DREAM

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well. Did you all have a good Bank Holiday? We had a lovely one, it was my hubbies school reunion, he has been going to these every year for about 30 years now and last year they did a lot of fundraising to get enough money together to have a plaque made for where the school was. It was a boarding school for ill children who could not go into mainstream school, my husband had epilepsy others had asthma and the likes, the group my husband was with have all stayed close and meet up every year if not more. The school ran from late 50s until 1981 when is closed. There are now these beautiful large houses (4-5 bedrooms) built on the site and one of the residents gracefully agreed to have the plaque positioned on the outside of their wall and she and the other residents put on a garden party for us all, it was a joy, the weather was beautiful and we had the Daughter-in-Law of an old headmaster open the plaque. The EDP newspaper was there too so it was quite an event. As usual we always make a day of it, drinks down the pub and a meal, lots of chatter and laughter with them reminiscing the old days. Some of the old teachers were there too. Of course because of the presentation of the plaque there were many there who had never turned up before, some who are now in their 60's. I will add a couple of pictures at the end of this post.

May I welcome my latest follower 'cardsarus', good to have you on board, please send us details of your blog if you have one so I can return the favour.

Now todays card I made especially for a new blog that is starting by our lovely Pamellia of http://mylittlecraftthings.blogspot.co.uk/, some of you may be familiar with her stunning creations, Pamellia has started a new blog that you can find HERE entitled 'Anything but Cute', its a mixed media blog that would love you to create Anything But Cute! If you are not into mixed media go and check out the rules and give it a go its not as hard as you think, the hardest part is your imagination!!!

I cut my base card to the size I wanted,this was using one of my favourite card the Leather Look Cream card. Using a piece of White card I embossed it with a Wood-grain mask then placing a Scraped paint stencil over that I inked through with Weathered Wood and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

I spread some modelling paste down the ink lines on the card to add some depth and interest and left this to dry naturally. 

Using more White card I inked up  the Dream word, Frame and the Bird and heat embossed with Aged Aqua Embossing Enamel and Black embossing powder then fussy cut them out. i love this embossing enamel as not only is it a lovely colour but it has specks of Gold in it too.

I got some Lace, inked it up with Vintage Photo and wrapped it round the bottom of the card. I placed the Dream frame on top of the Lace to the left of the card.

I die cut some Cherry Blossom out with various scraps of card and added a touch of glitter to the ends of the petals. I placed the branch behind the Lace under the Frame, added the flowers as seen then placed the bird as if it was perched on the branch.

There you have the finished card. Dimensions are 6"X4".

Items Used:

Printable Heaven Cream Leather card

Creative Expressions That Special Touch mask Wood-Grain

Creative Expressions Layered Scalloped Lace Cream

Memory Box Stencil Scraped Paint

7 Gypsies Papercrafter 5pc Cling Stamps

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Weathered Wood & Vintage Photo

Stampendous Embossing Enamel Aged Aqua

Papermania Embossing Powder Black

Spellbinders Cherry Blossom

Dovecraft Glitter Glue Crystal

I am entering this into  http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/challenge-1-may-vintage-garden.html
http://ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/ttcrd-challenge-may-5-may-11-2015.html

Pupils & Plaque to mark
Eden School, Bacton, Norfolk







Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx