I attended the fabulous Foamiran Festival

Organised hosted by Agnies Barska from 14 Craft Bar

with the help of her wonderful family and brilliant tutors

if you didn't attend and love foamiran, 

you really must check dates for next year

 and put it in your Diary

Entrance was €4.00

with classes ranging from €35.00 

the whole Event was in support of Barretstown

there was fabulous demonstrations

and small mini make and take classes for €10.00

with a huge craft shop

and yes I spent loads.

Thank you to Patricia O Leary and Karen O Reilly for lifts, 

their company, and loads of laughs.

I really enjoyed my weekend off

I Attended the Class on Sunday Morning 
with Emilia Sieradzan (Lady E )

You can find her, and details for 14 Craft Bar 

and Foamiran Ireland on Facebook.

I decided to make Cards 

with the flowers I made instead of the Exploding box.

and to top it all

I won 4 spot prizes

Thank you to everyone involved 

for a fabulous crafty weekend

  

Breakfast at Tiffany's Loaded Envelope

Another Loaded Envelope to share 

this one has a Breakfast at Tiffany's Theme

so I went with a Blue colour scheme and use some

 Audrey Hepburn images to decorate.

Paper Handbag filled with goodies

I put a pearl necklace and blue scarf inside the handbag as a gift

and filled the box with  Handmade Tags

Handmade flowers, Stick pins, Die cuts with a tea theme,

Matching backgrounds, and quotes so the recipient can make the  tags into cards. 

The sides and base of the handbag have a concertina design,

so that the handbag expands

The Handle was made from a pleated Ribbon plait 

Some of the goodies 

Handmade paper and lace flowers

Stick pins

Handmade Lace Flower

A Decorate tag

A flower Arrangement for a card or box.

3 more handmade Tags

 Handmade Tag

This one is on the way to

Wendy Everall

in the Uk

August Cards

Wedding card 8 by 8 inch

Pink and Gold colour scheme. with decoupage roses 

Single gate fold 8 by 8 inch Anniversary

in Burgundy, Cream and Gold

overview of Anniversary card

All white Wedding 8 by 8 inch 

Anniversary card 8 by 8 inch

in Chocolate, Gold  and Cream

August open day cards

The cards below were Demonstrated at my open day

On the 8th of August

I auctioned them off on Facebook

and raised 30.00 for the Five Loaves

many thanks Mary Delaney the winning bid.

Lilac and mint green Decoupage.

Image from Crafts u print

Pink and White card

image from crafts u print, I didn't add the decoupage layers,

so I made a lace rosette and added 

some foamiran flowers I had made earlier

Anniversary Card\this is an old topper from Kanban,

the last one from a Charleston Set

and finished with lace leaves and handmade foamiran flowers\

and a double white and pink bow.

8 by 8 inch single gate fold

Decoupage topper from crafts u print

Cream and gold

Decoupage from Crafts u print

Chocolate cream and gold

image from crafts u print

White and gold

image from crafts u print.

I didn't add inserts or greeting to these Cards

so that the winner could personalise then

July Cards

July 

New Baby Cards

Single Gate Fold.

Christening card for Girl

inside view

Back of Card

White Silver and Gold

Baby Christening

I have used the prettiest gathered Embroidered Anglaise Lace

with Ribbon eyelets at the top, 

which has Silver Glitter ribbon threaded through it.

New Baby Boy Card

Decoupaged Teddy

Finished with pretty Cream Guipure lace

With a band of  flat Embroidered Anglaise Lace

with Ribbon eyelets at the top,  

which I threaded narrow blue satin ribbon through

Side view of decoupage.

New Baby Girl Card

With  Vintage baby girl topper, layered on a doily 

and surrounded with pink gems 

With satin and gingham ribbon band,

with pretty pink guipure lace.

Finished with Satin bow, and 

Pretty flowers and leaves from I Am Roses.

Another Loaded Envelope to share

This one is a private swap with Becky Keenagan 

Which is a vintage theme

I made a selection of toppers, and filled the envelope with handmade paper flowers, stick pins, miniature bouquets, pretty images and matting layers, with Matching backgrounds, and added little bags of lace and embellishments.

Envelope filled with lots of goodies

and the handmade toppers, flowers and bouquets

Flower and Bouquets

Vintage tag

3 more tags

This one has a handmade bird bath

Vintage tag

Packs of Ready to use Images, Vintage Lace,  

pretty embellishments, and 3 stick pins

Few more toppers, matching paper, stamps and pearls

inside view of box

Box

back of box

you could add extra pockets to the back

to hold more goodies