Feeling creative

I've been feeling really creative recently, and have had the urge to take on a project. But, I know my attention span is quite small - I get bored easily and have left many jobs halfway through them - so I knew that if I wanted a project, it'd need to be little. Here's where card making comes in!

As I've already mentioned, my beautiful Mam's birthday is on Halloween, but have you ever seen a Halloween/Birthday card in Clintons? Me neither, so I went to her craft room, grabbed the things with most glitter and Halloween themed colours, and got brainstorming. This is what I came up with:

My very own witch card. I buy her something Halloween related every year, but I've exhausted the broomstick and pumpkin ideas, so though a card would be cute. I drew cobwebs in silver pen on the orange background, then went over certain bits with irridecent glitter. Tres pretty! Then I attempted to draw a profile of a witch. It's still not perfect but it's passable! Add a glittery hat, purple hair, some crooked yellow teeth and a Happy Birthday message, and job done! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I wrote the inside in black glittery pen, with love from Holly, the dog, which my Mam loved.

Then, the night before her birthday, Mr L and I stayed up until 1am decorating the place for her. I blew up lots of pretty pink 'Birthday Girl' balloons, printed off a birthday banner with cow-print lettering (because she loves cows), carved out a pumpkin, arranged some freesias, which are her favourite flowers, in amongst her pretty pink bouquet, and wrapped her lovely gifts in pretty cupcake paper. Phew! We were absolutely shattered but it was worth it to see how happy she was on the day.

The big silver thing under the banner is our urn. It continually holds hot water so we don't have a kettle, which is why I made her a cup of coffee with the note saying to 'just add water'. The banner blocked off the cup and coffee cupboards, so this was the next best thing to making her the coffee in the morning. Also, behind the big black boxed card is her birthday cake, which I forgot to take pictures of! It was very girly and pretty though, with sugar paste flowers on top.

Oh, one of Mr L's friends made this ceramic pumpkin too - isn't it fab?! She also made us a Christmas tree, which I can't wait to show you all (in December, naturally). There is glitter on the green stem too but it's not showing up on camera unfortunately. We put a battery operated tealight in there as I didn't like the idea of leaving a real one in there overnight, but it looked just as cool!

My crafty feeling extended to making cards for my giveaway winners too. I used the same cupcake wrapping paper from my Mam's gifts to wrap their perfumes, and decided to make a congratulatory cupcake card to match.

Phew, I'm all crafted out!

Are you creative? Do you like having a project or making things? Let me know in the comments!

xoxo