Crafty Weekend. Mystery Angel thank-you Card.

This weekend was all about relaxing. The weather has gone bad again - it's wet and cold and we've stayed indoors. I've been making cards, cross stitching, reading books, sipping cider and watching The Big Bang Theory and Avatar on telly :) 

I've made 5 folksy cards which I'll show next time in a separate blog post. Additionally I've made a Mystery Angel thank-you card. There is this ongoing Mystery Angel fun play at our workplace, for all teaching staff - someone is nominated to be your Mystery Angel, you don't know who it is and you find yourself receiving all sorts of goodies from your anonymous Mystery Angel. This lasts all working week and at the end of the week the person reveals him/herself if you can't guess who it is. Everyone else is supposed to keep it secret as well. So I've had my Mystery Angel this week and this is a thank-you card for her :)

I keep it simple, just as I like to. The central piece is obviously a card topper with a stamped image of an angel. I really like this Inkadinkado angel design - not too Christmassy yet light and heavenly.

On the cross stitching front line, this is my current project. It's going to be a cross stitched card with a teddy for my colleague's new born baby girl. I started with stitching the pink shades first. It's quick and easy so hopefully I should finish it by Friday.

Reading is what I've been doing a lot recently. A new ordered book arrived last Friday from the Pl online bookstore. It's the most recent book by Corinne Hofmann, a Swiss lady who married an African Samburu warrior. If you don't know the story of the White Masai yet, I strongly recommend that you do so. It's a fascinating story of a white woman becoming a Masai wife and living among her African family. Corinne has written 4 sequential books about her life and this one is the 4th one :) Check Corinne's books on Goodreads website for some more information and English editions. 

At the moment I'm reading this interesting story of Denis Avey - a British soldier who out of his free will broke into Auschwitz to see for himself what atrocities were happening there and who saved a life of a Dutch Jew. 

Well, no more news at the moment. I guess, I'll back to the kitchen now - it's a pie day today and my bf can't wait! :)

Sparkly Cards (1)

Last Saturday I was going through my card making magazines and I found this freebie:

2 sheets of backing paper and 2 sheets with the coordinated embellishments to make your own cards. I especially liked the mint green ones so I started with them first. The label on the packaging says you can make at least 3 cards. Did they mean 3 out of each colour set or 3 altogether? No idea. Eventually, I ended up with 9 - 5 mint green cards and 4 pink ones :) As I tend to jazz things up a bit, I've added some of my stuff too - sparkly adhesive gems, punched laces, ribbons, peel offs and some backing papers. I like a bit of sparkle, and you?

The papers and card toppers themselves are very ornamental so I tried not to overdo the cards. I like the shiny mirror-like elements on them. The sparkly gems have been added to accentuate this shiny jewel effect.

For a change, the leafy green background and ribbons have been chosen for the garden-themed card topper.

More sparkly cards coming soon :)

Retirement Card for Brenda

A colleague has retired recently and I thought I’d make a card for her to say “thank you” on the behalf of our school unit :) I wanted to create something leafy and flowery in some soft girly smokey pinks and browns. Hope she liked it :)