New Venue ,New Baby,New Card Tecniques

Hi All,sorry for not posting sooner,but have had a what seems like a never ending week or so.

I have been saying to myself I must get a new post ,but you know how it is in  a family things never quite work out the way in which you would like them to.

We have all had colds,viruses and the dreaded lergy and once gets it it seems to go around everyone.

Remember I told you all about Sue, and her new edition(no,not Sues baby) but her daughters was due at Christmas time.Well Sues new granddaughter arrived well and safe, and I am sure you can tell that Sue(above) looks over the mooon with her new grand daughter.

Congratulations to Sues daughter and her partner, enjoy each precious moment with her ,as time passes by so quickly.

I have been crafting and trying out new papercaft tecniques ,I just love tecnique crafting.My partner doesn't as my Dining table is never really a dining table with all my bits and pieces.

I have been having a go at napking paper toppers and backgrounds.This is a tecnique using paper napkins and adhering them to card.The magic formula is using cling film ,yes, cling film.

In the next couple of weeks I will be showing people at our craft group in Lowton Warrington exactly how to do this.So if you fancy seeeing this why not pop along and join us.

Below are the cards thelmselves with the one napkin being the poppies, and the other the butterfly which I have 3D, plus the blue flower backing is also another paper napkin.

The napkins give an almost fabric feel to the card, and with the other textures in the card I was really pleased with the overall look.

 

Our Crafy group has now gots its own venue.

We will be meeting up on Wednesday the 13 Feb 2013 at the Lowton community centre ,Church lane Lowton ,Warrington (same row as the Co Op shop).

The venue has great parking and full disabled facilities.(please see up to date meetup details on right handside corner of the home page)

Before I go may I say a big thank to Laura Owen who has just started her wedding stationery business, and who is also coming along to the group.She will be showing us all how to use spectrum noir alchol based colouring pens,which I am looking forward to. 

This demonstration will take place on the 13th February 2013.

Also Laura thank you for our new facebook group page called craftyfriendslowton ,please come over and say hello it is a bit lonely at the moment with just the couple of us.

Well my friends off to bed now as I am so tired,but will be back later this week .

Nighty night

Jackie x

First Week Of Jan 1013 ,Some Of My Craft Projects

Hi Everyone (Jackie here)

Can you believe it ,we have nearly got through the first week January 2013.Doesn't time fly by,especially when you are having fun hee hee .......
Hope the new year has got off to a good start for all my blogg friends, and of course my real life friends.

Has anybody made a new years resolution ?
Perhaps you have, and you have alreay broken it.

I gave up many years ago having new years resolution as it put so much pressure on me ,especially as I had such high expectations of myself.I suppose I am a bit of a perfectionist at things, and if I never achieve the high standards I put on myself it gets me very frustrated, and I think I am a failure.
However since not having set myself such resolutions I seem to be able to get through Christmas and new year a little easier as I know I will not be making high expections every new year.

If you have made one, and you are sticking to it well done to you  all,I admire you all greatly.

Isn't it so dull and grey at the moment(in the uk) it really dampens my mood.Even when you are out shopping no one seems to be smiling ,they all look so glum and down in the dumps.You can probably tell ,I am not a winter person at all, and suffer from SAD .I am looking forward to spring as the days are lighter and maybe a little less grey and miserable.

Rain, Rain go away, was what I was thinking this morning.My little westy dog just doesn't seemed bothered by the rain ,he loves sitting in the garden watching all the birds and cats go by,only when I rattle the fridge door does he bolt in as he thinks it is a treat for him.Below is westy on the prowl when we had to have the drains sorted out in our garden last year.It had been raining non stop ,but he thought it was great fun and even tried to do a bit a digging himself.
HONESTLY does he think he is a dog or something mmmmmm..........?

 

 Well I have been crafting over Christmas and new year, and have been teaching myself new tecniques for paper crafting as well as little bits for many of my other crafty addictions.

I am trying to organise myself for the start of our NEW CRAFT GROUP which we will be starting very shortly.My friend Sue is still helping out her daughter who has just had a new baby baby on Christmas day so it will be good to chat to her again as I have missed our crafty meetups.We had been meeting up in her house for a number of months ,but now we hopefully have out new crafty venue sorted out. which we can all enjoy at the end of January 2013 .

(We now have a new venue sorted out for our meetups in Warrington /Wigan please see full details on top right hand corner of the home page)

Here are a couple of my handcrafted projects ,I did have a lot of photies,but we bought a new computer and I thought I had backed them all up.Alas I have not seemed to have done it correctly and cannot find them anywhere so will have to start all over once again.

I made this cake stand myself, drilled the holes into vintage plates and saucers and attached vintage style supports and handle in a gold colour.

Below is the same cake stand with various handcrafted decorations displayed on it.

The TOP TIER of the cakestand has handcrafted flowers which I made from a magazine that had some free papers with it.I used various colours and some have fancy edges and others have centre beads.They do look really cute on the top of the stand and everyone who comes to my house always has to pick them up as they are wondering how they are made.

The SECOND TIER are gorgeous cup cakes, but not the eating sort.They are scented bathbombs in the shapes of cakes ,they do look so life like you just have to pick them up to have a smell.They where bought for me as a Christmas present and where from a lady who makes handcrafted soaps.

The BOTTOM TIER  has four boxes made by myself in true origami style with no gluing just just folding and creasing.The toppers are little rosettes made on my hougie board and finished of with various embellishements from ribbon bows,stamping and glazing to sprinkled centre beads.

BELOW are pictures of the boxes and flowers in close up .

 

Do hope you have enjoyed a little glimpse of my handcrafted items that I make,they are not hard to make and using up scraps of crad and paper is the perfect way to make great embellishments like these.

I would Love To Hear Your COMMENTS about my blog so why not leave me a message so I don't feel as though I am the only one in blog world .

I will be DEMONSTRATING these type of items at our craft group so if you fancy seeing how they are made why not join us for an afternoon of crafty fun.

If you live in the WIGAN/WARRINGTON or surrounding areas why not join us on a Wednesday morning for a couple of hopurs crafting and socialising.(see where we meet on the top tight hand side of the home page)

If you need any further info just contact us at jackeanne@yahoo.co.uk or missdefied17@yahoo.co.uk and we will always get back to you.

Will chat again soon so nighty night everyone.