Feb 28, 2014

Here are the projects we will make Tuesday morning
I still have 2 places available


Creative Card Making Class
Tuesday 4th of March
time 10.30 to 2.30
please email me to book a place HERE
Exploding Box Card

Beautiful surprise when you open it out.
will share more photo's Tuesday.

Pop-out Card

We will decorate the inside with die-cuts and sentiments.
this card would suit Wedding/ Anniversary or birthday


Feb 26, 2014

This is the project I am working on today, 
it's for my beautiful Great Niece Emmalyn
who arrive last week.
her bedroom is cream and taupe colours.
with Winnie the pooh

I've still no ink
so the last two panels will have a winnie the Pooh on them.




Will share her card, once the ink arrives.

Hi Everyone
I was hoping to do a workshop in Kilkenny in March, but dates are clashing, and I have the weekend break in April so won't get to Kilkenny until May now,
So I will do a small Creative Card Making workshop in 
Kilcoole in March instead.
I have no theme picked, so I am open to suggestions,
On Sunday 23rd of March
Time 10.30 to 5.30
with Sunday lunch
Please email me to book a place.
Many thanks Yvonne 
places limited to 10
7 places remaining


Brona would love to come if anyone can give her a lift,
Sunday's Cards









Feb 18, 2014




Birthday card for Granny

Valentine Card

   Sunday's Cards

Handmade flower Cards
1st Layer Cream embroidery anglaise
2nd layer cream flat lace
with a lovely pearl rose button
Vintage postcard background with mini vintage postcards.
Swirls and leaves 


Main Card. The brown panel is wrapped with lace, and stuck to a gold layer,
this handmade flower has 4 layers
Cream Cotton lace
Brown lace
Cream flat lace
and coffee flat lace
with a peach and coffee pearl center, with glass bead centre




This handmade flower has a 
cream cotton lace
Cream embroidery anglaise
and flat cream lace
with a pearl and glass bead centre 
a simple background in cream and brown with a paper doily

This rosette style flower has
 non woven fabric layers, mixed with lilac organza ribbon ruffle. 
with a lilac organza ribbon rose in the centre


This handmade Bouquet
is made from scratch, with organza ribbon.
it has 3 bud flowers and 1 fliller blossom 
and a larger ribbon rose at the base.
the leaves are all hand stitched and are made from wired organza ribbon.
with tiny bead clusters









All beads and ribbons from beads4crafts.co.uk
all lace from Bluebellgirlcrafts.co.uk 





Feb 10, 2014

Hello Everyone
Our first card Making Weekend is filling up nicely
22 of us are booked in and confirmed so far.
there are still a few places available
Full details are on a separate page as there is so much information
check it out HERE  

Date Friday afternoon 11th, Saturday all day the 12th and Sunday morning the 13th of April.
at the Wilton Hotel, Bray, Co Wicklow
We are having 3 classes
2 classes on Saturday (limited places available)
and 1 class on Sunday morning  (places still available)

Staying Over
2 night B@B for 1 person in a double room €120.00
2 night B@B for 2 people sharing in a twinroom €89.00 each

If you want more information please email me.
Many Thanks
Yvonne

Here are the cards we made yesterday using some of the
 handmade flowers we made in the morning.
This flower has 3 layers of lace
1st layer, beautiful pink floral lace.
2nd layer crisp white cotton lace
3rd layer pink lace.
with a pink pearl and diamond centre Jewell center 


This one has 3 layers of lace in cream, 
chocolate and taupe colour scheme 
with a center made from gold bead caps, 
coffee and chocolate beads with a  
 diamond centre

This one has  a triple cream non woven fabric
 and triple layer of black non woven fabric.
A Satin edge organza ribbon ruffle, with a taupe lace top layer, 
and a beautiful cream floral butter centre.

This on has 2 tiny white guipure lace base layer,
 with a pretty white lace top layer, and a tiny blue blossom in the centre.

This one took quiet a while as all the leaves and flowers are made by hand.

It has, 2 bud flowers, 1 small blossom, 1 medium size blossom and a large blossom ruffle flower.
all the leaves are handmade with organza ribbon.
and tiny pearl clusters,

The girls found this quiet hard, but were delighted with the finished project.

Poppy made from Non woven fabric with organza leaves

and we also made a miniature wedding dress



Feb 7, 2014

At the fun night, I asked the ladies to save me all the wadding trimmings, for a project I had in mind, which needed stuffing.

Well here it is
A Pin Cushion


The little flower vase, had a nasty chip on the rim, 
but it was so pretty, I didn't trow it away,
so here it is up-cycled.
It took about 5 minuets to make.
I stuffed the vase with the wadding, then made a ball of wadding to sit on top, over-layed a piece of satin with a piece of lace, and pulled it over the top, pulling it tightly with some florist wire,
added a ruffled lace collar, and a ribbon trim to hide the wire, and finished with a organza bow, and a tiny cameo.

What do you think ?

Feb 6, 2014

Extra items needed for
 Creative Floral Embellishment Workshops

Please can you bring the following items with you
thread 6 needles with white or cream thread, if you stick one needle into a piece of card and wrap the thread around the card it will stop them tangling. bring the spool of thread with you, just in case you need extra.
an A4 box to hold your flowers, and some small boxes or pots or your tidy tray, to hold the beads in,
your usual card making glues, foam pads and tapes, 1 good scissors for cutting ribbon,  a paper scissors, and a small wire cutters,
everything has already been cut, but you might want to trim. so bring your small trimmer,

as we are creating the flowers from scratch, we will spend the morning making flowers, and turn them into cards in the afternoon.
please get in touch if you need any help.
many thanks Yvonne 

Feb 5, 2014

Thanks Everyone for a fantastic Fun night last night
delighted you all enjoyed the Valentine card we made.
have a few photos to share later.
Yvonne xx