Birthday Tea

My aunty (and godmother) is celebrating a big birthday this month, and has organised afternoon tea today for a few female friends and family. My mum is organising floral centre-pieces for the tables and I was asked to make name labels.

As the flowers will be pink and purple,  I decided to decorate them with quilled flowers made using scraps and some leftovers of  Graphic 45 papers.

 I used a really old set of Docrafts dies to makes the paper strips to quill, along with a trusty glue gun.  The names were added using my new brushscript pens; hope Aunty Margaret  likes them!

Happy 80th birthday

I never forget my Aunty Margaret's birthday as it falls on Burns Night.  This year is a special birthday, so I made her a special card. She has a great fondness for purple, so I used purple cardstock from Natures gallery A4 pack (Papermania) to emboss with an Anna Griffin folder.

The background paper is by Graphic 45, as is the bird and nest image.  I made the flowers using an ancient Xcut quilling die, rolling up the strip the die cut and gluing with a hot glue gun.
The age is stamped, and I added two stamped sentiments inside.

I added a metal snowflake for this winter birthday:I hope she likes the card!

Almost there.....

Three days of term left; it's totally manic at work as the school is being completely redecorated. Ahead lies new flooring and freshly painted walls over the holiday, so we all have to box up the entire contents of our classrooms in readiness.  My room looks so strange with so little in it, the only bit I'm not looking forward to is getting everything back out of the boxes again in September!

As summer may be set to finally appear in the next few days, (according to the forecast) i thought a photo taken of my grandparents in their back garden during a 70's summer would suit today.

 I saw a quilling demo on the DoCrafts site, now quilling isn't usually my thing, but I liked the flowers so much that I bought the dies (currently available on the DC site for a bargain price!) to make them.  It was so simple to make the blooms, I ended up making loads, and storing them with the papers they matched ready for later use.  This also meant i didn't feel too bad about using loads on a single layout!

The journalling is all about how Grandad always gardened in shirt and tie (in fact, both my Grandads did!) no matter how hard he worked. He had one of those plots where not a leaf was out of place.

I just wish both my Grandads could see my garden now, it's not pristine as I go for the 'natural' look, but i think they would see that it is tended with love.