Christmas Items for Dialysis Nurses and special cards......

Hello everyone!

Welcome back to WOYWW. I've missed quite a few but am hoping to catch up now! 😃

 Sorry I've not been here but lots of things have stopped me from catching up with you all.  It's a really strange thing going from manic every day to catch up to then doing nothing!  Really odd!

Anyway I thought I'd share some of my recent makes with you. This one is for some special monkeys who make me laugh every day! Thanks guys!

This next purple card is for a special Dialysis Nurse, you know who you are!  He always makes me laugh and believe me, anything that makes dialysis better/easier is good in my book!!! He always mentions that I like purple, so it had to be a purple card didn't it. The last of my special purple card too!

 

Here's what took me a lifetime to do, well it seemed like it.  I wanted to make the Nurses something special rather than give the standard chocolates or cans of beer!  I hand made each and every one of them. 

I cooked some caramelised nuts, added in some sweets, some chocolate Brussels Sprouts, and chocolate Orange Clementine's along with some special chocolate truffles.  I also made some coconut snowballs too which seemed to go down very well.  Some Nurses said it reminded them of home so much which was a lovely thing to say and I'm pleased it gave them some special memories too.

 I also made some little matchboxes and filled them with chocolate Brussels sprouts.  I've had some wonderful comments from the Nurses saying how special it was and they enjoyed them. They also said it must've taken me a while to do them and they don't know how long it actually took me to do.

Just putting the contents in and adding the ribbons took me nearly most of my Sunday before dialysis. I liked doing them though but didn't realise how long it would take to do 20 of them! Worth it in the end though! Although one of the Nurses said I've now got to top it in 2015. John said that to me but I said it was a one off for the first special one. However now I'm going to have to start thinking in about September to get them all done. I don't mind, as I said I really enjoyed it. As they're keeping me alive I really am grateful and appreciate each and every one of them.

For my special friends I also made some Handmade Sugar Scrub. It took me a while to get the contents as I've really slowed down since dialysis started but I was determined to do it all.  I just made it before Christmas so phew...!!

Here's all the little matchboxes I made, 22 in total as I had to make extras in case my memory of names let me down. You can just see the chocolate Brussels Sprouts in them too! They are so cute.

The sugar scrubs all done ready for distribution with my purple Santa hat on!!

In between my Aunt asked me to make a Peppa Pig card for her great grandson who was two.  I had in my head that he was one the same as my friends little girl and yes, my memory le me down again and I had to quickly make one with 2 on it!

Here's another special purple one for my Dialysis Nurse. He's a great laugh and has cheered up the dialysis sessions no end!

Well that's enough of catching up for me. My hands are freezing (another side effect of dialysis) and I've not quite recovered from my awful session yesterday, so I'm going to take it easy and have a decaf coffee now.

Take care everyone and have a fantastic 2015!!!!

Happy New Year!!! XX

Rudolph Day - it'll soon be here...aargghh!!!

Here's the little Dog I was using before.  His name is Barkley and he's so cute - thanks Gill...!!!  I had some die cuts from another card I'd made and used them on this card.  Just adding the little small silver stars from some old peel offs I've still got - they still come in useful I find.

 

Here's another card with the little dog and a cute kitty on as well.  Anything cute is good in my book!  Hope you like them - and don't forget - it's getting nearer all the time!!!

Enjoy!

Rudolph Day...a bit late....but got there in the end!

Here's my latest "Rudolph Cards" ready for Christmas.  I had the intentions of making Birthday and Thank You cards, and ended up making these Christmas ones too!

The above one is a plain and simple one using the Poinsettias I made earlier and using the brilliant glue that Julia sent me to try.  It's really wonderful and sticks anything to anything included me to my Poinsettias when I was holding one down onto the card! The ribbon is, as they say, donkeys years old but it suits this card and it's a shame it's the only piece I have in that colour!

As you can tell I'm trying to make different styles of card at the moment.  I've had these beautiful peel offs for ages and not used them.  Then all of a sudden in my offcuts I found a piece of vellum over from making the flowers for the wedding card and voila - I tore the edges and just stuck them to the vellum and I quite liked the finish!!

I've made a few different styles of cards with this idea so you may see some more later.

