Farmhouse Christmas

Whilst I was printing off the Nitwits Peachy Keen kit to make a card for a friend (see Wednesday's post) I decided to print off some elements for a Christmas card using Farmhouse Christmas kit.

I added some elements to the backing paper and printed off some them again so I could decoupage them using foram pads.  I also printed the green tartan paper from the kit and punched some holly leaves and added some card candi for berries.  

It is our last theatre trip for this year tonight and it is That'll be the Day Christmas Show.  They always put on a brilliant show so really looking forward to that.  Going with 4 friends and having a meal first so should be a fun evening.

 

Oldie but a goodie

Well what a busy time I am having.  The two craft fairs were good at the weekend.  Sunday's was so busy, about 2000 people though the door in 4 hours.  I am busy sewing now to restock for my last two fairs on 27th and 28th November.  I decided to get a card reader as sadly so many people carry little cash with them these days. I only lost one sale through not having one on Sunday.  I talked to a few stallholders and read some reviews and decided to get a Zettle reader.  It was on offer for £22.80 and there is no contract with just 1.75% fees on each transaction. So when I am not using it it costs me nothing.

My card was made for a friend who is 74 and loved 50's and 60's music.  I used Nitwits Peachy Keen digi kit.  Some elements were printed onto the backing papers and some printed onto card and attached with foam pads.

I still need to make several Christmas cards so am hoping to get several made today.

 

Look at me in my bandana

Mum asked me to make a card using a photo of her friend's dog for her friend's Birthday.  Honey is sporting a lovely bandana, which I made.  I used papers and heart from the Woof collection from Nitwits.  The sentiment is LOTV and I added some wooden hearts.

Yesterday we went to a Macmillan coffee morning at Prima Rosa and today we are off to another one at some friends' house.  We haven't seen them since before the first lockdown as his Mum had terminal cancer and they moved to Harrogate for a few months to be with her and his Dad.  They had a lot of work of work done on their house whilst they were away so it will be lovely to see them and seen the house improvements.  Sadly his Mum died a while ago so this morning is in memory of her.

Dachshunds and back from holiday

Another card from the Nitwits Woof digi collection.  I think the sentiment is so cute.  I remembered I had some dachshund washi tape so added that plus some wooden hearts.

We are on our way back from a short break away. On Monday we travelled to the New Forest for 3 nights in a lovely place called Spot in the Woods.  Then on Thursday we went to stay in a Hilton hotel near Wisley in order to visit the RHS Wisley Flower Show on Friday. We had never been to Wisley before, both the flower show and gardens were lovely and we spent all day there.We took loads of photos and I will share a few of them.

 

More cats

Another card made with the Nitwits Me-Wow digi collection.  I love the way these cats look like they are made of material.  I simply added some heart buttons tied with twine and some baker's twine.

 

Woof

I bought the Nitwits Woof digi collection to make some doggy themed cards.  Like the cat card I made a one layer cards, this time adding some pawprint ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and wooden hearts.

 

Me-wow

I recently bought this digi kit from Nitwits called Me-wow as I often get asked for cat and dog cards.  I created the bottom layer in Word adding shadows.  I then decoupaged the bowl and food, adding a LOTV sentiment and some pearls.

I always think these will be quick to make but they actually take a lot of fiddling on the computer to get the design looking right. It sometimes seems more difficult than using physical pieces.

 

Happy Bee-Day

I made this card for a friend who likes to display some of my cards on a shelf unit in her kitchen so I didn't add a sentiment as I preferred it without. It would make a lovely framed picture too.

I bought the cross stitch kit from Hobbycraft during the last lockdown. I must say apart from the bee which was a bit tricky the hive was actually rather boring to sew but I am pleased with the finished stitching.

The paper and frame are from the Nitwits Bee-lightful digi collection. I simply added some paper flowers to finish.

Movie time

You may have seen the movie card I made for my hubby for his Birthday in March. I love this digi kit from Nitwits and wanted to use it again. The backing paper is lovely with all the right hand corner elements included on it. I added some more elements to the paper and then printed some separately to fussy cut. I raised some on foam pads and added some enamel dots.

I have bought a few of these digi kits and really enjoy using them for a change.

 

Our Golden Wedding

I can't believe that today we have been married for 50 years! We just don't feel old enough 😊.  I didn't want to make a traditional card for Graham and as music has been such an important part of our lives, and still is.  When we met at a party he was in charge of playing the records on his record player. I was 15 and he was 19 and we were both too shy to talk to each other that night. We soon got together though and the rest is history.

I bought this Nitwits digi kit called Peachy Keen with this card in mind. It hasn't photographed terribly well unfortunately.

I created the arrangement in the corner on the backing paper and then printed all the elements onto card. I decoupaged each of the corner elements and added contrasting card to the lozenge shapes. I typed the sentiment onto one and 2 song titles onto the others. The paint chip already had the sentiment on it and couldn't be better. All I added were the punched musical notes.

We have a meal booked this evening so we will be celebrating 50 happy years together.

 

Retro TV

A simple card using the Nitwits Peachy Keen digi kit. I printed the banner and retro TV onto the backing paper and added the sentiment onto the screen.  I then punched and crimped some stars and added enamel dots.

This is another card for my friend's order. This one is for a man in his 60's who enjoys watching TV so he should appreciate the retro style TV.

 

Happy Birthday Graham

I decided to make something very different for Graham this year and as we both love watching movies bought the Silver Screen pack from Nitwits.  I am enjoying using these digi kits as a change from stamping and colouring which I still love of course.

I printed all the elements separately this time, fussy cutting and inking the edges. I cut two of the film reel to give it a bit more depth and raised some things on foam pads. The stars were cut using a punch. I remembered I had some film related charms and added the clapperboard charm with baker's twine.

