I mentioned a couple of days ago that I’d made cards for Little Cobs to take to school for the end of term, to say thank you to his lovely teacher, his teachers Assistant, who helps Little Cobs with any problems he faces – (Little Cobs has Cerebral Palsy, so does encounter some problems).
I posted pictures of the card which I made for his teacher, a couple of days ago (you can find it —->HERE<—-)
Todays ‘show and tell’ is the card I made for the Teachers Assistant, who is Little Cobs helper. Daughter No.2 tells me that she’s a bundle of fun and that Little Cobs loves her to pieces. So … I came up with this card just for her….
The flowers are crocheted with a sort of cotton mix wool. They’re lovely to feel. The flowerpot was a stamped image, and I painted it with watercolours it to make it look more ‘real’. The card is quite dimensional, and the flowerpot stands out proud from the card, curved, just like a flowerpot would be.
I tried to capture the depth I managed to get to this card, (by curving the pot), but couldn’t seem to find the right angle …. this photo probably is the best shot out of them all, but even this one isn’t great…
Although you can’t see it in these photo’s, the pinky red heart was given a little dimension too by the addition of Anita’s 3D Clear Gloss – more expensive products which do exactly the same job are available, but quite frankly, I think I’d rather save a couple of pounds and buy this one which I get from ‘The Range’. The 3D clear Gloss gives the ‘lipstick drawn heart’ (not really lipstick – I printed the heart onto the card) a kind of ‘wet lipstick look’.
I’ve removed Little Cobs real name from the front of the card in these photo’s but the card front reads: “A Simple Thank You but with a lot of” ❤ … then it has his name, and under that it says ‘Age 6’.
And that’s all there was to it!
It was a total joy to make and so simple too.
Well, all that’s left for me to say is … Have a wonderful Thursday all. 😊
Sending love and squidges, from my corner to yours ~
Hello, good morning and …. Happy Monday! Hope your weekend was good, and a handful of smiles was found among the hours.
I made this card (above) about two and a half weeks ago, but I couldn’t blog about it until it had been received by the recipient – a fellow blogger, who I wanted to send a surprise smile to through the post. Now it’s safely in her hands, I can share it here.
Made on a 6×6″ scored and folded card, I firstly fixed the blue background you see in the photo. After that I distressed and inked up some pretty script card, and added some vintage blue baby bobble trim across the top third (ish).
I then turned my attention to making the flower …. Start with a circle of card, onto which glue some stamens or small flowers, and, if you have it, a little dried gypsophila, just to give it a bit of movement and depth. Then add a piece of frayed muslin or loose weaved fabric. Finally add your flower to top the whole lot off. You can’t see it in the photo but I gave the flower a very light touch of clear glue, just in a few places, then added some chunky clear/ice glitter (not really glitter but I’ll have to call it that) which gave the flower just a bit of dusty looking interest.
I then added the whole of this built up flower to the top of a bright blue, crocheted doiley.
The sentiment on the card was one I stamped, but it began life as one long sentiment, and too long for the little piece of script card I wanted it to go on. So I stamped each word separately, cut the words out, and then placed them onto the cardstock and glued in place. The sentiment is held by a Tim Holtz memo pin, which I poked into the blue doily, but it’s held in place with a little glue.
I fussy cut the birds and butterfly out, but wanted them to have an ‘old’ look, so very loosely coloured them using some water colours, and by holding a water brush to add the colour – but holding the brush at the very end, so that I didn’t apply much pressure, and also couldn’t make them look too ‘painted’. I needed them to look old, so that ‘not quite coloured’ look did the job.
taken with the flash on, but it’s kind of whited it out a little.
And basically …. that was all there was to it! 🙂
I’m sorry about the blurry photos. They are the best of around 12 pictures which were all rubbish. [sigh] … I’ll blame it on my staff. Yes! It was the Butlers fault! lol.
If there’s anything I’ve missed or that you want more information on, please just ask away in a comment, and I promise to answer.
Thank you so much for coming and sharing a coffee with me. I love seeing you … but you know that so I won’t go on. 😀
I wish you a fun Monday. May the birds sing, the sun shine, and … till we meet again, may your God hold you in the palm of His hand.
