Saturday 10 December 2011

Keep Calm and Carry On!





Good advice in the lead up to Christmas me thinks and certainly kept me going this week! Had a bit of an interesting/challenging week...everything (not everything obviously but lots, you know what I mean!) seems to have decided to pack up, or go wrong, at the same time..the washing machine (beyond repair!), the printer (just as I wanted to print out address labels for our Christmas cards, the pipe work under the utility sink (I took it apart to plumb a new washing machine in and couldn't get it back together again), the telephone and thanks to a jobs worth at the local cinema my daughter's birthday treat.

It was her 15th birthday on Wednesday and we decided to make the most of Orange Wednesday and go to see, My Week with Marilyn. The girl selling the tickets refused to sell us tickets....I'd gone flat out all day (Wednesday is my shopping and errand day so I was only just back to the house when she got home from school)to make sure that Sarah got her birthday tea and a homemade chocolate birthday cake before we went out. I was not impressed! OK I can understand them challenging a child if they are with other kids, but when they are with their mother! It was suggested that we should go home and come back with id....I said that that was pointless as this would take an hour and the film started in 30 mins! She wasn't going to back down...so we left. Luckily there is another cinema in Worcester, the Odeon. They saved the day! We got to see the film and hour later. Having watched it we all agreed that we didn't understand why it had been given a 15 certificate...We saw Breaking Dawn on Monday that was a 12a and much more graphic.

Ooops that seems to have turned into a rant...what this blog post is really all about is the card and key ring I made for my daughter's birthday. She is really into the whole Keep Calm and Carry on thing, so when I saw this on a stamp I had to have it for her Birthday card! Can't remember who's stamp it is at the moment though! I've used triple embossing to make what looks like and enamel sign and attached this to a piece of handmade paper that I had stamped a union jack on and then embossed it in Tim Holtz's brick embossing folder. The Union jack was an Indigo Blu stamp and I coloured it by adding distress ink stains directly onto the stamp, a technique that I had not tried before, but it worked! The flowers and leaves were all made using handmade paper and spellbinders dies.

The key ring was made using a stampboard square, and then triple embossed in the same way as the "enamel" sign.

My daughter was thrilled with her card and key ring, and my other daughter wants a keyring too.

I would like to enter this into several challenges:

"Totally paper crafts - anything but a card"

"Simply Create too - Embossing"

"Art Impressions Stamps - try something new to you"

"Cooking it up with Katie - Anything goes"

"I break for challenges - vintage"

"Papertake weekly - Anything goes"

"Crafty card makers - Heat embossing"

"Stamp and create - Vintage"

7 comments:

Josephine said...

What a fabulous set - lovely muted colours.

Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this time.

Turtle In The Sand said...

So sorry your daughter's birthday celebrations was marred at the Cinema. Glad she had a Mom to make her a thoughtful gift. Great set, personalized for her. Thanks for playing with us at Totally PaperCrafts this week. **Linda

Deloris said...

Neat set! Thanks for joining the challenge at Art Impressions.

Anne Fenton said...

I love your set, it is great. Thanks for sharing with us at Art Impressions this week.

Anonymous said...

Perfect sentiment to go with the week you've had, lol!! Fab creations Sue! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Papertake Weekly this week and good luck! :o)

J said...

I love this card - such a vintage feel about it... thank you for sharing it with us at crafty cardmakers.

Jackie

DianeMoneyGoolsby said...

Sue: Your card and keyring areso cute![I know your daughter loved them both]. Glad you visited us at Simply Create Too and entered our Embossing Challenge. Hope you get to enter our upcoming challenges, too!

PS You KNOW this week will be better than last week, UH? God Bless!

Diane
Simply Create Too Design Team Member
http://DianesDigitalDesigns.blogspot.com/