CHRISTMAS CARDS 2013

Laura and family

 

I absolutely loved Papercraft magazine Dec issue, containing Ginger bread men and houses, sweets and trees.  All these sweet Christmas cards will be sent to family members and I have reserved a couple for my friends in Canada.

                                                        
                                                              Bernadette and family

Minecraft Tutorial: How to Build An Orc Style Bridge!

My daughter has me painting shells for her school friends and the list is growing! Lol

Minecraft SimCity High-rise 1930s - 1950s Project P4: The Baseball Stadi...

Amazing build by my son Jeremy.  He is JERACRAFT and now has nearly 6,000 subscribers! Really proud of my son.. # Jeracraft has now reached 10,000 subcribers and will be posting to mark this occasion, a downloadable world of fantasy and adventure, Exotopia, for his followers to enjoy! (Dec 2013)

My son Jeremy's channel JERACRAFT - Kingdoms of Greymane! (playlist)

SUMMERTIME

Made this is a fun Birthday card ideal for girls celebrating their special day during the summer.  Love the cute bikini, hat and towel! The decorative diamonds and hearts gives it a touch of glamour.

SiDNEY'S BIRTHDAY

(Sorry for the quality ~ Ipad photo)

Best friends forever photo printed on white card and adding bits and bobs of colourful and fun decorations, ladybirds, butterflies and bright patchwork flowers in felt and card. Happy Birthday Sidney!

OUR ROCK OF GIBRALTAR

 

 



My dear friend Laura is leaving Gibraltar and I wanted her to take back to her country a reminder of  what she now considers to be her home too.  A place where she and her family have made so many friends. My family and I are so privilleged to have met them and to be part of their circle of friends .   I painted this picturesque view of the Rock in acrylics. Laura was over the moon when I gave it to her and I was beaming to say the least! So happy to have made such special friends and to have made them happy in return.

 

MOTHER'S DAY CARDS

 

This is the free upload I used for my card.  I have been searching for the source but I have not been able to locate it.  I know it was a lady's blog and this design was an old one she had kindly posted together with I believe two of her other designs.  I may have obtained it originally from Pinterest.

 

For my Mum on Mother's Day.  I like the small framed pictures.  If you get a Cross stitch magazine you will find many tiny cross stitch designs, which you can cut out and stick on hard cardboard or leather and frame with carved tooth picks.  You can then proceed to varnish it to give it a more realistic look.  The pink flowers I made sometime ago.  I cut them out of the egg cartons that is why they have that beautiful curved petals.  I stuck embroidered flowers from an old piece of material I had kept.  Just love keeping buttons, scraps of material and so many other stuff. I just have to stop myself sometimes, although I would try my hand at recycling almost anything!

 

This card I made for my Mum-in-law. love the lace and bow.  The small picture is that of an English Country Cottage.

 

 

 

The Mother's Day cards with the miniature gift paintings, which have a little message painted on the back of the canvas. I enjoyed making everything so very much!



 



MINIATURE PAINTINGS

 (IPad photo)

I am absolutely loving to paint in miniature! Finally I am getting a feel for painting not in a big way, as I said before I have no space at home to plonk a big easel although I've done it before, this is satisfying my desire for now.  These are my mum-in-law's pressie (she has been wanting Raffaello's Angel for some time now) and my mum's pressie (she loves Our Lady and I love William-Adolphe Bouguereau's paintings, this one is inspired by his 'Madonna of the Roses') both for Mother's Day.  I also managed to create Mother's Day cards for them, which I will be posting sometime this week.  I will explain how I created them and the fun stuff I used. 

DECORATING WITH TINY SEA SHELLS

It has been nearly 20 years since we discovered a lovely cove in the south of Spain.  Little did we know as we climbed down a steep stony hill that we were going to find a little beach full of beauty and treasure in the form of tiny sea shells of every variety.  I still have two containers full of these shells and always bring in some more every time we re-visit our favourite summer cove.  I had a nice herb bottle that I didn't want to get rid off, a glue gun, lots of patience and enthusiasm and this was the result. It also has been nearly 20 years since I decorated my bottle and I think it's time to start looking for another project along this lines, maybe a frame or box....what do you think?

Took this pic with my Ipad, just wanted to let you know that it was not Nicky (he would have taken a great photo with no shadows!)

This is a lovely example of what you can achieve with some shells, starfish are very decorative and the added pearls gives this frame a touch of glamour.  I definitely must try this out.

First I should lay the frame flat with the shells spread out on the work table and then play around with what I have arranging them in position until I am happy with the result.  Hopefully during this time I will be getting inspired and run around the house looking for dribs and drabs to add on. When everything is set, I'll get cracking sticking the pieces with the hot glue getting my fingers burnt in the process but never mind as by this stage I will be too enthralled to notice! Oh yes I'm getting ideas already........aha!.....I may have an old frame ready to be recycled.

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