Fabric Friendship album & thank you card

I thought you might like to see the packaging I made for the Friendship book. I used oven paper and a vintage French embroidery magazine, all sewn together as a wrapper. I stuck some cut out words all over it.


Then I tied it up with some plaited braid I made out of all the scraps I had left over from making the book.


This time I made a tag too, again with paper and fabrics and other bits and pieces.
You can get the general idea of the size of the book by the photo of me holding it in my hand.

The other day, someone did me a favour so I made this quick thank you card, took me all of 20 minutes! Which makes a change!

Fast Hippy thank you card

I made this card very quickly as a thank you to a male friend who did us a small favour. The lady on the front was taken from a calender I picked up with 70's photo's in it.
Flowers and the rest made from paper scraps.

Quick blue thank you card

I've spent the last week making a rainbow themed easel card, which I finished today, took a load of photos without use of the tripod and they are all blurry, tut! So I'll try again tomorrow. Meanwhile the ones I took of this blue thank you card turned out fine.

I made this card from some odd bits of paper and raided my 'flower' box. After every card I make, if I have bits of paper left over I punch out flowers for 'later use' as in this card. I added the pearly border because this 'thank you' is in relation to the recipients forthcoming marriage.
I have watched and read loads of tutorials on making various flowers, but I keep using the same old punch...how boring. There again, I just wanted something simple and quick for this particular card as I wanted to get it posted out pretty sharpish.
I hope you like it.

Thank you to all plus good news

No new cards today, but I'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who has commented so far on my work and for suggestions they have made. In particular I'd like to say a huge thank you to Marlene from 'Disguised as a grown up'  who made some really good suggestions about my work and new blog which I have followed up.

One site I use frequently is Splitcoaststampers, where I upload my cards. Today I received a totally unexpected message from another member, Michelle Vorke, who told me that she had put my Aunts Easter fairy card on their national scapbooking column. It can be seen on this sites slideshow: Scrapbooking and Stamping Examiner.
How about that then!
I hope you have had as good a day as me today!

New Card made from wallpaper

At long last I have managed to get hold of some wallpaper sample books. In fact, a local French guy got them for me, he went out of his way for no reason than that he could.
So I made him this card entirely from one of the wallpaper patterns as a thank you.
I've made a matching envelope which I will upload tomorrow

I finished an Easter card I made for my Auntie and and a fun decorated Egg Box for my best friend and her Husband which has inside apart from chocolate eggs, a fridge magnet flower for each, and a lavender bag. Its so full that I am going to have to tie it together with a ribbon

I have also uploaded a small thank-you card I made for someone who did me a small favour.

New Page: Cards for Men

I have tonight begun to upload photos of cards I have made for men, for various occasions. They are now located on a new page called "Cards for men"

I have placed all the Synthesizer, Get well, Valentines, Goth and Amur Leopard photos on this one page. I still have a few more other Cards to put on yet...maybe tomorrow.

Its rather a long page, and I dont like to see blogs that are miles long, they take forever to load. Thus I have to try and figure out how to split them up without using up the allotted 10 pages. I have not even started to load all the Female and Christmas cards yet. I also want to make another page for cards made for 'couples',  and another with the watercolour paintings I have done, making 5 pages earmarked already.

If Anyone knows how I can get rid of the massive gaps between the photos on the Mens Cards page, I would be extremely grateful if you'd let me know how, I've tried loads of things, and its driving me crazy, I hate the waste of space!

Anyway, all the photos I have of these cards have been uploaded tonight to the Mens cards page:




 Goth Card