Quiet Month

I know that I've been really lapsed this month, between technical issues with my computer, making cards for the fair and work there hasn't been a lot of time to post.

I've been working on more Christmas cards today, getting a little fed up of Christmas to be honest and it's still 2 month away. This afternoon I baked a chicken and mushroom pie, which I'm just re-heating as the hubby was busy when I had my piece. I thought I would take the opportunity to post an update on what I've been up to and also to take a look at challenge blogs to see what I can enter. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to post tomorrow I just have to make some time to get logged in.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Technical Issues

Well I finally managed to get on to post, feels like it's been forever. I've been having some major IT issues with my desktop PC at home where is keeps switching off without warning after few minutes so I've been without it. Today I've managed to get the laptop connected to the broadband and thought I would take the opportunity to write a quick post.

As I said it is going to be really quick as I have to get dinner in the oven and I want to get into my craft room. The only good thing about the PC not working is I've been able to spend more time crafting.

Will hopefully post later with a picture or two.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Make Your Own - Challenge

I finally managed to get a challenge card made tonight for the Cute Card Thursday Blog, the challenge this week is to make your own embellishments and not use shop bought ones. As I am concentrating on Christmas cards at the moment I decided to make it Christmas themed and kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
















If I can manage to give all my challenge cards a Christmas theme it might just mean I can actually enter some challenges over the next few weeks and still be working on cards for the fair. Today's card is a couple of really cute decoupaged penguins, the image was from the pcCrafter site. I have to hold my hands up though and admit that the coloring isn't my own, images come in both color and black and white and I printed the image over a year ago before I discovered Pro Markers.

For the hand made embellishment I used my Wizard and my new snowflake dies which I brought last week, I cut the snowflakes using a pale blue vellum and held them together with a white brad.

As it's now getting late I'm going to head off to bed.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Mini Book

As I said in my last post I made a mini book today, I've made some before but could never find a really easy way to do them that I was happy with until now. I used an A5 envelope and sealed it and then cut it in half to make the pages, I did this to 4 envelopes but put a half of 1 aside for my next book. I fitted a piece of thin chipboard into the pockets of 2 envelopes and then covered them and the 5 half envelopes I inked the edges of and then covered them with paper. After punching 3 holes down one side straight through the covers and pages I used eyelets in each hole as I wanted the mini book to be sturdy and last.

Luckily my spacing was pretty much spot on and the O rings went on really easily. I also made 5 tags to fit into the envelope pockets with a tab on each one so you can pull it out easier. I'm really pleased how it came out and am going to make a few more using different colours just as soon as I get more glue.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Running out of......Glue!!!!

As the title of this post suggests I ran out of glue today, right before I was going to concentrate on doing a couple of challenge cards my glue stick came to the end and wouldn't you know it I hadn't got another. With it being 4pm on a Sunday there was nowhere open to buy another so I've had an easy night tonight and watched a couple of films instead, before I head off to bed I thought I should at least post the things I have made before I ran out.

Hopefully I haven't got many more Forever Friends Christmas cards to make now, my pile of decoupage is slowly going down, plus I am running out of ideas for designs. After these were finished I started work on a mini book as I need some for the fair.

I'll post about the mini book separately as this is going to get very long

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Happy It's Friday

I'm really happy that it's now Friday, even if I still have to go to bed and go to work later it just means the weekend is that much closer. When I posted on Wednesday I said I was going to make more cards, and I did but by the time I finished up it was 1am and I went to bed without posting. I thought I would post them now and then post pictures of cards I made tonight.

















As in my last post all of my cards today are for Christmas and they are all Forever Friends. I'm really enjoying making these as it's a welcome break from my card sets which I'm going to try and finish this weekend
















As for me I'm now off to bed.

Happy Crafting

Michelle