Wedding Anniversary

Well, just look at me, two posts in the same day!

It was our wedding anniversary last week and as you all know it's really hard to make a card for a man, but I needed to make one, so after a trawl through the internet, I found a card that I really liked, however, I think it was actually a Christmas card but as we had a winter wedding, I thought with a bit of tweaking it would be suitable for a male anniversary card, and this is what I made....

The original card was on the front page of CraftsULove website and it was a Penny Black stamp, but as I don't have it, I had a rummage through my Cricut cartridges and I found this one on the Heritage cartridge which was quite similar, so I thought it would do.

I used some Tea Dye Distress ink and the chocolate Stamping Up ink pads to make the two tone background.  I'm not the best inker but I had a go anyway.  The two birds were also in the Heritage Cartridge.  I love this card, it suited my purpose perfectly. I may even make some of these as Christmas cards, but not with two birds.

Thanks for looking

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Planner Pouch

I know it's been a while since I last posted and I have no excuse, apart from I just haven't done it.

Anyway, I recently got an Erin Condren planner for 2015, if you don't know what one of these is, I suggest you google it, they're gorgeous (if you're into planners that is). For 2014 I was using a FiloFax personal Malden in ochre, it's such beautiful soft leather and I didn't want anything to damage it whilst in my bag so I ordered off Etsy a cover for it, but now that my EC planner has arrived, there are very little options for an EC cover and I also wanted one with a pocket so I could  carry some of my pens, washi tape, and post it notes etc but couldn't find one.  Well, that's not quite true, the EC site sells them, but as postage to the UK is $45 I thought I'd try something else....

The solution? Make my own!  So, yesterday whilst in town I went to the haberdashery shop and bought some fabric, some felt and a zip.  To be honest, sizing was a bit of guess work, but then again, most of my "projects" are, they're a bit like my scrapbooking and crafting, things develop rather than be planned.

This is what I started with...

And this is what I wanted to put into it, but honestly had no real idea how I was going to do this...

So, off I went with my sewing machine.

I'm not a great sewer even after getting an O-level in it at school, but then I haven't made much since.  Whilst making this I realised one important thing, you should insert the zip BEFORE sewing up all the sides as the zip won't fit under the zipper foot of the machine! Hey ho, but this is what I ended up with...

All in all, I'm very pleased with it, my planner fits in it like a glove and the pocket has plenty of room for my pens, wash, post its etc.  If I was to make another one, then I'm sure I would do some things differently but still chuffed with my effort.  I'm sure some of you will eventually see it in craft class!

Happy crafting!

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