Knitted poppies to raise funds to support the Royal British Legions Poppy Appeal

In August a request was made in our local estate newsletter. The Co-operative Funeral care were calling for knitters to create poppies to raise funds to support the Royal British Legions Poppy Appeal.

They supplied the pattern and the wool, so I started knitting in September, the poppies were fairly quick and easy to knit , it was just the making up that took a while.

I have delivered the completed poppies back to the Funeral care and they hope to start selling them mid October.

 

A Hard Card to Make - With Sympathy

Regretfully I have two dear friend's that have both lost loved ones over the last month. I had never made a sympathy card before and never felt I could, so duly went and bought to cards for my friend's expressing my sorrow for their loss.

 

My dear friend Nicky looked so disappointed when I handed her her card, as she was hoping I had made one, I had to explain I don't make those cards.

 

Regrettable Nicky then suffered the loss of another family member within a month of the previous loss, so I decided this time to try and make a suitable card.

 

I found some lovely floral mice images on the Makey Bakey Mice CD, one of which I thought was a perfect image. I wanted to keep the card fairly plain, so embossed a white piece of Bazzill card stock with a vines embossing folder, this I matted onto a dark pink square card section. I created a further matt of plain white Bazzill card and a further pink matt, this section was fixed to the base card.

 

I matted the main image section on top of dark pink card, this was fixed using 1mm foam pads onto the embossed card section.

 

A personalised message was printed and fixed below the topper section.

 

Finally to finish I die cut to pink trellis sections and cut them down to size to fit down the side panel of the card.

 

I googled 'sympathy verses' on the Internet and was pleasantly surprised at the amount and variety I found, I found some really suitable verses and chose one which the wording fitted perfectly. 

 

I'm glad I made the card as it was gratefully received and hopefully put a smile on Nicky and the family's faces at this hard time. 

 

Happy 50th Birthday to My Sis

Time to make a special card for my sister who is 50th this month. She is an avid sewer so I knew the type of theme for the card.

I selected a topper image from House Mouse Triple CD collection. I printed the topper image out four times as I wanted to create a decoupage image. I also printed an a4 sheet of backing paper out to match the image.

I cut the toppers out creating graduated layering sections, each layer was attached in stages to the base section using 1mm 3d foam pads.  The main section was matted onto green and blue card.

I die cut 3 bobbins from white card and some buttons in two sizes in both blue and green card.

I wrapped blue and green embroidery thread around the bobbins and curved them slightly using a pencil.

The patterned backing paper was cut down and matted onto green card. Thin twine was wrapped around this section and fixed on the reverse. Twine was thread through the cut buttons sections and tied.

A personalised message was printed and matted onto blue and green card, a button embellishment was added to the corner. 

The main image and message section were attached using 1mm 3d foam pads and the bobbin sections attached using silicon glue due to the curved nature.

Finally this was matted onto white and blue card before fixing with double sided tape to the base card.

Belated Baby Wishes Card

This was a card request for a couple who had a baby boy at the end of August - bit late posting I know.

Using Lili of the Valley stamp - Special Delivery, I stamped the image using black ink onto white card stock. The image was coloured in using Promarker pens and then cut and matted onto a blue scalloped card.

Two contrasting backing papers were cut and joined, blue Ric Rak ribbon was fixed across the join. This was matted on to brown and blue card and fixed to the 6" x 6" base card.

A personalised message was printed with the name, date and weight and matted onto brown card. Two little silver charms were attached to two brown scalloped circles using organsa ribbon. Both main image and message topper were fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads.