And here it is AGAIN!! cute tho isnt it :)




Suzi again, card for one of her workmates getting married soon, I thought I'd do tags for people to sign instead of inserts, the wedding colour was blue so hope this went down well....

This card was for my friend Betty who was going in hospital for a small op, anyway she LOVES pigs, so I did this for her, you can't see it but I've decoupaged the nose, ice pack and his trotters to make it a bit more interesting!!

Here it is again, my trusty heart card, its soooooooo adaptable, well for romantic stuff anyway!!

This was for a lady who was very nice to my lovely hubby so a thank you card was called for, not sure what was going on in my head tho!! the flowers are decoupaged but not sure what the 'tag' was all about!!





Birthday card for a friends hubby, I like these whatchamacallit cards!





A friend needed something to put on the notice board to thank her friends at work for the cards and flowers they sent after her op, she works at M&S so this is what popped into my mind, I put a 'card' under the thank you for her to write her message, she seemed pleased with it :)

This is probably my favourite card to make cos its so unusual and you can really bling it up and personalise it, I get it wrong every time I make it tho!! its true what they say about teaching old dogs new tricks!!

This card was for Suzi again! she's probably my best customer, her friend Roger just became a granddad, I don't really like charging her for cards cos she's my friend but she insists on paying me for the stash I use bless her!!

These were requests from the lady who sells cards for 2 of her customers!

I was asked by a lady who sells cards to make some religious themed, christening and Easter cards, I had to keep them as simple as possible to keep costs down, I found that very difficult as I tend to overdo the bling...a bit!!! anyway below are some samples of what I did!!

, it was VERY difficult!!!

Here's a few more samples!

more samples, once I'd got used to keeping it simple I started to enjoy doing these!!

I can't believe I haven't been on here for so long! amazing what being out of work does to you, I thought I'd be doing stuff round the house and getting my life sorted out, instead I've been unmotivated and done virtually nothing... I've had ONE interview in 7 months and it looks like I'll never get another job, which should fill my heart with dread but apart from the need to earn money I really don't want to go out into the big bad world any more! I have been making a few bits and pieces and will try and put them on here, just as a way of showing myself that I have in fact done SOMETHING!! oops!! forgot to mention I finally got made redundant last November

I wanted to put a blinky thing on here and a link to a very clever ladies blog but as usual I don't know how to do it so I'm going to copy and paste the link in and hope it works!! http://www.storeide.se/gunhild/index.htm there are lots of fab goodies on this ladies site so have a look sometime......

Well I'm not sure, but I think I may have slipped into digital cardmaking or something, I've been off all week and done nothing but muck about with the various packages I have, this card looked ok on the screen but its not much in the flesh, I like the design side of digi work but not the finished article so much, having said that I'm no good at it... and it shows, I don't really know where I'm going with this but it seemed as if you could produce quick cards this way, turns out they're just as involved as anything on the Cricut really so I'm just going to enjoy playing with the various bits and bobs I have to hand, will have to invest in some tutorial cds for Paint Shop Pro x cos that baffles the life out of me!!
this has all been done in My Craft Studio with lots of elements from outside too, I did cut out the flowers cos it just looked too flat, anyway, this card is for me gorgeous daughter and please note NO RIBBON!! well I nearly put some on but resisted :(

This is another card using the various packages to make the picture on the front exactly as I wanted it, the couple having the baby are unknown to me so thought I'd better keep it simple but personalise it with their names, they know its a boy but thought I'd play safe just in case!! my baby was supposed to be about 7lbs she eventually emerged 9lb 4oz so doctors don't know EVERYTHING!! looking at this picture has made me realise how bad it is, what was I thinking? should have got my cricut out methinks!!

Sorry peeps, I've done this back to front again, the explanation is in the wrong place but if you're interested please read the next couple of posts, I'll try and get it right next time, but don't hold your breath!!
Finally.... this card is what I designed for the troops to send home to their loved ones and friends, I thought the image appropriate without being too depressing? the guns are pointing to the words to 'soften' the image a little, I showed the original to my SIL and she said it was a bit to 'moving' but she's far to polite to say its to 'bleak' maybe? but I took her point and made the background blue instead of the original grey, I'm still not sure if they are ok but went with my gut feeling that a lot of blokes don't want flowers and slushy stuff even if they are big softies underneath! DH say's they're alright so thats good enough for me cos he's 'well ard' hee hee...
so, if I get a load of abusive letters I'll know I got it wrong!

I did this one for the Manager at the local Matalan store who was extremely generous when I spent all the money I'd collected on warm socks, I was told by an ex serviceman that its flippin freezing at night out there and warm socks would be more appreciated than sweets etc! anyway the very nice man at Matalan pretty much doubled the amount of socks I bought so I thought a card was definitely in order!!

Hi everyone, hope you are all keeping well... I recently got involved with collecting for Christmas boxes for our troops in Afghanistan, I only had a week and was so pleased with the efforts some people put in I felt I should make a card for them, they're nothing outstanding but as I am using the packages I have I thought I'd show you what I'd done!

Here's a card I did for a lovely man at work who retired recently, as usual I made the card and forgot all about an envelope to fit it, I think I made a box for it but can't remember now!!