christmas
christmas card - quick and easy
A simple card.
I used Basic Grey 6x6 stiff paper form a mat pad. Using snowflake vellum stickers I dotted them around a decoupaged snowman sticker and saying.
Speaking of Snowdays - we are having these at the moment with a light covering in Kent on Sunday and hail today.
I love these colours because they are cold yet warm and vintage... yeah for Christmas.
I used Basic Grey 6x6 stiff paper form a mat pad. Using snowflake vellum stickers I dotted them around a decoupaged snowman sticker and saying.
Speaking of Snowdays - we are having these at the moment with a light covering in Kent on Sunday and hail today.
I love these colours because they are cold yet warm and vintage... yeah for Christmas.
christmas card 6
Monday-24-November-2008 Filed in: Cards
I wonder who will get this one??
Material
Cosmo Cricket cards
Angel Hair in red with gold flecks
Card stock - green Basic Gray and Brown.
Tree sticker from K&Co
Technique
Layered rectangles of Angle Hair. Mat and layered the card-stock and decoupaged it.
I like to ink around the side of card to hide the white inner layer - try gold or Tim Holtz ink.
Material
Cosmo Cricket cards
Angel Hair in red with gold flecks
Card stock - green Basic Gray and Brown.
Tree sticker from K&Co
Technique
Layered rectangles of Angle Hair. Mat and layered the card-stock and decoupaged it.
I like to ink around the side of card to hide the white inner layer - try gold or Tim Holtz ink.
christmas card 5 - pergamano
Sunday-23-November-2008 Filed in: Cards
Material
6x6 pale blue card
6x6 Basic Grey to cover the front.
Pearles
NRN stickers for the middle pearl.
4 bronze small brads.
Parchment craft pattern and materials.
Technique.
Covered card with the 6x6 paper that I cut an oval out of (you can see the card colour behind it).
I used a designed from Parchment Craft Magazine and put half on the left and right side of a gate fold.
Attached the design with brads and added some pearls and stickers to the side of the card.
This is the first time I had used metallic gel pens and a water brush to ‘water paint’ the back of the design to show the colour through the front. I then used white work and cutting.
6x6 pale blue card
6x6 Basic Grey to cover the front.
Pearles
NRN stickers for the middle pearl.
4 bronze small brads.
Parchment craft pattern and materials.
Technique.
Covered card with the 6x6 paper that I cut an oval out of (you can see the card colour behind it).
I used a designed from Parchment Craft Magazine and put half on the left and right side of a gate fold.
Attached the design with brads and added some pearls and stickers to the side of the card.
This is the first time I had used metallic gel pens and a water brush to ‘water paint’ the back of the design to show the colour through the front. I then used white work and cutting.
christmas card 4 - Joy
Sunday-23-November-2008 Filed in: Cards
Material:
K&Co papers and flower embellishment.
K&Co cardstock from a mat (comes pre cut with the holes in it around the edge)
NRN Designs angle sticker (shimmers gold and bronze)
Gems for the corners.
K&Co glitter self adhesive stickers ‘Joy’.
Technique
Fairly obvious! The true meaning of Christmas with the angel bringing great joy.
K&Co papers and flower embellishment.
K&Co cardstock from a mat (comes pre cut with the holes in it around the edge)
NRN Designs angle sticker (shimmers gold and bronze)
Gems for the corners.
K&Co glitter self adhesive stickers ‘Joy’.
Technique
Fairly obvious! The true meaning of Christmas with the angel bringing great joy.
christmas card 3
Sunday-23-November-2008 Filed in: Cards
Similar technique - decoupaged the middle with the
bauble.
christmas cards 2
Sunday-23-November-2008 Filed in: Cards
Materials:
Cosmo cricket cards - pre cut with fancy edgel
K&Co strip of paper
K&Co cardstock from a mat of the same collection
K&Co die-cut christmas bauble
Covered wire for the hanger.
Gel pen - glitter
Peel off - gold strips.
Technique.
I cut a strip of patterned paper and lay a gold peel off strip top and bottom.
I cut a circle from matching cardstock and went around the edge with a glitter gel pen.
Added a christmas bauble die-cur form a winter collection from K&CO.
Cosmo cricket cards - pre cut with fancy edgel
K&Co strip of paper
K&Co cardstock from a mat of the same collection
K&Co die-cut christmas bauble
Covered wire for the hanger.
Gel pen - glitter
Peel off - gold strips.
Technique.
I cut a strip of patterned paper and lay a gold peel off strip top and bottom.
I cut a circle from matching cardstock and went around the edge with a glitter gel pen.
Added a christmas bauble die-cur form a winter collection from K&CO.
christmas cards
Sunday-23-November-2008 Filed in: Cards
Materials:
Blue textured card stock (I used a 12x12 cut down to make a 6x6 card)
Diamond Glaze or glue
Sparkle dust
Peel off corners
Winter background paper and stickers.
