A touch of the Orient

This month has been very busy.  Real life has taken over and I am going to have to think about WHAT exactly to concentrate on in the future.  I have been asked to do a lot of different things recently: Give papercraft classes/do wedding invitations/undertake personalised embroidery for a clothing company...(big NO to the last two!).  I have given craft classes/workshops for several years now but I do not charge (or like charging) for them because crafts have given me so much pleasure and direction in my life and I feel it is wrong to charge for spreading the good news!  I have fallen out with people over this attitude in the past but when when profit comes in Joy and spontaneity fly out the window.

Anyway, enough of my ramblings...here are a few of my Geisha cards made recently just for fun!

Papers used are all Papermania Oriental with MS punches and my own crochet/embroidered embellishments

Geraldine x 

Bling it on! New challenge for January from By the Cute and Girly

This month the challenge at the By the Cute and Girly Challenge Blog set by Tammy is  -   Bling it on!    Lots of great prizes to be won if you enter this month from
                         Simon Says Stamp

                         Joanna Sheen

                         My Grafico

                         Little Snippets

Adding lots of bling to crafty projects is no hardship so get blinging up your makes and enter here before the end of January!

Here are my Blingy makes:
First a Happy New Year card made using the My Grapico Stick Fairies digi images:

Calendar and Notepad sets made using the butterflies from the same set of digi images as the card.  The background paper is from Craftwork cards and the glittery card is from the Papermania A4 Glittered paper pack.

A pair of Swarovski crystal earrings ideal for blinging in the New Year!

That's all for today. Have been so busy working on this blog post that I've forgotten to feed the dog and he is now prowling around me looking starved.  

 Dont forget to enter and show off your bling!

Geraldine x