Enjoy!

Rudolph Day 7 - Something completely different!

Welcome to Rudolph Day again!!!  I thought I'd do something completely different this time and went with a clean look!  Just three colours (I'm counting white as a colour).

 

Most of the work is embossing which is gorgeous when using white card, it looks so pretty and elegant.  I've used my Holly Die cut which got a LOT of use last Christmas too!  I'm working on a few Christmas cards at the moment so you might see a them in between Rudolph Days too!

 

Enjoy!

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Hello everyone and welcome to another WOYWW! A bit different this time as I have sun here with me,  which is a bit cooler today (which I love! - I'm definitely a Winter Girl not a Summer one that's for sure!). Someone told me if you're born in the Winter you love Winter weather and vice versa for Summer babies. Not sure if it's true, but it is for me! Is it for you?

So as it's way toooooo hot for me, what am I working on? Christmas!  LOL!!! I thought it might make me feel cooler!  Seriously now, I saw some lovely looking snowy acetate and decided it was way too expensive for me, so my little grey cell, it is working, yes.  Yes!  I got out my acetate and looked at what was on my craftbed. The little grey cell, it woke up and voila.  It doesn't look much in the photo, but I used my Cosmic Shimmer white bottle and dotted it over the acetate and it looks a lot better IRL!!!!  You will see it being used soon!

So here it is - As you can tell I'm making a snowglobe.  I have an idea in my head but I don't quite have all the equipment to do what I need, so I'm going to improvise with it and see how it turns out!!

Finally, I have my little card to show you where I used all those glitter strips up and made my background.  I decided to keep the image plain as well as the card too.  I think with that much glitter you don't need much else!!!

So have a great WOYWW whatever you are doing and enjoy!

Rudolph Day 6 - Duck!!!

Yes, it's another one of those little ducks!  I love them so much, they are also so easy to colour so you can make up a batch of cards quite quickly which is handy around Christmas time.

 

It feels strange making cards in the middle of the year, but making one or two each month for Rudolph Day makes it so much easier when December finally comes around.

Enjoy!

Rudolph Day 5 - Still Lovin' Those PB stamps!

These images were stamped and sent to me for my charity card making.  I just love the little duck, he's so cute!!!  I really must add him to my "Wish List" which is ever growing!

Don't you just love those cute red candi?  They are by Papermania I believe, and are not candi, but are called domes.  I only got the one pack/colour - but wish I'd got others too as they are so beautiful!

 

Another couple of cards for my Rudolph Day charity box!

 

Enjoy!

Rudolph Day 4 - Something Different....

Rudolph Day is here again. This isn't my usual style, but it came to me when I was using up the remainder of some freebies from a magazine.  I embossed the white card with my Christmas embossing folder and added some pretty Christmas ribbon (bargain 50p!).

I added some lovely red metallic tape from the baubles (the ones I had from last year which I wasn't sure what to do with - I've used them loads this year!)....and then added the red/white baubles and the heart. 

As I said not my usual style but I like it!  I was wondering if I should've put a mat underneath it - after I made it of course - what do you think?  Plain or matted and layered?

Enjoy!

Rudolph Day 3 - It's all gone square!

Rudolph Day is here again. I've gone on to square cards now, makes a change for me!!  I've been using up some of my Christmas stash and used some new stamps (birthday goodies for me!) on them along with the embellishments. 

I've tried to keep them fairly flat'ish for posting.  It's so expensive now, that I mainly leave the embellishment filled ones for hand delivered cards.  I've made a few using my Penny Black stamps as they are favourites of mine.

Hope you like them! Enjoy!

Rudolph Day 2 - Penguins

Rudolph Day again. I just love these little penguins as they are so cute!  I'm not sure what stamp they are as they were donated for the charity cardmaking.  I was given some lovely Christmas Candi (Thanks Gill!) and they are wonderful colours!  They are also flatter than other Candi I've had.  Ideal for posting!

I also got out my little die cut machine and did some of the circular sentiments so I can just add them to cards as I make them - apart from one I did which had "Across the Miles" and I hadn't realised!  Don't worry, they've all been checked and remedied!

Enjoy!

