20/25 More Invites - Silver Wedding

My bestest friend Paula 'Lurve' and her poor long-suffering husband Ian are celebrating 25 years of wedded madness this June.    Now my mate, Paula 'Lurve' and I first met when we were 7 years-old,  she made me laugh hysterically then, and here we are 47 years later speaking on the phone 2-3 times a week spending at least half of our hour long conversations in hysterics!!!!    We have so much history - some good, but a lot of BAD - OMG the stories.....    Anyway, she asked me to design and make her 25th Anniversary invites - I was soooo excited about my '25' heart buttons, I just had to phone her, bless she doesn't really understand why I get so excited but like a true friend she was there to listen!

The buttons were made with shrink plastic and stamped with the Paula Pascual Christmas set (thanks SarahK for lending it to me) before shrinking.

Well Hellloooo Kitty..........

Ella-Bella is going to be six and her Mum asked me to make these invites for her birthday party.  The instructions were Hello Kitty, Feathers, Butterflies and loads of Bling!!!!!!!   I got the Hello Kitty's from elsonbabe on ebay, the ribbon was from www.craftyribbons.com, card stock, bling etc. www.theglitterpot.co.uk.   A big thank you to my mate Mrs. Wonka www.mrswonkas.blogspot.com for the shape of the card.   I hope she likes them.

Just how hard is Valentines?

.... for men that is!

I really struggled to come up with an idea for this card - I very rarely do "cute" and I would feel really odd sending one to my man - he's an engineer and likes lots of shape.   I found this shape on a fab website www.denasstampingcorner.blogspot.com and then completely changed all the design.

The paper was one I bought from QVC years ago.   The heart was cut using a Quickutz die.   The little "Made with Love" charm I bought at Craftsulove and I made the button with shrink plastic (my new favourite friend).

Love is in the air everywhere I look around...........

Happy Birthday Oliver

It's my nephew Oliver's first birthday this week.   Due to circumstances beyond my control I've never met him but I  have received lots of photos and he is an absolute sweetheart.   Anyway, I won't let him forget his Auntie June!

The paper is Little Boy by Echo Park Paper Company which I bought at The Glitter Pot and the stamps are Penny Black Zoophabet.   I will put some googly eyes on the lion, but I've run out so will have to get some tomorrow before posting.

Thank you for following my blog, it's so lovely reading your comments.    June x

Purrfect Ribbon Stash

I really needed somewhere to store my ribbons so I could see what I had and what I needed (I ALWAYS need ribbons....).    I found these boxes in Staples, cut out some thick card as separators and the winding began.    Now I can see exactly what I have and don't have!    As you can see Rosie and Bella just HAD to get in on the act!

Saturdays Project

Well it took a lot of will power to face the craft table again after Christmas, but I have so many birthdays in January and February I can't afford to ignore it any longer.   Today's project was for my friend's Mum.  She saw the card I made for my Mum and commissioned one "similar".   I never make two cards identical so although this one is cream lilacs again, it is different.  Hope you like it.

Christmas Birthdays

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!

I have about a dozen birthdays around the Christmas/New Year period, it's actually quite difficult changing my mojo from one to the other.   Here's a couple I made.

I've had this stars and stripes paper for a long time.   The football and stars were all from Quickutz dies.   I levered the football so it opens up for the writing.

I love this Tilda.   I used my distress inks to colour and added some glitter to make her sparkle.   The two sentiments I printed on shrink plastic.

I'm off to make some Happy New Year cards now for all those people who I didn't get Christmas cards too!!!!!