Crafting @ Eighty

 Well, its nearly here the big day! I have a couple more of the Christmas cards I made this year - but they are the ones for family so I cannot show them on here until after Christmas In the meantime I will wish you all a Very Merry Christmas - I hope you all have a lovely time.

Good evening all. Here I am again with a couple more of the Christmas cards I have made. On these 2 cards I used a Woodware stamp that had got lost at the back of my drawer with Christmas stamps. I decided to use up some DSP for the front of the card, & then a die ink pad & watercolour the image. Oops - I didn't realise that this photo was so blurry. Again, as frequently happens, I must have had a shaky moment when I took the photo. This one I changed the layout but used the same design idea. Thank you for stopping by, please call again.  Take care & keep safe.

 Hi every one!  How is your weekend going? I have been very busy with writing my Christmas cards over the last week, which in actual fact is early for me to be sending out. So I am pleased with myself.  There are still a few to go out & just close family ones to be sorted. These do not have to be posted so gives me a little more time. I try to remember to photograph all my cards as they are finished, but sometimes, like at Christmas I forget as I am concerned about getting them ready to post. So, I will have made some that I have not shown you. Here are 2 that I made recently which I remembered to photograph. I love this stamp its from Honey-Doo . Have a great weekend! 'Bye for now.

 Good evening everyone. This evening I have a clean & simple birthday card to show you - its for my elderly cousin (95!) The photo is a little blurry I must have been  shaky when taking it & only just noticed it. I have been watching a young lady on YouTube called Natasha & the idea of the freehand lines around the image is hers.  Lots of her followers have loved it & there have been lots of photos of cards using this.  So I thought this would be the perfect card for me to try it out. Loved doing it & I think I may make some of my CAS Christmas cards in the same style. I hope you are all well & keeping warm in this cold weather.

 Good afternoon everyone.  I don't want to speak too soon but here in my part of North Wales we seem to have missed the early snow, so far. Not sure that will last though. Today, I have some more of my Christmas cards I have been making, to show you. Festive papers & die-cuts for these three. Looking at them in the photo I may add a couple of peel-off holly / snowflake corners.   I think they need a little something just to finish them off. Going to take a rest now for lunch then back into the craft room to create some more cards whilst the creative juices seem to be flowing. Stay warm & safe & thank you for popping in to see what I have been up to.  Happy crafting!

 Good evening everyone. This evening I have some more Christmas cards I made recently.  I need a lot of cards so as I have a few hand problems, this  year the cards will be clean & simple designs. I have made 2 different batches of 8 cards each.  This is the first batch. The cards are 4"x4" & the stamped image has been embossed with silver embossing powder,  then layered onto silver paper before placed on the card front.   There is a stamped verse inside which has also been embossed with silver embossing powder. This is the second batch, made them in exactly the same style as the others. Now for the next design which perhaps will be a little more elaborate, but not too much so. Also i need to give my attention to a Wedding Anniversary card that has to be sent to the USA as soon as I can. Make sure you stay safe & warm now that we have this cold spell upon us. Thank you for dropping by please call again.

Good afternoon everyone, I am here with another challenge card set by a colleague in my club group. She kindly gave us written instructions with photos & then we just got on with making the card.  Here is my attempt; The card is made from a base 6" x 6" square card, along with a single 6" x 6" spare piece of card. The focal image is stamped to the right hand side of the spare piece, then the outside of the focal image is trimmed away including about 2" of the unstamped card above & below the image. A contrast coloured strip is place behind the image giving a narrow border (the gold strip on my card).  Then on the front of the base card a strip of about 2" to the right hand side is inked & decorated to suit.  The cut sheet is placed onto the base card, with the image over the inked strip of the base card, on foam sticky tape to raise it.   It is a lot easier than it sounds in that description, I will definitely be making more like this.