Craftwork Cards Workshop

Today Linda, Jill an I went to Horley, to a Craftwork Cards Workshop run by Julie Hickey.

We had a great morning making cards without interruption from the normal Saturday routine at home. We came away with four cards, lots of ideas a some card making supplies from the shop.

This first card is simple in design but very effective and I think I will be working on variations of this theme. Lots of different sized punched circles and card candy in pink. The trunk was cut from a template drawn by Julie.




This next card used two of these elegant shaped oblongs, lots of card candy and these lovely retro flowers and a butterfly.


This third card uses this delicious lime coloured card, the photo does not do the colour justice. The flowers are made from five small hearts, a button and some ribbon.


The next card is an easel card. I have been meaning to try this since seeing all the stunning cards made by Anita. I had even printed out some instructions from another site ready to try this, but not had time to do so. So thanks Julie for getting me started. These last two photos show the card open and closed.

Thanks to Julie for another great class and to Linda and Jill for their company. I got home in plenty of time to get Emily to the post office to send off her short story and references to Nottingham University for her interview on Friday. Then we went to Gravesend for her appointment with the osteopath. When she was finished we had time for a little girly shopping and I treated her to some new clothes.

A Walk Through Theatre Land

52 Walks with my Camera 2010 - Theatre Land, China Town and Charing Cross Road - Week 6




Catherine and I went to see Priscilla - Queen of the Desert at the Palace Theatre last night. We had a lovely Italian meal in a restaurant opposite the theatre, then went for a walk as we were early for the theatre ad meeting up with the others. The photo below shows Catherine outside The Palace Theatre.




We walked through China Town and took a photo of the delicious goodies on display in this shop window. Then we took photos of photos of the Chinese lanterns.

We still had a little time so we wandered into Charing Cross Road and the world of book shops. I was telling Catherine about the book '84 Charing Cross Road', by Helene Hanff, I enjoyed reading some years ago. I remember the film of the book too, starring Anthony Hopkins. We had a good look round Foyles and took this picture of the window display. I remember the special trip to London to buy the books I needed for my nurse training many years ago.

Then we met up with the others in the theatre for a great evening's entertainment, I can certainly recommend the show - it's great fun.

Log - 52 Walks with My Camera in 2010 so far: 1. Bexleyheath 2. Woodbridge 3 Hall Place 4. Chislehurst 5. Bluewater 6. Theatre Land

Kimmie's Birthday Sketch Challenge

Over on the Kraftin' Kimmie Korner blog, Kimmie has set up a birthday challenge using a sketch to make a card.

I used my 'Posy' stamp (from Elaine at Quixotic Paperie), more Paper Salon papers and my Promarkers to create this card:

Be a Little Ripper!

Challenge # 16 - Be a Little Ripper

This week's challenge from The Kraftin' Kimmie' Stamps Blog is to use ripping on a card so here is my effort using my 'Charlotte' stamp and 'Bloom' papers from Paper Salon. Charlotte is available from Quixotic Paperie.

Bluewater

52 Walks with my Camera - Week 5 - Bluewater

This week I took my camera shopping! Wandering around the rather unique Bluewater shopping centre, I took about 40 pictures, I have chosen a few to share here. I'm always fascinated by the attention to detail in the architecture in the modern building. There are some really great shops there too.

.... and finally outside, with a reflection for the challenge.

Log - 52 Walks with My Camera in 2010 so far: 1. Bexleyheath 2. Woodbridge 3. Hall Place 4. Chislehurst 5. Bluewater

Colourful Critters

I decided to have a go at the Passion for Promarkers weekly challenge this week. The theme is 'All Creatures Great and Small' using any colours. I had to take a good look in my stamp store for creature stamps, not something I have a lot of considering the size of my stamp collection!!

I chose these fun bug stamps from Woodware and stamped then onto white card in black ink. I also found the tulips in the window box stamp, which I think is an old Penny Black stamp from when I first started stamping. Then coloured them with the Promarkers. I chose colours to go with the 'Oh Baby' line of papers from Basic Grey. These were cut and placed on the card with 3D foam pads. I added flower stamen for antenna . My large butterfly might have trouble taking off with the weight of his antenna ! There is lots of stickles on the wings and highlights in white gel pen.

Peeping Posy!

Here is a card I made in response to challenge #15 on the Kraftin' Kimmie Blog. The idea is to make an aperture / window card using Kraftin' Kimmie images.

So I used 'Posy' with a very old stamp from my collection, so old I can't tell you what make it is!
Added to this is some Basic Grey, Two Scoops papers. Polly is available from Quixotic Paperie.

Here is the outside.....

... and on the inside ...

This was good fun to make, thanks for the challenge.