Craft Your Days Away - Doilies and Lace

Morning!!

Hope you are all ready for the weekend with your wellies and raincoats... where on earth has our summer gone??

So it's time for a new challenge at Craft Your Days Away. This fortnight the theme is Doilies and Lace, and has been set by the lovely Berit.  There is a super prize for this challenge - which is a selection of doilies, lace and pearls!


Here's my card:

I made this card a while back as my friend was due to have her baby and I wanted to personalise it - but the baby is now 13 days late so I've not been able to yet!!  It seems like the baby is well and truly settled in.   I think she's off to the hospital tomorrow so hopefully she won't be kept waiting to meet her baby much longer!  But if you could all send the baby some pain-free eviction vibes that would be great!  I suppose it's only a good thing that the weather has been so rubbish - being hot and very pregnant in the summer is no fun!

The papers are from a First Edition stack called Sweet Owl and the digi is from Pollycraft.

So why not pop along and join us, there are some fab creations from my teamies for you to see.

Thanks for looking!

Julie x

Baby boy

Crikey - it's been a whole month since I last posted a card.

I've been busy at work, getting outrageously drunk in London to help my beautiful friend celebrate her 30th birthday, as well all the other boring life stuff that gets in the way of doing more interesting things!

I'm massively behind on my Christmas cards so it's going to be a quick post from me today as the children are napping and my challenge is to start (and finish!) a card over the next hour to get me back on track.

Here's a card I made yesterday - a girl who runs one of the toddler groups we go to is due to start maternity leave next week so I've made her a card to say congratulations / good luck as we probably won't see her again until July!

I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:

DYSU - A splash of blue
One Stop Craft Challenge - Colour Challenge: Blue
Freshly Brewed - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!  I can't wait to catch up on all your beautiful blogs soon!

Julie x

Lovely New Baby

Two of our very good friends have just announced the birth of their new baby boy - called Zac.

Very BIG congratulations to you both!

This is the card I made for them. It's also my first real go with the promarkers Santa gave me for Christmas.
I didn't have quite what I wanted in papers so I made the backing paper with his name on it myself. Not sure if I've pulled it off - perhaps the letters should have been smaller - leave me a comment with your thoughts!


This card is being entered in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar Challenge - New Beginnings
Easy Craft Projects - Use old stash (all the card, paper and the image are old)
Stamp Something - Anything Goes
Stamping for the weekend - New and Blue
Allsorts Challenge - Teal Blue and Brown
Sundays with Crissy - Ribbons (both on the card and the image!)

Thanks for looking!