tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88419327521134623092024-03-06T00:40:24.170+00:00CarysL CardsHandmade card ideas, all been made by myself :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-82943367436620610722013-08-07T19:25:00.000+01:002013-08-07T19:25:05.474+01:00Sorry that I've been AWOL recently, I've been working on another project!<br />
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Head over to <a href="http://www.carysl.co.uk/wordpress">www.carysl.co.uk/wordpress</a> to see what I've been up to, but here's a few to get you over there!<br />
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So go, go,go! And if you're interested... Don't forget to order one! :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-15351148062538652532013-01-15T18:50:00.000+00:002013-01-15T18:50:04.499+00:00Last Christmas...I was so busy at the end of last year, that I didn't manage to get all my cards uploaded, so I thought I'd take the opportunity, seeing as this afternoon's school was canceled because of the snow!<br />
So this is one of last year's cards, which used up a very nice amount of <a href="http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/pixies-crafty-snippets-week-55.html" target="_blank">snippets</a>!<br />
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<span id="goog_539972031"></span><span id="goog_539972032"></span>I used some papers that I bought the year before, but had never managed to use. I took a blank card and stuck the green paper (you can see below) straight on to it. Out of the red paper I cut 4 square holes, and put some green card on the flaps to strengthen them.<br />
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Onto the green paper that was still visible I stuck the four 'Christmassy' things, Santa, bells, a present and a robin.<br />
On top of the four flaps I then stuck some holly paper, followed by a red edged circle and the letters. I already had the christmas tree sticker.<br />
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I do have a question for you all now:<br />I was thinking about making some pictures, framed similar to the one I made back in July for Sonny (<a href="http://caryslangsdale.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/sonnys-christening-present.html" target="_blank">which you can see here</a>). Though I've got some really good ideas, none of them seem right for my friends of family... so do you, or anyone you know want to buy any framed work or wooden engraving? Or do you know any ways I could find people who would like to buy them? Thanks for your help :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-76789336751798919192013-01-13T15:39:00.001+00:002013-01-13T15:39:14.189+00:00Thank You CardThis may not sound many, but I reached 1000 pageviews this week, which means I completed last years resolution! So it seems that this card is very appropriate:<br />
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It's that time of the year to send out Thank You cards, this one is for my Godmother. I started with a blank purple card. Although you may not be able to see it very well, there is a white butterfly with gold swirls stuck straight onto the card. I also found the purple dotted paper in my <a href="http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/pixies-crafty-snippets-week-55.html" target="_blank">snippets</a> box, and cut a smaller butterfly from that, which was stuck on with foam pads. I cut the shape at the bottom from another blank purple card, and then stuck the smaller piece of white card on top, which I stamped the 'Thank You' on with gold ink. All that was then stuck with foam pads. A nice simple one today!!<br />
I should also say thank you for the suggestions of how to stick buttons on, I will try them all out and decide which is the best! :)<br />
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I started by cutting the train shape from plain brown paper, and then the blue and white shape, which was glued on top. I then cut a small square for the window. I cut the top shape from plain orange paper, and then used my finger to add some browny-orange paint for effect. This was then stuck on with foam pads so it was raised. I did the steam by cutting some circles out of white paper and again painting it on with my finger. I stuck all of this onto some plain cream card and cut around it, with the fold being the left hand straight edge, and cut around the bit that sticks out at the top of the cab. I found some buttons and stuck them on with PVA glue, but I'm never sure how well the glue works, have any of you got any suggestions of ways to stick buttons on?!<br /><br />I hope you all had a lovely Christmas :)<br />CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-65199480411501462782012-12-17T20:52:00.000+00:002012-12-17T20:52:09.781+00:00Christmas Tag No. 7Hmmm... It seems I get so many more ideas when I'm supposed to be doing other work, than when I'm not! But with me off on holiday on Saturday I went in to speedy crafter mode this weekend!<br />
