On Your Wedding Day ...

Congratulations Mr & Mrs Dallow!

Long time friend Roger married his sweetheart on Sunday :) such a lovely day!

Here is the card I made

I am loving working with paper flowers again - and even though I stab myself every time, I love making the tendrals :)

Metal embellishments that have been in my stash for such a long time.

I even made a presentation box to protect the card :)

All wrapped up in a gold organza ribbon!

I am usually drawn to pinks/purples when I craft, but I have no idea why, maybe because Purple has always been my favourite colour since I was a teenager  LOL

Linking with:
As You Like it Challenge - Fave colours - Pinks/Purples (cool)
Dream Valley Challenges - Love

You can see the engagement card I did for them HERE

And for those that love weddings, and I do, here are a few pics!

I caught a lovely tender moment between them!

Then it was all smiles after the ceremony was done!

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary

Hi there good people!

I needed an extra special wedding anniversary card for the sister-in-law's parents - they celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary on Boxing Day!

Made with my fave dies - Spellbinders Square Nestabilities - they are just perfect for layering a central feature :)




Linking with
As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Die
Tuesday Morning Sketches - As you like it


Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

On Your Wedding Day

One of my oldest friends is getting married today - sadly I can't be there as she is now in Queensland, but it didn't stop me making a card for her.

Taken in 1970!

One of my Fave photos - 1989

2003 

I have always been a fan of Lili of the Valley (LOTV) stamps, and one of my absolute faves is the wedding couple.

So here is the card I made for my friend Olga & her new husband Chay.

and on the inside, a wonderful wedding cake stamp that I have had in my stash since I first started stamping in 2003!

Wishing you both every happiness!  The third time's a charm!  ;) 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

A happy occasion .....

My friend Joy needed a wedding card for her partner's niece, and she asked me if I could make one for her.






We also had a belated family birthday catch-up for Mr Fixit's birthday, my birthday, niece Lauren's birthday, Lucas' & Archie's birthday - a lot of chocolate, cake & champagne for that one :)

 

here is the card I made for Mr Fixit's birthday - a new stamp (for me) from Kaszazz with the obligatory kindy glitz!

I already posted Archie's birthday card earlier, but here it is now to refresh your memory


Here is the card I gave to Lauren

This card was a CraftMad swap card - it was in my box of goodies, just waiting for the perfect person to give it to :)

and here is the card I made for Lucas



This is a 3-D card made of multiple layers - graphics are by Janet Briggs from Crafts-U-Print.

Well, that's it from me for a little while :)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Valentines Day (& Happy Anniversary)

On 13th February 1982 - we said "I Do"


just love the little heart shaped bling :)


love the big bling heart :)


Linking with:
Less is More - Week 159 - Masculine
CASology: Week 82: Bold
Creative Card Crew: #55 KISS (keep it simple & sweet)
Papertake Weekly - with a heart

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Anniversary

Well, it is the BIL's and SIL's 23rd Wedding Anniversary tomorrow - even though we will be celebrating tonight  ;-)


Front of card made with items from a kit bought a few years ago at a craft fair - Jenni B - the rub-ons have deteriorated, but the rest of the kit is good :)  The sentiment is stamped.

I thought it rather fortuitous that the 23rd Anniversary present is Silver Plated and I used a silver plated heart on the front.


The inside verse is printed on a patterned vellum that is similar to the shape of the flower on the front - and this is submitted as halfway inspiration for the UnstampaBelles Challenge #29 - Vellum.


Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

For the Bride

My friend Lynn's daughter is getting married on Saturday and I was most honoured to received an invite to check out the ceremony ;-)

But we had some terrible weather yesterday and realised we had an overflow problem with one of our gutters at the rear of the carport.  

here is a pic of what was happening with the gutters - thankfully, it was only over the end of the carport and not the house.

So we are going to be spending our Saturday fixing our guttering ;-(  ready for the next lot of rain.

EDITED:   The cause of our gutters overflowing

a broken CD was in the gutter and was over the opening to the downpipe - took us about an hour to find it as it was covered in silt

I am so disappointed that I will miss out on seeing the Bride :-(

I hand delivered a card to Lynn's place and hope that the Bride has an absolutely wonderful day.

I received so many compliments on the card I made for my niece in October last year, I decided to use a similar layout, but left it simple.

Bridesmaids will be in Midnight Blue ;-)

Products Used:

Quartz Shimmer cardstock from Blue Edge Crafts

Stamp:  Lili of the Valley

Flowers:  Blue Edge Crafts, Pizzaz Aplenty

Cuttlebug embossing folders

Copics

I wish to enter this card in the following challenge:

Stampin for the weekend - photo inspiration (pinks & blues)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day. 

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-) 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Now I can show you .....

Hi everyone

some of you may have noticed my card blog has been a bit quiet of late ..... well I have been working on some wedding invites for a friend's daughter's wedding.

I can reveal all now ;-)

It has been a collaborative effort between myself and the Bride - they wanted a pocket invite with a Hollywood type theme

Lights, Camera, Action!

Total Invites made:  50

Products used:  Purple Shimmer cardstock & Quartz shimmer paper from Blue Edge Crafts.

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day. 

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-) 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

A Wedding, week-end away, sightseeing and Great Pizza!

Our beautiful niece, Lauren married the wonderful Brett on the weekend.

I give you a friendly warning now .......... a picture heavy post follows ;-)

We had such a lovely time in the Barossa Valley - staying overnight in the Barossa Novotel

Here are some of the things I made for them.

A keepsake for the Bride - this is the last of the shoes I made when I was doing ceramics - now if anyone else gets married, I am going to have to find a different keepsake for them ;-)

Here is our room at the Barossa Novotel

and this was our view - forever changing and beautiful ;-)

The happy couple at the reception, which was held at the Barossa Valley Estate.  The staff there were excellent and it is such a beautiful place to hold a wedding ;-)

On Sunday, we did some sightseeing with Brother-in-law & Sister-in-Law, Greg & Rosa, and visited Maggie Beer's Farm (again ;-) )

This time, I managed to get some photos of the peacocks!

The peacock kept teasing us - not fully turning around to display all his glory

Then he decided to go walkabout ;-)

ahhh, on the ground again!

Time for some more driving and we ended up at Roaring 40's Cafe for some late lunch.  We had heard about this place on the TV as it has won all sorts of awards for their pizzas. 

The food was lovely, but I had eaten way too much breakfast at the Hotel, so we asked for a doggy bag to take the leftovers home.  We had the leftovers later after we had got home an unpacked - it reheated beautifully ;-)

I was so annoyed with myself, I didn't even think to take a photo of the pizza :-(

So that was our weekend away - now I need to be off and do some unpacking and washing - we were too pooped to do it last night - and then some grocery shopping awaits ;-)

Hubby is on leave for the next two weeks so blog posts may be a bit slow - I am hoping we can catch up on our my 'to do list' around the home.

Catch you all a bit later ;-)