Flower Fairy card

Good afternoon friends, lovely sunny weather here today, hope you have it too !     Today I have a shabby chic card to show you. Yes I know!!!!!......not my usual CAS style of  card at all is it. Just fancied a change, and after all my latest decoupage (see an earlier post) projects I seem to be in a shabby chic mood.

Anyway come and have a closer look and see  what you think.....

ps. Forgot to say our lovely new leather sofa arrived safely and I just can't get my OH out of his new electric recliner. All our children want one now too lol. I had to prise them all out of it last weekend.        The grandchildren now know where the hidden  buttons are to recline it too......drat... my OH  told them it was magic....well it worked for  a while ;)


I have added a few photo's of our garden too. It's mostly a Spring garden and smells just AMAZING right now ;)

Smooth White card Stripey paper (old digi one) All Dressed Up digi Flower Fairy Go Kreate die ( main card shape) Spellbinders labels 18 die Die-namics Fancy flourish die Crealies butterfly dies Joy Crafts corner die Silk ribbon from stash Clear gems Lace Silver mesh ribbon Flowers from stash Glamour dust Diamond Dust TH Distress ink Copics, Promarkers Dovecraft chalks       Challenges   All Dressed Up challenge  #54 'Anything Goes' Cards und More    #158  'Focus on Die Cuts'  Cuttlebug Mania   'Butterflies' Deep Ocean Challenge   #128  'Flowers Everywhere'



Garden Photo's

A candle, a tray and lots of shabby chic!

Good afternoon friends, I trust all is well with you today ? I am feeling much better too btw. thank you for all the good wishes ;)     I have been busy doing lots of decoupage  lately, thought you may want a look. Not on a card but on wood! I seem to be in a shabby chic mood lately too.

Anyway come and have a look.... I asked  my lovely uber talented OH to make me a  fat candle holder out of wood. He said he  would make me a candle in wood too ;) Warning....photo heavy!!!

I decided to do some decoupage on them  as you can see. Can you see a tray and a  placemat/large coaster too...yep he made those too!

What got me started were the cream table and chairs we bought from our neighbour. Then I needed chair cushions and a table  cloth! I went with blue and spotty...yes I know 'what no pink' you ask!!!

So I bought these ...all matching and all from different sellers too...result!

Then I got these cushions to match for our sofa,  I added the roses ones later after I did all the roses decoupage!

Our sofa is blue hence the blue spottiness theme!  My lovely OH kindly made me this tray and I tried my first bit of decoupage....hmm don't look too closely ;) Then I spied some tablemats/coasters he had made and decided to...ahem... pinch them. I  decoupaged those too!

Oops... I left my camera lens on the table!!!!

 

Here is a closeup of the tray...not great...but a first attempt ....make allowances please ;)

Here are all the mats finished!......they had large letters  on at first. My OH thought our grandchildren may like  to play with them and learn their alphabet at the same  time. Alas it was a lot of hard work so he gave up after the first few letters. Anyway now they are reborn as table mats...or large  coasters ;)

Here they are all together! These are in our large back sunlounge btw. hence my OH making me a wooden  candle instead of  me using a real one......the real ones melt as it gets so hot in there in the Summer.


Right that is all for now, we got rid of our brown  leather sofa and chair today to  a charity. We are expecting our new  corner sofa tomorrow ...at long last....9 weeks wait! So exciting!! We are sitting on an old chair and my computer  chair tonight in our lounge. Hope our new stuff arrives tomorrow!!!!!

ps. A big welcome to my latest follower Miranda  too. Welcome aboard and thanks for choosing me  to follow :)


Another card soon.......and it's a shabby chic one ...and NOT CAS...shock horror !!!!

Navy flower card

Good afternoon friends/bloggers, I hope all is well today  for you all. Here is a second card for this week's  'Less is More' challenge, where the theme is.......
Felt or Fabric       I went for a shabby chic look this time, in shades of purple and navy.Quite liking this colour combo! Details  below card....and my ramblings lol. Come and  have a closer look...........    

      

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    I have lots of chiffon I bought in different shades to make flowers with. I went with the navy colour. After cutting and  singeing the ends I sewed some tiny beads in the middle. The leaves and 'buds' I pinched from some pot pourri, well the leaves were like paper mache so........fabric? I didn't  have any purple bakers twine so made my own.        Not brilliant I know but at least it matches. TH distress  inking and a bit of  distressing to the edge of the card. I  made a banner & added a Woodware stamped sentiment.  Job done !     ps. More changes afoot ( excuse pun....see below ), after  getting to used my new smart phone, then my new tablet,then  new glasses (varifocals for the 1st time).       It seems I have another new thing to get used to now.       I have been having foot problems for several years now and my reflexologist has been nagging me to get a referral to see a Podiatrist.My arches have dropped & my leg is  changing shape accordingly............ oh my !       Well today I saw him ( very nice young man) and he  is getting me  fitted with custom orthotics. It involved  lots of warm water and  plaster....very nice experience!        He did say my feet were very flexible, which is a good thing  apparantly lol. I hope this will help me be able  to walk  better and  with much less pain. I will report back soon :)    

Two shabby chic tags & some flowers

Hi everyone, hope you are all getting this lovelyhot sunny weather we have today.In betweencatching some rays I decided to make a coupleof tags. Not made these before, I decided on a shabby chic theme. I have been busy making more flowers too, still can't get them how I want them but will keep on trying ! I used a hot glue gun today,for the ribbon ones, burnt myself a tad.I also droppedvery hot water ( only a few drops from a pan lid) on my foot and on my chest ( separate accidents)...... & also on my arm. Didn't really last however I put arnica on and I am fine now, talk about accident prone though lol !ps. The pearls are real in the pics....my Pearl Anniversary pressie from several years ago :)Forgot to say my eldest son did ok in the London to Camb bike race today , 60 miles  in 3 hrs .!

Challenges    Pile it on   'tags'Audsentiments  #59 tag it Crafty creations ~179 tags

Birdhouse lots of freebies!

Here are the freebie papers etc. I made as promised yesterday. I made them to go with Beccy's lovely 'Shabby chic birdhouse' available HERE. There are two images available (as always) with Beccy's digi's  a black & white line drawing and a coloured version. I have made these freebies to go with Beccy's coloured version. I hope they are useful to you all.I know I like having a matching background sometimes as it makes the card making go more easily.Enjoy!Don't forget Beccy's June challenge too details HERE  for achance to win some of her lovely digi images.  Also for a chance to be her guest designer for July.

Beccy's Shabby chic birdhouse ( this one is copyrighted of course!)

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Landscape backing paper

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