It's been a couple weeks since I last blogged, the first week my daughters were off collage & school for a week so we spent the week together just doing mum & daughter things. It was great we didn't do much really other than being together which is the best thing to do, I just love spending time with them & I'm so glad that they still want to spend time with me. My youngest did have her top brace fitted, so she now has the top & bottom done & she's not doing to bad with them.
Then from last weekend my chronic fatigue has been playing me up, so up till Thursday I didn't do much other than sleep I hate it when it gets me like this you don't have the energy to do anything. But I needed to get a couple of birthday cards made so when I was awake I thought about what sort I wanted to do & on Thursday I started on the first. The first one I decided would be for my aunties 75th birthday, she's having a surprise party later on this month. So for this I had in mind a A5 card a trellis front, with 75 on the front & happy birthday embossed in silver. And some flowers going up one of the sides. So this is what I came up with.
Sorry the first is a bit blurred.
Anyway I cut a shape in the front of my card & cut lots of narrow strips of card & weaved the together. Then I stuck them over the shape I cut out of the front & then put a piece of white card inside to cover where I'd stuck the trellis. I embossed & cut out the numbers & cut a piece of silver mirri board & embossed the numbers on to that as well & then I mounted the card numbers on to the mirri board.
I stamped & embossed happy birthday in silver on to a piece of card. Them I mounted that & the numbers on to the front of the card. I made some flowers from lilac card & stuck them along with some cream ones that I had already around the bottom corner & up the side. I stuck some leafs with the flowers & with some of the strips of card I had left I wound them round my pokey tool & stuck them among the flowers & leafs. I made an envelobox from the same card I used to make the card & embossed a design in the bottom corners & the flap at the back.
The insert I designed on my Docrafts digital designer & wrote the verse myself.
The second card I wanted to be more fun, so I made a 6 x 6 inch card from blue card & used one of the gorgeous ( I think that's what there called ) toppers & backing papers. I matted & layered some silver holograph mirri & the gorgeous backing paper & some black spotted ribbon on to my 6 x 6 card. Then I matted & layered some more mirri, backing paper & paper ribbon & then mounted the topper on to that, then mounted the hole topper on to the base card. Then I stuck a black ribbon with some little beads on, on the black spotted ribbon & some black adhesive stones in the top right & bottom left corners. Again I made the insert on my Docrafts digital designer but this time I didn't write the verse I used one of there's. I made an envelope out of some blue paper & embossed a butterfly in the bottom corners & a little swirl on the back flap,
