Birthday Cards

Quite a few of my friends had birthdays in the last month or so, and I'm only now getting a chance to blog the cards I made them and wish them a (very) belated Happy Birthday.


I designed the background paper for this card myself for a challenge last year, and found it hard to cut into it. I'm glad I did though - I like the soft colours and the felt swirls from the Scrapbook Store are just so lovely to play with.



This is another background I created myself and although its actually quite bright for me I enjoyed experimenting and playing up the shabby chic feel.



I desparately wanted to play with this netting which came from a fabulous bunch of flowers I was given. Although pink and blue aren't colours I'd normally put together, I was so pleased with the richness of the finished piece.

Wedding Day

Sorry its been so long Blog friends, but it has been a rather hectic couple of months.

Our wedding on 22nd December 2008 was just amazing. I had the perfect day, I couldn't stop smiling, and never wanted it to end. And now I have the most wonderful memories of the day.

We had a very relaxing christmas, and went to Egypt on honeymoon - I promise to bore you with many photos in the coming weeks.

Thanks to everyone for all your lovely thoughts, wishes and gifts - it all made for a very special time for us.

The Hen Night

It seems the big day is looming now! I went to Cork for the weekend and had a little hen night with my family. We hired a stretch limo and took off to Kinsale for dinner. It was such a fun night!

The limo collected us from a city centre hotel - here's Jessica (my brothers girlfriend), Me and Jill (my sister) all dressed up and waiting for our car!


This is Me and Eithne (my birth Mum)


Jill and I once the limo arrived.


May (my adopted Mum) getting stuck into the champagne!

The Silly shots....

we really did break the cuffs and need rescuing!!

And finally waiting for the limo to take us home....




Thanks again all of you for a fabulous night to remember!!!!

xxx

Look at Me!

I was lucky enough to meet and have my photo taken by Anita Mundt at the Halloween Mega Scrap. Anita is such a lovely, thoughtful person and a very talented photogrpaher.

I just had to share the amazing photos she took with you, and recommend if you ever get the opportunity try and book a shoot with her. I believe she is hoping to return to Ireland in the spring so if you're interested contact her through her site ~ http://www.anitamundt.com

Unless you're a successful model you probably don't feel completely comfortable in front of the camera, but somehow Anita manages to put you completely at ease. Just talking with her for a short while she uncovers your personality and highlights elements of your personality in her work, making you feel right at home in front of the camera.









ALL PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANITA MUNDT PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN www.anitamundt.com

Anita is also responsible for the great photography challenge site - Her Space, My Space, His Space which is well worth checking out for some inspiration.

Birthday Card

This is a slightly unusual card, but I really like it.





It started life as a mini canvas and ended up as a birthday card for the very sweet Karin. Playing with inks on the canvas was fun, and layers of colour built up quite easily. I also wanted to get a feeling of nature, dimension and texture on the piece and the elements came together well. A boring card backing just wasn't good enough, but the embossed metal sheet coloured with alcohol inks was the answer to that problem.

TFL x

Those Eyes

Well I keep saying I want to play around with photoshop more but never seem to have the time. But this I managed to do in a few minutes in Picassa, and it was great fun.


The original photo was a not particularly flattering photo of my lovely sister Jill, and I thought what can I do to improve this.... Well Jill (as you can see) has the most stunning eyes, so I decided to focus on them, blowing out some of the detail and keeping the image to a simple two colour combination.

I love the result and must find the time to play with a few more photos soon.

Celtic Girl

Well this is the third and last of the tiles left over from my kitchen. I started this piece so long ago and couldn't seem to finish it. Anyway I finally managed it last week. Its an image transfer decorated with alcohol inks and stickles. The celtic embellishment is handmade to compliment the celtic style and the tile was finished by drilling holes and threading ribbons through to hang it up.



I wanted to give this to someone and I thought it was just perfect for the lovely Anne Lise - a very talented Norwegian blog friend of mine, who loves things Irish ;-) so its on route to her. If you get a chance check out her blog she has some fabulous creations on there.