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For anyone who follows my photostream, you might be aware I am very fortunate to be surrounded by some wonderfully artistic and creative friends. This includes my very dear friend Maria who creates some truly beautiful and amazing cards from recycled paper and cardboard.
This colourful heart is amongst a selection of Maria’s cards that I currently have at my disposal for family and friends whom I think would like to receive one. To quote Maria’s inserts that go with these cards:
“Just like our loved ones, no two hearts are the same. Unique and individual, this card can be used for multiple celebrations. The heart card was born from a desire to re-purpose paper destined for the bin.”
If you want to see more of Maria’s work, visit her Instagram page at: www.instagram.com/daisyandme33/?hl=en
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 28th of July is "made of paper", and Maria’s cards immediately sprung to mind, as I love how she re-purposes papers we would have otherwise thrown away. This card contains pieces made from some of my old Alphonse Mucha calendars, Christmas cards and tea packet sachets that I give her. It also has pieces of magazines, tissue boxes and grocery packaging. Even the sparky butterfly is made from an old gift bag! Who would have thought such beauty could come from what we generally consider to be rubbish. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
Feliz año nuevo !
Feliz ano novo!
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Frohes neues Jahr!
Bonne année!
Felice anno nuovo!
Hyvää uutta vuotta!
Sretna Nova godina!
Ευτυχισμένο το νέο έτος!
С новым годом!
Gott nytt år!
Boldog új évet!
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2015.12.23 New Taipei City, Taiwan, Rep of China © copyright by May Lee 廖藹淳
Just to give you the perspective Aiko decided to walk into my photo, lots of animal tracks to sniff here ❄❄
I'm starting on my xmas cards, all my cards are usually painfully hand drawn and customised for the person! This year I've decided to do cute sushi doodles on the back of each card on top of the customised front cover. I'm hopefully going to make loads of different doodles but if I run out of ideas I'll just redraw some! Best viewed in large
So yeah, I haven't gone round asking for addresses yet but if you feel you know me well enough, send me your address and I'll get cracking on to it :D If you want my address feel free to contact me for it too :)
Oh and EXPECT them to be late, i'd rather take the time to do them then have rushed bits and bobs :)
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These are made from mainly Hero Arts Xmas stamps!!
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I am very fortunate to be surrounded by some wonderfully artistic and creative friends. This includes my very dear friend Maria who creates some truly beautiful and amazing cards from recycled paper and cardboard.
Christmas 2019, another dear friend gave me gifts wrapped up in the most exquisite red and gold embossed paper. I salvaged as much as I could as a keepsake, but I was left with some tattered remnants. However, rather than throw them in the bin, recycling bin or otherwise, I put them with the Christmas cards I was not keeping and went on a stroll to see Maria, who by chance lives quite closely to me. I asked Maria if she could please make me some cards for Christmas 2020 using the scrap pieces of Christmas wrapping. This is just one example of twelve very different Christmas cards that she made me using that paper. The wreath is my favourite design, and Maria’s too. I gave this card to my partner for Christmas this year. Each flower in the wreath is made using my wrapping paper scraps. The red bow is cut from a paper gift bag, the green holly leaves and red berries are made from a cardboard tissue box and the gold acorns, candy canes and pine cones are cut from the gold lining of a chocolate box. It just shows you that what is rubbish to many, can be recycled into treasures when passed through the right hands.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” this week is “recycled”. As soon as I saw the theme, I immediately thought of my artist friend Maria and her amazing cards. The difficulty was choosing which to photograph. I hope you will forgive me selecting a Christmas one after Christmas is over.
Papermania Enchanted range. from The Range £2.25 or on ebay. The pack makes one card envelope and mounting card included.
