Reposting my first card with a butterfly

Hello!

    I'm back here after a long break. I've been very busy lately with school. Besides teaching I've also been appointed as the school nurse. The school had a nurse but she retired & they were without one for a few months. When I was asked to attend to a sick child, I entered the sick bay for the first time, didn't like the look of it & requested the principal to have it done up. So, I've been busy setting it up all over again & also teaching. I've requested the principal to relieve me from teaching as I don't quite enjoy it. At home my kids begin their 'AS' level, 'O'level & the youngest his Grade 7 final exams. So, I haven't been crafting at all. Just thought I'd keep my blog alive by re-posting my first card with a butterfly for a challenge at Flashback Friday. 

This was my very first attempt at quilling. I started with a butterfly using manually cut strips of fluorescent papers and gluing them together as they were white on the other side. As a result, the papers separated, resulting in this asymmetrical, untidy butterfly. I feel rather ashamed to share this, but that's what Flashback Friday Challenge # 23 asks for. And just to keep my blog alive in spite of my busy schedule, I thought I might as well share this. And I can proudly add I've made several quilled projects far better than this one. You will find them all in my gallery HERE     

 I hope to be more active here after May. Till then happy crafting to you all.

Happy Easter Monday!

      Hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday. Apologies, for being MIA again so long. It was only because I resolved not to blog or visit any blogs during lent. As far as teaching is concerned, neither the principal nor the headmistress of the middle school are letting me go, so I’m continuing. I love the fact that I’m out of home after 18yrs and have some new friends too. I have been crafting on and off and hope to share those projects with you whenever time permits besides visiting you of course. Oh! I almost forgot. I have finally completed & published two new pages above. Do take a peek & let me know your opinion. 

Here’s my CAS Easter card for you today which didn't picture well...

The image and sentiment were stamped using Gina K’s- Basket Blessings stamp set, coloured with both Crayola and Prismacolor pencils. The co-ordinating colours at the lower edge is just a strip of designer paper. 

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:

http://justkeeponcreating.blogspot.com - Anything Goes

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://www.cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/ - Clean & Simple

http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Spring with pastel colours

http://lollipopcrafts.blogspot.com/ - Anything Easter 

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com - Clean & Simple

My First post for 2012

Hello friends!

   It's still January, so Happy New Year and sorry for being MIA for so long. First, windows crashed in December, I had it formatted just after Christmas and a week later the hard drive crashed. How frustrating!!! Using an old slow laptop, I managed to just check my e-mails for the next two weeks or so. It’s over a week now since I had all problems sorted out but I’ve been busy. That’s because I’m doing something I never ever wanted to do in life. Teaching!!! Well, the headmistress (nun) of the Convent school needed a teacher for English language for Grades 7 and 8 and the first person she could think of was me I guess? She called requesting me to teach for 2 months and although I honestly dislike teaching, I had to oblige as she is a good friend of the family. This is my first experience; I’m not enjoying it but am managing fine. The worst part is correcting books! Most of these girls mainly speak in their national language at home. So, their grammatical errors are numerous. Poor me!!! On the brighter side, I’ve made new friends with other teachers and I’m out of the house. I haven’t crafted for a long time now, but I have a couple of cards recently made, but not shared here before.

    Today’s card is a Clean and Simple one I’d made for one of my SIL’s, using supplies from a giveaway I won from Lori from My Comfort Cottage a couple of months ago.

    A clear stamp was used for the swirly image which I outlined with a green marker. I did not ink the 2 flowers on the stamp; instead I added glittery die cut flowers after shaping each petal with the small ball flower making tool. gems were used for their centers and the glitter dots along the swirls were highlighted using a Viva Décor glitter liner. The sentiment was another clear stamp set I received in the same giveaway. Thanks again Lori. I hope you liked my card. It actually looked far better in person.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com - Clean & Simple

http://indianstampers.ning.com - Anything Clean & Simple

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com - Clean & Simple

Reposting my First CAS (stamped) card

Hi!

    Here's a quick post for Flashback Friday #19 where the challenge is to repost the first Clean & Simple card. My style of crafting is normally CAS, as I've already posted the very first CAS card that fitted another challenge at Flashback Friday; I decided to repost my first stamped CAS card.

 

    The Golden Poppy image was stamped by me and colored with Crayola color pencils by my son Aaron when he was 10 years old. The sentiment was printed. You can find the first post HERE.

I'll be back soon.

Belated Christmas Wishes

Hello my friends!

    I had planned to wish you all a Merry Christmas with this card I'll be sharing today, but unfortunately windows crashed completely & I was unable to get here earlier. Anyway, I'm now here with belated wishes hoping you all had a wonderful Christmas.

 Meljen's digital image  - Frosty Face was used to make this shaped card. Colored card stock papers were used for the hat, nose and holly leaves. The leaves were paper pierced for dimension and painted with glitter glue. The berries are tiny @ 3/4cm styrofoam balls cut into half and painted with red glitter glue. The ribbon is holographic curling ribbon. The entire face is covered in white glitter and completed with googly eyes. I made this card for my niece. As she has a 4yr old brat who would likely ruin it, I added gold cord so she could hang it up somewhere. The card was hung and pictured against my Christmas tree. 

Here's another image which shows the glittery face more clearly.

 I'm entering this card into Meljen's Challenge - No rectangle cards

Finally, a heartfelt thanks yo you my friends for making this year a special one for me. Your visits, encouraging comments and friendship, although just in cyber space means the world to me. I hope the New Year will be a blessed and a peaceful one for all.