Commissioned card

My mum asked me to make this card for Dad's Brother-in-Law, who will be eighty soon. I really like how it turned out as I usually avoid doing cards for men!

My Mum and Dad's beautiful puddy tat!

Isn't she beautiful?! I have made both photos into cross-stitch charts and will do them both one day...

Kwerner Colour Challenge

I decided to have another go at the challenge as I really love the colour schemes that are used each time. It is a real challenge to use colours selected by someone else because it makes you think outside your normal colour comfort zone.

I am quite pleased with the result although it is a little removed from my normal style. I used an A5 card, so it took a little more effort to fill the space.

Summery Card

Here is a seaside card. The Mumsnet challenge made me feel all summery (well ice-cream does it for me!) so I got this idea for a card. I am really pleased with it.

I must organise myself...

I need to list the projects that I have to do at the moment:

Card for special person's birthday - done
Commissioned card for same birthday - done
Pair of ear-rings similar to the ones I recently blogged, but in another colour scheme - postponed
Mumsnet blog summer craft challenge
Bracelet for my mum - done
Three cards for fathers' day
Update - commissioned card for 80th birthday - done
Update - commissioned card for 60th birthday - done
Bracelet for Ranting - done
Bracelet for friend's birthday
19 cards for commission - 1 done

Phew! Hopefully I won't forget any of them now...

Edited 28/05/08 17:07

My nephew's card

On Saturday, I was mortified to realise that I had missed my nephew's birthday! It is normally me who remembers ALL the birthdays in our families and I am not sure what happened. Luckily, he is not old enough to really notice and was away for the actual day anyway, so I had time to make this card for him...

Ear-rings

I decided to make some ear-rings using the chain-maille format again. This time I hung the individual loops from a piece of chain, rather than interlinking them. They should hopefully be stronger that way. I also hung a pearl drop from the bottom link, which I think gives a nice, dangly effect.

A 'berry' nice bracelet

This is made from the box of beads shown earlier in my blog, plus a few others. I was worried about red and purple together, but the colours are so 'jam-like' that they go beautifully.

My son is such a sweetheart...

He made me this 'aword' for being the best mum in the 'would' (sic)

I was really impressed with his use of colour in it though, even if his judgement in mums is a little off!

Two cards

I was just playing last night and quite liked this colour combination, so I made two similar cards. The paper is already adheshive, so they were really quick to make.