June 28th 2014
I do want to do this more often but I am too busy making or doing alterations. I have taken up four pairs trousers, put zips in two dresses, and much more it feels like. I have made two leaving cards for friends at work, I was very pleased with them and they were well received so that was good. The trouble is having enough space for everyone to write on them. We have a few people that like to write quite a bit and some write large.
I never put my Easter competition entry on here so will do that now.
This is the finished case, I enjoyed making it, just got carried away as usual.
The chicks I gave to Rose cos I thought they were sweet. The eggs I posted to the boys, I thought they could play catch without destroying the house too much.
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These eggs were interesting to do, they were wrapped in silk prints ( bought ties from the Charity shops) and boiled, the print comes off onto the eggs. It is recommended that you don't eat the eggs afterwards as it is not known what is in the die. It was the first time I had made them so was totally unaware of what they would look like.
I want to write next to my pictures but everything has a mind of its own and the pictures move about. Why isn't it simple? Frustrating.
Anyway the flowers on the lid I stuck onto a head band for Rosie, it looked very pretty when I saw her wearing it. , the rabbit was named Lily and went to live with Jazz.
I found a pattern for some chickens I liked, in the same family as the chick, long legged. So as my sister always wanted chickens but lives in an apartment I thought I would make them for her, not sure if she liked them.
It started out with me just making the chickens cos I liked the pattern. I started with the brown one, and put geen feet on it, then I made the whitish one and the brown one was shorter and fatter, like me and my youngest sister. As she works in a garden centre I put the chicken in a flower garden. Then I made the black one, it has a slight glittery effect as she likes a 'bit of bling' as she says, and made a cake with that one as she is really good at making cakes and decorating them. I have only just realised I don't have a picture of the black one!!! Boo hoo. Can't believe I didn't take a picture of them all together.
I will put on the pictures now of the two cards I made. The flowers are stuck on a 12 x 12 canvas, I stuck the pages which had been written on by my colleagues on the back once they were finished. There were 5 A4 pages with best wishes on for my dear friend.
I found the idea in a magazine, I did pay for the pattern so I have stolen the idea, just adopted it. You may recognised the first rose Jazz, it is slightly orange compared to the others but I thought you wouldn't mind if I used it. I made a box to put it in too as I didn't want the flowers to get squashed. I spent some time talking to my friend to find out what she liked, she has arthritis quite badly, having had it since she was 5, at least thats the first time she remembers going into hospital. She likes reading and sitting in her garden, so I made a garden for indoors too. She also mentioned she saw a bench she liked in the garden centre so I mentioned it for the collection, and that is what her husband is going to get with the vouchers. Really pleased with the whole thing. She is a lovely person and deserved everything.
This is getting boring as I cn't move the pictures and write my text next to them. This is going to be a line of photos with my comments underneath. So frustrating
Anyway Rachel's card was designed to be hung like bunting. I did the box for that too.
The caterpillar, face, heart, rabbit and pram were made from the shapes in clip art. I did extra shapes and cut them out to raise the wheels, caterpiller's face, the rabbits arms and feet, I also did the balloons from clip art, the effects you can use are fun, the hearts were bevels to give them highlights. It took me a while to decide what sort of card I could make as there were many signatures to put on it. I tend not to worry about how to do things cost I know the idea will come to me when its ready. The hard part is how am I going to get from a pile of paper, card and the computer to the finished product I had in my head.
I also quickly made a reply card for a golden wedding anniversay which we have been invited to. Although it is Gold, the flower is violet and I love purple so that was all the excuse I needed.
Also have made a birthday card for a special lady but can't post pictures of that yet. Will do soon.
I think that will do for today. I have enough of a long string of pictures. I will sort out this problem. Determination thats what its called.
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See through boots with fancy socks!!!!!!!!!
