Hello
I am pretty sure
you all thought I had given up with my blog didn’t you? It seems that way to me
too...
So many events
and health issues have been going on in my life and most of the time I struggle
to do normal day to day things even though I do keep on pushing myself!
Anyway I have
decided I need to get back into my blog as I miss it and I often have texts or
emails from followers asking if I will be posting again soon.
I think the
reason I have decided to start today is because of a recent event – basically when
we moved to the bungalow there was a fridge freezer in the garage, it was working
but shabby looking so after speaking to my landlady she said I was ok to part
with it, I used a local selling site through facebook and within a few minutes
of posting I had a message from a lovely lady asking could she have it, we
exchanged a few face book messages and it turned out she was actually moving
into the village – but more than that just 4 doors away
from me!!!
Here removal date
changed and last Friday she, hubby and son moved in!
As though that wasn’t
good enough – turns out she is into crafts too so I am keen to encourage her
to join one or 2 of the classes I run with my friend Erica.
So I decided I
would make a new home card – then changed my mind and went for an MDF
plaque which I could see in my mind what it would look like when finished.
I covered the
front of the plaque with a shabby lilac sheet of paper from the Do Crafts Tilly
Daydream A4 paper pad and the same paper in pink for the back.
Once the front
was covered I used a scalpel to trim close to the edge them went around it with
a Maroon pro marker.
The large
alphabet stamps from Dimension Stamps were used to stamp out New Home then I randomly
picked a couple of small floral stamps and ink pads in red, blue & purple
and randomly stamped the letters, cut them out then dabbed with versamark and
covered with detail clear embossing powder...I repeated this 3 times on each
letter to get a good glaze.
I put them to one
side to set and stamped a pretty bunch of flowers to the right hand side using
purple Versafine ink, used a quickie glue pen to highlight the middles of the
flowers then added a pretty AB gem using Cosmic Shimmer pva glue.
The letters were
all set so I used Cosmic Shimmer pva glue to stick them to the plaque
I punched out
some leaves in green and then lots of petals in different colours which I made
into pretty flowers which were then randomly stuck onto the leaves. A small AB
gem was placed in the centre of the flowers and the plaque was put to one side
for everything to set.
The reverse of
the plaque was edged in the same pro marker as the front.
I stamped a
lovely verse I had bought from Inkilicious some time ago into the centre using
red Versafine ink then sprinkled with detail clear embossing powder and heated
until the red stamping really jumped out.
I reluctantly
used peel offs to add the names Kenny & Samantha as i couldn’t find my
small letter stamps...because there was no & in the pink letters i used i
ended up using the symbol from a different set and colouring it with a promarker
to match the edges of the plaque.
Again using peel
offs I added the date they moved into their new home.
To finish I
punched out some butterflies in lemon glitter card and stuck them randomly
around the verse.
I hope you like
the plaque – and more to the point I hope they will...i will pass it on when
they come for the fridge freezer.
I will do my best
to post daily again or every other day at worst.
Take care
everyone
Love n hugs
Angie
xxx
