Another Wednesday Freebie on Thursday

To make up for missing last weeks freebie, here's Fin The Swim. GO HERE to download him. A comment would go down swimmingly! Thank you for floating by!

This weeks WednEsdaY Freebie.

 Here's Last Weeks Wednesday Freebie! He didn't appear because for some reason, my documents have no pictures, just a picture with a paint brush across it, so I couldn't find him! If anyone knows how to get the pictures back so you can see what's in the file (or part of it) that would be fintastic!! This weeks freebie is a whale... and should be here later...when I can find it. I've named the file, 'here I am!' so I'm hoping a search will bring it to the surface... Go HERE to download him...oh! That's if I can find the one without the water mark! Happy hunting!!Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Birthday Oliver. Card Number Two. A Tri Fold Card.

 Here's  Oliver's second card I made for his birthday. I've called him Ollie the Owl of course.This  die set, along with matching stamps is designed to go with aTri-fold card,  is by Crafter's Companion, which I'm happy to say was waaay less than half price (£2.20) at The Range and seeing all you get are the frames with a little bit of the owls outline, that's about right!  I would've been a little peeved at paying over £9 for them! (I also bagged a giraffe over the edge set from the Crafty Charity shop for 50p, worth it even if one thing was missing)  

 I swapped the heart in his 'wing' for a birthday pressy. Coloured in Promarkers and used papers from my stash from years ago, called Abstract Prints by the then Dovecraft.

The Happy Birthday die, the party word and party hats and the Banner dies were from The Range and were also well below half price. Yay!

   The paper on the right in this picture above came from a 6x6 paper pad called 'Neighourwood' Another one I love and just haven't wanted to 'cut into it'  But I will! I added it to cover the inside 'window' with some foiled leaves card so you couldn't see the sentiment through it. 

This is the back. I've made a 'pocket' with  a secret message, telling Oliver to say the secret code, which was 'I'm Ollie Owl', and nanny, me, would give him some birthday money! I loved making this card  and it would be very easy to make another using other animals in my stash! My only 'thing' was, I wish it had a whole die for the owls as well. As it was, you could only die cut the owls heads and then fussy cut the rest of them to fit onto the card.

That's it from me! Thank you for stopping by. 

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Another Wednesday Another WOYWW Day! #688

 Yes I missed last week altogether, and not just WOYWW but I'm working on it to catch up...well, I can hope and dream...computer's not playing up as much as it was, instead it's hiden things so I can't find them, and the scanner's on strike! So, no, it's not going to happen this week, the meaning of 'Time Waits for no one'  rings in my ears as I suddenly understand it!  We've had dogs, still have dogs. My phone would ring off the hook if it had one. So, I'm hiding in my craft room, because it's too small with all my chaos spread everywhere, for the dogs to come in and sit on my feet, or on my lap but they try! 

Here's my bench, a bit boring I'm affraid. I have managed to make Oliver (grandson) two cards for his 7th birthday... and that's about it. Hence even more chaos...I've shown one card, the other one's coming up later. All I wanted to do was clear stuff away from the window so I could give it a clean and open it, a breeze would be lovely about now! So, all the stuff in the window is now on the floor and the stuff that was on the floor is on top of everything else, waiting....to fall! I won't show it all, it'll give you nightmares. I'll just leave you to ponder, don't get flustered, keep cool, go and enjoy and nice fruity lolly! (Or a gin and tonic) Now hop over to Stamping Ground and join in! Thank you for stopping by!

Happy BIrthday Oliver! First card is a ...Tunnel Box Card

 

Evening Crafty peoples, hope you're not too hot! I must admit, I've melted on more than two occasions. Our old fans are blowing their little hearts out, which means, crafty paper is scattered everywhere! Here's one of the cards I made for Grandson Oliver for his seventh birthday today! It should've been dinosaurs but I couldn't find them (they are extinct you know) but I did have some dragons...so I used them instead.

I used one of my very first die cuts (a set of nesting dies) so they must be at least 12 years old, if not older but I've never used the biggest one before now...and guess what...one of the curvy corners didn't have  any thing there to cut with, just smooth metal, so I had to finish it off with scissors. All the smallers dies worked fine. There's about three layers looking through the 'tunnel' to see, at the very back,  Tim Holtz's 'Alpine' Mountains with pine trees. I took ages making them but they can't really be seen.
 

 The dragons are stickers and are guarding the castle's gold, treasure and gems. They are just fixed onto acetate, which is why, on a close up shot the picture looks 'cracked'. The papers I've used are from a 12x12 double-sided pad from The Works.

