FREEBIES - Vintage family

Here are a couple of photo's of my beloved grandmother, early 1920's for you to use in your art, she would approve of being a model, she was always very smartly dressed and always wore a hat when she went out. Her hair was always long and as she grew older, she began to part it in the centre and had two 'earphones' just held together with a few pins, I remember watching her winding it up and curling it round, and it never movded out of place - happy memories....

ATC's

I scanned these ATC's in their little cello bags, and so they have a slight glare them, perhaps if you pop over to my ATC blog, they are single images without the bags...and would look better.

25th Anniversary card

I made this card for a friend to give her daughter and son-in-law, had a problem first, because I didn't have a clue what kind of card I wanted to make, the only clue I had been given was that the couple like karaoke. Well, I couldn't find anything romantic musically, so I opted for plain romantic and when I saw these tiny silver roses, and the even tinier red ones I visualised exactly what I wanted to do. I have taken a couple of close up photos so you can see the tiny bouquet and corsages I made, and if you look carefully, I even tucked a couple of tiny red rosebuds under the Joanna Sheen rose topper, and under the top of the verse.

Wildfire Rose

Hubby and I have been looking for this particular rose for quite a while, and yesterday - well, I was cock-a-hoop - we found one. It's a standard rose around 4ft high, and I just love the colour and delicate perfume.

FREEBIES - Vintage girls ..

I found these delightful photos in very old wooden photo frames - so please feel free to copy and use them in your projects - just do me a favour please - leave me a comment to say you've copied them. Thank you.

One Powerful Hour - Maps

My trusty Hero Arts map stamp comes out again, with a Magenta galleon and a scrap of black ribbon - this makes a nice card for a man I think and also complies with the theme of this weeks challenge over at One Powerful Hour - pop across and view the artwork ....

SBS - Christmas in July

The Blogging Sisters group challenge today is Christmas in July. Since I need lots of Christmas cards for my hospital charity desks, I thought, great, an early start, so I made these three cards with Papermania Joyeaux Noel stamp set, and Docrafts (I think) images, hope you like them !!

One Powerful Hour - Sport

I love challenges that make you think outside the box, and I certainly did for this one - I have a lone male golfer stamp that I have used and reused, but I decided to go a different route and seek out an image from my computer. I save so many images, and hardly ever use them - so here goes. my take on the theme of Sport over on One Powerful Hour this week is Polo. The image is from a cd of images for cardmakers, sorry don't know the name.

Cards for the Troops

Just a NOTE in case anyone is interested, I have been asked if I would possibly make a few extra cards and donate them to a local craft shop - these are then distributed to our lads abroad, a different platoon each time. What a worthwhile idea. Apparently, some of the soldiers, in desert conditions, don't have the luxury of being able to buy cards to send home, so all types are needed, for all occasions. Nice to be able to help.

SBS Challenge - Animals

I made a doggie card for a friends birthday, and Why not pop down to the links on the bottom left of my blog and see all my blog sisters work.

Just to show I have been playing nicely !!

My lovely friend Sue, from Sue's Art Stuff , sent me a huge envelope full of goodies for me to use on my charity cards, so just to show I really haven't been swanning round country piles all the time, here are a few of my latest cards, around 60 I think - mostly finished, just a few to finish off, adding inserts and putting into bags etc ...

Hug a Tree

Getting away from crafting for a change, we have visited lots of lovely National Trust properties over the past month, since we have had gorgeous weather, we both decided to use our lovely picnic hampers and go out and do something different ...it's surprising what you find when you aren't looking for anything !!
These were taken at Bodnant Gardens in North Wales - some of the trees there are so seriously huge, you feel very humble, and of course, you have to hug them !! ~The laburnum arch is a famous spring feature of the gardens ..

OPH - Summer

I made this ATC as part of a set a while ago, and I think it epitomises Summer for me, so shall use it for the One Powerful Hour challenge. Why not pop over to One Powerful Hour and see what summer means to other people.

New Award - One Lovely Blog.

Thank you to Risa and Loretta, their links are both on the comments page of my OPH Viva Espana post - for this award. I don't visit so many blogs at the moment, so don't have too many people to pass this award on to, so I am going to be completely selfish and lazy and say Thank You ladies, and send (((hugs))) and smiles ........

TMTA - Frogs

What a wonderful theme over at Think Monday, Think ATC it's Frogs - I say wonderful because think it's so different, plus I have had a couple of froggie stamps for years and not used them much - sooooo, now's the chance. I made these two ATC's, green backgrounds of course and scraps of card from my stash ....why not hop over to TMTA and discover how many different ways you can make Frog ATC's :-)