Last upload before Christmas

That's me finished with this years cards.  I have enjoyed making them (except when I had a deadline)  I still have an insert to put in the last birthday card and then I can get on with my fat pages and atc's.
Thank you all for visiting my blog and commenting on my cards and atc's.   I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2012.  The first card was made using free paper and image from Creative Cardmaking magazine

The letters are from a Tim Holtz die as is the daisy, little bird, card candi and pearls from my stash.


I also used free papers greeting and image from an earlier Creative Cardmaking magazine.  I love the silhouettes.  Die cut oval is a Marriane Designs  die. Flowers and cadi from my stash.
Thanks for visiting my blog, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas.
Anne xxx

A very quick visit

to my blog today to add these 2 ATC.  Both are for swaps on Docrafts.  I still have a couple to do and I have Fat pages to do for the end of the month so really need to get my nose to the grindstone.  I don't want them disappearing into the Royal Mails Special Christmas black hole.

Hope all who visit are having a good weekend.  Thanks for any comments you leave they are always appreciated.

Anne x

Special Friends

A little bit of glits

Finished

well for now at least.  That's a total of 10 cards for the church sale.  To little time and too much pressure.  For next year a couple a month is all they will get. lol!


The silhouette stamp is one I got from Joanna Sheen,  I have a few of this type of stamp but "I" can't get a really good print from them, I've tried all sorts of inks
The ribbon was yellow untill I went over it with a promarker.  Flowers and candi from my stash the green ones have been coloured with a promarker.
The background paper is again from Homemade magazine.

The art deco image came from the back of last years calendar. The backing layers are are pink black GOLD and pink.  The green paper came from Homemade magazine along with some lovely free stamps

My latest cards

Three more cards for our church sale.  The pressure is on to get as many made as I can for this coming Sunday.

I've made no Christmas cards this year, in fact I've not even bought any yet.  How bad is that? anyone else at the coo's tail this year.?  I've usually got my cards written out by now and have calendars bought for all the family and at least one or 2 pressies.

Better get back to my card making as soon as I've uploaded the next card.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my cards and atc and for the comments you have left.

Another day another card

I am starting to enjoy making cards again so here is another one I made last night.  I hope to get another one started before my granddaugher gets home from school.

What a day this has been

I have felt sleepy all day.  I'm sure if I had closed my eyes I could have just kept going on automatic.  I had my prayer group here this morning and I almost dozed off, they hadn't long left when my grand daughter Lauren arrived home from school.  We had some lunch and after my cuppa was finished I think I dozed again only for a few seconds.  So to wake myself up I thought I had better try making an atc for one of my swaps. a simple matting and layering an image from an old calendar, added some tiny gems on the corners and some roses.  I made one last night as well, again very simple image with words added and then triple embossed to give it some oomph.

 

                                       Marylin Munroe atc for Barjans craft shop opening swap.

Almost forgot

it is my nephews birthday on the 10th of this month so had to rush and get a card made for him so I could get it posted.   All the little charm and the skateboard weigh so much I shall have to get my son to deliver it by hand.  My nephew loves going to the skate park with his BMX bike and skateboard so I hope he likes this card.

Charms are from my stash, bicycle stamp is one I've had for years and hardly used. 

I pinched the skateboard from my granddaughter and removed the wheels before attaching it to the card.

The main card was put through the bigshot with a cogs mask.