Tuesday 12 March 2024

Female Birthday Cards

 Today I am sharing the birthday cards I made recently for my sister
 and two of my friends.

The same style card, in different colourways.




I used this beautiful 3D Lisa Horton embossing folder to emboss a square
of white card. I just love how deeply embossed the peonies are!

I then matt and layered it onto the coloured card, and glued it onto the base card.
Next, I die cut the ribbon die, glued it onto the embossed square, and
added the sentiment.
 I finished the card by adding the pearlised and diamante gems.





The products I have used are:
Lisa Horton Crafts 3D embossing folder - Blooming Peony
Presscut - Happy Birthday
Ribbon die - brand unknown

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Janice x



Wednesday 28 February 2024

A ‘Clean and Simple’ Birthday Card

 Today I am sharing a ‘clean and simple’ birthday card I made recently
for a friend.


I started by embossing the base card with the embossing
folder. I then die-cut two pieces of card in lilac and white.
I stamped the sentiment onto the white piece, then glued the two pieces
together. I attached them to the base card using 3d foam pads.
Lastly I added the diamante gems.



The products I have used are:
Embossing Folder - Craft magazine free gift
Hero Arts wood mounted stamp - Fabulous Birthday
Spellbinders Labels 3

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Janice x


Tuesday 20 February 2024

A Crocheted Throw/Blanket

Today I am sharing a crocheted throw I have made for one of my nephews.

I made this one larger than the usual adult ones, as he is quite tall.



I used a Half Treble Slip stitch which I found on YouTube HERE


I started by chaining 143 stitches using a 6mm hook.
I then crocheted the one row repeat pattern until I reached 
the desired length. I did not add a border this time.

The finished size was 60" x 70"/152cm x 180cm



I purchased the yarn from Little Wool Shop
using 5 x 400g balls of Hayfield Bonus Aran in Navy Tweed

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Janice x







Tuesday 16 January 2024

A Crocheted Throw/Blanket

Today I am sharing a crocheted throw I made last year for my sister-in-law.

I used the lovely textured Crossed Trebles stitch which I found HERE on
the 'Blossom Crochet' YouTube channel.

Rebekah’s tutorials are really easy to follow and she has lots of different
crochet stitches to share.

I started by chaining 120 stitches and then crocheted the two row repeat pattern 
until I reached the desired length.

I finished by crocheting a border of one row of double crochet, three rows of 
half trebles, one row of slip stitch, three rows of half trebles, one row double crochet
and one row slip stitch. 



I purchased the yarn from Hobbycraft
using 9 x 100g balls of Women's Institute Premium Acrylic
 5 in ‘Mustard’ and 4 in 'Cream'

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Janice x





Thursday 21 December 2023

Birthday Cards for my Nephew and Great Nephew

 Today, I am sharing the cards I made for my nephew and great nephew
who celebrated their birthdays this week.

They are both very keen West Ham fans and supporters, so I made them in the
team colours, although photographed on different days of the week, they look
 slightly different due to the poor lighting at the moment.



The products I have used are:
Crafters Companion embossing folder - Football Crazy
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Scalloped Circles and Circles
Creative Expressions (Sue Wilson) Pierced Flags
from the Frames and Tags set.
EK Success punch - 3 tiny circles
Cuttlebug Alpabet & Numbers - Olivia (10th)
Numbers and Alphabet - Unbranded (40th & Name)
Hougie Board

   

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Janice x




 

Monday 4 December 2023

Birthday Card for my Great Niece

 

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my great niece 
back in September.



I started by glue-ing a square of lilac card to the card base.
I then used the border punch on the smaller piece of white card, adding
an embossed line with my Hougie board.
Lastly, I embossed the remainder of the white card, glued it to
the lilac and added the sentiment, age and name.

The products I have used are:
Presscut - Happy Birthday
Martha Stewart punch - Scallop with 2 Dots
Embossing Folder - Unbranded
Alphabet and number dies - Unbranded



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Janice x

Tuesday 21 November 2023

60th Birthday

Today I am sharing a 60th birthday card that I made for a friend
 in the Summer.


I used one of the Hunkydory decoupage images, matted it onto blue card
and glued it directly onto the base card. 
I then added the sentiment, numbers and a couple of
diamante gems to finish.


The products I have used are:
Hunkydory - The Second Little Book of Decoupage
Presscut - Happy Birthday
Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x