Technique:
Used stickers onto card stock and decoupage to raise them up.
Blue textured card stock (I used a 12x12 cut down to make a 6x6 card)
Diamond Glaze or glue
Sparkle dust
Peel off corners
Winter background paper and stickers.
Technique:
Used stickers onto card stock and decoupage to raise them up.
Dwindling Christmas Spirit - thank goodness.
Friday-25-January-2008 Filed in: Independent
Living |
Why is
it...
T'was the night before Christmas... well not really,
it was the Thursday before actually and the venue
wasn't a cosy family scene around a log fire - it was
me and my PA in Tesco!
Christmas brings out the best in people. It is a time of good will to all men and of extra special good will to disabled people.
The charity boxes are filling up nicely giving people a warm and cosy feeling inside...
Note from Editor: Little do they know they may have inadvertently helped another person spend further years in an institution - but never mind.
and people are falling over themselves trying to help.
Ahhhh. How lovely. Actually not. Not lovely at all when you are the recipient of such goodwill. Now I know people are just being nice, and God Bless them for that because it's better than being left to struggle.
However, take this example from that dreaded day.
My PA was selecting vegetables and you would have thought I personally was adding to the variety of vege in that area (Ed. crip joke), when out of the blue an elderly gentlemen beamed at me and proceeded to squeeze my cheeks like you might do to a cute baby in a pram.
For goodness sake, I'm a thirty something woman not 3 months old. He told me how pretty I was followed by a comment that I wasn't to think of him as weird old man - he just thought I had a pretty face and felt I shold know that.
I smiled and wished him a Happy Christmas... but he lingered on. He carried on chatting whilst his wife did the shopping. I was turning a shade of red and struggling on how to politely get away.
"Some people wear a silly hat or have to shave to look beautiful - but you don't".
"I should hope not", I laughed. "If I have to shave my face then I'm in trouble".
He laughed and off he went.
But it wasn't over yet, do gooders were all over the place asking could I reach things and if there was anything I wanted. My Yoghurt Lady (a member of staff who works in that isle and is very helpful every week) spotted me in another end of the store and shouted 'I'll go and get the cherry yoghurts ready for you, how many do your want"? Back she came with my goods and popped them into my trolly.
As my PA was packing things into the car, the guy in the next car offered to help put them in.... there was no end to this jolyness!
If you are on you own then all this help is probably just that - helpful. When you have a PA around and you have to keep declining help and explaining you have your own assistant - it becomes tiresome.
Thankfully, now, people are going back to their every day lives and Christmas goodwill is a thing of the past. No one will offer me help, probably, until next December. And that's the real point of this entry.
We are disabled for life (well a lot of us) not just for Christmas - so spare a thought throughout the year rather use up the annual dose of goodwill all in one go - thanks.
Christmas brings out the best in people. It is a time of good will to all men and of extra special good will to disabled people.
The charity boxes are filling up nicely giving people a warm and cosy feeling inside...
Note from Editor: Little do they know they may have inadvertently helped another person spend further years in an institution - but never mind.
and people are falling over themselves trying to help.
Ahhhh. How lovely. Actually not. Not lovely at all when you are the recipient of such goodwill. Now I know people are just being nice, and God Bless them for that because it's better than being left to struggle.
However, take this example from that dreaded day.
My PA was selecting vegetables and you would have thought I personally was adding to the variety of vege in that area (Ed. crip joke), when out of the blue an elderly gentlemen beamed at me and proceeded to squeeze my cheeks like you might do to a cute baby in a pram.
For goodness sake, I'm a thirty something woman not 3 months old. He told me how pretty I was followed by a comment that I wasn't to think of him as weird old man - he just thought I had a pretty face and felt I shold know that.
I smiled and wished him a Happy Christmas... but he lingered on. He carried on chatting whilst his wife did the shopping. I was turning a shade of red and struggling on how to politely get away.
"Some people wear a silly hat or have to shave to look beautiful - but you don't".
"I should hope not", I laughed. "If I have to shave my face then I'm in trouble".
He laughed and off he went.
But it wasn't over yet, do gooders were all over the place asking could I reach things and if there was anything I wanted. My Yoghurt Lady (a member of staff who works in that isle and is very helpful every week) spotted me in another end of the store and shouted 'I'll go and get the cherry yoghurts ready for you, how many do your want"? Back she came with my goods and popped them into my trolly.
As my PA was packing things into the car, the guy in the next car offered to help put them in.... there was no end to this jolyness!
If you are on you own then all this help is probably just that - helpful. When you have a PA around and you have to keep declining help and explaining you have your own assistant - it becomes tiresome.
Thankfully, now, people are going back to their every day lives and Christmas goodwill is a thing of the past. No one will offer me help, probably, until next December. And that's the real point of this entry.
We are disabled for life (well a lot of us) not just for Christmas - so spare a thought throughout the year rather use up the annual dose of goodwill all in one go - thanks.
