I've fallen in love with this wierd floral die so as its a friends birthday next week I thought I'd use it for the card, I decided to go with browns and found this peice of brown dotty acetate, some brown beads and me fav die, hope she likes it, the insert turned out the wrong colour, ah well, it wouldnt do to get it right for a change would it, I'm trying to make my cards simpler and quicker, its worked on this one, only took me a several hours tee hee

I liked this card in the end but it took some doing, I mucked it up that many times you wouldn't believe! I know its just a simple card but I have done it in SCAL and MCS but the printing is done on SCAL!! I enjoyed playing around with the two programmes to see what I could acheive with them to produce a card, I love that image, oh and the random flower is to cover up a blob of ink that flew out of the mica squirty bottle thing, another 'happy accident' except I wasnt very happy :0)
the insert:

A name book for Charley, I know..... you 've seen it all before and I must admit I'm getting a bit tired of them too, will have to think of something else I can do!

Tilly decided to take the blanket out of her bed and put it on the chair as a cushion, she's not as daft as I thought she was :0)
I made this for my friend Teresa, she loves a bit of bling.... but again its one of those cards I made when I'm really not sure where I was going with it, I should stick to my cricut cards they seem to be a bit better!! I remember now.... I wanted to use this gorguss very expensive ribbon, thats what started it... its really lovely ribbon

another card for Suzi, she wanted a christmas card that wasnt all christmassy so did christmas colours but not too many Merry this and Happy thats, hope she likes it

My friend Eleanor and I made a card like this the other day and she liked it so much we made another one for one of her friends in Cyprus, obviously his name is Aristos, if I'd been really clever I'd have written his name in Greek, I was born there but don't speak the lingo!

This is another card for Suzi, she loves fairies, flutterbys and all things beautiful, so there are quite a few flutterbys on this card, it didnt turn out as nice as I thought it would but its not too bad, I used an earing as the fairy suspended from the ribbon, waste not want not! and I also put lovely pastel skeleton leaves on to enhance her wings, I hope she likes it, its for her sister who is very ill in hospital, I've also written a poem for her but thats private of course........

This is a record for me, making 3 cards in one week, I know they're nothing special and easy to do but still............ these are cards for me lovely Suzi again, she's having a very rough time of it with one thing and another! I like to think the house cards are improving but I forget how I did it each time so probably not! the pictures arent very good colours and I seem to be going through a brown phase at the moment, hope it passes soon its not very exciting is it!
the fairy card looked like a good idea but it just will not stand up so won't be doing that one again, ooeer, I felt a bit of dejavu then so maybe I've already posted the fairy card.... have to have a gander! sorry if I did :0)

this house card looks just like the previous one so obviously NOT improving after all :0)

Had a gander and I havent posted it before!

ok, so I've had a revamp of the blog... does it look better? I think so, I don't like brown so don't know why I had a brown background for so long, this is much more girly :0) got a couple of cards to make so will post a couple of pics if they turn out reasonable enough to do so! OMG I've just looked at the pics of Ellies book and realised my huge mistake..... NO RIBBONS ON THE RING BINDERS..... ARGHH!!!

This name book is a very special one for me, I made it for a girl I used to work with, she called her little girl Eleanor but will call her Ellie so this is my little book for Ellie, I havent put any pics in, left that for mummy and daddy to do, I've tried to incorporate lots of pages, books and spaces for photo's, what makes this book special is that when I took this round to my friend Sam (mummy), I met her hubby for the first time and he very sadly died the next day of a massive heart attack, to say we're all devasted is an understatement! so this book is dedicated to Ellies daddy Eric, so very very sad........

to the lady who left me a comment this morning, Thank you for your comment, I'm well chuffed you like some of my work :0) Sandie x

Obviously a card for Kath, I make one for Terry every year, she loves yellow and flowers so easy peasy, I was fairly happy with this one for a change, well after Tilly had chewed the first bunch of flowers the little minx!!

A card for my beautiful daughter Lou, she cycled from London to Paris for charity and enjoyed it very much, what a diamond she is.... not sure where this card was going either, I was very pleased that I worked out how to do all the different cuts in SCAL, getting the words in the wheel took quite a few attempts and the bike itself involved a lot of work, I don't think all the work I put in shows on the card really but its unique and something she will keep if I know her, funnily enough it took me longer to make this card than it took her to cycle to Paris!!! I might make her a replacement one day, shame I've forgotten how to do it all ha ha ha, I'll have to write it down next time!

This card was for my stepdaughter Lyndzy's 30th, I wanted it to be really special for her and had this idea for a 'hidden' window with the 30 bit in, sadly it all went horribly wrong and ended up as another one of my disaster cards, not sure what went wrong but i am annoyed with myself for leaving it to late to make another card to give her, she's a lovely girl,
I think I got carried away and tried to do to much, it didnt work and it shows!

I like these stepper cards they're easy but effective, I'm trying to use my dies more now and I must say they do make a good finish to your cards.. still love my cricut tho :0)

I designed this for a friends wedding, she was chuffed to bits with it, I think they looked quite effective and would be lost without my cricut.... best bit of kit I ever bought and SCAL is second!!

one of my cut out cards for a wedding recently, quite subdued for me eh!!

I can't believe I'm putting this on but its gotta be worth a larf, my lovely DD was 30 in June and I decided in my wisdom to make her a cake, the idea was to have a 3 tier cake one tier per decade, the items on the layers are some of the things she loved in that decade, I decided to get the people made as I realised I would make a huge bodge up if I tried, (the cake was bad enough!) anyway it looks dreadful but she thought it was ok, she loved He Man when she was little and of course her Teddy (he still sits on her bed) so that was the first layer, the second was taken up with.... yes you guessed it, FOOTY all my hopes and dreams of a ballerina gone!! the Mini is the exact model of her first car, and finally she's now plod and the BMW is the best car she's had, she loved that car! sadly gone now and replace with a teeny weeny Toyota....
the cake may have looked dreadful but tasted pretty good according to everyone who had some, and boy was there a lot, it was a huge cake!!
I CAN HEAR YOU LARFING!!!!!

this is a card for my nieghbour Carol, (92) she had a dreadful flood in her bungalow just after Christmas and still hasn't moved back in! fingers crossed she should be back by next weekend so thought I'd do her a Welcome Home card, this is a card I've done a couple of times but as I sold the cricut cart with it on I have done this one completely from scratch in SCAL, I'm actually quite chuffed with this one as I made the shape for the roof myself in Inkscape, very simple I know but it's my first attempt, and then I realised I could give it more definition by adding the little cuts, I figured out I could do this in SCAL, I am very pleased with myself as I've had SCAL for years and only just figured out how to use it better.... doh

Carols fav colour is lilac so I've done this for her, I even managed to cut out window frames to make it more dimentional, the first picture isnt a very good one tho, anyone out there reading this who has any doubts about SCAL..... GET IT!!

This is another card for Meg, I thought it would be nice to make the card but used a couple of decorated envelopes for her to put bits n bobs from her 18th in, cards etc maybe, so it's not an album as such, I call it a Keepsake card, she liked it anyway :0)