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 !!!!

Watercolour Roses card

Hi everyone, I have another watercoloured card to  show you today. I seem to be making more cards using watercolour just now.     This time I used some watercolour card and sponged my watercolours onto an embossing folder once again. I like the soft delicate look it gives , and the pink of  course :) I stamped the butterfly using some Distress ink too.        Hope you like it, I just adore roses so you may be seeing this folder again very soon.      

Stampin Up card Pink Pirouette

Watercolour card Crimson & Blake

Clearly Besotted Butterfly ( stamp and die) 

Crafts Too E/F

Waltzing Mouse sentiment stamp

TH distress inks

Momento Tuxedo Black ink

Gems from stash

Challenges

CAS-ual Fridays 'Three of Something' ( I used 3 gems)

Fussy and Fancy  'Spring Colours'

Keep it Simple   'Watercolour'

Stamplorations   'Stamps and Flowers'

ps.I am pleased to say my weight loss continues.

After two weeks of no losses I lost another 2lbs this week.

Woo hoo :) 

 

Daffodils in a teapot card

Here is another DT card made for 'Beccy's Place' again.Who says daffodils have to be yellow lol ! I am back topink again,.... knew my papaya/peach phase wouldn't last. I used this gorgeous digi image from Beccy called'Daffodils in a teapot'. It's such a lovely image, it remindsme of a  country cottage where this jug of daffs would besitting on a  pretty wooden shelf in a window.I coloured the image using Copics and Promarkers then softly chalked the background.I added a strip of card behind which I embossed with my roses folder then softly chalked the roses & leaves too. Computerized sentiment again softly chalked in pink. I cut the main card shape using my Nesties ( Curved Rectangles). My craft room is awash with 'stuff ' today. I had to make a card for a neighbour yesterday which had to be posted today. I never get much notice making cards for her. It had to be special  one , for a 50th Anniversary, for a lovely couple too so I hear.Wow 50 years!!I think she liked what I came up with though which is the main thing.I will post that card another time, enough to say I went with simple and classy in the end.Lovely hot weather here today, I am boiling, 24 C but very humid too, not that I amcomplaining !!!! have a great day everyone.ps. There is always a ps. these days lol. I am now making another DT card/cards for Beccy and this  new set of flowers/sentiments are amazing.Can't wait to show you my cards. These will be so handy for so many occasions too.  

Shabby chic birdhouse card & some freebies !

Here is another DT card  made for 'Beccy's Place' using Beccy's'Shabby chic birdhouse' digi image available HERE.I used some lovely snow white Linen card I bought ages ago.It's whiter than my usual Linen card & the grain is more raised.I made an A5 card for a change & a different fold also. The front part is folded back on itself, I am sure you have all seen one before though lol. I coloured the image with various Promarkers, I will list then later...all will become clear why soon. I made an orange matt behind the main image. The sentiment is computer generated, I went with a new home theme. I decided ( with Beccy's permission) to make matching backing papers etc. for this image.You can see a bit of it on this card I hope.Anyway I will post them after the card here so you can use them if you wish. I decoupaged one of the roses & also made a matching matt to the sentiment too.Beccy always makes a black & white line drawing & a coloured image to match if you buy one of her super digi images.So if you use her black & white image here you can colour it to match my freebie papers. For your info I used the following Promarker colours. Sandstone & Cinnamon for the house, Pumpkin & Canary for the roses. Meadow green & leaf green for the leaves.Sandstone for the matt below the label, I printed the sentiment in a rich brown colour . I hope you like the idea of matching background papers/vellums/inserts. If you do I will be making more :)Another big welcome to my latest followers, welcome aboard. ps. Forgot to say, I will be posting several freebie papers to match Beccy's coloured Bird house image tomorrow .Don't forget to checkout her June challenge HERE for a chance to win some of her lovely digi images or maybe get to be her next guest designer. 

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