Rudolph Day 1 - Little Hedgie

Yes, it's another Christmas card already!!!!  Rudolph Day is beginning again. Another Penny Black stamp I believe.  I used some more of the Card Candi, this time shiny silver ones, although it doesn't look like it in this photo!

I used several different circular die cuts for the sentiment - but they all worked together quite nicely. The backing papers are a freebie from a magazine - more of those to come...! 

Enjoy!

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It's WOYWW again and here's some of the goodies I received for Christmas.  I've been having more pains than usual at the moment so haven't been cardmaking, however I'm hoping to remedy that and do some this weekend! Sorry about the photo, it's a pretty grey day here today.

 

I've got more to add to this, but the postie on her bike is a bit slow after the Christmas rush, so it's taking a while!

 

Is anyone else having problems with "Blogger" at the moment?  I can't upload photos in the 'compose' mode and it's a right pain in the proverbial as they say!  Anyway, I've found a way around it as you can see from the photos!

 

 

After I've finished this post I'm going to have a go at the above - My Favourite Five of 2012 - or as Spyder put it, plus a few more.  Why don't you have a go as well, it'd be great to see your fave card or craft makes of 2012.

 

Enjoy!

Noel - A Special Card for a Special Person

One last Christmas card - another special one - thanks to the lovely lady who sent me the stamped images - they are much appreciated.  I saw this image on her blog and thought it would make a perfect card for a special friend of mine who is called Noel and his birthday is on....yes you guessed it....Christmas Day....!!!

I'm not sure who makes these little cuties, I think they are Penny Black - must add them to my Wish List!  Anyway as it's for a man, I didn't want to make it too 'girly' so I just matted and layered the card on to gold mirri card and coloured it with my trusty PM's, then added the die cut holly with the red gems on and added some glitter on the leaves.  Well a girl has to put glitter somewhere!!! 

Usually the glitter is on me, I've lost count of the times I've been told I have glitter on my face - specially when I'm out with it on me!

Enjoy!

The Special Christmas Cards

 Here's a really special card I made for my Brother, John, who loves donkeys!  I got this stamp from a well known auction site as it was perfect for him!  The style of card is a 'box style' one and I've not made one before but it was fairly easy once you have the CS scored.  As it's Christmas it has lots of embellies on it of course, and also after the photo was taken I added some glitter to the holly leaves as well.

Another special card, this time for my Auntie Rita - as you can tell from the photo!!  I made the circular sentiment myself on the PC and then used my die cuts to make the shapes around it.  Again, I've never made a "casecade card" before, this is my first attempt and it turned out better than I hoped it would!  The images on it are a freebie from a Craft Magazine, and the embossing is the one and only Christmas one I have.  It worked out really well and I made the reverse part of the card into one that opens out like a normal card so I could put a lovely verse in it.

The next time I do these, it will be back to normal cards instead of Christmas.  Why does it go so fast?? 

Enjoy!

WOYWW 185 - the Christmas one!

So what is on my workdesk today?  Well if you're not sure why I'm asking Click Here to find out!  As you all know, my workdesk is my bed with trays on - but today there is something special on there.

There are lots of parcels all wrapped up and ready to deliver to the Cat Shelter.  Yes, I know, I'm daft - wrapping presents for cats - tsk!  Well, why shouldn't they have Christmas the same as us, our little old lady (aged 20!) does.  She has Christmas Dinner and presents the same as we do.

There are loads of crocheted blankets in this top picture and in the one underneath, there are loads of cat toys.

I did the same last year to a different Cat Shelter and they had lovely stockings full to bursting on each cat cabin.  It all looked so pretty with decorations up too.

I'm going to be kept occupied again to make bits and pieces for the next Cat Shelter Fair - fundraising for charities never stops.

Thanks also to Gill for her continuing support of the cancer charities too, along with Julia who also donated some fantastic cards as well.  The comments I heard as I left the shop like "Wow look at this one", "I've got to have this one" and "Beautiful absolutely beautiful".......show you all how much they are appreciated and that they make lots of money to help rid the world of this terrible disease that so many of us have (myself included) or have family members or friends affected by it.

All there is left to say now is "Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"!!!!

Enjoy!!!

