Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep

So I am going to enter the TiddlyIinks challenge with this card.  I loved Janine’s card using the digistamp image For The Birds and immediately thought of the song Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

I used 300gsm card and coloured the birds with Copic markers.  I then cut them out and arranged them on hand drawn branches and used gems for the circular part of the musical notes.  I coloured some silver peel offs with a blue Copic and used them as a border

I haven’t stopped singing the song in my head since I thought of it!!

 

 

Change the banner, I’m a card making obsessive too!!

I’ve been away a while, I hope you will forgive me.  I am STILL having problems with my back and the latest is that I am going to have an operation to remove the bit of the disc that is protruding and pressing on the nerve and causing the pain.  Over Easter I ended up in hospital again, in the most excruciating pain but was sent home with painkillers.  We contacted the private hospital and I had an epidural a day later which worked miracles.  But I am still in pain and still on the awful painkillers, so the op it is.  Hopefully this will be an end to it although I will always be careful what I do in future.

Sooooooo, in the meantime I haven’t knitted a great deal.  I now have a craft room in the small bedroom but rather than filling it with my yarn I have filled it with fabric and card making supplies.  I’ve been learning to colour with alcohol markers, blending colours together and making shadows etc.

Here are some of the cards I have made lately.  I will try to put a single card per post in future but just wanted to get these up all at once………

………this one I made for Janey who does The Baarmygirls Podcast with me

This one for Melissa, my friend’s daughter

This is an interesting one, I posted a card on the Passionate Paper Creations page on Facebook and a lady asked me to take part in a contest by sending in a card.  So I made this one as it was also her 40th birthday.

My mum gave me the fabric bees on this one and said “perhaps you could use them on a card?” so I did and sent it to her!!

The next one has to be my favourite so far.  I have made it for my friend’s other daughter who has recently taken her GCSEs.  I know she is going to do really well so there were no worries about making this in advance.  The image is a digital stamp from Tiddly Inks

I used Card-io Majestic stamps for this one, and stamped in different colours then embossed with clear powder

When I posted that one on Facebook my step-sister messaged me to ask if I would make her one in autumnal colours that she could put in a frame!  I was very flattered and made one for her straight away.  I posted this off to her this morning……

I have made a card this morning but it is for a contest so will need a separate post.

I have managed to knit a pair of socks for work.  I used the new Arne & Carlos sock yarn from Regia.  I bought the yarn myself and made them in my size so when they are not needed for display in the shop I can have them back!

Talking of work, we have a summer sale on at the moment, if you spend over £10 and quote HEATWAVE at the checkout, you will get 35% off your entire order.  How good is that?  I think I might get the yarn to make another Moon Pulls jumper when I get my mojo back.

So there you have it, a quick catch up, sorry its a bit photo heavy!!