Crafty As L

Happy New Year! I do love Christmas but it’s also nice for things to calm down and go back to normal again.   For my tags in recent years, I’ve started doing what my Mum used to do, which is cutting up the previous year’s cards.   The trouble with that in the Christmas just gone was that we ran out half way through the wrapping.   Quite often, people had written a little note inside, which is lovely to hear their news, but no good for converting the cards to tags afterwards.   However, a friend and my M-i-L had some pretty festive napkins so I kept the ones that weren’t smeared with mince pies with the intention to repurpose them into tags. These ones that my M-i-L had needed to be dissected to remove the “home composting” section.   These were 3-ply napkins so, after removing the two backing layers, I used a fine paintbrush and a little water to draw around the various elements which made them easy to tear apart leaving a soft edge. After watering down ...

    I really resent paying someone to do what I am perfectly capable of doing myself.  Never was this feeling more evident that when Mr. L popped the question and we began to get prices (seemingly complete with the wedding tax!) for the various wedding paraphernalia.  So we decided that we would do as much as possible ourselves so that we could have the day we wanted without feeling that we'd been fleeced!! We met at work and were friends before romance blossomed.  We used to play (well actually  we still do) the online Scrabble game Words With Friends and it was messaging each other through this that we started to move from friendship to 'lurve' 💜! So we thought it apt that our wedding theme would be Scrabble and, somewhat bizarrely, air traffic control! Mr. L is a reluctant crafter but still got stuck in with helping with the invitations......   CAS (Clean & Simple) is mostly my card making style so a simple design was drawn up and f...