I had a card making day …. and made a card with a sort of cottage, country feel to it. The card and papers used are all by Docrafts, who, by a remarkable coincidence, are based here in Dorset, where I live! (No I haven’t been and raided the warehouse in the dead of night …yet. But only because I think I’d need several helpers to bring home all the stash I’d want! lol)
The blue flower and green crochet doily (under the flower) are Prima and the feather … is from Edna.
No Edna isn’t a new craft producer … at least, she’s not a big time producer of craft items… she’s one of our chickens.
Edna is a big old bird who lays mahoosive brown eggs of roughly 3″ tall – (too big to fit into egg boxes – even the egg boxes from supermarkets which claim the enclosed eggs are ‘extra large’). We only have two chickens now, Edna, and Dorothy, and it’s a case of from the sublime to the ridiculous!
While Edna is the big, noisy old bird whose a rich, warm rusty colour, Dorothy, on the other hand, is a quiet, delicate looking, little thing, whose feathers are paler, mottled, and fluffy, and she has feathered feet, so she looks like she’s wearing feathered slippers. She’s a beautiful colour, and her eggs are darling and so little too – anything from half an inch to roughly an inch tall – and they’re a pretty blue colour. They‘re very rich eggs, a little too rich for me. She follows dear Edna around as if Edna has her on a lead. She also copies Edna… When Edna does the BIG LOUD “QUAAawwww, qwaw, qwaw, ack, ack, ack.” letting the world know that she’s about to lay an egg the size of a planet, Dotty tries to copy her, but the noises she makes come out like a creaky little whisper: “paw wah wah waah“. You couldn’t get two more extreme birds. But they do seem to love each other. Bless them.
When Edna goes into the hen house to lay her egg in one of the nest boxes, Dorothy goes in with her and more often than not we can find them both snuggled together in a nest box, keeping each other company while Edna lays her egg. However … Mr. Cobs went looking for the two darlings a few days ago and found them in one nest box, but … Edna (big bird) was sat ON TOP of Dorothy! Dotty must have gone into that particular nest box first, and Edna either went in to keep her company, or … she wanted to lay at the same time, and instead of choosing the nest box right next to Dotty, she clambered in and sat on top of her! We were quite frankly suprised that Dotty wasn’t squished!
Edna, like all birds, loses feathers every now and again. When she goes through a moult, she looks like a Mrs. Shabby Chic Clucker, than like a World Champion Sized Eggs Layer! Any feathers she drops I squirrel away and use them when I know that something needs one of her feathery gifts. This card needed a gift from Edna. I did toy with putting one of her eggs on it but didn’t think the Post Office would approve of a scrambled egg letter ~ so you have the little spotted egg you see in the photo above. (no, it’s not a real egg). lol.
A teeny tiny metal spoon, so that you can eat your boiled egg with it.
The title of this post is ‘Just for You, … if you’d like it‘ and what I meant by that is that you could be the receiver of this card if you’d like to be.
I’ve never done a ‘give-away’ on my blog (I’ve never been sure anyone would want anything to be honest, – and I’m still not now) … but in the last few days I’ve seen a few blogs doing ‘give-aways’. Not of cards, but rather knitted things like mug sleeves or sewn items like a make up bag etc, but it made me wonder if bloggers who made cards ever did a give-away for a handmade card. I’d never seen any … and this led me to think that maybe it might be something fun and something to make someone smile so my mind was made up. I’d do a card ‘Give-Away!’
If you’re a follower of The Cobweborium Emporium blog, and would like to have your name ‘thrown into the hat’ and be in with a chance of receiving this card then please just leave a comment below with the word: GIVEAWAY – either at the start or the end of your comment.
To make sure that all is fair, I’ll get the Random Number Generator to choose the number, and I’ll also do a screen shot of the R.N.G and post it so that you can all see which number was generated.
If you’re the ‘winner’, then you have a choice. You can choose to have the card for yourself, in which case I’ll write the card to you, sign it and send it with love. Or… you can choose to receive the card un-written, so that you can write it and send it to someone else.
But … If you don’t want to enter but still want to leave a comment or have a ‘coffee chat’ , then please do. You really don’t have to get involved in a give-away. It’s just a bit of September fun. 🙂 Any comment which doesn’t have the word ‘GIVEAWAY’ at the beginning or end of a comment won’t be entered and you must be a follower of the blog here to enter.
