Fe-Fe's World Of Craft, Creations and Kids.

This blog was started mainly for my crafting, however I also find myself writing about my family life too and in particular about my son Josh. Josh is just Josh to us and we're used to his quirky behaviour. As I don't want to have to mention Josh's autism every time I post about him, I thought I'd mention it here. Hopefully you will bear this in mind as you read and it may give you a little insight into the wonderful world of the autisic child in a very gentle way!

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Sunday, 7 February 2010

Quirky Crafts Challenge 21

We have a new Quirky Crafts Challenge for you only this time it's not on the forum. It's on our brand new challenge blog which you can find here!

This fortnights challenge has been set by the beautiful, talented and incredibly creative... little old me! Tee hee!

The challenge I have set is Valentine's/Foreign. You can find more details here.

For my DT examples of the challenge I have made a Valentine's Card. I like to keep it quite simple for my hubby as he doesn't do cute or fussy. I did have to use the Cherub stamp on it though as my 6 year old daughter gave it to me as a Birthday present in December and she'd be mortified if I didn't!

The heart stamp is by Crafty Individuals which I stamped onto white card and the cut round. The Cherub/Cupid is by Hobbycraft and the swirl stamp is a Rhonna Farrer, she does some beautiful swirl stamps! We are sponsored this month by The Cutting Cafe who provided us with some Valentine's downloads to use on our projects. The Valentine's sentiment is one of those downloads which I printed onto while card and then mounted onto black. The small heart is a paper punch. To finish I coloured in some of the swirly bits with a red Marvy Le Plume pen.

I also thought I'd make a Valentine's ATC which has the sentiment "Je t adore" which makes it qualify for the Valentine's and the Foreign part of my challenge.

The heart stamp is by Crafty individuals again and is a larger version of the one I used on my card. The lady and the sentiment are from a set by Limited Edition. I did paper piecing on the ladies dress so that the colour would match the backing.

If that has whetted your appetite and you'd like to join us for this fortnights Quirky Crafts Blog Challenge you can find all the details here.

I hope to see you there!

Sunday, 15 February 2009

Valentine's Card

This is the Valentine's card I made for my Peejy Peej. He likes simple, elegant cards which is why I made this one but after visiting my blog on Friday he told me he liked the "go to my room" one and asked why he wasn't getting that one! Lol!

I used the Birds and Swirl Cuttlebug embossing folder for this card and printed out the sentiment on the computer. The two hearts were made using a stamp that came free with a magazine. I stamped both of them onto red card using Versamark Ink and then embossed one with clear embossing powder and the other with white opaque. The idea was to see which one looked better and use that one on the card but when I put them both on the card to compare, I liked the look of them both together.
The photo doesn't really do the card justice. It looks a lot better in real life!

This is the inside of the card.

Stamp: Heart that came free with craft magazine
Paper and Embellishments: K&Co
Equipment: Cuttlebug ~ Embossing Folder ~ Heart Punch

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Valentine's Cards

I did an article on the PCJ blog (which you can have a look at here if you wish) about the different types of Valentine's cards you can make.

This one is "Cute and Cuddly"

Papers: Came free with a magazine
Stamp: Magnolia
Coloured with: Twinkling H2Os
Equipment: Heart Paper punch ~ Corner rounder punch

This card is "Hot and Sexy" The stamp says "You have been a bad, bad boy! Now go to my room!

Stamps: Both Borrowed from My Mum
Equipment: Versamark Ink Pad ~ Black Embossing Powder ~ Heat Gun

This next card is one I made for "Funny" I used so many stamps for this one I'm not going to name them all!!! The Peel Off stickers on this on say "To The Old Fossil"

and on the inside it says "From Your Old Woman"

This one is for the category of "Old Romantic"

Papers: K&Co

Equipment: Cricut ~ George and Basic Shapes Cartridge

Embellishments: Paper Rose Bud ~ Organza Bow ~ Be My Valentine Sticker

There is of course one category missing which is the one I made for my Peejy Peej and I can't put that on yet or he may see it before Saturday and we can't have that can we!

