Homes For Angels

Hi, all my friendly followers and visitors.

I have at last made homes for my Angels!

The first picture is the one I have made to keep for us!!

All the Angels I have made from Hearty and Artista 

Paper Based, Air Dry Clay.

For the trees, I drew a large tree for a template and 

then made different height sizes. 

The large Angel is the one in my last post.

The small ones I made initially for smaller scenes.

As you can see they are a very simple design.

This is one of the first small scenes I made, before 

I even attempted to make the big Angel.

This is a slightly bigger one and thanks to my 

friend Lorraine's partner, Steve, who cut me the base

from their log stock. I have a few more too!!

Because she looked a bit lost on this piece

I found the little Bunny in my stash.

I covered it with Fluffy Stuff and Glitter.

My Craft Room looks very Christmasy at the moment.

Glitter everywhere!! 

Husband's Birthday today, so having a nice meal tonight.

Thanks for visiting and hope you will leave 

me a lovely message so I know you have been.

Big hugs

Carol 

xxxxx

My Angel

 Hello to my crafting friends!

We have glorious sunshine again today....

....Summer has returned!!

I have been playing with my air drying clay.

I thought I would try to sculpt an Angel. 

The detail is a bit hard to see.

She stands 4" (10cm) high.

I really enjoyed making her and I only hope

I can make more. I might try and sell some.

I have wedding stationery to make, so working

flat out at the moment.

We have so many birthdays as well, all in a few weeks.

One friend last Wednesday, so we went out to lunch with him.

Last Saturday we went to another friends' Retirement party.

It was also his wife's birthday on Sunday!

Along with another of my friends, on the same Sunday as well.

Another friend on 23rd August...posted his card!

I have hubby's on the 29th.......must make him a card!!

Then my dreaded one.....my 70th!!! On 2nd September. 

Scary number!! I still think I am 45!!

Then the guy that retired, he has his on the 4th September.

 Then 2 friends that are coming to my small

birthday bash, both are a few days after mine!!!

Nearly forgot my sister! Hers is 11th September.

I don't think I have forgotten anyone else!

I had better get back to my desk and 

get these cards made!

Thanks for visiting my little blog.

Really appreciate you making time

to pop in. 

Big hugs,

Carol

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Cats and Dogs!

I was asked at the last Craft Fair I did, for cards 

with cats and dogs on.

I thought I had plenty but I only had one dog one!

So I quickly made these.

They are mostly using Joanna Sheen  stamps I 

have had for many years.

You can't see my favourite cat one very well.

It's the bottom left.

They are adorable and I don't have any idea

whose stamp it is. In fact I had totally

forgotten I had it!!

Well that's a quick post.

I can now post pictures from my main computer onto

my blog. For months, I could only do it on my laptop.

I only found out on Saturday, so I have no idea when

blogger sorted out the fault.

Thanks for taking time to pop into my blog

and for leaving me a lovely message.

They make me smile!

Big hugs,

Carol 

xxxx

Wet or Dry!!

Did you know that Christmas is only 18 weeks away!!!!

Sorry!!!!.................But I just had to say it out loud!!

Thank goodness for being on the Winter Wonderland DT.

It means I make Christmas cards all year through.

I got my box of Christmas cards out a few days ago and 

was surprised just how many I have but also how

many I still need to make!

Our new challenge, here at Winter Wonderland, 

starts today for 2 weeks.

As you can enter up to 3 cards, Christmas ONLY, 

it will be good to get you started.

Kath is the host for this challenge

and she chose the theme which is:

Wet OR Dry Embossing

For my card I chose to do Dry Embossing.

The DIGI image, I was given from our generous Sponsor

Stamping Studio.

You can find it here.

It is called Christmas Candle

 and includes 2 sentiment images.

I coloured both with Copics Pens.

For the sentiment I used 3 shades of red, 

to make it look more shaded.

I have added Stickles and Glossy Accents to the candle

flame and on the holly berries.

