Good Friends

My very good friend Judith had her birthday yesterday. Last year, I was very bad, and didn't make her a card :( This year I was determined to get my act together. This is what I made.

Judith is an avid car boot sale buyer. There is a large boot sale that is held weekly, very close to us, and she goes as often as she can with a very strict limit on how much she can spend. I couldn't come up with any ideas for a gift that she would really like, so I made the small envelope in the matching DSP to the card, so I could put some cash in for her to use the next time she goes booting. I'm pleased to say she loved her card and the idea.

As for now, I am on here doing this instead of completing the mountain of paperwork that is slowly but surely growing dangerously close to crisis point. Now, where can I find a pen......

Another birthday and a suicidal cat!

I had a bit of time last night and so made a card I needed to get done for the weekend. Here it is.

It was made in Pale Plum and Lavender Lace, using the Happy Everything stamp set. I made a flower using the Scalloped Circle punch, and added a clear button in the centre, that Karen gave me for my birthday. As she had been to visit today, she also brought with her the Cute By The Inch Hostess stamps set for me to play with, and I discovered the square buttons fit this stamp perfectly. The additional accents were from Simply Said, the set I seem to come back to most often.

We have 3 cats, all of whom are getting on a bit. I'm getting a little worried about Willow, our black cat. I think he is feeling his age, and maybe feeling suicidal after I found him today, behind my car. I took this picture before I moved him on.

Really not the safest place for a cat to sleep!!!

Adoption Card

My Mum, who is a foster carer, asked me to come up with an adoption card for a a child she knows who is going to be adopted this week. As she said, there are cards available commercially for adopters, but she wanted something more personal, and that could be more for the little girl to look back to one day, so she would have something from someone who knew her before she was given her forever home. After thinking for some time, and discounting using the little girl's name, which the adopters may change, I came up with this.

After I'd finished, I had a crisis, thinking that Mum would want something younger in design, using teddy bears for example. Luckily, she loved what I'd produced.

Big Bold Birthday again...

On Tuesday it's my Brother-in-law's birthday, so I thought I'd better get on with making him a card. To be honest, like a lot of people, I struggle with male themed cards. Female cards are so much easier to do, a bit of pink, lilac, light blue, and you're done, but male cards are much more tricky. Anyway, as I have just got the Big Bold Birthday set, I decided to use that again, and came up with this.

I was quite pleased with how it came out. I used Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie and Creamy Caramel ink for the cupcake and the sentiment, and Old Olive ink on the Old Olive cardstock for the background. My scalloped edge punch got an outing, as did the two oval punches.

As always, comments are welcomed. x