This give-away is open to anyone who is a follower of The Cobweborium Emporium blog – no matter where you live.It’s not just for UK folks. I’ll close the ‘give-away’ entries on Wednesday 21st September 2016, at 6pm UK time. Only followers who have commented by that date and time, with the word ‘GIVEAWAY’ somewhere in their comment, will be included.
NB: Please DON’T put your real name or address in the comments box. I need to look after your privacy and security.
Well it’s Sunday and I’m not normally a poster on Sundays, so this is something which feels kind of odd to me. A nice odd though. It feels kind of warm and fuzzy. Friendly. Fabulous. Like I should be doing something normal, and instead I’ve been given time off to go and have a coffee with friends somewhere lovely.
Thank you so much for coming and having a coffee with me.I love seeing you here and love chatting with you in comments too. I’m so very blessed to know you all.
Although I know it’s a little early for Roses to be popping up in the garden(at least, it is here, in England) I simply couldn’t resist these papers any longer and had to get my hands on them.
The papers – beautifully named: “You Were Never Lovelier” – are acid and lignin free scrapbooking papers. All of them are of the ‘oooooOOooo’ and the ‘aaaaaaAAaahh’ type of paper!
I knew I wanted to make a cross-over type card, so set to work with my cardstock and guillotine. I LOVE cross-over cards – I think because it enables me to really ‘dress up’ a card. I also adore embellishments, and I particularly love making tags, so making a cross-over card gives me chance to almost have a party with embellishments strewn all over my desk!
Once the basic shape was built, I cut and added the papers and the beautiful vintage, crocheted lace.
The card itself has three large soft, pink, (fabric-type) roses, some paper roses, and some filler flowers. The little wooden bird-cage(available in almost all crafty outlets) I painted with Gesso and then tinted over the top of it. The string of pearls which winds itself along the card and around the flowers – are just ‘craft pearls’ on a string, and you can buy these for very little, again in lots of place, but I recently saw some in The Range(here in the UK) in a bag filled with a choice of either white or cream; LOTS of pearls and I’m almost sure that they were less than £2 (English pounds). To fix these pearls into place – I use Cosmic Shimmer glue – sparingly. You don’t need tons of glue. Just a bit here and there. (You can click to view the photographs in a larger size – but don’t forget to click ‘back’ so that you can come back to continue reading).
The crocheted cotton lace I used on the card is genuinely vintage lace. I bought it as part of a bag full of lace on Ebay about five years ago. The lady I bought it from was parting with some of her Grandmothers sewing stuff after Grandma had been called home. She told me that her Grandmother used to keep any lace from things which had worn out, got damaged etc, and due to be thrown away (or used as dusters/cleaning cloths etc.), and she would use the lace on other clothes or all sorts of things. But the Granddaughter wasn’t a sewing gal and had no room to keep things, so she put the bag filled with lace on eBay and I was lucky enough to win it. (I was thrilled down to my toes when it arrived and wrote a thank you email to the lady who I’d bought it off, telling her how wonderful the lace was and how honoured I was to be the new owner of Grandma’s lace.).
I made three inserts for this card, and all three can be ‘viewed’ on both sides. You can see one side of the tags in the photograph above, and the other side of the tags in the photo below:
The long, tall tag in the centre of the photo above is a bookmark. The little tag laying to the right hand side of the photo (on your right as you look at the photo) is a postcard on both sides of the card. And the final tag – the large one at the right of the centre – has an ’empty’ postcard on the one side – which is blank so that a message can be written from the sender of the card – and on the reverse side it has a beautiful poem by Helen Steiner Rice – which I ‘built’ on the computer using the fabulous image of the roses and the poem.
close up of the large ‘fabric type’ rosesClose up of the butterfly. I hand stamped onto some cardstock then glazed & once dry I added the tiny gems.
The tags fit neatly inside the fold over card, and the card itself has a stand on the back of it, (die cut on my Big Shot) – which stands the card in the same way children’s school photographs stand up. They have that fold out stand on the back, with a little curved piece which folds down and holds the stand firmly so that the card stands up apparently without any help! (I looks just like a magic trick when you see one of these cards standing up all by itself. All it’s missing is the flick of the wrist and swish of the wand! Oh … and ‘abracadabra‘! lol)
Obviously the card couldn’t go into a regular envelope, so I made it a box:
The sentiment on the little tag in the top right corner, was stamped – firstly with brown ink, then with black – which helped to give it a more vintage feel.
