A Juicy Fruity Summer

Hi,

Well, I thought it was summer .... until today. It hasn't been too bad, it's been grey and drizzling finely for most of the day, but I'd still rather be enjoying sun. Although, this is England, and this is our typical summer!!

Anyway, I'm here today with some fruity crafts.

First up, a card for this weeks LIM challenge which is

FEELING FRUITY

I am really pleased with this card, it is definitely summery and warm. I have made the watermelon slice myself, from layers or fabric, felt and card, and using nestabilities, 2 circles and a scalloped circle. I have then used Gunmetal stickles to create the seeds. I have kept the other half of the circle to create another of these embellishments for scrapbooking :)

Staying on the Watermelon theme, I have also made these, what do you think?

I made them for a friend as part of her Birthday gift. Her birthday was back in May, in the middle of exams. We had a very late birthday party for her a few days ago, when she was presented with her very late birthday present. She straight away put them on and they hung just below her short hair style, and I must say I felt very pleased with them, they looked great on her :)
I've recently started to have a play with FIMO, after buying a great little book on how to make tempting treats from the modelling clay. It's quite an interesting medium to use, I guess I was expecting it to be a lot more pliable as I am used to working with sugar paste, but it's great fun. :)

And staying on the sugar paste theme (anyone would think I planned it to flow like this!!!), I have been cake decorating again.

It is my another of my friends' Birthday today, and I went on Monday to decorate a birthday cake with her. We hadn't a clue what we were going to do on the cake, so just decided to have a summery feel, and started from there. This is what we ended up with.

The strawberries are created using a heart cutter, which was then moulded into more of a strawberry shape, and the flowers are circles, with little snips in, then moulded and made to look like a flower :) I was quite pleased with it, considering our limited time to plan and create. She really enjoyed watching me create, it was great fun to teach her, and she loved the cake, bless her :)

Ok then, I think that's all for today, so much fruit!!!  I have a layout to share (no fruit this time), so will be back at the weekend :)
Bye for now,

Birthday thanks

Hellooo everyone,

Long time no post, I know ........

'Anyway, I shall now be enjoying a bit more freedom, I shall not be having to do work every night, so expect to see me here a bit more :) '

... and what happened to the 'more freedom' I spoke of in my last post. I can't believe how hectic my last 2 weeks have been. Photography course assignments, 2 university open days, lots of little bits at school, a global student forum conference, that's where my two weeks have disappeared!! I'm not complaining though, they have been a good 2 weeks, just no relaxing time at all.

First of all, it was my birthday on Friday, I'm now 17 :D I had a great day, I had to go to school, but my friends made it fun, tying balloons to my bag, so EVERYONE knew it was my birthday, people I'd never even spoken to before were saying happy birthday. I had some great gifts, clothes, money, a new D-ring scrapbook album (they're brilliant, I've not really looked into them before, but now my pages have become more layered and embellished, the post albums just don't have enough space)

So, yesterday, I finally had some freedom and time to relax and craft. So, as the good girl I am, I set to making my thank you cards for my friends. I made them to follow this weeks LIM challenge, which is Shades of Blue, and here they are, well, one of them.

I have used Mum's Waltzing Mouse stamps, in 2 shades of blue. I just need to finish the last few, and then I'll have a set ready to fill out.

So, as I said, I've been exploring universities the past few weeks. I've been to look around 2, Bath and Bristol, and it's all so exciting :D I really loved Bath, the course looks really good and the campus is lovely. I shall keep you updated as I visit more and make all the big decisions :)

Ok, well I think that's all for now, I shall be back in the week :) Thanks for visiting :)

Non-stop crafting

This describes my Saturday and Sunday. I've created 3 She Art girls and 3 cards!!

First off, my cards. I originally just created one for the LIM challenge this week, which is a recipe to choose a section of a card and keep the majority of your design in this square. So here was my first card.

I was really pleased with it, it took a few attempts to get it to a card I liked, but I got there. I printed the sentiment on the front, and inside the card it reads  '... to say   Happy Birthday' in the same font. As I was just finishing, Mum shouted to me and told me that someone had just uploaded a card almost exactly the same for LIM.
Never mind, I then decided to make another. Well, actually I made two more as I came across a few quickutz dies that inspired me. So here are my other two entries.

 I really love the white on white layering that everyone is doing at the moment, so I thought I'd use it on this very simple congrats card, which could be used as either an engagement or wedding card.

Then this one, I really like this, lots of glitter, pretty girlie colours, I think this really suits it's 16 year old audience. Kraft again, it just looks lovely with pink and white on it :)

We had to choose one of the squares from this sketch to focus our image in.

I hope you like them. I'll be around to comment on other entries later :)

Now onto my She Art girls. I'll share them with you another day, but for now I thought I'd show you this close up of one of them :)



Thanks for visiting, 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 :)