Sunday, 18 January 2009

Raspberry Ribbons Sketch Challenge

Here are my two DT cards for the Raspberry Ribbons Challenge. They are both made using free papers from the Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine.

If you'd like to join in with this fortnights challenge please click here.

Sunday, 11 January 2009

Charisma Cardz Pink Challenge

There's a new challenge blog started up a couple of days ago called Charisma Cardz Challenges. My friend Leanne is one of the DT members there. I thought I'd show my support and do the first challenge which is "Pink"

I made this card using the free papers that came with this months Simply Cards and Papercrafts Magazine. I'm going to send it in to them along with a couple of others I've made using their Valentines papers. I wonder if they'll make it into the mag??

Stamp: Sugar Nellie
Coloured with: Twinkling H2Os
Papers: Freebies from craft magazine
Embellishments: Ribbon ~ Blonde Moments

Sunday, 10 February 2008

Guest Designer - Ellie (aged 4)

I know you were all wondering what had happened to Ellie's card when I posted about the two of us colouring in the Sugar Nellie's together the other weekend. Well the answer is we hadn't actually got around to turning hers into cards, she'd only done the painting part. So we decided to finish it off after breakfast this morning.

Ellie had a card blank with hearts printed on it in one of her card kits that she got for Christmas, she stuck the hearts and flowers paper in the middle with her "Bedtime Maggie" Sugar Nellie stamp on top of that. Then she coloured in all the hearts with pink felt tip. She decided it was going to be a Valentine's Day card for daddy so she wrote "I love you daddy" "love Ellie" in it. However she couldn't wait until Valentine's Day to give it to him so she gave it to him when he got up instead! :-)

Ode to Special Mums

Ode to Special Moms(by Erma Bombeck)

Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice, a few by social pressures and a couple by habit. This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of handicapped children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of handicapped children are chosen?

Somehow I visualize God hovering over Earth selecting his instruments for propagation with great care and deliberation. As he observes, he instructs his angels to make notes in a giant ledger.
"Armstrong, Beth, son, patron saint, Matthew.
Forrest, Marjorie, daughter, patron saint, Cecilia.
"Rudledge, Carrie, twins, patron saint, give her Gerard. He's used to profanity."
Finally, he passes a name to an angel and smiles, "Give her a handicapped child."

The angel is curious. "Why this one, God? She's so happy."

"Exactly," says God. "Could I give a handicapped child to a mother who does not know laughter? That would be cruel."

"But has she patience?" asks the angel.

"I don't want her to have too much patience or she will drown in a sea of self-pity and despair. Once the shock and resentment wear off, she'll handle it.
"I watched her today. She has that feeling of self and independence that is so rare and so necessary in a mother. You see, the child I'm going to give her has his own world. She has to make it live in her world, and that's not going to be easy."

"But, Lord, I don't think she even believes in you."

God smiles. "No matter. I can fix that. This one is perfect. She has just enough selfishness."

The angel gasps, "Selfishness? Is that a virtue?"

God nods. "If she can't separate herself from the child occasionally, she'll never survive. Yes, here is a woman whom I will bless with a child less than perfect. She doesn't realize it yet, but she is to be envied. She will never take for granted a 'spoken word.' She will never consider a 'step' ordinary. When her child says 'Momma' for the first time, she will be present at a miracle and know it! When she describes a tree or a sunset to her child, she will see it as few people ever see my creations."I will permit her to see clearly the things I see...ignorance, cruelty, prejudice...and allow her to rise above them. She will never be alone. I will be at her side every minute of every day of her life, because she is doing my work as surely as she is here by my side."

"And what about her patron saint?" asks the angel, pen poised midair.

God smiles. "A mirror will suffice."

"Welcome to Holland"

"Welcome to Holland" By Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away...because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss. But...if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.