Whew
– at long last I’ve finally got time & energy to put something onto this
blog – it’s been a truly hectic season for me this year as I got badly behind
on my Christmas orders through making so many “Specials” and then got a couple
of unexpected orders at the outset of the month which took me every spare hour
I had. Others who don’t have health
issues might have rattled them off in a day, but for me, everything takes hours
& hours longer than it would have even a few years ago, as my arthritis
worsens & pain levels increase making sitting painful too.
But
anyway, enough of all that. Since I can’t
type much either now, I’m not going to put up all of my latest cards – these are
just a couple of standout ones that I enjoyed making – once Christmas is over I’ll
put up some of those given to family who visit this blog as I don’t want to
spoil their surprise in advance :).
The
first card was my 2nd boxed one which again took ages to make and
for which I’ve yet to get the tutorial put together, but there are plenty of
others out there to use if you search hard enough. This card has gone to my primary school
teacher who’s now the grand age of 95 and still writes as beautifully as she
has throughout her life, despite her arthritis. Apologies for the photo – was rushing on the
day to photograph it & it shows. It
was another fairly simple card to make using Craft Creations papers along with
a Thomas Kinkade Christmas image which I put plenty of glitter glue onto. Embellished with the usual bow & charm,
WOC flowers, punched border, & foil, diecut sentiment blocks (think these
are Kanban from a few years ago).
And
then this one I created for my prayer partner’s best friend’s young
daughter. Just for a nice change I used
a lovely Morehead decoupage image. It
was just perfect for Rachel and the colours worked in wonderfully too. Background papers are from the HOTP Forever
Christmas paper stack. The purple one
under the image was an offcut from a very old HOTP paper pad. Flowers from WOC. Charm & teddy bear from my stash.
Hopefully
get some more up shortly, but that’s me for now. I’m taking a whole week off from making
cards next week as everything hurts too much not to.
Have
a wonderful, peaceful & blessed Christmas.
Enjoy.