On the embossed berries, I used a red Sakura Stardust Pen.

Our very generous Sponsor, Stamping Studio,

is giving the winner one image from each artist!!

Pop over to their shop and see their stunning images.

Well it's now up to you to get making!!

I am looking forward to visiting your blogs,

to see your gorgeous entries.

Please remember

CHRISTMAS CARDS ONLY 

will be entered into the challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and as you know,

I love reading your lovely messages.

Big hugs,

Carol

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By The Seaside

I wanted to make some different things for my Craft Faye stall.

So I thought I'd have a go using a box frame.

I did my shabby chic techie on it, as it was dark brown.

Whoops!!

Just noticed, because of the glass, you can see on the left 

of the pictures, the outline of my hand and head!!

I used water colour card for the background and painted 

the scene with Distress Inks.

I used some white acrylic paint for the spray.

Sticks and moss from my stash and shells from Spain.

The anchor was a free die from a magazine, as was the rope stamp.

I made one of these a couple of weeks ago.

I took it to my monthly Craft Fayre at The Cliff Hotel

and sold it!!

I hadn't even taken a picture of it!

So I thought I would make another one.

I only bought 2 frames, so this will be my last one for now.

Really enjoyed making it for a change.

Thanks for stopping by and the sun has come today.

Yippee!! Beautiful clear blue sky and no wind....weather wind!!

Would love a message from you, so I know you have been.

Then I will have a link to your blog too.

Big hugs,

Carol

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Winter or Summer?

Firstly I must welcome my new follower Doreen and thank you for

taking the time to join me. 

I hope you will let me know when you visit my little blog and I

could not find your blog. So would love you to leave me a link.

A couple of weeks ago at a local Craft Fayre, a lady bought

everything 'Poppy' related that I had on my stall! 

A clock, 2 candles and a notebook!

So I thought I should make more, different poppy things.

These were my first items and they are MDF plaques.

The left one I painted onto water colour paper and then stuck it to

the plaque. On the one on the right,

I created a crackle effect direct onto the plaque

and then painted the poppies with Acrylic paints.

I did another Craft Fayre on Tuesday and sold the one on the left!!

So guess what I am doing at the moment?..........Ermmmmm!

Now this is where the Winter or Summer comes into my post!

Below is a photo I took last week in my garden.

Not very exciting you might think!!

The flowers in the front is a Hellebore,

'So what'!  I hear you say! 

It is a Winter flowering plant.......Not a Summer flowering plant.

It usually shows it's face in February/March, which is when it did flower. 

I thought I was seeing things, when I saw the bud first. 

The flowers in the photo are now fully open and yet more buds are now there too!!

I would love to know if anyone else have this in their garden.

Thanks for popping by and would love you to leave me a message

so I know you have been.

Hugs,

Carol

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Brave The Shave

At our Craft Fayre today we had an amazing event.

We had a very special, very brave couple, Kay and Nigel, who had both

agreed to join in the Macmillan Cancer Charity fund raising event,

Brave The Shave!!

For those of you that have not heard about this, it means, that to raise money 

for the charity, you must have your head shaved!!

Yes, that means male or female!!

As my trade is a hairdresser, I offered to do the job of cutting and 

shaving their hair off!!

In this first picture of Kay, she has had her hair banded.

This is because she has very long hair and she also wants to donate

her hair to a charity that make wigs for children that have cancer.

She was, bless her, very emotional first this morning.

This is the back view.

Below, stage one!! As I cut off each bunch, I asked everybody 

for donations. They were all very generous.  

I then used a number 4 adapter on my clippers for the last stage.

I then moved onto her husband, Nigel.

I had a bit of fun with him. Cutting patterns on his head before I shaved

it right off!!!

Here they are with the job done.

They are still smiling!!

Their aim is to get £1,000 in donations for the charity.

They raised £728 so far!!

They had it all filmed and I have put it on my Facebook page. 

These are two very special people.

Hugs,

Carol

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