The card fits perfectly into the box . . .
This would be a lovely card for Mothers Day – or a Birthday, or a ‘hello’ card, a ‘cheer you up’ card, anniversary card, or an ‘I love you and wanted to show you’ type of card! It’s one of those cards which fits all the regular types of ‘card days’.
The big ribbon bow on the front of the card … isn’t tied into an ‘un-equal bow’, – it’s very much a balanced bow, but the angle of the card, combined with the angle I’ve taken the photographs at, has made it look like the bottom loop of the bow isn’t as generous as the top loop. It’s sadly a trick of the camera/eye. (and the nutcase holding the camera who’s rubbish at taking photographs! <sigh> tsk tsk). lol
But … if I may be serious for a moment:
I know the blog has been a bit quiet over the past couple of weeks. Apologies for that. Poor health is to blame, – but I’m hoping that my doctor will, this week, get the results of a gazillion tests and x-rays I had to have done, and that he will finally be able to tell me what the heck is causing this horrible ‘chest infection’ (or whatever it is) and will be able to ‘fix’ me once and for all!
Thank you so much for coming to share this card with me. I’m thrilled that you do. Honestly. But … what really brings me out in fun bumps (aka: goosebumps) are ‘comments’. It’s such a joy to put a name to a visitor, so please, don’t be shy. Do tap your fingers on your keyboard and say hello! :o)
Sending crafting love your way, and wishing you . . . . a truly blessed rest of your day!
I’m entering this card into the following challenges:
Let’s pretendthat you’ve never done anything other than written on a tag and added it to the gift you’re giving to someone. If you’ve read the post about ‘Rules of Tag Art’ and ‘Starting at the very Beginning’ (below) then you’ll know that there are actually no rules to Tag Art. But, that being said, it can be a bit daunting if you’ve seen some of the fabulous bits of Tag Art that are knocking around the internet – or on Pinterest! Now I’m not here to daunt anyone, I’m hoping to perhaps get one or two folks making their own types of Tag Art, so I thought I’d start with something which isn’t at all daunting.
A small tag, on which I used some coloured pens and a crocheted flower! The plant pot with the stalk and leaves growing out of it are drawn onto a small flower shaped (or scalloped) tag with coloured pens, using my left hand, (I’m right-handed but my right wrist and hand is out of [proper] action at the moment as I have tendonitis and can’t hold a pen properly) and I simply added that crocheted flower by gluing it onto the tag at the end of the stalk.
Ok … I can see you aren’t daunted– so let’s take it a bit further …
A new tag, this time with a blue flower, but I’ve added a bumble bee bzzzzzzing his way to his date with some pollen! We could leave it right there and simply add the tag to a scrapbook or maybe to the front of a handmade card. Or … we could do something on that other little tag that you can see peeping out at the top of the photo …
Awww … he’s brought a couple of friends to join him for a spot of pollen collection! … they’re a little late and they’re on another tag, …. but hey, that’s Sat Nav’s for you, and … besides, better late than never, eh?!
These two tags, teamed together, ‘speak’ to each other,and to the person looking at them. They kind of make you smile a little, don’t they.
You could use these in a scrapbookas part of the page – maybe a photograph of a picnic and these would fit the story being told in the photo. Or you could use these on the front of a card – or even inside a card as a surprise. You could pop these into your childs lunchbox so that they get a surprise at lunchtime when they’re at school, and get a little love with a message written on the back of them. There are a million and one things you can do with Tag Art. You’re only limited by your imagination.
This tag … is destined for a gift. It’s going to a young lady who lives in Birmingham (England), and I’m pretty sure that when she receives it, it won’t be thrown away like the normal gift tags, but it will be removed from her package and put to use in some other way. Maybe in one of her scrapbooks. Maybe even popped into a box frame and used as a bit of wall art. See .. that’s the thing with Tag Art; It’s so fabulously versatile. And so fabulously fantastic too – both to make and to receive!
So … how about you make yourself a little Tag Art. I dares ya!
p.s. … I’m right handed, but both these tags were drawn/made with my left hand because of Tendonitis in my right hand and fingers, so please forgive any ‘artistic license’ x
The Art of Cobwebs 