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I finally used up a piece of backing card that's been with my other snippets since last year, and I'd never had the chance to use it!<i> Soooo</i>.... I'm going to pop by the swings at the <a href="http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/pixies-crafty-snippets-week-51.html" target="_blank">Playground</a> :) Quite simply, I cut out the holly shapes from some plain green card and drew the line on with green pencil. I stuck them on with foam sticky pads. I found the three berries, sequins, and stuck them on top with some slightly taller sticky foam pads... Pretty simple really :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-28146376860071935552012-12-07T19:17:00.000+00:002012-12-07T19:17:13.964+00:00Cafe de ParisThe theme this year is Socks in the City... which probably doesn't mean anything to you, so let me explain. For a good ten years now, we've gone to France with the family, a total of 11 of us to begin with, with additions along the way, and now we've grown to 15! As there's little space in the car we decided to buy themed presents, so everyone buys everyone else a present to do with their theme. This has ranged from, all 10 presents having to fit in <i>a </i>shoebox (which was decorated), each present fitting in an envelope, colours, numbers, having to fit it in a buttertub and star signs. This year, each present has to fit inside a sock, as well as having something to do with a city, mine is Monte Carlo.<br />Now I've got the explanation out the way, can show you this:<br />
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This is going to hold the voucher for one of the presents, with the gap in the middle showing the voucher. I used colour pencils for the sign and then used glitter for the writing. Quite simple really! But at least now you can start thinking about the difficulties I've been having with my shopping.... how many female presents can you think of that fit in a sock and relate to Monte Carlo?! :)</div>
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I used up some a Christmas paper that my sister bought me last year, I have a problem where I don't want to use them because they're so nice! I found a word that was in two places, which was the dotted <i>Christmas, </i>and cut the front rectangle so the top had about half of it on there. I then made pouch out of thin white card and stuck that to the back. For the insert, I cut a 'T' shape, making sure that the <i>Christmas </i>was going to align with the bottom. I then stuck some plain white card over that, for me to write on. The insert then slots in to the pouch on the back of the first rectangle. I also added the ribbon, which I stuck on with double sided tape.<br /><br />
(Please check out some of the other Christmas tags I've made, whilst you're here!)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-35236708410758559432012-12-07T18:51:00.003+00:002012-12-07T18:51:58.613+00:00Christmas Tag No. 5<br />
I popped to St. Neots on the weekend and found some really nice wrapping paper with baubles on. I thought I could wrap my Mum's present with it, and then realised it would look much nice as a tag :D - Maybe I'll do both!<br />
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So I stuck the wrapping paper on another piece of card to make it stronger and cut out the tag shape. I then, quite simply, cut out the Christmas tree bauble from another section of the paper and used foam sticky fixers to raise it up from the card. So simple, yet I loved the paper and HAD to use it :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-60777823257544796372012-12-07T18:43:00.000+00:002012-12-07T18:43:28.560+00:00Christmas Tag No. 4I don't think I've made so many cads in such a short space of time before, but after my brainwave earlier on this week, what else could I do?!<br /><br />
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I cut out a Christmas Tree shape from some green card. I then attacked some green paper with my Christmas Tree hole punch (I don't know if you can even see that, my camera was playing up today!). I used PVA glue, and as I would with glitter, sprinkled the tree cutouts on top. I then added the brown ones for the pot at the bottom. I found a gold star on the floor (?!) and stuck it on top. I then added some dots of gold glitter glue for the baubles. Finally stuck this to a rectangular piece of card and cut the edges with my corner punch and embosser.CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-10084312109780668782012-12-03T21:20:00.001+00:002012-12-03T21:20:54.661+00:00Christmas Tag No. 3<div>
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<br />I used a 10 x 8cm card with curved corners. I did the chimney bricks with some orange pieces of paper, leaving some gaps in between. You can't see it very well because my phone camera's a bit pants, but I coloured the snow with light blue and grey pencils, before going round the edge with a thin line of glitter. I also coloured in Santa's legs with pencil. The fur on the top of his boots is some handmade paper with bits of glitter in and the boots are done with some patterned embossed black paper. </div>
CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-76578854542672033582012-12-02T18:22:00.000+00:002012-12-02T18:22:35.055+00:00Birthday ButterfliesI know, I should be revising now but I just couldn't help finishing this card to take a break from the Endo- and Exothermic reactions I'd been studying for the last hour!<br />It's my cousin's birthday next week and I know she loves everything from Cath Kidston to buttons, so I thought the beads and butterflies on this would be perfect :)<br />
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I used a rectangle card, 12.2 x 17.8 cm, and cut 6 circles out, which were all 4.6 cm in diameter. I then glued brown paper behind this and then plain card behind that, so from the inside it looked seamless! I then dug through my snippets and found some small pieces of card that were similar shade dotted. I cut out some butterfly shapes and glued only the body of the butterfly to the card. Finally I stuck beads along the body to give a 3D effect and folded up the wings.<br />Back to revision then... but I have a quick swing at <a href="http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/pixies-crafty-snippets-week-49-rocking.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Playground</a> on my way! :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-33067943852894400742012-11-25T14:37:00.001+00:002012-11-25T14:37:37.414+00:00Christmas Tag No. 2It's starting to get very busy with exams, but I managed to quickly photograph this one and upload it between revision and family visits!<br />
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I used a plain triangle of off white card, and then rumaged through my snippets and found some patterned red and green papers from last Christmas (which means a quick trip to the <a href="http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/pixies-crafty-snippets-week-48.html" target="_blank">playground</a>!). I cut them into some quirky shapes, stuck them on and added a glittered star to top it off!</div>
CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-599812430966233382012-11-25T14:30:00.000+00:002012-11-25T14:38:52.842+00:00Sean's Birthday 2012Among all the Christmas cards, there's also quite a few birthdays this time of year, which I find very hard to make once I'm in the Christmas mood!<br />
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I haven't got so much time this year, so it's not quite to the scale of the card I made<a href="http://caryslangsdale.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/seans-birthday-december-2011.html" target="_blank"> last year </a> but there we go!<br />
I used a blank card and coated it wit yellow paper, and then put a square of black card over the top. I cut the beer glass shape from plain white card, and stuck yellow rectangles on top of that. I then cut some different sized circles from the white card and coloured in the edges with felt tips, before gluing them on top to finish!CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-8965376164434018312012-11-19T19:32:00.000+00:002012-11-19T19:32:22.360+00:00Christmas Tag No.1This Christmas, I've decided to make tags, rather than just cards, and this is the first one...<br />
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Using the stamps that came with my Creativity magazine a little while back, I simple stamped the image onto a piece of card, then used pencil to colour it in, before cutting out the tag shape. Very simple, but I've got so much to do and so little time before Christmas that I thought it wouldn't matter! :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-1297468557211713302012-11-15T17:50:00.001+00:002012-11-15T17:50:34.338+00:00Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree!I was having a little search on Google to find some ideas for Christmas cards, and came across <a href="http://www.kaylaaimee.com/how-to-make-a-paperback-christmas-tree/" target="_blank">this</a> website, with a lovely book tree!<br />
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So I found one of my Dad's books that he didn't like because the ending was rubbish, and followed the simple instructions on how to make it! So I sliced out a thirty page section of the book, and fold each page into a triangle shape, whilst still glued at the spine. I didn't cut the corner off but you can if you wish. I then repeated this with another set of thirty pages and used some strong double sided tape that I had to hand to stick the two halves together. Finally (which you can't really see!) I used silver paint to go over the edges of the pages, so it now glitters a bit, and made a small cylinder out of silver card to stand it on. A really simple bit of origami to make a lovely little decoration :)</div>
CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-39540138802812296152012-11-14T18:02:00.000+00:002012-11-14T18:02:02.653+00:00Wedding CardMy Grandma's off to a wedding on the weekend, and asked me to whip up a card for her to give, as she found it difficult to find a nice one in the shops. So here's what I came up with:<br />
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It took a little over forever to make this one, especially when I found out my gold pen had turned bright orange! I found a website selling photoframes that looked like this, and it gave me the inspiration, and since I don't know the couple, the invitation was all I had to go on! I cut the shapes of the rose out of the white square card, and cut the square out of the middle. I then used up some nice purple snippets (I'm putting on my coat and heading off to <a href="http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/pixies-crafty-snippets-week-46.html" target="_blank">the Playground</a> as we speak) and stuck them behind the cut outs to show them through the spaces - which took an unbelievable amount of time! I finished it off with a brand new gold pen, putting a thin border round the edge, drawing the stems and writing in the middle.<br />Although it took so long, I was pretty proud of the outcome, let's hope the bride and groom like it too :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-85839222802111540482012-11-11T15:48:00.001+00:002012-11-14T18:02:45.330+00:00G'ma's Birthday 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The background is plain green card, and I used cream paper to back the individual sections. I used 10mm fringed quilling paper for the orange flowers, and tightly curled 3mm yellow paper inside the heads. I stuck green quilling paper on its side for the stems and collected them neatly under the pot. For the seedlings I used 3mm brown paper made into a square, and two tear shaped green quills, surrounding a piece of green paper again on its side. The spade is a 2cm piece of paper rolled up with a 3mm stuck underneath, followed by a piece of silver card folded up at the sides for the head of the spade. The packet is just a piece of paper with seeds drawn on with pen.<br />
Lots of quite simple parts that added up to make a card my Grandma loved :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-76006700812875899912012-11-01T17:29:00.001+00:002012-11-01T17:29:47.055+00:00<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name's Carys Langsdale and I make handmade greetings cards for all occasions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After mainly making cards for my family and friends, I've decided to reach out and spread my creations. I'm happy to make new things, such as framed pictures or handmade gifts, but I prefer to make them specifically for one person and to make it personal to them.</span><br />
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CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-50514750922087593732012-08-14T21:47:00.001+01:002012-11-08T18:16:30.328+00:00See you soon :)So that was a few posts to keep you updated on what I'm making, there's a couple more things that I need to take photos of before I upload them, but that will have to wait... I'm off on holiday on Thursday.. Monte Carlo, Tuscany and then onto Roma, all in two weeks... Ciao Ciao :) xCarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-91555297993690044582012-08-14T21:41:00.000+01:002012-11-08T18:16:30.369+00:00Sonny's Christening PresentAs well as a card, I made some of Sonny's Christening present too, and I will tell you now, it was not painless!<br /><br />
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I bought the frame and lots of blue buttons, though it could be in any colour really. I printed off an 'S' shape and arranged the buttons in a random order in that shape. We then realised that PVA glue may not hold the buttons to the card for very long, and the only other thing we had to hand was a hot glue gun... so that's what we used. I managed to burn my fingers several times, especially when the glue came through the holes in the buttons, and spent AGES getting all the stringy glue bits off, but it was worth it, and the frame looked lovely :)</div>
CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-16512814855426868142012-08-14T21:30:00.000+01:002012-11-08T18:16:30.316+00:00Sonny's Christening CardSo you may have seen the <a href="http://caryslangsdale.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/sonny-14th-january-2012.html" target="_blank">Wardrobe Card</a> that I made back in January for my newborn 2nd cousin, well it was recently Sonny's Christening and this is the card I made...<br />