At the dawn of the Nineteenth Century, Christmas was hardly celebrated – at least, not in a way we would recognise today. Many businesses didn't consider it to be a holiday. Gift giving had traditionally been a New Year activity, but moved as Christmas became more important to the Victorians. By the end of the century, Christmas had become the biggest annual celebration in the British calendar. Victorian advancements in technology, industry and infrastructure – as well as having an impact on society as a whole – made Christmas an occasion that many more British people could enjoy. From Christmas cards to decorated trees and Christmas crackers, many of our best-known Christmas traditions are products of the Victorian era.
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 21st of December is "get in the festive mood". Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I love and collect 1:12 size miniatures which I photograph in realistic scenes. The artifice of recreating in minute detail items in 1:12 scale always amazes me, and it’s amazing how the eye can be fooled. I have created such a scene here, where everything is comes from my 1:12 miniatures collection. Therefore I have decided to use them to illustrate a very Victorian Christmas, which I think exemplifies being in the festive mood. I hope you like my choice for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!
As this is the last "Smile on Saturday" before Christmas, I should just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in the group a very happy Festive Season. May it be filled with happiness and joy for you all.
This scene is comprised of 1:12 miniatures from my 1;12 miniature collection, ranging from artisan pieces acquired in the last couple of years, to items I have had since my childhood. Fun things to look for in this tableau include:
The Christmas tree is a 1:12 artisan miniature made by an unknown artist. I bought it via E-Bay from a seller in the United States. The tree came full dressed, complete with little gold angel on top, the apron at its bottom and all the baubles and bows between.
The Christmas presents you see beneath the Christmas tree and scattered around the room were made by husband and wife artistic team Margie and Mike Balough who own Serendipity Miniatures in Newcomerstown, Ohio. The Christmas garland hanging from the fireplace was also made by them.
The New Year cards you see on the mantlepiece of the fireplace are all 1:12 size miniatures made by the British miniature artisan Ken Blythe. Most of his work that I have come in the form of books, which he has made may be opened to reveal authentic printed interiors. In some cases, you can even read the words, depending upon the size of the print! I have quite a large representation of Ken Blythe’s work in my collection. What might amaze you is that all Ken Blythe’s opening books are authentically replicated 1:12 scale miniatures of real volumes. As well as books, he also designed other paper based artistic items. This includes these New Year cards which are 1:12 copies of genuine Victorian New Year cards! To create something so authentic to the original in such detail and so clearly, really does make them all miniature artisan pieces. Ken Blythe’s work is highly sought after by miniaturists around the world today and command high prices at auction for such tiny pieces, particularly now that he is no longer alive. I was fortunate enough to acquire pieces from Ken Blythe prior to his death about four years ago, as well as through his estate via his daughter and son-in-law. His legacy will live on with me and in my photography which I hope will please his daughter.
The other Christmas cards seen around the room are artisan miniatures made by an unknown artist and came in their own presentation box. They came from kathleen Knight's Doll's House Shop in the United Kingdom.
The delicious looking plate of iced and decorated Christmas biscuits, which is a miniature artisan piece gifted to me by my dear Flickr friend and artist Kim Hagar (www.flickr.com/photos/bkhagar_gallery/), who surprised me with it last Christmas.
The antique velvet drawing room suite with its button-back upholstery I have had since I was a child of eight. The sofa, grandfather armchair and grandmother slipper chair were a gift to me that Christmas. The small salon chair in the back right-hand corner of the photo also comes from my childhood and I have had it since I was about ten.
The tall Dutch style chest of drawers to the far left of the photo was one of the first pieces of miniature furniture I ever bought for myself. I chose it as payment for several figures I made from Fimo clay for a local high street toy shop when I was eight years old. All these years later, I definitely think I got the better end of the deal!
The two wine tables and the demi-lune tables come from Kathleen Knight's Doll's House Shop in the United Kingdom.
The two cottages orné pastille burners sitting on the demi-line table have been hand made, painted and gilded by Welsh miniature ceramist Rachel Williams who has her own studio, V&R Miniatures, in Powys. The ornate Victorian ruby glass epergne between them is an artisan miniature made of real spun glass and came from Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering.
