MU Birthday cards for Nov & Dec 2010

2nd Dec saw me sitting down to make a start on the birthday cards. Because the 2 cards for Nov were for the end of the month I was going to give them at church or at the next meeting, which is why I come to be making Nov b/day cards now lol.

Well I had printed out some sheets from some of JS cd's the night before so that if I made it to Craft Club and finished early I could make a start, unfortunately it was cancelled, BUT fortunately for me it meant that I was able to crack on with them.

Once I got started I didn't stop, hubby placed a sandwich next to me or I would have forgotten to eat even LOL.

I am really pleased with how they have come out. Hope you agree.

16th Nov Brownies & Rainbow meeting.

Well how proud am I of my Brownies & Rainbows, just look at their efforts with the Christmas cards, I am sure that anyone receiving them will enjoy them immensely. The silver one is done my my daughter and the one with the yellow border had help from my guider friend who came to help me. The rest are all their own works of art.

Samples for my Brownies & Rainbows

16th Nov I knew I would be without my co guider so had asked another guider to help me with my meeting. I had decided that because I wasn't going to be able to follow our term plan that we would make Christmas cards instead. So of course I had to make a couple of samples up. A good friend from a forum had sent me a die cut decoupage book for me to use, so some had gone on my MU meeting ones, and so of course I used them for the girls. I had pre popped them and cleaned up any pips on them and put them into little money bags so the girls could choose themselves which one to make up.

If you ask my family they will all tell you how much I actually hate using glitter, so goodness knows how I have come to have so much of the darned stuff. So I decided to have a little play if you can call it that lol. I edged the card with double sided tape then used the red glitter on it. Who knew there were so many different types of glitter in the world. They are rather large pieces, but not to worry. If you look on the card I made at Craft Club in the Odds & ends post I used a very fine crystal glitter which another lady had with her, I have to admit that it really brought the image to life. So I will keep on working on using the wretched stuff LOL.

Odds and ends.

This card was made from using old envelopes, made at a sort of craft group that I went to with a friend of mine. I will go again, but haven't been able to just yet because of the weather.

This card was made at my Craft club 3-11-10 the only down side was that the image and background and sentiment were already stamped out, so just needed to assemble it. I think I would like to try stamping more as I need to get more confident with it.

08-11-2010 MU meeting

Well for my sins I somehow agreed to lead this meeting with the theme of making Christmas cards.... not sure how it happened!!! Anyway set to amd made some sample cards for the ladies to look at and decide what style etc they would like to make. I took far too much stuff with me and gave them far too much choice, have made a note for in future....

I was told the week after in church that it had been lovely for them to actually do something rather than being talked to all the time by a speaker!!

Glad to know I am starting to do something right LOL.

Apologies

Well I now think I am sorted out with my laptop, but unfortunately Tech Support have gone and put Vista on it instead of my XP that was on :( So am still trying to get uesd to using it. I just hope that all my craft cd's will still work with Vista.

Well I have been busy occassionally when I have been well enough although unfortunately we did loose the camera for a couple of months, so didn't get any photographs taken of the cards sent out during that time :(

So bear with me as I try and get caught up with posting my makes.

HAPPY 4th JULY

Well what a last few days I have had healthwise :( Anyway surfice to say that I am not climbing the walls in pain any more, so I guess the tablets I am now on must have started working.

HAPPY 4th of JULY to those of you who celebrate it, I should have been going to a party tonight to help one of my Brownies mum celebrate it, but unfortunately my daughter is double booked as she is playing in a concert tonight. I am still not certain if I am going to go depends how well my tablets work this evening after I have had something to eat.

I have today made a stationery box using MCS (My Craft Studio) in case you were wondering. I am pleasently suprised at how sturdy it has come out. I used 160gsm paper, for both the box and the cards, and only 80gsm for the inserts, envelopes and liner. I do however need to get onto the helpline as the insert has a funny line on them and unless I am missing something obvious then it has to be a fault on the image :( Well the box I have decided is going to go to the Summer Fayre later in the month for either the tombola or raffle, wherever they want to put it. I am going to make sure that my name is on it all..... LOL you never know!!!!!!

I also managed to track down a brilliant and sooo easy tutorial for making a neverending card, I have never tried one before so followed the video and it worked!!!! YEAHHHHH so pleased with it, just need to decorate it now well the 2nd one I have made that is, I am keeping the first one as an instruction card in my folder lol.

http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com/dawns_stamping_thoughts/2008/02/never-ending-ca.html

I hope those of you haven't tried a neverending card before will check out the easy video and have a go, please let me know if you mange to have a go.