It was the lovely Claire's birthday at the weekend, so I made her a headband like mine to keep her unruly locks in place lol As she is very fair haired I went with a pink and purple theme. I really love making these, they turn out so sweet.



This is the card I made for her, it started with a manga style drawing.


Coloured in using promarkers and Derwent pencils.




Then I used some hand painted papers that I made a while back, to create a background on a white linen card.




Finally I cut the drawing out and glued her onto the background, made a matching tag and voila!

Howdydoodee!

Had a great weekend, saw lots of family. Pics on facebook.

Instead of a card for my Mum, I made her an exploding box filled with butterflies.it measures 6cmx6cmx12cm, the lid comes off and the butterflies are floating inside. I found this site, the lady here makes some lovely boxes, so i thought i would give it a go.

http://www.magic-boxes.com/index.htm





I also made her 3 gift tags for her pressies.





A couple of months ago I made this flip photo album for a special little friend of mine, i filled it with photos of him and his friends.






last week I decorated this little wooden box, turning it into a mini shrine...not to anything in particular, I don't worship birdhouses lol



Did some more hand drawn greetings cards.

What's been happening ? well not a great deal really. We have had a few nice days and have been out for walks, taking lots of photos. We also had Mother's Day here in the UK, we went to Whitby for the day, to one of my fave restaurants, was a lovely day spent with my boy.

I made 3 sock monsters to go out to 3 little girls in Uganda, my dance teacher sponsors them, and they will go out in the next box of goodies she sends out to them.



I also made a set of 12 greetings cards for servicemen/women. This fabby girl used to be in the RAF, and she is collecting a ton of greeting cards that she will send out to soldiers serving abroad. they have no access to cards or stationery with which to write home to their families. So if you make cards and want to help, get in touch with her.






ummm what else? I got a new dress and new shoes. These are for my mum's 70th birthday party next weekend.

I made some socks for Ian for Easter, though a photo will have to wait.

Ian's niece had a baby boy the other day, welcome to the world baby Owen. Here is the card I made for him.



A couple of years ago my son bought me a wooden sign of my name, it was plain blue, so I have decorated it.



Last night I made another sock monster for the daughter of a friend.



I went shopping up at the farm shop and got molested by cows.




oh and I am officially addicted to promarkers.

New pirate socks for me, just finished. It was a free pattern online, which I would link to but the author has taken down the link, thank godness I printed out a copy before she did that, as I started them last year, and only just got around to finishing them. I would have been well annoyed if I was stuck with only one sock LOL though in theory I could have worked out the pattern from the first finished one...but it would have been very tiresome lol

Not much else happening, I have beeen drawing lots of Manga lately, really need to practise my drawing skills,they were never brilliant, and I haven't drawn for years. Since i bought Ian some art supplies for Christmas, he has been sketchig and painting too, with Acrylics...we are a couple of saddos LOL sitting in each night drawing hahaha