A few cards I made this week

Images from Crafts U Print

New Baby card for Twin Boy and Girl

Anniversary Decoupage 

Anniversary

This lovely card was a swap

from Angela Murphy

from Card Swap Ireland 

With a beautiful Die cuts

and handmade flowers

We have a  Christmas Blue White and silver theme this month

Carlow Christmas Workshop Cards

Winter Wonderland

In White blue and silver

Finished with Paper and Plastic snowflake behind image

Die-cut Christmas Trees

Gathered Lace and Muslin. 

Tiny gold bells Paper Poinsettias and snowballs.

Let it snow

Silver Blue and white card

With a plastic snowflake behind image

Holly Leaves White poinsettias, and silver berries

With a Silver Glittered Wooden Let it snow  Embellishment.

This one is my favourite I Just love the colours

The pretty topper is by Janet K Designs  on Pinterest

We ct the tag out, then matted and layered it onto burgundy, cream and gold 

allowing a 3mm shadow border each layer

It was finished with ribbon, lace and bow.

Artificial pine, ivy, burgundy poinsettias from I am Roses

with gold berries

The silver pine cone charms and tassels  are from Aliexpress 

The Legend of the Holly

Single gate fold card

Finished wit holly and berries

Some Fashion cards

I made recently

Vintage lady with poppy panels

Cream and Gold  Vintage lady with lace and Feathers

her collar was finished with pearl detail and tiny fancy button

Peach and Navy

Love this colour scheme.

Pink and Black

Very on trend for this years fashion colour scheme

Card Art

Fun night cards

We met back at the club night after a summer break 

At our new Venue

Kilcoole Community Centre

Pretty Cream C5 Scalloped Card

in a shabby Chic Style

with Pretty Lace and ribbon detail

and tiny paper roses

Lilac and mint colour scheme

on the pretty 8 inch Sq card

using multi layers and toppers

Christmas Card Making 
A few new designs to share

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

8 by 8 inch card with festive bauble embellishments

finished with Artificial pine, ribbon and poinsettia

Special Card for a couple

8 y 8 inch card

Which I padded with wadding, 

and covered in Satin and lace fabric

finished with Ribbon trim

and ivy leaves and large poinsettia

Side view to see the Padding

Christmas Rose Decoupaged

on a 8 by 8 inch card

with matted and layered panel

Frosty and bright in Red and White

Background has be glitter and artificial snow added to background edge

Plastic snowflakes in different sizes tucked under the topper.

with lace and tiny snowballs across the lace 

Finished with a handmade paper poinsettia

Close up of handmade paper poinsettia

Snowman pleated pinwheel decoration on a matching card

Pleated pinwheel decorations is held in place with a magnet.

The main card matched the decoration 

so that when you take the decoration off to hang on your tree

the card is still complete

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