Our Pearl Wedding Anniversary

Today Alan and I have been married for 30 years!

We have spent the weekend away in Suffolk. On Friday we spent some time shopping and I was treated to some new clothes and flowers, followed by lunch in Woodbridge.

In the evening we went to the cinema to see Love Punch but there was a problem with the film and so we saw The Last Projectionist instead, hardly the same but an interesting film. It made us laugh as many years ago we took the children to this same small film theatre in Leiston to see Stuart Little and ended up seeing Men in Black!

The weekend was busy visiting friends and places and I had some time for crafting yesterday.

We spent today with friends Lesley and Gary. We have been to Snape, followed by a lovely lunch in the garden at the Jolly Sailor in Orford. This afternoon we took a long walk along the beach at Shingle Street. A lovely day and now we are driving home ready for work tomorrow.

I made Alan a card using the Cricut, the Cricut Craft Room together with the Lacy Labels and Sweetheart cartridges.
Also used:
Tea Dye Distress Ink
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Black and white Bazzill card
Patterned paper - Authentique 'Script' paper
Flat-backed, self adhesive pearls from Mei Flower
Wplus9 Basic Banner stamps

I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest a while ago.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn

Mirror, Mirror ...

... on the wall! - A birthday card made for my friend Linda, who has a birthday on Tuesday.  We are celebrating today at our monthly crop.

I used a white blank card measuring 8" x 8". The papers are from Bo Bunny's Prairie Chic collection I stamped this image form Loralie Designs on to card and cut the image with a Sizzix die. This was coloured with promarkers and Stickles.

The Mirror was made with gold and silver Miri card and another Sizzix die and lots of flat-backed-gems. My greeting is stamped with a greeting from Lili of the Valley and mounted on punched circles. Lots of inking went on with distress inks.

I went to town with flat-backed-pearls and Liquid Pearls. I tied a big broad pink ribbon around the bottom of the card. 'Linda' is made with some Provo Craft stickers I had in my stash.

I would like to enter this card into this weeks I ♥ ProMarkers' challenge - Anything Goes

Happy Birthday Linda x
Thanks for looking.
Lynn xxx

Happy 80th Birthday - Cards, Cake, Family and Friends

It was Dad's 80th birthday on 1st October and we celebrated at my Sister's house with a tea party for family and friends on 5th.

I made Dad a card using the Cricut, and the Birthday Bash Cartridge. This was my design team card for Scrapology for this month's challenge. The papers are from Basic Grey's Indian Summer collection, which was perfect for the Autumnal colour theme chosen by team member Sheena.

With the help of Catherine I did a lot of baking and cake decorating in the days leading up to the party. I made a big three tier cake, one layer vanilla, the second chocolate and the third was chocolate chip. All decorated with fondant icing.

Then we decorated cup cakes, 36 for the party, another 12 lactose free so Emily could have some and another 12 for Catherine to take to a party she was going to later in the weekend!

We decorated many of them with the same fondant we had made for the big cake. Others were piped with orange and lemon flavoured butter cream.

 

These all made it safely to my sisters house in the car!

Sylvia had prepared all the other food and Bob had put up the Marquee.

People travelled from far and wide to be with Dad to celebrate his special birthday.

 Happy Birthday Dad.

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Milestone Card - Another 21st Birthday

When you have three children who all turn 21 in the same year, you make a lot of 21st birthday cards as all their friends turn 21 in the same school year!!

 
Andrew's friend Andrew who he has known since his baptism, was 21 this week. I made a card for him similar to the one I made for George a few weeks ago with the Cricut Craft Room. This time I chose red card with the black and multi-coloured gems. More details on the original post.

Note to self: Buy some black 3D foam pads as I ended up with very black nails colouring the sides of the white ones with a promarker so they wouldn't show!!

This is my design team card for this month's card challenge on Scrapology. Our lovely Sandra set the challenge this month. Pop over to the blog to see Sandra's 30th birthday card all the other great cards made for inspiration. Details can be found there for entering the challenge and the prize.

Happy 21st Birthday Andrew.
Lynn x

Schools Out!

Claire Bell (Silver Custard) has set the card challenge over on Scrapology this month and this is my card for the 'Schools Out' theme.

I made this card for my son, Andrew's friend Anna in America, as she recently graduated. I used some paper by Magnolia, an image and a greeting stamp called 'Tessa Tassel' form Kraftin' Kimmie, letter stickers by Doodlebug Designs Inc. A 6" x 6" square card blank, ribbon and some Wild Orchid Crafts cherry blossoms and a rose. The die was by Sizzix, and I coloured the image with Promarkers.

Pop over to Scrapology for details of the challenge.

Congratulations Anna! Hope the card has arrived safely by now.

Relax!

The third class I took at the Merly Impressions Retreat was designed and taught by Emilie Chamel. I chose to use this colourful photograph of my daughter and her friend relaxing and celebrating after finishing their three year Drama and Theatre Arts course at University.

To make the page we had a kit containing two sheets of white cardstock, a set of stamps from the Kaisercraft Elegance collection, two tubes of Kaisercraft acrylic paint, a selection of Kaisercraft paper blooms.

The watered down pant was flicked over the page and then an area painted on the second sheet from where the feathers and title were cut freehand!

The images were stamped in black ink then I coloured mine by watering down the paint further.  The photo was added raided up on foam pads. Then the paper blooms were arranged. I added some decorative pins, flat-backed gems and Stickles. The journalling is written straight onto the cardstock.

Very different to my usual pages, but I loved making this project with Emilie. She gave us lots of extra tips and hints too. Here are a few close-up photos:

 

 

 Here is Emilie's original layout:

Thanks for this fun class Emilie.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn

Scrapology Catch Up Crop Day

Yesterday the Scrapology club ladies met up for the day, at an event which has affectionately become known as our 'Catch Up' day at the EllenorLions Hospice Centre in Dartford.

This is where we also meet monthly on the first Thursday evening of the month.

Yesterday we met from 10am 'till 5pm and worked on what ever we wanted to do. We had a sales table and a raffle, as well a goodie boxes and refreshments available all day. Various tools and equipment were available for all to use.

Many of the ladies taking the opportunity to finish off layouts from previous months' classes, club kits and challenges.

Here are a few photos of our day and also the amazing gallery of what was achieved.

Robert worked hard helping us set up and pack up and he cooked us all a delicious lunch.

 

OUR GALLERY

GLYNIS

HELEN

JOJune Kit Layout

 

JANINNE

WENDY

 

ADELA
April Kit Layout

  

JULIE

LINDA C

ADELA
May kit layout

KAREN

LINDA

ANN
June Kit Layout

 

LILY(age 9 years)

April Kit Layout

 JULIE
May Kit Layout

 

LINDA C

(Lynn's Cardinal Colours Crop Weekend Class Kit Autumn 2012)

 

DAISY

(11 years old)

September 2012 Kit Layout

JO
May Kit Layout

HELEN

LOUISE

DAISY (11 years old)

GLYNIS

 HELEN

LYNN

HELEN

KAREN

LILY
(9 years old)

LYNN

 SHARON
(Anita's 16"x16" Canvas Class Kit from Cardinal Colours Weekend Crop Autumn 2012)

 WENDY

Thank you for looking at our pictures.
Hope everyone had a good day.