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It was a bit of simple painting for this one.. I made the template on the computer and printed it off. This meant I could cut out some parts and use it to stop and paint issues. I sponged the red bus shape on to the card, and used a paint brush and grey paint for the stairs, the driver and his name. I also found some big brown buttons and stuck them on the front... I did want to make the buttons go round but I was running out of time and didn't manage to think of a simple way for that to work, but oh well, his parents LOVED it :)CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-20365251664844449422012-08-14T21:21:00.001+01:002012-11-08T18:16:30.321+00:00Father's Day 2012It's been too long, I know! There's even been cards that I've forgotten to photograph and had to ring people up and ask them to send me some pictures! I must sort it out!<br /><br />A card that I made a long time ago now, was for Father's Day...<div>
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So it was another simple card to make, I just cut the card so that the front had the collar on it, I made that by just folding it down. I didn't have any striped paper, so printed dark blue stripes on to some plain light blue paper. I stuck an extra bit of striped paper down the front to give it more of a shirt style look. I used the left over white card and stuck it to another piece of striped paper for the pocket, and stuck buttons down the front. Before sticking the pieces of paper on, I folded down the edges slightly to make it more realistic.<br />Quite simple really :)</div>
CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-24686889453348540732012-06-27T20:39:00.002+01:002012-11-08T18:16:30.325+00:00Brioni's BirthdayMy third 'catch-up' post for today!<br />
I have to say, this could be one of my top cards this year :) It was my sister's birthday this June, and obviously she expects the best of my cards, so I put a lot of effort in, I think it paid off!<br />
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Hmm... Not sure how much good the photo gives it, but I'm sure you can believe me! So I used a cream card with the cake stand being gold paper. I used up loads of checked paper I had lying around, so I think this may qualify for <a href="http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pixies-crafty-snippets-challenge-26.html">The Playground</a> (I know, it's been WAY too long!). I did the cakes with plain paper, so that it fits more-or-less with the cupcake case (ie not just a small dome, more of a dome with a bit sticking out the bottom! I then cut out the cases and stuck them on top, and then arranged them on the cake stand. I added a small dot of plain glitter-glue on the top of each... the cherry on the cake :)<br />
So it seems quite simple writing it down now, but I assure you, it took TOO long!CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-21691353688786666402012-06-27T20:39:00.001+01:002012-11-08T18:16:30.323+00:00Raveena's BirthdayCard number 2 for today then!<br />
OK, I'm sensing that I could get in trouble a little for this one, as the dress obviously wasn't my creation, but Lucy Cromwell's Papermania range. But the problem was that I didn't have very much time for this one, and nor did I have very much cash, especially as I'm saving up for a sneaky little trip to Rome this summer with my sister, brother and cousin! So, instead I made something that looked a lot like Lucy's creation!<br />
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So I used a plain, light pink card, with a darker pink piece on top, I did the border with 0.5cm width strips of silver card, with a little jewel at each corner. To make the dress, I got myself a wallpaper sample and photocopied it so it wasn't so hard to fold, and used the sections with pattern on them. I cut out the pleats slightly bigger, so I could fold over the edges to make it look more like one piece of paper folded up, and just stuck a small, light pink ribbon around the waist! </div>CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841932752113462309.post-75617209820586957832012-06-27T20:38:00.001+01:002012-11-08T18:16:30.365+00:00Thank You CardRevision and exams seem to be taking over my life at the moment, and although I've found time to still make a few, I haven't been up to scratch on posting about my cards recently! I think I should get myself up-to-date otherwise I'll never post them!<br />
This one's a very simple one, and to be quite honest I wasn't greatly pleased with it, but my Mum said it was lovely(?!)<br />
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A few weeks back I went on a weekend trip to Denmark, just me and my parents, leaving early Saturday and coming back on the Monday morning (just in time for school! :/ ). We were staying with friends of ours and I've never been to Denmark before, but I would recommend it, it is very lovely, and very quiet!<br />
I thought I'd make a nice Jubilee themed card and used some papers that came with my Creativity magazine! I think the card is pretty self-explanatory... I cut out 8 triangles from the papers and stuck them onto the card, joining it up with some red ribbon, simple!</div>CarysLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04458430316484161198noreply@blogger.com0