Civil Partnership

My beautiful friends had their Civil Partnership this weekend, and it was the most lovely day, all based on a Disney theme.

I was able to find some copyright free clipart online, and used it to help create their special card.

Jo Anne

 

Friends Together

Back in the first week of the New Year, I had arranged with my friend that we would have a couple of hours together card making.

She had some waterfall cards given to her one birthday and had no idea what to do with them and even considered trashing them!

I was HORRIFIED! and told her so! - Hence the craft evening together LOL.

I only know about waterfall cards in principle, and have never seen one to look at let alone tried to make one, so it was a case of Lord help us please!

As it turns out, once we sat down together with the die cuts in front of us and reading the instructions, it did actually make sense. Suddenly the evening did not look like quite so much of a hit and miss thing, and we started to work our way through a pile of die cut cards and adding the waterfalls to some of Tracy's card blanks to complete the effect.

As you can see from the above image, by pulling the tab under the picture the waterfall starts to happen showing each image to the recipient of the card.

When her husband and young son came to collect her after playschool was over, we had managed to complete 12 cards between us in the hour and a half that we had been crafting.

Bless her, she left a dozen of the die cut sheets for me, for helping out, and over the next couple of days I put them together.

I'm afraid I forgot to take pictures whilst we were together, but here are the cards I made with the bits that she gave me.

It was a lovely couple of hours, and I'm very sure we shall be doing a similar thing very soon.

Thank you Tracy. x

Purrfect Day

My friends birthday has come around quickly, and as she loves her two Ragdoll cats, I thought she may like this little chap.

I printed it onto ultra smooth white printer paper and cut out each layer, which got placed together with 3d foam pads.

The finished topper then got placed onto a white hammered effect card blank.

The insert I made, read Have a Puuurrrrfect Day!.

Happy Birthday Alison

For Tracey

It was my lovely friend Tracey's birthday last week. She is a constant source of inspiration for me, and is an avid crafter herself.

I did this lovely little girl for her, and was really please with how well the card came out and how special it looked when it was completed.

Happy Birthday Tracey x

New Blog

Hi there..... having blogged for a long long time now, it comes as second nature. However, up until now I have only ever blogged the occasional card that I have created, and these have gone on my main site: http://www.cornish-beachbrummie.blogspot.com/ I then saw that Jordiegirl had created a separate site dedicated purely for her cards, and so Card Craft by Jo was born!

I'm not saying that I like to copy other people, but when they have a good idea you can't ignore it. So here we are.

I shall place photo's of what I have created, and would appreciate any comments, good or bad. If I know something works and is liked, I can use the same format again and again with just a tweak here and there.

Let us begin.....