A Sunny New Home

I'm cutting it a bit fine for this month's Twofer challenge, but I've combined it with a new home card for my neighbour's daughter and family. They sold their house just before lockdown and were due to move into a new build, which of course went on hold, so their original 3 week stay with Dad has turned into 6 months.This is the card I have made for them ready for next week when they finally get into their new home.

My second card turned into a get well card for my stash. I did quite a bit of fussy cutting for this one.

The flower petals are actually pale pink although they look white in the photo.

And here they both are together.

The sun, clouds and flowers are from a Simon Says Stamp set and the house is from Stamping Up.

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

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For this card I used a Little Claire stamp that I got when they used to do monthly kits. I used watercolour pencils to colour it in, then mounted it on black then onto a cream DL card blank.

I hope you'll be able to join in this month.

A New Home

My soon to be stepdaughter is about to complete on her new house (her own since splitting with her boyfriend) and she is really looking forward to it, so of course I had to make her a card.

I've cased this from an idea seen on Pinterest but I've no idea whose card it was, if it was yours please let me know so I can give you credit for it. I made the card blank from Pool Party, the backing paper is from a very old K&Co pad, the stamps and dies are all from Stampin Up. The house is coloured with Copics. I'm entering this into HLS Anything goes with Dies, and Pixies Playground where Miss Di is celebrating 250  challenges with some super prizes.

Today has been ....

.....a good day! I have had a day off from hospital visiting and for once have achieved what I wanted to do!! Other days off have either not gone to plan or I have just been too tired to do much.
But today I have done mundane things like changing the bed linen, getting it washed and dried (not ironed yet - my ironer (Roy) not being available I'm going to have to do it myself and I hate ironing), sorted out the fountain in the pond as it was clogged up and done the shopping. I also called in the garden centre for a couple of plants for the garden and some craft stuff just happened to fall in my trolley.One item was sa Sheena Doudlass stencil of hills and I've even managed to have a play with it and made a card for Less is More!!

It is more colourful IRL but the light wasn't very good when I took the photo. The house is a Clarity stamp, coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils. I stamped the sentiment in sepia but think it would have been better in black.

I'm pleased to say Roy is improving albeit VERY slowly. He has been assessed and put on the waiting list for a bed in the neurorehab centre in Woking. It's further away for me to visit but he will be getting the specialist rehab he needs, and hopefully will improve faster.

I am so grateful for all the positive vibes and good wishes I have had from fellow bloggers - you really are great!
 

New Home and a NBUS card!

The lovely Darnell is hosting her third NBUS challenge.

 For those of you who don't know this term it means " Never Before Used Schtuff"! 

 

Just before Christmas - exactly a week before- my son and family moved into their new house. Up till now they have lived in military accommodation, but as he has just taken up his last posting before leaving the RAF they decided to buy. Of course this meant a new home card had to be made and I had the perfect stamp set for it - the SU Holiday Home set, which is now retired. I will be keeping it though as I love the different houses and is useful for so many occasions.  So here is the card I made them.

The sentiment is raised up as I smudged it when I stamped directly on the card! I'm also entering this into Addicted to Stamps and More where the challenge is to "Make your Mark". The background was sponged and the house coloured with Promarkers, and to Pixies Playground as the house and sentiment label and hearts used some small snippets. It's a long time since I've been over there - hope they haven't forgotten me!

New Home Card

Yesterday I was asked for a "new home" card at short notice ie to be posted today! Fortunately I had still got this month's club stamp kit  from Little Claire sitting on my desk  which was absolutely perfect. So here it is - exactly as the kit said! I love getting my monthly envelope from them!

New Home

I made this card for my son and daughter -in-law who are moving house. The freebie stamp with the September issue of Craft Stamper was just perfect! I stamped a row of houses in black then coloured and decoupaged just one to make it stand out.

New Home Card

My partner's daughter is about to move into her first house in the next few weeks so I've made this card for her and her boyfriend. I hope they like it. I didn't want to do anything too fussy.The backing paper is Basic Grey and the embellishments were from my stash.