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23 June 2011

Chocolate!


 I took part in a Chocolate swap over on Paper Craft Planet organised by the wonderful Christi Usher. For the swap I decided to swap with 3 people - I was being greedy because even though I had to send out 3 packets of chocolate and cards, I also RECEIVED 3 packets of chocolates back. Yummy!
I made 3 card the same, just showing 2 here, the idea for the chocolate bar came from here.

Recipe (for first card):
Card Stock: Papermania Kraft card
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Shallop Oval Nestibilities
Embossing: Herringbone Cuttlebug folder
Chocolate wrapper: Waltzing Mouse Digi paper.
Other paper: from stash.


Recipe (card 2):
Card Stock: Anita's Blank Card
Backing Paper: Papermania "Sweet nothings" Paper pack
Chocolate Wrapper: Kate Knightly paper pack.

Don't they look good enough to eat?!

Hope you like,

Butterflies, Butterflies, Butterflies


This is a card that I made for no-one in particular but I just wanted to use my Butterfly die again.  
It is a card made from 3 different layers with the third layer fixed in a diamond shape.


This is a close up of my sparkly layered Butterfly.

Recipe:
Card: Anita's White Square Card,
Backing Paper: Kate Knight paper stack, pink paper from stash
Ribbon: Recycled from Christmas crackers.
Dies: Spellbinders Butterfly Two Shapebilities, Marianne Design Creatables
Bling: Clear Gems, Glitter, and Glitter paint.
Brads: Papermania

Hope you like,

What I was doing while I was missing!


I entered my craft room one day with the idea of making some birthday cards that I needed for family members and this is what I made instead! A wedding card, even if I say so myself a lovely wedding card, but I don't have any weddings to go to this year!



Recipe:




Image - Download from Papercraft Inspirations
Colored - ProMakers
Ribbon - Martha Stewart
Die Cuts - Nestabilities Scallop Ovals
Bling - Glitter Dust,liquid pearls and glitter glue
Sentiment - Stamp Papermania "Love Jesse Edwards"




Hope you like,

30 May 2011

My Fairy Name



Get your own fairy names from The Fairy Name Generator!My fairy name is Juniper Icefilter
She protects the vulnerable and brings justice to the wronged.
She lives in clear-headed pine forests.
She can only be seen on midsummer's eve.
She wears purple juniper colours and has icy blue butterfly wings.
Get your own fairy names from The Fairy Name Generator!

21 April 2011

Parents Big Birthday

Both my parents celebrate a big birthday this year, within 6 weeks of each other, won't tell you which, that would give my age away. LOL
We (siblings) decide to celebrate in style and we decided to have a party in one of my sisters houses for them.
Here is the invite we sent out to the guests.



It opens down by untieing the ribbon.
I got the idea for this invite when I attended a Card Making Workshop run by a wonderful crafter Jackie Mooney . She holds monthly workshops in Dublin, Ireland but as I live on the other end of the country I do not get up to them. :(
I am delighted to say the the invites were well received by all. :) so much so that my Mother asked my to make the Thank You cards.










30 January 2011

My Morning Walk

Most mornings I go the a local beach, Beal Bán, for a walk with our dog, Tiny. This particular morning there was a shower of rain coming in from the sea and with the sun rising from behind and shining into the shower cloud gave a real strange colour to the beach and cloud. Following is a slide show of some photographs I took. The first few photos were when we arrived, just before the shower and the last of the photos were taken when the shower had passed and the sun was out.
And yes, we got soaked. lol



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24 January 2011

Time lines - whats that?!

A little while ago, when my niece started college I thought I would make her a Recipe Book, where she could record some of her best recipes together, especially, as she was moving away from "Mom's cooking" for the first time. Now, nobody ever told me I was a fast worker and this is especially true for this project. My niece, in question, went off to college last September and it is only today I completed the Recipe Book. I have never done anything like this before and I think that is what delayed me. I had an idea in my head but I always find it hard to get it completed.

Here are a few photos and descriptions of what I did.




This is the cover of the Recipe Book. I had hoped to get screw type hinges but could not find them anywhere so had to use rings. I still put a "binding" edge to the book in case in the future I do come across these hinges. (I know very technical descriptions. lol.)



Most of the pages in the sections are blank so she can write in her own recipes or she can print recipes and just stick them in.

I have divided the book into 3 parts, Breakfasts & Starters, Main courses and Desert & Snacks. I used designer paper as separators and each separator has its own index page. I also "inked" the edges of each page in a different colour just to differentiate the sections more. I used Tim Holtz inks for this.




I have started her off with some different recipes that I hear students like, easy but filling recipes - just like an adult to put that in :lol:



I used Graphic 45 - “Domestic Goddess” as the designer paper. The tabs are cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 4 and then folded in half.




The paper I used for the “binding” I also used for the back cover.

The pictures are not all that clear but I hope you get the idea.

The next thing I must do is to post it to her.

Hope you like,