SECRET GARDEN

Hi Everybody,

I am reposting this page as this is one of the pages I lost when a gremlin entered my blog, and I lost all my photos relating to each post and some of the posts I am not able to redo as I have given the cards and pages away as gifts, so I have had to delete the corresponding posts, and you would not beleive it but two weeks ago I cleaned up my photographic programme and thought I would get rid of most of the pictures relating to my posts as they were safe on my blog, well that doesn't work. He also made a dreadful mess of my side bar, but I have fixed that up thank heavens.

Bo Bunny Country Garden Paper is the basis for this page. I cut a circle and placed it on the page, then I placed some vintage lace at the bottom of the circle. I had the flourishes in the corner painted maroon, and had maroon flowers, but when I placed them on the page it just did not look right. So back to the drawing board and I painted them in Pumpkin Ink as it matched in nicely. The words Secret Garden were cut from my Cricut Cartridge "Plantin Schoolbook".

The flowers were punched out, and then I proceeded to curl the leaves with a quilling tool. I then added some jewels, and a jewel flourish. I then stamped the saying "Wings of a
Butterfly" from one of my Kaszazz Stamps. I stamped a few butterflies on the page with Pumpkin Ink. Lastly I added two butterflies which I covered with Fairy Dust and also a Bo Bunny Sticker "Beauty Blooms from Within".

Maybe in future I will backup my blog.

TO MY BLOG FOLLOWERS

Hi Everyone,

Towards the end of this week, I signed into my blog and felt sick in my stomach, every single photo on my blog was gone and replaced with a grey circle with a white line through it. I had no idea what had gone wrong and went to bed that night hoping when I woke up in the morning all would be well and my photos would be back, but alas not so. A few years work gone!!!! Did some research and found out what had happened and the only way I can fix it is to go into each post and reload the photos relating to each post. I have deleted quiet a few posts and am in the process of cleaning up my blog adding a few new things in my sidebar, and of course reloading all the photos. I noticed today that all my followers received a barage of posts from me, these are my updated ones. I can't stop blogger from resending them, but will delete a lot of my posts to avoid this. In the next couple of days I have seven posts that I will redo, so you will receive these seven old posts through from me. Please bear with me as I fix the problem.

Hopefully will be back to normal next week.

DOILY CARD

Hi Everyone,

Card for today is simple but I think effective.

For this card I used White and Pale Blue cardstock. I cut a piece of white cardstock 11" x 5 1/2", scored the card in the middle and stamped a writing stamp of mine in two places one at the top and one at the bottom and while I had my stamps out, stamped "Just For You" on a piece of white cardstock. I then went around the white pieces of cardstock with a pale blue ink. I then cut with my Circle Dies  2 x circles and adhered them to the front of the card. To make the flower cut two doily dies I used Cherry Lynn " Italian Flourish" and then cut each die in half, then fold each piece and join  each piece together with glossy accents, to make four petals. Then adhere the four pieces on the front of the card to make the flower. I added a small flower to hide the centre, you could use a large jewel or brad. Blue Pearls were added to the front and "Just for You" placed on the front with magic mount behind it to give it a raised look. Hope you enjoy this card and have a go at making it. It is very pretty. 

ORIENTAL CARD

Hi Everyone,

 Well today I wanted to use up the scraps of paper I had left over from a scrapbooking project I have done using Graphic 45 "Birdsong" paper. This paper is beautiful to work with and lends itself easily to making a great oriental style card.

This card is 11' X 5 1/2", this is the size card I prefer to work with. I suppose being a scrapbooker it gives me a larger area to play around with.  Once I had the background finished I adhered it to the base of the card. I then proceeded to add a small oriental fan cut out on my Cricut from the "Pagoda" cartridge, and added a couple of flowers and some pearls.

I decided to use up most of the scraps and decorated the inside of the card with some matching paper from the front design. I then stamped one of my lovely Kaszazz birthday stamps to finish the card off.

Voila the card was finished. Hope you enjoyed my card for today.

TOGETHER

Today I am featuring a very simple page I have done for the album, the photo being of myself and my two sons. The paper I have used is from the Websters Range - Family Traditions. These are fun papers to use as they have a very homely feel about them. I have used matching Bazill Cardstock behind the photo, all the papers are from the Family Traditions range, the doilies behind the photo are cut from a co-ordinating piece of paper. Flowers and leaves are of course from Prima (my favourite flowers). I have added some Gingham  heart lace and some jewels from Zva and a beautiful cameo with a bird sitting on a branch. A chipboard word "Timeless", and a nice saying cut from the Websters Paper " Together is our favourite place to be".

Above is a photo of the cameo. It is so cute and matches the page perfectly.   Bye for now.