Snowmen cards and cardholders

Hello everyone, its been quite a while again, but I had to wait until my glasses were made .

First I want to expess my deep sorrow for the family's of Newtown , so many lives that are damaged , again . It will take forever to live with the losses . I can only say that , in this unstabil world with people turning crazy, and violence around every corner , do enjoy the company of your loved ones at all times .

 I believe that the difficult times we are living in right now are the "hard times to go through " as the bible refers to at 2 Tim 3: 1-7 :

 

Online Bible

NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES:

  ¹But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.²For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self‐assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,³having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self‐control, fierce, without love of goodness,⁴betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God,⁵having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.⁶For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires,⁷always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.

But I also believe three are better times  to come  . 
 I want to share some things I made in the last weeks ,  (except for when my glasses broke )  I 'm sorry for the poor quality of these pictures , I had to take several of them inside with flash .

I adhered this beautiuful backing paper to my card , but cut a window . The window closes by being held by the button  . To em bellish I used a die , cut with my double do , and somle rhinestones and a jewel hanger . Inside is a hand cut 3D image.

 Last week I got a present from someone , 3 small books with 3
D cutting files and also these 3D cutting labels : After I cut them , by hand , I inked the edges and embellished them a bit . A nice small gift , but much appreciated . I left some spaces blank to adjust to the occasion .

More snow men cards :

 And another window card , I cut out the area and adhered acylic sheet for the window , and used gold sticker lines on the acrylic to make the window . A 3D file and diecut swirl from MFT .

 

I also made  two gift sets : Two card holders with 4 cards , using my alphabet stamps and die cut machine. Each card is a single card that fits in the red die cut card holder that was cut with my die cuts and double do .

 I embellished the front cover more after I took the picture , but wasn't able to picture it again .

 My second set :

 As you see here I have spilled some ink , stamping the snowflake , it is very hard to stamp clearly , lying down , as I can not sit long enough .

The back of this card :

So this is it , I hope you enjoy you're holiday's and I hope to be back with some more paper crafts . A never ending card and a mini album are what I have in mind . Till then, take care ,

Hugs, Rosa

A gift for the nursing staff

Hello everyone, as I stated in one of my former posts I wanted to make stamped cards as a gift to the whole departements staff that  nurses demented people :  nurses , night care nurses , logistic aids and cleaning personel  .

 So I have made 30 cards on which I've  used some stamps I had in my stash , un- used since colouring was just not in my mind , but I thought I'd give it a go and I coloured with just plain pencils .

 My mother , age 84 , who I have nursed and taken care of for 10 years after she was declared seriously dementing at the start of 1998 , is now residing  at the demental departement for 5 years this month , of which she spent the last 2 years fully in bed after a nasty fall in september 2010, that broke her heap .

 Being an invalid myself since 2008 after a failed back surgery , I can only visit her twice a week thanks to very dear friends of mine (which I am so grateful for !!! ) , who take me to her by car and wheelchair .I have to lay beside her ,since I cannot sit or stand up for more than 15 minutes  ,but the contact with her is outstanding .I always start giving her  a dessert ,which  she firsts tastes and then approves by making  big glimpse eyes . Then I rub her legs with a soothing creme .And after that her finger points to the end of the bed , where I always have some new made cards laying , I then give to  her and await her approval , after that she will hold her favourite  card(s) until  I have to leave and she just won't let go . ,

She still recognizes me and with great effort we still communicate  with  eye- contact, and holding hands . It is amazing that when one takes time to learn how to stimulate contact, how much love and affection you get back for it , even when they can't speak .

Here are some of the cards I made :

I am also working on two gift sets  , each containing a map with four cards . That will be for very soon . Up until  then , take good care, Im off to  sleep !
Hugs, Rosa

New layout

Hello crafty friends , This is a short post , as you will see I have changed my layout and header . I might change again because it is so hard to choose and find out what works best . I found this vintage layout and header on vintagemadeforyou.blogspot.be . Just gorgeous !

Till soon ;

Hugs, Rosa

Lost files ........