I am really pleased with the black film strip. I used a Tim Holtz film strip die with acetate. The film strip imprinted on the acetate but didn't cut so I just had to cut the edges. I then coloured it on the underside with a black Copic pen.

Our plan for today is a trip into the city where we will get something tasty for dinner tonight from M&S. Have a wander and get a takeaway hot drink. That is the best we can do in lockdown. Our pub and Chinese don't deliver on Mondays so we did have an afternoon tea delivered last Saturday as a pre Birthday treat.

Floral window

I am really loving the Nitwits digi packs at the moment. For this one I used the papers and flower border from the Lakeshore Cottage collection. The floral window is from the Annabelle collection. I added some butterflies from Poundland and a flower from The Hobby House. I used a heart banner die and a Joy leaf die.

The start of another week and a new month. I have 3 Birthdays this month, still have one of the cards to make and 6 cards ordered so plenty to keep me occupied. I also want to crack on with more scrapbooking.

 

More bees buzzing by

My Mum liked the last bee plaque I made and asked if I could make her one to give to somebody who gives her honey. I used the Bee-Lightful digi pack from Nitwits adding some flowers and pearls. I used a stitched circle die from Lawn Fawn for the bees. 

Lovely sunny day yesterday. We went into the city centre for the first time this year. it was so nice to walk somewhere different for a change.  We did some shopping in M&S, got a takeaway drink and had a nice walk in the sunshine. At least we now have a roadmap out of lockdown. Let’s hope infections continue to go down and we can get back to a bit more normality. Graham has a haircut booked for 12th April and we both have back massages on 14th April. My hairdresser isn’t taking bookings yet but they will book people in based on their original bookings so it could be May before I can go there. Sun is shining again this morning. Enjoy your day.

Garage

I loved making the bee cards and plaques from the Nitwits digi collection so decided to buy some more. For this card I used the man-ual collection. They take a while to sort out exactly which images to print and what size to make them but once that is done it is a matter of printing them out and playing around with each piece.

I used Word and merged the backing and striped papers, garage, chevrons and banner, adding shadows to them. I then inserted and resized all the other pieces. I used Tim Holtz notes dies on the red spotted and denim papers. I found a metal gear to add but it was very shiny gold so coloured it with a dark brown Copic and lightly sanded it.

I really enjoyed making this card as a change from cute cards and look forward to playing some more with both this and the other sets I bought.

 

Home is where your honey is

You may have seen the bee plaque I posted the other day. Whilst I was printing out the elements for that I decided to print out a sheet to make a card. The Nitwits collection is called Bee-Lightful. I really enjoy making this style of card as a complete change from colouring images.

Everything apart from the pearls is from the digi kit. I fussy cut, inked the edges and layered using foam pads. I diecut the banners using offcuts of paper from the plaque and MFT pierced fishtail dies. This set must be one of my most used die sets.  I was so pleased that the when I diecut the bee using a Lawn Fawn stitched circle die it fitted perfectly into the centre of the flowered circle.

Bee sweet

Well hello after a week of no blog posts I have 4 scheduled for the next 4 days. I don't do many orders but the lady I made several cards for last year who normally buys at the hospital craft fair as she works there, asked me to make her some. The order kept growing until it got to 9 cards and 3 plaques. I sent her photos of some cards and luckily she chose some I had already made to which I just had to add personalised sentiments. However it left me with a few to make plus the plaques. I finished them on Wednesday afternoon so yesterday afternoon I found time to schedule some posts.

She chose the sentiment which I printed from the laptop and diecut with an old Spellbinders die. As she wanted a bee themed plaque I decided to buy the Bee-Lightful digi pack from Nitwits. I really wanted to use bee themed paper and didn't have any big enough and I thought the pack would come in useful for cards and scrapbooking too. 

I fussy cut the heart and beehive and thought how am I going to cut out the bees antennae so decided to diecut them. I inked all the edges and added some flowers I must have bought when I first started cardmaking 15 years ago.  The grosgrain ribbon is from Craft Label.

Back tomorrow with a card. 

Farmhouse Christmas

If you are interested I thought it was time I updated my profile picture as the other one was taken several years ago. As I have just bought some new glasses it seemed like a good time to change it.

No end to the Christmas cards at the moment while I am on a roll. I bought the digital Farmhouse Christmas set from Nitwits last year in their sale and never got round to using it. I printed all these elements onto one sheet of card. I inked all the edges and raised some of them on foam pads. All I added was the black card, black cord and silver mesh.

We had a lovely day out yesterday, first going for a cuppa, half price under the eat out to help out scheme, then a visit to a cancer charity warehouse. We bought a jigsaw, 6 books, some embroidery threads and elastic, 2 wooden stamps (a PB and a Forever Friends) and 2 LPs and 3 singles. Something for each of our indoor hobbies. Then we met some friends at a garden centre and had lunch. We had free drinks with our loyalty card and half price lunches. That is our outings for the week apart from a Tesco click and collect shop on Friday. We have been for a few meals now and have carefully chosen where we go. They have all had very good measures in place so we have felt very safe. We won't be going anywhere busy like the coast nor will be going out in the evenings.

I have just got the first Christmas launch stamps from LOTV so expect to see some sneak peeks very soon. 

Perfect Moments

This is the second card I made for Papercraft Inspirations using the Nitwits Anabelle digital kit.  For this one I used a MFT scalloped border die, Go Kreate frilly 10 die, lace from Crafty Ribbons and a small bow.

Happy New Year

This seems like a good card to start off a new year. It is one of two cards I was commissioned to make for Papercraft Inspirations. Most of the items are from the Nitwits Annabelle digital kit. I simply add a small white doily, pink heart pins, wooden butterflies with added glitter pen and some flowers from Wild Orchid.

Challenges

As You Like It anything goes