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Sunday 9 August 2009

thank you cards for adams 2nd birthday party

After a recent post on cow town crafts about the fan fold flowers I thought I try a few and use them on the thank you cards I was making for adams 2nd birthday.
I am a bit of a fan of stickles and there are few cards I make that have not been attacked by the stickles, or at very least the pearlidoodles.
So anyway I set out to make 24 thank you cards in one weekend, I was not entirely sure I get them all done as I like to spend a bit of time 'stickling' and can often get carried away 'big time'
well this weekend I got carried away with the fan fold flowers.
I decided to use a variety of colours and to be honest I dragged out a box of scraps I keep. I do not ever like to throw anything away so I keep strips and scraps in a box. These are pieces I have chopped off other sheets most likely 12 x 12 sheets and I am so reluctant to throw them away. Today I found a way to use all these pieces and to make some fab cards into the bargain.
Here are some of the results.
I like the monochrome ones best.

some days my art goes a bit daft!

there are days when my art work is confined to the paper in my sketch pad, then there are days when i get carried away with paper and card and origami galore, hats, bags, dinosaurs, butterflies and more. There there was one day when my daughter said mum I really like tattie bear, do you think you could draw that for me. Tattie bear is 'me to you ' bear and is a lovable fluffie hen toed bear who any girl would love.
So off I went to my craft room and found my paints, yep I was gonna try and replicate tattie bear......................ON HER BEDROOM WALL.........................I had never done a mural before but today is the day I thought.

You can see the results here.
I drew then I painted then I painted some more, then she came home from school and caught me with dust sheets everywhere and her bedroom was was a mass of colour.

She was delighted!
Thank heavens.