CAS-ual cards and handmade jewellery :)

Hi everyone,

Today I was back at school after my weeks off for study leave, and boy do I feel tired, it's strange just how tired a day at school makes you feel, even though I've only had 2 lessons!! I still have 2 maths exams left, which I'm still busy revising for, but yesterday afternoon I found time to have a little break and craft.

I love this weeks CAS-ual Friday's challenge, so have created a few cards for it. First up, a card ready for Father's Day.

I needed to make a card, so I made it to tie in with the challenge, and used buttons, embossed and die cut. This week, the CAS-ual team have created a tic-tac-toe board, and we have to choose a row of three and create a card using those components.

Then, I had the inspiration, so made another. This follows the buttons, flower and twine row.

I really like both of them. I hope you do too.

The flower on the second card is handmade, I have been inspired recently after finding many tutorials for flowers, so, as I said I would in my last post, I sat down in the week and tried a few of them out. Here are some of my handmade flowers

I'm looking forward to using them on my LO's, I shall post links to the tutorials when I use them on projects.


Oh, and just one other thing, I thought I'd show you a couple of bracelets I've made and a necklace. Well, I didn't really make the necklace, I bought a necklace made of many felt balls a while ago and loved it, but didn't wear it as much I'd like to as it was short and I prefer long necklaces. So, I changed it. I cut up the necklace, salvaged the felt balls, threaded them onto a strip of fabric, and tada!!

I love it, very rough, with the fabric fraying and uneven spread of the beads, but that's what I love about it :)

...And the bracelets, I have seen paper beads many times before and liked the look of them, so last week, when we were trying to think of something we could do with the guides ( I help as a young leader) , I mentioned making beads, so that's what we're doing. I'd never tried it before, and felt it'd be a good idea to give it a go before I try and teach the guides, so I did, and here is the result :)

I really love them and shall be wearing these quite often, I'm very pleased with how they looked, and hopefully the guides will like the ones they make too.

Ok, I think that's enough for today, off to do a little revision before dinner, thanks very much for popping by, I really love receiving your comments, they always make me smile :D

Bye for now,

Card Challenge

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post from me this morning to share a card.

Mum (Jenny) really loves LIM and Cas-ual Friday's, so I decided to give it a go this week and play along. Both LIM and CAS-ual Friday's challenges this week go together so well, so I have, like many others, combined the two. LIM asks for butterflies, and CAS-ual Friday's asks for bling, so here is my contribution to both.

Yes, I've used Kraft again, for those who read my post yesterday you'll know just how much I love Kraft cardstock.
For this card I have used the MFT dynamics butterfly die, and then stamped the flowers onto the wings and added some stickles (although this doesn't show up brilliantly on this photo). At first I drew the line so it ran under the greeting and stopped at the butterfly, but decided to carry it on to the right edge and am really pleased I did.

I just want to say to those of you who have also played along, I am sorry if I don't get around to commenting on your cards, I shall nip around and comment on a few but am currently studying for AS exams tomorrow and Thursday, so I am short of time. :)

Thanks for stopping by to take a look :)