a true black card of a decent GSM and I don't have a huge amount of it in my stash. I made the red card layering pieces by stamping a lips pattern in versamark ink and heat embossing them with a crimson embossing powder. The sentiment was one from my stash. I hope you like my latest makes, I'll try to add the last blog challenge which is now severely delayed soon but I really need to get my entry for the Cardmaking of the Year competition finished - I liked the wedding card so much that I've duplicated it as one of the entries, I've also half made a fence box card which I'm planning on turning into a get well card so I need to complete that and make a third card to complete the entry. The closing date is the 7th (I think!) September so I haven't got a great deal of time to complete them. Once that's completed and sent off, I hope to get on track with blogging on a more regular basis, saying that Practical Publishing magazines haven't had their Papercrafter of the Year competition announced yet and usually the two competitions overlap and that requires a project (always my Achilles heel) and two cards so that will take up quite a bit of time assuming they have the competition this year.
That's pretty much everything caught up, if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting! Love and crafty hugs, Sarah xxxxxx

Sunday 12 August 2018

Sad News.

Hello crafty friends, I want to apologise for the blog challenge post not being up as planned. Half of it is written but I haven't added any photos or anything. I'm not sure when it will be added. My beloved cat Jinx passed away this morning and I'm feeling too sad to write about crafting. I'm going to have a short break from crafting/blogging, I need to grieve, I've had Jinx in my life for over 17 years, I watched him take his first breath and I was with him when he took his last. He's been such a huge part of my life and I can't imagine what I'm going to do without him, his passing has ripped my heart in two. I don't even have many photos of him, like a lot of people most of my photos
are in digital form and mine (over 600)were saved on a memory card inside my old phone, when I transferred the card to this phone it automatically reformatted the card erasing all my folders including the one containing all of Jinx's photos. All I have are a few photos I've taken since getting my new phone and I'd like to share a few here.