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 unde...

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 lef...

 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 sof...

 .....  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.

Good afternoon everyone. Today I have another CAS card that I have made for the Clean & Simple Facebook page. I am quite enjoying making these CAS cards, which is quite testing as it is even more important to know when to stop.  The stamp image is from "Clearly Besotted", & has a matching die.  It is part of a set of 5 different floral arrangements in vases. I have had them for some considerable time & this is the first time I have used them, due to normally making busier cards. I really must work out a way to ensure my sentiments are straight. I find that with clear stamps they tend to cling to my finger when trying to straighten them. I will persevere! Thank you for visiting my little blog.

 Good afternoon everyone. Today I have a clean & simple card design to show you.  I found a new technique, well unknown to me anyway, recently - to use dies as stencils. You use the actual die - not a paper or card die-cut of it. This was the result. I really liked the look & will be using it again. More importantly it has given my mojo a lift. Thank you for visiting.

 Good afternoon everyone. I do hope you are coping well in this very hot spell. Its very nice to see the sun but we have our curtains closed in the hope of it being a little cooler in here, & also a fan running. When I posted a couple of days ago I was surprised to see I hadn't shown any of my work for a month! Well, for some reason it would appear I just forgot to do it, as I had made several cards. Here are 2 of them, both a very similar design but different images. They were inspired by some  cards I have seen somewhere - probably Facebook or Pinterest. Both cards use Honey Doo stamps & some stencils (which I own up to having quite a lot of) which I haven't used for a while. This one I used the most of the stencil design using Distress Inks in pale greens. Then I stamped & coloured the flowers & foliage, with some nice colouring pens, cut them out & then arranged around the stencil image. This one, again I used Distress Ink for the stencil, & the col...