At least I managed to find a bit of a dinosaur for the back of the card, downloaded for free at Chantahtiadesigns rainbow papers, where I wrote a sentiment, but I rubbed that bit out. (And yes, I'd forgotten I had these dinosaurs!) The whole card folds flat to fit into a 5x7 envelope. Oliver's other birthday card will be here tomorrow, with any luck-because, oops, just remembered I haven't watered the flower pots and hanging baskets or the beans or the tomates yet!...and we have dogs that need a quick pee and a poo walk before bed. (which is why I haven't been here for ages, again!) So, stay safe, keep crafting... and thank you for stopping by.

What's On your Worktop today?WOYWW#686

Happy WOYWW!? For a minute I thought I'd missed it! I didn't start taking pictures till about five minutes ago and then I was waylaid with Lady Pam's little battery vacuum cleaner. Her little house is at last empty now and looking very sad. We've kept back the electric lawn mower too, so we can nip back at any time to have a mow and a vac. She always said we'd have a job clearing it out, and she wasn't wrong! Her two beds had to be sawn in half as there was no way they'd go down her very narrow stair case, making us all think, the bedroom walls must have been built, once the bedroom furniture was put in place. 

 So, back home and I'm still playing with those Perfect Pearls I played with last week. I've done a bit of embossing and bleaching,   played with a lovely die-set from the Memory Box Magazine and I've painted the flower pot gold....(It was there, so I painted it)  The little ginger house is a download, (pinterset) coloured on the computer and printed out.

And... I've only just realised that I can make boxes using my Adorable Scoreboard. (There's a youtube tutorial HERE) On the bottom left hand side it sez, box lid and on the right hand side it sez, box base. So you measure the lid on the left side (1.2. 3. etc) and then, measure for the base using the numbers on the right...(12. 11. 10 etc) because there's a little nic on the left hand side making that measurement a tiny bit bigger than the measurement on the left side) Genius!

Called into the Crafty Charity shop, took Lola the Chihahua with me in the puppy pram, she loves it!  Everyone wanted to fuss her. There was a bargain. A crafting trolly for £8. No I didn't get it, I thought about it though! I've been fancying one for ages and have been using Pam's shopping trolly, brand new, never used, and finding that very useful to take the odd crafty thing from my stash back to the shop for them to sell (for charity)  and when we've  been off camping or dog sitting. I can get a load of crafty things in it. And there was no way I could manage both the puppy pram and the crafting trolly. I get enough grins from people as it is! ('There's that weird bag lady!') That's it from me! The Wednesday Freebie is in the post below. See you all later over on Stamping Ground. Have a great week. Thank you for stopping by!

This Weeks Wedneday Freebie! A Christmas in July Santa! Closed

Hope you like this Santa sitting or shoud I say, stuck in the chimney!  A comment would be lovely!
 

It's A Gate-Fold Butterfly Card Using Butterfly Trails.

 

 Here's  my second card made using the die-cuts from 'Butterfly Trails' by Christina Griffiths, Card Making Magic. It's 5x7. Some of the pictures are a little different, because of sunlight, day light or even night light and because I kept changing my mind. I also wanted to add more to the inside of the card, (I'm not keen on that naked purple but, it was too hot and I couldn't be bothered! (I can always add something later).

And, looking at this picture now...I think I will at something later! I didn't think it needed that extra half of the butterfly and I nearly cut it off. I could've cut the front butterfly in half and fixed each piece to the 'butterfly flaps so the card opened through the middle of the butterfly...but having it just fixed to one side, it was like having a boneless spare leg flapping about! So, no I didn't cut it off...

 ...I added some more backing paper to it... (Butterfly Kisses by Dovecraft/ Craftlabel) The papers on the front Butterfly (spots and purple jungle leaves) are from a double sided 12x12 Jungle paper pad from 'The Works.'

And now...it has a belly band. The purple butterfly ribbon is from my stash. I've fixed it to a thin piece of card to stop it going all floppy. On the front of the bellyband is a stitched die-cut 'flower' probably from a magazine and I've used that perfume shiny purple cardboard box again. One of the tabs had a gold embossed face and I used that... it wasn't very well centred so I added the tiny butterflies as well. At last! The card is finished! It's taken me all week, (Had cats to feed and dogs to see! And the days are just not long enough!) It should've posted on Saturday but today will do! Have a great week.  Thank you for stopping by!