The gilt Art Nouveau tea set, featuring a copy of a Royal Doulton leaves pattern, comes from a larger tea set which has been hand decorated by beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering as well.
The ornate white plaster fireplace with its wide mantle, the fire screen in front if it, and the hand embroidered pole fire screen to the left of the fireplace, the black leaded fire surround and brass fire tools also come from Kathleen Knight's Doll's House shop in the United Kingdom.
The grey marble French barrel clock on the mantlepiece is a 1:12 artisan miniature made by Hall’s Miniature Clocks, supplied through Doreen Jeffries Small Wonders Miniatures in England.
The two ornate fluted Victorian ruby glass vases standing to either side of the clock between the New Year cards are artisan miniatures made of real spun glass and came from Kathleen Knight's Doll's House shop in the United Kingdom.
The family photos on the mantlepiece and on the walls are all real photos, produced to high standards in 1:12 size on photographic paper by Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire. The frames are from various suppliers, but all are metal.
The four miniature silhouettes featuring a Georgian era gentleman and lady, and two top hatted Victorian gentlemen come from Lady Mile Miniatures in the United Kingdom.
The central portrait of an old Victorian woman in its gold frame also comes from Kathleen Knight's Doll's House shop in the United Kingdom, whilst the Regency portrait of the gentleman to the right-hand side of the photograph was made by Maria Makes Miniatures in the United Kingdom.
The wallpaper is William Morris’ ‘Poppies’ pattern, featuring stylised Art Nouveau poppies. William Morris papers and fabrics were popular in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period before the Great War.
The miniature Victorian style rug on the floor is made by hand by Pike and Pike in the United Kingdom.
Another busy pre-Christmas week has finished and it's time for a work & school break over here.
We are all looking forward to having time off with family and friends, at a much slower pace than these past weeks!
From all of us.....we sincerely hope your Christmas is a wonderful one, enjoy the holidays!! :)
Simple Joy.
Every gift she got she carefully unwrapped and said Aaaa or Ooooo and was thrilled and started playing with it.
She used long time and enjoyed them all.
The other guests had to wait unwrapping their own presents because grandma couldn't move away from something so simple and precious as this lil precious one 🙏
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all, and to all a very good night â indeed many good and clear nights in 2017!
This is a scene of Venus, now bright as an evening star, in the sky over the old rustic house on my acreage, taken winter solstice day, December 21, 2016 in the evening twilight.
I send it for the "
~ Challenge 164.0 ~ Merry Christmas Card ~ The Award Tree Group"
Poste Restante: a system in which a post office keeps someone's post until it can be collected, usually used by people who are travelling or homeless....
Sarajevo Under Ground Series N21
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I love them all.Thank you again Blythe friends and non Blythe friends for sending us them in Christmas,they will be stored away and cherished in my treasure box.Coming down tomorrow *sniff*
C is for Cows and Cars at Christmas. (Along with Father Christmas).
If I took this photo once then I took it more times than I've had hot dinners. None of the photos came out. This was about my last attempt, before I went round the bend and it will have to do.
Have since retaken this and feel that the new version is a little bit better, which wouldn't be that difficult !!
Better viewed large, but thank you for your favourites.
Just posted all the Crimbo Cards, so here is yours
The picture in the sphere is of my local Court Hey Park in Liverpool taken a few years ago in the snow
The end of the year is a time to pass on my gratitude and to thank all of you who have visited my stream and taken the trouble to view, fave or comment on my photos, I really do appreciate that. I would also like to wish you Seasonal Greetings and a Snappy New Year
Health, Success and Happiness to you all.
ps: Santa said "take your Beer Bottles home Rob" and he will bring you a big case full, lol
The outtakes! A few fun behind the scenes pics, from the making of the now famous "Sledding photoshoot" seen in my photostream!
Peanut! Caroling comes later sweetie!
Made explore Nov 19th 2008
one of the 1st photos i ever shot...
with my grandma's camera, when i was 8 years old.
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