Shoe Card

This is the shoe from the Happily Ever After cartridge, cut at 4", I cut the base in red, then the layer in black which I ran through the swiss dots embossing folder to give a bit of texture and added a couple of prima flowers. The words were done on the computer and then chopped about a bit.

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you. We are going to be at home, here in Solihull, with our daughter and her boyfriend, then on Boxing Day (the 26th for US friends who have no idea what Boxing Day is) we go to London to see Max (well, his mum and dad as well, but of course he is the main attraction :). We have already been to London once since we got home, to take all of Kiki's presents down, she was so sweet, held my hand tight all day as if she was afraid that if she let go, I would disappear again. We went to see her singing 'Away in a Manger' with all the other under 5's at their church. She forgot the words and stood there with a tea towel all askew on her head (it was meant to make her look like a shepherd), but of course it was a tearful granny moment. Hearing children sweetly singing carols brings home the true meaning of Christmas, unlike the stores, where frantic shoppers are piling their carts high with enough food to feed the whole of Ethiopia for a month. Makes you think.

So have a wonderful time my friends, and I hope Santa brings you everything you wish for. Me? I have huge plans to turn a cupboard (closet) into the most amazing scrap space you have ever seen, so that will be my gift this year. I have a feeling that my grandiose ideas may not translate very well into a cupboard, watch this space...........................................................................

Queen For A Day

I made a similar design to this before, but when I saw that Daring Cardmakers wanted us to create a card with a crown on it, I just had to make it again, tweaking it slightly and changing the colours. One of the things I did was to change the size - I had a heck of a job to find an envelope for the last one, so this one sits nicely on a 6 x 4" card.

The crown is from the Happily Ever After cartridge and was cut at 4". I stuck it on the base card, (which was made from double sided cardstock,) at an angle, using dimensional foam sticky pads, and trimmed away the edges of the card around the crown on the right hand side. The sentiment is a home made rub-on (scroll down to 'Labels' on the right of the page for instructions on how to do this). The lacy border on the bottom is the famous Martha Stewart doily border punch. The edges were inked with copper brilliance ink.

Owl Card

This week's brief over on BBTB was to use the little owl from the Happily Ever After cartridge.

Quite honestly, I felt all 'owled' out, having made quite a few cards with this, but I came across this little saying and the card evolved from there. The tiny coffee cup is a Judith stamp.

Our little grandson Max is one today. Happy Birthday darling, love you to bits x

Get Well Soon Card

The dare on DCM this week is to use something that has been recycled from another shop bought greeting card/wrapping paper etc. The only card I could find here was a Christmas card from last year, luckily it had this luscious organza bow on it, which I was able to use on this card. The tree is from the happily ever after cartridge, cut at 5". I used a lined gold mirror card for the back, hard to photograph. It's a bit pathetic only being able to find a ribbon, I didn't realise I was so tidy.

Owl Card and Watermelon Card

These cards were made with more fabulous papers from my Funky Hand CD's. The little owl was cut from Happily Ever After at 5" in two coordinating colours, and then stitched - yes, the sewing machine has been changed for a new one. The watermelon was cut from two pattern papers from doodlecharms at 5"

Crown Card - Queen For A Day

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This week's DT brief over on BBTB
was to use the crown icon from the Happily Ever After cartridge. This is my take on it. The crown was cut at 4", then part of it cut away, together with the base card. Decorated with a cuttlebug diecut, doodling and a bit of bling. The wording was computer generated. **Just learned that this card was chosen by Inspirational today, it's a great site, go and take a look. Thank you inspirational.

I have had one of my 'technology and me don't mix' moments today. I sent a text message to a girlfriend 'are you in tonight? Doing anything on Saturday night?' - simple enough. Yes, but I sent it to everyone on my contact list. So far, I know that 43 people are in tonight, including my doctor, dentist and hairdresser. I have 32 people coming to dinner on Saturday night! Duh.

BBTB Easter Egg Card

The challenge for the design team on BBTB this week was to make a project using the corners from Jasmine, in yellow. I was stumped on this one for a while, then my niece Ffion, who is also a cardmaker said 'why not make an easter egg tree' - good idea Ffion, so this is what I came up with. The tree was cut from happily ever after at 5", the eggs were cut from last years DCWV spring stack, and the stamp was from hobbycraft. Lots of doodling and stickles, there you go.........

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Whoo's Thinking of You?

I needed to make two cards today for online friends who are ill, so I made this in two different colourways. Cut the little owl from Happily Ever After at 4", with the top layer in stripes, which ties in nicely with this week's challenge over on Papertake. The papers are by scenic route and heidi swapp, flowers prima, sentiment handwritten.