WOYWW 260, still catching up...!!!

Welcome to WOYWW 260!!!

Hello to everyone who is staying with me during my adjustment to dialysis :-) 

I've been told it can take anything from 1-2 years, perhaps longer. So this is going  to be one helluva adjustment time!  As long as I can still do some card making, that keeps me sane so here's what I've been working on lately!

I've made a few of these for the lovely Nurses who have been looking after me on dialysis.  I like to say thanks and I also gave out a few tins of chocolates for them too.  They all work so hard and deserve a treat! Also not forgetting the ambulance drivers who get me to dialysis, without them I wouldn't get there at all. I don't think they get many cards as they were really chuffed to get mine and it's been up in the ambulance ever since! Nice to be appreciated!

I was asked by a friend of my Aunt's if I could make a selection of "Thanks" and "Get Well" cards, and here are a selection of the ones I've made for her to choose from. I will put the rest into my charity cardmaking box to raise money for them.

Some are variations of each other, depending on what paper/card combinations I had left. I don't like to waste any bits of paper/card as you can tell. My pockets aren't never ending so I use them all up to help the charities.

 

All of the cards are definitely straight (says Mrs OCD!) it's just the camera has shown them at odd angles! Sorry about that.

On the following two cards I had a go at making the envelopes out of paper too! Not bad for a first attempt!  They weren't standard sizes so I made them an approximate size.

The following cards are special ones I made for my best friend, she died from cancer at only 45 years of age. These are for her Mum and Dad and her Aunt. It's my friends birthday soon and I want to let them know I haven't forgotten her. I never will.

I do hope they like them and I'd love to know what you think too if you have a moment.

 

Well that's it for now. I hope it won't be so long next time before a posting, but it all depends on how dialysis makes me feel.  It's just a case of taking it one day at a time at the moment as I never know how it's going to make me feel.

 

Take care everyone and hope you managed to get some crafting done on this grey, cold, wet Bank Holiday Monday!

 

Enjoy! Keep smiling and keep crafting everyone!



Get Well Soon!

First of all, I'm back...!!!  My PC died on me and I had to take it to the PC hospital to make it well again.  Poor little thing, I was lost without it I can tell you!

Talking of hospitals, a friend of mine has recently been in hospital having a hip operation.  She's now out and is doing her physio and exervises and is walking really well already.  I'm so pleased for her as she was really worried about it - she said she's not used to hospitals unlike me! 

On the inside of the card I used some plasters and a little bear stamp, as she has recently retired as well.  These little bears are so cute don't you think!

Enjoy!

Charity Card - Feeling Paw-ly

Well this is a plain and simple card. Just right for someone not feeling 100%. Perhaps I should send it to myself with all my problems sometimes! LOL!



SHOPPING LIST

Here's what you need to make this card:

• Blue cardstock for the background


• Yellow gingham backing paper


• Kitty image (freebie) coloured with H20's


• Blue gems (given to me by CraftyAnge - thanks!)


• Plasters - real ones - I'm allergic to them so handy for cardmaking!


• Handwritten sentiment (play on words as you can tell) matted and layered with the same blue cardstock for continuity

Simples!

"Dogtors" Orders

Well what should follow a Doctors card, but a Get Well Soon Card!!! LOL!!

I made this from scraps in my stash box but I'll do my best to give you clues as to how it was put together.

SHOPPING LIST

Here's what you need to make this card:

• Blue Tartan background, printed from a magazine CDROM - edges rounded
• Swirly background which I previously used on an Exploding Box (more of that later!) - edges rounded
• Sizzix Dogs (donated to me)
• Red cardstock cut into squares
• Red cardstock used for the sentiment, which is hand written with faux stitiching around the edge
• Add the dogs to the red squares and use Stickles (Crystal) on two sides of the cardstock
• Add tiny multicolour shiny hearts randomly

That's it, another one done for the charity card box.

Thank you for looking :-)

New Knees!

This is a card I made for my Mum when she was in hospital having a total knee replacement operation! It's my humour that comes out where hospitals are concerned! I already had the legs from a previous card I made for a Nurse and on the insert I used two plasters criss crossed and used MS Word to add the wording which read "Take your pick.....and choose your new knees!" - perfect! Even the other ladies in the ward liked it!


INGREDIENTS

• Background - this was made using MS Word and handrawn images of a little pair of socks and then cut and pasted into the document
• Backing for sentiments - this was an image of a plaster and then used to mat and layer with the sentiment saying "These...?" on the top
• The images I already had in my stash and then just used foam pads to lift them up on holographic silver cardstock
• Then it was an 'assembly' job!

On the inside of the card I printed the words "Take your pick....and choose your new knees...!" and on the upper side of the insert I used two plasters and criss crossed them. All the ladies in the ward loved the card which was a sign that my humour is not as black as some people think it is!