Here's something different...

....well different from what I normally do that is!

This morning, there I was in a state of undress, (well joggies and a t-shirt but certainly not presentable!) I had been crawling around on the floor helping Chris put on the clad on panels and kickboards on some of the kitchen cupboards......when there was a knock on the door! To my surprise it was the lovely Kay of Toodles and Binks...with a big brown envelope for me!!!! Well it goes without saying that poor old Chris had to carry on with the kitchen without me while I cut out some rubber and tried out the fabby new stamps! What else did you expect a girl to do?

I took a sheet of Basic grey paper (Sugared, Delectable) stamped the beautiful Rose Tapestry Stamp with Memento Rich Cocoa coloured with my Copics and added detail with a copper gel pen.

Sentiment is available on the Rose Tapestry A4 sheet along with other sentiments.

The colours came out a bit darker than I planned, but I suppose I need to experiment working on different papers.

A difficult card to make!

I have been asked to make a card in memory of a little boy who died about 2 years ago. He was only 10 weeks old and I have been looking at his memorial site, at the messages and pictures and I have been crying my eyes out!

I wanted this card to be a celebration of his life rather than a sympathy card but it didn't make it any easier to make. I used a poem I wrote last year, in fact it was one of my very first blogs posts here. I re-worded it a bit to suit the circumstances and embellished the card with his name and a stamped image....I do hope it is OK!!

Lettering-Sizzlits, In my Heart.

Stamps- Sugar Nellie

Sympathy card , number 2!!!

Thank goodness these are done, the funeral is tomorrow so once again I have left it all to the last minute. It was all going to plan today (LOL...welll as much as it ever does in the Dingle household!) then some lovely crafters over on CBC very politely told me I had made some mistakes in the wording (!!) so I had to quickly salvage my first card before I started on the next one!

Anyway, I can now cross them off my list and get on with something a bit more enjoyable. I think I may need to update my "to do list!"

Sympathy cards!!!!

After the death of my Uncle recently I have got a couple of Sympathy cards at the top of my "to do list!" Not great to make at the best of times and I am really struggling with them. I started one yesterday and today I have assembled it. Not at al sure about it, but I think that's typical with Sympathy cards....isn't it? I have kept it quite plain apart from the paper, hopefully the words say it all!