Corrugated card

Oo not blogged for a while, busy preparing for card party on wednesday and just general business of life keeping me away... Here is the card I made for the DCM challenge. Not a lot of time to blog, going to work soon, so will leave you with the photo...

thanks!

Sing Along Songs

I know this is a long post, and I dont usually write this much, but if you have time please read it. Thank you. There are so many lovely hymns and songs out there, almost difficult to choose, but this is one of my all time favourites. The words are as follows:

I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord;

No tender voice like Thine can peace afford.

(Refrain)

I need Thee, O I need Thee;Every hour I need Thee;

O bless me now, my Savior,I come to Thee.

I need Thee every hour, stay Thou nearby;

Temptations lose their power when Thou art nigh.
(Refrain)

I need Thee every hour, in joy or pain;

Come quickly and abide, or life is in vain.

(Refrain)

I need Thee every hour; teach me Thy will;

And Thy rich promises in me fulfill.
(Refrain)

I need Thee every hour, most Holy One;

O make me Thine indeed, Thou blessèd Son.
(Refrain)

Annie Hawks (the writer) wrote:
One day as a young wife and mo­ther of 37 years of age, I was bu­sy with my reg­u­lar house­hold tasks. Sud­den­ly, I be­came so filled with the sense of near­ness to the Mast­er that, won­der­ing how one could live with­out Him, ei­ther in joy or pain, these words, “I Need Thee Ev­e­ry Hour,” were ush­ered in­to my mind, the thought at once tak­ing full pos­sess­ion of me. After writ­ing the lyr­ics, Hawks gave them to her pas­tor, Ro­bert Low­ry, who add­ed the tune and re­frain. The hymn was first pub­lished at the Na­tion­al Bap­tist Sun­day School Con­ven­tion in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, in No­vem­ber 1872. Some years lat­er, af­ter the death of her hus­band, Hawks wrote: I did not un­der­stand at first why this hymn had touched the great throb­bing heart of hu­man­i­ty. It was not un­til long af­ter, when the sha­dow fell over my way, the sha­dow of a great loss, that I un­der­stood some­thing of the com­fort­ing pow­er in the words which I had been per­mit­ted to give out to others in my hour of sweet se­ren­i­ty and peace.

This card is for this weeks SALT challenge; 'From the hymnbook, take your inspiration from a hymn or song that means a lot for your faith. Old hymn, new song, overtly Christian or kind of hidden, God speaks to us in music in all sorts of ways.' Please feel free to join in, and see the lovely creations the other girls have come up with.

I used DCWV ever after paper, QK Snowflake die for the clock hands, and the off-cuts from the petals to add a splash of colour.

Hanging Tapestry

My latest creation for a new baby born 'Osian' is his name (it's welsh). The couple have been married 13 years, and the Lord has granted them this mircale of life. Praise Him! So I wanted something special. Inspired by Kate's work at Craft Life work I made name hanging, I was really pleased with the results. Made from blank Beer mats, and decorated with torn paper, I used a stitch stamp and other baby stamps for detail, inked the edges with silver, and used some silver QK swirls.

Saved by the Swirls

My latest commission for a frame. Specifications; simple, with burnt orange and gold colours, mahoganny coloured frame. If you know me, you will know I find simple difficult, so added as little as pos, but then had permission to add more, so I did! Thanks to my QK revolution for the swirls, time consuming sticking it down, but happy with the results. It is needed for this weekend, as a wedding present, so must go and get it ready for posting!

Heard it through the Grape Vine...

DCM are doing an interesting challenge this week... 'All styles are welcome but there MUST be an element of handcutting somewhere. It could be a greeting, a shape, letters printed on your pc and handcut, anything goes as long as you did it by hand.' So I mixed die cutting with hand cutting! (hope thats allowed!?) Anyway the grape vine was stamped and YES- cut by hand, and finally had the opportunity to use that wine glass from the Quickutz dies!

Howzatt?!

I think that's what they say in cricket? I should know really being a cricketers wife (non-pro!)... anyway, was browsing my bloggin friends blogs, and was reminded about some stamps that I hadnt used... so set to work with this cricket one..

Teacher's Pet

Recently brought these buttons with the view of making some 'thank you teacher' cards, as I have non stocked up. And as I have another card party coming up thought it would eb a good idea! So good old DCM to the rescue with a recipe of 4 brads/eyelets, 3 circles, and 2 rectangles, with added ribbon too! The stripey stuff along the middle is some ribbon as well as the mini ric rac.

Keep it Simple

Oh the impossibility of keeping my cards simple! Find them much harder to do. Pleased with the results though.... Just stocking up on engagement cards. Saw on someones blog 3 nrads together and it gave me the idea of an engagement ring. I love the colour of this card, got a gorgeous iridescent sheen. Yummy!

Pearl for Merle

This is a recent commission for a lady who wanted a 30th anniversary card (PEARL) managed to incorporate the names (mike & Eve) by using some stickers form the DCWV wedding stack, and some off cut papers. The pearl heart I am ashamed to say is another sticker (I like to make things like that rather than buy) although it was a present so doesnt count. Had the idea in mind of how I wanted this to look, and came out very close.

Now I know if something is not working out you should walk away and come back to it, but for some reason I kept trying to perservere to get this card right. But STILL wasn't happy, so I eventually slept on it (not literally of course!) and thought- it needs detail! So added some diamantes, primas and a few dragonflies and ah! thats better! Happy now :) So here is the BEFORE

and AFTER shot

and this was another card using the off cuts, I smudged the stamped 'Get well soon' by accident, so kept on smudging and thought it looked alright! Good old discovery by accident!

Young @ Heart

This is my card for the Wednesday Stamper topic, of 'Growing Old'. Used a image that was in a photo album one of there sample photos. The border is made up of images that were on a brown paper bag, that I cut out. The used some definition stamps and selected words that I thought asociated with old age to include some stamping! Used chalks to brighten the picture.