Happy Anniversary Darnell (and Mister!)

Hellooo ......

I can't believe that it's a week since I've blogged - shame on me!!  I'm not quite sure where that week's gone but hey ho ........ it's gone. More about what I've been doing later.

I want to wish one of my blog pals a Happy Anniversary.  The lovely Darnell and her Mister have been married 43 years today - congratulations to you both!
This is for you .......

Darnell has been one of my followers since virtually the beginning of my blog, she comments on nearly every post I think.  It's always a pleasure to here from her, and I love to read her blog.  There's so much inspiration on there, and lots of laughs.  Grab a cuppa, take a seat and use the link above to see what I mean.

In honour of Darnell's anniversary, another of the fabulous bloggers that I've come across, Ardyth, is hosting a really fun 'challenge' over on her blog- MASKerade.  She wants us to post our wedding photos.

Here's me and my Mister (Stephen), nearly 25 years ago (July 30th  - I think!)

(That's my big brother sneaking into the background there)

Speaking of the other half, I'd better get dinner on, he'll be home soon.  I'll be back later though with some sneaky peeks at what I've been up to this week.


Thanks for popping by.


Cheerio for now

Linda

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What a busy week I've had

Hi everyone,
Happy Friday!  This week has flown by, but it's been fun.
I'm still busy in the old craft room, at least the 'To Do' list is going down (sort of) - yeah!
There's a project on there that's been on for weeks, I just haven't had the time to do anything about it.  It's a Memory Box for my Grandson Alex. 
My father-in-law made the box last time we were across in the UK and up until yesterday I'd only had time to put a layer of primer on there.  Now it's had a coat of colour - whoo hoo!  I'm trying to get it finished before we go across again - November 7th.  I'll keep you posted!

In the meantime, here's something I did a couple of weeks ago.  I think I'm safe posting it today - the lady who it was for should have seen it by now.

It's an anniversary card for the wife of someone who hubby works with.  It was their 1st Wedding Anniversary on the 14th (I think) and Baard asked me to make a special card for him to give to his wife. I even made a matching box with Gift Tag for it to go in.

When I started out I was going to keep it quite simple, but I think I got a little carried away. There's a bit of everything on here .....

As you can see, my 'Fran-tage' phase is still in full swing.  I used the Shabby Blue on the corners of the background paper and the black card.  Everything was distressed around the edges using the Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, and then inked with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink to soften it and give an aged look.

There's some embossing on there (Birds and Swirls embossing folder).  There's some die-cutting (Weathered Clock, and the Tree Branch).  Rubber Stamping - the hearts were done with a Stampendous stamp and heat embossed in white, the sentiment is from Penny Black.
I used punches for the birds and the blossoms on the branch, and I added ribbon and gems to finish it all off.  It was pretty when I'd done - I was pleased with it anyway.
It's always a bit of a worry when I'm making something for someone else, especially when I don't know them that well.  But, I know that Baard likes it, I just hope Alena, his wife, thinks the same.

As it's Friday, it's my day for posting on the Creative Studios Blog.  I had fun yesterday finishing off this week's project.  I've gone all frosty looking this time, same stamp sets as last week but a competely different look.  I can let you have a sneaky peek, but if you want to see it in full, and read how it was done you'll have to pop over to the Design Team Blog later and have a look.

Phew! I think that's me done for this week.  Not sure what we have planned for the weekend.  Stephen's back from his London trip this evening, so no doubt the washing machine will be going on a some point - I get all the good jobs!
If I do get time over the weekend  I'm hoping to do my Timmie Tag.  I've made a start.  I've coloured my glitter .......

....... it was white when I started!
I had a bit of an 'OMG! I've done it wrong' moment when it all started to clog, but it all came good in the end - Tim said it would!
Full instructions are on Tim's Blog post for this month's tag.  What a fabulous technique, I'm now looking at all my alcohol inks and thinking what fab colours of glitter I can make.  I'll be using this one again!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.  Thank you so much for sticking with me this week, all your fab comments really do mean a lot.  I always look forward to hearing from you.
I'm off to do my DT post, then it's back to the old craft room.  It's a hard life! 

Bye for now

Linda

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Gold!!

Hi there,
I really should have gone back to bed this morning.  I don't like Friday the 13th at the best of times, but today just isn't going well at all, but that's another story! 
I managed to throw a cup of tea all over my craft desk - trying to be clever, carrying too much and doing what we women are suppose to be good at - multi-tasking!  Luckily there was nothing on the desk, but the tea splashed everywhere.  So before I could even start this mornings task I had to clean up - great!

As usual, I'm on the last minute with a Blog Challenge entry. I really am going to have to stop this, I hate rushing things. And in true Friday the 13th fashion it's taken me 3 attempts to get something that I'm reasonably happy with.

Eventually I've manage to do my entry for this week's challenge over at Less is More .
It's a colour challenge this week, and as the title of this post says, the colour is..........
                            GOLD

I don't really use a lot of gold, except for Christmas cards I suppose, but here it is .......

I've used my favourite Stampin Up! flourish from the gorgeous 'Everything Eleanor' set, and stamped it directly onto the card using Versafine Vintage Sepia ink.
The little gold hearts are, get ready for this ......... stickers!!!  Yes, that's correct.  I've actually used a peel off (OMG! shock! horror!).  They're double-sided adhesive stickers that I have had FOREVER and I've covered them with gold gilding flakes.  I think they look quite pretty.   I used one the other day on my bank card - strange thing to do I know but I have 2 different accounts with the same bank, and both cards are exactly the same.  So that I can tell which one is my current account, I havde to mark the card in some way.

Anyway, back to my challenge entry.  I've used tiny gems to 'hang' the hearts and the sentiment on the bottom is from a Penny Black clear set of stamps, not sure what it's called, again something I've had in my stash for ages.  The 'Happy Anniversary' is from Craftwork Cards, and that is mat onto a piece of gold mirri card. 
I'll also own up ...... (I said I wasn't having a good day) ....  the tiny heart at the top of the flourish was a last minute add on.  I'd just finished the card when I noticed I'd somehow managed to get ink on it - Argghhhh!
I really didn't want to start all over again, on a fourth attempt so, hence the extra heart.  I think it looks ok.  You problably wouldn't have guessed if I hadn't mentioned it would you. Ah well!

That's it for me today.  Off for some lunch then I'm going back in the craft room to play.  Not sure what with yet but I'm sure I'll find something.

Have a great weekend whatever you're up to, and thanks for popping by.

See you soon

Linda

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