First time scrapbooker

I was asked to make a 60th wedding anniversary card - BRILLAINT I thought - until the lady in question said that she wanted it to incorporate all aspects of their time together i.e RAF, him in the mines, times at the seaside, their love of music the opera and ballet.  OOO ECK thinks me, the only way I can do that is a scrapbook/card, and I've never really scrapbooked before.  Here is the result!

Time in the RAF

Teaching and time in India

 Mining, music, Guilbert & sulllivan, Travel, Italy, books and the seaside - all with diamonds running through

Betty and the Piglet

Not a crafty post but a cutsey one! Yesterday we were looking at getting a new (ish) car for Matthew and whilst  Nick was taking it for a test drive, Betty and I had a wander and found these most beautiful piglets. SO beautiful that Betty had to give one a kiss!

Lots of love and best wishes to you

Melissa

A little steampunk

Hi,

The renovations are going well in the house, we've been busy knocking down walls - you've never seen so much dust in your life :)

Anyway, I've had time for a little crafting.  Unfortunately I didn't manage to photograph Dad's card which was a shame because I quite liked it, maybe I'll ask him to do it for me.

Here is my latest creation ..

The photograph does not really show the background on the brown, I stamped script colour on colour and also put some little gold highlights on the balloon.

I hope you are all keeping well and happy and enjoying the sunshine

Love

Melissa xx

Wicked Stepmother's Birthday card

... Well she is not wicked - far from it, but when you have a Stepmother it seems only right to tease sometimes :)

So here is her card - I did enjoy colouring the little girl she took a while but it was fun!

I hope everyone is ok.  Number 1 son went for an interview on Monday so we are all on tenter hooks waiting to hear what happens.  Number 2 son is being the same scallywag he usually is, good sense of humour an answer for everything and a pile of muddy rugby kit.

We are still pulling our house around but downstairs this time so I can get some sort of order back to my craft room (I hope!)

Love to you all xxx

Gee's Birthday Card

Hi!!

My friend Gee and I are off to a fancy dress ball in Oostende in a couple of weeks time and the theme is Can Can.  We have made our dresses starting from corsets and so I thought that this birthday card for her was perfect :)

I'm not sure it shows, but I brushed mica powder over the top to make it look silky.  I hope she likes it

Love  Melissa xx

Valentine for my hubby

What a lovely reason to make a card! now I have to rush the blog as he's just walked in from work and obviously this is for tomorrow - so here it is - me and a lot of embossing powder, oh and a lovely sentiment stamp.  I thought I'd  add it to the PanPastel challenge  too.   ooooo got to go

A Rush of enthusiasm!

Hi all

Recently I've seen some of the challenges that are out there in blog land, and I thought what a great way to get some inspiration as I'm feeling a bit on the flat side.  So here is one that I am going to enter into the Lili's Little Fairies Challenge

but I liked the layout so much I did another one but this doesn't count

My final card was for the PanPastels Challenge 4

I love the way the pastels allow you to get such softness into a card