APPLES, APPLES, APPLES
AND MORE CARDS

Good morning everyone, Thought I would share a couple of cards I made on the weekend and my apple story!!

The two cards above were done from a kit that I sell. The kit contains enough to make four cards and includes the cards, die cut sheets (you only have to push the pieces out), and envelopes. These are nice, quick and easy to make. For the left hand card I have used some ribbon from my stash and threaded a diamente heart buckle through it, this just added some bling and sparkle. I have tied a bow up in the left hand corner. For three of the layered pieces I added a heart shaped split pin and lastly some diamentes and then gold glitter glue around the edges of the pieces.

For the right hand side card I added a strip of ribbon on the bottom page and a couple of bows. Once again finishing it of with sparkly diamentes and silver glitter glue.

I think both of these cards would be suitable for wedding, engagement or a special birthday card.

For The people lucky enough to be living in Adelaide, we discovered a real gem on the weekend (thanks to my sister who shared this with us). We drove up Greenhill Road to Summertown where we went apple picking. You could not get much fresher than picking apples of of a tree youself yum, yum .......... and the bonus is they were only $1.20 per kilo. I thought this would be a good, fun and cheap weekend outing for people with children. Go and pick your own apples and then go home and bake apple pie or apple crumble double yum, yum............!! There were lots of varietys of apples, and also pears. My only advice would be to go soon as the trees were starting to look well picked and also to wear rubber boots.

I hope you enjoyed this read, if you are in a cold area ,like us at themoment, keep warm.

Debbie

SEWING DAY TODAY !!! I found this fabric in my travels the other day, and thought it was lovely, I think it is called paper doll. I reminds me OF when I was younger and had those paper doll books where you pushed out the dolls and their clothes and accessories and dressed the dolls. I found a different range of paper doll fabric about 12 months ago, but loved this range as it had 2 boy dolls in the piece as well as the variety of girl dolls. Some of my students have been working on the other range for a while and they look great. We ironed thick interfacing to the back of the dolls and their clothes and then embellished the pieces with embroidery, ribbon, beads, buttons etc. Once that is completed we then vlisofix the finished pieces to felt and trimmed right around the various shapes. The dolls dresses, hats etc are attatched and changed with velcro. It makes a lovely gift for little girls that love dolls.,

I had to buy some flannelette fabric to make more fitted bassinette sheets and thought these were very cute and "boyee!!". Flanelette is such a soft cuddly fabric to work with so hopefully these will keep our new Grandson nice and warm and cosy, and he might sleep longer at night. Well that is the theory any way!! We are having such cold nights here in Adelaide, but I guess there will be worse to come. At least everything is looking nice and green.

I hope you enjoyed catching up. Have a great weekend everyone, and for those in a cold climate, I hope you can keep nice and warm.

Debbie

TWO NEW CARD DESIGNS

I thought I would share with you the two cards that I have recently designed to be used as kits for my classes.

For the top card I cut and folded it as a gatefold card but then cut the 2 front sections away on an angle to add a bit more interest. I used Bo Bunny and Graphic paper, cutting it to the card front shape, and then embellished it with some fussy cut primroses and butterflys, I stamped words on pricing tags that I had inked and threaded these onto some organza ribbon. To add some sparkle and bling to the card I used the matching Bo Bunny self adhesive diamentes.

I used the same Bo bunny and Graphic 45 paper for the card on the right. It has multi folds to add to the dimention and interest. The centre panel I have cut out the round centre and then placed acetate behind it and mounted it with foam squares. I like using dimensional magic to give cards a nice shine, so have used this on a primrose that I fussy cut out. The gathered flower in the left hand bottom corner was done by gathering along the short, long and then short end then gathering it up to form a circle.

I have used some of the matching Bo Bunny diamentes and scattered them over the card (butterfly trails, centres of flowers and in corners etc).

NEW CARD DESIGNS

LETS GET STARTED!!

Hi,
My name is Debbie, and this is something that I have been wanting to do for a while, so here goes. You will all have to be patient while I learn how this is done!!
I have a craft business in Adelaide, where I teach 9 classes a week. I teach a large variety of classes that keeps me on my toes. Some of them being cardmaking, paper tole, lots of different embroidery, ribbon, silk panel, wool, brazillian, quilting, applique, off the pages items.
Like most craft people I always seem to have a large ammount of projects on the go. I have just finished 2 cards that I will be making into kits that will be for my classes, so hopefully the ladies will like them! When I become more proficient I will put photos of these on the site. I am almost finished an ABC cloth book for our new (7 day old) Grandson. I have decided it can be a Christmas present, to take the "finishing" pressure of of me! A few weeks ago I finished the baby quilt that was done in blocks with appliqued pictures, and had a scalloped border. I did find this a bit of a challenge, but it does all of us good to get out of our comfort zone!
I hope you have enjoyed sharing in my FIRST post and I look forward to getting to know all my new blogging friends.
Debbie