B is for

Over at the Butterfly Challenge blog, the letter is B and a shaped card. 

I choose - buff green, baby pink and Bluebell, with a Birthday greeting and of course, the most important thing - butterflies!!

The paper stock was from a Card Making Magic Kit, The Secret Garden by Christina Griffiths, which was free with a magazine. I think the butterflies came from a previous prize by Mrs A. over at the Butterfly Blog and finally the White Pearls by Phil Martin.

Amanda xx

Anything your heart desires

 Gecko Galz (Facebook) challenge - anything goes project - just had to use a heart somewhere on it. I wanted to make my oldest friend a Birthday card so used this as my inspiration - though I ended up forgetting where I put the card, so had to send her a shop bought one!! And yes I found it afterwards, but at least I now have a spare - and the Galz choose my card has the winner of that theme, so I now have a new digital sheet to play with.

 

Amanda xx

Butterflies

Suddenly felt crafty, so made two cards today. One for a Facebook challenge which I will post separately and this Butterfly card which I have done for butterflyspot challenge blog

I have used 3 colours - Apple Green, Nero Blue and Apricot,  a Happy Anniversary sentiment and of course, butterflies.

The sentiment was actually silver, so I used a green promarker to colourise it.

Amanda x

Lets eat Cake!

Crafting is sporadic due to health issues, Pernicious Anaemia flare ups have been really bad over the last couple of months, coupled with the fact that a doctor I have never met, or spoke too (dr surgery merged) has decided because as my B12 level is 2000 I am not deficient, never mind its a false high as I get injected with it every eighth week (for 20 years) and it shouldn't even be re tested for that reason. 

Quoted 'NICE' guidelines to the receptionist who duly sent a note to the Dr, Dr now is insisting I am not B12 deficient and never have been.....never mind the fact that she missed my iron and folate levels are actually showing  as deficient as well from the same blood test... off to the doctors I go, armed with 'NICE' guidelines.... my illness, my life.

Anyhoo, back to crafting.

Over on Facebook, Gecko Galz asked for  "invitaion/celebration of afternoon tea or birthday party".

So I went with the traditional 'Let them eat Cake' theme.

Thanks for reading!

       Amanda 

Black and White

 Well this happened today.

Created for Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge Group over on Facebook. The theme was Black and White with a pop of colour. 

Recipe - Love Potion Craft Kit

Paper sheet number 4, turned black then copied and placed to so the music fills the right hand side.

Paper sheet number 2 turned black, cropped, edges roughened

image number 3, cropped, flipped to look right, copied and turned black.

Heart from copy of image cut out and placed over original image.

You know you've reached

a certain age when you see a nice tunic top in a colour you love AND its a sale item AND (this is the best bit) it's got pockets!

Yep, realisation hit hard this afternoon. I had to go have a sit down and extra shot cappuccino.

Still, I can hold my head up high - my childhood friend turns 50 tomorrow, where as I am still 49 and 3/4s. 

Got home and decided to bake, and make some feng shui Chinese coins for work, to celebrate Chinese New Year.

(Also when you think you posted this comment on Monday 24th January and realise today, a week and 1 day later - you hadn't!!)

Timed Out

It was either the naughty step or time out, so I opted for time out.

At the time I didn't know how long I would be out for - my work/home life decided to collide spectacularly. 

Yeah, you try typing that with out spell check. 

New fangled laptop 0 Me 1.

Anyway, I didn't know whether I was coming, or going, I lost my grip on my Depression, sneaky little shit kept throwing its dummy out.

And my crafting (amongst other things) turned into a chore and a beating stick.

Something had to give before I ended up back there, in 2006 trapped in my office, not being able to just open the door and walk through. Severe Depressive Episode it was called in the new fashioned way, the old fashioned way? A nervous breakdown. 

Nah, nadda, nope.

Been there, got the tee shirt.

So I took a time out.

Tentatively typing I'm back.

Fingers crossed.