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.

Nearly Vintage Craft Magazine (2004 Practical Crafts Mag)

Hello Friends new and old   (Jackie here)

Thought I would give you all a bit of a chuckle ,especially as it is nearly a new year.As you may have read I have been crafting for many years now, and have been seriously papercrafting from abput 2004.

This was the year that I thought I would have a go at stamping and heat embossing.Well how things have moved on since then,I used to heat set my powders over the gas ring as I had never heard of heat guns at that point.Where they around then ,I would love to know?

I suppose I am a bit of a hoarder,and have kept the very first craft magazine that I bought in 2004 ,all in tact even with the FREEBIE still attached to the front. I know I am a bit sad ,but I always keep anything to do with crafting.
Below is the magazine itself ,not too sure when it stopped being printed will have to do some research on that one in the next couple of days.

It was the November edition so I suppose I must have bought it for ideas,I am always on the look out for new ideas.How styles have changed from the decorations themselves to the style and the layout of the magazine.

I love the paper cut trees ,I know paper cuts are very much back in at the moment for all special occasions and are very popular for wedding invites.This would have been all done by hand,now all the new cutting cutting machines could do this in a minute or two.How times have moved on in eight years.

Hope you have enjoyed a little bit of nostalgia from the crafting world.I thought this was appropriate with the new year not many hours away.I wonder what the new year holds for the crafting year of 2013.
What do you think will be trendy ,I would love to hear your ideas so why not leave them in the comments box for us to have a look at.

TTFN
And all the very best for 2013 and look forward to chatting soon.

Off to have a go at one of my new cricut cartridges that I got for Christmas ,will post my makes once they are completed.

Sues New Baby(So Baby Crafts Are Needed.)

Hi All  (Jackie Here)

Where you all a bit curious about Sues news? Well the wonderful news is that Sue has a new baby in her family, and NO it is not Sue who has had the baby (I know Sue will be chuckling at this  thought heeee.......)

DAA DAA Sue is now a proud Nannie ,hope that it is what she said she was going to be called ,I am sure Sue will correct me If I am wrong.Sues daughter had a baby girl on Christmas day and weighed in just over 7 lbs sorry to too sure of the metric weight.I hope that Sue will send me over a photograph in the next week or so.
Sue is helping her daughter for a couple of weeeks, and I am sure her daughter will be most grateful for this as new  babies can be hard work.Sues daughter will appreciate mum taking care of new babe for a couple of hours so she can catch up on sleep.Everything always seems a little better when you are not sleep deprived doesn't it?

I have a relative whos birthday is on Christmas day and he has always hated it as he says he gets a raw deal when it comes to pressies ,as his are always the 2 in 1 presents,Christmas and birthday combined.
Mind you ,you just cannot choose when you are going to be born ,can you?

With our Wigan and Warrington craft group starting in the new year, we can now apply ourselves to learning new tecniques for personalised baby gifts.I will have to get my thinking head on for some of the demos which we could link into baby /children gift crafts.

Before I go may I just take this opportunity to congratulate both Sues daughter and partner on the birth of their new baby daughter, and to say congratulations to Sue in becoming a Nannie(check that one for you for next post)

The phone is ringing ,my little Westy is barking his head off at the phone ringing so will say good bye until tomorrow and I am off to answer the phone now.
I know its early,but night night to you all.

JUST A QUICK ONE....
Where you born on Christmas day or know somebody who was ,why not tell us how they feel about it as it would be so interesting to know their feelings about pressies etc..Tell us in the comment box below we would love to hear from you..

Now I am gone..........

Christmas & Handcrafted Decorations 2012

Hi All (Jackie here)

Hope you are all well and fit.Our wheather has been exceptionally rainy over the last couple of weeks,but no doubt we will still have a hosepipe on next summer.We are never happy are we? Either too much rain, or not enough,we cannot win can we?

Sorry for not posting earlier ,but had every intention to ,but you know what it is like in a family ,you always seem to get side tracked by something or other.If you celebrate Christmas I do hope you had a good one  and found some time for yourselves, as Christmas can be such a demanding time for everyone.

My freind came over yesterday and said she was fed up with Christmas already, and is going to take her Decorations down  as they where "doing her head in" her words not mine.She is very neat, and always extremely tidy.
My house always looks lived in with crafts on the dining table ,bits of knitting and crochet hidden under coffee tables ,but that is me.It would be a boring old world if everyone was the same.Saying that the middle of the room does look tidy so that has got to count for something hasn't it?

My decorations will be up until after Christmas and into the new year.I have more of a  reason to keep them up this year, as I decided to make as many of the decoration for the tree and walls  myself.To be honest I have said this for the last couple of years and never got around to it ,but I finally managed it this year.

Below are a sample of what my tree looked like, I made padded hearts,quilted baubles,felt decorations,crochet baubles, large rosette decorations,large centre bow with curled tails  and many more.
I was so pleased with how they turned out, and have had lots of comments how lovely it looks.
One of my friends said my tree looked like it came came from the GARDEN CENTRE CALLED " BENTS".Believe me this is a complement as the Christmas layout in BENTS is astounding , so If you are close to WARRINGTON why not pop in to see for yourself.

The tree with its centre topper on with a gorgeous glittery faux pointsetia and gold ribbon ringlettes.

Here you can see the rosettes ,the crochet bauble,fury pom poms large ribbon roses ,faux pacels with lace and ribbon and segmented card baubles which I stamped and embossed.

Well I am off to to tidy around as we have in laws coming over later, so need to find more places to tidy away all my crafts otherwise they will have to eat sitting on the rug on the living room floor.

Happy Saturday to you all, and will be back later to chat a little more. x

P.S.  Don't forget to call back later as I have a little news about Sue, and how her Christmas went,quite eventful from what I can gather.