Glitter Galore

Hello to my crafting buddies. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend.

My card today is the result of experimenting with a new (to me) technique, 

using dies, D/sided tape and ultrafine glitter. I stumbled upon a youtube

tutorial by Els van de Burgt from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

A close-up look at the glittered die-cut.

A close-up of the greeting, which was on an A4 sheet that I bought many

years ago at one of the first ever craft shows I attended (in Esher, UK). I

coated the butterflies with Chrystallina Kindyglitz, then while they were

wet I sprinkled them with the same Ruby glitter as is on the flowers.

Inside the card with plenty of space on which I wrote a 

birthday message to my S.I.L.

Challenges I would like to enter

4 Crafty Chicks #347 - 'Butterflies'

Brown Sugar #247 - 'Use A Die-Cut'

Crafty Card Makers #186 - 'Things With Wings'

Crafty Gals Corner #119 - 'Embellish It'

International Art and Soul #6 - 'Wings'

Make My Monday #44 - 'Embossing, Wet or Dry'

Dies - Sweet Cuts Flower Oval; Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterflies, Mini Dimensional Butterflies

Embossing Folder - Crafter's Companion Flower Garden

Glitters - Martha Stewart

Greeting - Un-named A4 sheet

Corner Punch - Zutter

Thank you for your visit, and until next time "happy crafting".

Hugs,

Jennifer. x

Pampered Pooches

Hello on this freezing cold evening in the Hunter Valley. I know I

have been a bad blogger lately, but I have been having lots of visits

to my GP and the physiotherapy department at the main hospital

in Newcastle. It seems that I have a torn cartilage in my right knee,

and plantar tendonitis in my left foot. I have been hobbling around

for several months, thinking my arthritis was getting worse, but when

I could stand the pain no longer, I went to my GP. My treatment is

ongoing, and may eventually lead to surgery.

The other reason for my absence in the past 3 days has been that my

beloved little cockatiel received a fright when I was cleaning his huge

cage on Sunday afternoon, and he flew out of it. He was immediately 

chased by a large assortment of wild birds (we live in a rural area) into

a very high tree on the neighbouring farm. We could not coax him down

and had to leave him there overnight. After 2 hours of coaxing yesterday

morning, he finally tried to fly across the small paddock to our house,

but wild birds chased him down the valley. For hours I could hear him

calling me from dense bushland (private property), then mid afternoon 

I heard a dreadful bird fight with lots of birds, and little Tiel screeching

in obvious panic...then total silence. I searched for him until darkness,

then again all day today, while I also did a mailbox drop over an area 

of about 7kms. I fear the worst...Tiel only had one leg, was on a special

diet, and since the weekend, we have had extremely cold weather.

I shall miss my little guy, he had such a funny personality, and was so 

lovable. He loved to sit on my chest watching TV, and would sit on

a perch on my desk, ripping bark off a stick and chattering to me, 

while I coloured stamped images. 

...........Now that I have just had a big 'bawling session', I will move onto

happier things. It will be my brother's birthday next Sunday, and he owns 

2 Pomeranian dogs. I searched the internet and found this free image of 2

 'poms' and another little dog (that looks just like his last dog). I made a 

very simple card, as I know that my brother and his wife bin cards as

soon as they open them...they don't like "clutter".

I covered the front of a kraft card base with bronze metallic paper,

and used some of my massive collection of peel-off stickers to

embellish it. That border sticker on the top of the image is

definitely straight - there is a 'bow' in the card.

A closer look at the digital copy of the vintage painting.

Image - Old Design Shop digital freebie

Punch - Zutter Corner Rounder

Bronze Paper - Unknown (many years old)

Peel-off Stickers - Papermania (sentiments); border from my junk stash

The fire has died, and the house is now freezing cold, so I will take my trusty hot-water bottle off to bed. After the upset of the last 3 days, and the pain in my foot and knee, I am completely exhausted.

I will be back on Friday with my DT card for Winter Wonderland, so until then "happy crafting".

Hugs

Jennifer. x