This card turned out better than I hoped. The colours are beautiful. I made it for my Mum for Mother's day. I think she'll love its vintage picture and the lace... it might take her back to days gone by and fond memories as a child ..

Happy Birthday sister in law. Andrea is turning 50 this week and I hope that she loves this card as much as I do. I have loved making the cards with retro vintage pictures and adding the fabric and ribbons to give the card  a lift

 My neice is  into the vintage stuff too. She is turning 15 this year and loves craft, fabric, lace, notebooks, decoupage type activities. I have encouraged her to go for it as it is a wonderful pass time and hobbie for anyone. I am so excited that the younger generation are getting into this type of thing...

Paper flowers

 I have had lots of late nights reading and watching utube video's all about amking paper flowers...there really are some wonderfully talented people out there and too many sites to mention hear. I spent a couple of hours the other day making these flowers and had lots of fun. These are the first lot which has given me the confidence to go a bit further now and start experimenting with inks and paints etc to get the colours to match my scrap booking pages.
One site I came across on my nightly trawls through Utube is http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/. and it is  absolutely beautiful and has super instructions . What an inspiration  to scrapbookers.. all over the world..the pages that Lisa produces are absolutely gorgeous.

 After spending enormous amonts of money on   flowers from the scrap booking shops I decided that I had better look for an alternative, as it was getting out of hand what I was spending. I have lots of fun creating these and yesterday purchased a few more punches to vary the style and size. Watch this space..................

Easter cards

What a great opportunity to just scrap. Hubbie is at work all weekend( yes all 4 days of the long weekend) but what a chance to do some scrapping. I purchased this kit from NZ scrapbooking and made these cards up last night. Sooo simple yet beautiful. I have plenty of other images so going to make some more today for Mother's Day and birthdays.Hope you all enjoy the end products

I really love this retro antique look. It seems to be all the thing these days. I remember as a girl collecting similar type images and swapping pictures we did not want for ones to add to a particular collection...we used to call these images "swaps" and they were really a craze...don't know what happened to my collection once I left home though.....