Late start to the new year!

First off, Happy Birthday to my very lovely boyfriend, Iain. Here's the card I sent him.


I was in the middle of making him a crocheted cow toy as well, but only got this far:

[That's the head and snout, by the way!]

I also crocheted myself a bracelet - nothing special. Originally, i was following a pattern for some baby bootees but I realised it was going to be far too big, so I finished it there and Voila! A bracelet!


Now I'm concentrating on Valentine's projects and experimenting with heat embossing, stamping, etc. Here's some of the forementioned experiments:

A long one today!

First off, some older stuff today.

A birthday card for my dads 64th birthday


A christmas card


Another christmas card made with a 'Me to you' craft set


Some WIP's - I'm not sure I like the gift one yet.


And just for funsies - my not-so-organised crafting area - it's a large under-stair cupboard which is doubling at the moment as a Christmas present hiding place, so it's rather more cramped than usual!
EIGHT drawers of stuff!


And a large box with all my plain cardstock and magazines - the plastic zip bag at the bottom currently has all my christmas papers and bits in it - I'm forever looking for them so I put them all together!


There you go, nice long entry for once!

Punk birthday card

A friend asked me to create a card for her sister's 15th birthday - the only idea she gave me, was that she liked "punk" stuff - so this is what I came up with.

The skull and checked paper was printed off from www.glogster.com and the toppers were just plain card/paper stock written on by hand with an embossing ink pen and black glitter embossing powder. I know it's a little wonky, but I think that adds to the effect!

I loved creating this project as I came up with the whole idea myself. I was duely informed that the recipient was very pleased with the card too - I love making people happy with my creations!