Christmas cards I have made

Hi there back again after being missing in action for a month or so.

Have made some Christmas cards this last couple of days. so now have the opportunity to share them with you. I got this Christmas designer pack off Trademe our New Zealand Ebay eqivulent. Hope you like what I have done here.

The Pink elephant colour challenge #31 and the Mojo Monday sketch challenge #103

I have combined two card challenges here with this card for these 2 sketch and colour challenges that I am taking part in this week.

The Pink elephant challenge for this week is a colour challenge of red, yellow black and white. and so I combined that with the Mojo Monday challenge sketch for this week also.

I used red cardstock for the base card, yellow core'dinations cardstock for the first layer, the black strips were cuttlebugged using my trusty Swiss dots foldera and the Hi/hello stamp is from Hero Arts. Hope you like my take.

80th birthday card made for my Uncle Graham

My Uncle Graham turns 80 this next weekend and I wanted to do a special card for him reaching this mileston so I designed this card using the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug A2 embossing folder, this die from the Making memories Slice die cutting machine that looks like a house and the red cardstock as the card base. My uncle is very much a home person as well as loving to play golf watch rugby and cricket and Harness horse racing and as I had used gof and rugby cards for him for past birthdays I decided it was time to do something different this year.

Hope you like what I did for him

The Pink elephant challenge #30

Here is my take on the http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/ for their challenge #30 which was the recipe challenge where you had to make a card using two squares, ribbon and something that sparkles.

It took me a few days to work this one out and of course I just had to try my new Making Memories slice die cutting machine to make the squares with rather than the Nestabilities scalloped squares that I have.

Hope you take a peek at my creation.

New Award

My Australian friend Libby http://libbysscrapz.blogspot.com/ has given me this new award. Libby has an amazing blog and well worth visitng. I love her Cuttlebug cards that she is constantly making and hearing and seeing the photos of her husband Bob and her family as well.




What you are supposed to do is list 5 things that you like to do and then send this award onto 5 people whom you think deserve to get it also.







My five things that I like to do are



1.Listen to easy listening music



2. Do Tai chi for Diabetes classes



3. Care for the elderly in Respite care work that I do



4. Love to read



5. Do card making and papercrafting projects and playing with all the new toys that I just have to have.





The 5 people I have chosen are


http://fabsbigchristmascardschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://didosdesigns.blogspot.com/



and I can't think of any more just now

Cards that I made last weekend 28 August

I made these cards over last weekend while at my respite care work. I was trying out my new Stampin Up stamps and the week of Mojo Monday sketches from http://www.mojomonday.blogspot.com/ that they had to celebrate them having 100 sketches.

I had fun doing these cards and using the sketches. Hope you like what I have done as well.

Forest Friends cards made today

Well have been playing with my new forest friends Stampin up set from the mini catalogue that I got earlier this week from my local Stampin Up dealer. I made these two cards this afternoon whilst I was playing. I can see loads of different ways to use this set for sure. Hope you like my cards.