Hello dear crafting friends , and readers ,...... when I wrote my last post and inserted my pictures of the cards I made,  I thought I missed some . And going through my camera I saw the missing cards and realized I must have uploaded them to a wrong map . In the mean time I have found them and here they are :


This lovely young lady in 3D file I glued on to  an oval frame that I first embroidered with 6 stars using a light glossy blue Madeira yarn . For the corner embellishments I used golden sticker corners and I used some glitter glue to brighten my background . Then I sewed a small jewel chain and little flower embellishments onto the background before attaching it to my card .

For this next card I used a little 3D winter scene and again used my Madeira yarn in golden thread this time .
I stamped my winter sentiment and adhered a lace flower , two silver snowflakes and pearls .                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                 

 The white circle on the following card was made using a special punch that allows to make two sized circles and then punch the border .The flower shape was made with my double do , and the postage  was cut  with a punch also . The heart was cut by hand as well as my 3D image . I love my MFT swirl and added a button and some snowflakes , a pearl and a ribbon .The trees on the background were glittered ,as well as the snowflakes ,  but it is not clearly visible on my picture .

  And more snow in this one , using  my double do again , stamped winter sentiment ,..stars and rhinestones , winter branches .

 I was asked to make a wedding anniversary card and I went to search the Internet for an idea , I do not remember who I have to give credit to , this is my take on that inspirational card : The black border is made with a spellbinders  insert die . The hearts are again cut by hand and the female one is embossed with a hand machine. Then glittered . I cut the female heart a second time also with a succors to give the upper part a female look . Then added flowers ,  pearls and a black lacy ribbon . The tie I made of a grey striped ribbon that I also used sideways on  the black die cut . I added a fabric rose .The tag was also cut with my double do and I added a silver sticker wish . And of course I added sticker rings and very small sticker parts to embellish the corners of my matted layers .

I have this stamp for quite a while and I am not used to colouring in stamps, it was just a fun thing to do ,a little difficult laying down on my side , but making cards is also difficult and  typing this text is too. I have a lovely person to  send it to : she adores owls . I took the picture after I wrote a message to her and you can see that between the opening space .

 

I am also going to use that owl stamp and a few other stamps for making about 30 cards as a gift to the whole staff  in the home where my mother is taken care of  as a thank you for their good cares .

So this is it for now , thank you for visiting ,

Hugs, Rosa

Falling leaves and winter scenes

Hello everyone, it is a cold and misty Friday over here . The leaves are falling and they cover the grass , trees and shrubs are displaying the wonderful colours of autumn , birds are singing a last song before winter comes along . I've had my garden cleaned up and the grass cut , I think for the last time this year and my cat Rocky sat there inspecting and enjoying the look ,  I couldn't resist taking a picture :

I'm saying goodbye  to the summer ( we even didn't have one ! ) with this card , made with two inked up doilies , a 3 D flower , a stamped birdcage , some lace , a heart hanger and gold sticker corners .

 And right into autumn with this ball of acorns , something I made about 6 years ago . Actually I made three balls , different in size . I have thrown one away last week and this one is on my terrace now for decoration .















Here are some cards I 've made in the last weeks :
Inspired by the autumn colours these leaves and bird are from a 3D file and I kept it clean and simple . I used glimmer glue on the leaves but it is not very visible on the picture . I just punched the corners a bit and decorated with rhinestones . I did not use ribbon because the person I made it for , loves simple and clean .

Next are some winter cards , I really love this delicate winter painting , the berries are made in 3D , all of my 3D files are cut by hand by the way  , and the background musical paper is a paper printable I found in my backgrounds map . I just added the flowers , adhered the small beads and some snowflakes . And a little trim of lace to finish it up .

 And as I strolled through my winter 3D files ,  this beauty caught my eye . I used a die cut  I had lying around for some time and this time it fitted my image . I used some glitter glue and golden stickers to embellish my borders and corner . The white leaves around the hellebore flower with pearl are fabric and I used a little paper swirl die cut .

Now  I know one of my friends likes horses very much , so I looked through my 3D stash and came up with this card

I  really seem to be in a winter mood , whilst I have always hated winter and still do ! but I stamped a strip with blue snowflakes and curls and that was the start for my next card . I neatly cut out the all the elements with succors and used foam tape to raise some of the images , not clearly visible on the picture .I secured a gold glittery sticker line on the edge of my stamped strip and I covered the 4 sides of my card slightly with gold ink ( pad )

I hope you are all doing well where ever each of you are , have a nice weekend and take care !

Hugs , Rosa