Cards for a friend

I always make some cards for a friend for Christmas along with a small present. She loves receiving these cards and passing them onto others. I have used a Create and Craft kit and some Michelle Marsden Topper sheets for these cards along with Card Creations Di Kaye Art Deco CD for one.

Rudolph cards

This is one of my favourite stamps I have used this year and couldn't resist making another few to use for the neighbours. The stamp is from Hampton Arts and the background is made from Artylicious Season's Greetings CD.

Very Unique Christmas card

My boss is MAD about pigs so I had an idea for a very unique Christmas card - one with a pig on it!!! I used My Craft Studio Magic of Christmas to put on a Christmas hat and a wintery border and hey presto the card was made. She was absolutely delighted with the card and was going to take it home for pride of place on the mantelpiece!!!

Cards for my Aunt and Uncle

Here are some more cards that I made for my aunt and uncle to use in the coming year. They are made from one of the die-cut sets from Ideal World. I always add extra things and also like to cut around the shapes myself as I don't like white edges etc but these are cards that can be sent to anyone.

Art Deco Cards

I thought I'd make some cards for my aunt and uncle for Christmas so they can be used throughout the year. I used the Di Kaye Art Deco Cd by Card Creations. There are many gorgeous images on these CDs - really too many to choose from.

Bookmark and a Card and Bookmark

It is a friend at works birthday on Christmas Eve. She saw the card I'd made for a colleague this week and asked if she was getting one. I said "no" as it wasn't up to me to get a card/organise the collection as it is the person next to them birthday-wise. She said that she wanted a bookmark as well and looked so disappointed. I would have made her a card anyway and made this one using the Joanna Sheen Pamela West CD and also made a bookmark to match. I used some U-mount floral stamps to make the corner flourish and adornments.

Another friend liked the looks of the bookmark as well so I made her one for Christmas and the photo is on here. I made another cat one but the photo didn't come out - must try and practice more with the camera.

Losing three tassels in one week-end was distressing!!!

Various Christmas Cards

Here are a selection of Christmas cards made and sent over the last month. Messy rabbit makes pride of place in a lot of them but I've also used Artylicious Season's Greetings CD, My Craft Studio Magic of Christmas, Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Christmas and Michelle Marsden's Christmas Triple Treasure CDs along with some stamping. Please excuse some of the photos - I thought I'd got the hang of the new camera but I think not!!!

Charity Stall - December 2008

Well Friday was the last time to set up my stall for charity in 2008. I never do very much but it's best to keep going there regularly as someone is always waiting to step into your shoes. A Messy Rabbit card made pride of place on the front of the stall - favourtism I know!!!

New Home Card

A friend of my son was moving house on Friday so I didn't need much of an excuse to get out of the packet a new set of stamps I'd received from Joanna Sheen's Online Shop on Thursday. I used one of the Messy Rabbit Backing Pad No 2 sheets, Messy Rabbit with the toadstool (but just cut off the toadstool), used my new Messy Rabbit Pub stamp but omitted anything associated with the pub and coloured all the stamped images in with Lyra Watercolours. I seem to be getting addicted to Messy Rabbits as well as rubber stamping. I vowed 2008 was going to be my "year of Stamping" but I've left it quite late but I will do much more in 2009 as I've got the bug now.

Christmas Cards for an Uncle and Cousin

I had a visit today from my uncle who was returning from a Caribbean cruise via the UK before returning to his home in Spain. I gave him his card made using Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Christmas CD and Artylicious Season's Greetings CD. I didn't want to put too much on it and nothing metal as it might cause problems at the airport on the way home. The picture isn't too good but that is operator error.

The other card is for my cousin who he'll see this week. This card was made using the Cute Companions CD and of course Baggy Jumper Messy Rabbit. She has four children and they love animals so I think they'll like Messy Rabbit.

Commissioned Christmas Cards for two Grandsons

I was asked to make two cards for a lady's grandsons. For one I used a Cute Companions theme as the packing and the other a Messy Rabbit Backing Paper out of the blue pad and of course both have Baggy Jumper Messy Rabbit on them all coloured in with equivalent H2Os.

Commissioned Christmas Card for a Grand-daughter

Another card I was asked to make. This time I used the Cute Companions CD and also the mice stamps - this was the first set of stamps that were brought out and not the Christmas ones.

