Monday 25 July 2011

Leaving book to go with the card.

It was a bit of a rush but I managed to finish a leaving book for Harriet. The rush mainly came from trying to gather photo’s from the young people without Harriet finding out. In true teenage fashion the main bulk of the photo’ s were emailed to me at midday on Saturday. As I had to be at church at 9 the next morning to teach Sunday school and the book had to be ready for lunch after church it didn’t leave much time. I am pleased with how it turned out and Harriet was really pleased with it. I left plenty of spaces for people at the goodbye lunch to write their messages in as well as for extra photo’s to be added if needed.

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I haven’t shown any of the interior pages as they contain photo’s of other peoples children. Anna

Sunday 24 July 2011

Leaving Card.

 

I’m sad today because at church we have said goodbye to Harriet. Harriet has been with us for three years while she completed her youth workers degree. Having two teenagers who have who have greatly benefited from all she has brought to our church as well as working alongside Harriet with the school youth club has led to a real friendship developing. I was very pleased to be asked to make the card for members of the church to sign for her.

 

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I used a craftworks cards 8x8 scalloped square card, the spellbinders cross collection dies, x cut scalloped oval dies and gold card candi. I couldn’t get cream card blanks so I inked the white card with Antique Linen distress inks. I was pleased with how it turned out as it was surprisingly difficult. I knew in my head what I wanted it to look like but couldn’t get it to come together.  the only thing left to do is to wish Harriet all the best in her new job, I know she will be fantastic and they are very lucky to have her ~Anna~

The Tardis and a Birthday box.

I helped take our church youth group to Rave in The Nave. This is a unique yearly event which sees Ely Cathedral taken over for the young people. Now imagine walking into the cathedral to be met by the Christian Bikers and their bikes, next as you journey in is the rodeo bull, bouncy castle, sumo wrestlers and more. There are a group which attend to teach circus skills, very loud Christian bands, a BBQ and tuck shop as well as a chance to be quiet and relax. this years highlights included seeing the new Bishop of Ely bishop Steven, on the rodeo bull and on a huge motorbike, but many of the youngsters had come to see this, yes it it the real CIMG1411Tardis as seen in the latest series. You were not allowed inside but could have your photo taken standing next to it. Most of our group had to have their picture taken, which I can’t show so here it is in all it’s glory. I must admit to being surprised at how tall it is much bigger than I expected. It has now returned to where it came from and all that remains is to see how they can beat that next year.

Now for the crafty pictures, along with being the end of term there seem to have been a rush of birthday parties for my youngest daughter’s friends ( she is 7). We have put together some girly treasure chests filled with stationary.CIMG1421CIMG1422CIMG1423this is just one of them the others were similar and we had great fun painting decorating and filling them up. The ones that have been received already have gone down very well so hopefully they all will have done so. 

Back later with some more crafty bits Anna

Saturday 16 July 2011

Husbands Birthday and our Wedding Anniversary

 

Sorry for not posting for ages but life has been very hectic.

My Hubby’s birthday and our wedding anniversary are exactly a week apart. first Hubby’s birthday cards.

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The one on the left was from me and the one on the right from our three girls. now his birthday is the same date every year so why do I always leave it to the last minute to make his cards.

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now this was my anniversary card for him and I managed to make this with a little more time to spare. I love this stamp it is from a retired stampin up set called summer by the sea. I used white card, blue and yellow ink sponged on to give a coloured background. The frame is from a new set in the stampin up mini catalogue and is called four frames, I used the matching punch to make a quick and easy greeting. For a change he actually said he really liked the card without being asked, we may make a crafter of him yet.

Having had several family birthday’s and an anniversary in the last few weeks it has been made even busier because of my youngest daughter. Along with her normal activities she has had several bumps and bruises which were topped by her stabbing through her little finger with a pencil. Now I’m still not sure how she managed to shove a pencil sideways through the pad of her finger, the explanation was very long and complicated, starting with well the school swimming pool was shut due to chemical treatments and ending with and so the teacher said “how did you do that!” Several trips to the doctors later she still has some pencil in her finger as she wouldn’t allow them to remove all the bits.  She is only little (7) and they had pulled her about a lot, she informed me this morning though that it is ok as it only hurts when you touch it. Hopefully the next few weeks will be less traumatic Anna