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WOYWW is here again - click here to see what Mrs Dunnit is up to on her workdesk, although she's not there but she is if you know what I mean!  So what is on my workdesk?  Not a lot really, it was my Birthday (Happy Birthday to me!) yesterday - so that explains why LOL!!!  I was out enjoying myself instead....!

However here is what is on my little worktray, holly with gems on, all drying off ready for cards.  I made a big batch of cards, and also put together a big bag of cards for the cancer charities - and yes you've guessed it - my cards went in the bag too and obviously they are now at the Charity instead!  So I've got loads more to make when I thought I was almost done with the Christmas cards.  Never mind, at least the charity will make even more money which is the positive in a negative!!!

 

Can you see the little Robin here? His Christmas has come early!!   It's a lovely Farm Shop we go to and there is always some new goodies to look at.  This time there's a bowl of Christmas Pudding - complete with spoon - and you can stir it and make a wish.  I remember doing this when my Nan made the Christmas Puddings, it was always a tradition I loved.  I do miss my Nan so much!!!

 

To finish off here is out little Domi, in her little house - she doesn't realise she's got her tail sticking out though!!! The photo isn't that brilliant as it was a strange light - it gives strange tinges to the colours sometime. 

Hope you all have a wonderful WOYWW and be careful out there in the snow!

Gift Wallets

As I've got a few 'Gift Vouchers' to give this Christmas.  I used to think it was a 'cop out' but it helps when you know they want certain things but aren't sure exactly what.  They can then get what they like and you don't feel guilty for doing it that way!

 

I wanted to make them more special, so decided to create some "Gift Wallets" to hold them in.  I just love this image from Spyder - so cute!

 

I made a variation on another Gift Wallet and have a few more to make.  I've also found it good for  money wallets too.  Little scraps were used on these which is good news for the scraps envelope!  They come in so handy with Christmas cards!

Anyway I hope you like them and have fun!

Enjoy!

Christmas Cards for Rudolph Day

 I know, it's a bit early, but did you know there are only 9 Saturdays until Christmas (I think that's what they said!).  Scary huh!

Anyway, this is a little Penny Black stamp set I absolutely love.  I've had it for quite a while, but it comes out quite regularly (at least once a year LOL!) and I've just added a die cut border along with some shiny narrow tape in Christmas colours.  I've had them for a while too and wasn't sure what to do with them last year, but this year, it came to me - use them as borders!!!  I've also got some other ideas which you'll be seeing soon too!

This card photo was taken flat, when really I should've stood it up to get the best effect.  It's a folded card with a stand out image, but it's not done in the normal way by sticking it to the front left hand side.  This one is stuck on the inside of the flap, and the card comes from the right hand side. I hope that makes sense! 

A cute little wreath embellishment and some gold peel offs later and another card is all done.  I'm now looking out for square envelopes again.  I've decided I quite like square cards too now!

The paper was a freebie from a magazine.  The red dots look like candy, but they are in fact shiny dome shapes from Papermania I believe.  I only got one pack and seem to be getting through them at a great rate of knots so might have to go to the craft shop again, oh dear, what a real shame....never mind huh!!

Enjoy!!!

Rudolph Day!

Yes, it's that time again - Rudolph Day!!!  I managed to get some stamping one and decided to add in this little cutie I got in the sale recently.  I've had this one on my "Wish List" for ages, and am so pleased to find it in the sale!  Bargain!

I used an oddment of backing paper I had, added some white card which I'd used my Martha Stewart punch on to make it look like a lace band and added some sparkly green ribbon (again another bargain, but the shop has closed now so no more bargains from there I'm afraid).

Enjoy!

Rudolph Day

Another Rudolph Card (thanks for the reminder to add the link Di!).  I just love this stamp, and well done to those of you who spotted it looks like my own little Bertie on my blog!  Miss the little man every day.

I used some gorgeous music notes paper (again from Di) and my new die cuts I got for Christmas.  I seem to be going through Stickles so much - another one has bitten the dust!!!  I'd like to try this glamour dust everyone is on about, but I haven't seen any when I've been in a craft shop. I'll have to keep my peepers open online.

I was going to try to put some ribbon inside the white middle of the bauble, but I can't get it to go around the curve.  It looks OK in white. 

Hope your like it!  Enjoy!