I must be a sucker for punishment

Not content with making and sending 121 cards for myself plus a number donated to charity I am still making them! After four attempts to acquire a retired Sizzix die finally one arrived so I have played with it.




Also I have been playing with parchment again, this time using a fine grid so a lot more work than the intended card which is supposed to be made on a bold grid.

Sunday was productive

First I finished the card which I started yesterday, I am quite pleased with the result. I have no idea who will be getting it yet, possibly the next person I know to have a birthday.


I decided to cover a box of card blanks/envelopes which I am giving to a friend, the friend who is getting the blue card. I have printed 'Handcrafted by - her name' on the backs of various sizes of cards.

Back to parchment at last

For fairly obvious reasons most of my Christmas cards were not parchment, in fact I only made a few of those this year. Now I have finished, or just about finished with making them all (I have one to do this evening and that will be number 120!) I have been able to play with parchment again. I have just finished one and am well into another one. This one is for a former neighbour who has a birthday in early January, this lady is a cardmaker but has no computer so will not see this. How do people make cards without access to a computer? I digress, this card is using a favourite pattern from Parchment Craft magazine, I have made variations of it a number of times.


Now I had better get on with that Christmas card then I can finish another parchment card which was designed by the same person who designed the card above.

Alex's 2nd birthday card

My grandson, Alex, will be two on Christmas Day so I made this card for him. The owl is cut using a Sizzix die and the backing paper is Joanna Sheen's Hoot the Owl paper pad.


For his Christmas card I decided on a gingerbread man, again using a Sizzix die. I scanned the gingerbread man then using PSP then Word made a backing paper to match the topper.

The cat card in all its glory!

These two photos show the concertina card, all fourteen surfaces. Seven domestic cats on one side and seven big cats on the other. There is a ribbon tie at each side to hold the whole thing together.

The cat card - part two

The big cats.

The cat card

Domestic cats. The single image is the cover, the other scans are two to a page. The card is A5 size.

Done and dusted!

I think I have finished my Christmas cards for this year, I say think as it will be Sod's Law that I have forgotten someone and they will send me a card. so far I have made and sent 115 cards this year.

In the past few days I have made a couple of birthday cards as well as messing about with some scraps of parchment.

One birthday card was something of a marathon, it is a concertina card with fourteen surfaces, each has a different image. Seven of the surfaces are of domestic cats, seven are big cats. My cousin, Sandie, loves cats of all kinds so I hope she will like the card. It weighs a ton so I will be giving it to her rather than posting it.