The Golden Wedding Celebrations !!

WOW !!! What A trip! Sorry I haven`t been on to post anything but I have just returned from my trip back from the UK. We decided to surprise my parents on their Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration. It was fantastic, I think I can safely say everyone had a great time especially my parents. (After they got over the shock of us turning up from Canada!!) We arrived a couple of days before the party and hid out at my sisters while we prepared events for the evening celebrations. My parents thought they were just celebrating at lunchtime but we had other ideas !! I have posted afew photographs to tell the story in pictures.

This is Jessica and TJ, at 11.00pm on Friday night making the last of the cheese straws for the evening buffet on Saturday. I know htey are called straws but as you can see in the picture we had different shapes, namely hearts and 50`s. Ooooh they did taste good.

Before we went to the luncheon we managed to get Mum and Dad out of their house early so we could go and decorate it outside and in. Here is the banner we had made to put on the garage so everybody on the street could see what the celebrations were !!

We decorated the lounge !

In the Hallway !

This was one of the cakes we had made for them (the other one was at the luncheon)

This was when my Mum saw us for the first time, giving Jessica a big hug !

This was me with my two sisters either side.


The Happy Couple cutting the cake.

This was the production line to make the sandwiches for the buffet !!

And of course we had to have a full family picture as its very rare these days that we are together like this. What a motly looking crew !!!

Well thats it for now, I am going to get caught up with the household chores and then possibly find a sketch challenge !! Watch this space !

Thank you for looking.

Yvonne

OCCC Challenge - Crazy for Hearts !

I think I am going through a Black and White phase. Everything I`m turning out at the minute are in those colours. But I just love them. I think its so classy and chic. This is my card for the OCCC Challenge - Crazy for Hearts ! I bought the new Zebra stamp at the weekend and was determined to use him in this challenge. I found the perfect sentiment in the Verve stamps from last year, Wild Thing.

Receipe: Card Stock: Basic Black, Whisper White CS, Unknown DP, Stamps:Verve Visual, Zebra by The Artful Stamper, Ink: Real Red, Accessories: Nestabilties, Detail Black Embossing Powder, Scallop Edge Punch, Candy Dots.

I hope you like him. Thank you for taking the time to look. All comments are most welcome.

Have a great day!

Yvonne

Cards / Notelet Gift Set.

Hello and Happy Saturday !

Today I wanted to share with you a card/notelet gift set which I made for my friends birthday. I was given the idea by Laurie. She had details on her blog (Just Give Me Stamps) about a Love Note set. I was thrilled at how it turned out and my friend was over the moon with it !

I started off with a piece of card stock 7" x 12" and scored it with my Scor-Pal at 5 and 7 inches. (boy does that thing make life easy !) For the spine the piece of DP is 4" x 7" and scored at 1 and 3 inches. I then edged both sides of the spine paper.

I stamped the Rose from the "A Year of Flowers" stamp set; I love the images in this set and it was perfect for this project. You can purchase this at Gina K. I coloured it in with my Copic markers. (Pink means Friendship) Then layered it onto card stock cut using Nestabilities. This is the back of the holder. The saying is from the Say It with Flowers.

For the inside I cut two panels of DP 6.5" x 4.75". The pockets on the front are made from a piece of paper 6.5" x 5.5". I scored around the edges at 1". I used the Doyle edge punch to decorate the top of the pocket and a ribbon to finish them off. For this project I used terrific tape, that way I had no difficulty in making things stick down.

I made a selection of cards for the inside again using the Year of Flowers stamp set. I like the way the flowers are "hanging" over the edge. This idea came from Melanie`s blog, who actually designed the stamps. If you click on the link on the side bar it will take you straight to her blog - well worth the visit.

One finished Card/Notelet Gift Set !

I hope you enjoyed looking, why don`t you try one yourself and be amazed at how easy it is. This makes a lovely gift. Who isn`t always looking for cards to send to people!

Have a great day!

Yvonne

Golden Wedding Favour Boxes

Hello and happy Monday!

Well I have been beavering away most of the weekend to make these Favour boxes for my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary in February. Today I have boxed them all up ready to be shipped back to the UK for the celebrations. Through a thread on SCS I found out about these Sour Cream Containers. I`m not sure why they are called this unless this is how your sour cream comes over here !? Anyway I searched for the tutorial, which again can be found under the resource section on SCS - thanks to Beate. I was amazed how easy they were to make and what fabulous results. What do you think?

I made the medallions with the Just Rite Mono Stamper and used detailed gold embossing powder, especially because the lettering is so small. The scalloped round is cut using the Nestabilities. I added alittle ribbon for something alittle extra.

Here is the box ready to be shipped.

My parents are avid cyclists so on the bottom of each box I stamped a pair of cyclists. I bought this stamp ages ago and always put in on their envelopes whenever I send them anything.

Thank you for looking, hope you have a great day!

Yvonne

Happy New Year to you all. I can`t believe how long its been since my last post but I do have the excuse of Christmas and going away ! I thought I would start on my Valentine cards in between my other projects I have on the go. I will share those with you alittle later. My first card I made for the OCC challenge. Unfortunately I forgot to put alittle embellishment on the bottom right hand corner of the LOVE word. Oh well better luck next time !

I didn`t realise until after finishing this card that there is no stamping on this card at all ! The letters are made with an alphabet set for my Cuttlebug and the heart is a Nestability. I added some dew drops on the bottom to give it alittle something.

Receipe: Card Stock; SU Naturals Cream, Bazzill Cameo, My Minds Eye DP, Bravo Burgundy. Accessories; Nestabilities, cuttlebug alphabet, scallop edge punch, dew drops.

Thanks for looking, have a great day.

Yvonne

Baby Book

This is my first `bind it all` book and I am really pleased with it. One of my Mum`s friends has just had a little girl so I thought I would send a small gift to welcome her into the world. I can`t believe how easy it was to make.

I used chipboard for the front and back covers to give it alittle more stability and then used back to back card stock for the inner pages. Unfortunately you can`t see very easily the name and date of birth around the pram. I can assure you that its far easier in `the flesh` so to speak.

I cut the letters and numbers out using my Squeeze tool and my Nestabilites to mat some of the photograph areas. Here are one or two of the inner pages. The stickers are from K & Co., really cute. I love these giraffs, they are stamped from the `Just so Hippy set` and Accecessories by Melanie Muenchinger. There are so many different stamps in the sets and all very cute. You can buy these sets from Gina K.

Receipe:

Card Stock: Bazzil Textured
Paper: Imaginisce Baby Powder - Rosy Cheeks, Baby`s Breath, Cutie Patootie.
Ink: Lamp Black, Pink Markers
Accessories: Ribbon, Nestabilities, Squeeze Tool, Stickers from K & Co., Punch, Buttons.


Thank you for looking, have a great day.

Yvonne

Gosh its cold today we have snow on the ground and I think its here to stay. Looking at the weather forecast at least for the next week or two and temperatures in the minus. I shovelled the drive this morning.......it was freezing, literally !!


At last I have a minute to myself. Today is my daughter`s birthday party so its been a mad dash to get everything organised. They are quite happy at the moment watching a movie before the food is served.
Here is another of my Christmas cards. I used the burnished velvet technique on this card to create the snowmen disks. I realise that it isn`t really in the christmas colours but I when I made this card I had just aquired the chocolate satin ribon and was desperate to use it !!

Card:

Card Stock; Bazzil bling
Accessories; Cuttlebug alphabet, corner punch, glitter, snowman punch, chocolate satin ribbon.

Thank you for looking, take care.

Yvonne