I'm back and Happy Valentine's Day

I'm moving back into the blogishere. Since I last posted my Mother was diagnosed with myeloma , received chemotherapy in the first part of 2018, but unfortunately she died in the 11th November 2018. I'm now getting used to the new normal and I thought I'd start up blogging again.

I joined in a Valentine's card swap this year and I made the five cards in the photos above. 

I hope everyone has a fabulous Valentine's Day, regardless of how you spend it.

I'll be back in a couple of days.

Louise

A wedding card

, three 

This card has two folds meaning it has six sides and I've added decoration to all six as they can all be seen depending on the viewing angle.

I used 250gsm double-sided paper (from The Works) to make the card and used a mixture of vintage wedding images, die-cuts, paper flowers, wood embellishments, crystals and enamel dots to create the design. The cut-out circle enables you to see the happy couple from one side and the word love from the other.

I only make this type on commission as they can take a bit of time to put together.They cost between £6-9 depending on the size and detail.

I'll be back on Sunday with this week's circle for my 52 week project.

TTFN
Louise

A couple more Halloween cards

These Halloween cards are for two of my American penpals, like my first one was. As I've mentioned before, I don't intend to make any Halloween bits and pieces available for sale this year, but I may do some market research for next year to see if people would be interested. What about you, dear Reader, would you? I'd be interest in your thoughts. My readers are mainly a mix of British and American, so one side of the pond may have different ideas than the other. The only problem posting something like a card to the States can be quite expensive (once you get past the different types of the lower postal charges, the amount you can send as a parcel makes it more value for money).

Anyway, back to these cards, there's a gothic one and a more orange pumpkin, less scary-type one. Both are on grey card and have a grey paper background. All of the images on the gothic one were found on Pinterest. The other is a mixture of Pinterest and stuff I had in my stash.

Each card has a tag and, on the inside, a couple bits of ephemera with a triangular paperclip.

I need to get these in the post sharpish so they arrive in time (how is it we're half-way through October already?!).

I hope your weekend is going well (I'm busy making Christmas decorations myself) and I'll be back on Tuesday.

TTFN
Louise

Anniversary cards

We've had two golden wedding anniversaries this year, the first being my Mum and Dad and these cards are for my Aunt and Uncle's anniversary. There isn't any stitching on these cards just paper and embellishments, including some lovely 'lace' stickers to go with the wedding photographs.

I'll be back on Friday.

TTFN
Louise

Anniversary cards with stitches

There's a mixture of stitch on this golden wedding anniversary - the background silk was attached to paper on the sewing machine with gold thread. The art deco image of the dancing couple was printed directly onto fabric before being stitched, by machine, onto the silk background and then the button was stitched on afterwards. The gold heart is made from wallpaper and has had gold seed beads sewn onto it. The remaining elements were all glued onto the silk background.

This card also has an art deco dancing couple, but it is much more stylised. I've added a slew of french knots to highlight the sweep of the dress, the gentleman just has a line of back stitch around his collar and down the shirt front. I've also added a collection of gold french knots at each corner of the image.

I only make these stitched cards to commission as they can take a bit of time to do, please contact me via email at elsiemayandbertha@virginmedia.com if you're interested.

I'll be back on Friday.

TTFN
Louise