Midweek Make

Another week and another midweek make, this week I went for Allsorts again with the theme of 'A Special Lady', and what a special lady she is. Nice and simple with this one as I think this stamp from Rubber Romance is so beautiful it speaks for itself. I painted it with watercolours and mounted it on to pink vellum, added a pretty ribbon and some pink stones for a finishing touch and voila, we have what I think is a very classy card. I did think about giving this to my mom THE most special lady on the planet, FACT, but I had a feeling she might look at the blog and see, so if you are having a peep mom, rest assured this is not your card. Sorry you'll just have to wait until Sunday. Xxx

Midweek Make

Hey all, I'm back from somerset, and what a great time we had. It didn't rain, woo, and Gary really enjoyed his birthday. Ive been all busy busy since we got back, what with Jack turning 4 on the 25th, and I'm not sure how I managed to fit in this midweek make, but manage I did and here it is.

The challengers on the Allsorts blog must have been reading my mind as the challenge this week is to make a gift box. I've been giving a lot of thought to my handmade Christmas challenge, yes I know its way too early to think of Christmas, where all my gifts will me homemade. Ive got tons of ideas of things to give and I wanted to put them all together in some sort of box. Sort of like a little box of treats. So this is what I came up with.

I wanted the box to be fun and contemporary, and not look like a traditional Christmas gift. I handmade the flowers with an assortment of papers, vellum and card and stitched on some beads, then to give the box a finishing touch I added some heart shaped stones and some ribbon. It was really tempting to over do this box, and after much experimenting I'm glad I didn't as I've got just what I was looking for. I need to make about 6 more of these for my Christmas gifts and then I just need to make the gifts to fill them....so back to the busy busy. lol

Vicky Xxx

Midweek Make

Hey and welcome to the second of my midweek makes, Thanks to those who left comments on the last post it's much appreciated.

This week I decided to go with Cute Card Thursdays theme of 'Signs of Spring' ...and, although it still freezing, I can see little signs of spring. The daffodils are out which means the onions need planting on the allotment but this pesky rain keeps getting in the way.

So anyway this week I made this little picture with my little lady, who still remains nameless, so if you have any ideas let me know, I used water colours as these are my fave and stamped the flowers and butterflies on to more of that very pretty paper mania paper. I think she looks very dreamy and I can bet she's not thinking of onions..lol. where ever she is it looks a lot warmer than here!

Thanks for looking...Vicky Xxx

P.S. Unfortunately there will be no midweek make next week as we are going away to Somerset to celebrate Gary's 40Th birthday!!! So lets hope there will be lots of signs of spring there

Midweek Make

Hey, and welcome to my new regular feature 'Midweek Make'. I've been planning this for a while, but it nearly wasn't to be, our computer picked up a nasty little virus which nearly put a stop on the first post! But thanks to Gary it's all sorted now, so let me tell you all about it.

Each Wednesday I will post a new piece that has been crafted by Lil ole me. This could be cards cake, cookies, anything. However I shall endeavour (big word) to join in with one of the many card making challenges out there. This is going to be a BIG challenge in itself as I normally like to be left to my own devices but I look at them all the time for ideas, inspiration and new techniques, so it would be rude not to have a go.

For the first post this week I thought I would ease myself in gently and after looking through the challenge blogs I picked my favourite theme 'Sweet Treat' on the Secret Crafter blog. I thought I would keep it nice and simple, but steer away from the stamped image method I would normally use. And I don't think you can get much sweeter than this! I made it with some paper mania papers that I've not used for ages and they're so pretty, as I type its sitting on my fireplace and making me wonder if I could part with it, this is exactly the kind of card I would love to receive...maybe I'll send it to myself :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Vicky Xxx