Crafting @ Eighty

Good afternoon everyone.  I hope you have something special arranged for the forthcoming Bank Holiday Weekend. Let's hope the weather is going to be kind to us. A few weeks ago I treated my lovely husband to an afternoon tea trip in a vintage train on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway.  There were two types of ticket - one in the ordinary carriage & one in the refurbished "first class" carriage.  Unfortunately when I booked all the first class spaces were gone.  But never the less it was still really good where we were. It was also a very nice afternoon tea with sandwiches & cake & tea or coffee. As always on our days out & holidays, I took quite a few photos & just had to make a little album.  This one is a gate-fold album & the pages are made from C6 envelopes with two 5 x 7 cards creating the left & right sections to hold the pages. Here are just a few of the pages to show you; The cover. It is held closed by a magnet under the logo

Hello everyone. The last couple of weeks I have slowly been making myself another photo album.  It took this long due to the hot weather which cut down the length of time I could sit in the craft room. The album style is from a video I watched by Vanessa Peter of "Scrappin It Up". She named this album Garden Party - not sure what I will call mine, but at the moment due to its vintage look I may possibly use for it for old family photos.  This will go along side my research into my family history. Here are some photos of sections of the album. The front cover. The base of the album is 12x12 Kraft card. This is the inside left page. It has 2 flaps one which opens to the left & one which opens to the right. Giving me 5 pages in total. This is the right hand page It is also the basis for a large pocket.  It has a flap with a pocket on the front which opens to the right & gives me 2 pages plus the pocket. This is the reverse side of the large pocket. The tab at top left is

 Hello everyone.  Today I have the card I made for our grandsons 5th birthday to show you, which he celebrated a couple of weeks ago. Having asked about his interests at this time I had to sit & check out some of the children's programmes on BBC.  The most difficult thing is being able to interpret the findings onto a card. One of his favourite channels has several programmes in which they each use different characters,  So I selected the one called "Numbers" Here is the card; Character 5 was the obvious choice for the front of the card. This is the double spread insert. I selected the various characters I wanted from Google, & put them through some scrapbooking software I have. The left-hand page just has number 5 again - but without the 5 & a message to him.  Then the right-hand page has a waterfall topper with the characters 1 to 5 on individual pages. I created the background paper by taking each image without their numbers onto a page in the software pack

 .....  they are part of life but we would really rather not have to make one. Yes, sympathy cards.  Sadly our elderly neighbour passed on Monday.  He had been quite poorly & in a nursing home. As I chose a quite colourful butterfly for the front I decided not to put any sentiment there, Instead I wrote a really nice verse on the inside, that I had found on Google. My next post I will show the birthday card I made for our grandson who was 5 a couple of weeks ago.