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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Monday, 31 October 2011

ABC Christmas Challenge

I made these cards for the ABC Christmas Challenge which this week is Vintage. Well I actually wanted to try out my new stamp from Crafty Individuals and the ABC Christmas challenge just happened to fit my cards but it amounts to the same thing. :0)

The papers for both cards are by Kars which I've distressed using scissors.

As previously stated the stamp is by Crafty Individuals (fab website and they sent not one, but two free gifts with my order - lovely surprise). The image is coloured with Twinkling H2Os. The snowflakes are made using paper punches.

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!

Thursday, 23 July 2009

Leaving Tag Card

Another Bunco friend has headed off back to the States and, as is now customary, I made a card for her with lots of little tags so that everyone can write their own private message to go in it.

The papers for this card are all from set by K&Co. The wording was done using Quickutz alphabet dies in my Cuttlebug. The lady stamp is by Crafty Individuals (I think). The flowers are all Primas.

The tags I made using my Cricut and I added some fibres to each tag. The papers again are K&Co and the flowers are Primas.

I may going a bit quiet for a while after this post. The kids are off school for 6 weeks and need lots of attention and also I have lost my crafting mojo. Too many personal things going off at the moment.

I have temporarily relieved myself of my DT posts over the summer holidays and I am going to take a well earned break in the hope that once the holidays are over and the children go back to school things will be looking much better and my mojo will have returned.

I found it so hard doing the teachers gifts and Meghan's leaving card and that's not like me. I also haven't felt much like blog hopping either so my apologies if I haven't visited your blog for ages either.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer and I will see you all again in September.

Hugs

Fe x

Sunday, 8 March 2009

Shrink Plastic

I have done a tutorial on PCJ's on Shrink Plastic which you can find here if you've never used shrink plastic before and would like to know how to use it?

I do love shrink plastic, there is something immensely satisfying about watching it curl up and then flatten out again. It's fab. If you've never played with shrink plastic then you really are missing a treat! I don't use mine nearly often enough.

This is the card I made as an example.

This is the inside of the card.

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Birthday Card For Fin

I don't know about you but I really struggle with cards for men. This is one I've made for a friend of ours. It just looks a bit bare. If it was a card for a female I could add some flowers to fill the gaps but what do you add to a man's card when its lacking that extra little something?

Papers and Brad: Hot off the Press (I think?!)
Stamps: Crafty Individuals ~ Stamping Up
Inks: Distress ink ~ Versa Magic

Saturday, 6 December 2008

Sketch Challenge

Sorry I've not updated for a while. I've not had any commissioned work for ages and then in the space of two weeks I've have had 5 cards and a chipboard baby album to make, plus a card for one of the "Bunco Ladies" who is leaving next week to move to South Africa. So I've been busy busy busy!!! Hopefully now that I have them all done I can relax a bit and just concentrate on the stuff I need to do for Christmas.

These are three cards I made for a sketch challenge over on the PCJ's blog.

The papers for the first card are all by Daisy Bucket Designs and the flowers are Primas.

These papers are all by K&Co as is the sentiment sticker. The image is one a lovely blogging friend sent me.

The papers for this one were sent to me by my PCJ friend, Sabina, who lives in Australia. The stamp is from Crafty Individuals.

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Pay It Forward

SammieJay visited my blog a short while ago and she left me a lovely comment so I went to visit her blog to say thank you and inadvertantly signed myself up for a PIF Rak and these are all the lovely things she sent me. Thank you so much SammieJay.

Now it is my turn to pay it forward, but what I'd like to do is this, anyone who posts a reply between now and 9pm tomorrow (Thursday) will be entered into the draw and I will pick three winners on Friday morning to receive a PIF Rak from me.

This is a birthday card that I made for a craft forum friend of mine, Paula.

Paula makes the most gorgeous cards and she has a very distinct distressed style which I love and would give my right arm to be able to make them as half as good as she can!

I wanted to have a go at making her a card in her style as I have lots of stamps that fit the bill but I don't tend to use them as, even though I love them, I can never get the look right and I feel because they are so "arty" my non crafty friends won't like them anyway. I knew Paula would appreciate my efforts though and it was really refreshing to make a card in this style and it turn out so well. So thank you Paula for being such a wonderful person to design a card for.

The papers are by Basic Grey.
The stamp is by Paper Artsy.
I also used Ranger Distress Inks and letter stickers.

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.