A Card to Share

I’m still trying to catch up with my computer bits and pieces, installing programmes and tidying up files etc and with Christmas as well I still seem to be all behind.  Here is another card which I made a while ago and haven’t yet shared.

I hope you are all managing to get the shopping and other things done despite the horrible wet weather.  Take care.

A Bit of Crochet

I have something a bit different to share today - an owl doorstop which I crocheted.  I spotted the design on the cover of a magazine and of course I just had to buy it for the pattern.  Apologies for the slightly fuzzy picture but I'm sure you can see what he looks like.

A CAS Christmas

This is the theme for the Make My Monday Challenge this week and as I've missed a few weeks due to computer problems I thought I'd pop on a quick CAS (clean and simple) card.  This was done very quickly using Craft Artist so maybe a bit of a cheat but hopefully no-one will mind!!

Quintiles for December

The theme for the December Quintiles was, of course, seasonal and because I was somewhat pressed for time I've made two very similar ones using a lovely tree stamp from Chocolate Baroque.  Stamped onto card printed from Seasons Greetings CD and embossed with WOW powder; layered onto an embossed panel of snowflakes and the base layer is more of the same printed design from the CD.  Hopefully I will be able to include a picture here - I've lost the programme I normally use for manipulating and sending the scans to my blog and have had a go with something else which came with the new system.  I was so used to the old programme but sadly it isn't compatible which is such a pain but I'm not going to rush out and buy another programme until I've tried out other options.!!

I'm Back!

My computer was returned to me yesterday complete with new operating system so hopefully I will be able to catch up with blogland - I do so hate being cut off from the world and using a tablet is no substitute for the real thing.  I have quite a bit of work to do re installing my programmes and retrieving my files but I'm hoping that won't take me too long and of course I have to get used to the new system but it seems pretty straightforward as far as I can see although some of my programmes aren't compatible so that's something else to deal with.  I have a card to share today which is one I made a while ago but hadn't actually shown. Background is embossed Centura pearl card and the other elements are from various Stampin' Up stamp sets with some die cut leaves and butterflies.

missing from blogland

Apologies to my followers - I seem to have been very busy doing other things. Thanks to those who've shown concern, yes I am fine! However I will be absent for a few more days because my computer has  to be taken into ' intensive care' for a new operating system to be fitted. Hopefully I will be up and running before too long.

November Quintiles

Well November seems to be rushing by while I've been pondering how to depict the theme of FIREWORKS  which was the obvious choice for the Quintiles this month.  Eventually I had a flash of inspiration and decided to use some of the stamps from  Elusive Images (now Chocolate Baroque) sets - Retro flowers/Vases because they  gave me the impression of bursts of colour in the sky such as would be seen with fireworks.  I used two different approaches here - one using the clear embossing resist technique, starting with yellow card and gradually adding images followed by a slightly darker colour of distress ink, then more resist with a darker colour and so on.  The other one was made using very dark purple card with  stamped and embossed images using various colours of Cosmic Shimmer embossing powders.  The descriptive word was typed on the computer and cut out with a label die.   It is lucky really that I actually got these made this month because it took me so long to come up with an idea but hopefully they will get there in time!!