Commisioned Christmas Card for a Daughter and SIL

I was asked to make a special Christmas card for a lady's daughter and new son-in-law. I used the Cute Companions Cd for the background and also the Cute Companions mice stamps.

Commissioned Christmas card for a Son and family

I was asked to make a Christmas card for a lady's son and family. I used Michelle Marsden's Triple Treasures Christmas Cds, the Glitter Girls Celebration board and some bought decoupage I had.

Christmas card for a lady's dog

One of my customers wanted a card for her dog for Christmas. I used My Craft Studio to make this card and even put the dog's name on it and used some DCWV paper.

Joanna Sheen Card Competition

Joanna Sheen recently held a card competition which you had to make a card using the Joanna Sheen Jayne Netley Mayhew CD. I spent one evening looking at the images but there were too many nice ones to pick but in the end I went for some cat images and printed them off on canvas paper. They say on the dining room tables for some weeks and only decided this time last week that I would actually enter. The card was posted first class recorded delivery on Friday to arrive on Saturday ie the deadline date. I then saw a thread on Sunday night to see that I had won one of the nine runner-up places and I was "over the moon" - don't think I have still got over the surprise of it yet.

Cards for a Special Person

I recently went to a special event and was nervous about attending as I didn't know anyone. Someone came to my rescue and was there by my side for the day and it really meant a lot. I wanted to make her a special thank you card and used the Messy Rabbit Backing Pad and also a Lovins Stamp and couldn't resist making a Christmas card using the Cute Companions CD and Baggy Jumper Messy Rabbit stamp.

Commissioned Card for a Brother and Sister-in-Law

I was asked to make a special card for a brother and sister-in-law so here is the card I made using Michelle Marsden's Triple Treasures Christmas CD and also My Craft Studio Magic of Christmas.

Commissioned Card for a Sister

I was asked by the same lady to make a card for her sister's birthday. She loves Yorkshire terriers and also cooking. I used the My Craft Studio CD to make this card.

Commissioned Card for a Sister

I was asked to make a special card for a sister for someone that works with my Mum. I used the Michelle Marsden's CD for this card.

Commissioned Card for a Mum

I was asked to make a special card for a Mum. This card was originally made a while ago for a competition at Colemans Warehouse in Rushden until a friend made me aware the competition was being held to raise funds for Breast Awareness and therefore had to be pink. So this card was "shelved" but I knew it was one of my customer's birthday in December and she loves tigers so I knew her daughter could have this card for her. It's a bit OTT but the Mum has supported her a lot as the daughter got married a few weeks ago. The card was made using the Joanna Sheen Jayne Netley Mayhew CD. I did a little separate tag to put the verse on and of course this had to have tigers on it as well.

Commissioned Card for some Friends

I was asked to make a card for some special friends. I used My Craft Studio Magic of Christmas CD and also the Artylicious Season's Greetings CD.

Commissioned Card for a Wife

I was asked to make a special Christmas card for a chap who has only been married a couple of weeks - he didn't ask me but his wife asked me for it!!! I used Joanna Sheen's Pamela West CD for this card and of course some nice ribbon.

Commissioned Card for a Special Aunt and Uncle

I was asked to make a card for a special aunt and uncle. They'd had some cards made by me for the lady so she wanted them to have one made for them for Christmas. I used Joanna Shee's Pamela West CD for this one.

Commissioned Card for Special Son

I was asked to make a Christmas card for a special son. I used the My Craft Studio Magic of Christmas CD for this one and did some stamping in the background.

Commissioned Card for a Niece

I was asked to make a special Christmas card for a niece. I used My Craft Studio Magic of Christmas CD for this one.

Commissioned Card for a Friend

I was asked to make a special Christmas card. I used again the Joanna Sheen's Pamela West CD for this card and the embeliishments are from Redhotbed.

Commissioned Card for a Husband

I was asked to make a Christmas card for a lady who has only been married two weeks. I used Joanna Sheen's Pamela West CD for this card.

Commissioned Card for a Nephew

This is a commissioned card for a nephew for Christmas. It is made using the My Craft Studio Magic of Christmas CD.

Commissioned Card for a Nephew

This is a commissioned card for a nephew for Christmas. It is made using the Crafter's Companion Christmas CD.

Commissioned Christmas Cards

This is a commissioned card for a lady's daughter. The card is made using Artylicious Season's Greetings CD.