Handmade 18th Birthday Card

Here's another 18th birthday card, this time in green shimmery card with vintage green patterned paper overlays with tattered and torn edges.  

I've embellished it with hearts, flowers, buttons and bows and even tied a tiny silver 'Coming of Age' key to the number 1.

 There's a panel of vintage linen green tattered paper inside to write a special message on.

This is now in my wowthankyou shop

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Oh, Soldier Soldier, Won't You Marry Me...

More fabric tags, this time with a big tall sentry box and a neat little row of soldiers...

made from blue denim with a red gingham ribbon.

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Tiny Bunting...

Look what I've been whizzing up on my sewing machine...

...denim gift tags with tiny bunting flags sewn on in bright ginghams...

...and some in a paler denim with stripey pink and green bunting ...

...and some in a beige heavy fabric with mixed pattern bunting...

  

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3 weeks? Sorry...

Hard to believe that the last three weeks have gone by and I haven't blogged once.  Life hasn't been busy, but it has been fun!  Both the men in my life had a birthday (that's my husband and my son, sharing the same birthday).  Hubby had a week off work and we spent most of time doing whatever we wanted to do.  The one day we chose to stay at home and do nothing also happened to be the worst day for weather so that worked out well for us.  And we've had a wonderful Diamond Jubilee extra long weekend to make us all proud to be British.  Top that all off with the half term break and weather to warrant the building of an ark and that's where most of my time has been.
I have still been tickling my craft supplies and producing little items but haven't had the light (or the sense in my head) to take any reasonable photo's.  But just to prove I've been up to something, here's a trio of shots of an 18th card I made for my daughter's friend...

...and this last  photo shows the pink heart covered wallpaper envelope too!

Union Jack Brooches

I've been cross-stitching various Union Jack designs, trying several different patterns until I finally came up with one I'm happy with.  The idea was that I would use them on different projects but so far I've only made these brooches...

...and the sun was going in and out like a fiddler's elbow when I was trying to take photo's so they're not the shots I was looking for but will do for now.

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Little House on the Prairie Tags.

A little bit more of fabric collage sewing.  Sometimes I pick up a piece of fabric and I know just what to do with it and what other fabrics to use, other times I can go through piles of different patterns and not find the exact piece I'm looking for (even when I don't know what it is I'm looking for).

Anyhow, these tags sort of evolved from bits of ribbon I have had for ages and wanted to finally use, so what  could be better than as a garden for a cute little house?

And I wanted to use a Union Jack ribbon too, so these houses got our great nation's flag as their garden.

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Fabric Tags.

Pretty in pink...

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A little bit of fabric collage...

All those little bits of fabric I can't bring myself to throw away have been put to use in some fabric collages...

...a cute little birdcage...

...and a butterfly.  

There are more in the making, but not finished just yet.

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Tag Time

 It's back to school and college today for my children after a lovely relaxing two week break.  

We had a fantastic and successful family egg hunt on Easter Sunday followed by a delicious brunch courtesy of my sister.

So I've been taking it easy over the break and haven't been up to a great deal of crafts but I did produce a couple of large card tags...

...with tatty and aged edges...

...torn sections, revealing another paper beneath...

...and embellished with bows, flowers, buttons, tags and lace...

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Card Making Catch-up

I had a lovely day yesterday, catching up with some card-making.  I feel as though an age has passed since I last had such a productive day for cards...

 

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