A gift for Nurse Suzy

Hello Friends,

Sometimes there is just one small thing that someone can do for a friend, that will make a huge impact on their lives.  This is a little gift, rather funny you might think, but my friend is a district nurse and spends many hours on her knees looking after other peoples legs and poorly feet.

Unfortunately she is someone who is suffering now with her own legs, so I had a little think and hope this little gift idea will help her to help to help others...

I'm hoping that she will be pleased and that it will make some impact on her day to day life.

Sorry about the photos being so dark, I do need to practice with my photography!

Enjoy your Sunday.

Carole
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Print & Cut - Silhouette Studio Software

Hello again,

I'm back!  I cleared up the mess I made last night, did my ironing, been for a 2.5 mile walk in the lovely autumn sunshine and have now completed my homework for this lovely class!

Today there were two wonderful teachers, both sharing lovely ideas and video's with us.  It was all about window shopping, not necessarily in the craft shop either!  We were sent surfing to our favourite stores for inspiration.

I didn't have to go far, I have found a designer store that caters for my figure - I didn't think one ever would, but I found one, just a few months ago and I love their clothes!  They do a lot of clothes that you don't need a waist for - and that's me!  This is their website, and if you click on the link you will see where my inspiration came from for this card........

I don't feel it's quite finished, but if I ever decided to use it then I could girlie it up with hearts and flowers and if I wanted to make it more masculine, then I could add buttons.

I designed the whole card on my Silhouette Studio software and this is a picture of the screen before I sent it to print.....

Can you see that I imported the inspirational image so that I could have it right in my work space, which made it easier to replicate.  I also used the colour dropper tool, to grab the colours.

I was pleased to be able to search for inspiration away from crafty blogs and shops, it makes you think of what you can use with what you have on hand and doesn't make you wish you had this product or that ink etc!

Now with my homework done, I'm off to order this dress.............

........well, I might just have to go into Oxford tomorrow to try it on - I love it!

What a day..........now gotta go and cook supper!

Happy surfing for ideas, not blogs or craft shops - anywhere but!!!

Carole
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Kick Start - Day 5

Dear Friends,

I got into crafting last night in my new space and am pleased to say that I think it's definitely going to be a great space to work.  I found my old Ott-Lite, I hadn't used it for years as it didn't go all that well in my old space, I dusted it down and now have a great day light lamp on my desk, which means it will be nicer to craft in the evenings.

After the inspiration yesterday from the Kick Start class and making the card I showed on my blog yesterday, I continued to make cards until pretty late last night.  I made all of these.........

All are using a glitter technique, either two different colours or all white with some if it coloured with markers.

Enjoy your day, I'm not crafting today, until I've done my ironing - the pile I have is distressing me!  Oh and I have a glitter clean up operation to complete, I might start there ;) !

Happy crafting.

Carole
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Kick Start - Day 5 with Silhouette Cameo Christmas card

Hello again Friends,

I'm on a roll, my crafting space is getting organised and I have enough stash in here now to be able to produce something creative!!  Yippee :)

I've got my computer, my Silhouette Cameo, a stack of drawers, two whole shelves full of my stuff a cupboard with some of my samples in, my huge desk (but not big enough - lol!!!) and a couple of small temporary tables (oh I love tables - I have a whole stack of little ones that can be popped up anywhere - he he he!).

I managed to find my Sizzix double sided adhesive sheets and made this little card out of a piece of one of those sheets, my Silhouette Cameo, some plain card stock and two colours of glitter (green and white).  The base card was embossed with one of my original Cuttlebug embossing folders and the ribbon is from Stampin' Up - wish I had more of that!

The inspiration for this card came from this fab class, I keep mentioning it, I hope you are checking it out!

This was so easy to make, I might just make a few more whilst I have the stash out and the cutting file open on my computer, I only have a couple of button to press to be able to produce lots!

Happy crafting, I'm just lovin' it!!!

Carole
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Kick Start - Day 5

Hello Friends,

Where is a girl to start????  I know that I said that I wouldn't be cooking or cleaning whilst I was trying to keep up with the fab Online Card Class - Kick Start, but I was only joking!  DH needs a good meal and I do have to stop snacking if I'm ever going to reach the body of my "body double"!

But with the homework commitments I'm definitely sinkin'!  What Kristina and Jennifer didn't realise was that  I had just started to turn a bedroom into my new crafting room, they hadn't a clue how much work was involved when they talked about organisation and tidying - LOL!!!! Perhaps next time, they'll check with me to see how I'm fixed before they give out so much inspiration and homework!

I would love to have made cards like theirs today, but I'm still on the tidying mode and am stuck until I get some stash into my room.  So I have spent some time today getting said stash into said room!  Whilst transferring the box of dies from my garage to my room, I did tidy them ;) - I put them in some sort of order and turned them all the right way around :)!

Whilst sorting them I saw something I did a while ago, with some of my dies.  A crafty friend of mine told me about sticking a large sticky white label to my dies and die cutting them.  You can see from the photo's below what I mean.  I also wished I'd saved all my acetate sleeves with the idea leaflet in, when I worked out that if you just cut off the end tabs of the dies, it makes for easy storage.  See the Stephanie Ackerman ones in the photo's below to see what I mean.............

I'f I'd have thought of this system earlier, I would have been much happier with my storage solution, but at least I know now (although, with the Cameo Silhouette on my desk, I can't imagine buying many more!) lol!

If you look closely at the bottom photo of the hearts, you can even see that I've written the measurements of what size card stock I need to cover the hearts!

Hope it help with storing your Sizzix dies.

Enjoy your day.

Carole
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