Welcome to my Blog I hope you enjoy looking at my cards and crafts If you are a New Zealand Card Maker or crafter and would like to join a small group of ladies please check us out at http://www.craftynzcardmakers.yooco.org we have a chat session, monthly card swap and generally bounce ideas of each other If you would like to join us you can contact me j-brokenshire@xtra.co.nz
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Friday, 16 October 2015
Ribbons
Love this ribbon was rather sad when it was all gone
http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/98-ribbon.html
sketch saturday
The lamb on this card is on a spring so when the card comes out of the envelope it will wobble
http://jude-bees.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/sketch-saturday.html
circular card
Scallop,circle and a doily die were used for this card large circle folded in half to make a rocker card http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/149-circular-cards.html
Monday, 12 October 2015
Why I have not been able to craft this week
From L to R Alex, Mason and Lucas came to our house Wednesday and came and went through to Sunday. Thursday I thought all is quiet maybe too quiet so I went to check on them and there they were in Nana and Pop's bed watching the cartoons.We had heaps of fun but I was pleased to see my bed at the end of the Day...without them in it
Lucas managed to do some crafting he sanded and painted on the Thursday and Friday it was just us two so we finished his projects all of this was inspired from pinterest
We cut two pictures and fussy cut them adhered one to wood then covered the painted wood with modpodge plus the other van then we attached it with foam and the hot glue gun
After painting the frame we attached plastic dinosaurs, from the $2 shop, with super glue wasn't easy to do but was the only thing that stuck to both,this is for his other younger brother
What can I say about this Lucas had great fun doing this did start with long drips but then he turned the canvas this way and that bit of a mess at the bottom for me nice patterns at the top,
Found the empty baubles (they are about the size of a baseball) in the $2 shop filled it with Epsom salts Velcro dots for eyes used a sharpie to draw the nose and mouth made the ear muffs with pompoms and pipe cleaner Lucas had great fun making this
Lucas also had a go at making a bauble with a balloon and glued string only thing is he is a bit of an impatient crafter and against my advice decided to use my heat gun to dry it....it popped and the string and rubber ended up in a mess so that ended up in the bin
Tomorrow it is meant to rain here so maybe its my day to craft
Canvases
I have been busy covering canvases to put in the bedroom the grandchildren sleep in, I have found it is a cheap quick easy way of decorating the walls
Bought some fat 1/4s and hot glue gunned them to cheap canvases also put a few staples in the back
Had to have some from Frozen and of course planes and trucks
My Clowns I bought from the second hand shop while on my hunt for tea cups
I used a deep set canvas turned around so I could make then sit I covered the frame with wallpaper and hot glue gunned them to the canvas downloaded the circus tent from the net printed 2 so I could 3d the animals
The grand kids were so excited to see all the new hangings on the wall .....not much wall space left so perhaps the next ones will go home with them
Bought some fat 1/4s and hot glue gunned them to cheap canvases also put a few staples in the back
Had to have some from Frozen and of course planes and trucks
My Clowns I bought from the second hand shop while on my hunt for tea cups
I used a deep set canvas turned around so I could make then sit I covered the frame with wallpaper and hot glue gunned them to the canvas downloaded the circus tent from the net printed 2 so I could 3d the animals
The grand kids were so excited to see all the new hangings on the wall .....not much wall space left so perhaps the next ones will go home with them
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Fun Crafting
Have just spent a fabulous week with a crafty friend from the North Island, thought it was time for me to start blogging so she helped me set up this blog,
As she was at my house this time, I got to choose the crafts we would do and seeing as we mainly do cards thought it was time to try something new so here are the crafts we managed to do in between craft shopping
Managed to get some wall paper sample books that were deleted so we covered the boxes (bought from the red shop) with wallpaper then decorated them mine is the white one
Got the plaques from one of the cheap shops, the idea was to put a sentiment over the flower by printing a reversed sentiment done on the computer pasting the plaque then the sentiment and leaving it for 12 hours then rub the paper off with a wet finger one of us rubbed a bit to hard and had to cover it up but we were both happy with the end result
Saw this on pinterest loved it always wanted to try it so I scoured the second hand shops for old cups and saucers wasn't much there so found other containers then remembered had a couple of cups in my cabinet we made the pins and flowers well I tried to couldn't quite get the knack of it so I gave up in disgust and with burnt fingers and just threw some pearls in the saucer the jug on the right is mine
Did manage top make 3 cards this day plus I gave my friend a few tips on how to use the Scan & Cut and she showed me how to do a couple of different techniques
Found these plaques at the red shop $2.00 so the idea was to do something with spiders, the spider webs and spiderman were cut On the Scan & cut I did spiderman and we ended up swapping as we both thought they were not age appropiate for our grand children I got her to put incy wincy spider on it and my little grandson has already got his father to put it on the wall above the bed he sleeps in when he is here for a sleep over originally he wanted to take it home bit of a tantrum when I said he couldn't
Managed to do another card using the window die and it had to be one main colour and one other mine is the red one had something else in mind for the window but it never worked so I ended up with this oh well one less xmas card to worry about my friends card turned out beautifully
Did manage to do another couple of things but need to take photo's of them
As she was at my house this time, I got to choose the crafts we would do and seeing as we mainly do cards thought it was time to try something new so here are the crafts we managed to do in between craft shopping
Managed to get some wall paper sample books that were deleted so we covered the boxes (bought from the red shop) with wallpaper then decorated them mine is the white one
Got the plaques from one of the cheap shops, the idea was to put a sentiment over the flower by printing a reversed sentiment done on the computer pasting the plaque then the sentiment and leaving it for 12 hours then rub the paper off with a wet finger one of us rubbed a bit to hard and had to cover it up but we were both happy with the end result
Saw this on pinterest loved it always wanted to try it so I scoured the second hand shops for old cups and saucers wasn't much there so found other containers then remembered had a couple of cups in my cabinet we made the pins and flowers well I tried to couldn't quite get the knack of it so I gave up in disgust and with burnt fingers and just threw some pearls in the saucer the jug on the right is mine
Did manage top make 3 cards this day plus I gave my friend a few tips on how to use the Scan & Cut and she showed me how to do a couple of different techniques
Found these plaques at the red shop $2.00 so the idea was to do something with spiders, the spider webs and spiderman were cut On the Scan & cut I did spiderman and we ended up swapping as we both thought they were not age appropiate for our grand children I got her to put incy wincy spider on it and my little grandson has already got his father to put it on the wall above the bed he sleeps in when he is here for a sleep over originally he wanted to take it home bit of a tantrum when I said he couldn't
Managed to do another card using the window die and it had to be one main colour and one other mine is the red one had something else in mind for the window but it never worked so I ended up with this oh well one less xmas card to worry about my friends card turned out beautifully
Did manage to do another couple of things but need to take photo's of them
Saturday, 3 October 2015
Sparkle
Sparkle
The Sparkle on this card is foil embossed with Cuttle Bug
Challenge;
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/148-sparkle.html
The Sparkle on this card is foil embossed with Cuttle Bug
Challenge;
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/148-sparkle.html
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